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Health Communication in Practice: A Case Study Approach offers a comprehensive examination of the complex nature of health-related communication. This text contains detailed case studies that demonstrate in-depth applications of communication theory in real-life situations. With chapters written...

Worried about your Mental Health placement? Will you fit in? Will you have the right skills? What do you need to learn for practice assessments? This book will help you with all these concerns. It will tell you what to expect from the placement, what you can learn, how to link theory and practice,...

This volume features papers on the theme of issues in health and health care for special groups, social factors and disparities. This includes papers dealing with macro-level system issues and micro-level issues involving special groups, social factors and disparities linked to issues in health and...

The globalization of trade and increasing international travel and migration poses huge challenges for health practitioners and policy makers who have to meet legal and policy obligations to provide health care of equal quality and effectiveness for all. Migration, Ethnicity, Race, and Health in Multicultural...

It has long been theorized that people living in poor areas have more health problems than their more advantaged peers. More recently, science has been testing this hypothesis, concentrating on the impact of the built environment on well-being and its contribution to health inequities. Neighbourhood...

This salient volume surveys the state of access to primary care and preventive health services by migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers across Europe. Experts in public health and allied fields identify obstacles to healthcare interventions for migrants, including costs, legal status, health-related...

I wrote this book to encourage policymakers, public health practitioners, researchers, and other stakeholders to use community health assessment to reduce the burden of diseases and other health problems in their communities. It is a powerful tool that can enable them to use quantitative research...

This volume provides a unique sociological focus on education, social factors and health beliefs in health and health care, including a review of the literature to date. Beliefs and health beliefs are considered, including one study evaluating cross-national differences in public beliefs about the...

How can you eat as much as you desire, while staying slim and attractive for life, enjoying good health and youthful vitality? How can you regain your good health and maintain it indefinitely? How can you prolong your life as much as you desire? These are essential questions, and you should always...

Health is our greatest wealth; it is the platform upon which our lives are built. It is the key that unlocks the many gifts that life bestows upon us. “Your Health Creation” is a book that takes you on a journey to discover the secrets of health, its intelligence, and how it can be created...

Health and Medical - The Complete Health System by Dr. Harry Jay is a book that follows his belief that total optimum health involves mind, body, soul and spirit. He refers to this as The Complete Person. Learn how to care for the body but more important learn about the myths and myriad of products...

Oral health is a holistic health priority. YOUR MOUTH—YOUR LIFE by Jean-Max Jean-Pierre, DDS, MDS, is an easily understandable guide to the relationship between oral health and systemic health. Not only does Periodontist Jean-Max Jean-Pierre describe how the health of your mouth and what you eat...

Essentials of Law for Health Professionals 3e has been thoroughly revised and updated throughout to reflect the most recent changes in legislation relevant to the provision of health care services in Australia. Employment status of health professionals and issues of work cover, health and safety obligations,...

Amid its growing diversity and shifting demographics, the U.S. is still home to glaring health inequities by race, ethnicity, and class. Yet while it is customary to identify poverty as their root cause, other complex mechanisms are involved in their perpetuation. Based on recent major studies on...