Public Health category: 1911 books
Culture and Health Disparities
Evaluation of Interventions and Outcomes in the U.S.-Mexico Border Region
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2014
The sister cities of the southwestern United States border are challenged by widespread environmental and health issues and limited access to help. And while different initiatives have been set up to improve health outcomes and lessen inequities in the border region, evaluation data are scarce.
Culture...
by Raj S. Bhopal
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
The globalization of trade and increasing international travel and migration poses huge challenges for health practitioners and policy makers who have to meet legal and policy obligations to provide health care of equal quality and effectiveness for all. Migration, Ethnicity, Race, and Health in Multicultural...
Governance of Addictions
European Public Policies
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Why is governance of addiction so difficult? What can we learn from recent experiences and efforts in Europe? Governance of Addictions analyses the multidisciplinary research which has been used as a framework for understanding how governments formulate and implement addiction policies in 27 European...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2017
This authoritative handbook reviews the most widely-used methods for studying the use and abuse of alcohol and illegal drugs. Its thorough coverage spans the range of quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-method approaches to documenting and measuring the complex psychological, behavioral, and physical...
Does smoking increase the risk of lumbar disc prolapse in individuals aged from 20 to 40 years?
Smoking as a risk factor for disc prolapse
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Project Report from the year 2012 in the subject Medicine - Public Health, grade: 71 H2B, University of Melbourne (School of Population Health), course: Master of Public Health, language: English, abstract: Lumbar disc prolapse is one of the most common neurological conditions and there has been no...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018
This book represents a comprehensive overview of the distribution of the various forms of mobile communications devices, with increasing variations and intensities that constitute a serious hazard to both the biosphere and mankind. Contributors stress the lack of controls over mobile communication...
Anticipating and Assessing Health Care Technology
General Considerations and Policy Conclusions. A report commissioned by the Steering Committee on Future Health Scenarios
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This report, Anticipating and Assessing Health Care Technology, is the first report from the STG Commission on Future Health Care Technology. The STG (Stuurgroep Toekomstscenario's Gezondheidzorg) was established in 1983 as an independent advisory group to the State Secretary for Welfare, Public Health,...
by Lok Raj Joshi, Sajana Shrestha
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016
Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2015 in the subject Medicine - Public Health, grade: MPH, State University of Bangladesh (State University of Bangladesh), course: Public Health, language: English, abstract: Nursing is considered as a caring as well as a challenging profession as nurses...
Chronic Diseases in the year 2005
Scenarios on Chronic Non-Specific Lung Diseases 1990–2005
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Aims and approach In order to chart the way for long-tenn policies in the field of public health, the Dutch government needs to have the best possible insight into potential future trends and the problems to which these could give rise. It was with a view to compiling a number of long-range studies...
The Panic Virus
A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
WHO DECIDES WHICH FACTS ARE TRUE?
In 1998 Andrew Wakefield, a British gastroenterologist with a history of self-promotion, published a paper with a shocking allegation: the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine might cause autism. The media seized hold of the story and, in the process, helped to launch...
Child Health
A Population Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2015
Children in the U.S. are not faring well. Despite major advances in public health, hygiene, and treatment for acute infections, child health outcomes in the U.S. are among the bottom for developed countries. As we enter the third decade of a child obesity epidemic, children born in the last ten years...
Statistics for Health Care Management and Administration
Working with Excel
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
The must-have statistics guide for students of health services
Statistics for Health Care Management and Administration is a unique and invaluable resource for students of health care administration and public health. The book introduces students to statistics within the context of health care,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
The linkages between a student’s health and a student’s ability to learn have been well established. Children who are sick stay home; and, children at home cannot learn if they are not in school leading to increased dropout rates among other educational outcomes. However, an understanding of this...
Prescription for a Healthy Nation
A New Approach to Improving Our Lives by Fixing Our Everyday World
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2005
America spends more than twice as much for health care as any other nation. So why are Americans among the sickest people in the industrialized world?
Public health experts Tom Farley and Deborah A. Cohen show that the answer does not lie in our medical care system but rather in the world around...