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Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"An intimate, heart wrenching portrait of one small hospital that reveals the magnitude of America's health care crises. By following the struggle for survival of one small-town hospital, and the patients who walk, or are carried, through its doors, The Hospital takes readers into the world of the American medical industry in a way no book has done before. Americans are dying sooner, and living in poorer health. Alexander argues that no plan will...
Publisher
Macmillan Reference USA
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Aimed at the nonspecialist reader interested in health and medicinal issues, the Encyclopedia examines a broad range of topics such as environmental health, drug abuse, epidemiology, nutrition, demographics and diseases. Includes overviews, definitions and biographical entries. appropriate for upper class high school and university students, professionals and the general public. 4 volumes.
Series
Publisher
Gale
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Alphabetically arranged encyclopedia provides coverage of important public health concerns. Topics include diseases and conditions, health and wellness efforts, nutrition, ethics and law related topics and statistics, sanitation issues, and everyday environmental effects.
Author
Series
Publisher
Gale
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Examines health and wellness among Americans, including the ways in which illness is currently prevented, identified, and treated. Describes the most common types of chronic, degenerative, genetic, and infectious diseases, as well as the concepts of mental health and illness. Covers both traditional and alternative medicine.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Beginning with mankind’s earliest recorded history, infectious disease has taken the lives of more humans than all wars, famines and natural disasters combined—not by a narrow margin but by an overwhelming landslide. Before the birth of modern science, losses to these unseen enemies were routinely blamed on the collective sins of man and the wrath of angry gods. Over the course of centuries, man’s ongoing inability to comprehend the microbial...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"As a species, humans have doubled their life expectancy in one hundred years. Medical breakthroughs, public health institutions, rising standards of living, and the other advances of modern life have given each person about 20,000 extra days on average. This book attempts to help the reader understand where that progress came from and what forces keep people alive longer. The author also considers how to avoid decreases in life expectancy as public...
Author
Series
Publisher
KidHaven Publishing, an imprint of Greenhaven Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"The COVID-19 pandemic thrust public health into the spotlight like never before in the 21st century. However, emergency response is simply the tip of the iceberg when it comes to public health. Public health departments work every day to ensure the health of local, national, and global communities. This includes offering suggestions for healthy behaviors, such as avoiding tobacco products and staying properly hydrated, as well as issuing guidelines...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
FRONTLINE follows health officials tracking the deadly disease and trying to stop its rampant spread. The film shows how the outbreak is endangering health- care workers, overwhelming hospitals and getting worse. Also, FRONTLINE investigates accounts that members of the Nigerian military have been committing atrocities in the fight against Boko Haram - the Islamist militants who kidnapped nearly 300 schoolgirls in April. Two timely and late-breaking...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This video focuses on the activities of public health professionals and their partners as they illustrate the stages of emergency management: prevention and mitigation, preparedness, response to the disaster, and recovery following the disaster. Although these stages may be applicable with respect to any type of disaster, they are illustrated in this video by the example of the 2010 pandemic influenza outbreak (H1N1). Health professionals outline...
Author
Series
Deadly disease trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Calkins Creek
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
One hundred years ago, a mysterious and alarming illness spread across America's South, striking tens of thousands of victims. No one knew what caused it or how to treat it. People were left weak, disfigured, insane, and in some cases, dead. Award winning science and history writer Gail Jarrow tracks this disease, commonly known as pellagra, and highlights how doctors, scientists, and public health officials finally defeated it. Illustrated with 100...
Author
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"With global cooperation and cohesion in decline, Hotez, a former member of the US Science Envoy Program, zeroes in on the factors that drive our most controversial and pressing global health concerns, including war and conflict, climate change, antivaxxers, and poverty. He proposes historically proven methods to soothe fraught international relations while preparing us for a safer, healthier future. The 2020 coronavirus crisis makes the book more...
Author
Publisher
Prometheus Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A Mighty Force is the first book dedicated to Dr. Elizabeth O. Hayes's fight for public health on the American home front during World War II, for which she received national attention (and a victory under President Truman's Justice Department) for her protests against unsanitary conditions in the mining town of Force, Pennsylvania"--
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Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
This genre-bending Africanfuturist horror novel blends The Handmaid's Tale with Get Out in an adrenaline-packed, cyberpunk body-hopping ghost story exploring motherhood, memory, and a woman's right to her own body. Nelah seems to have it all: fame, wealth, and a long-awaited daughter growing in a government lab. But, trapped in a loveless marriage to a policeman who uses a microchip to monitor her every move, Nelah's perfect life is precarious. After...
Author
Series
Publisher
Ferguson Pub
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Workers in the allied health professions have a passion for helping people. Strong skills and compassion are essential to the job, but to really launch a career, it takes a through knowledge of the complex health care industry, a powerful professional attitude, and the ability to make the most of the many opportunities the field offers.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A revelatory account of how power, politics, and greed have placed genomics at the center of American medicine and a clear-eyed look at the unfulfilled promise of "personalized medicine.""--
The United States is embarking on a medical revolution. Supporters of personalized, or precision, medicine--the tailoring of health care to our genomes--have promised to usher in a new era of miracle cures. Advocates of this gene-guided health-care practice...
Author
Publisher
Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
As the COVID-19 pandemic spread, the phrase "flatten the curve" became widely known. It refers to the things people can do to space the total number of infections out over a longer period of time. This helps prevent the health-care system from being overloaded. Flattening the Curve examines social distancing and the other measures that people took to slow the spread of the disease. Features include a glossary, references, websites, source notes, and...
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