Mental Health and Disasters

Yuval Neria, Sandro Galea, and Fran H. Norris 

Reviews 

"This book is must reading for anyone involved in planning the mental health response to disasters." -Philip E. Veenhuis, Journal of the American Medical Association 

"...the book has a forward-looking perspective...they identify important gaps in our knowledge and the challenges facing us if we are to address these." -David A. Alexander, The British Journal of Psychiatry

"This book, with 35 chapters by almost 100 experts, provides a comprehensive overview of current thinking and practice in disaster mental health." -Peter Ventevogel, Intervention

Macrosocial Determinants of Population Health

ed. Sandro Galea

Reviews 

"Epidemiologists unfamiliar with these constructs will benefit by careful study of the lucid chapters on climate change, culture, taxation, and mass media." -J. Michael Oakes, American Journal of Epidemiology

Handbook of Urban Health: Populations, Methods, and Practice

edited by Sandro Galea and David Vlahov

Reviews

"...Handbook of Urban Health soundly provides the fundamentals on urban health for a wide audience. It will assist health care practitioners in better understanding the strengths and weaknesses of various types of research methods. For researchers and teachers of public health, it describes the realities of providing health care to diverse populations." -Russ Lopez, Journal of the American Medical Association

"This is an excellent book that could be useful for courses in urban health and as a resource for understanding urban health research, practice, and public policy." -Howard Spivak, The New England Journal of Medicine

"Galea and Vlahov have, in large part, defined the field of urban health..." -Lynne C. Messer and Jay S. Kaufman, American Journal of Epidemiology

"The editors successfully bridge urban health inquiry and public health practice by combining descriptions of issues in urban health, methods used in urban health studies, and examples from practitioners."-Tord Kjellstrom, Environmental Health Perspectives

"This well-written, well-organized edited volume is a fairly comprehensive handbook on both the research methodology and practice of urban health. … This is an excellent reference book for anyone working on or studying urban health, policy or planning." -K. H. Jacobsen, CHOICE 

Methods for Disaster Mental Health Research

edited by Fran H. Norris, Sandro Galea, Matthew J. Friedman, and Patricia J. Watson

 Reviews 

"...this book should be read by mental health professionals who seek clearly written, timely, and authoritative presentations on disaster research methodology." -Frederick J. Stoddard, Psychiatric Services

"This encyclopedic but easy to read volume offers a valuable and much needed resource to investigators attempting to meet the challenge of disaster research." -The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

"The publication of this textbook...is a seminal event in the history of disaster mental health research. It answers the growing awareness of a need for agreed-upon scientific values and articulation of methodologies within the disaster mental health research community, oriented toward the creation of information that can guide the development of programs and policy." -Rebecca P. Smith, PsycCRITIQUES

"...this publication answers the calls in current disaster literature for more research by synthesizing what is known about disaster and providing an effective tool with which this needed research can be conducted." -Andrea C. Walker, Death Studies

Cities and the Health of the Public

edited by Nicholas Freudenberg, Sandro Galea, and David Vlahov

Reviews

"...a significant contribution to furthering urban public practice and research." -Rashiah Elam and Paul Meissner, Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved

"...a book that will be of interest to social scientists but also worth consulting for physicians with practices that involve urban health."
-Amasa B. Ford, New England Journal of Medicine

"...those who are interested in urban health will find it to be a valuable resource." -Russ Lopez, Journal of the American Medical Association

-"...a wonderful synthesis of recent scholarship on urban health from a variety of disciplines...it will become a classic reference text for this rapidly developing field." -Mary Guinan, Preventive Medicine