Health category: 185398 books
The Challenges of Mental Health Caregiving
Research • Practice • Policy
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
Caring for the ill, disabled, very old, or very young requires a labor-intensive commitment that is not only essential to the well-being of individuals and to society as a whole, but also fraught with physical, financial, and psychological risks. And despite the critical nature of their job, caregivers...
The Bottom Line
The Truth Behind Private Health Insurance in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006
The Alberta government is looking to the private sector – and in particular to private health insurance – to solve health care problems. However, private health insurance is mired in myth and misunderstanding. The Bottom Line summarizes a huge body of evidence to get to the truth: private health...
by Olivia Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2017
Do you suffer from chronic pain? Have you been searching for an alternative pain reliever instead of swallow pills every six to eight hours? Reflexology could be the natural treatment you have been looking for. Reflexology Take Charge of Your Health covers easy techniques that you can perform on yourself...
Public Health Informatics
Designing for change - a developing country perspective
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Over the last three decades enormous effort has gone into strengthening public health information systems (HIS). They are now a key element of health sector reform initiatives, but are growing in complexity. This is driven by the increasing diversity of technology platforms, increasing demands for...
by Gottret Pablo; Schieber George; Waters Hugh R.
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
For humanitarian reasons and the concern for households' economic and health security, the health sector is at the center of global development policy. Developing countries and the international community are scaling up health systems to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and are improving...
Getting Better
Improving Health System Outcomes in Europe and Central Asia
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
Fifty years ago, health outcomes in the countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia were not far behind those in Western Europe and well ahead of most other regions of the world. But progress since then has been slow. While life expectancy in the ECA region today is close to the global average, the...
The Affordable Care Act and Integrated Behavioural Health Care
Meeting the Health and Behavioral Health Needs of a Diverse Society
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
This book provides a scholarly discussion of arguably the most important advance in U.S. public health services since Medicare 50 years ago - how the Federal program known as the Patient Care and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA) or "Obamacare" became law. It addresses ACA in terms of its...
Health and Exclusion
Policy and Practice in Health Provision
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2005
Health and Exclusion is a pioneering examination of those policies and practices of exclusion currently experienced by health 'customers' in the UK.
Chapters document examples of exclusion in a number of controversial areas, including:
*the impact of poverty on the health of children
*exclusion in...
Discover Your Optimal Health
The Guide to Taking Control of Your Weight, Your Vitality, Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
What is optimal health?
As one of the nation's foremost physicians in nutritional intervention, Dr. Wayne Scott Andersen has devoted his career to creating optimal health through a comprehensive approach that addresses and breaks through logistical and psychological barriers.
Widely...
by Ron Kness
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
All most of us want is to be healthy. As they say, “When you have your health, you have everything.” We want to be empowered and in control of our health. But the first step to any goal is writing a roadmap of the step you will take to reach that goal.
We can achieve our goal of good health...
Young People and the Aesthetics of Health Promotion
Beyond Reason, Rationality and Risk
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Health promotion with young people has largely been framed by theories of behaviour change to target ‘unsafe’, ‘unhealthy’ and/or ‘risky’ behaviours. These theories and models seek to encourage the development in young people of reasoned, rational and risk-aware personal strategies.
This...
Disease and Discovery
A History of the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, 1916–1939
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
At the end of the nineteenth century, public health was the province of part-time political appointees and volunteer groups of every variety. Public health officers were usually physicians, but they could also be sanitary engineers, lawyers, or chemists—there was little agreement about the skills...
A New Era in Global Health
Nursing and the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Explores the great potential for nursing involvement in promoting global health.
This unique text elucidates the relationship between global nursing and global health, underscoring the significance of nurses’ contributions in furthering the Post-2015 Agenda of the United Nations regarding...
Classrooms and Clinics
Urban Schools and the Protection and Promotion of Child Health, 1870-1930
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Classrooms and Clinics is the first book-length assessment of the development of public school health policies from the late nineteenth century through the early years of the Great Depression. Richard A. Meckel examines the efforts of early twentieth-century child health care advocates and reformers...