Public Health category: 1911 books
Medical Geology
A Regional Synthesis
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2010
Medical Geology is a rapidly growing field concerned with the relationship between natural geological factors and human and animal health, as well as with improving our understanding of the influence of environmental factors on the geographical distribution of health problems. This book brings together...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
This comprehensive handbook presents a Zen account of fundamental and important dimensions of daily living. It explores how Zen teachings inform a range of key topics across the field of behavioral health and discuss the many uses of meditation and mindfulness practice in therapeutic contexts, especially...
Decision Making in Health and Medicine
Integrating Evidence and Values
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Decision making in health care involves consideration of a complex set of diagnostic, therapeutic and prognostic uncertainties. Medical therapies have side effects, surgical interventions may lead to complications, and diagnostic tests can produce misleading results. Furthermore, patient values and...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2004
The Nutrition and Health series of books have, as an overriding mission, to provide health professionals with texts that are considered essential because each includes (1) a synthesis of the state of the science; (2) timely, in-depth reviews by the leading research ers in their respective fields;...
Launching and Leading Change Initiatives in Health Care Organizations
Managing Successful Projects
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Implement change that fosters sustainable growth and better patient care
Health care projects depend on astute management of change. But more than anything else, they depend on leaders who pay attention, who understand the importance of starting right, and who know how to launch projects that...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Chronic diseases have become predominant in Western societies and in many developing countries. They affect quality of life and daily activities and require regular medical care.
This unique monograph will bring readers up to date with chronic disease research, with a focus on health-related...
Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy
Perspectives, Promises, and Problems
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Pharmaceuticals constitute a relatively small share of the total healthcare expenditure in most developed economies, and yet they play a critical role in the ongoing debate over how best to advance, improve, and afford healthcare. Despite this, and perhaps because of this, the industry has had, for...
Denying to the Grave
Why We Ignore the Facts That Will Save Us
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Why do some parents refuse to vaccinate their children? Why do some people keep guns at home, despite scientific evidence of risk to their family members? And why do people use antibiotics for illnesses they cannot possibly alleviate? When it comes to health, many people insist that science is wrong,...
Health divides
Where you live can kill you
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
HIGHLY COMMENDED IN THE BMA BOOK AWARDS 2017 Americans live three years less than their counterparts in France or Sweden. Scottish men survive two years less than English men. Across Europe, women in the poorest communities live up to ten years less than those in the richest. Revealing gaps in life...
Primary Care and Home Care Scenarios 1990–2005
Scenario report commissioned by the Steering Committee on Future Health Scenarios
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
CARE AT HOME -HOME CARE Health care in the Netherlands looks to be a well structured system. Supplementing the vital level of self-care and informal care are four levels of professional care: the public health service (known in the Netherlands as basic health care) is mainly concerned with preventive...
Politics in the Corridor of Dying
AIDS Activism and Global Health Governance
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Few diseases have provoked as many wild moralistic leaps or stringent attempts to measure, classify, and define risk and treatment standards as AIDS. In Politics in the Corridor of Dying, Jennifer Chan documents the emergence of a diverse range of community-based, nongovernmental, and civil society...
Clinical Nutrition of the Essential Trace Elements and Minerals
The Guide for Health Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2000
The Nutrition and Health series of books have, as an overriding mission, to provide health professionals with texts that are considered essential because each includes 1) a synthesis of the state of the science, 2) timely, in-depth reviews by the leading researchers in their respective fields, 3)...
Long-Term Care in an Aging Society
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015
This comprehensive graduate textbook focuses on the full spectrum of long-term care settings ranging from family and community based care through supportive housing options to a variety of institutional long-term care alternatives. Integrating theory and practice, the book features the perspectives...
Work–Family Interface in Sub-Saharan Africa
Challenges and Responses
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Problems associated with work-family conflict do not belong to individual families alone, but have a major social and economic impact on the greater community. This scenario also holds true across sub-Saharan Africa, as nations enter the global economy and rising numbers of women enter the workforce.
One...