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International Encyclopedia of Public Health

An authoritative and comprehensive guide to the major issues, challenges, methods, and approaches of global public health. This encyclopedia will cover all dimensions of the fi… Read more

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An authoritative and comprehensive guide to the major issues, challenges, methods, and approaches of global public health. This encyclopedia will cover all dimensions of the field, from details of specific diseases to the organization of social insurance agencies. A significant percentage of the articles will cover public health aspects of diseases and conditions. Other articles will survey aging, diet, injuries, ethical and legal subjects in public health, measurement and modeling, consumerism, anthropology and sociology, economics, the history of public health, and global issues.

Key features

  • Edited and written by a distinguished international group of editors and contributors
  • Heavily illustrated and abundantly cross-referenced
  • Via ScienceDirect platform, multimedia files will provide an enhanced online experience
  • Includes 'Further Reading' lists at the end of each article
  • A complete subject index contained in one volume

Readership

Advanced undergraduates and graduate students

Table of contents

Subject areas covered:
Aging
Anthropology/ Sociology
At-Risk Populations
Cancer
Cardiovascular
Child & Adolescent Health
Consumerism/ Education/ Outreach
Diet/ Obesity/ Physical Inactivity
Economics/ Finance
Emerging and Re-Emerging Diseases
Environmental / Occupational
Epidemiology/ Demography
Ethical and Legal Issues
Global Issues
Health Services
Health Systems
History of Public Health
Infectious Diseases
Injuries and Violence
Malnutrition, Infections and Poverty
Measurement and Modelling
Neurological Disorders
Parasitic Diseases
Policy
Psychology/ Psychiatry
Respiratory Diseases
Sensory, GI, and Other
Sexual & Reproductive Health
Tobacco / Alcohol / Drugs

Review quotes

CHOICE Outstanding Title! Reviewed in 2009.

"This impressive set covers the gamut of public health scholarship. Its 505 alphabetically arranged entries average 3,000 to 8,000 words, with thorough bibliographies and cross-references. The entries fall into 30 sections outlined in a subject classification in volume 1. Sections include fundamental areas such as health promotion, economics and epidemiology, specific diseases such as cancer, particular populations, and many other topics. Global aspects of public health are especially well represented, including overviews of the health care systems of several countries and regions, and attention to health concerns of both the developed and developing world. A diverse, accomplished group of 30 section editors oversaw the efforts of 500 authors from around the world, and all entries have been peer reviewed. The set features numerous illustrations, many of them in color, and an exhaustive index. The encyclopedia is also available online through ScienceDirect (CH, Sep'06, 44-0034). Springer recently released the Encyclopedia of Public Health, ed. by Wilhelm Kirch (CH, Dec'08, 46-1826), priced only $400 lower than this set. However, the International Encyclopedia of Public Health is a far better value. Its comprehensive, current coverage makes it vital for academic libraries supporting public health or related programs. Summing Up: Essential. Lower-level undergraduates and above." —U. Ellis, Deaconess Hospital

Product details

About the editors

SQ

Stella R. Quah

Stella R. Quah, PhD, is an adjunct professor at the Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore. She received her BA in Sociology from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, her MSc in Sociology from the Florida State University as a Fulbright-Hays scholar, and her PhD in Sociology from the National University of Singapore (formerly the University of Singapore). Prior to her current appointment, she was a professor at the NUS Department of Sociology, where she was a faculty member from 1977 to 2009. Before joining the sociology department, she worked at the Department of Social Medicine and Public Health of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Singapore. Her work on medical sociology and public health has continued throughout her career. She introduced and taught medical sociology at both the Department of Sociology and the Faculty of Medicine, designing focused medical sociology modules for social science students, nursing students, and public health modules for the Master of Public Health, Department of Community, Occupational, and Family Medicine, NUS, and its successor. When the Graduate School of Medical Studies was set up at the Faculty of Medicine, she taught the medical sociology modules as part of the “Foundations of Public Health” and “Lifestyle and Behaviour in Health and Disease” for the MMed (Public Health). During her sabbaticals from NUS, Professor Quah had appointments by invitation as a research associate and a visiting scholar at the Institute of Governmental Studies, University of California, Berkeley (1986–1987); the Center for International Studies, MIT; and the Department of Sociology, Harvard University (1993–1994); the Harvard-Yenching Institute (1997); the Stanford Program in International Legal Studies, Stanford University (1997); the National Centre for Developmental Studies, Australian National University (2002); and the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center at Stanford University (2006). Her professional activities include her work as the chair of the Medical Sociology Research Committee (RC15) of the International Sociological Association (ISA) from 1990 to 1994; ISA vice president for research (1994–1998); the chairperson of the ISA Research Council (1994–1998); and consultant to WHO and UN-ESCAP, among other international and national organizations. She is a member of the American Sociological Association and a member of several institutional review boards. On publications, she was an associate editor of International Sociology (1998–2004). She is currently a member of the editorial advisory boards of several international peer-reviewed journals, including the International Advisory Board of the British Journal of Sociology, the Editorial Advisory Board, Health Sociology Review; the Editorial International Advisory Board, Sociology of Health and Illness; Editorial Board, Marriage & Family Review. Her areas of research and consultancy include health services utilization; the governance of epidemics; the role of family caregivers in physical and mental health; self-medication; health risk behaviors (including smoking, alcohol consumption, and psychoactive substance use); sociocultural factors in infectious diseases, heart disease, and cancer. She has published many journal articles, book chapters, and 26 books, 11 of them as author and 15 as editor and coeditor.
Affiliations and expertise
Duke-NUS Graduate School of Medicine Singapore

KH

Kristian Heggenhougen

Affiliations and expertise
Centre for International Health, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

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