Public Health & Epidemiology: Books & eBooks

Topics focus on health crises affecting the public at large, including epidemic and pandemic diseases; chronic conditions such as famine, malnutrition, cancer and diabetes; and social issues such as sexual abuse, obesity, bullying, and substance abuse.

Introduces the basics of clinical epidemiology and explores the principles and methods that can be used to obtain quantitative evidence on the effects of interventions and on the diagnosis, etiology, and prognosis of disease.

A guide for all those who have responsibility for the identification and control of infectious disease. Covers basic principles of communicable disease control and health protection, major syndromes, control of individual infections, main services and activities, organizational arrangements for all EU countries, and sources of further information. Includes a chapter on pandemic planning.

A vibrant cultural history investigating pandemics and vaccines with humanity caught between the terror of contagion and the ingenuity of science. Learn about when smallpox struck London, cholera hit Paris, plague came to India, and more.

Addresses all the key issues of global health at a level that is basic enough for undergraduate students from a variety of majors and backgrounds. Provides a clear understanding of the biological and social aspects of major global health issues, especially in the areas of infectious disease, nutrition, and environmental health.

Describes the growing global threat of antibiotics becoming less effective as a result of drug resistance, the systematic failures that have led to it, and solutions that governments, industries, and public health specialists can adopt.

The first comprehensive history of efforts to vaccinate children from contagious disease in US schools. Drawing from extensive archival sources--including state and federal reports, court records, congressional hearings, oral interviews, correspondence, journals, school textbooks, and newspapers--the author analyzes resistance to vaccines in the context of evolving views about immunization among doctors, families, anti-vaccination groups, and school authorities.

Looks at concepts that are a foundation of our public health policies by providing an accessible explanation of how viruses emerge to cause pandemics, how our immune system combats them, and how diagnostic tests, vaccines, and antiviral therapies work.