Preventive Medicine category: 265 books
Beyond Malthus
The Nineteen Dimensions of the Population Challenge
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
On the bicentennial of Malthus' legendary essay on the tendency of population to grow more rapidly than the food supply, this book examines the impacts of population growth on 19 global resources and services, including food, fresh water, fisheries, jobs, education, income and health. Despite current...
by Katinka Blackford Newman
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016
While going through a divorce, documentary filmmaker Katinka Blackford Newman took an antidepressant. Not unusual – except that things didn't turn out quite as she expected. She went into a four-day toxic psychosis with violent hallucinations, imagining she had killed her children, and in fact attacking...
by Rodney Ford
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
This book confronts the biggest controversy surrounding our traditional food. It is the story of adopting wheat 10,000 years ago (which launched mankind into the agricultural revolution); the incorporation of the gluten-grains into every aspect of our diets (which nourished the peoples of this world...
by Gabriel Agbo
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
This book is about how to receive divine healing. Can God still heal? Yes! Can we live in good and perfect health today? Yes! Our God is the same yesterday, today and forevermore. Expect your healing as you read. Here, you will read some incredible testimonies that will instantly increase your faith...
HIV/AIDS in Rural Communities
Research, Education, and Advocacy
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2017
This wide-ranging volume reviews the experience and treatment of HIV/AIDS in rural America at the clinical, care system, community, and individual levels. Rural HIV-related phenomena are explored within healthcare contexts (physician shortages, treatment disparities) and the social environment (stigma,...
Negotiating Health
Intellectual Property and Access to Medicines
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
In developing countries, access to affordable medicines for the treatment of diseases such as AIDS and malaria remains a matter of life or death. In Africa, for instance, more than one million children die each year from malaria alone, a figure which could soon be far higher with the extension of...
Sustainability and Health
Supporting Global Ecological Integrity in Public Health
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Radical changes in the biosphere and human interaction with the environment are increasingly impacting on the health of populations across the world. Diseases are crossing the species barrier, and spreading rapidly through globalised transport systems. From new patterns of cancer to the threat of...
Health and Poverty
Global Health Problems and Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
There is growing interest and concern about the unacceptable differentials in health between and within countries. This comes out of the realization that poor people will only be able to prosper, and emerge from poverty, if they enjoy better health. Healthy populations are a precondition for sustainable...
by Fingani Annie Mphande
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
This book focuses on the effects of rural livelihood and the impact of infectious diseases on health and poverty. It explores cultures and traditions in developing countries and their role in infectious-disease management and prevention. It highlights the associated healthcare systems and how these...
Vision for Life, Revised Edition
Ten Steps to Natural Eyesight Improvement
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
All parts of the body need exercise for optimal health, and the eyes are no different. Vision for Life presents an approach to eye health for people with 20/20 vision who wish to maintain their perfect vision as well as people who see poorly and would like to improve their eyesight.
Clients...
Final Report
Evaluation of Tools and Metrics to Support Employer Selection of Health Plans
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
The Affordable Care Act places strong emphasis on quality of care as a means to improve outcomes for Americans and promote the financial sustainability of our health care system. This report attempts to help employers understand the structural differences between health plans and the performance dimensions...
by Richard K. Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2007
-First edition by McGraw-Hill, 1998.
-Textbook for courses on health administration and planning
-Author is fairly well-known in the field.
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Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
Strategic Urban Health Communication
Charles C. Okigbo, editor
People are bombarded with messages continuously and sorting through them constantly. In this milieu, critical ideas about health promotion and illness prevention are forced to compete with distracting, conflicting, even contradictory...
AIDS in Pakistan
Bureaucracy, Public Goods and NGOs
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
This book is the first full-length study of HIV/AIDS work in relation to government and NGOs. In the early 2000s, Pakistan’s response to HIV/AIDS was scaled-up and declared an area of urgent intervention. This response was funded by international donors requiring prevention, care and support services...