These ground-breaking studies have had a lasting impact and attest to the belief that public health requires a holistic point of view, rather than one limited to disease prevention and control. The papers that comprise the anthology were selected to meet two objectives: to disseminate a wide range of information and to illustrate the growth and development of health promotion as a world-wide strategy. More than 50 public health experts from four continents contributed to the anthology. Their papers illustrate the diverse nature of health promotion topics and are presented in five "Parts": Developing a Framework Building Healthy Public Policy Strengthening Community Action Developing Personal Health Skills Health Promotion for Specific Groups Key documents in the health promotion movement in the Americas-the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion, Health Promotion and Equity (the Declaration of Bogot), and the Caribbean Charter for Health Promotion-supplement the text. A glossary of health promotion terms and concepts completes the collection.

Health Promotion: An Anthology

Organization, Pan American Health

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Pan American Health Organization

...explores the connections among biodiversity, biotechnology, and sustainable development by examining the drug discovery process and acricultural improvements for better nutrition.

Biodiversity, Biotechnology, and Sustainable Development in Health and Agriculture

Business & Money

Economics

Pan Amer Health Org

...an authoritative encyclopedia of health indicators and trends in the region, published every four years by PAHO... an exhaustive analysis of the health situation in the entire region of the Americas.

Health in the Americas (SP 569)

La enfermería en las Américas. Nursing in the Americas. Enfermagem nas Américas

PAHO

PAHO PUBLICATIONS

A didactic guide to all health-related measures needed to prepare for natural disasters, reduce their immediate impact, and facilitate recovery. Noting that all natural disasters share several features, the book aims to provide a framework that administrators can rely on when planning and managing the health sector's response. Details range from a list of eight misconceptions that may cause authorities to take inappropriate action, through a discussion of the sensitive issues surrounding inappropriate drug and food donations, to a distinction between responsibilities best handled by the affected country and those requiring international aid. Throughout the book, recent experiences from the Americas are used to illustrate both the impact of specific types of disaster and opportunities for mitigating their effects.

NATURAL DISASTERS: Protecting the Public's Health

Science & Math

World Health Organization

Earth Sciences

...this publication collects the final reports of three research projects that examined these issues

Investment in Health: Social and Economic Returns

This just-released publication by PAHO on adolescent health and positive behavior change greatly enhances the knowledge base on this important public health issue. It presents the first ever systematic collection and reporting of the application of behavioral change theories and models specifically to adolescents. At the same time, it represents the first attempt to incorporate a developmental perspective in the conceptual analysis of these classical theoretical constructs when applied to the various stages of adolescence. 
Cultural, ethnic, and gender differences are also given special consideration, as is the role of poverty and the ability of some adolescents to secure physical and emotional well-being despite circumstances of adversity. 
This book additionally breaks new ground in explaining why some health promotion interventions aimed at positive adolescent behavior change produce the desired results, while others fail. The thoroughness of the analysis extends to the diversity of geographical settings cited: from Africa to the United States, Canada to Jamaica, Brazil to the Netherlands, El Salvador to Japan, and India to Mexico, to name only a few. 
The experiences of the global research community presented here will undoubtedly find fertile ground among a variety of publics, including local health promoters, designers of community health promotion programs, health professionals, the academic and research community, ministries of public health and of youth affairs, those who study and those who create mass media trends, parents and teachers, school counselors, and all others who play a significant role in adolescents’ lives.

Youth: Choices and Change

Education & Reference

In recent years, zoonoses and communicable diseases common to man and animals have gained increasing attention worldwide. Human diseases that have their origins in infected animals, such as AIDS or Creutzfeldt-Jakob, have highlighted the need for a better understanding of animal diseases. The ease and speed of modern travel facilitates the spread of diseases once confined to specific geographic areas, as recently occurred with the widely publicized severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemic. Animal migration and trade pose a similar threat, as was shown by the outbreaks in the United States of West Nile fever, and most recently, monkeypox—two diseases not previously known in the Western Hemisphere. Each of these examples highlights the need for accurate, up-to-date information, such as that presented in the latest edition of Zoonoses and Communicable Diseases Common to Man and Animals. 
This edition, published for the first time in three volumes, covers: 
I. Bacterioses and mycoses II. Chlamydioses, rickettsioses, and viroses, and III. Parasitoses 
This series provides a detailed overview of the most important historic and emerging zoonotic diseases, such as Ebola hemorrhagic fever, foot-and-mouth disease, influenza, giardiasis, Japanese encephalitis, shigellosis, and spongiform encephalopathies, with information ranging from their first appearance and most important outbreaks to the latest scientific knowledge of the diseases and their causative agents. 
The chapters provide the following key information on each disease: 
etiology geographic distribution symptoms and occurrence in man and animals source of infection and mode of transmission role of animals in its epidemiology diagnostic techniques, and prevention and control measures 
Numerous tables and figures diagramming modes of transmission complement the text. 
This book is an essential tool for biologists, parasitologists, virologists, veterinarians, physicians, epidemiologists, and workers in public health and animal health institutions, as well as professors, researchers, and students in these areas. All of these groups will find Zoonoses and Communicable Diseases Common to Man and Animals, 3rd ed. to be an invaluable addition to their collection of most-consulted reference works.

Zoonoses and Communicable Diseases Common to Man and Animals, Vol. II: Chlamydioses, Rickettsioses, and Viroses, Third Edition (Scientific and Technical Publication)

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