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Working on Health Communication
ISBN: 9781847879226 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Good communication is at the heart of strategies for effective health promotion and public health. At a time when lifestyle and preventable diseases are still on the rise, practitioners are in need of the skills to deliver effective health messages to the right audience, at the right time.
Responding to this demand, Working on Health Communication provides a practical guide to the process of designing, implementing and evaluating campaigns. The book follows the campaign design process step-by-step. It covers every stage from selecting theoretical models and... Good communication is at the heart of strategies for effective health promotion and public health. At a time when lifestyle and preventable diseases a...
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How to Choose a Nursing Home
ISBN: 9781456547998 / Angielski / Miękka / 34 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over 5.5 million people per year must face the prospect of having to choose a nursing home. Few of them know anything about the world they are about to enter. Many will find themselves floundering for a solution. Where can we find the care we need? How are we going to manage the expense of long term care? Do we have to go into a nursing home? Will home health care work out? What are the alternatives? How do I find the best place for mom? How do I know if a specific nursing home is a good place? In an attempt to answer these questions, many people will rely upon advice from friends, clergymen,...
Over 5.5 million people per year must face the prospect of having to choose a nursing home. Few of them know anything about the world they are about t...
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The Second Dilemma: Facts You Must Know To Make Correct Health Decisions
ISBN: 9781439252802 / Angielski / Miękka / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In our world filled to overflowing with all types of chemicals, are you satisfied that you know enough to keep and maintain your health and the health of your family?If you feel that you just 'don't know enough', then this is a book you must have. Chemicals and drugs are in virtually everything we eat and touch. What effect do they have on our health? Should we be worried? This book attempts to answer these questions. . It will guide you through the important facts you must know to make correct health decisions, and will answer your questions about "why." Within the following chapters you...
In our world filled to overflowing with all types of chemicals, are you satisfied that you know enough to keep and maintain your health and the health...
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When Words Are Not Enough: Strategies for Caregivers of Persons with Dementia
ISBN: 9780982962909 / Angielski / Miękka / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "When Words Are Not Enough" provides basic facts and suggests ways that caregivers might have an impact upon the holistic well-being of care recipients with Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia. A secondary purpose of this book is to suggest ways to help caregivers cope with the ongoing stress associated with their labor of love. Chapters in this book touch upon a range of concerns, including a review of the needs of caregivers. Each chapter ends with a case study analysis. The book concludes with a listing of resources and an extensive bibliography. This book defines, describes,...
"When Words Are Not Enough" provides basic facts and suggests ways that caregivers might have an impact upon the holistic well-being of care recipient...
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Toward Better Days
ISBN: 9781452899541 / Angielski / Miękka / 86 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The world of illness and caregiving is a maze of emotions mixed with a lack of information and knowledge about needs and resources as well as great personal stress. As a social worker and counselor for many years, as well as a caregiver to several family members and friends the author has come to realize that no one is adequately prepared for the tasks at hand. Even though there are professionals involved with the care of an incapacitated person, there is still a need for a family member or friend to shoulder many of the day to day responsibilities. This may be as simple as keeping someone...
The world of illness and caregiving is a maze of emotions mixed with a lack of information and knowledge about needs and resources as well as great pe...
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Binding Their Wounds: America's Assault on Its Veterans
ISBN: 9781594515712 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The victims of US military campaigns are usually nameless civilians in far away places, but there are also victims closer to home - the soldiers so often used and then discarded by the establishment. Binding Their Wounds is a book about US veterans written by a US veteran - Bob 'Doc' Topmiller. Topmiller fought in Vietnam, founded a school for orphans there, and become a professor of history before he tragically committed suicide. Close friend and scholar Kerby Neill stepped in to complete the book. The result is a history of US veterans and their treatment by the US establishment from the...
The victims of US military campaigns are usually nameless civilians in far away places, but there are also victims closer to home - the soldiers so of...
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Tender Loving Greed - 2009 Notes
ISBN: 9780974734033 / Angielski / Miękka / 358 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The 1974 George C. Polk Award expose that blew the lid off the incredibly lucrative nursing home industry, showing how it exploited America's old people and defrauded us all. Reissued with a behind the scenes look at how the powerful chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Long-Term Care tried to kill the book. As relevant today for long-term care and health care in general as it was when it first came out. Fraud, swindles, corruption, organized crime-bigger today than ever-the better part of a trillion dollars a year, and just as hidden as it was forty years ago."
The 1974 George C. Polk Award expose that blew the lid off the incredibly lucrative nursing home industry, showing how it exploited America's old peop...
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Ameloblastoma: A Patient's Perspective
ISBN: 9781456599409 / Angielski / Miękka / 70 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Being diagnosed with a health problem can be troubling. This anxiety is exacerbated when you've never heard of the problem you're facing, and don't know anyone else who has dealt with it, or even heard of it. In Ameloblastoma: A Patient's Perspective, I share my experience of being diagnosed with ameloblastoma, and undergoing a jaw resection and reconstruction. Throughout the book I share the small details those facing this diagnosis might find useful, along with some frequently asked questions, x-rays, and pictures of the tumor. When I first received my diagnosis, the lack of information and...
Being diagnosed with a health problem can be troubling. This anxiety is exacerbated when you've never heard of the problem you're facing, and don't kn...
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Getting Better: : My Journey through Transverse Myelitis and Lessons for Health Care Professionals, Patients and Families
ISBN: 9781456329914 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In July 2010 Keith Launchbury, a business consultant, experienced a severe band of pain across his chest, and within 24 hours was totally paralyzed from the middle of his chest to his toes. He was diagnosed with Transverse Myelitis, an auto immune disorder which causes the body's natural immune system to attack the spinal cord. All of this happened nearly 3000 miles from home, while he and his wife were traveling on business. For the next 42 days they moved through three hospitals as neurologists, immunologists, internists, hospitalists, nurses and other health care professionals tried to...
In July 2010 Keith Launchbury, a business consultant, experienced a severe band of pain across his chest, and within 24 hours was totally paralyzed fr...
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all my brothers fingers and toes: a tale of what a mother's love can do told by her daughter
ISBN: 9781453873465 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. story of my brother with cerebral palsy and what my family went through and the latest developments to treat the condition. nine minute on Film on YouTube
story of my brother with cerebral palsy and what my family went through and the latest developments to treat the condition. nine minute on Film on You...
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A Prescription for Retail Pharmacy: A Guide to Retail Pharmacy for Patients, Doctors, Nurses, Pharmacists, and Pharmacy Technicians
ISBN: 9781450294850 / Angielski / Twarda / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Have you ever wondered what your friendly neighborhood pharmacist is really thinking behind that pharmacy counter? If so, look no further. "A Prescription for Retail Pharmacy" offers an honest, politically incorrect, no-holds-barred lookat the inner workings of the world of retail pharmacy. Pharmacist Jean-Marc Bovee answers all of your pharmacy-related questions and discusses real-life situations, problems, and solutions.
If you are a patient, gain a better understanding of how a pharmacy functions; if you are a health care provider, learn how to better communicate with retailpharmacists.... Have you ever wondered what your friendly neighborhood pharmacist is really thinking behind that pharmacy counter? If so, look no further. "A Prescrip...
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A Prescription for Retail Pharmacy: A Guide to Retail Pharmacy for Patients, Doctors, Nurses, Pharmacists, and Pharmacy Technicians
ISBN: 9781450294843 / Angielski / Miękka / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Have you ever wondered what your friendly neighborhood pharmacist is really thinking behind that pharmacy counter? If so, look no further. "A Prescription for Retail Pharmacy" offers an honest, politically incorrect, no-holds-barred look at the inner workings of the world of retail pharmacy. Pharmacist Jean-Marc Bovee answers all of your pharmacy-related questions and discusses real-life situations, problems, and solutions.
If you are a patient, gain a better understanding of how a pharmacy functions; if you are a health care provider, learn how to better communicate with retail... Have you ever wondered what your friendly neighborhood pharmacist is really thinking behind that pharmacy counter? If so, look no further. "A Prescrip...
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There's No Money in Dead People: Advice from a nurse on how to ensure the end-of-life care you want
ISBN: 9781448671915 / Angielski / Miękka / 78 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. After watching so many elderly patients with advanced chronic diseases or who were terminally ill go through painful, aggressive life-sustaining treatments that did not change the outcome, but only prolonged death, I decided to write this book to try and educate the public about what they can do to help ensure their end-of-life care is the way they want it to be. It is my hope this book will open your eyes to the limits of our bodies and of medicine, and to give you a more realistic expectation of what both can and cannot do.
After watching so many elderly patients with advanced chronic diseases or who were terminally ill go through painful, aggressive life-sustaining treat...
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Public Health Policy in Action: Framework for a New Rhetoric of Persuasion
ISBN: 9781419682247 / Angielski / Miękka / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In search of a new Public Health discourse for policy development. Paulo K. Moreiras textbook is one of the most original contributions for the development of Public Health communication and policy development in recent years."
In search of a new Public Health discourse for policy development. Paulo K. Moreiras textbook is one of the most original contributions for the develo...
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Baby Boomers BE AWARE!: Vital insights into/about: the Healthcare System, In-Home Caregivers/Agencies, Convalescent/Nursing Homes, Doctors, Me
ISBN: 9781456338329 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Vital and beneficial knowledge for Boomers and their Parents gained through extraordinary current personal experience is recorded and shared in; "Baby Boomers Be Aware " Featuring essential, informative, cautionary, life-saving and spiritually-uplifting messages, true-life stories, stats, checklists and insights to help save time, energy and and money to achieve and maintain everyone's "Health and Safety." Topics include: the Healthcare System, In-Home Caregivers and Agencies, Convalescent and Nursing Homes, Doctors, Prescription Medicines, Family Relationships, Senior Services, Medicare,...
Vital and beneficial knowledge for Boomers and their Parents gained through extraordinary current personal experience is recorded and shared in; "Baby...
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Singapore's Ageing Population: Managing Healthcare and End-Of-Life Decisions
ISBN: 9780415609753 / Angielski / Twarda / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A rapidly ageing population is the most significant demographic issue confronting Singapore in our lifetime. This has created new and increasing demands on Singapore's healthcare system and on the families of the older adults. The challenge is in providing a system of care that is humane, effective and sustainable financially. This requires coordination between state funded providers, the family and the community. This book offers a multi-disciplinary perspective by researchers from various disciplines such as medicine, sociology, anthropology and law on managing healthcare and end of life...
A rapidly ageing population is the most significant demographic issue confronting Singapore in our lifetime. This has created new and increasing deman...
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Accountable Care Organizations: A Roadmap for Success: Guidance on First Steps
ISBN: 9780983482420 / Angielski / Miękka / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Accountable Care Organizations: A Roadmap for Success, presents a culmination of important and timely issues being dealt with by healthcare providers, physician practices, insurers, and government agencies with regard to the movement for establishing accountable care organizations. The past decade has provided tremendous insights based on demonstrations and pilot projects related to healthcare quality and payment reform and led our nation to this point of transition in healthcare delivery system reform. The authors have examined a number of issues and pertinent literature from healthcare...
Accountable Care Organizations: A Roadmap for Success, presents a culmination of important and timely issues being dealt with by healthcare providers,...
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Circumcision, Public Health, Genital Autonomy and Cultural Rights
ISBN: 9780415735445 / Angielski / Twarda / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Circumcision is one of the oldest and most common surgical processes, being practised, for a range of medical, social and religious reasons, on up to 30% of males worldwide. It is currently being promoted by a range of health bodies as a means of tackling HIV in developing countries. Yet, there is significant concern about sexual, physiological and psychological effects and complications and its prophylactic effectiveness. In examining a case in which a failed circumcision was performed for religious reasons, the Regional Court in Cologne decided that the practice contravened the bodily... Circumcision is one of the oldest and most common surgical processes, being practised, for a range of medical, social and religious reasons, on up ... |
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Heart Attack! Then What?
ISBN: 9781461034148 / Angielski / Miękka / 66 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Description This book chronicles the author's personal experiences from the trauma and helplessness of a heart attack patient through periods of rehabilitation and recovery. He describes what went through his mind and what he felt, giving insights to the reader. He looks back one year to his first and second heart attacks, seven days apart, and what life changing re-adjustments were needed in the aftermath. The book captures his thoughts and feelings, as he deals with new situations...as he evolves and grows into cardiac rehab routines and adjusts his lifestyle to new criteria of healthy...
Description This book chronicles the author's personal experiences from the trauma and helplessness of a heart attack patient through periods of rehab...
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The Treatment Trap: How the Overuse of Medical Care Is Wrecking Your Health and What You Can Do to Prevent It
ISBN: 9781566639378 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With health reform enacted by the Congress and signed by the President, the subject matter of The Treatment Trap is a compelling component in the national debate. Taking advantage of Rosemary Gibson's knowledge gleaned from extended experience in the field of medical care and Janardan Singh's similar knowledge but from a financial perspective, the authors explore the most neglected issue in American medicine today: the overuse of medical care, including needless surgery and other invasive procedures, out-of-control x-ray imaging, profligate testing, and other wasteful practices that have...
With health reform enacted by the Congress and signed by the President, the subject matter of The Treatment Trap is a compelling component in the nati...
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