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Author:   Vikram Patel (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine<br>Sangath Centre) ,  Alistair Woodward (University of Auckland) ,  Valery Feigin (Auckland University of Technology) ,  Stella R. Quah (Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore)
Publisher:   Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc
Imprint:   Academic Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 21.60cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 27.60cm
Weight:   1.270kg
ISBN:  

9780128102022

ISBN 10:   0128102020
Pages:   560
Publication Date:   19 August 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Alcohol Consumption: Overview of International Trends, Pages 98-108, M.G. Monteiro, J. Rehm, B. Taylor, T. Stockwel Alcohol, Integrated Control of, Pages 108-112, S. Casswell Alcohol, The Burden of Disease of, Pages 135-151, J. Rehm, J. Patra, D. Baliunas, S. Popova, M. Roerecke, B. Taylor Alcohol—Socioeconomic Impacts (Including Externalities), Pages 112-116, B. Easton Alcohol—Treatment, Pages 116-124, T.F. Babor Blindness, Pages 318-324, S. Resnikoff, R. Pararajasegaram Brain Tumours, Pages 338-347, R. McKean-Cowdin, P. Razavi, S. Preston-Martin Cerebrovascular Disease, Pages 556-571, V. Feigin, G. Donnan Child Abuse/Treatment, Pages 571-583, A.P. Giardino Child Soldiers, Pages 612-616, J. Pearn Child Witness to Violence, Pages 616-620, M. Augustyn, B. Zuckerman Classification of Mental Disorders: Principles and Concepts, Pages 733-740, T.B. Üstün Cognitive Disorders,, Pages 759-765, L.D. Ravdin Disability and Rehabilitation, Pages 199-203, N.E. Groce Drugs, Illicit – Primary Prevention Strategies, Pages 249-265, F. Faggiano, F. Vigna-Taglianti Effective Alcohol Policy, Pages 303-309, H.D. Holder Elder Abuse, Pages 310-315, L.S. Daichman, S. Aguas, C. Spencer Head Trauma, Pages 122-133, J. Knopman, R. Härtl Health Behavior and Risk Factors, Pages 146-152, K. Glanz, J.E. Stryker Health-Related Stigma and Discrimination, Pages 269-272, R.L. Barrett Hearing Disorders, Pages 273-281, R. Burkard HIV/AIDS of the Central Nervous System, Pages 430-445, S.S. Spudich Illicit Drug Trends Globally, Pages 515-523, P. Griffiths, M. Meacham, R. McKetin Illicit Drug Use and the Burden of Disease, Pages 523-530, W. Hall, L. Degenhardt, N. Sindicich Measurement of Psychiatric and Psychological Disorders and Outcomes in Populations, Pages 261-272, T.S. Brugha, H. Meltzer Meningitis, Bacterial,, Pages 330-334, D. van de Beek, J. de Gans Mental Health and Physical Health (Including HIV/AIDS), Pages 354-364, A. Kagee, M. Freeman Mental Health and Substance Abuse, Pages 365-374, B. Saraceno, M. Funk, V. Poznyak Mental Health Epidemiology (Psychiatric Epidemiology), Pages 374-384, G.S. Norquist, K. Magruder Mental Health Etiology: Biological and Genetic Determinants, Pages 343-350, S.J. Glatt, S.V. Faraone, M.T. Tsuan Mental Health Etiology: Social Determinants, Pages 350-353, A. Cohen, H. Minas Mental Health Policy, Pages 393-406, R. Jenkins Mental Health Promotion, Pages 406-418, H. Herrman, R. Moodie, S. Saxena Mental Health Resources and Services, Pages 418-430, S. Saxena, P. Sharan Mental Health, Morbidity and Impact, Pages 384-393, O. Gureje, B. Oladeji Mental Illness, Historical Views of, Pages 431-434, D. Pilgrim Metabolic Myopathies, Pages 450-457, M. Tarnopolsky Migraine, Pages 458-462, A. May Multiple Sclerosis, Pages 470-482, C.M. Poser Muscular Dystrophies, Pages 486-496, M. Astejada, M.C. Malicdan, I. Nishino Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Pages 512-521, E. Klimkeit, N. Rinehart, J. Bradshaw Parkinson's Disease, Pages 10-17, A.D. Korczyn Rabies, Pages 463-470, H. Wilde, S. Wacharapluesadee, T. Hemachudha, V. Tepsumethanon Seizure Disorders, Pages 674-680, S.C. Schachter Socio-Cultural Context of Substance Use/Abuse (Alcohol/Drugs/Tobacco), Pages 119-128, D.B. Heath Specific Mental Health Disorders: Child and Adolescent Mental Disorders, Pages 147-154, A.J. Flisher, S. Hatherill, Y. Dhansay Specific Mental Health Disorders: Depressive and Anxiety Disorders, Pages 154-169, I.B. Hickie Specific Mental Health Disorders: Eating Disorders, Pages 169-174, S.S. Delinsky, J. Derenne, A.E. Becker Specific Mental Health Disorders: Mental Disorders Associated with Aging, Pages 174-182, I. Skoog Specific Mental Health Disorders: Personality Disorders, Pages 182-187, M.J. Crawford Specific Mental Health Disorders: Psychotic Disorders, Pages 187-196, R. Thara, M. Taj, S. Tirupati Specific Mental Health Disorders: Trauma and Mental Disorders, Pages 196-201, D. Silove, A. Nickerson, R.A. Bryant Stigma of Mental Illness, Pages 219-230, L.H. Yang, S.H. Cho, A. Kleinman Stress and (Public) Health, Pages 241-250, U. Lundberg Suicide and Self-Directed Violence, Pages 267-275, D. De Leo, K. Krysinska The Alcohol Industry, Pages 124-135, L. Hill The Control and Regulation of Currently Illegal Drugs, Pages 7-16, J.A. Buxton, M. Haden, R.G. Mathias The Regulation of Drugs and Drug Use: Public Health and Law Enforcement, Pages 501-505, C.L. Fry, S. Cvetkovski Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies, Pages 358-364, E.D. Belay Women's Mental Health, Pages 608-617, P.S. Chandra, V.N.G.P. Raghunandan, V.A.S. Krishna Young People and Violence, Pages 675-684, I. Wagman Borowsky, R. Widome, M.D. Resnick

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Stella Quah (Ph.D) is Adjunct Professor, Health Services and Systems Research Program, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, National University of Singapore. Her previous appointment was as Professor of Sociology at the National University of Singapore where she started her long academic career in 1972, initially at the Department of Community Medicine and Public Health and later on at the Department of Sociology. She was a Fulbright-Hays scholar from 1969 to 1971. Her research and professional activities include sabbaticals as Research Associate and Visiting Scholar at the Institute of Governmental Studies, University of California Berkeley (1986–87); the Center for International Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Department of Sociology at Harvard University (1993–94); the Harvard-Yenching Institute, Harvard University (1997); the Stanford Program in International Legal Studies, Stanford University (1997); the National Centre for Development Studies, Australian National University (2002); and the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University (2006). She was elected Chairperson of the Research Committee on Health Sociology of the International Sociological Association (ISA) for the session 1990-1994; Vice-President for Research of ISA and Chairperson of the ISA Research Council for the session 1994-1998; and served as Associate Editor of International Sociology (1998–2004). As part of her current professional activities, Stella Quah serves in institutional review boards; and is member of international Editorial and Advisory Boards of several referee journals including the British Journal of Sociology and Sociology of Health and Illness. She has published extensively on health sociology, public policy and family sociology including the International Handbook of Sociology (London: Sage, 2000) edited with A. Sales and Families in Asia: Home and Kin (London: Routledge, 2008);. Among her publications on health sociology are “Crisis Prevention and Management during SARS Outbreak, Singapore”, Emerging Infectious Diseases, 10, 2: 364–368, 2004, with HP Lee; “Traditional Healing Systems and the Ethos of Science,” Social Science and Medicine, 57, 10:1997–2012, 2003; Crisis Preparedness: Asia and the Global Governance of Epidemics, ed. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Shorenstein APARC & Brookings Institution, 2007); “Public image and governance of epidemics: Comparing HIV/AIDS and SARS,” Health Policy, 80, 253–272, 2007; “Health and culture” in The New Blackwell Companion to Medical Sociology (edited by W.C. Cockerham, 2010); and “Gender and the burden of disease in ten Asian countries”, Asia-Europe Journal, 8, 499-512, 2011.

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