Public Health category: 1911 books
The Dose Makes the Poison
A Plain-Language Guide to Toxicology
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
This new edition of a widely-read and highly-acclaimed book broadens the scope of its predecessors from a heavy focus on industrial chemicals as toxicants to include drugs, food additives, cosmetics and other types of compounds that people are exposed to daily. Also new to the 3rd edition are newer...
Parenting Tips: Toilet Training
How to Potty Train Your Child
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
**How to get your child from nappies and diapers into using the toilet themselves, written by a leading expert.**An explanation of the process children go through when they learn how to use the toilet by themselves. Once you understand this process, you'll be able to help them learn to go by themselves.The...
AIDS Activist
Michael Lynch and the Politics of Community
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2003
Michael Lynch, the central figure of this book, was a long-time gay activist and a dynamic force in organizing an early response to the AIDS epidemic. Lynch's prescient articles in The Body Politic spoke to the gay communities of Toronto, New York, and San Francisco. His organizing efforts meant change...
Doctors Without Borders
Humanitarian Quests, Impossible Dreams of Médecins Sans Frontières
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
This study of Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) casts new light on the organization’s founding principles, distinctive culture, and inner struggles to realize more fully its "without borders" transnational vision.
Pioneering medical sociologist Renée C....
Hearing the Stream
A Survivor's Journey into the Sisterhood of Breast Cancer
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2015
Hearing the Stream: A Survivor’s Journey into the Sisterhood of Breast Cancer weaves together the author’s own story of her struggle with breast cancer with those of five others also diagnosed. Through each of their eyes Chambers brings to life the complexities of this disease,...
by Timothy L. Lash, Matthew P. Fox, Aliza K. Fink
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2011
Bias analysis quantifies the influence of systematic error on an epidemiology study’s estimate of association. The fundamental methods of bias analysis in epi- miology have been well described for decades, yet are seldom applied in published presentations of epidemiologic research. More recent advances...
Managing eHealth
From Vision to Reality
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
This book constitutes an excellent source of information for gaining a better understanding of information technologies in healthcare; for reviewing how healthcare will change as a consequence; and how to manage these changes in order to realise eHealth's full potential in creating value for patients, professionals and the system as a whole.
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Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2010
Clinical Governance is integral to healthcare and all doctors must have an understanding of both basic principles, and how to apply them in daily practice. Within the Clinical Governance framework, patient safety is the top priority for all healthcare organisations, with the prevention of avoidable...
by Michael Patrick Allen
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2007
By assuming it is possible to understand regression analysis without fully comprehending all its underlying proofs and theories, this introduction to the widely used statistical technique is accessible to readers who may have only a rudimentary knowledge of mathematics. Chapters discuss:
-descriptive...
Offshore Safety Management
Implementing a SEMS Program
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
Offshore Safety Management, Second Edition provides an experienced engineer's perspective on the new Safety and Environmental System (SEMS) regulations for offshore oil and gas drilling, how they compare to prior regulations, and how to implement the new standards seamlessly and efficiently. The second...
Ensuring Global Food Safety
Exploring Global Harmonization
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2009
Taking into account toxicity levels at normal consumption levels, intake per kg bodyweight and other acknowledged considerations, each chapter in this book will be based on one or more proven examples. It is intended to provide specific examples and potential improvements to the safety of the world's...
by Haiuyen Nguyen, Rend Al-Mondhiry, Taylor C. Wallace
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Contrary to the common belief that dietary supplements are “unregulated” in the United States, nutrients and other dietary ingredient-containing products have been regulated in this country for a little over a century at least in some capacity, initially through the Pure Food and Drug Act (PFDA)...
Food Safety Management
Implementing a Food Safety Program in a Food Retail Business
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
The goal of this book is to show how to build and manage a food safety department that is tasked with ensuring food safety within a food retail business. The experiences of the author as the head of Food and Product Safety at Chick-fil-A will be used as the model. Specifically, the book will discuss...
by Karen A. Hacker
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
Community Based Participatory Research by Dr. Karen Hacker presents a practical approach to CBPR by describing how an individual researcher might understand and then actually conduct CBPR research. This how-to book provides a concise overview of CBPR theoretical underpinnings, methods considerations,...