Health category: 185398 books
Valuing Health
Well-Being, Freedom, and Suffering
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2015
In Valuing Health Daniel M. Hausman provides a philosophically sophisticated overview of generic health measurement that suggests improvements in standard methods and proposes a radical alternative. He shows how to avoid relying on surveys and instead evaluate health states directly. Hausman goes...
The Art of Health Hacking
A Personal Guide to Elevate Your State of Health and Performance, Stress Less, and Build Healthy Habits that Matter
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
"TJ shows us we don't lack the science, information or technology to live healthy, but the art to use these resources properly. Read The Art of Health Hacking to learn how vulnerability, self compassion, and personal health empowerment can put you back in charge of yourself. You'll be glad you...
by Barbara Sassen
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
This book describes the latest advances in health education and patients' self-management, addressing core questions such as: How can you motivate a patient to adopt a healthier lifestyle, and how can you support their self-management? Though there is a broad consensus within the nursing profession...
by Judith Willis
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Have you ever wondered what impact your lifestyle has on your health? Everyone would agree that your health is the most precious thing you have, that you should nourish it the best way you can. After all, without your health, what do you have?
If you are a person who doesn't live on his/her...
by Jon Hendricks
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2019
The debate over national health insurance has renewed attention on the health and health care utilization of the elderly. Few questions have been more poignant than the health of the United States' elderly. As a broad-ranging critical look, "Health and Health Care Utilization in Later Life"...
by Fiona McDonald, Christy Simpson
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2017
This book challenges readers to rethink rural health ethics. Traditional approaches to health ethics are often urban-centric, making implicit assumptions about how values and norms apply in health care practice, and as such may fail to take into account the complexity, depth, richness, and diversity...
Optimum Health
Making Conscious Choices
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
HOW TO MAKE BETTER, MORE CONSCIOUS CHOICES FOR OPTIMUM HEALTH, FROM A BODY-MIND-SOUL HEALTH & FITNESS LEADER...
Many of today’s foods, personal products, technology and household products are harming your health; now, Andrea Switzer reveals numerous easy substitutions, better choices...
Health and Behavior
A Multidisciplinary Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2019
Health and Behavior: A Multidisciplinary Approach recognizes that health is impacted by multiple systems–ranging from the individual to the international. While providing current information in common areas addressed in health psychology such as stress, chronic pain, cigarette smoking and sleep...
by Ping-Chung Leung, Jean Woo, Walter Kofler
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
The fear of death may translate into the desire for longevity. However, longevity is a true blessing only if it is coupled with good health. Healthiness, in today's expectation, is not simply a disease free state. Rather, it is very much a state of wellbeing and competence, both physically and socially....
Clinical Laboratory Science in the Changing Scene of Health Care
Proceedings of the sixth ECCLS Seminar held at Cologne, West Germany, 8th–10th May, 1985
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
List of Contributors ix PART 1 CURRENT CONCEPTS OF HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE 1 A European overview of the health care scene KS Johansen 3 Is there a European concept of health and health care? 2 JGW Wittkiimper 7 3 The effects of health and safety legislation on the practice of clinical laboratory science...
At The Root
My journey to health and healing
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017
At The Root: My journey to health and healing
Is your mouth the root cause of your health problems?
By Kimberly Miles, M.A.
Kim had been an enthusiastic college student, creative, athletic and energetic. That changed in her junior year of college. After the removal of her four...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2018
Policy-makers are increasingly concerned about the impact of climate variability and change on the health of vulnerable populations. Variations and trends in climatic factors and extreme weather events impact many health outcomes, including malaria, heat stress and undernutrition.
Climate...
by Andrew Briggs, Mark Sculpher, Karl Claxton
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2006
In financially constrained health systems across the world, increasing emphasis is being placed on the ability to demonstrate that health care interventions are not only effective, but also cost-effective. This book deals with decision modelling techniques that can be used to estimate the value for...
by Diane Binson, William J Woods
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Explore the impact of AIDS on the gay bathhouse culture
Public health policy on bathhouses has been limited and poorly documented. This book-the first to be published on this timely and important topic-will help you become knowledgeable about gay bathhouses. Unlike most other places where men...