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World health

Here are entered works discussing health from a global perspective, including worldwide patterns of health and disease and measures taken to improve and safeguard the health status of the world's inhabitants.

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• Public health

• Medical geography
• Public health -- International cooperation

• World health -- History
• World health -- Periodicals
• Planetary quarantine
• Public health laws, International

• Global health
• International health

• Non-Communicable Disease Prevention: Best Buys, Wasted Buys and Contestable Buys (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2019), ed. by Wanrudee Isaranuwatchai, Rachel Archer, Yot Teerawattananon, and A. J. Culyer (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Closing the Gap in a Generation: Health Equity Through Action on the Social Determinants of Health (final commission report; Geneva: World Health Organization, 2008), by WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health (PDF at who.int)
• Global Burden of Disease and Risk Factors (2006), ed. by Alan D. Lopez, Colin D. Mathers, Majid Ezzati, Dean T. Jamison, and Christopher J. L. Murray (HTML and PDF files at NIH)
• Forging Links for Health Research: Perspectives from the Council on Health Research for Development (2000), ed. by Vic Neufeld and Nancy A. Johnson (PDF and HTML with commentary at idrc.ca)
• Global Health in Transition: A Synthesis: Perspectives from International Organizations, by John H. Bryant, ed. by Polly F. Harrison (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Polio Across the Iron Curtain: Hungary's Cold War with an Epidemic (Cambridge, UK and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018), by Dó́ra Vargha (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Cambridge University Press)

• Globalization and Health (full serial archives)
• Médecine Tropicale et Santé Internationale (partial serial archives)

• Evaluating the Biological Potential in Samples Returned from Planetary Satellites and Small Solar System Bodies: Framework for Decision Making, by National Research Council Space Science Board (page images and partial HTML at NAP)

• Technical Cooperation in Health (Dept. of State publication 6855 (Economic cooperation series #54); 1959), by United States International Cooperation Administration (page images at HathiTrust)

• Global Health in Transition: A Synthesis: Perspectives from International Organizations, by John H. Bryant, ed. by Polly F. Harrison (page images with commentary at NAP)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Ranks of Death: A Medical History of the Conquest of America (New York: Coward-McCann, c1947), by P. M. Ashburn and Frank Davis Ashburn (page images at HathiTrust)

• Degeneration Amongst Londoners (1885), by James Cantlie (HTML at victorianlondon.org)

• A Medical Survey of the Republic of Guatemala (Carnegie Institution of Washington publication #499; 1938), by George Cheever Shattuck, contrib. by Joseph C. Bequaert, Margaret M. Hilferty, Jack H. Sandground, and Samuel Drury Clark (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Peninsula of Yucatan: Medical, Biological, Meteorological and Sociological Studies (Carnegie Institution of Washington publication #431; 1933), ed. by George Cheever Shattuck (page images at HathiTrust)

• La Presse Thermale et Climatique (partial serial archives)

• Atlas of United States Mortality (1997), by Linda Williams Pickle, Michael Mungiole, Gretchen K. Jones, and Andrew A. White (PDF files with commentary at cdc.gov)

• Sketches of Epidemic Diseases in the State of Vermont: From its First Settlement to the Year 1815; With a Consideration of Their Causes, Phenomena, and Treatment, To Which is Added Remarks on Pulmonary Consumption (Boston: T. B. Wait and Sons, 1815), by Joseph A. Gallup
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Environmental Medicine: Integrating a Missing Element into Medical Education (1995), ed. by Andrew M. Pope and David P. Rall (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Bodies in Protest: Environmental Illness and the Struggle Over Medical Knowledge (New York and London: New York University Press, c1997), by J. Stephen Kroll-Smith and H. Hugh Floyd (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)

• Bodies in Protest: Environmental Illness and the Struggle Over Medical Knowledge (New York and London: New York University Press, c1997), by J. Stephen Kroll-Smith and H. Hugh Floyd (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)

• The Genetical Factor in Endemic Goiter (Carnegie Institution of Washington publication #428, 1932), by Charles Benedict Davenport (page images at HathiTrust)

• Multiple Chemical Sensitivities: Addendum to Biologic Markers in Immunotoxicology (1992), by National Research Council Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Bodies in Protest: Environmental Illness and the Struggle Over Medical Knowledge (New York and London: New York University Press, c1997), by J. Stephen Kroll-Smith and H. Hugh Floyd (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)

• The Intolerable Burden of Malaria: A New Look at the Numbers (2001), ed. by Joel G. Breman, Andréa Egan, and Gerald Keusch (illustrated HTML at NIH)

• National Institutes of Health Bulletin (full serial archives)
• Reshaping Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (Washington: International Food Policy Research Institute, c2012), ed. by Shenggen Fan and Rajul Pandya-Lorch (multiple formats with commentary at ifpri.org and Google)
• Hygienic Laboratory Bulletin (full serial archives)
• Sleep Disorders and Sleep Deprivation: An Unmet Public Health Problem (2006), ed. by Harvey R. Colten and Bruce M. Altevogt
  • HTML and page images with commentary at NAP
  • HTML and page images with commentary at NAP
• Personal and Community Health (6th edition; St. Louis: The C. V. Mosby Co., 1942), by C. E. Turner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Conservation by Sanitation, by Ellen H. Richards (HTML at LOC)
• The Health Master (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1913), by Samuel Hopkins Adams (Gutenberg text)
• Race Decadence: An Examination of the Causes of Racial Degeneracy in the United States (Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Co., 1922), by William S. Sadler (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Health of the People: The African Regional Health Report (2006), by World Health Organization Regional Office for Africa (PDF at who.int)

• Disease and Mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa (second edition; 2006), ed. by Dean T. Jamison, Richard G. Feachem, M. W. Makgoba, Eduard R. Bos, Florence K. Baingana, Karen J. Hofman, and K. O. Rogo (illustrated HTML at NIH)

• Bedside and Community: 50 Years of Contributions to the Health of Albertans by the University of Calgary (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2020), ed. by Diana Mansell, Frank Stahnisch, and Paula Larsson (PDF with commentary at University of Calgary)

• Public Health in East and Southeast Asia: Challenges and Opportunities in the Twenty-First Century (Berkeley et al.: University of California Press, c2012), ed. by Roger Detels, Sheena G. Sullivan, and Chorh Chuan Tan (HTML and PDF with commentary at UC Press)

• Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries (2006), ed. by Dean T. Jamison, Joel G. Breman, Anthony R. Measham, George Alleyne, Mariam Claeson, David B. Evans, Prabhat Jha, Anne Mills, and Philip Musgrove (HTML and PDF at NIH)
• Priorities in Health (2006), ed. by Dean T. Jamison, Joel G. Breman, Anthony R. Measham, George Alleyne, Mariam Claeson, David B. Evans, Prabhat Jha, Anne Mills, and Philip Musgrove (HTML and PDF files at NIH)

• Traité des Erreurs Populaires sur la Santé (in French; La Haye: P. F. Gosse, 1775), by D. T. de Bienville
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Public Health in East and Southeast Asia: Challenges and Opportunities in the Twenty-First Century (Berkeley et al.: University of California Press, c2012), ed. by Roger Detels, Sheena G. Sullivan, and Chorh Chuan Tan (HTML and PDF with commentary at UC Press)

• COVID-19 and World Order: The Future of Conflict, Competition, and Cooperation (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c2020), ed. by Hal Brands and Francis J. Gavin (HTML and PDF files at Project MUSE)

• COVID-19 and World Order: The Future of Conflict, Competition, and Cooperation (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c2020), ed. by Hal Brands and Francis J. Gavin (HTML and PDF files at Project MUSE)

• Assessment of Performance Measures for Public Health, Substance Abuse, and Mental Health, ed. by Edward B. Perrin and Jeffrey J. Koshel (page images and partial HTML at NAP)

• A Survey of Public Health Activities in Honolulu, Hawaii, Including Official and Voluntary Agencies, Under the Auspices of the Chamber of Commerce of Honolulu; and A Brief survey of the Major Health Problems of the Territory, Made With the Aid of the Kauai, Maui, and Hilo Chambers of Commerce (1935), by Ira V. Hiscock (page images at HathiTrust)

• Mother India (c1927), by Katherine Mayo (illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Australia)

• Reshaping Food Systems to Improve Nutrition and Health in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2023), by Ayoub Al-Jawaldeh and Alexa L. Meyer (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Smoke Signals: Selected Writing (Sydney: Sydney University Press, c2016), by Simon Chapman (PDF with commentary in Australia)

• Annual Review of Public Health (partial serial archives)
• Indian Journal of Public Health (partial serial archives)
• BMC Public Health (2001-) (full serial archives)
• Cadernos de Saúde Pública: Reports in Public Health (in Portuguese, Spanish, and English; 1985-) (full serial archives)
• CommonHealth (Temple College of Public Health, 2020-) (full serial archives)
• Health Prospect (journal of Nepal Public Health Students' Society; volumes online 2011-) (partial serial archives)
• American Journal of Public Health (partial serial archives)
• Canadian Journal of Public Health (partial serial archives)
• Delaware Journal of Public Health (2015-) (full serial archives)
• PLoS Medicine (2004-) (full serial archives)
• Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health (partial serial archives)
• Journal of Nepal Medical Association (partial serial archives)
• Canadian Public Health Journal (partial serial archives)
• The Public Health Journal (Canada, 1910-1928) (partial serial archives)
• Abstract of Sanitary Reports (full serial archives)
• The Indian Medical Gazette (full serial archives)
• Journal of the American Public Health Association (full serial archives)
• Public Health (partial serial archives)
• Weekly Abstract of Sanitary Reports (full serial archives)
• Hygeia (partial serial archives)
• The American Journal of Hygiene (partial serial archives)
• Health and Hygiene (1935-1938) (full serial archives)
• Journal of the Royal Sanitary Institute (partial serial archives)
• The Hospital and Health Review (full serial archives)
• Journal of the Sanitary Institute (full serial archives)
• Transactions of the Epidemiological Society of London (and predecessor journals, 1855-1907) (full serial archives)
• Transactions of the Sanitary Institute of Great Britain (partial serial archives)

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