Health category: 185398 books
A Healthy Society
How a Focus on Health Can Revive Canadian Democracy, Updated and Expanded Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
A Healthy Society, Updated and Expanded Edition, is one doctor’s vision for a new approach to politics – and a new approach to building a healthier world. Drawing on his experiences as a family physician, Dr. Meili argues that health delivery too often focuses on treatment of immediate causes...
by Gavin Mooney
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2009
This book mounts a critique of current health economics and provides a better way of looking at the economics of health and health care. It argues that health economics has been too dominated by the economics of health care and has largely ignored the impact of poverty, inequality, poor housing, and...
Lethal But Legal
Corporations, Consumption, and Protecting Public Health
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
Decisions made by the food, tobacco, alcohol, pharmaceutical, gun, and automobile industries have a greater impact on today's health than the decisions of scientists and policymakers. As the collective influence of corporations has grown, governments around the world have stepped back from their responsibility...
Unequal health
The scandal of our times
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Health inequalities are the most important inequalities of all. In the US and the UK these inequalities have now reached an extent not seen for over a century. Most people's health is much better now than then, but the gaps in life expectancy between regions, between cities, and between neighbourhoods...
by Paul Taylor, Lisa Priest, Ayodele Odutayo
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2014
Ontario’s health care system can feel like a maze. In response, some hospitals have introduced patient navigators, who act as guides through the labyrinth of health care services. They help connect patients with the right doctors, resources and therapies, and get answers to patients’ questions....
by E. Stanley Kardatzke
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2010
Dr. Stan Kardatzke is a physician who has practiced and taught clinical family practice for over 25 years. He has been a Chairman of two different managed health care companies. Formerly he was Chief Executive Officer of Physician Corporation of America, a managed care company which took care of the...
by Rudy Silva
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2015
Body Acids
This book is all about how you can create an alkaline body. It is well known that most people have an acid body; otherwise, there would not be so much sickness and suffering in this world.
Excess acids in your body burn and give you pain. What acids do in your body is...
by Betsan Corkhill
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2014
Betsan Corkhill’s long awaited book will transform the way you think about your health, wellness and knitting. It rises above other self-help books because it provides an accessible tool which gets you actively involved in improving your health and wellbeing and shows you how to do this any time,...
by Diane Sanfilippo
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
Our great-grandmothers didn't need nutrition lessonsthen again, they weren't forced to wade through aisle after aisle of packaged foods touting outlandish health claims and confusing marketing jargon. Over the last few decades, we've forgotten what "real food" isand we're left desperately seeking foods...
Practical Paleo, 2nd Edition (Updated and Expanded)
A Customized Approach to Health and a Whole-Foods Lifestyle
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
With more than half a million copies sold, the first edition of Practical Paleo revolutionized the way we think about food and our bodies. Dubbed “The Paleo Bible” by readers, it explained how simply eating real, whole foods and avoiding processed, refined foods can improve our health—including...
Prescription for a Healthy Nation
A New Approach to Improving Our Lives by Fixing Our Everyday World
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2005
America spends more than twice as much for health care as any other nation. So why are Americans among the sickest people in the industrialized world?
Public health experts Tom Farley and Deborah A. Cohen show that the answer does not lie in our medical care system but rather in the world around...
Health Insurance Resources
A Guide for People with Chronic Disease and Disability:Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2006
The second edition of Health Insurance Resources: A Guide for People with Chronic Disease and Disability continues to be a uniquely helpful reference for those who need and use health insurance most often but have the least access to it. The book was developed to assist individuals living with disability...
Toward the Healthy City
People, Places, and the Politics of Urban Planning
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2009
A call to reconnect the fields of urban planning and public health that offers a new decision-making framework for healthy city planning.
In distressed urban neighborhoods where residential segregation concentrates poverty, liquor stores outnumber supermarkets, toxic sites are next to playgrounds,...
by Peter Muennig, Celina Su
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2013
Introducing Global Health: Practice, Policy, and Solutions is a contemporary overview of the major issues in global public health. The book explores how population health might be maximized with the right blend of health system, education, antipoverty, infectious disease, urban development, governance,...