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Regional cultures and mortality in america
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ISBN: 9781316215098 1316215091 9781139942003 113994200X 1316213684 1316215717 1316215296 1107438926 1316214893 1316215504 9781107079632 9781107438927 1322522022 9781322522029 9781316215500 1107079632 1316213471 9781316213681 9781316215715 9781316215296 9781316214893 Year: 2015 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Across the contiguous 48 states, populations in states with more activist civic cultures have lower mortality than states that do not follow this model. Several different factors can be pointed to as causes for this discrepancy - net income, class inequality, and the history of settlement in each of the different states and regions. These observations are true of Non-Hispanic Whites and African Americans but not of American Indians, and Hispanics, neither of which is fully integrated into the state political culture and economy in which it resides. In Regional Cultures and Mortality in America, the struggles these various populations face in regard to their health are explored in terms of where they reside.

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Mortality --- Cultural Characteristics --- Socioeconomic Factors --- Factors, Socioeconomic --- High-Income Population --- Land Tenure --- Standard of Living --- Social Inequalities --- Social Inequality --- Factor, Socioeconomic --- High Income Population --- High-Income Populations --- Inequalities, Social --- Inequality, Social --- Living Standard --- Living Standards --- Population, High-Income --- Populations, High-Income --- Socioeconomic Factor --- Tenure, Land --- Economics --- Ethnic Boundary Maintenance --- Boundary Maintenance, Ethnic --- Boundary Maintenances, Ethnic --- Characteristic, Cultural --- Characteristics, Cultural --- Cultural Characteristic --- Ethnic Boundary Maintenances --- Maintenance, Ethnic Boundary --- Maintenances, Ethnic Boundary --- Age Specific Death Rate --- Age-Specific Death Rate --- Case Fatality Rate --- Decline, Mortality --- Determinants, Mortality --- Differential Mortality --- Excess Mortality --- Mortality Decline --- Mortality Determinants --- Mortality Rate --- Mortality, Differential --- Mortality, Excess --- CFR Case Fatality Rate --- Crude Death Rate --- Crude Mortality Rate --- Death Rate --- Age-Specific Death Rates --- Case Fatality Rates --- Crude Death Rates --- Crude Mortality Rates --- Death Rate, Age-Specific --- Death Rate, Crude --- Death Rates --- Determinant, Mortality --- Differential Mortalities --- Excess Mortalities --- Mortalities --- Mortality Declines --- Mortality Determinant --- Mortality Rate, Crude --- Mortality Rates --- Rate, Age-Specific Death --- Rate, Case Fatality --- Rate, Crude Death --- Rate, Crude Mortality --- Rate, Death --- Rate, Mortality --- Rates, Case Fatality --- Disease --- mortality --- United States. --- E-books --- Mortality, Law of --- Death --- Demography --- Death (Biology) --- United States --- Economic and Social Factors --- Social and Economic Factors --- Socioeconomic Characteristics --- Characteristic, Socioeconomic --- Socioeconomic Characteristic


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The culture of mental illness and psychiatric practice in Africa
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ISBN: 9780253012869 0253012864 9780253012937 0253012937 0253013046 9780253013040 Year: 2015 Publisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press,

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While problems are rampant and carry real and devastating consequences, this volume promotes an understanding of the African mental health landscape in service of reform.

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Mental illness --- Psychiatry, Transcultural --- Mental Disorders --- Cultural Characteristics --- Health Care Reform --- Socioeconomic Factors --- #SBIB:39A9 --- #SBIB:39A73 --- Factors, Socioeconomic --- High-Income Population --- Inequalities --- Land Tenure --- Standard of Living --- Factor, Socioeconomic --- High Income Population --- High-Income Populations --- Inequality --- Living Standard --- Living Standards --- Population, High-Income --- Populations, High-Income --- Socioeconomic Factor --- Tenure, Land --- Economics --- Healthcare Reform --- Health Care Reforms --- Healthcare Reforms --- Reform, Health Care --- Reform, Healthcare --- Reforms, Health Care --- Reforms, Healthcare --- Characteristic, Cultural --- Characteristics, Cultural --- Cultural Characteristic --- Behavior Disorders --- Diagnosis, Psychiatric --- Mental Disorders, Severe --- Psychiatric Diagnosis --- Disorder, Mental --- Disorder, Severe Mental --- Disorders, Behavior --- Disorders, Mental --- Disorders, Severe Mental --- Mental Disorder --- Mental Disorder, Severe --- Severe Mental Disorder --- Severe Mental Disorders --- Mentally Ill Persons --- Cross-cultural psychiatry --- Cultural psychiatry --- Psychiatry --- Psychiatry, Cross-cultural --- Transcultural psychiatry --- Cross-cultural studies --- Madness --- Mental diseases --- Mental disorders --- Disabilities --- Psychology, Pathological --- Mental health --- Treatment --- methods --- Medische antropologie / gezondheid / handicaps --- Etnografie: Afrika --- Methods --- Ethnic Boundary Maintenance --- Boundary Maintenance, Ethnic --- Boundary Maintenances, Ethnic --- Ethnic Boundary Maintenances --- Maintenance, Ethnic Boundary --- Maintenances, Ethnic Boundary --- Psychiatric Diseases --- Psychiatric Disorders --- Psychiatric Illness --- Psychiatric Disease --- Psychiatric Disorder --- Psychiatric Illnesses --- Social Inequalities --- Social Inequality --- Inequalities, Social --- Inequality, Social --- Mental Illness --- Illness, Mental --- Mental Illnesses --- Health care reform --- Social status --- Social standing --- Socio-economic status --- Socioeconomic status --- Standing, Social --- Status, Social --- Power (Social sciences) --- Prestige --- Health reform --- Health system reform --- Healthcare reform --- Medical care reform --- Reform of health care delivery --- Reform of medical care delivery --- Medical policy --- Health insurance --- Economic and Social Factors --- Social and Economic Factors --- Socioeconomic Characteristics --- Characteristic, Socioeconomic --- Socioeconomic Characteristic --- Malalties mentals. --- Psiquiatria. --- Aberracions mentals --- Medicina mental --- Medicina --- Antipsiquiatria --- Hospitals psiquiàtrics --- Infermeria psiquiàtrica --- Malalties mentals --- Malalts mentals --- Neurosi --- Psicologia clínica --- Psicosi --- Psicoteràpia --- Psiquiatria forense --- Psiquiatria geriàtrica --- Psiquiatria infantil --- Psiquiatria militar --- Psiquiatria social --- Salut mental --- Urgències en psiquiatria --- Alienació mental (Dret) --- Història de la psiquiatria --- Neuropsiquiatria --- Psicologia mèdica --- Psicopatologia --- Bogeria --- Malaltia mental --- Psicopatia --- Discapacitat física --- Psiquiatria --- Deficiència mental --- Geni i malalties mentals


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Murder capital : suspicious deaths in London, 1933-53
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ISBN: 1781707960 9781781707968 9781847799753 1847799752 9780719091971 0719091977 1847799744 Year: 2015 Publisher: Manchester : Manchester University Press,

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'Murder Capital' is a historical study of suspicious deaths, unexpected deaths whose circumstances required official investigation, in mid-twentieth-century London. Suspicious deaths - murders in the family and by strangers, infanticides and deaths from illegal abortions - reveal moments of personal and communal crisis in the social fabric of the city. By setting the institutional ordering of the city against the hidden intimate spaces where crimes occurred and were discovered, the book presents a new popular history of the city.

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Murder --- Socioeconomic Factors --- Social Control, Formal --- Environment --- Social Problems --- Crime --- Sociology --- Geographic Locations --- History, Modern 1601 --- -Social Sciences --- Geographicals --- History --- Environment and Public Health --- Criminology --- Ecological and Environmental Phenomena --- Population Characteristics --- Biological Phenomena --- Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena --- Health Care --- Humanities --- Phenomena and Processes --- Social Change --- History, 20th Century --- Cities --- Homicide --- Law Enforcement --- Social Welfare & Social Work --- Social Sciences --- Criminology, Penology & Juvenile Delinquency --- Enforcement, Law --- Criminal Law --- Forensic Medicine --- Police --- Killing --- Wrongful Death --- Death, Wrongful --- Deaths, Wrongful --- Homicides --- Killings --- Murders --- Wrongful Deaths --- Death --- Towns --- Municipalities --- Urban Population --- Urbanization --- 20th Cent. History (Medicine) --- 20th Cent. History of Medicine --- 20th Cent. Medicine --- Historical Events, 20th Century --- History of Medicine, 20th Cent. --- History, Twentieth Century --- Medical History, 20th Cent. --- Medicine, 20th Cent. --- 20th Century History --- 20th Cent. Histories (Medicine) --- 20th Century Histories --- Cent. Histories, 20th (Medicine) --- Cent. History, 20th (Medicine) --- Century Histories, 20th --- Century Histories, Twentieth --- Century History, 20th --- Century History, Twentieth --- Histories, 20th Cent. (Medicine) --- Histories, 20th Century --- Histories, Twentieth Century --- History, 20th Cent. (Medicine) --- Twentieth Century Histories --- Twentieth Century History --- Modernization --- Social Development --- Social Impact --- Change, Social --- Changes, Social --- Development, Social --- Developments, Social --- Impact, Social --- Impacts, Social --- Social Changes --- Social Developments --- Social Impacts --- Group Processes --- Community-Based Distribution --- Contraceptive Distribution --- Delivery of Healthcare --- Dental Care Delivery --- Distribution, Non-Clinical --- Distribution, Nonclinical --- Distributional Activities --- Healthcare --- Healthcare Delivery --- Healthcare Systems --- Non-Clinical Distribution --- Nonclinical Distribution --- Delivery of Dental Care --- Health Care Delivery --- Health Care Systems --- Activities, Distributional --- Activity, Distributional --- Care, Health --- Community Based Distribution --- Community-Based Distributions --- Contraceptive Distributions --- Deliveries, Healthcare --- Delivery, Dental Care --- Delivery, Health Care --- Delivery, Healthcare --- Distribution, Community-Based --- Distribution, Contraceptive --- Distribution, Non Clinical --- Distributional Activity --- Distributions, Community-Based --- Distributions, Contraceptive --- Distributions, Non-Clinical --- Distributions, Nonclinical --- Health Care System --- Healthcare Deliveries --- Healthcare System --- Non Clinical Distribution --- Non-Clinical Distributions --- Nonclinical Distributions --- System, Health Care --- System, Healthcare --- Systems, Health Care --- Systems, Healthcare --- Biologic Phenomena --- Biological Phenomenon --- Biological Process --- Phenomena, Biological --- Biological Processes --- Phenomena, Biologic --- Phenomenon, Biological --- Process, Biological --- Processes, Biological --- Population Heterogeneity --- Population Statistics --- Characteristic, Population --- Characteristics, Population --- Heterogeneity, Population --- Population Characteristic --- Statistics, Population --- Ecological and Environmental Concepts --- Ecological and Environmental Processes --- Aspects, Historical --- Historical Aspects --- Aspect, Historical --- Historical Aspect --- Histories --- Science, Social --- Sciences, Social --- Social Science --- History of Medicine, Modern --- Medicine, Modern --- Modern History (Medicine) --- Modern Medicine --- History, Modern --- Modern History --- 1601- History, Modern --- History, Modern (Medicine) --- Modern 1601- History --- General Social Development and Population --- Kidnapping --- Poaching --- Crimes --- Kidnappings --- Criminal Behavior --- Labor Exploitation --- Social Exploitation --- Exploitation, Labor --- Exploitation, Social --- Exploitations, Labor --- Problem, Social --- Problems, Social --- Social Problem --- Environmental Impact --- Environmental Impacts --- Impact, Environmental --- Impacts, Environmental --- Environments --- Environmental Health --- Regulation --- Social Control --- Control, Social --- Controls, Social --- Formal Social Control --- Formal Social Controls --- Regulations --- Social Controls --- Public Policy --- Factors, Socioeconomic --- High-Income Population --- Land Tenure --- Standard of Living --- Social Inequalities --- Social Inequality --- Factor, Socioeconomic --- High Income Population --- High-Income Populations --- Inequalities, Social --- Inequality, Social --- Living Standard --- Living Standards --- Population, High-Income --- Populations, High-Income --- Socioeconomic Factor --- Tenure, Land --- Economics --- Criminal homicide --- Killing (Murder) --- Investigation --- Geographic Location --- 1900 - 1999 --- Wildlife Trade --- Economic and Social Factors --- Social and Economic Factors --- Socioeconomic Characteristics --- Characteristic, Socioeconomic --- Socioeconomic Characteristic


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Field trials of health interventions : a toolbox
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ISBN: 0198732864 0191797677 019104749X 0191047503 Year: 2015 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press,

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'Field Trials of Health Interventions' is an essential 'toolbox' for the design, conduct, and analysis of field trials in low and middle income countries.

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Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic --- Tropical Medicine --- Socioeconomic Factors --- Controlled Clinical Trials as Topic --- Medicine --- Sociology --- Population Characteristics --- Clinical Trials as Topic --- Social Sciences --- Health Care --- Health Occupations --- Epidemiologic Study Characteristics --- Evaluation Studies as Topic --- Occupations --- Epidemiologic Methods --- Investigative Techniques --- Health Care Evaluation Mechanisms --- Quality of Health Care --- Public Health --- Environment and Public Health --- Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation --- Tropical & Arctic Medicine --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Critique --- Evaluation Indexes --- Evaluation Methodology --- Evaluation Report --- Evaluation Research --- Methodology, Evaluation --- Pre-Post Tests --- Qualitative Evaluation --- Quantitative Evaluation --- Theoretical Effectiveness --- Use-Effectiveness --- Critiques --- Effectiveness, Theoretical --- Evaluation Methodologies --- Evaluation Reports --- Evaluation, Qualitative --- Evaluation, Quantitative --- Evaluations, Qualitative --- Evaluations, Quantitative --- Indexes, Evaluation --- Methodologies, Evaluation --- Pre Post Tests --- Pre-Post Test --- Qualitative Evaluations --- Quantitative Evaluations --- Report, Evaluation --- Reports, Evaluation --- Research, Evaluation --- Test, Pre-Post --- Tests, Pre-Post --- Use Effectiveness --- Study Characteristic, Epidemiologic --- Study Characteristics, Epidemiologic --- Health Professions --- Health Occupation --- Health Profession --- Profession, Health --- Professions, Health --- Community-Based Distribution --- Contraceptive Distribution --- Delivery of Healthcare --- Dental Care Delivery --- Distribution, Non-Clinical --- Distribution, Nonclinical --- Distributional Activities --- Healthcare --- Healthcare Delivery --- Healthcare Systems --- Non-Clinical Distribution --- Nonclinical Distribution --- Delivery of Dental Care --- Health Care Delivery --- Health Care Systems --- Activities, Distributional --- Activity, Distributional --- Care, Health --- Community Based Distribution --- Community-Based Distributions --- Contraceptive Distributions --- Deliveries, Healthcare --- Delivery, Dental Care --- Delivery, Health Care --- Delivery, Healthcare --- Distribution, Community-Based --- Distribution, Contraceptive --- Distribution, Non Clinical --- Distributional Activity --- Distributions, Community-Based --- Distributions, Contraceptive --- Distributions, Non-Clinical --- Distributions, Nonclinical --- Health Care System --- Healthcare Deliveries --- Healthcare System --- Non Clinical Distribution --- Non-Clinical Distributions --- Nonclinical Distributions --- System, Health Care --- System, Healthcare --- Systems, Health Care --- Systems, Healthcare --- Healthcare Quality, Access, and Evaluation --- Community Health --- Environment, Preventive Medicine & Public Health --- Environment, Preventive Medicine and Public Health --- Health, Community --- Health, Public --- Preventive Medicine --- Education, Public Health Professional --- Pharmacy Audit --- Quality of Care --- Quality of Healthcare --- Audit, Pharmacy --- Care Quality --- Health Care Quality --- Healthcare Quality --- Pharmacy Audits --- Healthcare Evaluation Mechanisms --- Evaluation Mechanism, Healthcare --- Evaluation Mechanisms, Healthcare --- Healthcare Evaluation Mechanism --- Mechanism, Healthcare Evaluation --- Mechanisms, Healthcare Evaluation --- Investigative Technics --- Investigative Technic --- Investigative Technique --- Technic, Investigative --- Technics, Investigative --- Technique, Investigative --- Techniques, Investigative --- Epidemiologic Method --- Epidemiological Methods --- Methods, Epidemiologic --- Epidemiological Method --- Method, Epidemiologic --- Method, Epidemiological --- Methods, Epidemiological --- Epidemiology --- Vocations --- Occupation --- Vocation --- Occupational Groups --- Science, Social --- Sciences, Social --- Social Science --- Clinical Trial as Topic --- Clinical Protocols --- Drug Evaluation --- Drugs, Investigational --- Clinical Trials Data Monitoring Committees --- Therapies, Investigational --- Population Heterogeneity --- Population Statistics --- Characteristic, Population --- Characteristics, Population --- Heterogeneity, Population --- Population Characteristic --- Statistics, Population --- General Social Development and Population --- Medical Specialities --- Medical Specialties --- Medical Specialty --- Specialities, Medical --- Specialties, Medical --- Specialty, Medical --- Medical Speciality --- Speciality, Medical --- Health Workforce --- Clinical Trials, Controlled as Topic --- Control Groups --- Factors, Socioeconomic --- High-Income Population --- Land Tenure --- Standard of Living --- Social Inequalities --- Social Inequality --- Factor, Socioeconomic --- High Income Population --- High-Income Populations --- Inequalities, Social --- Inequality, Social --- Living Standard --- Living Standards --- Population, High-Income --- Populations, High-Income --- Socioeconomic Factor --- Tenure, Land --- Economics --- Medicine, Tropical --- Trials, Randomized Clinical --- Clinical Trials, Randomized --- Controlled Clinical Trials, Randomized --- Non-Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic --- methods --- Economic and Social Factors --- Social and Economic Factors --- Socioeconomic Characteristics --- Characteristic, Socioeconomic --- Socioeconomic Characteristic --- procedures --- field trials --- disease control --- interventions --- health --- Clinical trial --- Creative Commons license --- Public health --- Vaccine --- Tropical medicine --- Health and Wellbeing. --- Clinical & internal medicine. --- Research --- Methodology.

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