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  • Clear-Cutting Disease Control

    Capital-Led Deforestation, Public Health Austerity, and Vector-Borne Infection

    by Rodrick Wallace, Luis Fernando Chaves, Luke R. Bergmann, Constância Ayres, Lenny Hogerwerf, Richard Kock, Robert G. Wallace ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    The vector-borne Zika virus joins avian influenza, Ebola, and yellow fever as recent public health crises threatening pandemicity.By a combination of stochastic modeling and economic geography, this book proposes two key causes together explain the explosive spread of the worst of the vector-borne outbreaks.Ecosystems in which such pathogens are largely controlled by environmental stochasticity ... Read more

    $60.99 CAD

  • One Planet, One Health

    by Dr Obijiofor Aginam, Associate Professor Robyn Alders, Kerry Arabena, Conor Ashleigh, Dr Brigitte Bagnol, Associate Professor Kirsten Black, Yngve Braaten, Sean CP Coogan, Professor Angus Dawson, Dr Chris Degeling, Professor Stanley Fenwick, Professor Gwendolyn L Gilbert, Professor David Guest, Dr Grant Hill-Cawthorne, Lenny Hogerwerf, Professor Martyn Jeggo, Tammi Jonas, Professor Richard Kock, Jess Hall, Anna Laven, John S Mackenzie, Professor Ben Marais, Peter McMahon, Dr Peter Massey, Paul Memmott, Dr Siobhan Mor, Nunung Nuryartono, Professor David Raubenheimer, Dr Darryl Stellmach, Grant Vinning, Dr Robert Wallace, Dr Anke K Wiethoelter ...
    Series series Public and Social Policy Series
    One Planet, One Health provides a multidisciplinary reflection on the state of our planet, human and animal health, as well as the critical effects of climate change on the environment and on people. Climate change is already affecting many poor communities and traditional aid programs have achieved relatively small gains. Going beyond the narrow disciplinary lens and an exclusive focus on human ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

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    The Geopolitics of an Epidemic Disease

    by Dr. William C. Summers, M.D. ...
    When plague broke out in Manchuria in 1910 as a result of transmission from marmots to humans, it struck a region struggling with the introduction of Western medicine, as well as with the interactions of three different national powers: Chinese, Japanese, and Russian. In this fascinating case history, William Summers relates how this plague killed as many as 60,000 people in less than a year, and ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • Zika Virus: Cracking the Zika Virus Code: Zika Virus Biological Species - Mosquito-borne Illness

    by Stephen Nelson ...
    The Pan American Health Organization alerted American citizens and the world in May 2015 concerning the Zika virus. This was after the confirmation of an infection from the virus in Brazil that was discovered around that same time. During this period of the outbreak women in Brazil it was reported that a number of Brazilian women gave birth to infants with deformities.The Zika virus outbreak ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Basic and Advanced Bayesian Structural Equation Modeling

    With Applications in the Medical and Behavioral Sciences

    by Sik-Yum Lee, Xin-Yuan Song ...
    Series series Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics
    This book provides clear instructions to researchers on how to apply Structural Equation Models (SEMs) for analyzing the inter relationships between observed and latent variables.Basic and Advanced Bayesian Structural Equation Model**ing introduces basic and advanced SEMs for analyzing various kinds of complex data, such as ordered and unordered categorical data, multilevel data, mixture data, ... Read more

    $114.99 CAD

  • A History of Epidemics in Britain (Volume II of II) : From the Extinction of Plague to the Present Time

    by Charles Creighton ...
    A History of Epidemics in Britain (Volume II of II) : From the Extinction of Plague to the Present TimeThis volume is the continuation of ‘A History of Epidemics in Britain from a.d. 664 to the Extinction of Plague’, and is the completion of the history to the present time. The two volumes may be referred to conveniently as the first and second of a ‘History of Epidemics in Britain.’ In adhering ... Read more

    $4.11 CAD

  • Systems Science and Population Health

    Edited by Abdulrahman M. El-Sayed, Sandro Galea ...
    Population health is complex and multileveled, encompassing dynamic interactions between cells, societies, and everything in between. Our typical approach to studying population health, however, remains oriented around a reductionist approach to conceptualizing, empirically analyzing, and intervening to improve population health. The trouble is that interventions founded on simplifying a complex ... Read more

    $58.39 CAD

  • Microbial Control of Vector-Borne Diseases

    Edited by Brij Kishore Tyagi, Dharumadurai Dhanasekaran ...
    Vector-borne diseases have increasingly emerged as significant causes of human illnesses worldwide, largely due to environmental changes (deforestation), population movements (migration and travelling), international trades, and buildup of drug resistance. These are presenting major challenge to the efficacy and use of conventional tools for controlling vector-borne diseases. Therefore, use of ... Read more

    $474.10 CAD

  • Mapping the Social Consequences of Alcohol Consumption

    Edited by Harald Klingemann, G. Gmel ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Research on alcohol-related consequences has traditionally focused mainly on health aspects of alcohol consumption or effects which can be more easily quantified or measured. It is evident that alcohol has many consequences which can be characterised as `social' in nature and which are not, or not only, medical and are directly health-related. Such consequences include violence, crime, and ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Nutritional Epidemiology of Breast Cancer

    by Alvaro Luis Ronco, Eduardo De Stéfani ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    The book is the first one published exclusively on the field of nutritional epidemiology of breast cancer. It summarizes the currently existing knowledge, with an updated and comprehensive international bibliography (~ 1.000 references). The authors also performed a review on the epidemiological studies on nutrition and breast cancer carried out in Uruguay between 1994 and 2011, which allowed ... Read more

    $192.99 CAD

  • Networked Disease

    Emerging Infections in the Global City

    Edited by S. Harris Ali, Roger Keil ...
    Series Book 44 - IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series
    A collection of writings by leading experts and newer researchers on the SARS outbreak and its relation to infectious disease management in progressively global and urban societies.Presents original contributions by scholars from seven countries on four continentsConnects newer thinking on global cities, networks, and governance in a post-national era of public health regulations and neo ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Rethinking the BSE Crisis

    A Study of Scientific Reasoning under Uncertainty

    by Louise Cummings ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    In 1986, the emergence of a novel brain disease in British cattle presented a unique challenge to scientists. How that challenge was addressed has been the subject of a public inquiry and numerous academic studies conducted to date. However, none of these investigations has sought to examine the reasoning of scientists during this critical period in the public health of the UK. Using concepts and ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD