Authors:Andrew D. Eaton, Lenore S. Clesceri, Eugene W. Ric
Publisher: American Public Health Associatio
Keywords: wastewater, water, examination, standard, methods, centennial
Published: 2005-10-15
List price: $250.00
ISBN-10: 0875530478
ISBN-13: 9780875530475

Authors:Frances Pouch Downes, Keith Ito,
Publisher: American Public Health Associatio
Keywords: foods, examination, microbiological, methods, compendium
Number of Pages: 676
Published: 2001-04-15
List price: $125.00
ISBN-10: 087553175X
ISBN-13: 9780875531755

Addresses the evolving technologies in microbiology and molecular biology applied to or promising to play an important role in meeting today’s challenges. Includes a new chapter on pathogenic Escherichia coli, and revised chapters on Listeria and parasites. Also includes a new chapter on risk assessment. Previous edition is not cited.

Author: Frank P. Grad
Publisher: American Public Health Associatio
Keywords: manual, law, health, public
Number of Pages: 372
Published: 2004-10-01
List price: $38.50
ISBN-10: 0875530427
ISBN-13: 9780875530420

The classic authority on public health law, this book serves as a common framework to facilitate communications and cooperation between health professionals and their legal advisors. Substantial treatment is given to environmental health law. This new edition also provides greatly enriched material on legal aspects of personal health services, including right of privacy, recent abortion and "right to die" cases, and an expanded discussion of law and policy governing HIV/AIDS. There is also an in–depth analysis of the new HIPPA Privacy Rule, and an important new chapter covering the need for P

Author: Linda Young Landesma
Publisher: American Public Health Associatio
Keywords: guide, second, practice, disasters, health, management, public
Number of Pages: 446
Published: 2005-03-01
List price: $42.00
ISBN-10: 0875530451
ISBN-13: 9780875530451

The 2nd edition of this landmark book consolidates important information on disaster-related resources into one source. It is designed to help the public health profession plan for tasks for which "on the job" is the chief teacher. The author has recognized striking improvements in disaster readiness in the United States, including inter-organizational cooperation and planning among response agencies, and greater technological capability for monitoring and response. Additional information has been added on morbidity and mortality for several new types of disasters; updated structure and organi

Author: David. L Heyma
Publisher: American Public Health Associatio
Keywords: manual, diseases, communicable, control
Number of Pages: 746
Published: 2008-10-25
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 087553189X
ISBN-13: 9780875531892

The most widely recognized sourcebook on infectious diseases provides detailed, accurate, informative text for public health workers in official and voluntary health agencies, including those serving in the armed forces and other governmental agencies, and for all students of medicine. Each listing is easy to read and includes identification, infectious agent, occurrence, mode of transmission, incubation period, susceptibility and resistance. This 19th edition sticks to a tried and tested structure, but with every chapter updated by international experts at both CDC and WHO, priority has been

Author: Lawrence D. Weiss
Publisher: American Public Health Association
Keywords: collision
Number of Pages: 109
Published: 2004-02
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 087553032X
ISBN-13: 9780875530321

Collision on I-75 tells an extraordinary public health story that has not been told before, and it tells it in a compelling and exciting way. It details over two decades of struggle by public health professionals, legislators, state officials, and law enforcement to compel a huge corporation to prevent deadly, suspected industrial-fog-related collisions. A couple of weeks before Christmas in 1990, nearly one hundred vehicles collided on Interstate-75 northeast of Chattanooga in an unusually dense fog bank, leaving 12 dead and dozens seriously injured. Within days of the collision, Attorney

Authors:Steven S. Coughlin, Colin L. Soskolne,
Publisher: American Public Health Association
Keywords: ethics, health, public, studies, case
Number of Pages: 182
Published: 1998-08-01
List price: $37.00
ISBN-10: 0875532322
ISBN-13: 9780875532325

Ethical concerns and problems in public health research and practice are illustrated in this volume of public health case studies. Although challenges arising in public health ethics and epidemiology figure prominently, the focus of this book is much broader and encompasses many other areas of public health research and practice. Emerging issues such as HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment, health care reform, cross-cultural research and others are addressed in this book. An instructor’s guide is provided at the end of the publication. This book is suitable for public health-related c