Public Health category: 1911 books
by Alan Levinovitz
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 14, 2016
El libro enseña al lector a dejar de sentir culpa por los alimentos que consume y volver a tener amor por su alimentación, sin que ésta deje de ser balanceada.
El autor asegura que no es la primera vez que se pone de moda un hábito alimenticio celíaco. Incluso, Levinovitz habla del efecto...
Female-to-Male (FtM) Transgender People’s Experiences in Australia
A National Study
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2015
This Briefs is the first national study on female-to-male (FtM) transgender people’s experiences in Australia. It describes an extensive study that fills the current gap in Australian research on the specific experiences and beliefs about transition for contemporary Australian FtM transgender...
by Arcangelo Badoladi - Attilio Sabato
Language: Italian
Release Date: August 2, 2012
Language: Italian
Release Date: August 2, 2012
Codice Rosso è un viaggio da incubo nella Sanità calabrese che porta il lettore a sprofondare nelle malebolge dell’inferno dantesco.
E sono vere e proprie trivelle le penne dei due attenti giornalisti calabresi, Arcangelo Badolati e Attilio Sabato, che scavano in un sistema putrido e putrescente...
The Justice Motive as a Personal Resource
Dealing with Challenges and Critical Life Events
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Beginning with the assumption that a justice motive exists, the author posits that belief in a just world influences the behavior of most people most of the time. This is true for all people of all ages and in all areas of life, for those struggling with their daily tasks as well as for those coping...
Pandemics, Pills, and Politics
Governing Global Health Security
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
A pill can strengthen national security? The suggestion may seem odd, but many states around the world believe precisely that. Confronted with pandemics, bioterrorism, and emerging infectious diseases, governments are transforming their security policies to include the proactive development, acquisition,...
by Rafael Álvarez Alva, Pablo Kuri Morales
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 16, 2019
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 16, 2019
La salud de una población es resultado de múltiples factores y no solamente de la calidad de la atención sanitaria. En el cumplimiento del derecho a la protección de la salud se involucran diversos actores y sectores. Sin embargo, estos esfuerzos deben implementarse de manera organizada, y para...
Trent'anni di Servizio Sanitario Nazionale
Il punto di vista di un manager
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 5, 2012
A pi di trentŐanni dalla nascita del Servizio Sanitario Nazionale (SSN), il presente volume prova a ripercorrere le tappe fondamentali che hanno determinato le caratteristiche attuali del sistema di tutela della salute nel nostro Paese, attraverso il dinamico equilibrio che si genera tra la dimensione...
Arbeitswelt und stressbedingte Erkrankungen
Forschungsevidenz und präventive Maßnahmen
Language: German
Release Date: January 14, 2015
Die Balance zwischen Leistung und Belohnung
Das Buch fasst die wichtigsten Ergebnisse einer langjährigen Forschung des bekannten Medizinsoziologen Professor Johannes Siegrist an der Universität Düsseldorf zu Stress am Arbeitsplatz und den gesundheitlichen Folgen zusammen.
Die Originalität...
by AA. VV.
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Uno strumento di serio aggiornamento scientifico e culturale sugli alimenti di origine animale per studenti, imprese delle filiere agro-zootecniche, professionisti e comuni cittadini.
Nebelwelten
Abwege und Selbstbetrug in der Demenz-Szene
Language: German
Release Date: June 28, 2016
Demenz ist in aller Munde: Die Medien berichten regelmäßig. In der "Demenz-Szene" gären ständig neue Versorgungskonzepte, und die Forschung liefert Woche für Woche Meldungen über den angeblich bevorstehenden Durchbruch. Nun hat sogar die Regierung eine Allianz für Menschen mit Demenz gebildet....
Ian Frazer
The Man Who Saved a Million Lives
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
An unforgettable story of perseverance and aspiration, this biography of Dr. Ian Frazer, the man whose vaccine for cervical cancer has helped save the lives of more than 275,000 women around the world each year, peels back the many layers of his extraordinary life. Given exclusive access to Frazer,...
Understanding Marijuana
A New Look at the Scientific Evidence
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2002
Marijuana is the world's most popular illicit drug, with hundreds of millions of regular users worldwide. One in three Americans has smoked pot at least once. The Drug Enforcement Agency estimates that Americans smoke five million pounds of marijuana each year. And yet marijuana remains largely misunderstood...
The Antivaccine Heresy
Jacobson v. Massachusetts and the Troubled History of Compulsory Vaccination in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Most people today celebrate vaccination as a great achievement, yet many nineteenth-century Americans opposed it, so much in fact that states had to make vaccination compulsory. In response, antivaccination societies formed all over the United States, lobbying state legislatures and bringing lawsuits...
by Vince Stead
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
“I stayed in my garage and lit up a cigarette, and then I smoked it. Then I lit up another one and smoked it, and I don't think I ever smoked one right after the other, unless I was drinking.”
“I lit up a 3rd cigarette, and I could not almost smoke that one, and then I started inhaling...