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Books on Health & Safety Risks |
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Health Risk Books) |
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| 2006 |
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| Air
Transportation Safety And Security Management |
| by Richard Lack;
June 2006; ISBN 0849330335 |
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| Assurance Technologies
Principles and Practices: A Product, Process, and System Safety Perspective |
| by Dev G. Raheja and Michael Allocco; June 2006;
ISBN 0471744913 |
| This book is based on the assertion that safety
is not a cost, but an excellent investment. According to the authors, more
than sixty percent of problems in complex systems arise from incomplete,
vague, and poorly written specifications. In keeping with the authors'
passion for safety, the text is dedicated to uniting the gamut of
disciplines that are essential for effective design applying assurance
technology principles, including system safety, reliability,
maintainability, human engineering, quality, logistics, software integrity,
and system integration.
Readers familiar with the first edition of this text will recognize all
the hallmarks that have made it a classic in its field. The Second Edition
features a host of new examples, methods, techniques, and best practices to
bring the text fully up to date with the state of the art in assurance
technology.
Much new content has been added as well, including four new chapters:
- Managing Safety-Related Risks
- Statistical Concepts, Loss Analysis, and Safety-Related Applications
- Models, Concepts, and Examples: Applying Scenario-Driven Hazard Analysis
- Automation, Computer, and Software Complexities
The text begins with an introduction and overview of assurance
technology. Next, readers are provided with fundamental statistical
concepts. The chapters that follow explore in depth the approaches and
disciplines that make up assurance technology applications. Each chapter is
organized into major phases—design, manufacturing, test, and use phase—that
help readers understand both how and when to apply particular measures.
Throughout the text, readers discover detailed examples that prepare them
to manage real-world challenges. References and further reading are provided
at the end of each chapter leading to more in-depth discussion on
specialized topics. With its extensive use of examples and highly structured
approach, this is an excellent course book for students in industrial
engineering, systems engineering, risk engineering, and other assurance
technology domains. Design and system engineers as well as safety
professionals will find the material essential in troubleshooting complex
projects and ensuring product, process, and system safety. |
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| Basic Guide to System Safety |
| by Jeffrey W. Vincoli; March 2006; ISBN
0471722413 |
| This book is an ideal primer for practicing
occupational safety and health professionals and industrial safety engineers
needing a quick introduction to system safety principles. Designed to
familiarize the reader with the application of scientific and engineering
principles for the timely identification of hazards, this book efficiently
outlines the essentials of system safety and its impact on day-to-day
occupational safety and health.
Divided into two main parts—The System Safety Program and System Safety
Analysis: Techniques and Methods—this easy-to-understand book covers:
- System safety concepts
- System safety program requirements
- Probability theory and statistical analysis
- Preliminary hazard analysis
- Failure mode and effect analysis
- Hazard and Operability Studies (HAZOP) and what-if analyses
The book reflects current industry practices with a new chapter on the
basic concepts, utility, and function of HAZOP and what-if analyses, two
analytical techniques that have been routinely and successfully used in the
petrochemical industry for decades. In addition, expanded coverage on the
use of the job safety analysis (JSA) adds practical examples emphasizing its
value and understanding. |
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| Beyond Human Error: Taxonomies
and Safety Science |
| by Brendan Wallace and Alastair Ross; March
2006; ISBN 0849327180 |
| The majority of accidents and incidents are
caused, at some level, by human error. This text provides an introduction to
this key field as well as a broad background to the subject. Incorporating
the sociology of disaster and accidents into a practical framework, it
offers a new paradigm for the subject. The authors address the roots of
"human error" in the Western tradition and discuss the history of human
error studies, human factors, and ergonomics, exploring hidden assumptions
that have colored past research. They include current methodologies of
experimental design, new paradigms, and outlines situated and distributed
cognition models, and more useful intervention strategies. |
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| Beyond Limits: Dealing with
Chemical Risks at Work in Europe |
| by David Walters and Karola Grodzki; March
2006; ISBN 0080448585 |
Nearly one third of all occupational diseases
recognised annually in the EU are related to exposure to chemical substances
and it is widely accepted that this represents only a small fraction of the
full extent of harm caused by occupational exposure to hazardous substances.
The European chemical industry is the largest in the world but it is by no
means the only source of occupational exposure to chemical hazards, because
chemical products are both used and are bi-products in many diverse forms of
work.
This book is a study of strategic approaches to managing the risks of
working with hazardous substances in Europe. Its central theme concerns the
widening gap between debates and developments at national and international
levels concerning safety in the use of chemical substances at work in the
European Union and practices within workplaces especially within the small
and medium-sized workplaces that constitute the vast majority of
establishments in which people work in Europe. It sets out to discover what
drives informed and competent risk management in chemical health and safety
and what role occupational exposure limits play in this process.
The subject is particularly topical in the light of emerging strategies on
chemical risks at EU level, the future impact of REACH and the significant
changes that are occurring in legislative approaches to setting and using
exposure limits at national levels in most EU countries. The continuing
expansion of the Community to include a range of new member states, with
chemical health and safety systems that are considerably less sophisticated
than those presently found in northern European member states, makes the
book especially timely. It deals with a subject that is a core concern of
national and EU level policy makers, regulators, OHS practitioners,
employers and trade unions alike. |
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| Beyond the Factory Gates:
Asbestos And Health in Twentieth Century America |
| by Peter Bartrip; March 2006; ISBN 0826488366 |
| This book examines the issue of asbestos and
health in the USA between the early 1900's to the mid-1970s. Areas covered
include the emergence of medical concern about the three fatal diseases
related to asbestos (asbestosis, lung cancer and mesothelioma); the actions
of the US Navy (the main consumer of asbestos-based insulation products);
the response of the federal government before and after enactment of the
Occupational Safety and Health Act in 1970; and the roles of organized
labour and the asbestos industry.
The book provides an important insight into occupational health and its
regulation in twentieth century America, and is original in several ways.
First, there is no satisfactory history of asbestos, health and medicine in
the USA - a major gap in the literature. Second, no previous publication has
examined the asbestos issue 'beyond the factory gates' in a
non-manufacturing context and explored the complex interactions between
organised labour, the US Government, business corporations and the US navy.
Finally, Beyond the Factory Gates avoids the one-sided, anti-business
interpretations that predominate much of the existing literature. It accepts
that the history of asbestos is in many ways a human tragedy, but it rejects
simplistic, universalised arguments that this has been a tragedy with a cast
only villains, dupes and victims. |
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| Bioterrorism Preparedness:
Medicine - Public Health - Policy |
| by Nancy Khardori, Editor; April 2006; ISBN
3527312358 |
| Meeting the acute need for a book determining
the crucial elements of bioterrorism preparedness, this is a global
perspective on the history and current concepts on bioterrorism, integrating
the scientific, medicinal, public health and health policy strategies. The
first three chapters provide a historical perspective and an overview of
management of all categories of potential bioterrorism agents including
special issues related to the care of children. Chapters four to nine
provide a thorough discussion on all Category A bioterrorism agents. The
last two chapters are devoted to priorities, policies and legal issues.
Furthermore, it discusses the role of the World Health Organization and
International Health regulations for bioterrorism preparedness. The book
contains information relevant to healthcare providers including Infection
Control practitioners, microbiologists, epidemiologists, biotechnologists,
public health agencies and pharmaceutical agencies. |
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| Bretherick's Handbook of
Reactive Chemical Hazards, 7th Edition |
| by Peter Urben, Editor; October 2006; ISBN
0123725631 |
This book is widely regarded as the
reference work in this field -- an assembly of all reported risks such as
explosion, fire, toxic or high-energy events that result from chemical
reactions gone astray, with extensive referencing to the primary literature.
It is designed to improve safety in laboratories that perform chemical
synthesis and general research, as well as chemical manufacturing plants.
Entries are ordered by empirical formula and indexed under both name(s) and
Chemical Abstracts Registry Numbers. This two-volume compendium focuses on
reactivity risks of chemicals, alone and in combination; toxicity hazards
are only included for unexpected reactions giving volatile poisons.
- Helps practitioners and students predict, avoid, and control reactivity
danger
- Covers every chemical with documented information on reactive hazards; more
than 5,000 entries on single elements or compounds, and 5,000 entries on the
interactions between two or more compounds
- Includes five years of new reports, new references to the primary
literature, and amplification to existing entries
- Links similar compounds or incidents that are not obviously related
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| Commercial Nuclear Power:
Assuring Safety for the Future |
| by Charles B. Ramsey; March 2006; ISBN
0471291862 |
| This book provides everything we need to
understand nuclear power. Written in easy-to-follow prose, it frankly
describes the role that nuclear power could and should play in meeting our
electrical energy needs. It disambiguates nuclear controversy from all sides
of the nuclear debate and discusses the potential of energy production from
other available fuels. It authenticates the energy policy decisions that
each nation must make to address reaching the peak of oil supplies, while
effectively dealing with societys' increasing energy consumption needs and
associated environmental consequences. The authors are very astute at
explaining the complexity of nuclear issues and reducing them to general
terms for reader comprehension. They examine nuclear plant operations and
the potential for accidents, dissect how nuclear accidents have occurred and
outline how such events can be avoided in the future. They are well versed
in the special problems of nuclear engineering and use their experience and
expertise to show us how nuclear energy can be produced safely. They provide
the necessary background to really grasp a clear perspective of the
potential of nuclear energy and the vital elements of nuclear safety systems
that prevent accidents. They discuss radioactive elements, including their
decay properties and provide good background information on the basic
physics involved in actual practice. |
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| Constructive Conversations
About Health: Policy and Values |
| by Marshall Marinker; July 2006; ISBN
1846190339 |
| This book examines in depth the underlying
values and principles of health policy, and posits a more enlightened public
and political discourse.
It will be invaluable for those involved in health policy making and
governance, politicians, healthcare managers, researchers, ethicists, health
and social affairs media, health rights and patient participation groups. |
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| Critical Infrastructure
Protection in Homeland Security : Defending a Networked Nation |
| by Ted G. Lewis; April 2006; ISBN 0471786284 |
| This book offers a unique scientific approach
to the new field of critical infrastructure protection: it uses network
theory, optimization theory, and simulation software to analyze and
understand how infrastructure sectors evolve, where they are vulnerable, and
how they can best be protected. The author demonstrates that infrastructure
sectors as diverse as water, power, energy, telecommunications, and the
Internet have remarkably similar structures. This observation leads to a
rigorous approach to vulnerability analysis in all of these sectors. The
analyst can then decide the best way to allocate limited funds to minimize
risk, regardless of industry sector.
The key question addressed in this timely book is: What should be
protected and how? The author proposes that the answer lies in allocating a
nation's scarce resources to the most critical components of each
infra-structure—the so-called critical nodes. Using network theory as a
foundation, readers learn how to identify a small handful of critical nodes
and then allocate resources to reduce or eliminate risk across the entire
sector.
A comprehensive set of electronic media is provided on a CD-ROM in the
back of the book that supports in-class and self-tutored instruction.
Students can copy these professionally produced audio-video lectures onto a
PC for repeated viewing at their own pace. Another unique feature of the
book is the open-source software for demonstrating concepts and streamlining
the math needed for vulnerability analysis. Updates, as well as a discussion
forum, are available from www.CHDS.us.
This book is essential for all corporate, government agency, and military
professionals tasked with assessing vulnerability and developing and
implementing protection systems. In addition, the book is recommended for
upper-level undergraduate and graduate students studying national security,
computing, and other disciplines where infrastructure security is an issue. |
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| The Economics of U.S. Health
Care Policy: The Role of Market Forces |
| by Frank W. Musgrave; January 2006; ISBN
0765612569 |
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by Steve Thompson and Dan Hopwood; September 2006; ISBN 0782136044 |
| This book provides updated information and
real-world case studies illustrating how to prevent as well as confront the
common health and safety issues that arise in the workplace. It includes
information on managing workers' compensation claims, OSHA requirements,
risk management and loss prevention, quality of work life, preventative
health, employee assistance programs, ADA compliance, ergonomic standards,
and incident, disaster, and emergency response plans. |
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| Farm Safety Handbook |
| by Rick Kubik; July 2006; ISBN 0760323852 |
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| Handbook of OSHA Construction
Safety and Health, Second Edition |
| by Charles D. Reese; March 2006; ISBN
0849365465 |
| A practical guide for eliminating safety and
health hazards from construction worksites, the Handbook of OSHA
Construction Safety and Health addresses such subjects as contractor
liability and multi-employer sites. This second edition features updates for
construction regulations, construction job audit, training requirements, and
OSHA regulations. It includes new record-keeping guidelines and forms with
additional material on focused inspections. It also contains updated contact
information for the newest agencies. The text provides a model safety and
health program, examples of accident analysis and prevention approaches,
sample safety and health checklists, and various illustrations. |
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| Health and Safety Pocket Book |
| by Jeremy Stranks; August 2006; ISBN 0750667818 |
This pocket book contains a unique compilation
of tables, data, checklists and a glossary for a wide range of health and
safety topics. It includes the principal legal health and safety
requirements for every industry, checklists for major hazards affecting all
industries, safety management elements and systems, a glossary of the main
concepts of health and safety, a wealth of charts with the nitty-gritty,
hard to remember detail such as the recommended air changes in ventilation
and the maximum ratios of illuminance for adjacent areas, and a list of the
most important health and safety courses, publications and organisations
The A-Z arrangement within the chapters and extensive cross-referencing
makes the book easy to navigate.
It is a compact first point of reference for practicing health and safety
professionals and auditors out on site visits, managers and HR personnel
with health and safety responsibilities, and employee representatives. The
book will also be useful on a wide range of health and safety courses at all
levels. |
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| Human Safety and Risk
Management, Second Edition |
| by Ian Glendon; April 2006; ISBN 0849330904 |
| Completely updated and revised, this book
reflects the large amount of recent research literature and changes that
have occurred in the field over the last decade. This second edition
contains two new chapters, with a brand new chapter on safety culture. It
discusses changes in terminology, exploring the controversies associated
with such terms as accident, injuries, incidents, and disasters. Drawing on
a wide range of disciplines, including psychology, this text explores
various approaches to risk. It presents numerous practical examples as well
as case studies that are useful for scientists, researchers, and
practitioners working in the field of health, safety, and risk. |
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| Incident Investigation and
Accident Prevention in the Process and Allied Industries |
| by Nigel Hyatt; May 2006; ISBN 0849307783 |
| This practical book strikes a balance between
the theoretical and applied aspects of incident investigation while also
addressing accident prevention. It stresses the need to get at the correct
causes and contributory factors since incidents are valuable learning
opportunities to prevent recurrence and future accidents. The author shares
his extensive experience on the range of topics that readers will encounter
during accident investigations. The material is presented at a level that is
accessible to the novice yet also valuable to the more seasoned investigator
and experienced personnel. A roadmap for incident investigation, the
standalone chapters can be used as needed during an investigation. |
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| Nuclear Safety |
| by Gianni Petrangeli, June 2006; ISBN
0750667230 |
This book is a comprehensive reference for
heath & safety and engineering professionals in the nuclear industry and
related bodies, including regulatory authorities, environmental and energy
scientists, students, researchers and consultants.
It provides the methods and data needed to evaluate and manage the safety of
nuclear facilities and related processes using risk-based safety analysis,
and provides readers with the techniques to assess the consequences of
radioactive releases.
The book covers relevant international and regional safety criteria (US,
IAEA, EUR, PUN, URD, INI). The contents deal with each of the critical
components of a nuclear plant, and provide an analysis of the risks arising
from a variety of sources, including earthquakes, tornadoes, external impact
and human factors. It also deals with the safety of underground nuclear
testing and the handling of radioactive waste.
The book covers all plant components and potential sources of risk including
human, technical and natural factors. It brings together information on
nuclear safety for which the reader would previously have to consult many
different and expensive sources and provides international design and safety
criteria and an overview of regulatory regimes. It also includes case
studies and analysis of major accidents with data and calculations on
accompanying website |
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| Process Technology: Safety,
Health, and Environment |
| by Charles E. Thomas; July 2006; ISBN
1418038016 |
| Extensively rewritten, reorganized, and updated
to match the curriculum standard as defined by the Center for the
Advancement of Process Technology (CAPT), this second edition offers an
easy-to-follow investigation into the entire spectrum of safety, health, and
environmental concerns related to the process industry. Coherent coverage is
designed to take learners on a straightforward journey towards understanding
the plethora of important regulatory issues governing today's chemical
processing arena. Readers will acquire valuable process technology insight
as they become acutely familiar with accident prevention, risk assessment
and management, policy and procedures preparation, plant operations safety,
and more. |
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| Reliability, Safety, and
Hazard: Advances in Risk-informed Technology |
| by P. V. Varde, Editor; July 2006; ISBN
8173197296 |
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| Safety, Nutrition, and Health
in Early Education |
| by Cathie Robertson; March 2006; ISBN
1418011622 |
| This volume covers the four major subject areas
of safety, nutrition, health, and special topics. New to this edition is
expanded coverage of children with disabilities and other special needs;
updated information on nutrition, including the new MyPyramid Food Guidance
System and practical information on creating linkages with children,
families, staff, community, and community resources. Special features of the
text include vignettes; checklists; case studies; Pause for Reflection,
which offers students a time to pause and examine how they feel about
specific topics; Reality Checks with Checkpoints, questions that allow
readers to critically examine the information presented; and new tables,
charts, photos, and graphics. In addition, special attention is given to
bullying; disaster planning for human-generated disasters; how America eats;
the impact of war and terrorism on children; Autism; Fetal Alcohol Syndrome;
and being at risk for preventable diseases. This text combines basic
information and theory, as well as practical applications, resources, and
other early education skills needed for working with children, families, and
staff. |
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| Structural Health Monitoring |
| by Daniel Balageas, Claus-Peter Fritzen, and
Alfredo Guemes, Editors; April 2006; ISBN 1905209010 |
| While exploring the variety of sensing
techniques used to achieve structural health monitoring, this book focuses
on the sensors, signal- and data-reduction methods, and inverse techniques.
Because the techniques are not based upon application type or linked to
special classes of problems, the book explores the broader
families—vibration and modal analysis, optical fibre sensing,
acousto-ultrasonics using piezoelectric transducers, and electric and
electromagnetic techniques. |
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| Three Mile Island: A Nuclear
Crisis in Historical Perspective |
| by J. Samuel Walker; January 2006; ISBN
0520246837 |
| As the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Three
Mile Island (TMI) nuclear accident approaches, the official historian of the
Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) provides "the first comprehensive
scholarly account" of the incident--and the first major study of the subject
in more than 20 years. Walker, who has authored or coauthored three previous
books on U.S. nuclear-power regulation during his 20 years at the NRC, opens
this volume with three chapters of context: a description of the public
debate over nuclear power before TMI, a survey of the history of U.S.
regulation of this controversial power source, and a useful explanation of
the design elements and operational techniques U.S. nuclear plants used to
prevent accidents if possible and to minimize the impact of any
unpreventable accidents. Chapters 4 through 8 anatomize the events of March
28 through April 1, 1979, at Three Mile Island and in the state and national
capitals (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and Washington, D.C.), while chapters 9
and 10 review the immediate and long-term impact of those five frightening
days. Thoroughly researched administrative history; includes photos, notes,
and a useful essay on sources. |
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| Tolley's Practical Risk
Assessment Handbook, Fifth Edition |
| by Mike Bateman; August 2006; ISBN 0750669896 |
Risk assessment has become the backbone of
Health and Safety management in the UK and elsewhere. Employers have a legal
duty to prove that risk assessments have been carried out and precautions
have been implemented as far as (reasonably) practicable.
Mike Bateman demystifies the risk assessment process and how it relates to
UK legislation. He covers both the general techniques and the assessment of
specific risks, such as hazardous substances (COSHH), noise, manual
handling, DSE workstations, PPE, fire, asbestos and work at height. The book
is designed to be user-friendly rather than overly legalistic or academic
and tells the reader how to go about risk assessment, not just what the
legislation requires. It contains numerous checklists, forms and worked
examples for a variety of hazards and industries. |
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| 2005 |
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| Flood Hazards and Health:
Responding to the Risks of Climate Change |
| by Roger Few and Franziska
Matthies; December 2005; ISBN 1844072150 |
| Flood Hazards and Health provides the first
detailed discussion of the global health risk from floods within the
context of climate change. The book combines an analysis of the human
health impacts of flooding with analysis of individual and societal
response to those risks, in light of the potential future increases in
flood hazard as a result of climate change. Analysis is rooted in a social
science approach to hazards and disaster research and emphasizes the
developmental as well as environmental causes of flood risk and the
socially differentiated nature of vulnerability and coping capacity. The
first part of the book sets out the scope of the issues and provides a
global overview of flooding, health risk and responses, a summary of
current and future global flood risk, human vulnerability to floods and
processes of response and adaptation to environmental hazards and a
detailed discussion of the health impacts of floods and the nature of
human response to the health risks posed. The second part covers specific
health aspects of floods - mental health, water and sanitation, health
systems and local level response - offering an in-depth empirical
examination of the evidence and drawing on material from Europe, North
America, Asia and Africa. The conclusion draws out implications and
recommendations for present and future adaptation to the coming climate
induced risk of floods. |
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| The Great
Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History (revised
edition) |
| by John M. Barry; Penguin (revised edition);
October 2005; ISBN 0143036491 |
| The influenza virus that erupted in the winter
of 1918, at the height of WWI, killed as many as 100 million people
worldwide-- more people in twenty-four weeks than AIDS has killed in
twenty-four years, more in a year than the Black Death killed in a
century. The author weaves together multiple narratives, with characters
ranging from Johns Hopkins Medical School founder William Welch to John D.
Rockefeller and Woodrow Wilson, into a tale of triumph amid tragedy about
a crisis that provides a precise and sobering model for our world as we
confront AIDS, bioterrorism, and other, as yet unknown, diseases. This
book won the 2005 Best Book Award from the National Academies 2005
Communications Awards (see news
release). |
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| Public Health Risks of
Disasters: Communication, Infrastructure, and Preparedness |
| by William Hooke and Paul G. Rogers, Editors;
January 2005; ISBN 0309095425 |
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| Smoking and Health: New
Research |
| by J. H. Owing, Editor; June 2005; ISBN
1594543925 |
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| 2004 |
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| Assessment and Planning in
Health Programs |
| by Bonni C. Hodges and
Donna M. Videto; July 2004; ISBN 0763717487 |
| Conducting a needs
assessment, planning an effective program, implementing programs, and
evaluating them are at the core of health education and health promotion.
This text gives an overview of needs assessment, program planning, and
program evaluation, and explains several goals and strategies for each.
The text also gives an overview of the importance and use of theories,
data collections strategies, and key terminology in the field of health
education and health promotion. Throughout each
chapter, there is a running case study, checkpoints to promote critical
thinking, boxed materials, tables and graphs, and each chapter ends with a
series of questions and exercises. |
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| Globalization and Health: An
Introduction |
| by Lee Kelley; April 2004;
ISBN 0333802551 |
| Globalization affects human
health in wide-ranging and multifaceted ways, ranging from the behaviors
of individuals to broad social, political, and economic contexts within
which health and disease occur. This book provides an introduction to
these complex linkages through an exploration of the spatial, temporal and
cognitive dimensions of global change. Challenging the neglect of health
issues within the globalization literature, the book draws on diverse
empirical evidence to argue that urgent attention to these impacts is
needed. |
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| Handbook of Stress Medicine and
Health, Second Edition |
| by Cary L. Cooper; July 2004; ISBN 0849318203 |
| Research now shows us that long-term activation
of the stress cycle can have a hazardous, even lethal, effect on the body,
increasing the risk of obesity, heart disease, depression, cancer, and
other illnesses. Edited by one of the world's authorities in stress
management, occupational psychology, and occupational medicine, this 2nd
edition of an award-winning book offers a completely revised and updated
look at the different types of stress, including their characteristics,
symptoms, duration, and treatment approaches. With contributions from the
foremost leaders in the field, the book presents cutting-edge research on
the effects of stress. |
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| Health and Inequality :
Geographical Perspectives |
| by Sarah E Curtis; January 2004; ISBN
0761968237 |
| The author describes how a geographical
perspective can be applied to issues of health inequality in urban
settings. Spatial aspects of biological, physical, and social
environmental factors important to health are examined in an effort to
demonstrate the need for an interdisciplinary approach towards research on
public health. She identifies and examines five different
"landscapes" (defined as systems "of factors and processes
that interact in particular settings to produce geographical
variation") important to the understanding of health inequality:
therapeutic landscapes, landscapes of power and resistance, landscapes of
power and wealth, landscapes of consumption, and ecological landscapes. |
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| No Germs Allowed!: How To Avoid
Infectious Diseases at Home and on the Road |
| by Winkler G. Weinberg; October 2004; ISBN
0813535328 |
| Much has been published recently about the
continuing danger of infectious disease despite the availability of
antibiotics. This work, by a practicing physician specializing in
infectious disease, concentrates on preventing the more common problems.
He groups infections in general categories: infections of daily living,
like urinary tract infections; infections from the environment, like food
poisoning; and infections contracted from others, like tuberculosis and
HIV. A particularly unusual and useful category offers advice for those
with unique risks, e.g., those who have HIV, are pregnant, or are in a
hospital. Illustrations and tables, such as lists of risk factors, are
included, as is a list of recommended vaccinations. A useful, well-written
guide to avoiding infection, this is not intended to provide treatment
information. |
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| Once Upon a Virus: AIDS Legends
and Vernacular Risk Perception |
| by Diane E. Goldstein; September 2004; ISBN
0874215870 |
| Tracing the rich tradition of AIDS legends in
relation to current scholarship on belief, the author shows how such
stories not only articulate widespread perceptions of risk, health care,
and health policy, they also influence official and scientific approaches
to the disease and its management. Notions that appear in narratives of
who gets AIDS, how and why, are indicators of broad issues involving
health beliefs, concerns, and needs.
Since reports of the first cases of HIV/AIDS in the early 1980s,
contemporary, or "urban," legends about origins of the virus,
modes of transmission, deliberate infection, withheld treatment, and
minority genocide have proliferated. Told cross-culturally, stories
recount HIV-filled needles in movie theatre seats, pinpricks in drugstore
shelf condoms, semen in fast food, and HIV-positive sexual predators.
Though fascinating, intriguing, and often frightening, these narratives
more than merely entertain. They warn and inform, articulate notions of
risk, provide political commentary on public health actions, and offer
insight into the relationship between cultural and health truths. As parts
of community discourse about the nature of disease, legends provide
powerful information about cultural understandings of the virus.
In this book, the author explores the story-making activities that have
surrounded the AIDS epidemic, focusing on the potential implications of
legend discourse for public health. When taken seriously, with respect for
both the narratives and their tellers, AIDS legends enable understanding
of perceptions of risk, reveal local views of public health efforts, and
highlight areas of health care and education that need to be improved. The
author demonstrates, however, that AIDS narratives not only articulate
perceptions of disease realities, they also create those realities. Told
within scientific and official sectors as well as lay communities, legends
play a significant role in medical, legal, and educational responses to
the disease and its management. Through a series of legend case studies,
this volume explores how narrative constructs the way we interact with
disease, creating cultural scripts for both personal and scientific
decision-making. |
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| Political and Economic
Determinants of Population Health and Well-Being: Controversies and
Developments (Policy, Politics, Health, and Medicine Series) |
| by Vicente Navarro and Carles Muntaner;
September 2004; ISBN 0895032791 |
| The field of social inequalities in health
continues its vigorous growth in the early years of the 21st century. This
volume is a compilation of recent contributions to the areas of social
epidemiology, health disparities, health economics, and health services
research. The overarching theme is to describe and explain the
ever-growing health inequalities across social class, race, and gender, as
well as neighborhood, city, region, country, and continent. The approach
of this book is distinctly multi-, trans-, and interdisciplinary: the
fields of public health, population health, epidemiology, economics,
sociology, political science, philosophy, medicine, and history are all
represented here. |
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| Statistical Estimation of
Epidemiological Risk (Statistics in Practice) |
| by Kung-Jong Lui; March 2004; ISBN 047085071X |
| This book provides coverage of the most
important epidemiological indices, and includes recent developments in the
field. A useful reference source for biostatisticians and
epidemiologists working in disease prevention, as the chapters are
self-contained and feature numerous real examples. It has been written at
a level suitable for public health professionals with a limited knowledge
of statistics. |
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| The Trans Fat Remedy: The First
Consumer Guide to Your Family's Biggest Health Threat |
| by Deborah Mitchell; August
2004; ISBN 045121272X |
| Heart disease, diabetes,
breast cancer, and obesity are all linked to trans fats, processed oils
that can be deadly. Yet the FDA has given food manufacturers until January
1, 2006, to disclose trans fats on their nutritional labels. Now,
consumers don't have to wait to find out which harmful trans fats are
hidden in their favorite foods. Here is The Trans Fat Remedy, the
first reliable buying guide to help protect the reader's health and that
of their family today by identifying which foods contain trans fats,
providing ways to significantly reduce these fats in daily diets, and
offering detailed guidelines and strategies for finding delicious,
nutritious alternatives to trans fat. |
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| Under the Weather: How Weather
and Climate Affect Our Health |
| by Pat Thomas; June 2004;
ISBN 1904132308 |
| An entertaining and
fact-filled look at the links between health and climate, this book
details both short-term symptoms and life-threatening conditions that can
be aggravated by the weather. It explains how to be protected from the
extremes of weather as well as how to ease weather-related symptoms.
Startling weather-related observations include evidence that the onset of
labor is more common when barometric pressure is falling; migraines can be
made much worse by cold and winds; deaths from heart disease are more
common on days when there are blustery winds bringing changeable
temperatures; changes in humidity can cause scar tissue to ache; and
patients with noninherited forms of schizophrenia are twice as likely to
have been born in extreme weather conditions as those with the inherited
form of the disease. |
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|
Using Cost-Effectiveness Analysis To Improve Health Care: Opportunities and Barriers |
| by Peter J. Neumann;
October 2004;
ISBN 0195171861 |
| This book by a Harvard School of Public Health's Department of Health Policy and
Management professor discusses why the United States does not receive good value for its
soaring health costs and how cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) could help the nation do better. The Harvard Center for Risk Analysis' bimonthly publication Risk in Perspective, the December 2004
issue (read the PDF version), features
the author's summary of his book. |
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| 2003 |
|
| Adult Obesity: A Pediatric
Challenge |
| by Terry Wilkin, Linda
Voss, Linda Voss, and Terence Wilkin (Editors); September 2003; ISBN
0415300150 |
| This collection of essays,
based on a national symposium on obesity, is aimed at the general reader
with an interest in managing obesity and its outcomes, whether general
practitioner, community nurse, dietician or hospital clinician. |
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| Atlas of Atherosclerosis: Risk
Factors and Treatment |
| by Peter Wilson, Editor;
June 2003; ISBN 1573401870 |
| This book focuses on aspects of atherosclerosis
and traces its beginnings at a cellular level to the biologic mechanisms
underlying the development of clinical atherosclerosis. It provides
clinical updates on endothelial research and clinical trials and covers
the economic factors. |
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| Contemporary Diagnosis and
Management of Obesity |
| by George A. Bray; May
2003; ISBN 1884065597 |
| This text reviews the problem of obesity as a
worldwide epidemic and describes various management strategies. Discusses
the causes of obesity, clinical evaluation, nutrition and diet, physical
activity and exercise, and surgical and drug treatments. Halftone charts
and graphs. |
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| Determining Health Expectancies |
| by Jean-Marie Robine, Carol
Jagger, Colin D. Mathers, Eileen M. Crimmins, Richard M. Suzman (Editors);
January 2003; ISBN 0470843977 |
| This book offers guidance
on the definition and measurement of health and morbidity, and their
application to measurements of mortality and the production of comparable
health expectancies. Twenty chapters by public health experts examine the
main trends in the evolution of the population's health status, the
relevance of health expectancies, measurement and calculation problems,
and health expectancies in different regions of the world. Data appears in
graphs and charts throughout the book. |
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| Environmental Health and
Nursing Practice |
| by Barbara Sattler, Jane
Lipscomb, and Lawrence J. Nelson (Editors); January 2003; ISBN 0826142826 |
| This book provides information on basic
environmental health principles and common environmental health hazards.
It offers a patient assessment tool for exposure to hazards and strategies
for use of hospital resources. |
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| Essentials of Environmental
Health Management |
| by Janvier Gasana; April
2003; ISBN 0970856040 |
| The book brings together
the experience of more than 15 years of the author's teaching of the
course entitled "Principles of Environmental and Occupational Health
Sciences" all the way from Africa (at the Rwandan Medical School), to
Chicago (at the University of Illinois), and to North Miami (at Florida
International University Department of Public Health). The book is
actually the result of working with the many graduate students who took
that course that the author was able to compile a textbook that emphasizes
the public health aspects of environmental and occupational health
sciences. |
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| Global Inequalities at Work:
Work's Impact on the Health of Individuals, Families, and Societies |
| by Jody Heymann, Editor;
July 2003; ISBN 0195150864 |
| A map of the relationship
between work and health that is truly global -- both geographically and in
its coverage of the impact of work on the health of individuals, families
and societies, has not previously been drawn. This book aims to fill in
the map. Drawing from studies done around the world, it critically
examines the many ways in which work is affecting health around the world.
The first section covers the wide range of risks -- physical, chemical,
and social -- to the health of employees in agricultural, industrial and
post-industrial workplaces. Part II provides a detailed analysis of how
working conditions can dramatically influence the health and welfare of
family members -- including children, elderly parents and the disabled --
in both the developing and industrial world. Part III examines the
relationships between work and health at the societal level by focusing on
two examples: the ways in which working conditions affect income
inequalities and health, and the ways in which working conditions
influence gender inequalities and health. |
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| Health & Safety at Work
Essentials |
| by Mary Duncan, Finbar
Cahill, and Penny Heighway; February 2003; ISBN 1904053319 |
| Every workplace has to
comply with a never-ending range of health and safety rules and
regulations. This text offers a layman's description of health and safety
laws, regulations and practices for the workplace. |
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| Health and Social Justice :
Politics, Ideology, and Inequity in the Distribution of Disease |
| by Richard Hofrichter,
Editor; November 2003; ISBN 0787967335 |
| This book reflects the
growing body of literature that addresses the issue of health inequities
and the social determinants of health. The research documents that the
issues of poverty, income and wealth inequality, poor quality of life,
racism, sex discrimination, and low socioeconomic status are the major
risk factors for ill health and health inequalities. The most important
pieces of research have been collected and used to analyze the underlying
systems that keep health inequity a persistent problem for industrialized
countries. |
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| High Blood Cholesterol:
Description and Bibliography |
| by Edward T. O'Neil, Editor;
June 2003; ISBN 1590333403 |
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| Human Error in Healthcare: A
Handbook of Issues and Indications |
| by Marilyn Sue Bogner,
Editor; July 2003; ISBN 0805833781 |
| This book presents an
alternative approach to attributing the cause of medical error solely to
the health care provider. Eleven vignettes, by contributors in surgery,
anesthesia, nursing, and other medical areas, describe healthcare
incidents from the perspective of care providers. Material is of interest
to policymakers, researchers, and practitioners in law and in all medical
specialties, and to professionals in human factors. |
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| Introduction to Health and
Safety at Work: The Handbook for the Nebosh National General Certificate |
| by Philip Hughes, Editor;
March 2003; ISBN 0750657308 |
| This book is a useful
reference guide for managers and directors with health and safety
responsibilities, and for safety representatives. It covers essential
elements of health and safety management, risk control, and standards and
summarizes all the most commonly used acts and regulations. |
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| Journey Across the Life Span:
Human Development and Health Promotion |
| by Elaine U. Polan, Daphne
R. Taylor, and Jacqueline Preiss Weitzman; January 2003; ISBN 0803609493 |
| This textbook covers growth and development in
a complete lifespan. Additions to this volume include discussions on the
influence of culture and the communication process. It features outlines,
summaries, critical thinking exercises, and resources. |
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| Loving Joe Gallucci: Love and
Life with Hepatitis C |
| by Kate Genovese; April 2003; ISBN
1891929895 |
| This novel, based on a true story, chronicles
the tumultuous courtship and marriage of a husband struggling with heroin
and cocaine and a wife trying to keep her family together throughout his
addictions, and later, through his bout with hepatitis C. The author, a
registered nurse, has been working in health care for more than 30 years.
(Also see the author's website.) |
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| MMR and
Autism |
| by Dr. Michael Fitzpatrick;
December 2003; hardcover,
ISBN 0415321786; paperback, ISBN 0415321794 |
| Dr. Michael Fitzpatrick, a
general practitioner in East London and the parent of an autistic child,
examines the claims that there is a link between the measles, mumps, and
rubella (MMR) vaccine and autism and explains his belief that the risks
associated with the MMR vaccine are virtually non-existent. spiked
author Helene Guldberg interviews Fitzpatrick when
his book was published in the UK (June 2004) in her article "MMR,
autism and politics." |
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| Obesity: Etiology, Assessment,
Treatment, and Prevention |
| by Jennifer Weinberg and
Ross E. Andersen; June 2003; ISBN 0736003282 |
| This book is a
comprehensive professional reference of weight management research and
techniques. Featuring chapters from some of the world’s top specialists
in the field of weight control, it provides the most current and accurate
information available today for treating obesity. The
textbook combines a literature review with practical applications,
incorporating expert analysis and synthesis of obesity treatment and
prevention. The book is an important resource that will prepare health
professionals and clinicians to help patients of all ages manage this
complex and pervasive disease. The book devotes an entire chapter to
treating and preventing obesity in children and discusses other relevant
topics. As obesity continues to increase at an alarming rate throughout
the world, this reference provides practitioners with the latest insight
into integrating physical activity, nutrition, psychology, and medicine to
help obese patients manage their weight. |
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| Public Health and the Risk
Factor: A History of an Uneven Medical Revolution (Rochester Studies in
Medical History) |
| by William Rothstein; May
2003; ISBN 1580461271 |
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| Risk Adjustment for Measuring
Health Care Outcomes |
| by Lisa I. Iezzoni, Editor;
August 2003; ISBN 156793207X |
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| Risk, Culture, and Health
Inequality : Shifting Perceptions of Danger and Blame |
| by Barbara Herr Harthorn
and Laury Oaks; May 2003; ISBN 0275978699 |
| This book examines uses and abuses of
"risk" by social actors in sites around the globe with a
particular focus on health inequality. Ethnographic accounts demonstrate
how people make sense of everyday health risks as they confront urgent
health concerns ranging from safe sex to global food security. |
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| The Smoking Puzzle :
Information, Risk Perception, and Choice |
| by Frank A. Sloan, V. Kerry
Smith, Donald H. Taylor, Jr.; May 2003; ISBN 0674010396 |
| The text presents the facts about the long-term
health risks of smoking. Based on the fact that smoker's tend to be overly
optimistic regarding longevity, recent data is revealed showing the
effects of smoking and quitting the habit too late in life having serious
effects. It focuses on older smokers and discusses the economics of
smoking. |
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| A Study Guide to Essentials of
Managed Health Care |
| by Peter
R. Kongstvedt, Editor; March 2003; ISBN 076372534X |
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| The
Volumetrics Weight-Control Plan |
| by Barbara Rolls and Robert A.
Barnett; Harper Mass Market Paperbacks; January 2003;
ISBN 0380821176 |
| Based on sound scientific principles, this book introduces the concept
of energy density -- the concentration of calories in each portion
of food -- and teaches how to avoid high energy-dense foods and how
nutritional factors affect energy density and satiety. The plan can help
you lose weight safely, effectively, and permanently by allowing you to
consume fewer calories and still be satisfied. First released in 2000 as The
Volumetrics Weight-Control Plan: Feel Full on Fewer Calories, earlier hardbound
and paperback
editions are also available. |
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| 2001 |
| Anxiety
in a 'Risk' Society (Health, Risk and Society) |
| by Iain Wilkinson; August 2001;
ISBN 0415226813 |
| By making anxiety the focus of sociological inquiry, a critical vantage
point can be gained from which to attempt an answer to the question: Are
we more anxious because we are more risk conscious? This is an original
and thought-provoking contribution to the understanding of late modernity
as a risk society. |
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| Diseases of Globalization:
Socioeconomic Transition and Health |
| edited by Christine McMurray and Roy
Smith; 2001; ISBN 1853837113 |
| Among the most important consequences of globalization are changes
in the patterns of health and the prevalence of disease. Many treatable illnesses are in decline, but many other conditions are on the increase.
In particular, non-communicable, 'lifestyle' illnesses such as heart disease and diabetes are growing rapidly.
Diseases of Globalization draws on primary case study material primarily from societies in the
Pacific region undergoing modernization, providing invaluable information for tracking and assessing the full impacts of the
changes. The move from subsistence to cash economies, brings with it changes
in diet, alcohol consumption and high levels of smoking. Growing divisions of wealth add to the problems, bringing the diseases relating
to poverty and malnourishment, and also those caused by affluence and over-consumption. |
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| Ecosystem
Change and Public Health : A Global Perspective |
| edited by Joan L. Aron and Jonathan Patz; June
2001; ISBN 0801865824 |
| This book explores the interface between public
health and natural systems and how human health is affected by global
ecosystem changes. The purpose of this textbook on global ecosystem change
and human health is twofold: (1) to raise awareness of changes in human
health related to global ecosystem change and (2) to expand the scope of
the traditional curriculum in environmental health to include the
interactions of major environmental forces and public health on a global
scale. |
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| Effective
Health Risk Messages: A Step by Step Guide |
| by Kim Witte, Gary Meyer, and Dennis P. Martell;
March 2001; ISBN 0761915087 |
| A text for public health, advertising,
persuasion, and marketing classes that explains the most effective ways to
scare people away from dangerous behavior. It reviews popular theories of
behavioral change, including the "fear appeal," covers data
collection and analysis procedures, and outlines how to incorporate
formative, process, and outcome evaluation as well as when and how to use
various media to disseminate health-risk messages. It also includes
worksheets to help plan a health-message campaign. |
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| How Much Risk: A Guide to Environmental Health Hazards |
| by Inge F. Goldstein and Martin Goldstein;
April 2001; ISBN 0195139941 |
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| Mathematical Methods of
Environmental Risk Modeling |
| by Douglas J. Crawford-Brown; August 2001; ISBN
0792373928 |
| This book provides a working introduction to
both the general mathematical methods and specific models used for human
health risk assessment. Rather than being purely an applied math book,
this book focuses on methods and models that students and professionals
are likely to encounter in practice. Examples are given from exposure
assessment, pharmacokinetic modeling, and dose-response modeling. |
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| Medical
Biostatistics |
| by Abhaya Indrayan and Sanjeev Sarmukaddam;
January 2001; ISBN 0824704266 |
| This book reveals concepts and methods of
biostatistics, detailing stages of planning, conducting, and interpreting
data trials. It describes designs for medical studies, as well as
numerical and graphical methods for representing different forms of
epidemiological data. It also lists indicators for measuring the health of
children, adolescents, and adults, and provides methods for assessing the
validity of diagnoses, medical tests, and prognoses. The book explains the
need for confidence intervals and statistical significance for handling
medical uncertainties and highlights situations requiring multivariate
approaches. |
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| 2000 |
| Error Reduction in Health Care: A Systems Approach to Improving Patient Safety |
| by Patrice L. Spath (Editor); March 2000; ISBN 155648271X |
| An essential guide that brings to light the causes of medical mistakes and offers level-headed advice for leaders who must reduce the number of errors when delivering health care services. With patient safety becoming a national priority, health care professionals are scrambling to find ways to curtail costly medical errors.
The book is a must-have resource that pinpoints how to reduce and eliminate medical mistakes that threaten the
health and safety of patients and reduce the effect of the errors that do occur. It is a strategic guide that helps health care risk and quality
managers analyze the root cause of medical errors, implement strategies for improvement, and monitor the effectiveness of these new
approaches. The book is filled with illustrative examples of incident investigations and process improvement recommendations
from leaders in the field of health care quality and risk management. With its step-by-step guide to operationalizing error reduction, this
book should be required reading for hospital administrators, senior medical staff, and concerned board members. |
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| Generations at Risk: Reproductive Health and the Environment |
| by Ted Schettler, Gina Solomon, Maria Valenti,
and Annette Huddle; August 2000; ISBN 0262692473 |
| Generations at Risk presents compelling evidence that human exposure to some toxic chemicals can have lifelong and even
intergenerational effects on human reproduction and development. The result of a collaboration involving public health
professionals, physicians, environmental educators, and policy advocates, this book
examines how scientific, social, economic, and political systems may fail to protect us from environmental and occupational toxicants. It is
an important sourcebook for those concerned about their own health and that of their loved ones, as well as for medical and public
health workers, community activists, policymakers, and industrial decision
makers. |
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| Handbook of Chemical Risk Assessment: Health Hazards to Humans, Plants, and Animals - Volume One: Metals |
| by Ronald Eisler; April 2000; ISBN 1566705037 |
| This book examines and analyzes the world literature on chemicals entering the environment from human activities. The first volume covers metals selected by
environmental specialists of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and other resource managers. Their choices were based on
the real or potential impact of each contaminant and on the knowledge available about their mitigation. The information for each chemical includes source and use; physical, chemical, and metabolic properties; concentrations in
field collections of abiotic materials and living organisms; deficiency effects; lethal and sublethal effects; and proposed
regulatory criteria for the protection of human health and sensitive natural resources. Each chapter selectively reviews and
synthesizes the technical literature on a specific priority contaminant and its effects on the environment. |
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| Health Risks and Developmental Transitions During Adolescence |
| by John Schulenberg (Editor), Jennifer L. Maggs (Editor), Klaus Hurrelmann;
January 2000; ISBN 0521480531 |
| This book focuses on the different developmental transitions during adolescence and young adulthood and relates them to
risks and benefits for young people's health and well-being. This book advocates the broadening of the concept of health
promotion to include assistance with negotiating the several changes that occur as individuals move into and out of
adolescence. Chapters from many of the most prominent researchers in the adolescent field from several countries are
included in this edited volume. |
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| Health & Safety Management for Medical Practices |
| by Linda F. Chaff; September 2000; ISBN 1579470831 |
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| Mayo
Clinic on Healthy Weight |
| edited by Donald D. Hensrud; December 2000; ISBN 1893005054 |
| Mayo Clinic addresses the United States' national health
epidemic--being overweight--in a book that includes the clinic's new Healthy Weight Pyramid, which presents guidelines for losing weight and
maintaining reduced weight. |
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| PSM/RMP Auditing Handbook: A Checklist Approach |
| by David Einolf and Luverna Menghini; Government Institutes, MD;
January 2000; ISBN 086587686X |
| A field guide to compliance with federal regulations that require safety auditing of hazardous materials. After an explanation of the
standards of the Federal Code of Regulations and advice on how to answer
questions formulated by the Occupational and Safety Health Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency, auditing
guidelines are set forth with an emphasis on documentation. |
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| Public Health Communication Interventions: Values and Ethical Dilemmas |
| by Nurit Guttman; January 2000; ISBN 0761902597 |
| This book questions the ethical dimensions of health communicators' interventions and campaigns, asking how far health
communicators can and should go in changing people's values. It broadens the current
analysis of interventions and presents conceptual frameworks that help identify values and justifications that are embedded in health
communication goals, strategies, and evaluation criteria. |
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| Waste
Incineration and Public Health |
| by the National Research Council; January 2000;
ISBN 030906371X |
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| Worker Exposure to Agrochemicals: Methods for Monitoring and Assessment |
| by Richard C. Honeycutt and Edgar W. Day, Editors;
September 2000; ISBN 1566704553 |
| Methods for determining exposure of pesticides to agricultural workers have been developing for over thirty years. You may
ask: what more do we need to know? This book provides the answer. It contains a compilation of
research papers that examine this issue from every angle. Even with all the information available, there still remains
an intense debate over what method -- dermal deposition or biological monitoring -- provides better results when measuring
worker exposure. Researchers almost never realize the same results in concurrent experiments using both methods. The
question is: which process is more accurate? This book examines the effectiveness of both
procedures. Two chapters describe the simultaneous use of both methods and their outcome.
The remaining chapters cover risk assessment, protective clothing, Canadian
dosimetry, "Jazzercise," a tiered approach to exposure
estimation, modeling reentry exposure, performing a dislodgeable residue study, and GLP requirements. |
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| 1999 |
| Air
Pollution and Health |
| edited by Stephen T. Holgate, Jonathan M. Samet, Robert L. Maynard, Hillel S. Koren;
May 1999; ISBN 0123523354 |
| This is the first fully comprehensive and the most current account of air pollution science and it impact on human
health published to date. It ranges in scope from meteorology, atmospheric chemistry, and particle physics to the causes and scope of allergic reactions and respiratory, cardiovascular, and related disorders. The book has
substantial international coverage and includes sections on cost implications, risk assessment, regulation, standards, and information networks. The multidisciplinary approach and the wide range of issues covered makes this an essential book for all concerned with monitoring and regulating air pollution as well as those concerned with its impact on human health.
Key Features: Only comprehensive text covering all the important air pollutants and relating these to human health and regulatory bodies Brings together a wide range of issues concerning air pollution in an easily accessible format Contributions from government agencies in the US and UK provide information on public policy and resource networks in the areas of health promotion and environmental protection |
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| Error
Reduction in Health Care : A Systems Approach to Improving Patient Safety |
| edited by Patrice Spath; 1999; ISBN 0452278325 |
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| Exercise
Rx : The Lifetime Prescription for Reducing Your Medical Risks and Sports
Injuries |
| by Gary Yanker; August 1999; ISBN 1568362471 |
Which exercises will help your heart? Which will help you age more slowly? Lose weight faster? Are any exercises more harmful than helpful? In this hefty how-to manual, author Gary Yanker presents exercise programs that prevent and rehabilitate illnesses and conditions. You fill out profiles that evaluate your age, gender, fitness level, activity preference, family health history, medical risk factors, and physical weaknesses or disabilities. Backed by a team of medical experts, Yanker presents programs that improve heart health, psychological state, the immune system, and more. "Prevention ExRx" shows you how to delay or prevent diseases and injuries through aerobic, strengthening, stretching, and postural exercises. "Rehabilitation ExRx" helps you manage pain and restore health after injuries, with an exercise prescription of strengthening and stretching based on your injury.
The amount of information may seem overwhelming, but it is presented clearly, with jaunty chapter titles and subtitles ("Why Thicker Bones Are Better than Thinner Thighs" and "Buns of Steel, but a Heart of Mush," for example) and plenty of self-tests and line drawings.
Yanker, a long-recognized authority on walking and moderate exercise, is the also the author of
"ExerciseWalking." - |
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| Generations
at Risk : Reproductive Health and the Environment |
| edited by Ted Schettler, Gina M. Solomon, Maria Valenti, Annett Huddle;
June 1999; ISBN 0262194139 |
Generations at Risk presents compelling evidence that human exposure to some toxic chemicals can have lifelong and even intergenerational effects on human reproduction and development. The result of a collaboration involving public health professionals, physicians, environmental educators, and policy advocates, this book examines how scientific, social, economic, and political systems may fail to protect us from environmental and occupational toxicants. It is an important sourcebook for those concerned about their own health and that of their loved ones, as well as for medical and public health workers, community activists, policymakers, and industrial decision makers.
Humans and ecosystems in the United States are subject to potential exposure to more than 75,000 synthetic chemicals, most of which are poorly tested or untested for human health effects. The authors focus on classes of chemicals that people may be exposed to at work, at home, and in their communities. These include toxic metals, organic solvents, pesticides, and endocrine disruptors. In addition to providing scientific information with which to assess the health risks of many chemicals, the book provides a guide to the current regulatory system and resources for action.
About the Author: Ted Schettler, M.D., M.P.H., is in the Department of Internal Medicine, Boston Medical Center, and Co-Chair of the Human Health and the Environment Project of Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility. Gina Solomon, M.D., M.P.H., is a Senior Scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council and Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of California at San Francisco. Maria Valenti is a researcher, writer, and consultant on environmental and social justice issues. |
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| The
Healing Power of Vitamins, Minerals, and Herbs |
| by
Reader's Digest, Editor; January 1999; ISBN 0762101326 |
| This reference provides information -- with 300
color photos, illustrations, and charts -- on the use of vitamins,
minerals, and herbs in maintaining good health, coping with everyday
complaints, or dealing with serious diseases. For example, the book
discusses how soy isoflavones not only reduce the frequency
and severity of menopausal symptoms but also "may protect against
coronary heart disease, may forestall certain cancers, and may help
prevent osteoporosis" (see press
release). |
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| Hormonal Chaos : The Scientific and Social Origins of the Environmental Endocrine Hypothesis |
| by Sheldon Krimsky, Lynn Goldman; November 1999; ISBN 0801862795 |
The chemicals that have ushered in the modern industrial age are literally everywhere--in pesticides applied in ever-increasing quantities to food crops, in plastics used for microwavable containers, in dental amalgams, in the resins that coat the inside of tin cans. For decades, such substances have generally been regarded as safe at low exposures. But new evidence suggests that relatively low levels of industrial chemicals may mimic or obstruct hormonal activity--with potentially devastating long-term effects that range from cancer and reproductive abnormalities to cognitive dysfunctions like Attention Deficit Disorder. Given both the seriousness and the uncertainty of the findings, how should the science of chemical toxicology be revised to account for these endocrine effects? And how should the scientific debate affect public policy?
In "Hormonal Chaos," Sheldon Krimsky--a professor of Urban and Environmental Policy at Tufts University whose research focuses on the intersection of science, ethics, and public policy--traces the emergence of an unorthodox hypothesis that casts new suspicions on a broad range of modern industrial chemicals. At the heart of his story is the "Environmental Endocrine Hypothesis," the assertion that a class of chemicals called "endocrine disruptors" are interfering with the normal functioning of hormones in animals and humans. The theory is both attractive and troubling--attractive because it offers a unified explanation for a wide array of ills affecting modern societies; troubling because of its staggering implications for the effects of modern industrial practices. |
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| Occupational Health: Risk Assessment and Management |
| edited by Steven S. Sadhra and Krishna G. Rampal; 1999; ISBN
0632041994 |
| This book provides health and safety managers, physicians,
industrial hygienists, and occupational health nurses with both the theory
and the practical information they need to practice risk assessment and
management in the workplace. |
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| 1998 |
| The
Benefit/Risk Ratio: A Handbook for the Rational Use of Potentially Hazardous Drugs
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edited by H. C. Korting and M. Schäfer-Korting; June 1998; ISBN:
0-8493-2791-1 |
| The use of drugs as remedies
for various types of diseases has a long tradition; however, it has only
been recently recognized that the value of any given compound must be
evaluated in light of its benefit to risk ratio. When prescribing drugs,
physicians must look at the big picture of the drug's benefits in
relation to its side effects and possible toxicity. The aim of this
handbook is to compile data from various authors, providing clinicians
with data that will optimize their decision making in selecting
effective, low-risk drug treatments. It also provides research workers,
including physicians, pharmacists, and basic scientists, with a sound
basis for increasing knowledge of the risk/benefit ratios of various
drugs. |
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| Living
Downstream : A Scientist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the
Environment |
| by Sandra Steingraber; September 1998; ISBN 0375700994 |
| With this eloquent and impassioned book, biologist and poet Sandra Steingraber shoulders the legacy of Rachel Carson, producing a work about people and land, cancer and the environment, that is as accessible and invaluable as Silent Spring--and potentially as historic.
In her early twenties, Steingraber was afflicted with cancer, a disease that has afflicted other members of her adoptive family. Writing from the twin perspectives of a survivor and a concerned scientist, she traces the high incidence of cancer and the terrifying concentrations of environmental toxins in her native rural Illinois. She goes on to show similar correlation in other communities, such as Boston and Long Island, and throughout the United States, where cancer rates have risen alarmingly since mid-century. At once a deeply moving personal document and a groundbreaking work of scientific detection, Living Downstream will be a touchstone for generations, reminding us of the intimate connection between the health of our bodies and the integrity of our air, land, and water. |
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| 1996 |
| Particles
in Our Air: Concentrations and Health Effects |
| Edited by John Daniel Spengler and Richard Wilson; Harvard
University Press; December 1996; ISBN 0674240774 |
| This book examines in detail the hypothesis that respirable-sized
particles generated by the use of fossil energy pose a major threat to our
environment and health, including the nature, generation, and transport of
particulate air pollution. Read full description. |
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