The Silent Spread of COVID-19 and the Future of Pandemics
The riveting account of how asymptomatic transmission drove COVID-19's global spread and catalyzed interventions to control it. Why was COVID-19 so difficult to contain and so devastating to people and economies worldwide? In Asymptomatic, author Joshua S. Weitz explains how silent transmission enabled COVID-19's massive and tragic global impact. ......
Unpacks the mysteries of COVID-19's origins to impart important lessons for future outbreaks. In this timely book, leading public health expert Laura H. Kahn uses the comprehensive One Health approach to investigate the COVID-19 pandemic. The concept of "One Health" recognizes the interconnected links among the health of humans, animals, plants, ......
The Startling History of Life Before and After Vaccines
A look at the long history of vaccines, yesterday, today and still to come. Once largely an issue for parents and children, vaccines now occupy a central space in the very heart of our national conversation. We've all been forced to think about this subject closely for over two years. In the absence of a COVID-19 vaccine, thousands of deaths from ......
Now in its 6th edition, The Handbook of Health Behavior Change continues to serve as the premier practical textbook for students, researchers, and health professionals in public health, health promotion, preventive and behavioral medicine, nursing, health communication, population health, and the behavioral sciences. It presents a foundational ......
Health Promotion Moving Forward: A Population Health Approach is the most current foundational health promotion textbook to dynamically reflect upon the collective pandemic experience, the lessons learned, and the strategies for national recovery. With a focus on the structural and social determinants of health that affect health equity, this ......
Can American health insurance survive? In The Transformation of American Health Insurance, Troyen A. Brennan traces the historical evolution of public and private health insurance in the United States from the first Blue Cross plans in the late 1930s to reforms under the Biden administration. In analyzing this evolution, he finds long-term trends ......
Essential essays on the environmental impacts of factory farms on public health. The rapid-and relatively recent-concentration of food animal production into factory farms makes meat plentiful and cheap, but this type of agriculture comes at a great cost to human health and the environment. In Industrial Farm Animal Production, the Environment, ......
The 3-volume APA Handbook of Health Psychology describes in detail the basic foundations and context of health psychology, major issues in health psychology relating to public health and disease prevention, and major clinical approaches to health psychology. Volume 1, Foundations and Context of Health Psychology explores the conceptual ......
This engaging guide offers strategies to help couples who drink together get sober together. Are you and your partner curious about sobriety or managing your drinking? In Sober Love, Dr. Joseph Nowinski offers practical advice and proven strategies to help couples end their relationship with alcohol-and redefine their relationship with each ......
