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by Miranda Thurston
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
‘The growth of public health courses aimed at undergraduates has created a new need for textbooks that are appropriate and stimulating. Miranda Thurston has succeeded in producing something which strikes the right note. It is wide ranging in scope without being superficial and is accessible to the...
Dedicated Lives
Talks with Those Helping Others
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2016
This book honors the legions of people in the United States who are dedicating their lives to helping others. The representative thirteen in-depth talks with fourteen people you’re about to eavesdrop on took place in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The author has g
by Mary Louise Fleming, PhD, MA
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2012
This text introduces students to the core concepts and principles of public health: the nature and scope of public health; its history; an introduction to health determinants and epidemiology; evidence-based practice in public health and understanding public health data plus more.
Key Topics in Public Health E-Book
Essential Briefings on Prevention and Health Promotion
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2005
Key Topics is a short, easy-to-read text that provides basic information about twelve key topics in public health, such as diabetes, cancer, smoking and teenage pregnancy, and how prevention and health promotion should be tackled at community and one-to-one levels. The twelve topics are the 'must-dos'...
Managing Archives
Foundations, Principles and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2006
Managing Archives provides a practical guide to archives management. It has three main target audiences: those who have been tasked by their organization to manage its archives but who have no prior training; those who are starting out as professionals or para-professionals in a record keeping environment...
Insides and Outsides
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Animate Nature
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
This book brings together diverse aspects of animate nature, diverse not only in terms of animate nature itself, but in terms of areas of study. Indeed, the book lives up to the word "interdisciplinary" in its title. It brings together diverse academic perspectives within each chapter and across chapters,...
The Alzheimer's and Memory Café
How to Start and Succeed with Your Own Café
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
The ultimate guide to starting and succeeding with an Alzheimer's or memory café, the most innovative project to support people living with dementia and their caregivers. A café meets once or twice a month for a break from the pressure of living with or caring for someone with dementia. It offers...
Fundamentals of Human Nutrition E-Book
for Students and Practitioners in the Health Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2009
Fundamentals of Human Nutrition is an authoritative overview that will help you understand the complex subject of human nutrition. This book is a digest of material from the highly successful Human Nutrition 11th edition.
‘Fundamentals’ is intended for a wide readership of students and...
Advanced Public and Community Health Nursing Practice 2e
Population Assessment, Program Planning and Evaluation
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
Written by advanced practice public/community health nurse experts, this comprehensive resource for advanced practice nursing students and clinicians builds upon the core foundations of practice: social justice, interdisciplinary practice, community involvement, disease prevention, and health promotion....
Contemporary Occupational Health Nursing
A Guide for Practitioners
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
This textbook – now thoroughly revised and updated – provides a practical guide for those in training, or practising within, occupational health nursing. Concerned with the health of people at work and the effects of work on health and health on work, this distinctive branch of public health nursing...
Promoting Health: A Practical Guide - E-Book
Forewords: Linda Ewles & Ina Simnett; Richard Parish
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
This title is now out of print. A new version with e-book is available under ISBN 9780702044564.
Promoting Health is a seminal text that has been used in the training and education of health promoters over the last 25 years and has shaped health promotion practice in the UK. This 6th edition...
by Suzanne Keene
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2006
During the past decade a number of individual museums have found imaginative ways of using their collections and of making them accessible. However, museum collections as a whole are enormous in size and quantity and the question of how can they can be put to best use is ever present. When conventional...
Promoting Health: A Practical Guide - E-Book
Ewles & Simnett
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Promoting Health: A Practical Guide continues to offer health promotion workers with an essential guide to day-to-day planning and service delivery in a variety of different areas of practice.
Describes the international and national strategies and movements that have emerged to reduce inequalities...
by Dave Bielecki
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
Hank Johnson is a bitter man. After losing his wife, Anne, to a long illness, he loses his faith. He becomes a creature of routine, spending his days visiting his wife’s gravesite and hanging out with the “baker’s dozen,” a group of guys who gather at the local diner for breakfast and car...