Gary L. Albrecht, PhD, Professor, Health Policy and Administration Division, and Susan C. Scrimshaw, Dean, School of Public Health
Gary L. Albrecht, Ray Fitzpatrick, and Susan C. Scrimshaw (editors), The Handbook of Social Studies in Health and Medicine, Sage Publications (1999).
This thirty-two chapter handbook is the result of a large five-year international collaborative effort designed to examine the contributions of cutting-edge behavioral science as it is focused on health and medicine and to look over the horizon at what work remains to be done. Members of the International Editorial Advisory Board and authors represent the current thinking of top international scholars from the United Kingdom, the Continent, Australia, the United States, and Canada. Other contributors associated with the School of Public Health include Thomas R. Prohaska, PhD, Karen E. Peters, DrPH, Jan Warren, MBA, and Sharla K. Willis, DrPH.

Kendon J. Conrad, PhD, Professor, Health Policy and Administration Division
K. J. Conrad, M. Matters, P. Hanrahan, D. Luchins (editors), Homelessness Prevention in Treatment of Substance Abuse and Mental Illness, The Haworth Press, Inc. (1999).
Homelessness continues to be a vexing American problem that is not amenable to traditional treatment. Homelessness Prevention is very unusual while being very useful since it brings together the most recent currents of thought on homelessness prevention with the insights and detailed experience of those who know the practical issues well.

Arden Handler, DrPH, Associate Professor, and Colleen Monahan, DC, MPH, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Community Health Sciences Division
Arden Handler, DrPH, Deborah Rosenberg, PhD, Colleen Monahan, DC, MPH, and Joan Kennelly, RN, MPH (editors), Analytic Methods in Maternal and Child Health, Health Resources and Services Administration, Maternal and Child Health Bureau (1999).
This workbook is an outgrowth of a Maternal and Child Health Bureau-funded training program held at the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health designed to enhance the analytic skills of maternal and child health professionals in state health agencies. The workbook is designed as a self-instructional manual and incorporates many of the modules from the training program. Book modules include: biostatistics; epidemiology; methods for summarizing data; methods for analyzing trend data; target population estimation; and use of census data in maternal and child health.

Judith A. Levy, PhD, Associate Professor, Health Policy and Administration Division
Judith A. Levy, Richard C. Stephens, and Duane C. McBride (editors), Emergent_Issues in the Field of Drug Abuse, Advances in Medical Sociology (Volume 7), JAI Press (in press).
Drawing upon sociological theory and methods, this edited volume consists of sixteen original papers that focus on the medical and health aspects of abusing illicit substances. Contributions by major scholars in the study of drug abuse examine six major themes: initiation and progression into drug-abuse; correlates of treatment success and outcome; the role of belief systems in recovery; HIV prevention models and experiences; community involvement; and research challenges.

Paul S. Levy, ScD, professor, Epidemiology and Biostatistics Division
Section editor for "Design of Experiments and Sample Surveys" in the Encyclopedia of Biostatistics, Peter Armitage and Theodore Colton (editors), John Wiley & Sons (1998).
The encyclopedia is in six volumes and contains over 1,400 expository articles on statistical, epidemiological, and general public health topics as well as biographies of biostatistical and epidemiological leaders. Other contributors to this section associated with the School of Public Health include Robert J. Anderson, PhD, Karen Blesch, PhD, Melinda Drum, PhD, Sally A. Freels, PhD, Sylvia E. Furner, PhD, Bingchang Hu, PhD, MPH, Timothy P. Johnson, PhD, Borko Jovanovic, PhD, Howard Kravitz, MPH, Frederick J. Kviz, PhD, Viswanathan Ramakrishnan, PhD, Laura Schieve, PhD, Richard B. Warnecke, PhD, and Jason Xia, PhD.

Ross Mullner, PhD, Associate Professor, Health Policy and Administration Division
Ross Mullner, Deadly Glow: The Radium Dial Worker Tragedy, American Public Health Association (November 1999).
A classic story within public health and one of the few histories ever published by APHA, this is the story of the radium dial workers in Orange, New Jersey, Waterbury, Connecticut, and Ottawa, Illinois. Based on their exposure to radium during the 1920s, exposure standards were established for the new element plutonium. During the Cold War, the former workers were studied extensively because of above-ground nuclear testing and the resulting radioactive fallout.

Babette J. Neuberger, JD, MPH, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Assistant Professor, and Tom Christoffel, JD, former Professor, Health Policy and Administration Division
Babette J. Neuberger, JD, MPH, and Tom Christoffel, JD, The Legal Basis of Public Health: A Training Manual, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Association of Schools of Public Health (distributed through the Public Health Foundation, Spring 1999).
Laws and regulations permeate the work of public health professionals, yet members of the public health workforce rarely have the opportunity for legal training. Written for practitioners in state, county, and local health agencies, The Legal Basis of Public Health seeks to demystify the law. The manual describes general legal principles and offers practice tips and problem sets which can be studied by groups or individuals. The authors also suggest ways to augment the material with pertinent local and state rules. Practitioners may register with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and earn professional continuing education credit by completing components of the training program relevant to their work.

Thomas R. Prohaska, PhD, Director and Professor, Community Health Sciences DIvision, and co-director, Center for Research on Health and Aging Health Research and Policy Centers
The CHIME Exercise Manual is a step-by-step guide for individuals and organizations interested in starting a community-based health promotion program for older adults. The manual is based on the popular CHIME exercise program developed by the Center for Health Interventions with Minority Elderly, part of the School of Public Health at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and run at various churches throughout Chicago. The manual includes detailed information on setting up the exercise program, teaching the exercises, fitness testing, strategies to motivate people in the program, and how to keep the program up and running. The CHIME Manual is available for just $10. For copies, contact:
Thomas R. Prohaska
University of Illinois at Chicago
School of Public Health (MC 923)
2035 West Taylor Street
Chicago, IL 60612
(312) 996-6344
email: Prohaska@uic.edu