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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...

Field Trials of Health Interventions: A Toolbox

By Peter G. Smith (Professor of Tropical Epidemiology, Professor of Tropical Epidemiology, Medical Research Council Tropical Epidemiology Group London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine London, UK), Richard H. Morrow (Professor of International Healt...

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...

The Body Economic: Eight experiments in economic recovery, from Iceland to Greece

By David Stuckler, Sanjay Basu

Ten Minutes for the Family: Systemic Interventions in Primary Care

By Eia Asen (CNWL NHS Trust, UK), Dave Tomson, Venetia Young, Peter Tomson

Benders' Dictionary of Nutrition and Food Technology

By D A Bender (University College London, UK)

The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product That Defined America

By Allan Brandt

Critical Appraisal of Epidemiological Studies and Clinical Trials

By Mark Elwood

Public Health and Primary Care: Partners in Population Health

By Alison Hill (, Director, NHS Supporting Public Health, Oxford, UK), Sian Griffiths (, Professor and Director of School of Public Health, The Chinese University of Hong Kong), Stephen Gillam (, General Practitioner, Luton; Director, Public Health Teachi...

Evidence-based Public Health

By Ross C. Brownson, Terry L. Leet, Elizabeth A. Baker, Kathleen N. Gillespie

Law in Public Health Practice

By Richard A. Goodman, Mark A. Rothstein, Richard E. Hoffman, Wilfredo Lopez, Gene W. Matthews

Knowledge to Action?: Evidence-Based Health Care in Context

By Sue Dopson (, Rhodes Reader in Organizational Behaviour, SAID Business School, and Fellow of Templeton College, University of Oxford), Louise Fitzgerald (, Professor of Organizational Development, Department of Human Resource Management, De Montfort Un...

Screening: Evidence and practice

By Angela E Raffle (Consultant in Public Health, Bristol Primary Care Trust and the National Screening Programmes; Honorary Senior Lecturer, University of Bristol Department of Social Medicine, UK), J. A. Muir Gray (Programmes Director, UK National Screen...

Evidence Based Health Policy

By Vivian Lin, Brendan Gibson

Health Inequalities: Persistence and change in European welfare states

By Johan Mackenbach (Professor of Public Health, Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Netherlands)

Within Reason: A Liberal Public Health for an Illiberal Time

By Sandro Galea

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....

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...

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, ...

Managing for Health

By David J. Hunter (Durham University, UK)

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...