public health

Discusses what it takes to achieve success in the field of human services, and gives practical advice on how to use vocational school, training programs, and college to obtain such careers as social worker, psychologist, addiction counselor, or daily living aide.

The World Health Organization is a very important international agency. Around the world this group's volunteers and staff are working to treat disease outbreaks, provide immunizations and medicine, and improve worldwide health care.

The title "Should vaccinations be mandatory?" includes a wide range of opinion on a single controversial subject. This book includes primary and secondary sources from a variety of perspectives -- scientific journals, government officials and many others. Extensive bibliographies and annotated lists of relevant organizations to contact offer a gateway to future research.

Dr. Cohen explains the forces behind the obesity epidemic and how we, as a nation, can overcome it. Her conclusions contradict conventional wisdom and widely held expert opinion, and go against our own intuitive beliefs about the way we eat.

Highlights the major individuals, discoveries, and developments in the areas of medicine and public health.

Examines the economic climate of Africa with content on current economic development, outside aid to the country, and how health and human aid is presently handled.

A dramatization of Randy Shilts's best seller on the first several years of the AIDS crisis in the U.S., in which Centers for Disease Control researcher Don Francis investigates a series of mysterious deaths and is met with resistance from the government, the media, and the communities hardest hit as he tries to understand and protect the public from the new disease.

Describes the founding, development, and staffing of the World Health Organization, and its focus on immunization, disease prevention, sanitation and nutrition as well as combating disease.

Contains over three hundred alphabetically arranged entries that provide information about the history, politics, and terminology of the debate over health care in America.

An account of the mysterious disease called pellagra that spread across the American South in the early 1900s that made people weak, disfigured, and insane and sometimes caused their deaths; and discusses how doctors and public health officials found the cause of the illness and stopped the epidemic.