Published September, 2013
By Nancy Krieger
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
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This concise, conceptually rich, and accessible book is a rallying cry for a return to the study and discussion of epidemiologic theory: what it is, why it matters, how it has changed over time, and its implications for improving population health and promoting health equity.

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Published September, 2013
By Carole Clavier and Evelyne de Leeuw
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Health Promotion and the Policy Process presents theories on the policy process and discusses their significance in understanding of the constraints and issues of policymaking in health promotion.

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Published September, 2013
By Ralph J. DiClemente, William B. Hansen and Lynn E. Ponton
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Issues in Clinical Child Psychology
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Many adolescents today, and perhaps an increasing number in the future, are at risk for death, disease, and other adverse health outcomes that are not primarily biomedical in origin. Previously, infectious diseases accounted for a dispro portionate share of adolescent morbidity and mortality.

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Published September, 2013
By Christopher J. L. Cunningham, Bart L. Weathington, David J. Pittenger and CJL Cunningham
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd (John Wiley & Sons Inc)
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Offers an introduction to behavioral and social science research methods in the health sciences. This book provides complete coverage of the process behind these research methods, including information-gathering, decision formation, and results presentation.

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Published August, 2013
By Prakash S. Bisen, P. S. Bisen, P.S. Bisen and Ruchika Raghuvanshi
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd (John Wiley & Sons Inc)
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Emerging Epidemics provides a global perspective on the management and prevention of emerging and re-emerging diseases. In addition to covering the diagnosis, therapy, prevention of a variety of individual diseases, the book also examines the social and behavioral issues which can contribute to epidemics.

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Published August, 2013
By Anthony Morton, Kerrie L. Mengersen, Geoffrey Playford, Michael Whitby and A Morton
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd (John Wiley & Sons Inc)
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Hospitals monitoring is becoming more complex and is increasing both because staff want their data analysed and because of increasing mandated surveillance.

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Published August, 2013
By Stephen McKenzie
Publisher: Elsevier (Churchill Livingstone)
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Published August, 2013
By Troy Tassier
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: SpringerBriefs in Public Health
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The book presents a basic introduction to epidemiology from the perspective of economics, using economic modeling to better understand and describe how infectious disease spreads.

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Published August, 2013
By B.B.Singh Dhaliwal, Prayag Dutt Juyal and B. B. Singh Dhaliwal
Publisher: Springer (Springer, India, Private Ltd)
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The book "Parasitic Zoonoses" emphasizes a veterinary and public health perspective of zoonotic parasites. The first chapter is concerned with classification of zoonotic parasites, food borne, vector borne and occupation related zoonotic parasites.

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Published August, 2013
By Marc Galanter
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Recent Developments in Alcoholism
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From the President of the Research Society on Alcoholism In the last decade research concerning the causes and consequences of alcohol abuse and alcoholism has come of age. Psychosocial and biological studies of families including alcoholics and subjects at high risk are likely to bring new insights to our understanding of etiological factors.

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