Public Health category: 1911 books
Health is Wealth
Strategic Visions for European Healthcare at the Beginning of the 21st Century, Report of the European Parliament
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
[ The main goal of this cluster is the optimisation of the medical arts and science. In a graphical representation of human life, the lifespan or time can be shown on a horizontal axis, and the incidences of disease or health can be shown on a vertical axis. Throughout, patient exists in his personal...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
This book pursues a multidisciplinary approach in order to evaluate the socio-ecological dimensions of infectious diseases in Southeast Asia. It includes 18 chapters written by respected researchers in the fields of history, sociology, ecology, epidemiology, veterinary sciences, medicine and the environmental...
Community- Based Health Research
Issues and Methods
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2003
This book identifies key concepts of successful community-based research beyond the aspect of location, including prevention focus, population-centered partnerships, multidisciplinary cooperation, and cultural competency. Lessons from the Tuskegee Syphilis Study and case studies on HIV/AIDS prevention...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2004
Several years ago, two of us published a full-length textbook entitled Nutrition and Immunology: Principles and Practice. The book was aca demically successful and well received by our peers. Our colleagues commented that while the book was eminently suitable for a library, there was still an intellectual...
Religion and Sexual Health:
Ethical, Theological, and Clinical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Religious beliefs and attitudes have long been recognized as playing an important role in sexual functioning, but the relationship between religion and sexual behavior has rarely been studied in a comprehensive way. The essays in this volume bring the views of sex counsellors, therapists. theologians,...
Endocrine Disrupters
Environmental Health and Policies
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
During recent decades, millions of tonnes of man-made chemicals have been produced and released into the environment, with very little safety testing. Many of these chemical substances have been found to interfere with the endocrine system and modulate its function. This book not only overviews the...
by Laurence Taggart
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
This book offers a wide range of health and social care professionals, the knowledge and strategies to address key issues, enabling and empowering individuals with intellectual disabilities to enjoy healthier lives.
Arsenic Contamination in the Environment
The Issues and Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
This book provides an overview to researchers, graduate, and undergraduate students, as well as academicians who are interested in arsenic. It covers human health risks and established cases of human ailments and sheds light on prospective control measures, both biological and physico-chemical.
Arsenic...
Quality
Its Definition and Measurement As Applied to the Medically Ill
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2011
Quality, as exemplified by Quality-of-life (QoL) assessment, is frequently discussed among health care professionals and often invoked as a goal for improvement, but somehow rarely defined, even as it is regularly assessed. It is understood that some medical patients have a better QoL than others,...
Adult Health and Human Capital
Impact of Birth Weight and Childhood Growth
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Today when the world is looking towards India as a human resource capital, the quality of such resource becomes a global concern. This book studies the relation between aberrant growth, adult diseases, and human capital, and recommends growth monitoring as a tool for human capital development. The...
Writing Research Proposals in the Health Sciences
A Step-by-step Guide
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
This is your step-by-step guide on how to write successful research proposals in the health sciences, whether it is for a thesis or dissertation review committee, an ethical review committee or a grant funding committee. Using quantitative, qualitative, and mixed research approaches, follow the journey...
Connected Objects in Health
Risks, Uses and Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
Connected objects today present a range of opportunities in medicine. We live in a new digital era where the monitoring and analysis of one’s own health information no longer belongs solely to the realm of science fiction.
The success of these new devices resides in their usage, which integrates...
Transcultural Medicine
Dealing with patients from different cultures
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
WHY WE MUST PRACTISE TRANSCULTURAL MEDICINE Health professionals and GPs should concern themselves with ethnicity, religion and culture as much as with the age, sex and social class of their patients. Transcultural medicine is the knowledge of medical and communication encounters between a doctor...
Allergenic Pollen
A Review of the Production, Release, Distribution and Health Impacts
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2012
This is the first book to summarize all aspects of allergenic pollen: production, atmospheric distribution, and health impacts, as well as the means of monitoring and forecasting these phenomena. Based on a four-year effort by a large group of leading European scientists, this book highlights the...