Worldmark Global Health and Medicine Issues
Worldmark Global Health and Medicine Issues
Editor: Lerner, K. Lee
Publication Year: 2016
Publisher: Gale
Price: Core Collection Only
ISBN: 978-1-41-031755-1
Category: Health & Medicine - Health
Image Count:
289
Book Status: Available
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Worldmark Global Health and Medicine Issues (WGHMI) is written for students and educators in high schools, community colleges, and four-year colleges, as well as interested laypeople. It covers current health and medicine issues with global impact in the modern world and organizations and groups addressing these issues.
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Table of Contents
- VOLUME 1: A-M
- Introduction
- Using Primary Sources
- Glossary of Terms
- Chronology of Events
- A
- Air Pollution: Urban, Industrial, and Transborder
- Alcohol Use and Abuse
- Antibiotic/Antimicrobial Resistance
- Avian (Bird) and Swine Influenzas
- B
- Bacterial Diseases
- Body Image and Eating Disorders
- C
- Cancer
- Cardiovascular Diseases
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
- Child Health
- Cholera and Dysentery
- Climate Change: Health Impacts
- Complementary and Alternative Medicine
- Conflict, Violence, and Terrorism: Health Impacts
- Cultural and Traditional Medicine
- D
- Dengue
- Diabetes
- Drug/Substance Abuse
- E
- Ebola Virus Disease
- Epidemiology: Surveillance for Emerging Infectious Diseases
- F
- Family Planning
- Food Safety and Food Preparation
- Food Security and Hunger
- Fungal Diseases
- G
- Gender and Health
- Genetic Testing and Privacy Issues
- Genital Modification
- Global Health Initiatives
- H
- Health as a Human Right and Health-Care Access
- Health in the WHO African Region
- Health in the WHO Americas Region
- Health in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region
- Health in the WHO European Region
- Health in the WHO South-East Asia Region
- Health in the WHO Western Pacific Region
- Health-Care Worker Safety and Shortages
- Health-Related Education and Information Access
- Hemorrhagic Diseases
- High Blood Pressure
- HIV/AIDS
- I
- Influenza
- Insect-Borne Diseases
- International Health Regulations, Surveillance, and Enforcement
- Isolation and Quarantine
- L
- Life Expectancy and Aging Populations
- M
- Malaria
- Malnutrition
- Marine Toxins and Pollution
- Maternal and Infant Health
- Médicins Sans Frontières
- Mental Health Treatment Access
- Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA)
- Mobile Health Technologies
- VOLUME 2: N-Z
- N
- Neglected Tropical Diseases
- NGOs and Health Care: Deliverance or Dependence
- Noncommunicable Diseases (Lifestyle Diseases)
- Nutrition
- O
- Obesity
- Organ Donation and Transplantation
- P
- Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)
- Pan-American Interoceanic Highway or Transoceanic Highway: Health Impacts
- Pandemic Preparedness
- Parasitic Diseases
- Pharmaceutical Dumping (Drug Dumping)
- Pharmaceutical Research, Testing, and Access
- Pneumonia and Pneumococcal Diseases
- Poliomyelitis (Polio)
- Population Issues
- Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome
- Pregnancy Termination
- Prion Diseases
- R
- Radiation Exposure
- S
- Sanitation and Hygiene
- SARS, MERS, and the Emergence of Coronaviruses
- Smallpox Eradication and Storage of Infectious Agents
- Social Theory and Global Health
- Stigma
- T
- Tobacco Use
- Tuberculosis (TB)
- U
- Universal Health Coverage
- V
- Vaccine-Preventable Diseases
- Vaccines
- Viral Diseases
- Viral Hepatitis
- Vulnerable Populations
- W
- Water Supplies and Access to Clean Water
- Waterborne Diseases
- Workplace Health and Safety
- World Health Organization: Organization, Funding, and Enforcement Powers
- Z
- Zoonotic (Animal-Borne) Diseases
- Selected Organizations and Advocacy Groups
- General Resources
