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Essentials of Public Health Biology: A Guide for the Study of Pathophysiology

Constance Urciolo Battle

©2009  
ISBN: 9780763744649
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Understanding how and why manifestations of a disease occur and incorporating this knowledge into public health decision-making is the very essence of public health practice.
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    Chapter 1 The Origins and Achievements of Modern Science
    Author: Richard Schlagel

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    Chapter 2 Biochemistry: A Foundation for Health Sciences
    Author: Mark S. Elliott

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    Chapter 3 Genetics and Public Health
    Author: Joseph D. McInerney

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    Chapter 4 The Public Health Triad
    Author: Brian Szekely

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    Chapter 5 Epidemiological and Public Health Perspectives
    on Aging in America
    Author: Daniel Foley

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    Chapter 6 Drug-Induced Diseases and Safe Medication
    Use
    Author: Michelle Kalis; Judy Cheng

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    Chapter 7 Disease Versus Disease: How Some Diseases
    Ameliorate Others
    Author: E. Richard Stiehm

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    Chapter 8 Behavioral Determinants of Health
    Author: Frances F. Fiocchi

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    Chapter 9 Understanding Nutrition for the Public's
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    Author: Elizabeth Tedrow; Jennifer A. Weber

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    Chapter 10 The Nutrition Transition: Changes in Eating
    Patterns and the Relationship to Chronic
    Illness
    Author: Mellen Duffy Tanamly

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    Chapter 11 Exercise: The Vaccine and Antidote for Obesity
    Author: Wayne C. Miller

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    Chapter 12 Fetal Alcohol Syndrome: A Lifespan Perspective
    Author: Harolyn M. E. Belcher; Sabrina J. Roundtree

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    Chapter 13 Smoking, Nicotine, and Addiction: Tobacco
    or Health?
    Author: Vincent A. Chiappinelli

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    Chapter 14 Pathophysiology of Injury: Why Gravity is
    Your Enemy
    Author: Mary Pat McKay

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    Chapter 15 Oral Health: The Neglected Epidemic in Public
    Health
    Author: Michael A. Tabacco; Carol A. Smith

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    Chapter 16 Immunizations and Immunity
    Author: Carol A. Smith

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    Chapter 17 Inflammation: Understanding Its Role in
    Acute and Chronic Disease
    Author: Patricia S. Latham

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    Chapter 18 Why We Stay Well: Stress, Allostasis, and
    Scientific Integrative Medicine
    Author: David S. Goldstein

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    Chapter 19 Cancer Prevention from a Biologist's Perspective
    Author: Jackie A. Lavigne; Stephen D. Hursting

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    Chapter 20 Colon Cancer: A Common, and Yet Preventable,
    Cancer
    Author: James F. Cawley

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    Chapter 21 Soil-Transmitted Helminths: Worms Are the
    Most Common Pathogens of Mankind
    Author: Ami Shah Brown; Sophia Raff; Peter Hotez

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    Chapter 22 Malaria: The Challenge of Scaling-Up Multiple
    Effective Tools
    Author: Larwrence Barat

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    Chapter 23 Tuberculosis: The Deadly Comeback of an
    Old Infectious Disease
    Author: Yanis Ben Amor

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    Chapter 24 Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS):
    History and Time Line
    Author: Victoria A. Harden

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    Chapter 25 HIV: Biology, Transmission, and Natural
    History in Humans
    Author: Sylvia Silver

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    Chapter 26 Afterword: The HIV/AIDS Epidemic
    Author: Veronica Miller

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    Chapter 27 Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus
    (MRSA): A Deadly Superbug
    Author: Tenagne W. Haile-Mariam

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    Chapter 28 Meningococcal Meningitis: It Strikes without
    Warning
    Author: Katrina D. Hawkins; David M. Parenti

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    Chapter 29 Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Infection and
    Immunization
    Author: James F. Cawley; Lawrence J. D’angelo

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    Chapter 30 Helicobacter Infection and Peptic Ulcer
    Author: James F. Cawley

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    Chapter 31 Avian and Seasonal Influenza
    Author: John M. P. Cmar; Gary L. Simon

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    Chapter 32 Bioterrorism: Medical and Public Health
    Implications
    Author: Christina L. Catlett; Christopher Scott

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    Chapter 33 Hypertension and the Kidney
    Author: Randall Packer; Richard Billingsley; Daniel Webb

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    Chapter 34 Epidemiology of Atherosclerosis
    Author: Cynthia M. Tracy; Richard V. Milani

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    Chapter 35 Stroke: A Guide for Prevention for Patients
    and Families
    Author: Ronald Riechers; Geoffrey S. F. Ling

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    Chapter 36 Diabetes: A Public Health Pandemic
    Author: Mary Beth Bigley

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    Chapter 37 Chronic Kidney Disease: The New Epidemic
    Author: Sudhindra Pudur; Paul L. Kimmel

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    Chapter 38 Achieving Asthma Control
    Author: Matthew Mintz

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    Chapter 39 Arthritis: The Nation's Most Common Cause
    of Disability
    Author: Patience H. White

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    Chapter 40 Osteoporosis: A Significant Cause of Disability
    and Mortality
    Author: Karen Kemmis; Dale Avers

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    Chapter 41 Alzheimer's Disease: A Slow Death
    Author: Christopher J. Battle; Raluca Popovici

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    Chapter 42 Perinatal Depression: A Worldwide Problem
    in Women's Health
    Author: Julia Frank

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    Chapter 43 The Science of Sleep
    Author: Michele N.Wagner; Daniel Webb

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    Chapter 44 Information-Seeking Strategies in Public
    Health
    Author: Cynthia Kahn; Elaine Sullo

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    Chapter 45 Communicating Public Health Information
    Author: Pamela Z. Poe

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    Chapter 46 Glossary
    Author: Constance Urciolo Battle

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