Health category: 185398 books
Gender Equity in Health
The Shifting Frontiers of Evidence and Action
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
This volume brings together experts from a variety of disciplines, such as medicine, biology, sociology, epidemiology, anthropology, economics and political science, who focus on three areas: health disparities and inequity due to gender, the specific problems women face in meeting the highest attainable...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
The field of global health is expanding rapidly. An increasing number of trainees are studying and working with marginalized populations, often within low and middle-income countries. Such endeavours are beset by ethical dilemmas: mitigating power differentials, addressing cultural differences in...
Health Promotion
Planning & Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2019
Globally recognized as the definitive text on health promotion, this fourth edition becomes ever more useful for public health and health promotion courses around the world. It offers a firm foundation in health promotion before helping you to understand the process of planning, implementing and assessing...
Oxford Textbook of Creative Arts, Health, and Wellbeing
International perspectives on practice, policy and research
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
There is growing interest internationally in the contributions which the creative arts can make to wellbeing and health in both healthcare and community settings. A timely addition to the field, the Oxford Textbook of Creative Arts, Health, and Wellbeing is the first work of its kind to discuss the...
Health Promotion for Nurses
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2009
Health promotion is an increasingly high profile aspect of a nurse’s role – both in line with health policy and as nursing has shifted from a disease model to a health model. This textbook explores how and why health promotion works in nursing, developing a new framework for understanding the...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
The debate about health care reform has gone on for many years. The debate has generated often innovative ideas for reform that transcend national boundaries. For example, proposals have been made for an extension of health insurance with a framework of social protection; progressive development of...
Managing the Myths of Health Care
Bridging the Separations between Care, Cure, Control, and Community
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
**“Health care is not failing but succeeding, expensively, and we don't want to pay for it. So the administrations, public and private alike, intervene to cut costs, and herein lies the failure.”
In this sure-to-be-controversial book, leading management thinker Henry Mintzberg turns his...
Food Policy: Integrating health, environment and society
Integrating health, environment and society
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2009
For over half a century, food policy has mapped a path for progress based upon a belief that the right mix of investment, scientific input, and human skills could unleash a surge in productive capacity which would resolve humanity's food-related health and welfare problems. It assumed that more food...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Participatory Health through Social Media explores how traditional models of healthcare can be delivered differently through social media and online games, and how these technologies are changing the relationship between patients and healthcare professionals, as well as their impact on health behavior...
by Lori-Ann Rickard
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
Our health changes daily and we can’t predict what will happen to us tomorrow. The one thing we know for sure is that we’ll need health care and we don’t want to go broke to pay for it. You can choose your health insurance so you won’t bet your entire fortune or throw away your money.
Choose...
The Right to Health
A Multi-Country Study of Law, Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
This interdisciplinary study engages with the fields of human rights law, health law, and public health. It analyses how the internationally guaranteed human ‘right to health’ is realized by States at a national level. It brings together scholars from more than ten different countries, with each...
by American College of Sports Medicine, Melinda
Melinda L Irwin
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
ACSM’s Guide to Exercise and Cancer Survivorship presents the science behind the benefits of exercise for cancer survival and survivorship as well as the application of that science to the design or adaptation of exercise programs for cancer patients and survivors. Developed by the American College...
by Pamela Stevens
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2016
Ginger is a flowering plant that holds its origin from China an Asia country. The underground part of its stem is what is usually used by people to spice up their foods. Ginger is well known for its various forms of alternative or traditional medicine.
Well, I dare to say that… if there...
The New York Times Book of Health
How to Feel Fitter, Eat Better, and Live Longer
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2012
To Your Health!
Recognizing that consumers sometimes feel overwhelmed by the relentless and often conflicting stream of medical reports, New York Times health reporter Jane E. Brody and her colleagues distill the information you really need from current findings, present balanced assessments...