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by Vera E Gilford, Nathaniel Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2016
When people really want to lose weight or gain better health they become enlightened. Feeding your body leads to weight gain, but nourishing your cells leads to losing weight and better health. Learn more about health at the cellular level. Learn why no weight loss program will work if it does...
Global Mental Health
Prevention and Promotion
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
This international survey defines mental health as a basic human right, and tracks the emergence of mental health prevention and promotion as a global priority. Locating mental illness within a cycle of negative causes and effects affecting human quality of life, the editors identify modern policy...
Mexican Americans and Health
¡Sana! ¡Sana!
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
By the middle of the twenty-first century, one out of every six Americans will be of Mexican descent; and as health care becomes of increasing concern to all Americans, the particular needs of Mexican Americans will have to be more thoroughly addressed. Mexican Americans and Health explains how the...
by Malcolm Lazenby, Gayle Hardie
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2019
From the introduction:
"Building emotional health levels has always been at the heart of our work together. It was our intent for the Global Leadership Foundation when we established it in 2003: ‘raising emotional health levels across the globe’.
We have been working with emotional...
Community/Public Health Nursing Practice - E-Book
Health for Families and Populations
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Focusing on practical, need-to-know information, Community/Public Health Nursing Practice helps you learn how to apply the nursing process at the community and family level. It features an engaging, easy-to-understand writing style, as well as assessment tools, detailed case studies, and clinical...
Reframing health and health policy in Ireland
A governmental analysis
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
This edited collection is the first to apply the theoretical lens of post-Foucauldian governmentality to an analysis of health problems, practices, and policy in Ireland. Drawing on empirical examples related to childhood, obesity, mental health, smoking, ageing and others, the collection explores...
by Peter Anthamatten, Helen Hazen
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
Health issues such as the emergence of infectious diseases, the potential influence of global warming on human health, and the escalating strain of increasing longevity and chronic conditions on healthcare systems are of growing importance in an increasingly peopled and interconnected world. A geographic...
Fast Facts on Adolescent Health for Nursing and Health Professionals
A Care Guide in a Nutshell
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
This latest addition to the ìFast Factsî series, authored by nursing luminary Judith Herrman, is a pithy, authoritative guide to adolescent health designed specifically for nurses at all levels and other health professionals. It is the only book written for health care professionals who work with...
Rural Health Disparities
Public Health, Policy, and Planning Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2019
This innovative resource offers a unique, multidisciplinary approach for the utilization of planning theory to eliminate health disparities in rural communities. The book provides tools in the public health, policy, and planning disciplines to help resolve significant differences in life expectancy...
Mental Health Services for Vulnerable Children and Young People
Supporting Children who are, or have been, in Foster Care
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
More than half of children either in foster care, or adopted from care in the developed world, have a measurable need for mental health services, while up to one quarter present with complex and severe trauma- and attachment-related psychological disorders. This book outlines how services can effectively...
Hiv
Issues with Mental Health and Illness
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Learn why it’s time for a new era in mental health and prevention science
HIV: Issues with Mental Health and Illness is a comprehensive examination of the co-morbidity that exists between HIV/AIDS and mental illness. Internationally recognized experts in the field analyze the latest research...
by James H. Lake
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Dr. Lake has made a significant contribution to integrative medicine in this book by helping to weave the integral tapestry around the complex issues of mental illness. In honor of his efforts to restore healing and meaning to mental healthcare, I bow deeply. --From the foreword by Larry Dossey, MD Dr....
Health and Suffering in America
The Context and Content of Mental Health Care
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Health and Suffering in America analyzes how we came to see various forms of suffering as "mental illness," and argues that social and historical dynamics, not scientific discovery, gave us this notion. Robert Fancher argues that the beliefs of mental health professionals have less to do...
Globalization and Health
Pathways, Evidence and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2009
Contemporary globalization has had tremendous impact on health equity across the globe. However, no volume has systematically analyzed the relationship between globalization and global trends in health outcomes. This book consolidates and updates the findings of a global research project undertaken...