Public Health category: 1911 books
by Daniel E. Dawes
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
In this groundbreaking book, health-care attorney Daniel E. Dawes explores the secret backstory of the Affordable Care Act, shedding light on the creation and implementation of the greatest and most sweeping equalizer in the history of American health care. An eye-opening and authoritative narrative...
Health Promotion
Planning & Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2019
Globally recognized as the definitive text on health promotion, this fourth edition becomes ever more useful for public health and health promotion courses around the world. It offers a firm foundation in health promotion before helping you to understand the process of planning, implementing and assessing...
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: August 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2013
In this book, leading academics and practitioners in the field of reproductive health address topics such as contraception, abortion, sexually transmitted infections, maternal and prenatal health, sexuality and reproductive rights by examining a number of critical issues in these areas. The authors...
The Bottom Line
The Truth Behind Private Health Insurance in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006
The Alberta government is looking to the private sector – and in particular to private health insurance – to solve health care problems. However, private health insurance is mired in myth and misunderstanding. The Bottom Line summarizes a huge body of evidence to get to the truth: private health...
The Affordable Care Act and Integrated Behavioural Health Care
Meeting the Health and Behavioral Health Needs of a Diverse Society
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
This book provides a scholarly discussion of arguably the most important advance in U.S. public health services since Medicare 50 years ago - how the Federal program known as the Patient Care and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA) or "Obamacare" became law. It addresses ACA in terms of its...
by W.H. Bassett, Tim Deveaux
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Environmental health law is a wide-ranging, detailed and complex body of law within the UK. Environmental Health Procedures is an established and essential reference source which provides an accessible entry into enforcement and administrative procedures for environmental health. The main legal procedures...
Integrating Health Impact Assessment with the Policy Process
Lessons and experiences from around the world
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
Health Impact Assessment is a policy-support instrument and approach that seeks to assess the health impacts of projects, programmes and policies on population health. The ultimate goal of HIA is to systematically predict health impacts and subsequently inform the intersectoral decision- and policy-making...
Legacy of the Crossing
Life, Death, and Triumph among the Descendants of the World's Largest Forced Migration
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2017
International Conference on Health in the African Diaspora (ICHAD) was a multidisciplinary conference that explored the health condition of African descendants and what could be done to improve their health outcomes. e conference addressed a range of intersecting topics, including maternal and...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
The multifaceted nature of harmful substance use and gambling requires interdisciplinary analysis to assess the underlying causes. What Determines Harm from Addictive Substances and Behaviours? draws together evidence from twelve disciplines including anthropology, genetics, neurobiology, and public...
Handbook of African American Health
Social and Behavioral Interventions
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2011
The U.S. Census Bureau reports particular demographic, social, and health conditions for African Americans. Population-wide, the African American community has a higher mortality rate from cancer and diabetes than the rest of the population, a higher infant mortality rate, and a lower vaccination...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Point-of-care testing (POCT) refers to pathology testing performed in a clinical setting at the time of patient consultation, generating a rapid test result that enables informed and timely clinical action to be taken on patient care. It offers patients greater convenience and access to health services...
Best Practices for Environmental Health
Environmental Pollution, Protection, Quality and Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
In a present where there are countless opportunities for the spread of exotic diseases, the expansion and creation of far more illness in our global population through globalization and rapid transportation, and the contamination of water, air and land, we find ourselves accountable. In this day and...
Understanding and Using Health Experiences
Improving patient care
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Improving patient experience is a global priority for health policy-makers and care providers. The need to look at healthcare delivery through the eyes of patients is widely accepted, but how should it be done? What use can be made of this information, and what evidence is there that such exercises...