Health Care Issues category: 1336 books
Health Inequality
Morality and Measurement
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2007
In the last decade, there has been an explosion of academic interest in health inequality. Although it is seldom stated explicitly, research into this area is inexorably tied to questions of morality and ethics. In this study, Yukiko Asada seeks to acknowledge the role that morality and theories of...
by Henry Fraser (Editor)
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
Described as a Renaissance man of the twenty-first century, Sir George Alleyne, Chancellor of the University of the West Indies and Director Emeritus of the Pan American Health Organization, is one of the Caribbean's finest Scholars. As a physician, scientist and public health leader, Sir George has...
Exposed Science
Genes, the Environment, and the Politics of Population Health
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
We rely on environmental health scientists to document the presence of chemicals where we live, work, and play and to provide an empirical basis for public policy. In the last decades of the 20th century, environmental health scientists began to shift their focus deep within the human body, and to...
Optimize Your Health with Omega 3
A Beginners Guide to Optimizing Your Health with Omega 3
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2017
A Beginners Guide to Optimizing Your Health with Omega 3!
You've probably been hearing a lot about Omega-3 fatty acids lately - but what exactly are they?
Of course, most people understand that Omega-3s are good for their health, but they don't know exactly why or how they work.
In...
Medicine on the Periphery
Public Health in Yucatán, Mexico, 1870–1960
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Medicine on the Periphery examines the history of the public health of Yucatán, Mexico, from the 1870s through 1960. This book includes chapters on institutions, healers, changing patterns of disease, the biomedicalization of Yucatán, and the relationship between Yucatán and the Mexican Revolutionary...
Off Balance, The American Way of Health
A Pharmacist's Perspective on Why Drugs Don't Work
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
In Off Balance, The American Way of Health, author and pharmacist Dr. Leyla Ali's shares her unique perspective of a failing healthcare system in a colorful and easy-to-read format. After reading this book, Dr. Leyla hopes the reader will not only understand the limitations of doctors and drugs, but...
by David G. Adamson
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
This is the true story of a group of employees in a community health center who started a wellness club to learn more about the typical health topics like exercise, nutrition, and stress reduction. Although they were part of the U.S. healthcare system, they weren’t any healthier than the general...
A Revolution in Health Part 2
How to Take Charge of Your Health
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2009
This book is the second book in the Revolution in Health? series. The first book, A Revolution in Health Through Nutritional Biochemistry, was written by the authors in 2007. They now follow up that work with this groundbreaking book, A Revolution in Health Part 2: How to Take Charge of Your Health....
Misdiagnosed
One Woman's Tour of--And Escape From--Healthcareland
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
A New York Times Bestseller
"Berger movingly details her journey to healing. Her indefatigable quest...underscores the fact that there is no such thing as one size fits all in medicine."—Gayatri Devi, MD, clinical associate professor, NYU School of Medicine, and author of A Calm...
Doubt is Their Product
How Industry's Assault on Science Threatens Your Health
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2008
"Doubt is our product," a cigarette executive once observed, "since it is the best means of competing with the 'body of fact' that exists in the minds of the general public. It is also the means of establishing a controversy." In this eye-opening expose, David Michaels reveals...
Half the Mother, Twice the Love
My Journey to Better Health with Diabetes
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2006
As a talk-show host and inspirational speaker, Mother Love used to have to just grin and bear it -- all that extra weight and the poor health that went along with it. Today she can truly smile as she serves up sound advice with big portions of humor in her new book about better living and good health...
Next Medicine
The Science and Civics of Health
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2011
Every year, the average American spends about $7,300 on medical expenses. The typical Canadian pays $2,700, the Briton only $2,000. And yet, according to the World Health Organization, our healthcare system, in terms of total quality, ranks thirty-eighth in the world, right between Costa Rica and...
by Jay Lee, Thomas W. Cleare, Mary Russell
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2010
In the event of a disaster or public health emergency, individual agencies and hospitals cannot always effectively act alone. In order to provide a collaborative, comprehensive system of planning and response a Healthcare Emergency Response Coalition (HERC) is needed. This book introduces the concept...
Health and Wealth Magnetism
Using the Law of Attraction to Create Health & Wealth
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2014
How to you provide a secure income for you and your family in this economy?
Can you really afford to get sick?
What about all those things you've always needed and wanted, but couldn't afford?
There's answers to all these questions and can be found inside you. Right now....