Mastering Statistical Process Control or Globalization Health and the Environment

Mastering Statistical Process Control: A Handbook for Performance Improvement Using Cases

Author: Tim Stapenhurst

Statistical Process Control (SPC) is a widely used method of measuring and monitoring processes in almost all industrial, business and service settings. Written by a leading expert and based on the experience of blue chip organisations such as Shell, Chevron, Nokia, British Gas, The World Bank and the European Commission, this is the only book that goes beyond the theory of SPC to show how to understand business or process performance more clearly and more effectively in practice. No other SPC text delivers such a practical and applied approach. It enables readers to understand how SPC can be used to maximum effect. Managers, quality professionals, engineers, analysts and students of business and systems engineering at undergraduate and MBA level will find it an invaluable reference.

* Shows how your business, process and profitability can benefit from process management and control
* SPC is widely used and widely misunderstood. This is the only book to take an applications based approach to SPC
* Ideal for managers, process engineers and quality personnel in both manufacturing and service sectors, as well as students of management, statistics, operations research, MBAs and Six Sigma candidates

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Globalization, Health, and the Environment: An Integrated Perspective

Author: Greg Guest

Foremost scholars in the field illustrate the impact of globalization on human health, as it is mediated through environmental change. Through case studies, they examine the bio-cultural nexus of human health and the environment as it is shaped by rapid worldwide change associated with technological development and the expansion of the global economy. This book will be a valuable resource for researchers in the areas of international health, medical anthropology and sociology, ecological or environmental studies, medical geography, and globalization studies.

Table of Contents:

	Foreword
1	Globalization, health, and the environment : an introduction	3
2	Disease globalization in the third epidemiological transition	27
3	Poverty and violence, hunger and health : a political ecology of armed conflict	55
4	Globalization, migration, and indigenous commodification of medicinal plants in Chiapas, Mexico	83
5	Health ecology in Nunavut : Inuit elders' concepts of nutrition, health, and political change	107
6	Globalization, dietary change, and "second hair" illness in two Mesoamerican cultures	133
7	Canadian cases of the public health implications of global environmental and economic change	159
8	Urbanization, land use, and health in Baguio City, Philippines	181
9	Globalization, demography, and nutrition : a Bekaa Bedouin case study	201
10	The political ecology of dengue in Cuba and the Dominican Republic	219
11	International architecture for sustainable development and global health	239