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Litigating the Right to Health in Africa
Challenges and Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Health rights litigation is still an emerging phenomenon in Africa, despite the constitutions of many African countries having provisions to advance the right to health. Litigation can provide a powerful tool not only to hold governments accountable for failure to realise the right to health, but...
by Barry S. Levy;Victor W. Sidel;Marian Wright Edelman
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2005
Two past presidents of the American Public Health Association have edited this book on the ways in which social injustice causes and contributes to public health problems. Their previous books War and Public Health and errorism and Public Health both dealt with specific issues of social injustice as...
Ethics in Health Services and Policy
A Global Approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2011
This comprehensive textbook analyzes the ethical issues of health and health care in global perspective. Ideal for students of public health, medicine, nursing and allied health professions, public policy, and ethics, the book helps students in all these areas to develop important competencies in...
Introduction to Health Care Quality
Theory, Methods, and Tools
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
Introduction to Health Care Quality explores the issues of quality management in today's health care environment, and provides clear guidance on new and perennial challenges in the field. The idea of 'quality' is examined in the context of a variety of health care situations, with practical emphasis...
Health-Care Reform
A Surgeon’S Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
In this study, Dr. Ashraf A. Hilmy, with a surgeons objective, no-nonsense precision and an unabashed lack of political correctness, dissects the current state of health-care delivery in America. In practice since 1979, he is board certified in surgery, anesthesiology, critical-care medicine, and...
Researching Corporations and Global Health Governance
An Interdisciplinary Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
The profound changes to the world economy since the late twentieth century have been characterised by a growth in the number and size of transnational corporations. In this context, there is now increasing evidence of unprecedented reversals in health indicators among populations around the world....
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Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
This book demonstrates different statistical techniques for analyzing health-related data as well as providing new techniques for forecasting and/or projecting the incidence of diseases/disorders. It presents information on a variety of health related issues from the developed and developing world....
Aging With Health - The Secrets To Healthy Aging And Making The Best Of Your Golden Years.
Aging Book Series, #1
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2015
Aging With Health: Making the Best of the Golden Years.This is volume 1 in a series of 3 Aging books.If you want to understand aging with health and want to know the secrets of anti-aging, aging well, and aging gracefully and strong, then you're about to discover and understand the benefits...
Justice, Luck & Responsibility in Health Care
Philosophical Background and Ethical Implications for End-of-Life Care
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2012
In this book, an international group of philosophers, economists and theologians focus on the relationship between justice, luck and responsibility in health care. Together, they offer a thorough reflection on questions such as: How should we understand justice in health care? Why are health care...
The Truth About Big Medicine
Righting the Wrongs for Better Health Care
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Many Americans believe that their healthcare is second to none. Most patients, therefore, fail to appreciate the flaws and dangers present while receiving medical care. In fact, the American health care industry is one of the great tragedies of this country, which is now being brought to its knees...
Health Communication
Theoretical and Critical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
Health communication is key to promoting good population and individual health outcomes. As the field has developed, there is a growing need for a critical appraisal of the ideologies and theories underpinning health communication in order to ensure effective practice.
This book clearly situates...
by Stephen M. Roth
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2007
Genetics Primer for Exercise Science and Health is the first text dedicated to the basic concepts of genetics in relation to the broad range of topics in exercise science and health. Author Stephen M. Roth, PhD, makes the content comprehensible for readers who are unfamiliar with genetics without...
The Future of Mental Health
Deconstructing the Mental Disorder Paradigm
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
The Future of Mental Health drills to the heart of the current mental health crisis, where hundreds of millions of individuals worldwide receive unwarranted "mental disorder diagnoses." It paints a picture of how mental health providers can improve their practices to better serve individuals...
The Women's Health Book
A Guide for the Irish Woman
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
Following on from the success of The Men's Health Book, The Women's Health Book is a comprehensive and informative guide to female health written by GP and owner of the Women's Health Clinic in Dun Laoghaire Dr Rachel Mackey.
The Women's Health Book:
Addresses the lack of a thorough...