Health Care Issues category: 1336 books
by Danielle Ofri
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Can refocusing conversations between doctors and their patients lead to better health?
Despite modern medicine’s infatuation with high-tech gadgetry, the single most powerful diagnostic tool is the doctor-patient conversation, which can uncover the lion’s share of illnesses. However, what...
by National Initiative for the Care of the Elderly
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Older adults should take part in at least 2.5 hours of moderate to vigorous activity each week. A walking program is an inexpensive, easy and convenient way to improve overall well-being and to enhance quality of life.
Ideas and the Pace of Change
National Pharmaceutical Insurance in Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
Canada is the only OECD country that has universal, comprehensive public hospital and medical insurance but lacks equivalent pharmaceutical coverage. In Ideas and the Pace of Change, Katherine Boothe explains the reasons for this unique situation. Using archival, interview, and polling data, Boothe...
Emerging Perspectives in Health Communication
Meaning, Culture, and Power
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2009
This volume provides the theoretical, methodological, and praxis-driven issues in research on interpretive, critical, and cultural approaches to health communication. It includes an international collection of contributors, and highlights non-traditional (non-Western) perspectives on health communication.
by Anonymous
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2014
Get All The Support And Guidance You Need To Understand Getting All The Abundance You Want!
Is the fact that you would like to understand the way to get all the abundance you want in life but just don't know how making your life difficult... maybe even miserable?
First, you are NOT alone!...
by Norman Walker
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 1995
Explains how to take proper care of the colon to prevent numerous ailments.
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
The United States Fire Administration (USFA) publication EMS Safety: Techniques & Applications was developed as a comprehensive manual to address the hazards faced by EMS providers and describe ways in which emergency responders can and should deal with these risks. The purpose of the manual is...
Purchase for Profit
Public-Private Partnerships and Canada's Public Health Care System
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2015
Since the start of the twenty-first century, Canadian provinces have increasingly begun turning to the private sector to finance and construct large-scale infrastructure projects. From a critical public policy perspective, the danger of these public-private partnerships (P3s) is that they are more...
by National Initiative for the Care of the Elderly
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
WHY AGE SPECIFIC APPROACHES TO MANAGING SUBSTANCE USE
Substance Use
• Many older adults begin to have problems with their substance use during times of transition or loss (e.g. forced retirement, bereavement, new or escalating health concerns, loss of independence) • Their relationship...
Supporting Children and Families
Lessons from Sure Start for Evidence-Based Practice in Health, Social Care and Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2007
Supporting Children and Families gathers together the lessons learned from perhaps the largest scale social experiment ever undertaken in England - Sure Start, the programme designed to improve the emotional development, health and education of children.
It boils down the huge amount of knowledge...
by David Evans
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
This book uses evidence from 500 scientific papers that show, incontrovertibly, that statins not only do not improve health but cause actual harm and should be avoided. • The disturbing effects of statins on death rates, heart disease, stroke, diabetes and cancer. • Statins are a health disaster...
by Todd Leader
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2017
It’s Not About Us is a guide to improving the client experience with the mental health and addiction system across Canada. It examines the traditional and current pathology-oriented medical model, within which all of our services are built, and looks at how that model actually prevents the transformation...
Regulating Creation
The Law, Ethics, and Policy of Assisted Human Reproduction
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017
In 2004, the Assisted Human Reproduction Act was passed by the Parliament of Canada. Fully in force by 2007, the act was intended to safeguard and promote the health, safety, dignity, and rights of Canadians. However, a 2010 Supreme Court of Canada decision ruled that key parts of the act were invalid.
Regulating...
Contested Illnesses
Citizens, Science, and Health Social Movements
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2011
The politics and science of health and disease remain contested terrain among scientists, health practitioners, policy makers, industry, communities, and the public. Stakeholders in disputes about illnesses or conditions disagree over their fundamental causes as well as how they should be treated...