Boris Sobolev · Lisa Kuramoto 2008 In health care systems that provide universal access to care, efforts to contain costs for standby hospital capacity usually result in wait lists for surgical procedures. When access to health care is rationed by such wait lists, the length of time that patients are required to wait is usually uncertain. This […]

Lola Romanucci-Ross ● Laurence Tancredi 2007

Erik Rifkin Edward Bouwer 2007 [ He a l t h  B e n e f i t s  a n d  R i s k s ] The use of risk assessment to characterize human health and ecological risks has become a well-accepted and widely-used practice throughout the world. The same principles are also used to […]

Edited by Ilan H.Meyer Mary E. Northridge 2007 The Health of Sexual Minorities Our collaboration on the editing of this book revives an earlier joint effort. In June 2001, we teamed up on the first issue of the American Journal of Public Health, devoted to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) health (Northridge, 2001). Five years later, we reunited to […]

Edited by Robert B. Greifinger 2007 This is a book of what ifs. What if we discovered a vast and untapped resource, a resource that could yield improved population health status and lower social costs? What if we could harness the energy in this mine toward public health benefit? What if this lode was right before our […]

Edited by Yorghos Apostolopoulos Sevil Sönmez 2007 In an increasingly globalized world, humans and materials—transported by automobiles, cargo ships and airplanes in a matter of hours—are the most effective vectors of infectious pathogens. Over the course of human history, some of the deadliest disease outbreaks have been traced back to one type or another mobile population or to transport […]

SILVIA M. ROGERS 2007 A SELF-HELP GUIDE You may ask why anyone would want to write yet another book about scientific writing. There are many books on the subject, some more useful than others, and the abundance of literature on this topic may confuse rather than guide. I felt that this book was necessary for several reasons.

Sandro Galea 2007