Public Health Policy and Practice

Drawing on the authors’ experience in developing and implementing global mental health programs in crisis and development settings, A Guide to Global Mental Health Practice is designed for mental health professionals new to this emerging area...

Drawing on the authors’ experience in developing and implementing global mental health programs in crisis and development settings, A Guide to Global Mental Health Practice is designed for mental health professionals new to this emerging area...

Active ageing both as a concept and policy response to the demographic ageing of populations has been widely debated, researched and utilised, informing both policy and practice, and providing a common narrative framework to ageing. However, there continues to be a lack of clarity around the precise..

Active ageing both as a concept and policy response to the demographic ageing of populations has been widely debated, researched and utilised, informing both policy and practice, and providing a common narrative framework to ageing. However, there continues to be a lack of clarity around the precise..

This cutting edge collection of essays explores recent developments in alcohol, tobacco and obesity in comparative, international and interdisciplinary perspective...

This book discusses how to do routine health data analysis, typically done in SAS, in R. It assumes that the audience has some experience in this area. Many SAS users want to try R, but R developers have not focused on health data analysis cookbooks. This book will allow them to add R to their analy..

This book provides practical knowledge to biomedical researchers using biological and biochemical specimen in order to understand health and disease processes at cellular, clinical, and population levels. Concepts and techniques provided will help researchers design and conduct studies, then transla..

This book provides a concise overview of statistical analysis methods for the clinical and public health practitioner. It teaches statistical models without all the theory. Use of SAS software is illustrated in full, including how to interpret results. Includes exercises, case studies, take-away poi..

This book provides a concise overview of statistical analysis methods for the clinical and public health practitioner. It teaches statistical models without all the theory. Use of SAS software is illustrated in full, including how to interpret results. Includes exercises, case studies, take-away poi..

Striking a balance between theory, application, and programming, Biostatistics in Public Health Using STATA is a user-friendly guide to applied statistical analysis in public health using STATA version 14. Each chapter is based on one or more research problems linked to public health. Additionally, ..

Black Women's Risk for HIV: Rough Living is a valuable look into the structural and behavioral factors in high-risk environments—specifically inner-city neighborhoods like the “Rough” in Atlanta—that place black women in danger of HIV infection. Using black feminism to decons..

This collection considers the apparent contradictions and complications of the contemporary status and deployment of the many forms of genital cutting, raising a serious, wide-reaching question: what scope should society have to impose physically invasive rites on people? _x000D_ This book was origi..