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  • Why Health?

    What We Need to Think About When We Think About Health

    by Sandro Galea ...
    A deeply reflective and urgently argued book that asks a deceptively simple question: why do we, as individuals and societies, pursue health--and what does that pursuit say about who we are? The pandemic exposed challenges to our collective approach to health. Now, more than ever, it is important to connect with the core values that define public health and to do so in a way that is useful to ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

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  • Well

    What We Need to Talk About When We Talk About Health

    by Sandro Galea ...
    "A deeply affecting work from one of the important and innovative voices in American health and medicine." -- Arianna Huffington In Well, physician Sandro Galea examines what Americans miss when they fixate on healthcare: health. Americans spend more money on health than people anywhere else in the world. And what do they get for it? Statistically, not much. Americans today live shorter, less ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Well

    What We Need to Talk About When We Talk About Health

    by Sandro Galea ...
    "A deeply affecting work from one of the important and innovative voices in American health and medicine." -- Arianna Huffington In Well, physician Sandro Galea examines what Americans miss when they fixate on healthcare: health. Americans spend more money on health than people anywhere else in the world. And what do they get for it? Statistically, not much. Americans today live shorter, less ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Within Reason

    A Liberal Public Health for an Illiberal Time

    by Sandro Galea ...
    A provocative chronicle of how US public health has strayed from its liberal roots.The Covid-19 response was a crucible of politics and public health—a volatile combination that produced predictably bad results. As scientific expertise became entangled with political motivations, the public-health establishment found itself mired in political encampment.It was, as Sandro Galea argues, a crisis of ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Contagion Next Time

    by Sandro Galea ...
    How can we create a healthier world and prevent the crisis next time? In a few short months, COVID-19 devastated the world and, in particular, the United States. It infected millions, killed hundreds of thousands, and effectively made the earth stand still. Yet America was already in poor health before COVID-19 appeared. Racism, marginalization, socioeconomic inequality--our failure to address ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Teaching Public Health

    Edited by Lisa M. Sullivan, Sandro Galea ...
    A comprehensive collection of best practices in public health education.In an era shaped by the seismic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and politically derived challenges, the second volume of Teaching Public Health offers a timely and essential contribution to the evolving field of public health education. Building on the success of its predecessor, editors Lisa M. Sullivan and Sandro Galea ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • The Turning Point

    Reflections on a Pandemic

    by Sandro Galea, Michael D. Stein ...
    In the early years of COVID-19, Americans witnessed the intersection of a global pandemic, an economic collapse, and civil unrest that galvanized the country and the world and ushered in an era of unprecedented disruption. Three years later, we can begin to reflect on the experience of the pandemic and ask ourselves how the lessons of that experience can inform a healthier present and future. The ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Public Health

    An Introduction to the Science and Practice of Population Health

    by James M. Shultz, PhD, MS, Lisa M. Sullivan, PhD, MA, Sandro Galea, MD, MPH, DrPH ...
    Now in its second edition, Public Health: An Introduction to the Science and Practice of Population Health  is expanded in both scope and depth of content to better aid students who are launching their public health studies and preparing for professions in the field. This edition features a greater emphasis on the social determinants of health, health equity, prevention of disease and disability, ... Read more

    $85.99 USD

  • Population Health Science

    by Katherine M. Keyes, Sandro Galea ...
    POPULATION HEALTH SCIENCE formalizes an emerging discipline at the crossroads of social and medical sciences, demography, and economics--an emerging approach to population studies that represents a seismic shift in how traditional health sciences measure and observe health events. Bringing together theories and methods from diverse fields, this text provides grounding in the factors that shape ... Read more

    $59.39 USD

  • Epidemiology Matters

    A New Introduction to Methodological Foundations

    by Katherine M. Keyes, Sandro Galea ...
    Epidemiology Matters offers a new approach to understanding and identifying the causes of disease -- and with it, how to prevent disease and improve human health. Utilizing visual explanations and examples, this text provides an accessible, step-by-step introduction to the fundamentals of epidemiologic study, from design to analysis. Across fourteen chapters, Epidemiology Matters teaches the ... Read more

    $63.89 USD

  • The Commercial Determinants of Health

    Edited by Nason Maani, Mark Petticrew, Sandro Galea ...
    An accessible multidisciplinary overview for anyone seeking to understand the commercial determinants of health Our health is largely shaped by the world around us—by the conditions in which we grow, work, and live. These conditions include the commercial determinants of health, the private sector activities which influence our physical and social environments, our available evidence and solutions ... Read more

    $51.29 USD

  • Migration and Health

    Edited by Sandro Galea, Catherine K. Ettman, Muhammad H. Zaman ...
    A new introduction to a timeless dynamic: how the movement of humans affects health everywhere.International migrants compose more than three percent of the world’s population, and internal migrants—those migrating within countries—are more than triple that number. Population migration has long been, and remains today, one of the central demographic shifts shaping the world around us. The world’s ... Read more

    $26.99 USD