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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)

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...

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...

Social Marketing and Public Health: Theory and Practice

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

Impact of Addictive Substances and Behaviours on Individual and Societal Well-being

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

Illness Narratives in Practice: Potentials and Challenges of Using Narratives in Health-related Contexts

By Gabriele Lucius-Hoene (Professor, Professor, Department of Rehabilitation psychology and psychotherapy, University of Freiburg, Germany), Christine Holmberg (Professor of Social Medicine and Epidemiology, Professor of Social Medicine and Epidemiology, ...

Infectious Disease Epidemiology

By Ibrahim Abubakar (Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Director, Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Director, Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology, University College London (UCL), UK), Helen R. Stagg (Senior Research As...

Oxford Textbook of Global Health of Women, Newborns, Children, and Adolescents

By Devakumar, Hall, Qureshi, Lawn

Atlas of refugees, displaced populations, and epidemic diseases: Decoding global geographical patterns and processes since 1901

By Matthew Smallman-Raynor (Professor of Geography, School of Geography, Professor of Geography, University of Nottingham, UK), Andrew Cliff (Emeritus Professor of Theoretical Geography, Department of Geography, Emeritus Professor of...

Concepts of Addictive Substances and Behaviours across Time and Place

By Matilda Hellman (Adjunct Professor and Research Coordinator, Adjunct Professor and Research Coordinator, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland), Virginia Berridge (Professor of History and Director, Professor of History and Direct...

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, ...

A Life Course Approach to Healthy Ageing

By Diana Kuh (Director, Director, MRC National Survey of Health and Development and MRC Unit of Lifelong Health and Ageing, university college london, UK), Rachel Cooper (Programme Leader Track, Programme Leader Track, MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Age...

Drug Policy and the Public Good

By Thomas Babor (Professor and Chairman, Department of Community Medicine and Health Care, Health Net, Inc., Endowed Chair in Community Medicine and Public Health, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, Connecticut, United States of Ame...

Setting Limits: Gambling, Science and Public Policy

By Pekka Sulkunen (Director, Director, Finnish Centre for Research on Addiction, Control, and Governance (CEAGG), University of Helsinki, Finland), Thomas F. Babor (Chairman, Chairman, Department of Community Medicine, University of Connecticut School of..., University of Connecticut School of....

Tobacco: Science, policy and public health

By Peter Boyle (Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy), Nigel Gray (Honorary Senior Associate, Cancer Council Victoria, Australia), Jack Henningfield (Professor, Behavioral Biology and Director, Innovator...

Health Inequalities: Critical Perspectives

By Katherine E. Smith (Reader, Reader, Global Public Health Unit, University of Edinburgh, UK), Clare Bambra (Professor of Public Health Geography, Professor of Public Health Geography, Centre for Health and Inequalities Research, Durham University), Sara...

Applied Methods of Cost-effectiveness Analysis in Healthcare

By Alastair M. Gray (Professor of Health Economics and Director of the Health Economics Research Centre, Department of Public Health, University of Oxford, UK), Philip M. Clarke (Associate Professor, Sydney School of Public Health, The University of Sydne...

Economic Evaluation in Clinical Trials

By Henry A. Glick, Jalpa A. Doshi, Seema S. Sonnad (, Director of Health Services Research, The Value Institute, Christiana Care Health System, USA; Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Surgery, Perelam School of Medicine, Adjunct Senior Fellow, Leo...

Health Equity in a Globalizing Era: Past Challenges, Future Prospects

By Ronald Labonte (Distinguished Research Chair and Professor, Distinguised Research Chair and Professor, School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa, Canada), Arne Ruckert (Senior Research Associate, Senior Research Associate, School o...

Measuring and Valuing Health Benefits for Economic Evaluation

By John Brazier, Julie Ratcliffe, Joshua A. Salomon, Aki Tsuchiya

Antimicrobial Stewardship

By Matthew Laundy (Consultant Microbiologist, Consultant Microbiologist, St George's University Hospitals, NHS Foundation Trust), Mark Gilchrist (Consultant Pharmacist, Consultant Pharmacist, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust), Laura Whitney (Consulta...

Calorie Counter (Collins Gem)

Drug Policy and the Public Good

By Thomas F. Babor (Professor, Department of Community Medicine and Health Care, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Connecticut, USA), Jonathan P. Caulkins (Professor of Operations Research and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University Heinz Sc...

Oxford Handbook of Nutrition and Dietetics

By Joan Webster-Gandy (Freelance dietitian and Visiting Researcher, University of Hertfordshire, UK), Angela Madden (Principal Lecturer in Dietetics, Michelle Holdsworth (Senior Lecturer, Public Health section of ScHARR, ..., ....

Manual of Infection Prevention and Control

By Nizam Damani (Clinical Director of Infection Prevention and Control, Craigavon Area Hospital, Portadown, Co. Armagh, and Honorary Clinical Lecturer, Department of Medical Microbiology, Queens University, Belfast, UK)

Breast Disease Management: A Multidisciplinary Manual

By James Harvey (Consultant Oncoplastic Breast Surgeon, Consultant Oncoplastic Breast Surgeon, Nightingale Centre, UHSM), Sue Down (Consultant Breast Surgeon, Consultant Breast Surgeon, James Paget Hospital, Great Yarmouth), Rachel Bright-Thomas (Consulta...

Oxford Textbook of Medicine: Infection

By David Warrell (, Emeritus Professor of Tropical Medicine, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, St Cross College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK), Timothy M. Cox (, Professor of Medicine, University of Cambridge; Honorary Consultant Physician, Ad...

Screening: Evidence and Practice

By Angela E. Raffle (Consultant in Public Health, the NHS Screening Programmes, and Honorary Senior Lecturer, University of Bristol Medical School: Population Health Sciences, UK), Anne Mackie (Director of Programmes, UK National Screening Committee, and...

Obesity Epidemiology

By Frank Hu (Associate Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology, Associate Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, USA)

The Emergency Planning Officers' Handbook

By Brian Dillon