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by Roy J. Shephard
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
This book provides a unique and succinct account of the history of health and fitness, responding to the growing recognition of physicians, policy makers and the general public that exercise is the most potent form of medicine available to humankind. Individual chapters present information extending...
Current and Emerging mHealth Technologies
Adoption, Implementation, and Use
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2018
The promise and prospects for mobile technologies in healthcare service delivery—particularly as experienced by patients and other users—are the focus of this forward-looking volume. Its detailed sociotechnical perspective takes in factors influencing patient and provider adoption of technological...
Global Health Informatics
How Information Technology Can Change Our Lives in a Globalized World
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Global Health Informatics: How Information Technology Can Change Our Lives in a Globalized World discusses the critical role of information and communication technologies in health practice, health systems management and research in increasingly interconnected societies. In a global interconnected...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2008
"This is a very good text for undergraduate students as it gives a broad overview of the concept of public health, utilising case studies to illustrate practical application. This book would be also be an excellent way for practitioners to increase their own knowledge of public health and could...
Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Health
A Practical Approach
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2016
The field's bestselling reference, updated with the latest tools, data, techniques, and the latest recommendations from the Second Panel on Cost-Effectiveness in Health and Medicine
Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Health is a practical introduction to the tools, methods, and procedures used...
Crisis Intervention Training for Disaster Workers
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
This book provides information about training for mental health professionals and first responders who work with victims of disaster related stress and trauma. It helps prepare them to relate with disaster victims and co-workers. Warning signs and symptoms are explored together with stages, strategies...
Designing, Implementing, and Managing Treatment Services for Individuals with Co-Occurring Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders
Blueprints for Action
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Your blueprint to develop and manage effective co-occurring treatment programs!
Sequential or parallel treatments for co-occurring disorders are much less effective than a quality co-occurring treatment program. Most mental health and substance abuse professionals know how to provide an effective...
Urban Poverty and Health Inequalities
A Relational Approach
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
When discussing health, we talk about ailments and afflictions, the potential of modern medicine and the behaviours that affect our health. Yet although these relationships exist, they undermine a more socio-economic understanding of health. This timely book takes a critical perspective to argue that...
Exercises for Heart Health
The Complete Guide for Heart Attack, Heart Surgery, and Cardiovascular Disease Patients
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2010
Fight the statistics of heart disease with an expert's help.
Heart disease is the #1 health problem for both women and men in the United States. Physical inactivity is a major risk factor for heart disease and is linked to heart failure. Exercise is essential for a healthy heart, especially...
by Manuel Braschi
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
There is much discussion today about the pros and cons of organic food. People want to know whether organic food is better than non-organic food. They wonder whether the term organic is nothing more than the latest money-making marketing term being thrown about.
No matter where you go or what...
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...
Impossible Cure
The Promise of Homeopathy
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2011
Impossible Cure: The Promise of Homeopathy provides an in-depth and exciting account of the history, philosophy, and experience of homeopathic medicine. At the core of Impossible Cure is the amazing story of how the author's son was cured of autism with homeopathy. It also includes dozens of other...
Health Disclosure
The Sequence to Obesity & Disease
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
A team of doctors and I figured out how to eliminate pain, inflammation, obesity, disease, and cancer to 5 basic elements of health, arranged as a pyramid of priorities. Pain, inflammation and unhealthy weight are simply precursors to disease and obesity arranged in a sequence that begin at the precise...
by Lawrence E. Estaville, Kristine Egan, Dr. Abel Galaviz
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012
With almost two hundred pages of original demographic and health-related maps that display county-by-county and regional information covering everything from the distribution of pharmacies, trauma centers, and emergency rooms to the number of lung, colon, and breast cancer patients in major metropolitan...