International Encyclopedia of Public Health
International Encyclopedia of Public Health
Editor: Quah, Stella
Publication Year: 2016
Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology
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ISBN: 978-0-12-803678-5
Category: Health & Medicine - Health
Image Count:
1946
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
This updated edition is a timely and authoritative guide on the major issues, challenges, methods, and approaches of global public health.
This book is found in the following Credo Collections:
Table of Contents
- Editorial Board
- Guide to Using the Encyclopedia
- Subject Classification
- Preface to Second Edition
- Foreword
- Volume 1
- A
- Acute Care Hospitals
- Adenoviruses
- Adolescents
- Agenda Setting in Public Health Policy
- Aging: Nutrition and the Older Adults
- Aging, Physical Activity, and Health
- Agricultural Health and Safety
- Alcohol Consumption: An Overview of International Trends
- Alcohol Consumption: The Social and Economic Impacts
- Alcohol Industry
- Alcohol, Integrated Control of
- Alcohol: Treatment
- Alma-Ata and Primary Health Care: An Evolving Story
- Anemia
- Anthropological Perspectives in Bioethics
- Anthropological Perspectives on the Health Transition
- Antibiotic Development and Resistance
- Antimicrobial Resistance in a One Health and One World Perspective – Mechanisms and Solutions
- Arboviruses
- Arms Control Measures
- Arsenic
- Asbestos
- Asthma
- Autoimmune Diseases
- B
- Bacterial Infections: Overview
- Bacteriology, Historical
- Bioaerosols
- Biodiversity, Health Implications of
- Biostatistics
- Bladder Cancer
- Blindness
- Blood Transfusion Services
- Botulism
- Brain Tumors
- Breast Cancer
- Brucellosis
- Burden of Disease and Injury Caused by Alcohol
- Burns and Scalds
- C
- Cadmium
- Canada, Health System of
- Cancer and Senescence
- Cancer Economics
- Cancer Epidemiology
- Cancer: Global Burden, Trends, and Projections
- Cancer Mortality
- Cancer Prevention
- Cancer Screening: Theory and Applications
- Cancer Survival
- Carcinogens, Environmental
- Cardiovascular Disease Prevention
- Centers for Disease Control
- Cerebrovascular Disease
- Child Abuse/Treatment
- Child Labor
- Child Obesity and Health
- Child Rights
- Child Soldiers
- Child Witness to Violence
- Childhood Infectious Diseases: Overview
- Children and Adolescents, Measuring the Quality of Life of
- Children, Media and Health
- Volume 2
- C
- Cholera and Other Vibrioses
- Cholesterol and Lipids
- Chronic Disease Modeling
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
- Circulatory Diseases and Aging
- Classic Concepts of Disease
- Classification of Mental Disorders: Principles and Concepts
- Clinical Epidemiology
- Clinical Trials
- Codes of Ethics in Public Health
- Colorectal Cancer
- Community Health Insurance in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
- Community Health Workers
- Community-Based Nutrition Programmes
- Comparative Health Systems
- Comparative Risk Assessment
- Competition in Health Care
- Compression of Morbidity
- Consumerism: Overview
- Contaminants Associated with Drinking Water
- Coronary Heart Disease
- Corruption and the Consequences for Public Health
- Cost-Influenced Treatment Decisions and Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
- Cultural Competence in Public Health
- Cultural Contexts of Reproductive Health
- Cultural Epidemiology
- Cultural Factors Influencing Therapeutic Practice
- Cultural Issues and Linguistic Complications in Health Communication
- Cystic Fibrosis
- D
- Decision Analytic Modeling
- Demand for Health Care
- Demography, Epidemiology, and Public Health
- Demography of Aging
- Dengue
- Dental Epidemiology
- Determinants of National Health Expenditure
- Diabetes Mellitus, Epidemiology
- Diabetes Mellitus Prevention
- Diabetes Mellitus Treatment
- Diet and Cancer
- Diet and Heart Disease
- Diphtheria
- Disability and Rehabilitation
- Disasters and Emergency Planning
- Disease Classification
- Disease Prevention: An Overview
- Drinking Water and Sanitation
- Drowning
- Drugs, Illicit – Primary Prevention Strategies
- Dynamics of the Health-Care Labor Markets
- E
- East Asia and Pacific States, Health Systems of
- Ebola and Other Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers
- Economic Models of Hospital Behavior
- Ectoparasites
- Educational Attainment and Health: Survival
- Effective Alcohol Policy
- Elder Abuse
- Emergence of Novel Human Infections: New Insights and New Challenges
- Emergency Medical Technicians
- Endocrine Diseases: Overview
- Energy Use, Health Implications of
- Enteroviruses
- Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology
- Environmental Health: Overview
- Environmental Justice and Health
- Environmental Protection Laws
- Epidemic Investigation
- Epidemiology, Historical
- Epidemiology of the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
- Epidemiology of Vitamin C
- Equity in Health Financing
- Ergonomics and Musculoskeletal Issues
- Escherichia coli
- Esophageal Cancer
- Essential Drugs Policy
- Volume 3
- E
- Ethics and Health Promotion
- Ethics of Immunization
- Ethics of Infectious Disease Control
- Ethics of Organ Transplants
- Ethics of Public Health Research: Moral Obligations to Communities
- Ethics of Screening
- Ethnic Conflict and Public Health
- Euthanasia and Public Health
- Evidence-Informed Public Health Policy
- Exercise Therapy for Heart Failure Patients in Canada
- Extreme Weather Events and Human Health
- F
- Facility-Based Treatment of Severe Malnutrition
- Falls
- Family Planning/Contraception
- Famine
- Fatty Acids
- Female Reproductive Physiology/Function
- Fetal Growth Restriction: Causes and Outcomes
- Food Fortification
- Food Safety
- Foodborne Diseases
- Forced Migration and Health
- Foundations in Public Health Ethics
- Foundations in Public Health Law
- Functions and Deficiencies of B-Vitamins (and Their Prevention)
- Future Organization of Cancer Care
- G
- Gastric Cancer
- Gastrointestinal Disorders: Overview
- Gender Aspects of Sexual and Reproductive Health
- Gender in Health and Illness
- Genetic Epidemiology
- Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in Public Health
- Global Burden of Disease
- Global Health Law: International Law and Public Health Policy
- Global Issues: Urban Health in Developing Countries
- Global Tobacco Industry
- Global Trends in Cardiovascular Disease
- Governance Issues in Health Financing
- Gynecological Morbidity
- H
- Happiness, Health and Altruism
- Hazardous Wastes
- Head Trauma
- Health and Disease, Concepts of
- Health and Human Rights: Overview
- Health Behavior and Risk Factors
- Health Care of Indigenous Peoples/Nations
- Health Inequalities
- Health Information on the Internet
- Health Insurance Plans and Programs: An Overview
- Health Literacy
- Health Policy: Overview
- Health Promotion
- Health Surveys
- Health Systems of Australia and New Zealand
- Health Systems of Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean
- Health Systems: United States, Health System of the
- Health Technology Assessment: Ethical, Legal and Social Issues
- Health-Care Delivery Systems
- Health-Related Stigma
- Hearing Disorders
- Heart Failure
- Helicobacter pylori
- Helminthic Diseases: Dracunculiasis
- Helminthic Diseases: Echinococcosis
- Helminthic Diseases: Filariasis
- Helminthic Diseases: Foodborne Trematode Infections
- Helminthic Diseases: Intestinal Nematode Infections
- Helminthic Diseases: Onchocerciasis and Loiasis
- Helminthic Diseases: Schistosomiasis
- Helminthic Diseases: Taeniasis and Cysticercosis due to Taenia solium
- Helminthic Diseases: Trichinellosis and Other Helminthic Tissue Helminthic Infections
- Hepatitis, Viral
- Herpesviruses
- Volume 4
- H
- Historical and Sociocultural Context of Psychoactive Substance Use
- History of Malaria and Its Control
- History of Public Health during Colonialism
- History of Public Health in the Ancient World
- HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis
- HIV/AIDS of the Central Nervous System
- HIV Prevention and Treatment in Children and Adolescents
- HIV Safety Guidelines
- Home Care
- Hospice and Palliative Care
- Human Exposure Science
- Human Health Risk Assessment
- Human Resources for Oral Health and Dentistry
- Humanitarian Response to Complex Emergencies and Natural Disasters
- Huntington's Disease
- Hypertension
- I
- Illicit Drugs: Patterns of Use, Dependence, and Contribution to Disease Burden in Developed Countries
- Illicit Drug Trends Globally
- Illicit Psychoactive Substance Use and Harm Prevention
- Immunization
- Indoor Air Pollution: Developing Countries
- Infant Malnutrition: Breastfeeding
- Infant Mortality
- Infectious Disease Surveillance
- Infertility, An Overview
- Influenza
- Influenza, Historical
- Injury Epidemiology
- Innovative Financing for Health Promotion: A Global Review and Thailand Case Study
- Integrative, Traditional and Complementary Medicine
- Interest Groups and Civil Society in Public Health Policy
- International Classification Systems for Health
- International Dietary Guidelines
- International Perspectives on Resource Allocation
- Intestinal Infections: Overview
- Iodine Deficiency and Its Prevention
- Iron Deficiency and Its Prevention
- J
- Japan, Health System of
- K
- Kidney Diseases
- L
- Land Use/Land Change and Health
- Late Life Cognitive Disorders
- Latin American Social Medicine
- Lead Hazards and Poisoning
- Legal Issues in Public Health
- Leprosy
- Leprosy, Historical
- Leukemia
- Life Expectancy Measurements
- Literacy and Public Health
- Liver Cancer
- Long Term Care for Aging Populations
- Long Term Care in Health Services
- Longevity of Specific Populations
- Long-Term Care Organization and Financing
- Lung Cancer
- Lung Diseases, Occupational
- Lupus Erythematosus: Pathogenesis of Cutaneous Manifestations
- Lyme Disease
- Lymphomas
- M
- Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, Health Systems of
- Male Reproductive Function
- Managed Care
- Maternal Health Services
- Maternal Mortality and Morbidity
- Measles
- Measurement and Modeling of Health-Related Quality of Life
- Measurement and Modeling: Infectious Disease Modeling
- Measurement and Valuation of Health for Economic Evaluation
- Measurement of Psychiatric and Psychological Disorders and Outcomes in Populations
- Meat Consumption and Cancer
- Meat Consumption and Cardiovascular Disease
- Volume 5
- M
- Media and Health
- Medical Pluralism
- Medical Sciences and Technology in Socio-Cultural Context
- Meningitis, Bacterial
- Menopause
- Mental Health and Physical Health (Including HIV/AIDS)
- Mental Health and Substance Abuse
- Mental Health Epidemiology (Psychiatric Epidemiology)
- Mental Health Etiology: Biological and Genetic Determinants
- Mental Health Etiology: Social Determinants
- Mental Health, Morbidity and Impact
- Mental Health Policy
- Mental Health Promotion
- Mental Illness, Historical Views of
- Mercury
- Meta-analysis
- Metabolic Myopathies
- Migraine Update
- Military Health Issues
- Multiple Sclerosis
- Mumps
- Muscular Dystrophies
- Mycobacterium ulcerans Disease: Buruli Ulcer
- N
- National Health Systems: A Historical Overview
- Natural Disasters
- Neurodevelopmental Disorders
- New Public Health
- New Technologies: Ethics of Genomics
- New Technologies: Ethics of Stem Cell Research
- Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs)
- Nontuberculous Mycobacteria
- Nurses
- Nutrition and HIV
- O
- Obesity/Overweight: Health Consequences
- Observational Epidemiology
- Obstructive Sleep Apnea
- Occupational Death/Injury Rates
- Occupational Health: Overview
- Occupational Injuries and Work Place Violence
- One Health Central and Eastern Africa: Historical and Future Perspectives
- Oral Cancer
- Organohalogen Pollutants and Human Health
- Outdoor Air Pollution: Sources, Atmospheric Transport, and Human Health Effects
- Ovarian Cancer
- Overweight and Obesity: Prevention and Weight Management
- P
- Pancreatic Cancer
- Parasitic Diseases, an Overview
- Parkinson's Disease
- Patient Empowerment in Health Care
- Pediatric Cancers
- Peoples Health Movement
- Perinatal Epidemiology
- Peripheral Arterial Disease
- Pesticides
- Physical Activity and Health
- Plague, Historical
- Planning, for Public Health Policy
- Pneumonia
- Poliomyelitis
- Poliomyelitis, Historical
- Politics, and Public Health Policy Reform
- Population Growth
- Populations at Special Health Risk: Children: Children's Mental Health Services
- Populations at Special Health Risk: Displaced Populations
- Populations at Special Health Risk: Homeless
- Populations at Special Health Risk: Incarcerated
- Populations at Special Health Risk: Indigenous Populations
- Populations at Special Health Risk: Men
- Populations at Special Health Risk: Migrants
- Populations at Special Health Risk: Rural Populations
- Populations at Special Health Risk: Women
- Populations at Special Health Risk: Workers
- Volume 6
- P
- Preventing Uptake of Smoking
- Primary Health Care
- Principles: Mental Health Resources and Services
- Principles of Infectious Diseases: Transmission, Diagnosis, Prevention, and Control
- Principles: Stigma
- Prostate Cancer
- Protozoan Diseases: African Trypanosomiasis
- Protozoan Diseases: Amebiasis
- Protozoan Diseases: Chagas Disease
- Protozoan Diseases: Cryptosporidiosis, Giardiasis, and Other Intestinal Protozoan Diseases
- Protozoan Diseases: Leishmaniasis
- Protozoan Diseases: Malaria Clinical Features, Management, and Prevention
- Protozoan Diseases: Toxoplasmosis
- Provider Payment Methods and Incentives
- Puberty
- Public and Consumer Participation in Policy and Research
- Public Health and Epidemiology: Prevention and Surveillance of Health Risks
- Public Health and Law Enforcement Regulation of Drugs and Drug Use
- Public Health and the Harm Reduction Approach to Illegal Psychoactive Substances
- Public Health Approaches to Dying, Death, and Loss
- Public Health Dimensions of Disability
- Public Health Law and Public Health Policy
- Public Health Professionals
- Public/Private Mix in Health Systems
- Q
- Quality Adjusted Life Years
- Quarantine through History
- R
- Rabies
- Race, Human Variation, and Health, the Interaction of
- Racism and Health
- Radiation Therapy
- Re-emerging Diseases: Overview
- Relief Operations
- Religion and Healing
- Reproductive Ethics: Ethical Issues and the Menopause
- Reproductive Ethics: New Reproductive Technologies
- Reproductive Ethics: Perspectives on Contraception and Abortion
- Reproductive Health: Sexually Transmitted Infections – Overview
- Reproductive Rights
- Resource Allocation: Justice and Resource Allocation in Public Health
- Respiratory Diseases: Overview
- Respiratory Infections, Acute
- Respiratory Syncytial Virus
- Review of Health Systems of the Middle East and North Africa Region
- Rheumatic Fever and Rheumatic Heart Disease
- Rhinoviruses
- Rickettsia
- Risk Communication
- Risk Factors
- Road Traffic Injuries
- Role of the State in Public Health Policy
- Rubella
- Russia and Former USSR, Health Systems of
- S
- Salmonella
- Scandinavia, Health Systems of
- School Health Promotion
- Schools of Public Health
- Secondhand Smoke
- Seizure Disorders
- Serial and Mass Murderers
- Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)
- Sexual and Reproductive Health: Overview
- Sexual Violence
- Shigellosis
- Sick Building Syndrome
- Sickle-Cell Disease
- Skin Diseases (Noncancerous)
- Sleep Disorders
- Smallpox
- Smoking Cessation
- Smoking, The Burden of Mortality of
- Social and Cultural Perspectives on Ecology and Health
- Social Determinants of Health, the United Nations Commission of
- Social Dimensions of Epidemics
- Social Dimensions of Infectious Diseases
- Social Epidemiology
- Social Gradients and Child Health
- Social Science Contributions to Public Health: Overview
- Sociocultural Construction of Medical Knowledge
- Volume 7
- S
- South Asia, Health Systems of
- Southeastern Europe, Health Systems of
- Specific Mental Health Disorders: Child and Adolescent Mental Disorders
- Specific Mental Health Disorders: Depressive and Anxiety Disorders
- Specific Mental Health Disorders: Eating Disorders
- Specific Mental Health Disorders: Mental Disorders Associated with Aging
- Specific Mental Health Disorders: Personality Disorders
- Specific Mental Health Disorders: Psychotic Disorders
- Specific Mental Health Disorders: Trauma and Mental Disorders
- Spinal Injury
- Sports Injuries
- Streptococcal Diseases
- Stress and (Public) Health
- Sudden Cardiac Arrest
- Suicide and Self-directed Violence
- Surveillance of Disease: Overview
- Syphilis
- Systematic Reviews in Public Health
- T
- Terrorism
- Tetanus
- Tobacco Control: An Integrated Approach
- Tobacco Harm Minimization
- Torture and Public Health
- Traditional Asian Medical Systems
- Transition to Universal Coverage in Developing Countries
- Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies
- Trends in Human Fertility
- Tuberculosis Diagnosis
- Tuberculosis Epidemiology
- Tuberculosis: Overview
- Tuberculosis Prevention
- Tuberculosis, Public Health Aspects
- Tuberculosis Treatment
- Typhoid Fever
- U
- Undernutrition and Its Social Determinants
- United Kingdom, Health System of
- Unsafe Abortion
- Urban Health Systems: Overview
- V
- Vaccines, Historical
- Venous Thromboembolism
- Violence against Women
- Violence/Intentional Injuries – Epidemiology and Overview
- Violence/Intentional Injuries – Prevention and Control
- Viral Diarrhea
- Viral Infections, an Overview with a Focus on Prevention of Transmission
- Vitamin A Deficiency and Its Prevention
- Vitamin D
- W
- Waterborne Diseases
- Weapons of Mass Destruction
- Western Europe, Health Systems of
- WHO Definition of Health, Rethinking the
- Wilson's Disease
- Women's Mental Health
- Worker Health and Safety: International Issues
- World Bank
- World Health Organization
- World's Medical Schools: Past, Present and Future
- Y
- Yaws, Bejel, and Pinta
- Yellow Fever
- Yellow Fever, Historical
- Young People and Violence
- Author Index