On the Nature of Health: An Action-Theoretic Approach
ISBN: 9780792333692 / Angielski / Twarda / 217 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. GENERAL INTRODUCTION This study of the concept of health is an attempt to combine central ideas in modern philosophy of medicine with certain results from analytical action theory. What emerges from the study is a concept 'of health based on an action-theoretic foundation. A person's health is characterized as his ability to achieve his vital goals. The general conception is not new. This study has been inspired by a number of scholars, both ancient and modern. The most important influences from the latter have been those of Georges Canguilhem, H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr., Caroline Whitbeck...
GENERAL INTRODUCTION This study of the concept of health is an attempt to combine central ideas in modern philosophy of medicine with certain results ...
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Population and Family in the Low Countries 1994: Selected Current Issues
ISBN: 9780792333968 / Angielski / Twarda / 299 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. EDITORS NIDI, P.O. Box 11650, 2502 AR The Hague, The Netherlands CBGS, Markiesstraat 1, 1000 Brussels, Belgium This volume is the tenth edition in the series "Population and Family in the Low Countries." It is published by the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demo graphic Institute (NIDI, The Hague) together with the Flemish Population and Family Study Centre (CBGS, Brussels), with the purpose to inform an international audience on results of demographic research in Belgium and the Netherlands. The series started in 1976. From 1991 on, it is published annually. The current edition includes seven...
EDITORS NIDI, P.O. Box 11650, 2502 AR The Hague, The Netherlands CBGS, Markiesstraat 1, 1000 Brussels, Belgium This volume is the tenth edition in the...
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The Future of Medicines in Health Care: Scenario Report Commissioned by the Steering Committee on Future Health Scenarios
ISBN: 9780792336242 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The future place of medicines in health care is both exciting and uncertain. With an aging population, an increasing number of chronic sick, a growing range of treatment options and a developing European market, the one certainty is that medication patterns will change radically over the next 15 years or so. How the future might look, in terms of quality, volume and cost of pharmacotherapy, is the subject of this report.
Four scenarios for the future are set out, all of which take account of already visible trends. Sobriety in sufficiency envisages rational and restrained... The future place of medicines in health care is both exciting and uncertain. With an aging population, an increasing number of chronic sick, a growing...
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Population and Family in the Low Countries 1995: Selected Current Issues
ISBN: 9780792339458 / Angielski / Twarda / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. EDITORS Hans V AN DEN BREKEL * and Fred DEVEN** * NIDI, P. O. Box 11650, 2502 AR The Hague, The Netherlands ** CBGS, Markiesstraat 1, 1000 Brussels, Belgium The series "Population and Family in the Low Countries" (POPFAM), established in 1976, aims to introduce selected issues of demographic research in Flanders/Belgium and the Netherlands to an international audience. The publication series results from cooperation between the Nether lands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI, The Hague) and the Flemish Population and Family Study Centre (CBGS, Brussels). This 1995 edition is the...
EDITORS Hans V AN DEN BREKEL * and Fred DEVEN** * NIDI, P. O. Box 11650, 2502 AR The Hague, The Netherlands ** CBGS, Markiesstraat 1, 1000 Brussels, B...
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Theory and Methods of Economic Evaluation of Health Care
ISBN: 9780792340379 / Angielski / Twarda / 247 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Most economic evaluations of health care programmes at the moment are cost effectiveness and cost-utility analyses. The problem with these methods is that their theoretical foundations are unclear. This has led to confusion about how to define the costs and health effects and how to interpret the results of these studies. In the environmental and traffic safety fields it is instead common to carry out traditional cost-bene: fit analyses of health improving programmes. This striking difference in how health programmes are assessed in different fields was the original motivation for writing...
Most economic evaluations of health care programmes at the moment are cost effectiveness and cost-utility analyses. The problem with these methods is ...
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Mercury as a Global Pollutant: Human Health Issues: Fourth International Conference, August 4-8 1996, Hamburg, Germany
ISBN: 9780792346791 / Angielski / Twarda / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS PART 1 FISH CONSUMPTION AND METHYLMERCURY EXPOSURE IN THE AMAZON A. C. BARBOSA, A. M. GARCIA, J. R. DESOUZAI Mercurycontamination inhairofriverine 1-8 populations of Apiacas Reserve in the Brazilian Amazon E. D. BIDONE, Z. C. CASTILHOS, T. J. S. SANTOS, T. M. C. SOUZA and L. D. LACERDA I Fish contamination and human exposure to mercury in Tartarugalzinho River, Amapa State, Northern Amazon, Brazil. A screening approach 9-15 H. A. KEHRIG, O. MALM and H. AKAGI I Methylmercury in hair samples from different riverine groups, Amazon, Brazil 17-29 J. LEBEL, M. ROULET, D. MERGLER,...
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS PART 1 FISH CONSUMPTION AND METHYLMERCURY EXPOSURE IN THE AMAZON A. C. BARBOSA, A. M. GARCIA, J. R. DESOUZAI Mercurycontamination inh...
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Asking to Die: Inside the Dutch Debate about Euthanasia
ISBN: 9780792351863 / Angielski / Miękka / 588 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. claim was that he had faced a conflict of duties pitting his legal duty not to kill against his duty as a physician to relieve his patient's unbearable suffering. He was acquitted on the important grounds of conflict of duty. These grounds are based on a concept in Dutch law called "force majeure" 4 which recognizes extenuating circumstances such as conflicts of duty. The acquittal was upheld by the Lower Court of Alkmaar, but revoked by an Amsterdam court of appeal. The case went on to the Supreme Court, but before the Supreme Court's decision was issued, the Royal Dutch Medical Association...
claim was that he had faced a conflict of duties pitting his legal duty not to kill against his duty as a physician to relieve his patient's unbearabl...
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Text Therapeutics
ISBN: 9780792369011 / Angielski / Miękka / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Text Therapeutics was written specifically for medical science professionals whose mother tongue is not English. Its objective is to assist non-native English- speaking physicians or scientists in the task of writing research documents for medical journals and/or oral presentations for medical congresses.
Text Therapeutics incorporates a simplified methodology, which:
Text Therapeutics was written specifically for medical science professionals whose mother tongue is not English. Its objective is to...
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Endocrine Disrupters: Environmental Health and Policies
ISBN: 9780792370567 / Angielski / Twarda / 377 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During recent decades, millions of tonnes of man-made chemicals have been produced and released into the environment, with very little safety testing. Many of these chemical substances have been found to interfere with the endocrine system and modulate its function. This book not only overviews the effects of endocrine/disrupting substances on human health, but also addresses the regulatory problems from the point of view of international organisations, including the WHO, the EU, and the European Chlorine Industry.
This volume contains the proceedings of a workshop held at the... During recent decades, millions of tonnes of man-made chemicals have been produced and released into the environment, with very little safety testing....
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Health Effects of Ambient Air Pollution: How Safe Is the Air We Breathe?
ISBN: 9780792377191 / Angielski / Twarda / 249 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Health Effects of Ambient Air Pollution provides the reader with an overview of the health effects of air pollution in human subjects. The majority of the book is devoted to the discussion of the health effects of common widespread air pollutants regulated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency through national ambient air quality standards. The book reviews the sources and fate of common air pollutants in ambient air and researches the adverse effects of these outdoor and indoor air pollutants in in vivo' cell systems, animals, and humans. Research for the book was conducted in...
Health Effects of Ambient Air Pollution provides the reader with an overview of the health effects of air pollution in human subjects. The ma...
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Spatiotemporal Environmental Health Modelling: A Tractatus Stochasticus
ISBN: 9780792382119 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Spatiotemporal Environmental Health Modelling: A Tractatus Stochasticus provides a holistic, conceptual and quantitative framework for Environmental Health Modelling in space-time. The holistic framework integrates two aspects of Environmental Health Science that have been previously treated separately: the environmental aspect, which involves the natural processes that bring about human exposure to harmful substances; and the health aspect, which focuses on the interactions of these substances with the human body. Some of the fundamental issues addressed in this work...
Spatiotemporal Environmental Health Modelling: A Tractatus Stochasticus provides a holistic, conceptual and quantitative framework f...
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The Timing of Toxicological Studies to Support Clinical Trials
ISBN: 9780792388722 / Angielski / Twarda / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over the past twelve years, the Centre for Medicines Research has held a series of Workshops on a number of topics related to the drug discovery and development process. The major objective of these Workshops has been to provide an international forum for regula tory, academic and industry representatives to debate together, and suggest solutions to, specific problems. The meeting reported in this volume represents a departure from this approach, in that the par ticipants were drawn largely from the pharmaceutical industry. Senior clinicians, pharmacologists and toxicologists from companies...
Over the past twelve years, the Centre for Medicines Research has held a series of Workshops on a number of topics related to the drug discovery and d...
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The Mortality Costs of Regulatory Expenditures: A Special Issue of the Journal of Risk and Uncertainty
ISBN: 9780792394457 / Angielski / Twarda / 122 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Regulations to promote health and safety may be costly relative to the expected health and safety benefits, and may actually have negative effects on health and safety. These negative effects, or costs, may be due to reduced private spending on health and safety, moral hazard, or the creation of new risks. This volume considers the use of costs--benefit analysis, risk--risk analysis, and health--health analysis to determine the mortality cost associated with regulatory expenditures.
Regulations to promote health and safety may be costly relative to the expected health and safety benefits, and may actually have negative effects on ...
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Blood Safety and Surveillance
ISBN: 9780824702632 / Angielski / Twarda / 632 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Compiles a breadth of information on the reactions, immunological complications, and potential for disease transmission related to blood transfusions. Describes a host of reactions and potential sources of infection. Considers the human immunodeficiency, hepatitis, and human T-lymphotropic viruses.
Compiles a breadth of information on the reactions, immunological complications, and potential for disease transmission related to blood transfusions....
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Methodological Issues for Health Care Surveys
ISBN: 9780824773236 / Angielski / Twarda / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Medicine and Business: Bridging the Gap
ISBN: 9780834216129 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Helps physicians make sound business and managerial decisions in planning, finance, change management, managed care contracting, and information technology. Material is written from a business management perspective to give physicians the knowledge, vocabulary, and tools they need to work with busin
Helps physicians make sound business and managerial decisions in planning, finance, change management, managed care contracting, and information techn...
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Strategic Fund Development: Building Profitable Relationships That Last: Building Profitable Relationships That Last
ISBN: 9780834218987 / Angielski / Miękka / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This Groundbreaking Book - Now In Its Second Edition - Offers Important Insights, Critical Strategies, And Useful Tools To Enhance Your Organization'S Performance And Raise More Charitable Contributions. Joyaux Challenges The Fundraising Profession To Focus On Organizational Development Rather Than Merely Promoting Fundraising Technicians. Joyaux Integrates Staff Work With That Of Volunteers And Demands A Basic Change In The Way We Do Business.
This Groundbreaking Book - Now In Its Second Edition - Offers Important Insights, Critical Strategies, And Useful Tools To Enhance Your Organization'S...
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Enabling Lives
ISBN: 9780849303517 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Enabling Lives provides a look at the disability civil rights movement through an intimate portrayal of the lives of several of its key lead ers. Each of the chapters of this book is a separate authorized biogra phy of such prominent figures as Frank Bowe, Tony Coelho, Justin Dart, Judy Heumann, Evan Kemp, and Harold Russell. Enabling Lives provides not only an accurate historical record of key moments in the developm ent of civil rights for individuals with disabilities, but also invite s the reader to become acquainted with the individuals who helped to s hape the movement and to view...
Enabling Lives provides a look at the disability civil rights movement through an intimate portrayal of the lives of several of its key lead ers. Each...
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The Emotional Nature of Qualitative Research
ISBN: 9780849320750 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book focuses on the place sand purpose of emotions in the research process, and explores the appropriate boundaries. Designed to explore how to manage the emotional content of research, the text service as a supplemental to qualitative research method courses, and is an excellent reference for the professional as well.
This book focuses on the place sand purpose of emotions in the research process, and explores the appropriate boundaries. Designed to explore how to m...
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Health Economics: Efficiency, Quality, and Equity
ISBN: 9780865691971 / Angielski / Miękka / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a thorough, balanced, and insightful study of the present status and future direction of health care economics and its far-reaching ramifications. Health Economics provides exhaustive analyses of such major issues as cost-benefit, cost-effectiveness, quality enhancement, and technology assessment. Part One presents a basic overview of cost analysis, production functions, and provider cost behavior. Part Two considers economic models of physicians and hospital behavior, and recent changes in methods for paying physicians. Part Three focuses on employee cost sharing, HMOs,... This book is a thorough, balanced, and insightful study of the present status and future direction of health care economics and its far-reaching ra... |
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