Health Well Being category: 183475 books
Profit Is Not the Cure
A Citizen's Guide to Saving Medicare
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2011
On July 12, 1966, the Medical Care Insurance Act was passed by the federal House of Commons after a ferocious public debate that pitted the vast majority of Canadians against a powerful alliance of business, insurance companies, and doctors.
More than thirty years later, the same battle is...
by Hans Keiding
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2017
As a relatively young discipline, health economics as it appears today contains many features which can be traced back to its beginnings. Since it arose in the interface between the medical sciences and economics, the way of dealing with problems were often influenced by traditions which were well-established...
Stress-Free Diabetes
Your Guide to Health and Happiness
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2010
Reduce stress and its harmful complications to your disease
Diabetes is a stressful disease and only adds stress to our busy lives. Prolonged stress can cause serious and extensive harm to our hearts, kidneys, eyes, nerves, and mental well-being. Learning to manage stress well will help you...
by Gordon F Gatiss
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
A book for the person who is serious about enhancing and changing their life; written by a Psychotherapist from personal experience, and of working with many people. The narrative explains a radical proven way of making beneficial changes in your life. The processes and techniques explained are the results...
The Shocking Reality of Violence in Healthcare
And What We Can Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
The book that could save your life. Are you a healthcare worker who has been assaulted, or know someone who has? Violence against healthcare workers has reached epidemic levels, and emergency personnel are particularly at risk. Assaults on healthcare staff are leading to life-changing injuries,...
The Cult and Science of Public Health
A Sociological Investigation
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
In contemporary manifestations of public health rituals and events, people are being increasingly united around what they hold in common—their material being and humanity. As a cult of humanity, public health provides a moral force in society that replaces ‘traditional’ religions in times of...
Genetic Governance
Health, Risk and Ethics in a Biotech Era
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2005
Ethical and practical issues around genetic research are of major international concern, both in academia and in the public domain. Questions concerning what interventions are possible and appropriate with the increasing amount of genetic information available, challenge our understandings of ourselves,...
Ignite!
Getting Your Community Coalition Fired up for Change
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
Frances Dunn Butterfoss, Ph.D., captured the attention of academics and practitioners everywhere with her landmark textbook, Coalitions and Partnerships in Community Health, which provided a comprehensive approach to coalitions. Ignite! Getting Your Community Coalition Fired Up for Change is a more...
Thyroid Power
Ten Steps to Total Health
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Fatigue; weight gain; depression; arthritis; high cholestrol; low sex drive; skin, digestive, and female problems; abnormal blood pressure -- all may be symptoms of low thyroid, one of the most misdiagnosed disorders in America.
Thyroid Power can help you determine whether you're one of the...
Dr. Suzanne Steinbaum's Heart Book
Every Woman's Guide to a Heart-Healthy Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
In the tradition of Christiane Northrup, a renowned cardiologist integrates emotional and physical well-being in a revolutionary new approach to women’s heart health.
As a cardiologist with a specialization in women’s heart disease, Dr. Steinbaum has helped thousands of patients resolve...
The Little Book of Energy Medicine
The Essential Guide to Balancing Your Body's Energies
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2012
The Little Book of Energy Medicine is a simple, easy-to-use "pocket guide" to one of the most powerful alternative health practices in existence today, from world-renowned healer Donna Eden. In this book, Eden draws on more than three decades of experience to offer readers a simple introduction to...
by Rhonda King
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
Anyone who has suffered from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and/or Fibromyalgia will empathize with Rhonda King’s ten-year journey through chronic illness and eventual return to full health. Rhonda tells her story with candidness and humour. She shares her knowledge about these two life-changing conditions...
Vitamania
How Vitamins Revolutionized the Way We Think About Food
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
"A hidden, many-faceted, and urgent story." --Booklist, *STARRED*
Most of us know nothing about vitamins. What’s more, what we think we know is harming both our personal nutrition and our national health. By focusing on vitamins at the expense of everything else, we’ve become blind to the...
Managing the Myths of Health Care
Bridging the Separations between Care, Cure, Control, and Community
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
**“Health care is not failing but succeeding, expensively, and we don't want to pay for it. So the administrations, public and private alike, intervene to cut costs, and herein lies the failure.”
In this sure-to-be-controversial book, leading management thinker Henry Mintzberg turns his...