Clinical Research -- Epidemiological Studies -- Health systems research -- Biochemistry-based health care research.Health research in developing countries has many facets. On one side, malaria and AIDS as main causes of morbidity and mortality are a focus for clinical and epidemiological studies. On the other side, the need for improving the health care system in general cannot be overestimated…
Urban Health -- Urban Health -- Populations -- Homeless People -- Health of Economically Deprived Populations in Cities -- Racial/Ethnic Minorities and Health -- Sexual Minority Groups and Urban Health -- Health and Health Access Among Urban Immigrants -- The Urban Environment, Drug Use, and Health -- The Health of Children in Cities -- Older Adults -- The Health of Urban Populations in Develop…
to Cancer Prevention -- Assessing Human and Economic Benefits of Cancer Prevention -- The Role of Diet, Physical Activity and Body Composition in Cancer Prevention -- Hereditary Risk for Cancer -- Human Categories and Health: The Power of the Concept of Ethnicity -- Complementary and Alternative Approaches to Cancer Prevention -- The Drug Development Process -- Developing Topical Prodrugs for S…
Natural History of Drug Abusing Behaviors -- Defining and Measuring Drug Abusing Behaviors -- Drug Abuse Heterogeneity and the Search for Subtypes -- Studying the Natural History of Drug Use -- Health, Social, and Psychological Consequences of Drug Use and Abuse -- Epidemiological Methods -- Use of Archival Data -- Sampling Issues in Drug Epidemiology -- Collecting Drug Use Data from Different …
Anthrax: A Disease and a Weapon -- Plague as a Biological Weapon -- Tularemia and Bioterrorism -- Melioidosis and Glanders as Possible Biological Weapons -- Smallpox as a Weapon for Bioterrorism -- Hemorrhagic Fever Viruses as Biological Weapons -- Botulism as a Potential Agent of Bioterrorism -- Ricin: A Possible, Noninfectious Biological Weapon -- Bioterrorism Alert for Health Care Workers --…
Smallpox in Human History -- Classification of Poxviruses and Brief Characterization of the Genus Orthopoxvirus -- Vaccinia Virus -- Variola (Smallpox) Virus -- Monkeypox Virus -- Cowpox Virus -- Molecular Evolution of Orthopoxviruses -- Laboratory Diagnostics of Human Orthopoxvirus Infections -- Preparedness and Response to Potential Bioterrorism.Orthopoxviruses Pathogenic for Humans covers th…
Pathogens in the Sea: An Overview -- Diversity, Sources, and Detection of Human Bacterial Pathogens in the Marine Environment -- Biotic and Abiotic Effects -- Survival of Enteric Bacteria in Seawater: Molecular Aspects -- Human Pathogenic Viruses in the Marine Environment -- Survival of Viruses in the Marine Environment -- Zoonotic Protists in the Marine Environment -- Marine and Estuarine Harm…
Preface -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Natural and socio-economic conditions -- Chapter 3 The hosts and vectors of natural focal diseases -- Chapter 4 The spread of primary natural focal diseases -- Chapter 5 Territorial organization of sanitary and epidemiological services -- Conclusion -- Authors -- Bibliography -- Maps, illustrations and photo credits. .This book is the first scienti…
Part 1: Overview -- History of Substance Abuse Research in the United States -- Transdisciplinary Research Perspective: A Theoretical Framework for Substance Abuse Research -- part 2: Quantitive Approaches -- Randomized Controlled Trials in Substance Abuse Treatment Research: Fundamental Aspects and New Developments in Random Assignment Strategies, Comparison/Control Conditions, and Design Ch…