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Introduction to Public Health, Second Edition
Promises and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
The only public health text to incorporate new Affordable Care Act legislation
Praise for the first edition:
"More than just another preliminary textbook, this comprehensive introduction for those who are new to the field of public health weaves together its values, goals, and practices...
by Raymond L. Goldsteen, DrPH, Karen Goldsteen
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
This is the only survey of the US public health system to combine the perspectives of academicians and public health professionals. Replete with illuminating case studies, the text describes basic public health activities and services including the organization of our public health system, administrative...
Maternal and Child Health
Global Challenges, Programs, and Policies
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2009
Our current era of globalization, war, and socioeconomic unrest has revealed public health as a worldwide concern and a major frontier for social justice with maternal and child health at its epicenter. Yet, there has been a relative scarcity of training resources specifically dedicated to this crucial...
Best Practices in Midwifery, Second Edition
Using the Evidence to Implement Change
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
This second edition of a groundbreaking book is substantially expanded and revised to deliver the foundation for an evidence-based model for best practices in midwifery—a model critical to raising the United States’ current standing as the bottom-ranking country for maternity mortality among developed...
Health Promotion and Aging, Seventh Edition
Practical Applications for Health Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016
The seventh edition of this classic text champions healthy aging by demonstrating how to prevent or manage disease, and make large-scale improvements toward health and wellness in the older adult population. The text synthesizes state-of-the-art research findings—providing convincing evidence that...
Introduction to Aging
A Positive, Interdisciplinary Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
"This new textbook creates a paradigm shift with a very practical approach to problem solving. Aging is an asset. Its focus on well care rather than just sick care by understanding physical fitness, sexual fitness, consumer fitness, nutritional fitness and social fitness among others, all point...
by Adriaan Goslinga
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
A New Approach to Medicine
Principles and Priorities in Health Care
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Medicine is news. There is constant public interest in health and disease; in medical miracles and in breakthroughs; in medical disasters, failures and malpraxis ; in deficiencies and defects ofhealth services; and in the rising costs ofhealth care. Medicine is 'big business'. Physicians co me out...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
“Dorman and De Chesnay…offer a wealth of valuable information students and other healthcare providers would normally not receive until they were in the trenches of their global experience…[They] deliver…nuances of ideology about care and disease from a number of different countries, what global...
HIV/AIDS in Rural Communities
Research, Education, and Advocacy
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2017
This wide-ranging volume reviews the experience and treatment of HIV/AIDS in rural America at the clinical, care system, community, and individual levels. Rural HIV-related phenomena are explored within healthcare contexts (physician shortages, treatment disparities) and the social environment (stigma,...
by Stephen R. Balzac
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
No matter how monolithic it may appear, an organization is a collection of moving parts. Whether we are looking at building teams, providing leadership, hiring and training employees, problem solving, managing time effectively, or setting aggressive, inspiring goals, every decision can easily impact...
The Bright Side and the Dark Side of Patient Empowerment
Co-creation and Co-destruction of Value in the Healthcare Environment
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
Patient empowerment as a key component in the future of healthcare systems is the focus of this concise in-depth analysis. It begins by defining patient empowerment as a collaborative partnership linking patients, providers, and systems, and examines the roles of health literacy, provider-patient...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2017
The essays in this volume explore several key issues facing democracies today. They discuss the dilemma of how to protect civil liberties and individual freedoms in the light of external threats and assess the policies adopted by governments in this area. The book also addresses the question of how...
by Ranabir Samaddar
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2016
This important and topical volume is composed around the debt and migration crisis in Europe in 2015 (known as the Greece crisis), and written almost concurrently as the two crises developed in quick succession. The central argument here is that Europe’s present crisis suggests a post-colonial bind,...