Published September, 2012
By David V. McQueen and Pekka Puska
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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This book contains the latest information on surveillance by the international public health community, including: the WHO's Stepwise Approach, the U.S.'s Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, the Finbalt Health Monitor, the EURALIM Experience, and the Mega Country Health Promotion Network.

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Published September, 2012
By Rudgard, Maddison and Andebrhan
Publisher: Springer
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The Monograph deals with the conception, planning, implementation, results and conclusions of the International Witches' Broom Project (IWBP), which was set up in 1985 with the aim of producing an economic management system for witches' broom disease of cocoa.

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Published September, 2012
By Susan M. De Vos and Susan De Vos
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis
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Based on data gathered by the World Fertility Survey, this illuminating reference explores household composition in six Latin American countries and compares the situation with that in the United States and western Europe as well as with each other.

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Published September, 2012
By P. Hambleton and T. Salusbury
Publisher: Springer
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As an industry, biotechnology may be likened to the Hymn Book, being both ancient and modern. Yet unlike other modern industries, such as chemical and nuclear, where regulation has followed from incidents or accidents, modern biotechnology has been subject to close scrutiny and regulation almost from its inception.

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Published September, 2012
By H. Häfner and J Bojanovsky
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Monographien aus dem Gesamtgebiete der Psychiatrie
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Published September, 2012
By Mary Cuadrado, Louis Lieberman and Dr. Louis Lieberman
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: The Plenum Series in Culture and Health
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Based on findings from a sample of nearly 1,100 Puerto Ricans living in the New York area, this book posits that adhering to traditional cultural values (for example, the family) has the socially desirable consequence of discouraging such deviant behaviors as substance abuse.

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Published September, 2012
By Julie G. Cwikel, Evelyn J. Bromet, Johan M. Havenaar, Johan Havenaar and Julie Cwikel
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Springer Series on Stress and Coping
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Disasters have the same causal fac tors as accidents: they differ from accidents by the gravity of consequences, not by causes. The fact that minor and unpredictable acts can lead to disasters is im portant because it allows us to predict that the years to come will bring with them more disasters with ever more severe consequences.

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Published September, 2012
By Lorna Weir and Eric Mykhalovskiy
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
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The invention of online techniques such as early warning outbreak detection has dramatically changed the action capacity and social organization of global infectious disease control. This book, one of the first to examine these transformations, is a stunning addition to the fields of global health, global news, surveillance, and globalization.

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Published September, 2012
By Ziv Shkedy, Niel Hens, Marc Aerts, Christel Faes, Pierre Van Damme and Philippe Beutels
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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This guide to the latest statistical techniques for estimating the parameters of infectious diseases arises from a groundbreaking collaboration between Hasselt and Antwerp universities in Belgium, and features valuable case studies and software advice.

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Published August, 2012
By Shane Darke, Louisa Degenhardt and Richard Mattick
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Series: International Research Monographs in the Addictions
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The rate of illicit drug use worldwide has risen dramatically, and with it the number of deaths reported among drug-using populations. In this book, Shane Darke and his team provide the first full, synthetic review of the epidemiology, causes, prevalence, interventions, demography, and associated risk factors of illicit-drug-related mortality.

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