Public Health category: 1911 books
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Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2006
“AIDS is kind of like life, just speeded up. ” JavonP. ,heroinaddictwithAIDS, Bronx,NewYork, 1988 “Now I’m not so much scared of dying as scared of living. ” Mike D. , heroin addict with AIDS, New Haven, Connecticut, 1998 Within little more than a decade, AIDS has been tranformed from an...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
Impact of Addictive Substances and Behaviours on Individual and Societal Well-being outlines an innovative and fascinating new framework for understanding the harm that addictive substances and behaviours can cause. Taking a holistic approach and with well-being as a central tenet, it demonstrates...
Drugs and Social Context
Social Perspectives on the Use of Alcohol and Other Drugs
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
This book goes beyond the traditional approaches to drug use and discusses the issue from a societal perspective, integrating contributions from different disciplines such as psychology, public health, anthropology, law, public policies and sociology to address specifically the social aspects of the...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
This powerful resource identifies wide-scale health challenges facing a rapidly urbanizing planet--including key concerns in nutrition, health status, health care, and safety--and strategies toward possible solutions. Theoretical and empirical analysis focuses on maximizing the benefits of urban living...
by Allison Kirkman, Anne Scott, Kevin Dew
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2016
This book comprehensively explores social, political and cultural dimensions of health in contemporary society. It addresses many issues and pertinent questions, including the following: Are we over diagnosed and over medicated? How can patients participate in their own care? Do pharmaceutical companies...
The Measurement and Valuation of Health Status Using EQ-5D: A European Perspective
Evidence from the EuroQol BIOMED Research Programme
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
EQ-5D from the EuroQol Group is a standardised, non-disease-specific instrument for describing and valuing health. It is in widespread use in many countries and has been applied in many different settings. EQ-5D is now an integral feature of many clinical trials and is increasingly used in population...
by Ernestoh Khomu
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2017
Seminar paper from the year 2017 in the subject Medicine - Public Health, grade: 2, , course: Bachelor of Public Health, language: English, abstract: All successful clinical or healthcare research endeavors in the current era depend on a carefully designed oversight process. One integral part of the...
Promoting Health: A Practical Guide - E-Book
Forewords: Linda Ewles & Ina Simnett; Richard Parish
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
This title is now out of print. A new version with e-book is available under ISBN 9780702044564.
Promoting Health is a seminal text that has been used in the training and education of health promoters over the last 25 years and has shaped health promotion practice in the UK. This 6th edition...
Patient Compliance
Sweetening the Pill
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Vast global resources are ploughed into the delivery of treatment interventions ranging from diet and lifestyle advice to complex surgery. In all cases, whatever the intervention, unless the recipient is engaged with the process and understands why the intervention has been offered and the part they...
Health Inequities in India
A Synthesis of Recent Evidence
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
This timely contribution to the global literature on health inequities approaches the subject through a synthesis and analysis of relevant published literature on India. Amongst the BRICS countries, India ranks the lowest in the gender-gap index and has the highest poverty rate, and there is clear...
International Health and Aid Policies
The Need for Alternatives
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
International health and aid policies of the past two decades have had a major impact on the delivery of care in low and middle-income countries. This book argues that these policies have often failed to achieve their main aims, and have in fact contributed to restricted access to family medicine...
Environmental Health for All
Risk Assessment and Risk Communication for National Environmental Health Action Plans
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Accurate assessment of environmental hazards and related risks is a primary prerequisite for effective environmental health protection, at both the individual and collective level. National and regional policies on environmental health need to be guided by knowledge about the risks to the populations...
The Sociology of Health Promotion
Critical Analyses of Consumption, Lifestyle and Risk
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Promotion of health has become a central feature of health policy at local, national and international levels, forming part of global health initiatives such as those endorsed by the World Health Organisation. The issues examined in The Sociology of Health Promotion include sociology of risk, the...
by Murali Mg
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
Essay from the year 2015 in the subject Medicine - Public Health, grade: 80, University of South Florida (Post Graduate School), course: Health Care and Public Administration, language: English, abstract: The American firearm industry seems to be healthier than ever. The demand and production rates...