wyszukanych pozycji: 10
Rethinking Health Promotion: A Global Approach
ISBN: 9780415164740 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In today's world 'health' means far more than merely the absence of illness. In Rethinking Health Promotion Theodore H. MacDonald sweeps away the confusion surrounding the function and position of health promotion. He argues that, far from being a modern innovation, health promotion has existed as a distinct and separate enterprise for as long as biomedicine and cautions against health promotion becoming organized merely an off-shoot of medical care.
Drawing on the author's experience as a World Health Organisation consultant, the book also tackles the question of whether health... In today's world 'health' means far more than merely the absence of illness. In Rethinking Health Promotion Theodore H. MacDonald sweeps away...
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807,08 zł |
Health, Human Rights and the United Nations: Inconsistent Aims and Inherent Contradictions?
ISBN: 9781846192418 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. 'In the light of impending environmental catastrophe, people all over the world, in all walks of life, are becoming more aware of the pressing need to act globally. The need to base our decisions and actions less on parochial national advantage, sequestered in hate and suspicion of other nation's playing the same game of Russian roulette, have to give way to a new appreciation of the fact that our global village is indeed so very small and perilously frail. We depend upon one another as never before and, unless we insure the health and human rights of all, we shall surely each perish...
'In the light of impending environmental catastrophe, people all over the world, in all walks of life, are becoming more aware of the pressing need to...
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223,85 zł |
The Social Significance of Health Promotion
ISBN: 9780415301978 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The Social Significance of Health Promotion sets health promotion in its historical context and delineates its contemporary role. It explores the potential of health promotion to impact on our social values and sense of community.
The book begins by exploring the historical roots of health promotion and its relationship to the medical model of health. It moves on to present analyses of contemporary health promotion programmes in which the contributors are actively engaged. These chapters discuss current questions for health promotion from a practitioner perspective and from the point of... The Social Significance of Health Promotion sets health promotion in its historical context and delineates its contemporary role. It explores the pote...
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229,06 zł |
The Social Significance of Health Promotion
ISBN: 9780415301961 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The Social Significance of Health Promotion sets health promotion in its historical context and delineates its contemporary role. It explores the potential of health promotion to impact on our social values and sense of community.
The book begins by exploring the historical roots of health promotion and its relationship to the medical model of health. It moves on to present analyses of contemporary health promotion programmes in which the contributors are actively engaged. These chapters discuss current questions for health promotion from a practitioner perspective and from the point of... The Social Significance of Health Promotion sets health promotion in its historical context and delineates its contemporary role. It explores the pote...
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702,94 zł |
Rethinking Health Promotion: A Global Approach
ISBN: 9780415164757 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In today's world 'health' means far more than merely the absence of illness. In Rethinking Health Promotion Theodore H. MacDonald sweeps away the confusion surrounding the function and position of health promotion. He argues that, far from being a modern innovation, health promotion has existed as a distinct and separate enterprise for as long as biomedicine and cautions against health promotion becoming organized merely an off-shoot of medical care.
Drawing on the author's experience as a World Health Organisation consultant, the book also tackles the question of whether health... In today's world 'health' means far more than merely the absence of illness. In Rethinking Health Promotion Theodore H. MacDonald sweeps away...
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244,67 zł |
Basic Concepts in Statistics and Epidemiology
ISBN: 9781846191244 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book contains a Foreword by Allyson Pollock, Professor and Head, Centre for International Public Health Policy, University of Edinburgh. Healthcare students, practitioners and researchers need a sound basis for making valid statistical inferences from health data. To make the best use of statistical software, it is necessary to understand how probabilistic inference works. This book explains that, along with the various ways statistical data can be described and presented. It is designed to develop insight rather than simply the mechanical skills found in other textbooks. This book is...
This book contains a Foreword by Allyson Pollock, Professor and Head, Centre for International Public Health Policy, University of Edinburgh. Healthca...
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182,20 zł |
Sacrificing the WHO to the Highest Bidder
ISBN: 9781846192524 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This remarkable book offers enlightening reading for everyone interested in international law, human rights, global health, public health and health promotion. Public health and health promotion professionals, including international healthcare organisations, care agencies, and international charities will find the analysis illuminating. It is also of great interest to policy makers and shapers in communities and government, political activists and all those with an interest in equality and globalisation.
This remarkable book offers enlightening reading for everyone interested in international law, human rights, global health, public health and health p...
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234,27 zł |
Removing the Barriers to Global Health Equity
ISBN: 9781846193088 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Medical research and global awareness of health inequalities continue to grow apace. Why then is global health inequality widening, with benefits disproportionally affecting the richest third? How can obstacles to more equitable healthcare be overcome? This passionately-argued book presents answers that will be essential reading for everyone interested in global health, public health, public policy and economics. Policy makers in global communities and government, political activists and all those with an interest in equality in healthcare will find stimulating, well-supported analyses of the...
Medical research and global awareness of health inequalities continue to grow apace. Why then is global health inequality widening, with benefits disp...
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234,27 zł |
Cuba: Beyond the Crossroads. New Expanded Edition
ISBN: 9780902869950 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Ridenour, a celebrated writer on Cuban and Central American politics, has published a new expanded edition of "Cuba: Beyond the Crossroads," which has been updated to cover Fidel Castros withdrawal from power during his long illness in 2007.
Ridenour, a celebrated writer on Cuban and Central American politics, has published a new expanded edition of "Cuba: Beyond the Crossroads," which has...
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57,54 zł |
Manifest Destinies and Indigenous Peoples
ISBN: 9780674033139 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. How was frontier expansion rationalized in the Americas during the late nineteenth century? As new states fleshed out expanded national maps, how did they represent their advances? Were there any distinct pan-American patterns? The renowned anthropologist and human rights advocate David Maybury-Lewis saw the Latin American frontiers as relatively unknown physical spaces as well as unexplored academic territory. He invited eight specialists to explore public narratives of the expansion of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and the western regions of Canada and the United States during the late... How was frontier expansion rationalized in the Americas during the late nineteenth century? As new states fleshed out expanded national maps, how ... |
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136,75 zł |