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| How to Use This Text: Key to Chapter Format | |
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| Concepts of Health and Disease in Public Health | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Essay: The Origins and Achievements of Modern Science | |
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| Essay: Biochemistry: A Foundation for Health Sciences | |
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| Genetics and Public Health | |
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| The Public Health Triad | |
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| Epidemiological and Public Health Perspectives on Aging in America | |
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| Drug-Induced Diseases and Safe Medication Use | |
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| Disease Versus Disease: How Some Diseases Ameliorate Others | |
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| Behavioral Determinants of Health | |
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| Using Public Health to Address Behavioral Change | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Understanding Nutrition for the Public's Health | |
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| The Nutrition Transition: Changes in Eating Patterns and the Relationship to Chronic Illness | |
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| Exercise: The Vaccine and Antidote for Obesity | |
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| Fetal Alcohol Syndrome: A Lifespan Perspective | |
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| Smoking, Nicotine, and Addiction: Tobacco or Health? | |
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| Pathophysiology of Injury: Why Gravity Is Your Enemy | |
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| Oral Health: The Neglected Epidemic in Public Health | |
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| Concepts of Pathophysiology | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Immunizations and Immunity | |
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| Inflammation: Understanding Its Role in Acute and Chronic Disease | |
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| Why We Stay Well: Stress, Allostasis, and Scientific Integrative Medicine | |
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| Cancer Prevention from a Biologist's Perspective | |
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| Colon Cancer: A Common, and Yet Preventable, Cancer | |
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| The Public Health Burden of Infectious Disease | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Soil-Transmitted Helminths: Worms Are the Most Common Pathogens of Mankind | |
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| Malaria: The Challenge of Scaling-Up Multiple Effective Tools | |
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| Tuberculosis: The Deadly Comeback of an Old Infectious Disease | |
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| Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS): History and Time Line | |
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| HIV: Biology, Transmission, and Natural History in Humans | |
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| Afterword: The HIV/AIDS Epidemic | |
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| Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA): A Deadly Superbug | |
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| Meningococcal Meningitis: It Strikes without Warning | |
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| Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Infection and Immunization | |
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| Helicobacter Infection and Peptic Ulcer | |
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| Avian and Seasonal Influenza | |
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| Bioterrorism: Medical and Public Health Implications | |
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| The Public Health Burden of Chronic Disease | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Hypertension and the Kidney | |
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| Epidemiology of Atherosclerosis | |
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| Stroke: A Guide for Prevention for Patients and Families | |
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| Diabetes: A Public Health Pandemic | |
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| Chronic Kidney Disease: The New Epidemic | |
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| Achieving Asthma Control | |
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| Arthritis: The Nation's Most Common Cause of Disability | |
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| Osteoporosis: A Significant Cause of Disability and Mortality | |
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| Alzheimer's Disease: A Slow Death | |
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| Perinatal Depression: A Worldwide Problem in Women's Health | |
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| The Science of Sleep | |
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| Skills and Tools of Public Health | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Information-Seeking Strategies in Public Health | |
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| Communicating Public Health Information | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Index | |