New book spotlight: LGBT resources

The Matas Library has recently purchased resources to assist medical and public health students working with the LGBT community. Our new materials:

Queer: The Ultimate LGBT Guide for Teens (Call Number: WA 300 B4114q 2011)

Dignity for All: Safeguarding LGBT Students (Call Number: WA 300 D517 2012)

The Lives of LGBT Older Adults: Understanding Challenges and Resilience (Call Number: WA 300 L758 2015)

Finding Out: An Introduction to LGBT Studies (Call Number: WA 300 F492.2 2014)

These books are currently located in the new book truck in the Commons area of the library.

New book spotlight: WHO Global Tuberculosis Report 2013

Added to the Matas library collection in August, the World Health Organization's Global Tuberculosis Report 2013 provides a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of the TB epidemic and progress in implementing and financing TB prevention, care and control at global, regional and country levels using data reported by 197 countries and territories that account for over 99% of the world's TB cases.

Contents include:

• The burden of disease caused by TB
• TB case notifications and treatment outcomes
• Drug-resistant TB
• Diagnostics and laboratory strengthening
• Addressing the co-epidemics of TB and HIV
• Financing
• Research and developing

Annexes also include information on the methods used to estimate the global burden of disease caused by TB, country profiles, regional profiles, and key indicators for the world, WHO regions and individual countries.

Call number: WF 300 G562 2013

This item is currently located in the new book truck across from the copier.

New book spotlight: Handbook on health inequality monitoring: With a special focus on low- and middle-income countries

Added to the Matas library collection in December, the Handbook on health inequality monitoring: with a special focus on low- and middle-income countries is a user-friendly resource, developed to help countries establish and strengthen health inequality monitoring practices.

While the handbook was principally designed to be used by the technical staff of ministries of health to build capacity for health inequality monitoring in WHO member states, the handbook may also be of interest to public health professionals, researchers, and students.

One important feature throughout this handbook is the use of real examples from low- and middle-income country settings to explain and apply the main concepts. The examples primarily come from the field of reproductive, maternal, and child health.

This handbook was created so that individuals can become familiar with the steps of health inequality monitoring, and better interpret the vast literature available on the subject. In the text, you will find supplementary material alongside explanations of theoretical concepts to help familiarize you with the application and relevance of those theoretical concepts within low- and middle-income countries.

Call Number: WA 300 H19134 2013

Link to .pdf: http://www.searo.who.int/bangladesh/publications/handboolk_inequality_1.pdf

New book spotlight: State and Metropolitan Area Data Book 2013

Added to the Matas library collection in December, the State and Metropolitan Area Data Book 2013 is a convenient summary of statistics on the social and economic structure of the states, metropolitan areas, and micropolitan areas in the United States.

Statistical data is divided into four parts:

• Part A. States
• Part B. Metropolitan areas and metropolitan divisions
• Part C. Metropolitan areas and metropolitan divisions with their component counties
• Part D. Micropolitan areas with their component counties

This book is designed to serve as a statistical reference and guide to other data publications and sources. All data have been updated to the most recent available year.

The State and Metropolitan Area Data Book 2013 is available on the new books rack in the Matas Commons area.

Call Number: HA 202 St797g 2013

New book spotlight: Promoting Access to Medical Technologies and Innovation

Added to the Matas library collection in December, Promoting Access to Medical Technologies and Innovation: Intersections between public health, intellectual property and trade is a study from the World Health Organization (WHO), World Trade Organization (WTO), and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).

This study was prepared as a capacity-building resource for policy-makers. The contents mirror the evolution of multilateral policy debate over the past decade, recognizing that innovation and access are inevitably intertwined.

The contents of the study are broken up into four chapters:

1. Medical technologies: the fundamentals
2. The policy context for action on innovation and access
3. Medical technologies: the innovation dimension
4. Medical technologies: the access dimension

This book is currently on the new books rack in the Matas Commons area.

Call Number: W 82 W92711p 2013

The full publication is also available for download from the WTO website at http://www.wto.org/english/res_e/publications_e/who-wipo-wto_2013_e.htm.

New book spotlight: World Health Statistics 2013

Looking for current information on world health statistics? Check out World Health Statistics 2013, a WHO publication added to the Matas collection in December 2013.

The statistical information in this book is divided into three sections: Part I. focuses on health-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Part II. gives information on topics highlighted by the WHO, and Part III. displays charts with data about the following global health indicators:

• Life expectancy and mortality
• Cause-specific mortality and morbidity
• Selected infectious diseases
• Health service coverage
• Risk factors
• Health systems
• Health expenditure
• Health inequalities
• Demographic and socioeconomic statistics

Check out this book, and other new additions to our collection, on the New Books book cart in the Commons area of the library.

New book spotlight: Management of Severe Malaria: A Practical Handbook

Added to the Matas library collection in December 2013, Management of Severe Malaria: A Practical Handbook is a publication of the World Health Organization that aims to assist health care practitioners in the treatment of severe and complicated malaria.

Included in this handbook are guidelines for treating severe and complicated malaria. These guidelines are broken down into 7 sections:

• Diagnosis
• General Management and Nursin
• Children
• Adults
• Pregnancy
• Prognostic Indicators
• Common Errors

Also included are 9 annexes with the following information:

• Selected further readings
• Members of the review committee for the handbook
• Performing and interpreting rapid diagnostic tests
• Notes on antimalarial drugs
• Coma scales
• Setting up an intra-osseous infusion for children
• Measuring jugular venous pressure
• Peritoneal dialysis
• Calculating volumes of maintenance fluids and blood transfusions 

Check out this book, and other new additions to our collection, on the  New Books book cart in the Commons area of the library.

New Book: "Out of the Shadow of Leprosy: The Carville Letters and Stories of the Landry Family"

Added to the Matas Library collection this past June, Out of the Shadow of Leprosy: The Carville Letters and Stories of the Landry Family tells the story of members of the Landry family and their time spent at the leprosarium in Carville, LA in the early part of the 20th century.

In 1986, the Carville site was renamed the Gillis W. Long Hansen's Disease (Leprosy) Center, and was moved to Baton Rouge in the 1990s. In 1996, the National Hansen's Disease (Leprosy) Museum was founded in Carville.

Check out this book to learn more about the lives of individuals who lived at Carville.

New Book: Handbook of Clinical Neurology, 3rd series: Neuroparasitology and Tropical Neurology

Here at the Matas Library, we are continually expanding our collection. One of our new titles for the month of October is the Handbook of Clinical Neurology, 3rd series: Neuroparasitology and Tropical Neurology.

Check out this and our other new titles on the book truck in the Matas Commons area.