International encyclopedia of public health / editor-in-Chief: Stella R. Quah.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Quah, Stella R., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public health--Encyclopedias.

Public health.

Genre:

Encyclopedias

Physical Description:

1 online resource (4978 pages) : color illustrations

Edition:

3rd edition.

Place of Publication:

San Diego : Elsevier Science and Technology, 2024.

Summary:

The International Encyclopedia of Public Health, Third Edition, Five Volume Set is an authoritative and comprehensive guide to the major issues, challenges, methods, and approaches of global public health. Spanning across 5 volumes, 13 subject areas and 480 chapters, this new edition takes a multidisciplinary approach and presents the history, methodology, and latest advances in biomedical research and related scientific fields, including social sciences, life sciences, and bioengineering to address public health research, disease, health processes, and disciplines. The book offers readers evidence-based analysis and information on solutions to real-world problems in global and local health through a multidisciplinary and comprehensive approach. Covering all dimensions of the field, from the details of specific diseases, to the organization of social insurance agencies, the articles included comprise the fundamental research areas of global public health: historical roots, scientific research methodology and approaches, public health of vulnerable population subgroups (the aged, children and adolescents, at-risk populations), environmental and occupational epidemiology, and much more. -- from publisher's website.

Contents:

Intro

International Encyclopedia of Public Health

Copyright

Editorial Board

Editoral Board Brief Biographies

List of Contributors for Volume 1

Preface

Contents of Volume 1

Introduction

Public Health and Epidemiology in a Perilous World

Key points

History and definition of public health and epidemiology

Methods of investigation in public health

Main advances in public health and epidemiology

New public health

Multidisciplinary expertise

Applications of public health knowledge

Current and future challenges in public health

Surveillance of emerging infectious diseases

Effective statistical measurement of disease and disability

The rapid growth of megacities

Conclusion

References

History of Epidemiology and Public Health

Historical Epidemiology

Background

Definition of Epidemiology

Epidemiology in the Bible

Ancient Roots

The Fight against the Great Plagues

The Search for the Cause of Syphilis

Smallpox: Pitfalls and Victory

The Epidemiological Avenue

Evidence-Based Epidemiology

Cholera, Right or Wrong

The Public Health Perspective

Registry-Based Epidemiology

Causality in the Era of Microbiology

Vitamins and the Web of Causation

Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and Evidence-Based Recommendations

Future Directions

Relevant Websites

Historical Bacteriology

Further Reading

History of Antibiotic Development and Resistance

The discovery and development of antibacterial drugs

The germ theory

Color therapy

Penicillin and the golden age of antibiotics

Antimicrobial drug resistance (AMR)11Throughout this chapter, the term antimicrobial resistance (AMR) means bacterial resis ...

The more antibiotic use, the more antimicrobial resistance.

Antimicrobial resistance and antibiotic use: The spiral effect

Tipping the balance: More antimicrobial resistance, fewer new drugs

The public health burden of antimicrobial resistance

Public health programs addressing antimicrobial resistance: Successes and failures

The ``empty pipeline syndrome´´

Antimicrobial resistance: Future perspectives

Further reading

Classic Concepts of Disease

Glossary

Preliminaries concerning the logic of medical terminology

Concepts and conceptions

Different perspectives

The general concept and specific concepts of disease

The ontology of disease

The location of disease

The ontological status of specific diseases

Dispositions and the environment

The distinction between disease and illness

The relation between somatic and mental disease

The epistemology of disease

The causation of disease

Generalities versus individual cases

The role of norms

The relation between health and disease

The axiology of disease

Is disease an evaluative concept?

The relation of disease to human well-being

Normative consequences of disease

Schools of Public Health

Historiography of schools of public health

Prehistory of schools of public health

The Rockefeller foundation and schools of public health

Social medicine

Postwar expansion of schools of public health

North America

Europe

The Global South

Latin America

South East Asia and the Western Pacific

Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean

Relevant websites

History of Public Health in the Ancient World

Early public health and early hygiene

Motives behind ancient public health.

Health and the public in ancient Greece

Roman public health

History of Public Health during Colonialism

Infectious Disease and Its Control

Tropical Medicine

Health and Missions

Maternal and Infant Welfare

Health Education and Promotion

Historical Influenza

Name and Discovery

Chronicle of Major Epidemics and Pandemics

Influenza before 1700 AD

Influenza 1700-1900 AD

The Spanish Influenza of 1918-20

Influenza in the Virological Era

Intervals between Epidemics and Pandemics

Spatial Origin and Diffusion of Influenza

The Epidemiology and Demography of Influenza

The Toll

Age, Sex, and Long-Term Consequences for Mortality

Socioeconomic and Ethnic Status

Social and Economic Costs of Influenza

Public Health and Influenza: Preventing Influenza

Quarantine and Isolation

Other Preventive Measures

Vaccination, Antiviral Drugs, and Antibiotics

The 1976 Swine Flu Affair

A Continuing Public Health Quest

Historical Leprosy

History of Leprosy

Origins of Leprosy

Leprosy in Early Sources

Leprosy in Ancient India

Leprosy in Ancient China

Leprosy in Ancient Egypt

Biblical References to Leprosy

Confusion in Greek and Arabic Medical Texts

Medieval Leprosy

Leprosy in the New World

The Nineteenth Century

Norwegian Leprosy

Hawaii and Father Damien de Veuster

Wellesley Bailey and the Mission to Lepers, India

The National Leprosy Fund and the Indian Leprosy Commission

Berlin Conference, 1897

Leprosy in the Twentieth Century

Bergen Conference, 1909

United States National Leprosarium

Culion: The Model Colony

Chaulmoogra Treatments

Third International Leprosy Conference, Strasbourg,1923.

British Empire Leprosy Relief Association

League of Nations Inquiry into Leprosy

Effective Chemotherapy: The Sulfones

The Gandhi Memorial Leprosy Foundation

Stanley Stein and the `Sixty-Six Star

Dapsone Resistance, Animal Laboratory Models, andEffective Chemotherapy

The Global Alliance for the Elimination of Leprosy andthe Integration of Leprosy into General Medical Health Services

Compensation in Japan

The Genome

Acknowledgments

Historical Views of Mental Illness

Reading the past from the present: Three main starting points

Madness and misery before psychiatry

Mental illness and psychiatry

The controversial legacy of mental illness

Historical Plague

Why Plague Can Be Important in History

Origin, Nature, and Pattern of Spread of Bubonic Plague

The Early History of Plague

A Catastrophe in the Making of an Empire: Did Plague Cause the Fall of the Western Roman Empire?

The Plague Pandemic of 541-767: A Turning Point inHistory?

Population Losses, 541-767

Historical Impact of the Plague Pandemic 541-767

The Late Medieval and Early Modern Plague Pandemic, 1346-c.1670

The Conquest of Plague

The Mortality of the Black Death

The Demographic Effects of Subsequent Plague Epidemics: The Late Medieval Population Minimum

Historical Impact of the Pandemic 1346-c.1670. ATurning Point in History?

Historical Poliomyelitis

The disease

The first large epidemics

Polio, a major public health problem in the western world

Vaccines against Polio: Salk and Sabin

Recent history: Eradication and post-polio syndrome

History of Malaria and its Control

Key points.

Introduction

Review of the scientific literature

Malaria in the pre-modern era

Malaria vector and parasite biology

Early control efforts

Synthetic chemistry and malaria

The Global Malaria Eradication Program

The modern era of malaria control and elimination

Major advances and obstacles

State-of-the-art

Prospects and challenges for global health

Acknowledgment

Historical Yellow Fever

The earliest epidemics

Earliest awareness of yellow fever

The Philadelphia epidemic (1793)

The Saint-Domingue epidemic (1802)

The New Orleans epidemic (1853)

Imported yellow fever in European ports

The discovery of the viral nature of yellow fever

The earliest studies on the etiology of yellow fever

The first U.S. Commission in Cuba (1879)

The second U.S. Commission in Cuba (1900)

Confirmation of Walter Reed's results by other searchers

Sanitation in Cuba and Panama

The leading part of William C. Gorgas

The Panama Canal crisis

The theory of permanent foci of infection

Isolation of the virus from West Africa

The error of Hideyo Noguchi (1919)

Confirmation of the viral nature of yellow fever in Africa (1927)

Experimental results from the Lagos laboratory

Experimental results from the Pasteur Institute, Dakar

Max Theiler and the white mouse (1930)

The discovery of jungle yellow fever

The leading role of Fred L. Soper (1932)

Jungle yellow fever also existed in tropical Africa

Yellow fever vaccines

The Dakar French neurotropic vaccine (Dakar FNV)

The Rockefeller 17D vaccine

American or African origin of yellow fever

Yellow fever today

Global epidemiological situation (June 2015)

Risk for travelers

History of Vaccines

The Foundations of Vaccinology.

The Golden Age of Vaccines: 1949-1980s.

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9780323972802

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