GIS and Public Health (Second Edition)

GIS and Public Health

Mental health policy and practice – second edition

This book takes you on a journey through key changes and development of mental health policy and practice in the UK. By combining case studies, reflections and analysis followed by exercises and examples of further reading, the evolution of contemporary mental health services is described. As a reader you become acquainted with the rationale behind the path of the current policy and implication...

Comparative health policy. Second revised and updated edition

Each chapter ends with an attempt to draw conclusions on trends or developments. Interestingly, the question of trends and convergence of health policies (the authors deny that convergence actually has been shown to occur) is a recurrent theme in the book. However, when discussing the drivers of policy convergence, more attention to the effects of EU regulation and policy on member states’ heal...

Second Thoughts EPIDEMIOLOGISTS AND PUBLIC HEALTH POLICY

Epidemiologists have a long history of influencing and setting policy designed to improve the public’s health. From John Snow’s studies of cholera leading him to remove the Broad Street pump, to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) guidelines for preventing HIV transmission in the workplace [2], epidemiology has historically served as a basis for public health policy. Results from epidemiologi...

Typology and Universals Second Edition

published by the press syndicate of the university of cambridge This book is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloguing ...