Public Health category: 1911 books
Researching Health Needs
A Community-Based Approach
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 1999
`[It is] difficult to find a single volume that addresses the specific range of methodological challenges [in] health needs assessment… Judy Payne's book is a very welcome answer to this problem. [This book] offers a lucid d logical exposition of the research process. It begins with a short introduction...
Health of South Asians in the United States
An Evidence-Based Guide for Policy and Program Development
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Leading scholars and practitioners come together in this contributed volume to present the most current evidence on cutting edge health issues for South Asian Americans, the fastest growing Asian American population. The book spans a variety of health topics while examining disparities and special...
Conservation Medicine
Ecological Health in Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2002
Conservation medicine is an emerging discipline, focussing on the intersection of ecosystem health, animal health, and human health. Work in the biomedical and veterinary sciences is now being folded into conservation biology; to explore the connections between animal and human health; trace the environmental...
African Health Leaders
Making Change and Claiming the Future
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
Most accounts of health and healthcare in Africa are written by foreigners. African Health Leaders: Making Change and Claiming the Future redresses the balance. Written by Africans, who have themselves led improvements in their own countries, the book discusses the creativity, innovation and leadership...
Anticipating and Assessing Health Care Technology
Health Care Application of Lasers: The Future Treatment of Coronary Artery Disease. 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 one 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 care technology....
Health Disparities in Youth and Families
Research and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2010
Amid its growing diversity and shifting demographics, the U.S. is still home to glaring health inequities by race, ethnicity, and class. Yet while it is customary to identify poverty as their root cause, other complex mechanisms are involved in their perpetuation. Based on recent major studies on...
Health Care Evaluation Using Computer Simulation
Concepts, Methods, and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2012
The purpose of this book is to place computer simulation studies within the paradigm of intervention research that is concerned with comparing the outcomes of health care delivered under different policies. This book presents computer simulation as a tool for testing various policy alternatives that...
Prevention Diaries
The Practice and Pursuit of Health for All
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
How do trees help reduce violence? What do roads have to do with chronic disease? Prevention Diaries examines the unexpected yet empirically predictable relationships that shape our health, providing the keys to realizing vitality and health across our society. With passion, wisdom, and humor, internationally...
Women, Work, and Health
Stress and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Until recently, studies of women's health received scant research attention in the context of the overall magnitude of research conducted on health. Even for health issues that affect both men and women, most research has been limited to male subjects, leaving a large gap in our knowledge base concerning...
Health Promotion in Midwifery
Principles and Practice, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
Health Promotion in Midwifery explores the principles of health promotion within the practical context of midwifery. It clearly outlines and discusses the midwife’s role in health promotion, linking theory and practice.
The third edition of this evidence-based text covers essential topics...
Cultural Competence in Health
A Review of the Evidence
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017
This resource supports evidence-informed approaches to improving the cultural competence of health service delivery. By reviewing the evidence from Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the US, it provides readers with a clear and systematic overview of the interventions and indicators applied to enable...
Global Inequalities at Work
Work's Impact on the Health of Individuals, Families, and Societies
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2003
A map of the relationship between work and health that is truly global--both geographically and in its coverage of the impact of work on the health of individuals, families, and societies, has not previously been drawn. Global Inequalities at Work is the first book to fill in the map. Drawing from...
by Ms Sophie Smailes, Clare Street
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011
An instant access point for the study of health… The Health Studies Companion explains terminology, theories and underpinning concepts of health. It is ideal preparatory and introductory reading, and provides a reliable point of reference throughout your programme of study. This book will help you...
Mistreated
Why We Think We're Getting Good Health Care-and Why We're Usually Wrong
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
A WASHINGTON POST BESTSELLER
The biggest problem in American health care is us
Do you know how to tell good health care from bad health care? Guess again. As patients, we wrongly assume the "best" care is dependent mainly on the newest medications, the most complex treatments,...