Health category: 185398 books
by Clare Bambra
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011
We are told that 'work is good for us' and that ill health is caused by 'individual lifestyles'. Drawing on research from public health, social policy, epidemiology, geography and political science, this evidence-based inter-disciplinary book firmly challenges these contemporary orthodoxies. It systematically...
by Josie Evans, MA (Oxon) MPH PhD, Angela Scriven
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2015
Part 1 – lay out problem
Epidemiology, background, key facts, NICE guidelines
Population group most affected
Part 2
Current strategies
How are they working? – evidence
Boxes
Thinking points - will be of interest to practitioners
Key...
Health Without Borders
Epidemics in the Era of Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2017
This book discusses globalization and its impact on human health. The population of the world grew from 1 billion in 1800 to 7 billion in 2012, and over the past 50 years the mean temperature has risen faster than ever before. Both factors continue to rise, as well as health inequalities. Our environment...
Health Communication
From Theory to Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
Now in its second edition, Health Communication: From Theory to Practice provides a comprehensive introduction to theory, intervention design, current issues, and special topics in health communication. The book also represents a hands-on guide to program development, implementation, and evaluation....
United States Health Care Policymaking
Ideological, Social and Cultural Differences and Major Influences
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
Health care is a very important component of the American economy. The United States Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) put the 2008 direct health care expenditures at about $2.34 trillion, or about 16.2 percent of the nation’s gross domestic product (GDP), or an average of...
by Joia S. Mukherjee
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
"What Mukherjee attempts, and succeeds in doing, is to offer what many students -- undergraduates as well as students of medicine, nursing, and public health -- have long clamored for: a primer not only of recent developments in global health, but also a patient dissection of what has worked less...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2011
Official advice on a wide range of vital health and wellness topics is included in this up-to-date compilation of federal statements and reports. Topics covered include:
Beware of Health Scams * Miracle Health Claims: Add a Dose of Skepticism * Buying Prescription Medicine Online: A Consumer...
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'...
Collaboration across Health Research and Medical Care
Healthy Collaboration
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Health research and health care practice are radically transforming as governments invest more in large scale, national and international health projects with increasing levels of interdisciplinarity as populations age and as nations grow wealthier. This volume examines the structures and dynamics...
by John Brazier, Julie Ratcliffe, Aki Tsuchiya
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2016
There are not enough resources in health care systems around the world to fund all technically feasible and potentially beneficial health care interventions. Difficult choices have to be made, and economic evaluation offers a systematic and transparent process for informing such choices. A key component...
The Men's Health and Women's Health Big Book of Sex
Your Authoritative, Red-Hot Guide to the Sex of Your Dreams
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Good health and a fit body are inextricably entwined with great sex. On a physical level, fitness makes one a more attractive and skilled lover. On an emotional level, studies show that body image plays a key role in sexual desire and satisfaction. Research has linked a healthy sex life to lower risks...
Health System Redesign
How to Make Health Care Person-Centered, Equitable, and Sustainable
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2017
This forward-looking volume challenges professionals and interested lay readers to reconsider our ways of looking at health and wellness, illness and disease, and the goals of health/healthcare systems. Reframing health systems as complex adaptive systems, the book identifies health care as a central...
Health: What Is It Worth?
Measures of Health Benefits
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Health: What Is It Worth?: Measures of Health Benefits is a collection of papers that tackles concerns in health care services and health benefit systems.
The title first deals with the measure of health status, along with the policy that governs it and the results of contemporary biomedical research....
Health Advocacy
A Communication Approach
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
There is growing emphasis in Health Communication on the study of communication processes that aim to change systems, policies, beliefs, attitudes, and/or behaviors for the betterment of the health of individuals and communities. Engagement on behalf of individual and community health is the basis...