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Ethics and Epidemiology
"This chapter considers the history of the rise of ethical concerns in the public health movement and epidemiology, which is the study of the distribution and determinants of disease in human populations. Epidemiology is a basic science in public health. This chapter provides an overview of early developments in public health and ethics. More recent developments are also discussed, including the origins of bioethics, regulatory safeguards for human subjects research, public health ethics, and contemporary epidemiologic ethics"--
Current Topics in Breast Cancer Survivorship
Current Topics in Breast Cancer Survivorship is an important collection of essays about the health and wellbeing of breast cancer survivors. The audience for the book includes graduate students, health professionals and researchers from many different disciplines, including epidemiology, behavioral science, medicine, oncology, nursing, and health disparities. This book will likely be of interest to health professionals and researchers from various disciplines and members of non-profit organizations, government agencies, and health advocacy organizations. The book is organized into six key sections. The first section provides information about comorbid conditions such as cardiovascular diseas...
Handbook of Community-Based Participatory Research
Rather than a single quantitative or qualitative method, community-based participatory research (CBPR) is a diverse set of research approaches united by their common aim of social justice. This handbook codifies these methodologies and articulates an expansive vision of health that includes gender equality, safe and adequate housing, and freedom from violence
Black Health in the South
A collection of important essays on the health and well-being of African Americans in the southern United States. For African Americans in the southern United States, the social determinants of health are influenced by a unique history that encompasses hundreds of years of slavery, injustices during the Jim Crow era, the Great Migration, the civil rights era, and contemporary experiences like the Black Lives Matter movement. In Black Health in the South, editors Steven S. Coughlin, Lovoria B. Williams, and Tabia Henry Akintobi bring together essays on this important subject from top public health experts. Black activists, physicians, and communities continue to battle inequities and structur...
Gender in Psycho-oncology
'Gender in Psycho-Oncology' provides comprehensive views on the role of gender in the adjustment of the individual and the patient-caregiver pair when dealing with cancer. The text explores the significant role of gender in diverse pairings of genders between the patient and the caregiver. It also highlights the importance of age, generation, and socio-cultural characteristics; the illness trajectory and lifespan trajectory of the individual and the patient-caregiver pair; and an ongoing sociocultural movement that is changing social role expectations based on gender
Diabetes
This edition of Diabetes: Chronic Complications provides both the experienced and trainee endocrinologist with easy-to-read, up-to-date practical guidance on the management of the many complications that can result from the onset of diabetes, such as kidney failure, cardiovascular disease, retinal failure, and cerebrovascular disease. Reflecting the rapid developments currently taking place in the field, the second edition introduces a brand-new section on liver complications in diabetes, additional material on mental health complications in the section on diabetes and the brain, coverage of dyslipidaemia and hypertension in the section on diabetes and the heart, five MCQ's in each section to help improve clinical skills, and a case study and key points summary box in every chapter.
Black Health in the South
A collection of important essays on the health and well-being of African Americans in the southern United States. For African Americans in the southern United States, the social determinants of health are influenced by a unique history that encompasses hundreds of years of slavery, injustices during the Jim Crow era, the Great Migration, the civil rights era, and contemporary experiences like the Black Lives Matter movement. In Black Health in the South, editors Steven S. Coughlin, Lovoria B. Williams, and Tabia Henry Akintobi bring together essays on this important subject from top public health experts. Black activists, physicians, and communities continue to battle inequities and structur...
Causal Inference and Scientific Paradigms in Epidemiology
This anthology of articles on causal inference and scientific paradigms in epidemiology covers several important topics including the search for causal explanations, the strengths and limitations of causal criteria, quantitative approaches for assessing causal relationships that are relevant to epidemiology and emerging paradigms in epidemiologic research. In order to provide historical context, an overview of philosophical and historical developments relevant to causal inference in epidemiology and public health is also provided. Several theoretical and applied aspects of causal inference are dealt with. The aim of this Ebook is not only to summarize important developments in causal inferen...
Case Studies in Public Health Ethics
Many of the case studies contributed to this book were made possible by participants in the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology, the Global Environmental Epidemiology NETWORK of the World Health Organization, and the Italian Epidemilogy Assoc. 1994 International Ethics Survey. - The preliminary results of the International Ethics Survey were published in The Science of Total Environment, May 17, 1996.
