Public Health category: 1911 books
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Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2015
This direct, accessible guide uses a human rights perspective to define effectiveness in aid delivery and offer a robust framework for creating sustainable health programs and projects and assessing their progress. Geared toward hands-on professionals in such critical areas as food aid, maternal health,...
Partners in Health
How Physicians and Hospitals can be Accountable Together
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
Praise for Partners in Health
"The combination of visionary leadership, knowledge, and superb timing makes this book a winner. Health care is evolving toward collaboration and integration, and this book is essential reading for anyone wishing to change the relationships between hospitals and...
Africa and Global Health Governance
Domestic Politics and International Structures
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Global health campaigns, development aid programs, and disaster relief groups have been criticized for falling into colonialist patterns, running roughshod over the local structure and authority of the countries in which they work. Far from powerless, however, African states play complex roles in...
Diversity and Cultural Competence in Health Care
A Systems Approach
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
Major changes are occurring in the United States population and the nation's health care institutions and delivery systems. Significant disparities in health status exist across population groups. But the health care enterprise, with all its integrated and disparate parts, has been slow to respond....
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Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
This unique volume advances the literature on sleep and health by illuminating the impacts of family dynamics on individuals’ quality and quantity of sleep. Its lifespan perspective extends across childhood, adolescence, adulthood and older age considering both phenomena of individual development...
by Peter Duncan
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2009
"This book encourages readers to reflect on the nature and values of health care practice through its challenging but accessible style. It will be a stimulating and thought-provoking read for anyone involved in day-to-day health care." - Professor Jane Wills, London South Bank University
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Global Health Watch 5
An Alternative World Health Report
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
For over a decade, Global Health Watch has been the definitive source for alternative analysis on health.
This new edition addresses the key challenges facing governments and health practitioners today, within the context of rapid shifts in global governance mechanisms and the UN’s Sustainable...
Greening Health Care
How Hospitals Can Heal the Planet
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2014
The relationship between hospitals and the environment is defined by a glaring contradiction: as health care facilities deliver care at any cost, their environmental footprint -- pollution, waste production, unsustainable food services -- contributes to harming community health. Greening Health Care...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
This volume looks at the key links between social determinants, health disparities and health and health care. There is a particular focus on macro-level systems and micro-level issues, including the examination of issues for patients, carers and providers of care. Coverage includes papers on geographical...
Principles of Occupational Health and Hygiene
An introduction
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2013
Today's workplaces are full of materials and processes which are potentially hazardous to our health. Industry depends on a large range of naturally occurring and synthetic materials, many of which can adversely affect the health of the workers. Even some non-industrial workplaces can contain hazardous...
Measuring Health
A Guide to Rating Scales and Questionnaires
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2006
Worldwide economic constraints on health care systems have highlighted the importance of evidence-based medicine and evidence-based health policy. The resulting clinical trials and health services research studies require instruments to monitor the outcomes of care and the output of the health system....
Anticipating and Assessing Health Care Technology, Volume 2
Future technological changes. A report commissioned by the Steering Committee on Future Health Scenarios
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
As noted in the Foreword, this report is the second of several volumes resulting from this study of future health care technology. The purpose of the study, as formulated by the STG, was to analyze future health care technology. Part of the task was to develop an 'early warning system' for health...
Innovative Health Partnerships
The Diplomacy of Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
Over the last ten years, the financing and diversity of new players in global health have increased significantly. Ten years ago it would have been difficult to predict some of these changes — Bill Gates programming global health rather than software; NGOs formally governing a US20 billion health...
Readings in Global Health
Essential Reviews from the New England Journal of Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
Global health has seen an influx of investment and interest over the last two decades, fueling significant gains in areas such as infectious disease and maternal and child health. As new threats continue to emerge -- pandemics, health impacts of climate change, the growing burdens of an aging population...