Public Health category: 1911 books
The Social Validity Manual
Subjective Evaluation of Interventions
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2019
Social Validity is a concept used in behavioral intervention research. It focuses on whether the goals of treatment, the intervention techniques used, and the outcomes achieved are acceptable, relevant, and useful to the individual in treatment. The Social Validity Manual, 2e, provides background...
Dietary Phosphorus
Health, Nutrition, and Regulatory Aspects
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2017
Phosphorus is an essential nutrient that occurs in almost all foods and is important for many normal physiological functions. In a typical Western diet, it is not harmful, but does adversely affect tissues in the body when consumed in excess or deficiency. This book provides a comprehensive review...
by Ronald R. Watson
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
A major national goal is to improve the health of the populace while advancing our opportunities to pursue happiness. Simulta neously, there are both increasing health costs and increasing demands that more be accomplished with less financial support. The number of deaths attributable to the consumption...
Pandora's Lab
Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
What happens when ideas presented as science lead us in the wrong direction?
History is filled with brilliant ideas that gave rise to disaster, and this book explores the most fascinating—and significant—missteps: from opium's heyday as the pain reliever of choice to recognition of opioids...
Rx for Survival
Why We Must Rise to the Global Health Challenge
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2007
A New York Times reporter?s eye-opening call to arms in the fight against epidemic diseases
We face a great choice. Philip Hilts, a prizewinning journalist for the New York Times and the Washington Post, argues in this report on global epidemic diseases that the world?s leading nations now...
by Jeff Nisker
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
Patiently Waiting For… is the story of the indomitable, feisty, and subversive Ruth, who, having quadriplegia, longs to access a wider world through use of available software and a computer. She decides to almost run over, with her power chair, a physician who is also a writer of health-related...
The End of Epidemics
The Looming Threat to Humanity and How to Stop It
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
"Dr. Quick’s urgent message makes one hope that this book will reach a huge audience and that its exhortations will be acted on everywhere." - Meredith Wadman, The Wall Street Journal
A leading doctor offers answers on the one of the most urgent questions of our time: How do we...
The AIDS Generation: Stories of Survival and Resilience
Stories of Survival and Resilience
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2013
For young gay men who came of age in the United States in the 1980s, the HIV/AIDS epidemic was a formative experience in fear, hardship, and loss. Those who were diagnosed before 1996 suffered an exceptionally high rate of mortality, and the survivors -- both the infected individuals and those close...
Why Nobody Believes the Numbers
Distinguishing Fact from Fiction in Population Health Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2012
Why Nobody Believes the Numbers introduces a unique viewpoint to population health outcomes measurement: Results/ROIs should be presented as they are, not as we wish they would be. This viewpoint contrasts sharply with vendor/promoter/consultant claims along two very important dimensions:
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Generic Drugs
A Consumer’S Self-Defense Guide
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2011
When you purchase drug products, you dont expect them to be contaminated with antifreeze, industrial chemicals, glass, or dangerous bacteria. But this happens every day when uninformed consumers buy prescription or over-the- counter and behind-the-counter drug products.
Armed with the right...
Advancing Federal Sector Health Care
A Model for Technology Transfer
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
This book focuses on todays attempts to reshape the federal healthcare system. The major strength of the text lies in its use of examples that show how process redesign and the integration of enabling technologies lead to performance improvement and cost reduction. The contributors draw upon their...
by American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation, Wendy Levinson, Shiphra Ginsburg
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
A groundbreaking text on how to deliver the highest quality patient care through professionalism in daily medical practice
Five Star Doody’s Review:
“This is an outstanding book for all clinicians and professors, indeed for everyone in medicine to help mentor and self-police the medical profession.”
"Understanding...
The Death Gap
How Inequality Kills
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
We hear plenty about the widening income gap between the rich and the poor in America and about the expanding distance separating the haves and the have-nots. But when detailing the many things that the poor have not, we often overlook the most critical—their health. The poor die sooner. Blacks...
Nutrient Metabolism
Structures, Functions, and Genetics
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2003
Nutrient Metabolism defines the molecular fate of nutrients and other dietary compounds in humans, as well as outlining the molecular basis of processes supporting nutrition, such as chemical sensing and appetite control. It focuses on the presentation of nutritional biochemistry; and the reader is...