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Publisher
Chelsea Green Publishing
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
-- In Corona, False Alarm?How Covid-19 compares with previous coronaviruses and the flu virusWhat infection numbers and the death rate really tell usThe challenges around lockdown: Were the protective measures justified?Mandatory mask-wearing: Does the science support it?Vaccines: What are the chances of success? What are the risks?Corona, False Alarm? provides you with sound information and substantiated facts—and encourages you to form your own...
Author
Publisher
Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Colorado Women's Cancer Control Initiative
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Despite the existence of medical, public health and community efforts to increase breast and cervical cancer screening, many women in Colorado do not adhere to recommended screening guidelines. Several interventions have been used to increase screening, but many have not been formally evaluated and as a result, the effectiveness of these is unclear. Given additional but limited resources, effective and cost-effective interventions must be identified...
Author
Publisher
Radcliffe Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Global public health is in a state of crisis. Although some improvements in population health are discernible, health inequalities remain widespread and new challenges emerge constantly. In particular, alcohol-related and infectious diseases, malnutrition, violence, terrorism, armed conflict and climate change are growing concerns, while healthcare costs in many countries continue to rise. This provocative new book presents a sombre overview of the...
Author
Publisher
Dundurn Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
A doctor grapples with the challenges of mother and child health in the developing world. Recounting medical missions in half of the thirty countries in which she has worked for the past twenty-five years in Africa, Asia, and the South Pacific - from Darfur in Sudan to Papua New Guinea and Bhutan - Dr. Gretchen Roedde shares the grim reality of world politics and bureaucratic red tape on the front lines as a doctor in mother-and-child health and...
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