Public health organizations continue to transform the health of individuals and communities; informatics is critical to the success of this work. Public health organizations cannot function without data and information when making decisions about health policies, responding to emerging health threats, and preventing disease through community interventions. This 3rd edition of Public Health…
We wish to express our gratitude to various institutions and individuals who supported us in the writing of this book. The Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Taiwanese National Council of Science generously made a travel exchange award available in 2010 for Lu to travel from Kaohsiung to Glasgow to discuss the early stages of the project. In the later stages, a Start-Up Research Grant from…
This dynamic series builds on the population and development paradigms of recent decades and provides an authoritative platform for the analysis of empirical results that map new territory in this highly active field. Its constituent volumes are set in the context of unprecedented demographic changes in both the developed—and developing—world, changes that include startling urbanization…
Psychiatric disorders during pregnancy and the postpartum period are common, underappreciated, and underdiagnosed maladies that affect many women at a time of their lives that they have long anticipated would be perhaps the happiest. These disorders rob both the woman and her child of the opportunity to enjoy and appreciate some of the most warm, comforting,
In modern times, improvements in knowledge and technological advances have greatly improved the health of mother and children. However, the past decade was marked by limited progress in reducing maternal mortality and a slow-down in the steady decline of childhood mortality observed since the mid 1950s in many countries, the latter being largely due to a failure to reduce neonatal mortality.
Preface The chapters in this book appeared originally as articles in the British Medical Journal and were welcomed by practitioners. The articles were retuned for publication as a book, the first edition appearing in 1992. Demand asked for more and so the book was updated for a second, a third and now a fourth edition in 2002. Antenatal care has evolved from a philanthropic service for mo…