Since the mid-1970s, the ancient view that the determinants of health go well beyond medical care has reemerged in most western democracies. Yet despite nearly two decades of repeated intellectual eff
The Foundations of Epidemiology is an introductory level text intended for a broad range of courses in epidemiology, including those in medical schools, schools of public health, dental schools, scho
Despite enduring limitations and flaws, public health in the United States today enjoys impressive successes compared with both earlier eras and less developed countries. Yet a recurrent, often harrow
Public health has a legacy of neglect regarding social and behavioral research. Too often, prompted by technical and scientific progress, we have ignored even marginalized-the vital "human eleme
A comprehensive reference for risk assessment that brings together all the methods for assessing risk into a common framework, thus demonstrating how the methods relate to one another. An introductory
In the Wake of Contact Biological Responses to Conquest Clark Spencer Larsen and George R. Milner, Editors The Columbian Quincentennial has sparked a new wave of research into the effects of European
This identification guide is an in-depth, consistent and accessible approach providing information on both the identification and practical aspects of tropical and western insects and arthropods.
Mathematical modelling of communicable diseases has in the past decades been the subject of intense research activity, on the part of both epidemiologists and biomathematicians; nonlinear forces of in
In 1793 a disastrous plague of yellow fever paralyzed Philadelphia, killing thousands of residents and bringing the nation's capital city to a standstill. In this psychological portrait of a city in t
This casebook is designed for use in courses on epidemiology or occupational epidemiology. The chapters are based on actual studies and are written by the principal investigators. They are divided int
Reviews the threat from new diseases such as HIV and old diseases such as tuberculosis, warning against complacency in public health, and arguing for early prevention as a cost-effective and crucial s
A social, cultural, and medical history of the polio epidemic in the US. Rogers (history, U. of Alabama) focuses on the early years from 1900 to 1920, and continues the story to the present, framing i
A practical training module on entomological field techniques for malaria control presented in two separately bound parts. The first, addressed to learners, provides step-by-step instructions in the f
The public health movement in the South began in the wake of a yellow fever epidemic that devastated the lower Mississippi Valley in 1878--a disaster that caused 20,000 deaths and financial losses of
Surveys the growing practice of matching DNA from crime scenes with that of suspects. Offers recommendations for such issues as the reliability and quality of DNA typing, standardization, and certific
Seven papers from a June 1988 conference in Washington, DC, report on epidemiological studies of War World II and Vietnam veterans. They include such topics as hepatitis, drugs, the psychology of capt
Argues that epidemics, sporadic outbursts of bizarre behaviour and low fertility and high death rates from the 14th to the 18th centuries may have been caused by food poisoning from microfungi in brea
