Books in the Challenges in Public Health series

A comprehensive update on the developments of the epidemiology of malaria and of existing strategies and tools for malaria control and elimination in Africa, which is discussed in the context of the long global history of malaria control.

This book analytes the patterns of and factors associated with health seeking behavior and out-of-pocket (OOP) spending on chronic non-communicable diseases (CNCDs) in rural Malawi. This study found that, in spite of a context where care for CNCDs should be free, the utilization rates of CNCD care are still low and OOP payments is rather high.

Using the example of the Revised Illness Perception Questionnaire (IPQ-R), the authors demonstrate that instruments known to be valid and reliable in source populations may lead to biased results when applied to migrant populations.

An overview and methodological discussion of migration-sensitive cancer registration in selected European countries. It describes the situation on the European level by means of five country reports. It examines the ideas of developing common indicators, standardizing data collection procedures and enhancing networking throughout Europe.

The comprehensive analytical framework of equivalence developed in this study allows to examine psychometrically relevant population differences. It can assist in the re-adaptation of questionnaires and it is a valuable tool for cross-group comparative research.

This book presents a scientific investigation into the practical implementation of China's national Schistosomiasis control strategy at grass root level. It focuses on human resources for control efforts and on the performance of serological tests for case detection for effective Schistosomiasis japonica surveillance.