Public Health category: 1911 books
by Judith Dwyer, Pauline Stanton, Valerie Thiessen
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
In the health and community service industries, projects are increasingly used for the development of new services, and to achieve change in existing services, work practices and delivery models.
Until now, project workers in these fields have had to rely on books designed for architects, builders...
by Ahmed Ceegaag
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
The purpose of this book is to address a popular debate in America right now. Imagine that youre political candidate running for office and you have an upcoming debate in which you will be defending your position on Obamacare. Your argument broadsheets are due two days from now, one week from now,...
Changing the U.S. Health Care System
Key Issues in Health Services Policy and Management
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2013
The Fourth Edition of Changing the U.S. Health Care System addresses the key topics in health care policy and management, presenting evidence-based views of current issues. Each chapter is written by an expert in the field who integrates evidence to explain the current condition and presents support...
Out in the Rural
A Mississippi Health Center and Its War on Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
Out in the Rural is the unlikely story of the Tufts-Delta Health Center, which in 1966 opened in Mound Bayou, Mississippi, to become the first rural community health center in the United States. Its goal was simple: to provide health care and outreach to the region's thousands of rural poor, most...
Visionary Leadership in Health
Delivering Superior Value
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
This book presents a visionary leadership framework and its application toward delivering superior value in health. It provides a road map on how to create shared vision, assess vision–reality gap, identify paths to pursue, inspire, and empower stakeholders, and utilize results-based management...
by Jimoh Amzat, Oliver Razum
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
This book discusses fundamental discourses relating to health in Africa arising out of the consequences of endemic diseases in Africa. It identifies, explains and illustrates the contexts, challenges and efforts to combat these diseases. The book provides a unique comparative analysis of African contexts...
The New Psychology of Health
Unlocking the Social Cure
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Why do people who are more socially connected live longer and have better health than those who are socially isolated?
Why are social ties at least as good for your health as not smoking, having a good diet, and taking regular exercise?
Why is treatment more effective when there is an...
Principles of Health Interoperability
SNOMED CT, HL7 and FHIR
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2016
This book provides an introduction to health interoperability and the main standards used. Health interoperability delivers health information where and when it is needed. Everybody stands to gain from safer more soundly based decisions and less duplication, delays, waste and errors.
The...
Trauma and Recovery on War's Border
A Guide for Global Health Workers
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
An increasing number of students and professionals are choosing to travel the globe to engage with the realities of trauma and human suffering through mental health aid. But in the field of global mental health, good intentions are not enough to ensure good training, development, and care. The risk...
The Changing Face of Health Care Social Work
Professional Practice in Managed Behavioral Health Care, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2003
Updated and revised, this text advocates a proactive stance for health care social workers. It will serve as a practical guide that addresses the principles of practice in our current health care environment.
With the advent of numerous health care changes such as managed health care with its...
Shared Decision Making in Health Care
Achieving evidence-based patient choice
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
Over the past decade health care systems around the world have placed increasing importance on the relationship between patient choice and clinical decision-making. In the years since the publication of the second edition of Shared Decision Making in Health Care, there have been significant new developments...
by Gary W. Brunette, MD, MPH
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Health risks are real and ever-changing, especially while traveling abroad. To stay abreast of the most up-to-date health recommendations, experienced travelers and health care professionals have always relied on CDC's user-friendly Health Information for International Travel (commonly known as the...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015
Systems Biology in Toxicology and Environmental Health uses a systems biological perspective to detail the most recent findings that link environmental exposures to human disease, providing an overview of molecular pathways that are essential for cellular survival after exposure to environmental toxicants,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
This thoroughly revised and updated second edition of Methods for Community-Based Participatory Research for Health provides a step-by-step approach to the application of participatory approaches to quantitative and qualitative data collection and data analysis. With contributions from a distinguished...