Public Health Social Work: An Uncertain Future

Public health, nursing and medical social work.

Trump, Brexit, Right-wing Anti-globalisation, and An Uncertain Future for Public Health

Global public health is intimately linked with political, economic and social determinants. The current global order has been built on the assumption that the globalisation agenda shared by political elites of the last several decades will continue. Individuals, businesses and countries have all made decisions, many of them linked to health, based on this assumption. The election of Donald Trum...

Discounting an uncertain future

The objective of this paper is to determine the socially optimal discount rate for public investment projects that entail costs and benefits in the very long run. We suppose that there is an exogenous process for the growth of consumption per capita, which is stochastic. We first evaluate the determinants of the discount rate for a specific horizon when the representative agent has a recursive ...

Public Health Laboratory Work

This is practically a companion volume to Parkas and Kenwood's Hygiene and Public Health. The new edition lias been considerably altered and entirely revised. It is divided into seven parts, viz., the examination of water for public health purposes, the analysis of sewage, etc., soil examination, air analysis, food examination, the examination of disinfectants and Part VIT (written by Dr. Savag...

Public Health Laboratory Work