On Our Own, Together: Peer Programs for People with Mental Illness
ISBN: 9780826514653 / Angielski / Twarda / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On Our Own, Together describes the inner workings of eight successful peer-run services for mental health consumers, including drop-in centers, educational programs, and peer support/mentoring programs. Written by people who developed such programs, it reveals these services as a valuable resource within the mental health system and a precious necessity for many consumers. The book clusters the COSPs into three key types: drop-in centers, which provide varied services for their members, including meals, housing assistance, and stigma-free environments; educational programs, which...
On Our Own, Together describes the inner workings of eight successful peer-run services for mental health consumers, including drop-in centers,...
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611,64 zł |
RX for Health Care Reform
ISBN: 9780826515704 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this readable and well-researched book, Ken Terry analyzes the current state of health care reform and finds it wanting. Instead of tackling the core problems in our failing system, he argues, politicians, insurance executives, and health care leaders have embraced ideologically driven initiatives that pursue impractical objectives or will take too long to bear fruit. Among these are such widely hailed trends as disease management, pay for performance, cost and price itransparency, i consumer-directed care, and health information technology, none of which will reverse the rising tide of...
In this readable and well-researched book, Ken Terry analyzes the current state of health care reform and finds it wanting. Instead of tackling the co...
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611,64 zł |
When Living Alone Means Living at Risk
ISBN: 9780879758448 / Angielski / Twarda / 167 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In caring for America's aging population, emphasis on maintaining elders in the community, preferable at home, with appropriate support services. But what of those older persons who are at home, without a caring network of relatives or friends? What of elders who are undernourished, under- or over-medicated, visually handicapped, hard of hearing, or otherwise disabled? Many of these older people may be unaware of their need for help, or are well aware of their situation but deliberately hiding their needs from others for fear of being "a burden" or of losing their freedom.
This important... In caring for America's aging population, emphasis on maintaining elders in the community, preferable at home, with appropriate support services. But ...
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155,69 zł |
Genetically Engineered Foods
ISBN: 9780879839673 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Examines the impact of this potentially dangerous technology on food sources, animals, and our own bodies. Examines the impact of this potentially dangerous technology on food sources, animals, and our own bodies. |
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56,24 zł |
Gesundheit!: Bringing Good Health to You, the Medical System, and Society Through Physician Service, Complementary Therapies, Humor, and Joy
ISBN: 9780892817818 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The inspiring and hilarious story of Patch Adams's quest to bring free health care to the world and to transform the way doctors practice medicine - Tells the story of Patch Adam's lifetime quest to transform the health care system - Released as a film from Universal Pictures, starring Robin Williams Meet Patch Adams, M.D., a social revolutionary who has devoted his career to giving away health care. Adams is the founder of the Gesundheit Institute, a home-based medical practice that has treated more than 15,000 people for free, and that is now building a full-scale hospital that...
The inspiring and hilarious story of Patch Adams's quest to bring free health care to the world and to transform the way doctors practice medicine
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66,76 zł |
It's All in Your Head: The Link Between Mercury, Amalgams, and Illness
ISBN: 9780895295507 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mercury is one of the world's most poisonous substances, and yet dentists routinely use it in amalgams to fill our teeth. Forty years ago, Dr. Hal Huggins questioned this practice, and now legions of dentists, researchers, and citizens are adding their voices of concern. It's All in Your Head looks at past research on mercury toxicity and dental amalgams as well as current scientific findings that can no longer be ignored. It describes the possible effects of mercury toxicity, including multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's disease, Hodgkin's disease, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and...
Mercury is one of the world's most poisonous substances, and yet dentists routinely use it in amalgams to fill our teeth. Forty years ago, Dr. Hal Hug...
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103,82 zł |
Living Well in a Nursing Home: Everything You and Your Folks Need to Know
ISBN: 9780897934602 / Angielski / Miękka / 271 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. While life in a nursing home is rarely considered a first choice, at times it's the best choice. Still, the decision to put a loved one in a home is incredibly difficult. This book concentrates on the positive aspects of nursing homes and offers strategies for identifying the best facilities. Among the topics covered are how to recognize signs that a family member needs extra support, determining whether in-home care is a viable option, the different types of long-term care, working and communicating with the staff and preparing for the end of life.
The book includes exercises for working... While life in a nursing home is rarely considered a first choice, at times it's the best choice. Still, the decision to put a loved one in a home is i...
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64,85 zł |
When Your Doctor Is Wrong
ISBN: 9781401029739 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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95,13 zł |
Alcohol: Poison or Medicine?
ISBN: 9781403310453 / Angielski / Miękka / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The author acquaints the reader with new scientific data showing that alcohol in moderate doses is a very effective remedy, which reduces stress, risk of cardiovascular disease, type II diabetes, mitigates a depressive state and increases lifespans.
The author acquaints the reader with new scientific data showing that alcohol in moderate doses is a very effective remedy, which reduces stress, risk...
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71,81 zł |
Alcohol: Poison or Medicine?
ISBN: 9781403336293 / Angielski / Twarda / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book acquaints the reader with new scientific data showed that alcohol in moderate doses is very effective remedy, which reduces stress, risk of cardiovascular disease, type II diabetes, mitigates depressive state and increases lifespan.
The book acquaints the reader with new scientific data showed that alcohol in moderate doses is very effective remedy, which reduces stress, risk of c...
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118,15 zł |
Future Health Organizations and Systems
ISBN: 9781403917522 / Angielski / Twarda / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Given the fundamental and growing importance of health to the economy and society, this book addresses some of the key questions being asked in relation to health in the future. What will the health system look like, how much will it cost, what ethical framework will underlie future health policy and can we really have a system that is designed to improve health as well as provide health care? Based on the 'Policy Futures for UK Health' project, this collection explores the shape of the health system and its key components, taking a multidisciplinary approach to health policy questions that...
Given the fundamental and growing importance of health to the economy and society, this book addresses some of the key questions being asked in relati...
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388,20 zł |
Health and Media
ISBN: 9781405112444 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a collection of the best contemporary studies on health and the media.
This book is a collection of the best contemporary studies on health and the media.
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109,78 zł |
The Swine Flu Affair: Decision-Making on a Slippery Disease
ISBN: 9781410222022 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Swine Flu Affair contains a reconstruction of the events leading up to and surrounding the swine flu immunization program, which has been gathered by combining press accounts, hearings, official files, and interviews with participants. This study will be of value to all who are interested in the process by which large decisions are made.
The Swine Flu Affair contains a reconstruction of the events leading up to and surrounding the swine flu immunization program, which has been gathered...
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133,25 zł |
Futile Medicine: A Nurse Reveals what your Doctor has not told you or will not tell you about Today's Health Care Issues
ISBN: 9781410718389 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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58,95 zł |
Do You Know Where Your Parents Are?: An Insider's Guide to Choices and Options in Senior Health Care
ISBN: 9781410767356 / Angielski / Miękka / 295 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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82,11 zł |
Guillain-Barre Syndrome: 5 Years Later
ISBN: 9781412088725 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is about three people from different walks of life, each of whom survived a life-changing episode of Guillain-Barre Syndrome. It is three dramatic stories in one."
This book is about three people from different walks of life, each of whom survived a life-changing episode of Guillain-Barre Syndrome. It is three dr...
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118,97 zł |
Critical Thinking in Health and Social Care
ISBN: 9781412920698 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Critical Thinking in Health & Social Care is designed to equip practitioners with the knowledge and tools they need to critically examine practice in their own workplace. The book presents a range of different approaches, each of which is explained and grounded in practice using case studies, problem-solving scenarios and workplace examples. The practical tools which form the core of the book are contextualised by an exploration of what constitutes knowledge and evidence and the types of assumptions which are commonly held and which have a bearing on practice.
Critical Thinking in Health & Social Care is designed to equip practitioners with the knowledge and tools they need to critically examine practice in ...
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761,67 zł |
Inner-City Nephrology
ISBN: 9781414036526 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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90,09 zł |
Daily Home Health Care Journal
ISBN: 9781418444754 / Angielski / Miękka / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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76,97 zł |
Validate Your Pain!: Exposing the Chronic Pain Cover-Up
ISBN: 9781418452520 / Angielski / Miękka / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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118,15 zł |