Public Health category: 1911 books
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Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2010
The Nutrition and Health series of books have had great success because each volume has the consistent overriding mission of providing health professionals with texts that are essential because each includes (1) a synthesis of the state of the science, (2) timely, in-depth reviews by the leading researchers...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
While there have been many claims of the benefits of teas through the years, and while there is nearly universal agreement that drinking tea can benefit health, there is still a concern over whether the lab-generated results are representative of real-life benefit, what the risk of toxicity might...
African Americans and Depression
Signs, Awareness, Treatments, and Interventions
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
Depression does not discriminate, and yet the ways in which people and communities view and react to depression differ. The unique experiences of African Americans are often taken into account when examining other topics of interest, but mental health in general is often overlooked. African Americans...
Design That Cares
Planning Health Facilities for Patients and Visitors
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
Design That Cares: Planning Health Facilities for Patients and Visitors, 3rd Edition is the award-winning, essential textbook and guide for understanding and achieving customer-focused, evidence-based health care design excellence. This updated third edition includes new information about how all...
Fluorine and Health
Molecular Imaging, Biomedical Materials and Pharmaceuticals
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2008
Fluorine and Health presents a critical multidisciplinary overview on the contribution of fluorinated compounds to resolve the important global issue of medicinal monitoring and health care. The involved subjects are organized in three thematic parts devoted to Molecular Imaging, Biomedical Materials...
Prediction and Change of Health Behavior
Applying the Reasoned Action Approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2007
Prediction and Change of Health Behavior honors the work of Martin Fishbein by illustrating the breadth and depth of the reasoned action approach. Focused on attitudes and their effects on health-related behavior, the book demonstrates the profound impact of Fishbein and Ajzen’s theories of reasoned action on attitude research and on the solu
by Sandra Hassink MD, FAAP
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Promote nutritional health and tackle childhood obesity with the latest practice tools and recommendations from the AAP. This popular manual will help guide pediatric health care professionals by providing information, strategies, and suggestions for approaches to prevention, intervention, and treatment...
Remembering the Body
Ethical Issues in Body Mapping Research
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
This volume* *explores the arts-based methodology of body mapping, a participant-driven approach wherein people create richly illustrated life-size maps that articulate their embodied experiences with various health issues. First developed in the global South as a means of community mobilization...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Questions concerning the notion of quality of life, its definition, and its ap plications for purposes of assessment and measurement in social and medical contexts, have been widely discussed in Scandinavia during the last ten years. To a great extent this discussion mirrors the international develop...
A New Vision for the Health Sector in Tonga
Change and Capacity Development Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
Problems facing Tonga's health care system intensified in the 1990s leading eventually to a decision by the government to address the "core problem", the Ministry of Health's planning, management, and coordination capacity. This case explores how attempts to enhance Ministry's organizational...
Work and Health
Risk Groups and Trends Scenario Report Commissioned by the Steering Committee on Future Health Scenarios
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2007
Fault Lines of Care
Gender, HIV, and Global Health in Bolivia
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
The HIV epidemic in Bolivia has received little attention on a global scale in light of the country’s low HIV prevalence rate. However, by profiling the largest city in this land-locked Latin American country, Carina Heckert shows how global health-funded HIV care programs at times clash with local...
by Don Philpott
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
Critical Government Documents on Health Care reviews of many of the major health issues facing us today. The book does not argue any one viewpoint. Instead, it is an attempt to gather together information from as many sources as possible and presents arguments for and against the issues covered so...
Tears for My Sisters
The Tragedy of Obstetric Fistula
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
Millions of women suffer from obstetric fistula, a catastrophic childbirth complication that exists today mainly in the world’s poorest countries. Fistulas are created by the prolonged pressure of the fetal head in the birth canal during obstructed labor, which grievously injures a woman’s bladder,...