"Many public health issues date back in history and are still with us to this day. Alcohol and other substance use is just one example of an old problem still with us and when combined with driving in today's world we get a dangerous combination. Public health efforts in this specific area have resulted in some positive developments and trends, but there is still much work to be done. In this book we have gathered recent international public health research not only about alcohol and driving, but also other public health topics from internationally renowned researchers from around the world, which we hope will be of interest to the readers"--
Introduction; Public Health: We Need to Take Responsibility; Reducing
Alcohol-Impaired Driving Deaths in America: Thoughts on Policy
Recommendations; A Review of the Psychosocial Impact of Dental Aesthetics
Questionnaire as a Subjective Diagnostic Instrument in Orthodontics; A Review
of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Diseases among Office Workers; A Review on
Magnetic Resonance Imaging for Detection of Musculoskeletal Disorders; A
Review on Trends in the Treatment of Vulvodynia and Other Chronic Female
Disorders; Primary Health Care for an Indigenous Community in Colombia;
Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis Treatment: Primary Health Care Versus Hospital
Ambulatory Treatment; Patient Experience Between Public Hospital and Private
Hospital in South Sulawesi Province, Indonesia; Prevalence and Associated
Risk Factors of Hypertension Among Adults in South Africa; Sterilization
Preference and Prior Knowledge of Vasectomy: A Study on Married Individuals
in Bali, Indonesia; Dental Anxiety: Older versus Younger People Study in
Nigeria; A Comprehensive Screening Protocol to Identify Incidence of Lower
Back Pain in Military Office Workers; Characteristics of Hospitalized Adults
with Opioid Use Disorder in the United States; Radiofrequency Ablation for
the Treatment of Chronic Lumbar Facet Arthropathy; Low Level Laser Therapy
and Myofascial Pain; Using Smartphone Application to Increase Knowledge and
Breast Self-Examination Practices Among Female Students; Acknowledgements;
About the Editors; About the National Institute of Child Health and Human
Development in Israel; Index.
JJoav Merrick, MD, MMedSci, DMSc Professor of Pediatrics at the Division of Pediatrics, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Mt Scopus Campus, Jerusalem, Israel, Kentucky Childrens Hospital, University of Kentucky, Lexington, United States and Professor of Public Health at the Center for Healthy Development, School of Public Health, Georgia State University, Atlanta, United States, the former Medical Director of the Division for Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Ministry of Social Affairs and Social Services, Jerusalem and the Founder and Director of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development in Israel