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Transgender Health And HIV Prevention: Needs Assessment Studies from Transgender Communities Across the United Statesby Walter O. Bockting (Editor), Eric, M.D. Avery (Editor) List Price: $34.95 Available from Amazon $22.02 On 7-18-2006 
See Item's Page Ronni L. Sanlo, EdD, Director, UCLA Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Center "Shares information from critical needs assessments on how transgender people may be served in the widest possible way." Gust A. Yep, PhD, Professor of Speech & Communication Studies, Professor of Human Sexuality Studies, and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Speech & Communication Studies, San Francisco State University "IT'S ABOUT TIME! We finally have a collection of up-to-date needs assessment research on transgender populations in the United States." |
Public Health Risk Assessment for Human Exposure to Chemicals (Environmental Pollution)by K. Asante-Duah List Price: $59.95 Available from Amazon $59.95 On 7-18-2006
See Item's Page Book Description Risks to humans as a consequence of chemical exposures are a complex issue with worldwide implications, especially in our modern societies. The effective management of human exposure to a variety of chemicals present in various sectors of society has indeed become a very important public health policy issue - and risk assessment promises a systematic way for developing appropriate strategies to aid public health risk management decisions. Risk assessment generally serves as a tool that can be used to organize, structure, and compile scientific information in order to help identify existing hazardous situations or problems, anticipate potential problems, establish priorities, and provide a basis for regulatory controls and/or corrective actions. In fact, with the control and containment of most infectious conditions and diseases of the past millennium having been achieved in most developed countries, and with the resultant increase in life expectancies, much more attention seems to have shifted to degenerative health problems. Many of the degenerative health conditions have been linked to thousands of chemicals regularly encountered in human living and occupational/work environments. It is important, therefore, that human health risk assessments are undertaken on a consistent basis - in order to determine the potential impacts of the target chemicals on public health. This book provides a concise, yet comprehensive overview of the many facets/aspects relating to human health risk assessments in relation to chemical exposure problems. It presents some very important tools and methodologies that can be used to address chemical exposure and public health risk management problems in a consistent, efficient, and cost?effective way. Overall the book represents a collection and synthesis of the principal elements of the risk assessment process that pertain to human exposures to chemicals in the human living and work environments. It offers an understanding of the scientific basis of risk assessment and its applications to public health policy decisions. Audience: The subject matter of this book should be of interest to many a professional encountering risk assessment in relation to environmental contamination and public health risk management programs &endash; especially public and occupational health practitioners; environmental consultants; environmental attorneys; public policy analysts; and various health, environmental, and consumer advocacy interest groups. The book is also expected to serve as a useful educational and training resource for both students and professionals in the health-related and environmental fields &endash; who have to deal with human exposures to chemicals, public health risk assessment issues, and/or environmental health management problems. Book Info The ERS Group, San Diego, CA. Comprehensive concise overview of the aspects of relating human health risk assessments to chemical exposure problems. Contains a number of illustrative example problems. Written in expanded-outline format. Softcover, hardcover listed in approval week 2002-46. |
Health Risk Assessment: Dermal and Inhalation Exposure and Absorption of Toxicants (Dermatology)by Rhoda G. M. Wang, et al List Price: $199.00 Available from Amazon $199.00 On 7-18-2006
See Item's Page Book Info California Environmental Protection Agency. CRC Series in Dermatology: Clinical and Basic Science. research for private and government investigators on skin and inhalation exposure to toxicants, with emphasis on skin metabolism, absorption, and pharmacokinetic modeling. |
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Advances in Health Risk Assessment for Systemic Toxicants and Chemical Mixtures by Jerry F. Stara (Editor), Linda S. Erdreich (Editor) Available from Amazon $15.00 On 7-18-2006
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Determining Risks to Health: Federal Policy and Practice by Task Force on Health Risk Assessment U.S. Department of Health and Human Services List Price: $25.00 Available from Amazon $25.00 On 7-18-2006
See Item's Page Product Review “Strongly recommended for health sciences collections in college, university, and public libraries.”– “If people are to act, individually or collectively, in a rational fashion to enhance their health prospects, they need the best available information about what constitutes a risk, the nature and magnitude of the risk, the strength of the evidence, and the various ways available to safeguard against adverse effects”– “A useful and accessible guide to anyone concerned with public health, consumer product safety, or public policy.”– |
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Light, Lasers, and Synchroton Radiation: A Health Risk Assessment (NATO Science Series: B:) by Martino Grandolfo (Editor), et al List Price: $254.00 Available from Amazon $254.00 On 7-18-2006
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Medical Error: What Do We Know What Do We Do (Michigan Forum on Health Policy)by Marilynn M Rosenthal (Editor), Kathleen M. Sutcliffe (Editor) List Price: $55.00 Available from Amazon $43.13 On 7-18-2006
See Item's Page Product Review "A new book picks up where the IOM left off." (Canton Observer, Canton, MI; 8/04/02) "If you expected books on medical errors to be dull, dry and depressing, this outstanding book will change your mind." (Healthcare Collaborator, March 3, 2003)
"A welcome addition to the growing literature on the topic." --Marilyn Sue Bogner, editor, Human Error in Medicine, Institute for the Study of medical Error "The explorations described in this book are original and exciting contributions, and the travels they recount substantially expand the boundaries of the known world of patient safety." --Richard I. Cook, MD, director, Cognitive Technologies Laboratory, University of Chicago "Contains a great deal of valuable information and thoughtful insight related to the existing body of knowledge related to safety." --Barbara J. Youngberg, vice president insurance, Risk, Quality and legal Services, University HealthSystem Consortium
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The Price of Smokingby Frank A. Sloan, et al List Price: $40.00 Available from Amazon $34.77 On 7-18-2006
See Item's Page From the New England journal of Medicine, May 19, 2005 Is it really worth $40 per pack to smoke cigarettes? According to Duke University health economists, $40 is the real cost that a 24-year-old smoker should consider each time he or she purchases a pack of cigarettes. This amounts to $220,000 for men and $106,000 for women who smoke over their lifetimes. Of the nearly $40-per-pack cost, the smoker bears $33. The remaining costs are borne by the smoker's family ($5) and by society ($1). (Figure) Sloan and colleagues present the most comprehensive analysis yet of the cost of smoking. They combine national data from several sources in an innovative way to develop detailed estimates of the economic impact of smoking. The book breaks new ground in using a lifetime-cost framework that carefully teases out the "internal" and "external" costs of smoking -- that is, the part of the cost the smoker bears versus the part imposed on others. They consider the contributions that smokers make to revenues (including health insurance premiums, Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security) and evaluate whether nonsmokers subsidize smokers in insurance markets. They use their models to evaluate whether current cigarette taxes and payments under the Master Settlement Agreement reached with the tobacco industry in 1998 are set at reasonable levels. The book is easy to follow, even for a noneconomist. The authors begin by Reviewing the existing research on smoking costs and describe the data they use and their analytic approach. They next detail the effect of smoking on mortality, health care expenditures, Social Security, private pensions, and insurance programs. Finally, the authors consider the effect of smoking on the health of family members, especially spouses. That smoking costs a substantial amount in terms of health care services, lives lost, and other costs will not surprise those who follow the ongoing saga of tobacco as public health enemy number one. It is somewhat more controversial that smoking actually saves Medicare money by killing off sick smokers at earlier ages, even after the smoker's payroll tax contributions to the program are included. Smoking is also found to save the Social Security program $1,519 per female smoker and $6,549 per male smoker for the same reason. The authors conclude that increases in the cigarette excise tax could be justified because current tax revenues do not cover all the costs imposed on the smoker's family members and society as a whole. However, they question whether the $206 billion Master Settlement Agreement can be justified and suggest that the answer depends in part on how the funds are used. This book, with its clear exposition and easy-to-follow organization, should serve as an excellent primer for readers who want to bring themselves up to speed on the state of knowledge about smoking-related costs. It will be useful for academics, policymakers, advocates, and those simply wishing to stay informed on this important health and policy issue. In the current era of shrinking state and federal budgets and tight competition for public health dollars, the framework that is laid out in this book will also be useful in evaluating other health-related programs to save dollars. Smokers are no doubt tired of hearing that smoking is bad for their health, but perhaps they will respond to arguments that smoking costs them and their family members dearly in other ways, too. Wendy Max, Ph.D. Copyright © 2005 Massachusetts medical Society. All rights reserved. The New England journal of medicine is a registered trademark of the MMS. Product Review "The Price of Smoking details the financial impact of a shorter life span on retirement benefits." -- Hilary Smith, MSN Money "The book breaks new ground to present the most comprehensive analysis yet of the cost of smoking." -- Wendy Max, Ph.D., New England journal of Medicine "This book, with its clear exposition and easy-to-follow organization, should serve as an excellent primer for readers who want to bring themselves up to speed on the state of knowledge about smoking-related costs." -- The New England journal of Medicine " It's important to understand the public policy implications of Sloan's work." -- Robert A. Levy, Chicago Sun-Times |
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