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Social Marketing and Public Health: Theory and Practice

By Jeff French, Clive Blair-Stevens, Dominic Mcvey, Rowena Merritt

Setting up Community Health and Development Programmes in Low and Middle Income Settings

By Ted Lankester (Co-Founder and Co-Leader; and President and Travel Medicine Physician, Co-Founder and Co-Leader; and President and Travel Medicine Physician, Arukah Network; and Thrive Worldwide), Nathan J. Grills (Associate Professor Global Health, Ass...

Health Measurement Scales: A practical guide to their development and use

By David L. Streiner (Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences, and Department of Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics, McMaster University, Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto and Senior Scientific...

African Health Leaders: Making Change and Claiming the Future

By Francis Omaswa (Executive Director, Executive Director, African Centre for Global Health and Social Transformation (ACHEST), UGANDA), Nigel Crisp (Independent Member of the House of Lords and Former Chief Executive of the NHS, UK)

Landmark Papers in Allergy: Seminal Papers in Allergy with Expert Commentaries

By Aziz Sheikh (Professor of Primary Care Research and Development and Director of Research, Allergy and Respiratory Research Group, Centre for Population Health Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, UK), Thomas Platts-Mills (Asthma and Allergic Diseases...

Economic Evaluation in Clinical Trials

By Henry A. Glick, Jalpa A. Doshi, Seema S. Sonnad, Daniel Polsky

Disease Prevention: A Critical Toolkit

By John Frank (Director, Scottish Collaboration for Public Health Research and Policy, EDINBURGH, UK; Chair, Public Health Research and Policy, University of Edinburgh, UK; and Professor Emeritus, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, ...

Principles in Health Economics and Policy

By Jan Abel Olsen

A Decade of HAART: The Development and Global Impact of Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy

By Jose M Zuniga (, President/CEO, International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care, Chicago, USA), Alan Whiteside (, Director, Health and Economics and HIV/AIDS Research Division (HEARD), University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa), Amin Ghazi...

Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

By Peter Davey (Lead Clinician for Clinical Quality Improvement Quality Safety and Informatics Research Group, Lead Clinician for Clinical Quality Improvement Quality Safety and Informatics Research Group, School of Medicine, University of Dundee, UK), Ma...

Understanding and Using Health Experiences: Improving patient care

By Sue Ziebland (Reader in Qualitative Health Research and Research Director of Health Experiences Research Group, Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, UK), Angela Coulter (Director of Global Initiatives Informed Medical Decis...

Within Reason: A Liberal Public Health for an Illiberal Time

By Sandro Galea

Practical Psychiatric Epidemiology

By Martin Prince, Robert Stewart, Tamsin Ford (all at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, UK), Matthew Hotopf (Reader in Psychological Medicine, GKT School of Medicine

Therapeutic Breathing Exercise

By K.K. Wu, Z. Ping

Fat Chance: The bitter truth about sugar

By Dr. Robert Lustig

HOW DO I FEEL ABOUT:LOOKING AFTER

The Mothercare Guide to Emergencies and First Aid

By A. Davies

Palliative care for older people: A public health perspective

By Lieve Van den Block (, End-of-Life Care Research Group, Vrije Universiteit Brussel & Ghent University, Brussels, Belgium), Gwenda Albers (, Sandra Marti...

Urban Mental Health

By Dinesh Bhugra (Emeritus Professor of Mental Health and Cultural Diversity, Emeritus Professor of Mental Health and Cultural Diversity, Health Service & Population Research Department, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, UK), Antonio Ventrig...

Teaching Epidemiology: A guide for teachers in epidemiology, public health and clinical medicine

By Jorn Olsen (, Professor and Former Chair of the Department of Epidemiology, UCLA School of Public Heath, California, USA and Professor, University of Aarhus, Denmark), Naomi Greene (Assistant Researcher, Assistant Researcher, Department of Epidemiology...

Health, Behaviour and Society: Clinical Medicine in Context

By Jennifer Cleland, Philip Cotton

Fitness for Work: The Medical Aspects

By John Hobson (Honorary Senior Lecturer, Institute of Clinical Sciences, Honorary Senior Lecturer, University of Birmingham, UK), Julia Smedley (Consultant Occupational Physician and Head of Occupational Health; and Honora...

New Governance of Addictive Substances and Behaviours

By Peter Anderson (Professor of Substance Use, Policy and Practice, Institute of Health and Society, Newcastle University, UK, Professor of Substance Use, and Professor of Alc...

Oxford Textbook of Global Public Health

By Roger Detels (Schools of Public Health and Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, USA), Martin Gulliford (Department of Public Health Sciences, King's College London, UK), Quarraisha Abdool Karim (University Of Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa), C...

Methods for the Economic Evaluation of Health Care Programmes

By Michael F. Drummond (Centre for Health Economics, University of York, UK), Mark J. Sculpher (Centre for Health Economics, Karl Claxton (Centre for Health Economics, Greg L. Stoddart (Professor Emeritus, ...

Advancing the Human Right to Health

By Jose M. Zuniga (, President, International Association of Providers of AIDS Care, USA), Stephen P. Marks (, Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health, Lawrence O. Gostin (, University Professor..., University Professor....

The Health of Refugees: Public Health Perspectives from Crisis to Settlement

By Pascale Allotey (Director, Director, UN University International Institute for Global Health (UNU-IIGH)), Daniel Reidpath (Professor of Population Health and Director, Professor of Population Health and Director, South East Asia Community Observatory, ...

Make America Healthy Again: How Bad Behavior and Big Government Caused a Trillion-Dollar Crisis

By Nicole Saphier

Managing for Health

By David J. Hunter (Durham University, UK)

Obesity and Diabetes

By Tony Barnett, Sudhesh Kumar