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by Miquel Porta
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2018
A Dictionary of Public Health covers words and phrases used in public health science and practice, including areas such as communicable disease control, epidemiology, health policy, health services research, methods for clinical and epidemiological research, risk assessment and risk management, emergency...
AIDS, Communication, and Empowerment
Gay Male Identity and the Politics of Public Health Messages
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
AIDS, Communication, and Empowerment examines the cultural construction of gay men in light of discourse used in the media’s messages about HIV/AIDS--messages often represented as educational, scientific, and informational but which are, in fact, politically charged. The book offers a compelling...
Breaking out of the Health Care Abyss
Transformational Tips for Agents of Change
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2017
It has become routine to see in various health care magazines, e-mails to leaders, and executive discussions on social media internet outlets, a listing of the ten top challenges that CEOs believe they are facing in the health care industry today. They often call this list the “what is keeping me...
Occupational Health Services
A Practical Approach
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Workers and their families, employers, and society as a whole benefit when providers deliver the best quality of care to injured workers and when they know how to provide effective services for both prevention and fitness for duty and understand why, instead of just following regulations.
Designed...
The Vitality Map
A Guide to Deep Health, Joyful Self-Care, and Resilient Well-Being
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Are you deeply healthy? Not just free of disease or illness, but living with a profound sense of vitality that sustains you as you move through your life? This can be hard to achieve in the midst of life’s competing priorities...whether it’s our families, our careers, our social lives, or our...
Critical Psychiatry and Mental Health
Exploring the work of Suman Fernando in clinical practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
Critical Psychiatry and Mental Health critically explores the current theory and practice of ethno-psychiatry and multicultural mental health practices and policies. Through an in-depth discussion of the work of Suman Fernando, one of the world’s leading scholars and researchers in race, culture...
The Uterine Health Companion
A Holistic Guide to Lifelong Wellness
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2010
The uterus is a remarkable organ—it is our first home, contributes to women’s sexual pleasure, houses some of the strongest muscles in the body, and even helps prevent heart disease and high blood pressure. However, in the West, the uterus has generally been viewed as insignificant beyond reproduction...
Methods for Community Public Health Research
Integrated and Engaged Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
"This book presents a new approach to conducting, evaluating, and presenting community and public health research... This is [a] valuable book for learning alternative ways of conducting and disseminating research."--Doody's Medical Reviews
The Burke & Albert text is a ìmust-haveî...
Spirituality, Health, and Wholeness
An Introductory Guide for Health Care Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Learn to respond effectively and appropriately to spiritual needs in a health care setting
Spirituality, Health, and Wholeness: An Introductory Guide for Health Care Professionals explores the principles of spiritual care as applied to clinical practice. This book focuses specifically on the...
Public Health Perspectives on Disability
Epidemiology to Ethics and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2010
Traditionally, the public health viewpoint on disability was geared toward primary prevention of disabling conditions or events. More recently, with the movement for disability rights and the emergence of disability studies, the challenge to the field has been to promote positive health outcomes in...
Public Health Law Research
Theory and Methods
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2013
Public Health Law Research: Theory and Methods definitively explores the mechanisms, theories and models central to public health law research – a growing field dedicated to measuring and studying law as a central means for advancing public health.
Editors Alexander C. Wagenaar and Scott...
by Elizabeth MacKinlay
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Explore pastoral strategies for dealing with mental health problems!
Mental health is increasingly being recognized as an important issue in later life. This valuable book will help you examine this dimension of aging in the context of pastoral, spiritual, and cultural issues. It explores the...
The Health at Work Guide
The practical guide to managing health at work for managers, employees, Human Resources, Safety Advisers and anyone with a job
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
The Health at Work Guide is a practical and easy to read guide that covers all you need to know about health at work including managing absence, health surveillance, stress, mental ill health and wellness. It de-mystifies the term “occupational health” and common perceptions about ill health...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2002
The reception of Michel Foucault's work in the social sciences and humanities has been phenomenal. Foucault's concepts and methodology have encouraged new approaches to old problems and opened up new lines of enquiry. This book assesses the contribution of Foucault's work to research and thinking...