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Career Development for Health Professionals - E-Book
Success in School & on the Job
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
Master the skills you need to succeed in the classroom and as a health care professional!Filled with tips and strategies, Career Development for Health Professionals, 4th Edition provides the skills required to achieve four important goals: 1) complete your educational program, 2) think like a health...
Health Care Choices for Today's Consumer
Families Foundation USA Guide to Quality and Cost
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2008
"Admirable . . . clearly written, well organized . . . easy and helpful." --Washington Post
"This is the surefire guide to making critical decisions about your family's health." --Dr. J. Larry Brown, Professor of Nutrition and Health Policy School of Nutrition, Tufts University
"The...
by John Franks
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2015
30 Best Ways to Manifest Your Perfect Health and Wellness You Desire
By the universal Law of Attraction you could have good health and live a better life by focusing on wellness rather than healing because healing is the process of becoming well. Now, if you turn your thoughts towards what you want...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
The rise of globalized business has created a world village wherein ideas and industry transcend national boundaries. Unfortunately, the resulting increase in travel has accelerated the transmission of diseases, generating a surge in worldwide epidemics and increasing the necessity of innovative strategies...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
It is widely recognized that healthy employees are happier and more productive at work. Experiencing stress at work decreases employee’s health and affects their wellbeing. The American Institute of Stress (AIS) estimated that US 300 billion/year are spent on conditions related elevated stress levels....
Reproductive Health and Gender Equality
Method, Measurement, and Implications
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Since the late 1990s approaches to women's reproductive health has shifted from a service-based model to a human rights approach. This approach associates reproductive health with freedom from discrimination and enjoyment of a satisfying and safe sex life, and full access to information and services...
Global Health Watch 4
An Alternative World Health Report
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Global Health Watch, now in its fourth edition, is widely perceived as the definitive voice for an alternative discourse on health and healthcare. It covers a range of issues that currently impact on health, including the present political and economic architecture in a fast-changing and globalized...
New Health Systems
Integrated Care and Health Inequalities Reduction
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
New health systems exist today thanks to the changing nature of diseases as a result of the integration of new technologies and new approaches in care giving and the management of healthcare systems. This book studies the health inequalities in these new health systems, structured according to the...
Paying Out-of-Pocket for Drugs, Diagnostics and Medical Services
A Study of Households in Three Indian States
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
In India there is a high incidence of morbidity and malnutrition coupled with low standards of public health and expensive medical care. Despite several policy initiatives and many attempts to promote a healthy society, health remains an issue of concern. Policy-makers recognise that the...
Person-centred Health Care
Balancing the Welfare of Clinicians and Patients
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Person-centred health care is increasingly endorsed as a key element of high-quality care, yet, in practice, it often means patient-centred health care. This book scrutinizes the principle of primacy of patient welfare, which, although deeply embedded in health professionalism, is long overdue for...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2007
The first of its kind, this book reflects progress in a too-little explored corner of psychiatry to show that gender plays an integral role in mental health issues for men. Textbook of Men's Mental Health provides clinicians with the information they need for understanding how certain disorders manifest...
by Bronwyn Carson, Terry Dunbar, Richard D Chenhall
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
The opportunities and comfortable lifestyle available to most Australians have been denied to generations of Indigenous people. As a result some of Australia's original inhabitants suffer from what has been described as 'Fourth World' standards of health. This is out of place in a country that prides...
by Marcia Egan, Goldie Kadushin
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Make sure your practice skills are up-to-date with the changes brought on by managed care
As a result of escalating costs, the focus of health care in the United States has shifted from inpatient, hospital-based care to outpatient care in the community. Social Work Practice in Community-Based...
Health Promotion
Ideology, Discipline, and Specialism
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
Health Promotion: Ideology, Discipline, and Specialism is a thorough examination of the field, advancing clear proposals for its development and future, and is essential reading for those needing an understanding of the theoretical background, historical context, or the challenges that health promotion...