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Assessment of Cancer Screening : A Primer
Cancer screening is a prominent strategy in cancer control in the United States, yet the ability to correctly interpret cancer screening data eludes many researchers, clinicians, and policy makers. This open access primer rectifies that situation by teaching readers, in simple language and with straightforward examples, why and how the population-level cancer burden changes when screening is im…
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- 9783030945770
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- xx, 123 p.
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- 616.994075 ASS P
Improving Oncology Worldwide : Education, Clinical Research and Global Cancer…
This open access book describes strategies and experiences of highly skilled professionals in improving oncology care worldwide. The book is structured into three main sections with several chapters each, reflecting the authors' individual, real-life experiences. It explores ways to improve oncology education and scientific training, how to set up and run a clinical research facility ethically…
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- 9783030960537
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- xvii, 144 p.
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- 616.994 IMP U
Managing chronicity in unequal states : ethnographic perspectives on caring
By portraying the circumstances of people living with chronic conditions in radically different contexts, from Alzheimer’s patients in the UK to homeless people with psychiatric disorders in India, Managing Chronicity in Unequal States offers glimpses of what dealing with medically complex conditions in stratified societies means. While in some places the state regulates and intrudes on the m…
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- 9781800080287
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- xxii, 275 p.
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- 362.1 MAN L
Disorder Contained : Mental Breakdown and the Modern Prison in England and Ir…
Disorder Contained is the first historical account of the complex relationship between prison discipline and mental breakdown in England and Ireland. Between 1840 and 1900 the expansion of the modern prison system coincided with increased rates of mental disorder among prisoners, exacerbated by the introduction of regimes of isolation, deprivation and hard labour. Drawing on a range of archival…
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- 9781108993586
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- ix, 318 p ; ill
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- 365.608740941 DIS C
Polio Across the Iron Curtain : Hungary's Cold War with an Epidemic
By the end of the 1950s, Hungary became an unlikely leader in what we now call global health. Only three years after Soviet tanks crushed the revolution of 1956, Hungary became one of the first countries to introduce the Sabin vaccine into its national vaccination programme. This immunization campaign was built on years of scientific collaboration between East and West, in which scientists, spe…
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- 9781108355421
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- ix, 268 p ; ill
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- 616.835009439 POL D
COVID-19, The Global South And The Pandemic’s Development Impact
EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This book examines the unique implications of the pandemic in the Global South. With international contributors from a variety of disciplines, it investigates the pandemic’s effects on development, medicine, gender (in)equality and human rights among other issues. The book’s assessment offers a discourse on the ways in which the…
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- 9781529225679
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Vaccines, Medicines and COVID-19 : How Can WHO Be Given a Stronger Voice?
This open access book is a collection of research papers on COVID-19 by Germán Velásquez from 2020 and early 2021 that help to answer the question: How can an agency like the World Health Organization (WHO) be given a stronger voice to exercise authority and leadership? The considerable health, economic and social challenges that the world faced at the beginning of 2020 with COVID-19 cont…
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- 9783030891251
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- xvi, 117 p.
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- 362.1962414 VAC G
The Cambridge Handbook of Health Research Regulation
The first ever interdisciplinary handbook in the field, this vital resource offers wide-ranging analysis of health research regulation. The chapters confront gaps between documented law and research in practice, and draw on legal, ethical and social theories about what counts as robust research regulation to make recommendations for future directions. The Handbook provides an account and analys…
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- 9781108620024
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- xix, 444 p ; ill
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- 344.04196 CAM G
Epidemiological Change and Chronic Disease in Sub-Saharan Africa : Social and…
Epidemiological Change and Chronic Disease in Sub-Saharan Africa offers new and critical perspectives on the causes and consequences of recent epidemiological changes in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly on the increasing incidence of so-called ‘non-communicable’ and chronic conditions. Historians, social anthropologists, public health experts and social epidemiologists present important ins…
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- 9781787357044
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- xiii, 350p. ill;
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- 614.096 EPI M
Quantifying Quality of Life
This open access book presents the rise of technology-enabled methods and tools for objective, quantitative assessment of Quality of Life (QoL), while following the WHOQOL model. It is an in-depth resource describing and examining state-of-the-art, minimally obtrusive, ubiquitous technologies. Highlighting the required factors for adoption and scaling of technology-enabled methods and tools for…
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- 9783030942120
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- 610.285 QUA K
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