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Featured Reference E-Books
- Encyclopedia of Global Health [electronic resource]
Presents the most important worldwide mental and physical diseases, as well as the industries and services related to their care. Entries describe the health issues and services of an impressively large selection of individual countries. A large percentage of the entries describe specific diseases and each entry concludes with a list of references.
- Encyclopedia of Health and Behavior [electronic resource]
Topics were chosen for their relevance to theories and methods, biopsychosocial interactions and basic behavioral and social processes, epidemiology of risk and protective factors, health promotion and disease prevention, treatment and rehabilitation, and policy and organizational issues.
- Encyclopedia of Social Problems [electronic resource]
Main themes include: aging, community, crime, economics, education, race, social movements, social theory, and substance abuse. Housing, health, poverty, and population are important topics, with individual articles in these areas that include urban decline, life expectancy, living wage, apartheid, and alcoholism. Each of the articles is signed and includes lists of cross-references and of further reading.
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