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Old and Sick in America
The Journey through the Health Care System
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
Since the introduction of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965, the American health care system has steadily grown in size and complexity. Muriel R. Gillick takes readers on a narrative tour of American health care, incorporating the stories of older patients as they travel from the doctor's office to the...
by Yoav Ben-Shlomo, Sara Brookes, Matthew Hickman
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013
Translating the evidence from the bedside to populations
This sixth edition of the best-selling Epidemiology, Evidence-based Medicine and Public Health Lecture Notes equips students and health professionals with the basic tools required to learn, practice and teach epidemiology and health prevention...
by Leslie R. Halpern, MD, DDS
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
This issue of Dental Clinics features expert clinical reviews on Evidence-Based Women's Oral Health which includes current information on topics such as strategic planning for prioritizing oral health gender disparities, oral health gender disparities and systemic health, oral health gender disparities...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
This handbook incisively explores challenges and opportunities that exist in efforts aimed at addressing inequities in mental health provision across the globe. Drawing on various disciplines across the humanities, psychology, and social sciences it charts the emergence of Global Mental Health as...
Best Practices for Environmental Health
Environmental Pollution, Protection, Quality and Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
In a present where there are countless opportunities for the spread of exotic diseases, the expansion and creation of far more illness in our global population through globalization and rapid transportation, and the contamination of water, air and land, we find ourselves accountable. In this day and...
Return to Health
Overcoming the Unimaginable and Beating the Odds
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2012
For three long years, the entire Kuhn family suffered through a mysterious illness that no doctor could identify. They had been everywhere and tried everything. MRIs, CT scans, diagnostic ultrasounds, panels of blood work, hormone testing, urinalysis; you name it, they did it. Visiting general practitioners,...
Understanding and Using Health Experiences
Improving patient care
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Improving patient experience is a global priority for health policy-makers and care providers. The need to look at healthcare delivery through the eyes of patients is widely accepted, but how should it be done? What use can be made of this information, and what evidence is there that such exercises...
by Bob Cutillo, MD
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2016
A Redeemed and Renewed Vision of Health
Despite all the care available to us, our society is more concerned about health than ever. Increased technology and access to health care give us the illusion of control but can never deliver us from the limitations of our bodies.
But what if...
Holism and Complementary Medicine
Origins and principles
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006
The return to holistic therapies is one of the most important developments in health over the past two decades. With preventative medicine being taken more seriously by conventional health practitioners, and the increasing popularity of natural and complementary therapies among consumers, it is clear...
by Terry Cooksey
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2011
A Revolutionary book for improving your health and curing and preventing many chronic diseases and conditions that doctors have no cures for. Doing what this book says will cure and prevent at least 80% of all disease.
There is no other book available that gives you the information that...
Health Promotion in the Working World
In collaboration with World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Rosmarie Erben The International Conference on "Health Promotion in the Working World" was organized by the Federal Centre for Health Education, Col ogne, in collaboration with the Regional Office for Europe of the World Health Organization, Copenhagen. It was held 7-9 October 1985 in...
Mental Health and Wellbeing through Schools
The Way Forward
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Mental Health and Wellbeing through Schools brings together international experts from various disciplines to identify and address a range of current challenges in this rapidly-developing field of endeavour.
The opening chapter details lessons learned from research and practice,...
AIDS and Mental Health Practice
Clinical and Policy Issues
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Addressing contemporary issues faced by individuals with HIV/AIDS, AIDS and Mental Health Practice: Clinical and Policy Issues provides psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, and counselors with research and case studies that offers models for effective clinical practice at this stage of the...
Anticipating and Assessing Health Care Technology, Volume 2
Future technological changes. A report commissioned by the Steering Committee on Future Health Scenarios
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
As noted in the Foreword, this report is the second of several volumes resulting from this study of future health care technology. The purpose of the study, as formulated by the STG, was to analyze future health care technology. Part of the task was to develop an 'early warning system' for health...