Health Well Being category: 183475 books
Cleaning Up
How Hospital Outsourcing Is Hurting Workers and Endangering Patients
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
To cut costs and maximize profits, hospitals in the United States and many other countries are outsourcing such tasks as cleaning and food preparation to private contractors. In Cleaning Up, the first book to examine this transformation in the healthcare industry, Dan Zuberi looks at the consequences...
The Madness of Our Lives
Experiences of Mental Breakdown and Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2006
`The Madness of our Lives is a worthy contribution to the literature on first person accounts of mental distress and illness. Its strength is in the range of experiences it canvasses, and in the freedom given to interviewees to tell their own stories. This is a highly readable and informative book.'
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The Healing Paradox
A Revolutionary Approach to Treating and Curing Physical and Mental Illness
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
Why does Western medicine fail to cure chronic physical and mental illness? Why do so many treatments and drugs work only for a limited time before eventually losing effectiveness or producing harmful side effects?
Dr. Steven Goldsmith's answer is at once counterintuitive and commonsensical:...
Lavender
Nature's Way to Relaxation and Health
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Lavender is one of the most versatile and beneficial plants known to herbalists. It is one of the most ancient herbal remedies known, packed with medicinal and therapeutic properties that can benefit every aspect of life.
This informative and practical book describes the plant's manifold uses--medicinal,...
The Mouth-Body Connection
The 28-Day Program to Create a Healthy Mouth, Reduce Inflammation and Prevent Disease Throughout the Body
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
Acclaimed oral health expert and wellness pioneer, Dr. Gerry Curatola, explores the bi-directional relationship between the health of your mouth and your body, and provides a groundbreaking program for creating a healthy mouth that will help maintain a healthy body.
The mouth acts as mirror...
Why Good Things Happen to Good People
How to Live a Longer, Healthier, Happier Life by the Simple Act of Giving
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2007
A longer life. A happier life. A healthier life. Above all, a life that matters—so that when you leave this world, you’ll have changed it for the better. If science said you could have all this just by altering one behavior, would you?
Dr. Stephen Post has been making headlines by funding...
by Ace McCloud
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Are you tired of being out of shape and stuck inside all the time?
Whether you want to (1) race as a professional, (2) get fit, or (3) just get away and enjoy the outdoors more, then this book will teach you everything you need to know.
Are you ready to get more energy and start enjoying...
Worried Sick
How Stress Hurts Us and How to Bounce Back
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Comments like “I’m worried sick” convey the conventional wisdom that being “stressed out” will harm our health. Thousands of academic studies reveal that stressful life events (like a job loss), ongoing strains (like burdensome caregiving duties), and even daily hassles (like traffic jams...
Health Informatics - E-Book
An Interprofessional Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Awarded second place in the 2017 AJN Book of the Year Awards in the Information Technology category. See how information technology intersects with health care! Health Informatics: An Interprofessional Approach, 2nd Edition prepares you for success in today’s technology-filled healthcare practice....
Transforming Mental Health Services
Implementing the Federal Agenda for Change
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2009
This compendium of 17 articles addresses the goals set forth by the President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health in its 2003 report, Achieving the Promise: Transforming Mental Health Care in America. The report represents the first time since the Carter Administration that such a high-level...
Big Data-Enabled Nursing
Education, Research and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
Historically, nursing, in all of its missions of research/scholarship, education and practice, has not had access to large patient databases. Nursing consequently adopted qualitative methodologies with small sample sizes, clinical trials and lab research. Historically, large data methods were limited...
Food Politics
How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
We all witness, in advertising and on supermarket shelves, the fierce competition for our food dollars. In this engrossing exposé, Marion Nestle goes behind the scenes to reveal how the competition really works and how it affects our health. The abundance of food in the United States--enough calories...
Surviving the U.S. Health System
Insurance, Providers, Well Care, Sick Care
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
Surviving the U.S. Health System is a comprehensive, relevant, accessible guidebook to staying healthy and effectively using our nation’s health system during this time of dynamic change. The book, divided into four sections--Insurance, Providers, Well Care and Sick Care--is an invaluable reference...
ION EMPIRE
Over A Century of Fraud, Corruption & Negligent Homicide with Millions Killed and Injured and Billions Still at Risk
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2018
For well over a century the very government & non government agencies that have the duty of care and are supposed to look out for the health, well being and safety of the public consumer, have in several cases been corrupted by the big $ corporations and their powerful lobbyist. Without a doubt,...