Preventive Medicine category: 265 books
Preventing AIDS
Theories and Methods of Behavioral Interventions
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Public health has a legacy of neglect regarding social and behavioral research. Too often, prompted by technical and scientific progress, we have ignored even marginalized-the vital "human element" in health thinking and prac tice. Thus, for example, while family planning programs focused...
Understanding Prevention for HIV Positive Gay Men
Innovative Approaches in Addressing the AIDS Epidemic
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
This innovative collection offers a wide-ranging palette of psychological, public health, and sociopolitical approaches toward addressing the multi-level prevention needs of gay men living with HIV and AIDS. This book advances our understanding of comprehensive health care, risk and preventive behaviors,...
Lose Weight, Have More Energy and Be Happier in 10 Days
Take Charge of Your Health with the Master Cleanse
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Lose Weight, Have More Energy & Be Happier in 10 Days doesn't sound possible, but most people who have completed the Master Cleanse swear by it.
If you are like most people, you want answers to your increasing health problems, but have less money to spend on gyms, expensive weight loss programs...
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...
by Gandhi
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2019
As the familiar saying goes, ‘Prevention is better than cure.’ It is far easier and safer to prevent illness by the observance of the laws of health than to set about curing the illness which has been brought on by our own ignorance and carelessness. Hence it is the duty of all thoughtful men...
by Jacquleline Webb
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2017
Build immunity to modern medicine! The United States government understands how dangerous a potential drug resistant bacterium could be on a population of unprepared people. Infections from medical institutions are one of the highest causes of death, with an estimated 100,000 people dying in the United...
Dementia Prevention Naturally
Evidence-based Strategies to Enrich Cognition
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Unless preventative measures are taken a new dementia patient will be diagnosed in Canada every two minutes over the next 30 years.Dementia Prevention Naturally provides evidence-based natural, healthy lifestyle strategies that can slow progression of cognitive impairment (so you will not develop...
by
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2008
"This work will be the one that students and clinicans keep on their shelves as the gold-standard reference for health behavior change. Summing Up: Essential"
--Choice
"The third edition of this handbook provides students and practitioners with the most complete and up-to-date...
Hazing Aging
How Capillary Endothelia Control Inflammation and Aging
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
When you get older, your joints dont have to hurt, your heart doesnt have to fail, and your brain doesnt have to rot.
But all those things will likely happenand youll be a shell of your former selfif you dont manage your health properly.
Dr. Robert Buckingham, a practicing physician...
Achieving Respiratory Health Equality
A United States Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
Including comprehensive coverage of health disparities commonly encountered in pediatric and adult pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine, Achieving Respiratory Health Equality in the United States provides a definitive reference on this prominent issue. Expert authors explore questions such...
Quantified Lives and Vital Data
Exploring Health and Technology through Personal Medical Devices
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
This book raises questions about the changing relationships between technology, people and health. It examines the accelerating pace of technological development and a general shift to personalized, patient-led medicine. Such relationships are increasingly mediated through particular medical technologies,...
Stroke Prevention Naturally
Proven Non-Pharmaceutical Stroke Avoidance Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Stroke is the #1 perpetrator of permanent disability and the #2 cause of mortality in the world.Stroke Prevention Naturally provides recognized healthy lifestyle strategies that can prevent up to 90% of strokes (along with dementia and heart attack)Dr. Felix Veloso is a clinical professor...
by
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2014
HIV continues to be a profound challenge facing communities nationally and internationally. Until a vaccine or a cure is found, prevention remains a most crucial line of defense. However, the successes made to reduce exposure and transmission have not benefited all communities equally. HIV continues...
by
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
This inclusive work presents a comprehensive update on vaccines for the international traveller.
In over 21 chapters, written by leading writers in travel medicine from Australia, New Zealand and Singapore, vaccinology for travel is explained in accessible terms with a focus on practical information....