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Perinatal Epidemiology for Public Health Practice
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 305

Perinatal Epidemiology for Public Health Practice

Perinatal Epidemiology synthesizes perinatal knowledge through the lens of public health practice. This comprehensive text uses a consistent, logical format to offer readers: (1) A spectrum of topics affecting maternal and infant health: reproductive health concerns, maternal and infant morbidity and mortality, and gestation and fetal growth. (2) Information on timely issues, including infertility, gestational diabetes, preterm delivery, postpartum depression, and SIDS. (3) Detailed discussions of current epidemiological trends, measures and measurement issues, data sources, and risk and protective factors for each condition covered. (4) In-depth consideration of public health interventions ...

Foraging
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 626

Foraging

Foraging is fundamental to animal survival and reproduction, yet it is much more than a simple matter of finding food; it is a biological imperative. Animals must find and consume resources to succeed, and they make extraordinary efforts to do so. For instance, pythons rarely eat, but when they do, their meals are large—as much as 60 percent larger than their own bodies. The snake’s digestive system is normally dormant, but during digestion metabolic rates can increase fortyfold. A python digesting quietly on the forest floor has the metabolic rate of thoroughbred in a dead heat. This and related foraging processes have broad applications in ecology, cognitive science, anthropology, and ...

Source Book in Bioethics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 524

Source Book in Bioethics

Government agencies and commissions, courts, and legislatures have during the past several decades produced reports, rendered decisions, and passed laws that have both defined the fundamental issues in the field of bioethics and established ways of managing them in our society. Providing a history of these key bioethical decisions, this Source Book in Bioethics is the first and only comprehensive collection of the critical public documents in biomedical ethics, including many hard-to-find or out-of-print materials. Covering the period from 1947 to 1995, this volume brings together core legislative documents, court briefs, and reports by professional organizations, public bodies, and governme...

Physical Activity and Health
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 301

Physical Activity and Health

This report is the first report of the Surgeon General on physical activity and health. For more than a century, the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service has focused the nation's attention on important public health issues. Reports from Surgeons General on the adverse health consequences of smoking triggered nationwide efforts to prevent tobacco use. Reports on nutrition, violence, and HIV/AlDS - to name but a few - have heightened America's awareness of important public health issues and have spawned major public health initiatives. This new report, which is a comprehensive review of the available scientific evidence about the relationship between physical activity and health status...

Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States of America
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 856
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1080

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

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  • Published: 2006
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Bloomington, Indiana, City Directory
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 794

Bloomington, Indiana, City Directory

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2006
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Tree Talks
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 700

Tree Talks

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1990
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States of America
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 788
Commissioned Corps Bulletin
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 100

Commissioned Corps Bulletin

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2000
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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