Preventive Medicine category: 265 books
World Mental Health Casebook
Social and Mental Health Programs in Low-Income Countries
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2007
Using real cases based in the South Pacific, Asia, South and Latin America and Europe, this volume sets out examples of community-based interventions that have succeeded by implementing outreach to the families and community to identify those in need, reliable and adequate drug supplies, treatment...
Age Right
Turn Back the Clock with a Proven, Personalized, Anti-Aging Program
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Welcome to the new age in antiaging therapy
Don't resign yourself to growing old gracefully. With Age Right as your guide, you can reduce body fat, increase strength and energy, and boost your sex drive, all while adding years to your life. With his revolutionary approach, Karlis Ullis, M.D,,...
Smog Alert
Managing Urban Air Quality
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
The world's cities are choking on pollution from traffic and industry. With the health of over 1.6 billion people under threat, poor urban air quality is fast becoming one of them most pressing environmental problems of our times. Smog Alert examines the causes and scale of urban air pollution, identifying...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2007
This volume creates a multi-disciplinary dialogue about clinician-patient communication. It offers a description of the relevance of culture as a contextual effect that impacts the clinician-patient relationship. Some topics addressed include: oncology care, quality of life issues, supportive survivorship,...
by Mark L. Dreher
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
This text provides a comprehensive review of the latest research on the effects of dietary patterns and whole plant foods on general health, aging, and cardiometabolic disease risk from major prospective cohort studies and randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and their meta-analyses. The book extensively...
Physical Activity Across the Lifespan
Prevention and Treatment for Health and Well-Being
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
The statistics are disturbing: steadily rising numbers of sedentary overweight children and obese teens, and a generation looking at a shorter life expectancy than their parents’. But while it may be obvious that physical fitness benefits both the mind and body, a growing research base is supplying...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
If resources for HIV prevention efforts were truly unlimited, then this book would be en tirely unnecessary. In a world with limitless support for HIV prevention activities, one would simply implement all effective (or potentially effective) programs without regard to expense. We would do everything...
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...
The Life Pill
Why Not Take Life for Life?
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
We doctors have been patching up diseases for too long. We need to STOP. Some of the drugs currently used have dire side effects and may even be lethal. However all may not be lost. Man was intended to live forever. With the right tools infinite possibilities are within reach.
Respiration and...
Il cibo dell'uomo. La via della salute tra conoscenza scientifica e antiche saggezze
La via della salute tra conoscenza scientifica e antiche saggezze
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 5, 2016
La nuova edizione del fortunato manuale per vivere meglio e più a lungo con una dieta equilibrata. Una guida per chi diffida della pubblicità e dei nutrizionisti televisivi; per i genitori che si interrogano su quale sia l’alimentazione migliore per crescere i propri figli; per chi soffre di piccoli...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
How successful are HIV prevention programs? Which HIV prevention programs are most cost effective? Which programs are worth expanding and which should be abandoned altogether? This book addresses the quantitative evaluation of HIV prevention programs, assessing for the first time several different quantitative...
by Wolfgang Schlicht, Marcus Zinsmeister
Language: German
Release Date: June 18, 2015
Language: German
Release Date: June 18, 2015
Mit diesem Lehrbuch verschaffen Sie sich den erforderlichen Über- und notwendigen Einblick. Sie lernen systematisch vorzugehen. Sie erfahren alles, was Sie zum Entscheiden, zur Relevanz von Theorien, zu Instrumenten der Gesundheitsförderung, zur Planung, Evaluation und zum Socialmarketing wissen...
Environment and Trade
A Guide to WTO Jurisprudence
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
International trade rules have significant impacts on environmental law and policy, at the domestic, regional and global levels. At the World Trade Organization (WTO), dispute settlement tribunals are increasingly called to decide on environment- and health-related questions. Can governments treat...
Educating Yourself About Alcohol and Drugs
A People’s Primer
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013