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Social Work Health and Mental Health
Practice, Research and Programs
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Rise to today’s challenges with these innovative and helpful value-based solutions!
Containing important, research-based insights into social work practice in these fields, Social Work Health and Mental Health Practice, Research and Programs provides unique perspectives on shared practice...
Nunavut
A Health System Profile
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Based on extensive research including visits to most health centres and facilities in Nunavut, Gregory Marchildon and Renée Torgerson have produced a comprehensive review of healthcare in Canada's newest territory. Nunavut: A Health System Profile provides an in-depth examination of population health...
by Prof Michael Balfour, Dr Sheila Preston
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
Applied Theatre: Performing Health and Wellbeing is the first volume in the field to address the role that theatre, drama and performance have in relation to promoting, developing and sustaining health and wellbeing in diverse communities. Challenging concepts and understanding of health, wellbeing...
Journey to Healing
Aboriginal People with Mental Health and Addiction Issues: What Health, Social Service and Justice Workers Need to Know
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2015
Helping to promote healing in Aboriginal people with addiction and mental health issues requires specialized knowledge and unique skills. Health, social service and justice workers must first have a grasp of history and the emotional legacy that today’s generation of Aboriginal people carry. They...
by David Hewitt
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2004
This text is a guide to good practice within adult mental health care, providing a comprehensive introduction to mental health and illness. It is designed to aid mental health professionals and workers, agencies, and any individuals coming in to contact with mental illness, in recognising a mental...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2002
Quality, Evidence and Effectiveness is unique in bringing together, for the first time, the critical concepts of quality assurance and effectiveness in relation to health promotion and research.
Contributions from leading health promotion specialists around the world discuss how best to push forward...
Understanding Your Health and Fitness
Salem Rao, B.Sc (Hons),.Ph.D.F.R.S.H. (Lond).,P.T.S. Canfitpro Pro Trainer
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
This book, with two parts and eleven chapters, is timely and falls within Canadas national health goals relating on health and fitness. Years of poor lifestyle can often result in a variety of health-related problems, such as orthopedic, diabetic conditions and other metabolic disorders, which lead...
Health Transitions and the Double Disease Burden in Asia and the Pacific
Histories of Responses to Non-Communicable and Communicable Diseases
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
Chronic diseases—cardiovascular disease, cancer, chronic respiratory disease and diabetes—are not only the principal cause of world-wide mortality but also are now responsible for a striking increase in the percentage of sickness in developing countries still grappling with the acute problems...
by Garry Hunt
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
The second edition of the Health and Safety Pocket Book has been fully revised and updated to include all the relevant legal, HSE ACoP/Guidance and practice references. It remains a handy reference tool for practising health and safety professionals, auditors, managers, HR personnel, employee representatives...
Caring for the World
A Guidebook to Global Health Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2008
As disparities in health care continue to widen between wealthy and impoverished nations, an increasing number of medical professionals are committing themselves to the growing field of global health. Caring for the World assembles the stories, experience, and advice of prominent global health practitioners...
The Whiz Kid's Perfect Health Guide
Increase Life Span, Lose Weight, and Live Happier
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2013
Profits support the Horizons for Homeless Children in Boston
Want to lower cholesterol levels? Want to increase your life span? Just want to read this book to kill time?
Well, congratulations because you have found the correct book. Please do not find the number of pages intimidating...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
The global expansion of HIV programming (HIV "scale-up") and the growth of global health in the past decade reshaped politics, power, civic relations, and citizen subjectivities in countries across the globe. This book draws on interdisciplinary research from numerous sites in the Global...
Baby Boomer Health Dynamics
How Are We Aging?
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
Are the baby boomers in Canada more or less healthy than previous generations? What are the implications of this for the national health care system? Baby Boomer Health Dynamic responds to the growing interest in the generation that makes up over one-third of the Canadian population – the largest...
Health Disparities Among Under-served Populations
Implications for Research, Policy and Praxis
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2012
"Health Disparities Among Under-served Populations: Implications for Research, Policy and Praxis", focuses on a topic of national concern. Both disparities in health status and in health care reflect the continuing power of race, social class, and gender as forces that define the social...