Health category: 185398 books
by Will Shelton
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
This book examines current diets to help you make decisions about your eating style as well as taking a look at sleep patterns in association with our overall health. Health and physical education warrant a bigger role in our children’s overall health and well-being. One of the chapters is entitled:...
Global Health and Security
Critical Feminist Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
The past decade has witnessed a significant increase in the construction of health as a security issue by national governments and multilateral organizations. This book provides the first critical, feminist analysis of the flesh-and-blood impacts of the securitization of health on different bodies,...
Rethinking Health Promotion
A Global Approach
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
In today's world 'health' means far more than merely the absence of illness. In Rethinking Health Promotion Theodore H. MacDonald sweeps away the confusion surrounding the function and position of health promotion. He argues that, far from being a modern innovation, health promotion has existed as...
From Justice to Protection
A Proposal for Public Health Bioethics
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2011
In most developed countries, the epidemiological disease profile has changed from infectious to degenerative, causing major alterations in epidemiological thinking and public health policies. Less developed nations have to deal with a more complex situation, because social disparities create highly...
School Health Services in India
The Social and Economic Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2009
While the contribution of education to health has gained recognition, the reciprocal relationship between health and education and its outcomes have not been adequately studied. This work broadens the perspective on school health in India by locating it within the epidemiological and socio-economic...
Community-Based Programs and Policies
Contributions to Social Policy Development in Health Care and Health Care-Related Services
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
This collection is focused on the provision of community-based programs and activities in health and related long-term care services that have contributed, or may in the future contribute, to social policy development.
Several of the articles in this collection deal with community-based health...
Clinical Risk Management
An introductory text for mental health professionals
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2011
An essential primer for mental health professionals, written with an emphasis on patient care
Straightforward and accessible, Clinical Risk Management: An introductory text for mental health clinicians is an essential resource for anyone working in the mental health field in Australia.
The...
Culture and Health Disparities
Evaluation of Interventions and Outcomes in the U.S.-Mexico Border Region
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2014
The sister cities of the southwestern United States border are challenged by widespread environmental and health issues and limited access to help. And while different initiatives have been set up to improve health outcomes and lessen inequities in the border region, evaluation data are scarce.
Culture...
Health Insurance That Pays!
Get Healthier, Stay Stronger, Feel Younger
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2014
"You are what you eat AND what you don't eat!" Everything you put onto or into your body becomes a part of you in some way. Most health concerns arise from nutrient deficiencies or accumulation of toxins. The good news is the body renews itself constantly. Created in a miraculous way, if...
Achieving Respiratory Health Equality
A United States Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
Including comprehensive coverage of health disparities commonly encountered in pediatric and adult pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine, Achieving Respiratory Health Equality in the United States provides a definitive reference on this prominent issue. Expert authors explore questions such...
by Angela Clow, Sarah Edmunds
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
With contributions from internationally renowned experts, Physical Activity and Mental Health presents research illustrating how the use of physical activity can enhance well-being and reduce the impact of potentially debilitating mental health conditions. Written for students, researchers, and professionals...
SUPRAMEDICINE
From Health Outcomes to Outcome Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
Over the years from 1985 to 1997, there were significant developments in the Health Outcomes movement, as well as in science with the development of “Systems Theory”.Systems Theory became modern science by 1997 and was now no longer viewing nature as separate objects or things, but as a hierarchy...
by H A Waldron
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Occupational Health Practice, Third Edition is a comprehensive account of the practice of protecting and improving health in the workplace. Topics covered by this book include pre-placement screening; principles of toxicology; the mental health of people at work; and thermal stresses in occupations....
by Stephen Simac
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2014
"Stephen Simac puts his finger on the pulse of American medicine and on its wallet and finds huge destruction in the mismatch. Save Trillions is a rational fix for a troubled system."
Dr. Walter Bortz, author of Next Medicine: the Science and Civics of Health
former Professor of Medicine...