The Practice of Health Program Evaluation provides an overview of the evaluation process for public health programs while diving deeper to address select advanced concepts and techniques. The book unfolds evaluation as a three-phased process consisting of identification of evaluation questions, data collection and analysis, and dissemination of results and recommendations. The text covers resea...

In this edition the author has included a large number of gynecological operations, and in the preface he strongly justifies the step. This addition to what is already a large volume will not be favoured by most readers, as the line between obstetrics and gynaecology is generally recognised as a fairly well-marked one. The whole work is thoroughly up-to-date; it contains 847 excellent illustrat...

THIS work fills a long-felt gap in medical literature in bringing together in one volume the salient details of the use of occupational therapy as a method of treatment. Dr. O'Sullivan gives a clear history of the development of occupational therapy in the United Kingdom, America, and on the Continent. The application of this form of treatment in a mental hospital is the main theme of the text,...

over one thousand pages with copious illustrations, some in colours. It is on much the usual lines of such books, but is very complete and up-to-date. The sections relating to tropical diseases are rather more full than in most students' books. The plate illustrating malarial parasites shows unstained forms, which might well be replaced by one showing the parasites stained by one of the modific...

Recent years have seen a growing interest in non-topical text analysis, in which characterizations are sought of the opinions, feelings, and attitudes expressed in a text, rather than just the facts. A key problem in this area is sentiment classification, in which a document is labelled as a positive (‘thumbs up’) or negative (’thumbs down’) evaluation of a target object (film, book, product, e...