Public Health category: 1911 books
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Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
This handbook fills major gaps in the child and adolescent mental health literature by focusing on the unique challenges and resiliencies of African American youth. It combines a cultural perspective on the needs of the population with best-practice approaches to interventions. Chapters provide expert...
Patients First
Closing the Health Care Gap in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2010
PATIENTS FIRST
CLOSING THE HEALTH CARE GAP IN CANADA
"This book is a must read for those who are interested in our health care system and who want to make it better. Dr. Montague provides an interesting overview of his journey through hospital wards, clinical trials, patient registries,...
Adolescent Health
Understanding and Preventing Risk Behaviors
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2009
This book covers the developmental and health problems unique to the adolescent period of life. It focuses on special needs and public health programs for adolescents. It offers deep insight into smoking, violence, teen pregnancy, HIV/AIDS, and other problems, along with intervention and prevention...
Protecting the World's Children
Immunisation policies and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
Vaccination programmes now represent a major part of the effort devoted to improving the health of children in developing countries. These donor-funded programmes tend to be global in scope and focus on worldwide goals and targets such as 'polio eradication', and the Millennium Development Goals....
Evaluating Health Promotion
Practice and Methods
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2010
Health Promotion is a relatively new discipline and there is little in the way of practical help for students and practitioners in choosing and implementing appropriate evaluation methods. As the demands for rigorous evaluation and evidence-based decision-making increase, health promotion cannot ignore...
by Thomas S. Bodenheimer, Kevin Grumbach
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Understand how the healthcare system works – and how you can succeed in it
A Doody's Core Title for 2019!
The Seventh Edition of Understanding Health Policy: A Clinical Approach remains the most trusted and comprehensive guide to healthcare available and provides everything you need...
Free Clinics
Local Responses to Health Care Needs
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
In community after community, pro bono and student-run health clinics have sprung up over the past 30 years, providing critically needed care to medically underserved populations. Free Clinics is a mosaic formed by accounts of such clinics around the United States. These wide-ranging narratives—from...
by Glenn Laverack
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2013
If you are looking for the definitive short guide to the theory and practice of health promotion, then you need look no further.
Written by a leading international expert, this concise text offers, for the first time, a comprehensive explanation of key concepts, terms and definitions used in...
The Health of Populations
General Theories and Particular Realities
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2006
In the maelstrom of current public health debate over the social determinants of health, this book offers a well-balanced discussion on the roots of prevalent strains of thought on the matter. While this area of research deals in complex problems, it is often dominated by those who deploy rather categorical,...
Health Promotion
Disciplines and Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2003
Health promotion is an increasingly central tenet in health professionals' lives. It has come into the public eye as the subject of party politics and policy, but where does the movement come from?
This book brings together views from a range of subjects, some not always associated with health promotion,...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
The Oxford Handbook of Acculturation and Health expertly brings together two very distinct, but complementary, streams of work and thought: theoretical and methodological work on acculturation, and the applied work linking acculturation to various health outcomes among international migrants and their...
Essential Epidemiology
An Introduction for Students and Health Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
The new edition of this popular textbook remains a clear and practical introduction to epidemiology for students in all areas of health. By emphasising the role of epidemiology across a broad range of health monitoring and research, it gives students an understanding of the fundamental principles...
Assemblages of Health
Deleuze's Empiricism and the Ethology of Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
This book presents a review of Deleuze’s key methods and concepts in the course of exploring how these methods may be applied in contemporary studies of health and illness. Taken from a Deleuzian perspective, health and wellbeing will be characterized as a discontinuous process of affective and...
Disability & International Development
Towards Inclusive Global Health
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2009
One of the greatest challenges facing modern global health is how to include the most marginalized and impoverished people in international efforts to promote social and economic development. In Disability and International Development disability rights are situated within the broader context of global...