Health category: 185398 books
Health Care Evaluation Using Computer Simulation
Concepts, Methods, and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2012
The purpose of this book is to place computer simulation studies within the paradigm of intervention research that is concerned with comparing the outcomes of health care delivered under different policies. This book presents computer simulation as a tool for testing various policy alternatives that...
The Patient as Agent of Health and Health Care
Autonomy in Patient-Centered Care for Chronic Conditions
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Patient-centered care for chronic illness is founded upon the informed and activated patient, but we are not clear what this means. We must understand patients as subjects who know things and as agents who do things. Bioethics has urged us to respect patient autonomy, but it has understood this autonomy...
by S.K PRASOON, TANUSHREE PODDAR
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Life is not a mathematical equation of do's and don'ts. Rather it is an intricate adjustment of opposing forces of good health and ailments that represent living a life. The road to good health entails living with moderation in habits and attitudes. Now say goodbye to illness and disease; power yourself...
Family Health Social Work Practice
A Knowledge and Skills Casebook
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
A fundamental handbook to the family health model!
Family Health Social Work Practice: A Knowledge and Skills Casebook is a comprehensive guide to an emerging practice paradigm in the social work field. Edited by pioneers of the family health approach (who also contribute several chapters each),...
Health Outcomes in a Foreign Land
A Role for Epigenomic and Environmental Interaction
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
This stimulating volume uses multiple lenses to analyze the complex causes of health disparities affecting minorities, in particular African Americans, and explains how this knowledge can be used to reduce their destructive effects. Pinpointing genetic, non-genetic, and epigenetic factors underlying...
A Consumer's Guide to Mental Health Services
Unveiling the Mysteries and Secrets of Psychotherapy
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
A unique consumer resource for understanding mental health treatment
With over 250 models of counseling and psychotherapy currently used to treat emotional problems and serious mental illness, figuring out where to look for the right services can be a daunting task. A Consumer’s Guide to...
The Infinity Health Manual
The Essentials for Longevity, Weight Loss & the Mind...Simplified.
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2017
The Infinity Health Manual is a motivating, easy-to-read handbook for total health. It’s a lifestyle book, covering diet, nutrition, and exercise, but mental and spiritual health as well. The body responds to a holistic approach to health, and the natural principles in The Infinity Health Manual...
by William A. M. Cutting
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
Face the Future is a four-part book series that addresses topics of special relevance and interest to the over-60s, from a Christian perspective. Balancing practical advice, inspirational stories and a generous dose of humour, William Cutting shows how Seniors can live life to the full, with...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
Carefully selected to reflect the latest research at the interface between public health and criminal justice in the US, these contributions each focus on an aspect of the relationship. How, for example, might a person’s criminal activity adversely affect their health or their risk of exposure to...
Health Care in Rural China
Lessons from HeBei Province
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
This work examines health, defined in its broadest meaning, in rural China today. It explores the current social distribution of health status, health behaviour and health care and the processes by which these came about. By exploring universal questions in the social, historical and political context...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
*"In this book you’ll find a thoughtfully edited chronicle of the unique convergence of genetic, hormonal, social, and environmental forces that influence a woman’s mental health over the course of her life. Both comprehensive and nuanced, Women’s Reproductive Mental Health Across the...
by Mary V. Spiers, Pamela A. Geller, Jacqueline D. Kloss
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2013
Praise for Women's Health Psychology
"Women's Health Psychology provides an important overview and analysis of key issues affecting women's health and well-being ... almost every chapter in this volume touches on the importance of quality of life, not just longevity.... It will serve as a valuable...
by Bruce Wembulua Shinga
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2016
Scientific Essay from the year 2016 in the subject Medicine - Public Health, grade: 27/30, UniNettuno University, language: English, abstract: This paper deals with challenges faced by local health managers in times of economic crisis, since almost nothing in our modern healthcare system is preserved...
Health Policy and Advanced Practice Nursing, Second Edition
Impact and Implications
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
Praise for the First Edition:
"There are many policy books, but none are written by APRNs or focus just on APRN practice…APRNs are at the core, or can be, if they use their practice knowledge and education to shape policy...[The] editors eloquently make the case that policy formation is a...