Global Health

Trauma is a fact of life. Veterans and their families deal with the painful aftermath of combat; one in five Americans has been molested; one in four grew up with alcoholics; one in three couples have engaged in physical violence. Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, one of the world’s foremost experts on trauma, has spent more than three decades working with survivors. In The Body Keeps the Score, he uses recent scientific advances to show how trauma literally reshapes both body and brain, compromising sufferers’ capacities for pleasure, engagement, self-control, and trust.

In this "meticulously researched" account (New York Times Book Review), a Pulitzer Prize-winning author examines the dangers of a failing public health system unequipped to handle large-scale global risks like a coronavirus pandemic.

The Real Anthony Fauci details how Fauci, Gates, and their cohorts use their control of media outlets, scientific journals, key government and quasi-governmental agencies, global intelligence agencies, and influential scientists and physicians to flood the public with fearful propaganda about COVID-19 virulence and pathogenesis, and to muzzle debate and ruthlessly censor dissent.

By 2030, the world will be short of approximately 15 million health workers - a fifth of the workforce needed to keep healthcare systems going. Global healthcare leader and award-winning author, Dr. Mark Britnell, uses his unique insights from advising governments, executives, and clinicians in more than 70 countries to present solutions to this impending crisis.

In Change Is Possible, public health legend William H. Foege and five coauthors chronicle the failures and successes of global health through the modern age, including the massive impacts of colonialism, religious groups, philanthropies, politics, NGOs, and more. Foege, who has served in local, national, and international public health contexts is uniquely qualified to reflect on the history of global health. He and his Rollins School of Public Health coauthors explain why colonialism has been the greatest disaster for global health, whereas military medicine may have been its greatest asset.

On June 5, 1981, the scientific community received a wake-up call from the CDC in the form of a terrible new illness that the world would soon know as AIDS. Three decades later, remarkable progress has been made, but much more remains to be understood and to be done. In this audiobook, we explore where the disease came from, how it works, how it spreads, the search for a vaccine, and cultural and sociological factors.

Plongez dans les complexités de la santé mentale des jeunes. Cet ouvrage couvre un large éventail de sujets, des nuances du développement neuropsychologique aux dernières avancées dans le traitement des troubles anxieux et dépressifs chez les jeunes. Approfondissez les fondements théoriques et pratiques de la psychiatrie infanto-juvénile, avec une approche complète et didactique.Découvrez des stratégies innovantes pour l'évaluation diagnostique et les interventions thérapeutiques.

Have you spent countless nights with your head spinning in circles, trying to pinpoint the root cause of your health issues, feeling increasingly overwhelmed, confused, and downright scared? You're not alone. Millions are in the same trap. Do you remember the last time you felt good? Instead, you're plagued with fatigue, brain fog, hormonal hell, pain, insomnia, anxiety, or irritable bowel syndrome. Adding to the chaos, unexpected food reactions amplify every symptom. Despite going from doctor to doctor and getting numerous tests, fear and uncertainty escalate.

Are you tired of dealing with unexplained health issues, stubborn weight gain, or mental health issues? Do you feel overwhelmed by conflicting health advice and wonder how to make lasting changes? If you’re ready to discover the true power of your gut and transform your life from the inside out, "The Gut Revolution" is your step-by-step roadmap to understanding and optimizing your gut for a happier, healthier life.

Bowl Full of Health: A Guide to Canine Nutrition and Feeding is your essential resource for understanding what truly fuels your dog’s health and happiness. Part of the Canine Care Chronicles series, this book breaks down the fundamentals of canine nutrition—covering everything from selecting the right food for your dog’s life stage to creating balanced meals that promote their overall well-being.

Big Pharma is more interested in profit than health. This was made clear as governments rushed to produce vaccines during the Covid pandemic. Behind the much-trumpeted scientific breakthroughs, major companies found new ways of gouging billions from governments in the West while abandoning the Global South. But this is only the latest episode in a long history of financializing medicine—from Purdue's rapacious marketing of highly addictive OxyContin through Martin Shkreli's hiking the price of a lifesaving drug to the 4.5 million South Africans needlessly deprived of HIV/AIDS medication.

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Dr. Ann McLannly blames herself for her niece’s tragic death. And after her mother dies, this young doctor volunteers with an international aid organization for a mission in Rwanda. Pressed into a grueling work schedule with limited facilities, she has little time to adjust. Still, she forges relationships with the remarkable people she meets and finds herself drawn into a relationship with a priest, who introduces her to a Catholic orphanage that needs a physician to care for the growing number of orphans.

In this book, you’ll discover the eight dimensions of total “wellness”. Jeremy calls them “The Wellness 8”. Wellness is more than just an absence of physical ailments. We can be physically healthy and still not be “well”. If we are emotionally, socially, or spiritually sick, we are not “well”. When people ask how we are doing, we want to be able to say, “I’m well!” - and mean it in every way. We want to be emotionally, financially, intellectually, socially, and spiritually well, in addition to being physically well.

In this book, veteran constitutional lawyer Jonathan W. Emord explains the intellectual origins of freedom of speech from the Age of Enlightenment to the founding of the American republic. Today, government censorship of health information worldwide relies on the same mechanisms of prior restraint that were used in Europe from the 16th to the 18th centuries.

Approximately 90 percent of caregiving situations at home occur with little or no warning. This book outlines, from the author's experience over a six-year caregiving period, those things that you should consider to ease the stress of caregiving; these include financial planning to afford the cost of in-home private care, estate planning to ensure your heirs receive the maximum value of your estate, the benefits of long-term healthcare insurance, outfitting your home to minimize accidents, and obtaining household support so you can focus your time and efforts on the patient.

Over many decades, "contagion" has been a metaphor of choice for everything from global terrorism, suicide bombings, poverty, immigration, global financial crises, human rights, fast food, obesity, divorce, and homosexuality. Essays examine the language of epidemiology used in the war on terror, the repressive effects of global disease surveillance, and films and novels that enact the perplexities of contagion in a global context.

Unrealized Reality is not just a memoir; it is a witness to the power of truth, the resilience forged through life’s trials, and the beauty that can arise from even the deepest wounds. Stephanie’s story reveals that healing is a journey, not a destination, and that strength is often born from our willingness to face life raw and real, without distortion.

Do you wake up excited to enjoy the day? We all deserve to be happy and live the lives we want. Holistic nurse practitioner Bonnie Groessl reveals a variety of simple steps you can take to achieve better health, happiness, relationships, and abundance. Stress is a challenging part of life, yet we can’t live without it. To experience life is to experience stress. Bonnie describes how stress isn’t so much what happens, but our reaction to it.

Perfect for students, people interested in psychology, and people interested in learning. How does culture affect people’s beliefs about depression and the treatment of depression? That’s the focus of this audiobook as we travel the world exploring how different cultures treat mental health as well as the unique treatment that certain cultures have for depression.