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More than a health crisis :securitization and the US response to the 2013-201…
"Examines the US securitization of the 2013-2016 Ebola outbreak, exploring how Ebola was understood as a security threat and how this impacted on the US response to the health crisis"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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War on all fronts :a theory of health security justice
"Shows the flaws in using "the war metaphor" to understand and organize our response to pandemics and urges its abandonment"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262374224
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People count :contact-tracing apps and public health
An introduction to the technology of contact tracing and its usefulness for public health, considering questions of efficacy, equity, and privacy. Contact tracing is key to containing and controlling the spread of a virus in a pandemic. South Korea, China, and Singapore were among the few countries that quickly employed contact tracing after the emergence of COVID-19; the United States did not.…
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- 9780262363822
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- 1 online resource (120 pages).
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Epidemic illusions :on the coloniality of global public health
A physician-anthropologist explores how public health practices--from epidemiological modeling to outbreak containment--help perpetuate global inequities. In Epidemic Illusions, Eugene Richardson, a physician and an anthropologist, contends that public health practices--from epidemiological modeling and outbreak containment to Big Data and causal inference--play an essential role in perpetuatin…
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- 9780262362634
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Howard Hiatt :an extraordinary mentor who transformed health with science and…
Includes index.The seven-decade career of Howard Hiatt, a pioneer in public health, advocate for global health and health equity, a mentor to generations of healthcare leaders. Howard Hiatt--physician, scientist, advocate for global health, and mentor to generations of healthcare leaders--has spent much of his seven-decade career being ahead of his time. His innovative ideas as head of Harvard'…
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Plagues and the paradox of progress :why the world is getting healthier in wo…
"A Council on Foreign Relations book."Why the news about the global decline of infectious diseases is not all good. Plagues and parasites have played a central role in world affairs, shaping the evolution of the modern state, the growth of cities, and the disparate fortunes of national economies. This book tells that story, but it is not about the resurgence of pestilence. It is the story of it…
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- 9780262348072
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- 1 online resource (259 pages) :illustrations, maps
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Health and medicine on display :international expositions in the United State…
This work offers a book-length examination of how international expositions, through their exhibits and infrastructures, sought to demonstrate innovations in applied health and medical practice.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262258630
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- 1 online resource (xi, 326 pages) :illustrations
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Life support :the environment and human health
A solutions-oriented examination of the connections between environmental degradation and human health.Life Support brings together the best medical information available on the implications for human health of the global environmental crisis. Written by prominent physicians and public health experts who see environmental degradation as a serious threat to public health, it provides essential i…
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- 9780262279338
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 312 pages) :illustrations
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Violence and Mental Health Its Manifold Faces
Violence is one of the most important challenges, not only for public health systems, but also for public mental health. Violence can have immediate as well as long-term and even transgenerational effects on the mental health of its victims. This book provides a comprehensive and wide-ranging assessment of the mental health legacy left by violence. It addresses the issues as they affect states,…
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- 978-94-017-8999-8
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Emerging Techniques in Applied Demography
By bringing together top-notch demographers, sociologists, economists, statisticians and public health specialists from Asia, Africa, Europe, and North America to examine a wide variety of public and private issues in applied demography, this book spans a wide range of topics. It evaluates population estimates and projections against actual census counts and suggests further improvement of esti…
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- 36 b/w illustrations, 54 illustrations in colour
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