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Transdisciplinary Public Health: Research, Education, and Practice

by Debra Haire-Joshu & Timothy D. McBride

"This book makes a great leap in the conceptualization of transdisciplinary approaches, as well as provides concrete examples in practice, teaching, policy, and research."

—From the Foreword by Edward F. Lawlor,...


Public Health Law Research: Theory and Methods

by Alexander C. Wagenaar & Scott C. Burris

Public Health Law Research: Theory and Methods definitively explores the mechanisms, theories and models central to public health law research – a growing field dedicated to measuring and studying law as a...


Global Health and International Relations

by Colin McInnes & Kelley Lee

The long separation of health and International Relations, as distinct academic fields and policy arenas, has now dramatically changed. Health, concerned with the body, mind and spirit, has traditionally focused...


Clean: Overcoming Addiction and Ending America's Greatest Tragedy

by David Sheff

The author of the No. 1 New York Times bestseller Beautiful Boy offers a new paradigm for dealing with addiction based on cutting-edge research and stories of his own and other families' struggles with –...


Global Health and Sustainable Development Architecture: Inclusive Dialogue, Partnerships, and Community Capital

by Mei-Ling Wang

This book discusses the convergence of global problems and the shortcomings of our sustainable development model. The author argues possible solutions, such as the Inclusive Sustainable Development Theory against...


Healthy City Planning: From Neighbourhood to National Health Equity

by Jason Corburn

Healthy city planning means seeking ways to eliminate the deep and persistent inequities that plague cities. Yet, as Jason Corburn argues in this book, neither city planning nor public health is currently organized...


Overdosed America

by John Abramson

Using the examples of Vioxx, Celebrex, cholesterol-lowering statin drugs, and anti-depressants, Overdosed America shows that at the heart of the current crisis in American medicine lies the commercialization...


Social Marketing and Social Change: Strategies and Tools for Improving Health, Well-Being, and the Environment

by R. Craig Lefebvre

How can we facilitate more effective, efficient, equitable and sustainable solutions to the problems that confound our communities and world? Social marketing guru R. Craig LeFebvre weaves together multi-level...


Gender-based Violence and Public Health: International perspectives on budgets and policies

by Keerty Nakray

Gender-based violence is a multi-faceted public health problem with numerous consequences for an individual's physical and mental health and wellbeing. This collection develops a comprehensive public health...


European Union Public Health Policy: Regional and global trends

by Scott L. Greer & Paulette Kurzer

Ranging from influence over world trade laws affecting health to population health issues such as obesity to the use of comparative data to affect policy, the EU's public health policies are increasingly important,...


Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease

by Ann M. Coulston, Carol J. Boushey & Mario Ferruzzi

Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease has been proving itself in the classroom for nearly 10 years and is praised as being accessible, applicable and a valuable textbook. It focuses specifically...


Epidemiological Criminology: A Public Health Approach to Crime and Violence

by Timothy A Akers, Roberto H Potter & Carl V Hill

Epidemiological Criminology: A Public Health Approach to Crime and Violence

Epidemiological Criminology offers an introduction to the sources and methods of epidemiological criminology and shows how to apply...


Community-Based Participatory Health Research, Second Edition: Issues, Methods, and Translation to Practice

by MPH Daniel S. Blumenthal MD & Ralph J., PhD DiClemente

"Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) has become the preferred model for conducting research in communities. Most scientists who conduct such research now recognize that working in partnership with...


Diversity and Cultural Competence in Health Care: A Systems Approach

by Janice L. Dreachslin, M. Jean Gilbert & Beverly Malone

Major changes are occurring in the United States population and the nation's health care institutions and delivery systems. Significant disparities in health status exist across population groups. But the health...


Prediction and Change of Health Behavior: Applying the Reasoned Action Approach

by Icek Ajzen, Dolores Albarracin & Robert Hornik

Prediction and Change of Health Behavior honors the work of Martin Fishbein by illustrating the breadth and depth of the reasoned action approach. Focused on attitudes and their effects on health-related behavior,...


Public Health and Social Justice

by Martin Donohoe

Praise for Public Health and Social Justice

"This compilation unifies ostensibly distant corners of our broad discipline under the common pursuit of health as an achievable, non-negotiable human right. It goes...


Bioactive Food as Dietary Interventions for the Aging Population: Bioactive Foods in Chronic Disease States

by Ronald Ross Watson & Victor Preedy

Bioactive Food as Dietary Interventions for the Aging Population presents scientific evidence of the impact bioactive foods can have in the prevention and mediation of age related diseases. Written by experts...


Conflict And Health

by Natasha Howard & Egbert Sondorp

This introductory text is perfect for students new to the specialised area of the theoretical constructs underlying health and humanitarian work.


Global Health Disputes and Disparities: A Critical Appraisal of International Law and Population Health

by Dru Bhattacharya

Global Health Disputes and Disparities explores inequalities in health around the world, looking particularly at the opportunity for, and limitations of, international law to promote population health by examining...


Race, Ethnicity, and Health: A Public Health Reader

by Thomas A. LaVeist & Lydia A. Isaac

Race, Ethnicity and Health, Second Edition, is a new and critical selection of hallmark articles that address health disparities in America. It effectively documents the need for equal treatment and equal health...