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International Encyclopedia of Public Health
- 2nd Edition - October 6, 2016
- Editors: Stella R. Quah, William C Cockerham
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 0 3 6 7 8 - 5
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 0 3 7 0 8 - 9
International Encyclopedia of Public Health, Second Edition, Seven Volume Set is an authoritative and comprehensive guide to the major issues, challenges, methods, and approache… Read more
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Request a sales quoteInternational Encyclopedia of Public Health, Second Edition, Seven Volume Set is an authoritative and comprehensive guide to the major issues, challenges, methods, and approaches of global public health. Taking a multidisciplinary approach, this new edition combines complementary scientific fields of inquiry, linking biomedical research with the social and life sciences to address the three major themes of public health research, disease, health processes, and disciplines.
This book helps readers solve real-world problems in global and local health through a multidisciplinary and comprehensive approach. Covering all dimensions of the field, from the details of specific diseases, to the organization of social insurance agencies, the articles included cover the fundamental research areas of health promotion, economics, and epidemiology, as well as specific diseases, such as cancer, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, and reproductive health.
Additional articles on the history of public health, global issues, research priorities, and health and human rights make this work an indispensable resource for students, health researchers, and practitioners alike.
- Provides the most comprehensive, high-level, internationally focused reference work available on public health
- Presents an invaluable resource for both researchers familiar with the field and non-experts requiring easy-to-find, relevant, global information and a greater understanding of the wider issues
- Contains interdisciplinary coverage across all aspects of public health
- Incorporates biomedical and health social science issues and perspectives
- Includes an international focus with contributions from global domain experts, providing a complete picture of public health issues
Upper-level and graduate students in all fields related to public health including biology, medicine, toxicology, sociology, anthropology, and economics. The Encyclopedia is also an essential reference for health researchers from various disciplines, practitioners including policy makers and health officials, educators and students in tertiary institutions, and the more general reader seeking information on public health issues
AgingAnthropology/ SociologyAt-Risk PopulationsCancerCardiovascularChild & Adolescent HealthConsumerism/ Education/ OutreachDiet/ Obesity/ Physical InactivityEconomics/ FinanceEmerging and Re-Emerging DiseasesEnvironmental / OccupationalEpidemiology/ DemographyEthical and Legal IssuesGlobal IssuesHealth ServicesHealth SystemsHistory of Public HealthInfectious DiseasesInjuries and ViolenceMalnutrition, Infections and PovertyMeasurement and ModellingNeurological DisordersParasitic DiseasesPolicyPsychology/ PsychiatryRespiratory DiseasesSensory, GI, and OtherSexual & Reproductive HealthTobacco / Alcohol / Drugs
- No. of pages: 4470
- Language: English
- Edition: 2
- Published: October 6, 2016
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Hardback ISBN: 9780128036785
- eBook ISBN: 9780128037089
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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 SingaporeWC
William C Cockerham
William Cockerham is Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Previously, he was Director of the UAB Center for Social Medicine. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley and has done post-graduate work at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. His research interests include health-related lifestyle patterns in diverse populations. His journal articles include a widely-used theoretical model of health lifestyle behavior and among his several books is The Social Causes of Health and Disease (Polity, 2007) that is being released in a second edition in 2013. He has conducted health lifestyle research in the U.S., and also in Western and Eastern Europe, and the former states of the Soviet Union funded through various agencies, including the European Union’s Copernicus Project. He is the immediate past president of the Research Committee on Health Sociology of the International Sociological Association.
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