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The fascinating stories of public health innovators who overcame immense obstacles to improve the health of millions.In the nineteenth century, the scourge of deadly infectious diseases permanently receded for the first time in human history. This progress was due in large part to advances in the public health field, including improved sanitation and cleaner water. Progress in health and longevity continued through the twentieth century, again...

This volume helps readers understand the intuitive logic behind logistic regression through nontechnical language and simple examples.

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In the last 35 years, declining deaths from heart disease have translated into 13 million lives saved and extended. Medical treatments and lifestyle changes have dealt successfully with the serious heart problems of Vice President Richard Cheney, talk show host David Letterman, Disney/ABC CEO Michael Eisner, and countless other less famous people. In the past, those with serious heart disease would have died young, but today can live long and ...

Tables and FiguresPrefacePART I. THE INSTITUTIONAL CONTEXT OF POPULATION CHANGE1. The Demographic Consequences of Changing Cohort Size and Female Work2. Sociopolitical Sources of Demographic DivergencePART II. FERTILITY3. Contextual Variation in the Determinants of Fertility4. Relative Cohort Size and the Total Fertility Rate5. Female Labor Force Participation and the Total Fertility RatePART III. MORTALITY6. Cohort Size and Suicide and Homici...

The practice of racial profiling by police

Fred C Pampel describes how age combines with other components of inequality by comparing the influence of group membership on social inequality before and after the life course transition to old age. He looks at the differences in public policy and how age inequality - more than the other sources of inequality - relates closely to government policies and studies other societies in which both age group differences and overall inequality differ...

This analysis of the growth of welfare spending examines the relative impact of class and status groups versus demographic composition and political structures.

Beyond the news headlines, disasters have prompted the restructuring of the US government, namely the formation of the Department of Homeland Security and the reorganization of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). This title explores the issue of natural and human-made disasters and the nation's response to them.

Provides information on the important issue of food safety. This resource acts as a useful reference for students, teachers, health officials, and general readers who are interested in the safety of our food supply. It also includes a chronology, a glossary, a guide to further research, an annotated bibliography, appendixes, and an index.

Rights of the Elderly provides an overview of the history of this timely topic and the opinions surrounding it--from the Social Security Act of 1935 to the current activism of groups such as AARP and the Gray Panthers. Examining recent court cases such as Kathi Cooper et al. v. IBM Personal Pension Plan and IBM Corporation and documents such as The Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, this new volume provides multiple perspectives and...

Is the tobacco industry responsible for the harm caused by smoking? Should the government regulate tobacco as much as it regulates other drugs? Do tobacco ads manipulate consumers particularly those at young ages into adopting a harmful product? Tobacco Industry and Smoking, Revised Edition addresses these serious and controversial questions as well as many others that pertain to smoking in the United States. Featuring up-to-date legal and his...

Despite their role in founding and defining the discipline of sociology, the field's classical theorists typically receive only cursory attention in standard introductory texts. Written specifically for undergraduate students, the supplemental text, Fred Pampel's "Sociological Lives and Ideas" brings to life the fundamental ideas of Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, Georg Simmel, and George H. Mead by placing them in the context of each th...

Despite their role in founding and defining the discipline of sociology, the field's classical theorists typically receive only cursory attention in standard introductory texts. Written specifically for undergraduate students, this supplemental text, Fred Pampel's "Sociological Lives and Ideas" brings to life the fundamental ideas of Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, Georg Simmel, George H. Mead, and W.E.B. DuBois by placing them in the co...