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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 ...

Balloon Kyphoplasty

This book focuses on balloon kyphoplasty and alter- tive minimally invasive treatments for stabilization of osteoporotic ...

Demographic Transition Theory

This study addresses these issues. Part I addresses the situation among hunters and gatherers, traditional farmers and classical ...

Developments in Demographic Forecasting

This book presents new developments in the field of demographic forecasting, covering both mortality, fertility and migration. ...

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, ...

Exceptional Lifespans

How long can humans live? This open access book documents, verifies and brings to life the advance of the frontier of human ...

Handbook of Disaster Research

"The Handbook of Disaster Research will generate considerable excitement amongst international disaster research and management ...

Handbook of Population

The Handbook of Population is organized for classroom as well as reference use. It is divided into four sections – Population ...

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 ...

Inevitable Aging?

Aging is inevitable: this is gerontological dogma. And humans do inevitably grow old, which is probably why it seems so unlikely ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nutrition and Health in Developing Countries

Nutrition and Health in Developing Countries, Second Edition was written with the underlying conviction that global health ...

Old and New Perspectives on Mortality Forecasting

This book describes methods of mortality forecasting and discusses possible improvements. It contains a selection of previously ...

Public Health Ethics: Cases Spanning the Globe

This book highlights the ethical issues and dilemmas that arise in the practice of public health. It is also a tool to support ...

Ranaviruses : Lethal Pathogens of Ectothermic Vertebrates

The first book of its kind, this work discusses the global extent of ranaviruses, principles of ranavirus ecology and evolution. ...

Seasonality in Human Mortality

Seasonal fluctuations in mortality are a persistent phenomenon across populations. In Western countries of the Northern hemisphere, ...

Sepsis

Sepsis (or septic shock) is one of the leading post-surgical or post-traumatic complications in today's hospitals. This ...

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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