Anthropologies of Global Maternal and Reproductive Health : From Policy Spaces to Sites of Practice
This open access edited book brings together new research on the mechanisms by which maternal and reproductive health policies ...
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Balloon Kyphoplasty
This book focuses on balloon kyphoplasty and alter- tive minimally invasive treatments for stabilization of osteoporotic ...
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Demographic Transition Theory
This study addresses these issues. Part I addresses the situation among hunters and gatherers, traditional farmers and classical ...
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Developments in Demographic Forecasting
This book presents new developments in the field of demographic forecasting, covering both mortality, fertility and migration. ...
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Disability, Health and Human Development
This open access book introduces the human development model to define disability and map its links with health and wellbeing, ...
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Exceptional Lifespans
How long can humans live? This open access book documents, verifies and brings to life the advance of the frontier of human ...
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Handbook of Disaster Research
"The Handbook of Disaster Research will generate considerable excitement amongst international disaster research and management ...
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Handbook of Population
The Handbook of Population is organized for classroom as well as reference use. It is divided into four sections – Population ...
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Human Longevity, Individual Life Duration, and the Growth of the Oldest-Old Population
Old-age survival has considerably improved in the second half of the twentieth century. In this book, these fundamental questions ...
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Inevitable Aging?
Aging is inevitable: this is gerontological dogma. And humans do inevitably grow old, which is probably why it seems so unlikely ...
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Infection Control in the Intensive Care Unit
Infection Control in the Intensive Care Unit has been entirely rewritten in this second edition. All statements are justified ...
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Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mortality and its Timings
This volume provides a series of illuminating perspectives on the timings of death, through in-depth studies of Shakespearean ...
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Kinship and Demographic Behavior in the Past
This book examines the role of kinship and the family’s influence on the health outcomes of their children, their children’s ...
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Nutrition and Health in Developing Countries
Nutrition and Health in Developing Countries, Second Edition was written with the underlying conviction that global health ...
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Old and New Perspectives on Mortality Forecasting
This book describes methods of mortality forecasting and discusses possible improvements. It contains a selection of previously ...
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This book highlights the ethical issues and dilemmas that arise in the practice of public health. It is also a tool to support ...
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The first book of its kind, this work discusses the global extent of ranaviruses, principles of ranavirus ecology and evolution. ...
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Seasonality in Human Mortality
Seasonal fluctuations in mortality are a persistent phenomenon across populations. In Western countries of the Northern hemisphere, ...
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Sepsis
Sepsis (or septic shock) is one of the leading post-surgical or post-traumatic complications in today's hospitals. This ...
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Socioeconomic Differences in Old Age Mortality
Provides a comprehensive, thoughtful and critical discussion of all aspects involved in the relationship between socioeconomic ...
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