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With the growing awareness of global public health and infectious diseases there has been an interest in learning more about the history and stories associated with some of the world’s greatest ...
Below, more on public health books. System Update: PW Talks with Thomas Fisher In 'The Emergency' (One World, Mar. 2022), Fisher writes of his experiences working as an ER doctor on Chicago's ...
Here's are seven books that will help you understand other global health crises, based on recommendations from the John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. "Blue Marble Health" by Peter J ...
Assistant Professor Carlos Martinez’s latest co-edited book explores the public health impacts of punitive policing, incarceration, and deportation policies and describes how the abolitionist health ...
King County’s comics have also become a method to more effectively communicate health information to people who speak English ...
Health care and public health need to work together for an effective response in the 21st century. We've got effective treatments now for COVID. We shouldn't still be seeing 250 deaths a day.
Dr. Sandro Galea, an epidemiologist, professor and dean of Boston University's School of Public Health, asks what we've learned from COVID-19 in his new book "Within Reason: A Liberal Public ...
Comic books have a long history of being used to increase literacy. “They can expose children to words they might not be familiar with,” Branscum says. “That combination of pictures and words helps ...
And, also, I think it's important to say, because it's the truth, that if ever there was a time when you didn't want to have a public health crisis was at a time of profound divisiveness within ...
Public libraries are trusted institutions that have broad reach and untapped potential to improve public health by offering health-related programs.