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Effective Community-Based Nutrition Programming In Malawi
ISBN: 9783844309935 / Angielski / Miękka / 388 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Despite a wealth of knowledge on "what works" in public health nutrition programming, effective implementation of a battery of integrated interventions in communities that are faced with multiple nutrition burdens has remained a momentous challenge. A World Vision-funded Micronutrient and Health (MICAH) programme was implemented in Malawi between 1996 and 2005, with three main objectives: (1) to increase intake and bioavailability of vitamin A, iron and iodine; (2) to decrease diseases that affect micronutrient nutrition; and, (3) to build capacity for delivery systems. Using an integrated...
Despite a wealth of knowledge on "what works" in public health nutrition programming, effective implementation of a battery of integrated intervention...
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Adherence to Haart for Management of Kaposi's Sarcoma
ISBN: 9783843387279 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Adherence outcomes in patients with the most severe complications of AIDS, Kaposi's sarcoma (KS), the commonest AIDS related cancer, is unknown. This books reports on 35 patients prospectively evaluated over 12 months for adherence to highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) in a clinical trial of ARVs for management of AIDS KS in KwaZulu- Natal (KZN). Twenty of the initial patients also recieved Chemotherapy (CXT). Adherence was assessed by 7-day self-report. Patients who reported >95% mean adherence were classified as being adherent to HAART. HIV-1 viral load (VL) and CD4+ cell counts...
Adherence outcomes in patients with the most severe complications of AIDS, Kaposi's sarcoma (KS), the commonest AIDS related cancer, is unknown. This ...
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Citizen's Guide to Health Care Reform: Understanding the Affordable Care Act
ISBN: 9781475010350 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How do we create a health care system that includes every citizen, improves health outcomes, and reins in escalating costs? Dr. McCan shows how the new Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA), called "Obamacare" by some, addresses these three fundamental concerns. Learn about the most far-reaching legislation of our time--as important for every American as Medicare is for senior citizens. Understand how the reforms build on the existing components of our system and provide for continuous improvement. Appreciate the political context and background of the legislation. Learn...
How do we create a health care system that includes every citizen, improves health outcomes, and reins in escalating costs? Dr. McCan shows how the ne...
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Informed Consent to Psychoanalysis: The Law, the Theory, and the Data
ISBN: 9780823249763 / Angielski / Twarda / 142 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The goal of this book is to shed psychoanalytic light on a concept--informed consent-- that has transformed the delivery of health care in the United States. Examining the concept of informed consent in the context of psychoanalysis, the book first summarizes the law and literature on this topic. Is informed consent required as a matter of positive law? Apart from statutes and cases, what do the professional organizations say about this? Second, the book looks at informed consent as a theoretical matter. It addresses such questions as: What would be the elements of a robust informed...
The goal of this book is to shed psychoanalytic light on a concept--informed consent-- that has transformed the delivery of health care in the United ...
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Inside National Health Reform: Volume 22
ISBN: 9780520274525 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This indispensable guide to the Affordable Care Act, our new national health care law, lends an insider's deep understanding of policy to a lively and absorbing account of the extraordinary--and extraordinarily ambitious--legislative effort to reform the nation's health care system. Dr. John E. McDonough, DPH, a health policy expert who served as an advisor to the late Senator Edward Kennedy, provides a vivid picture of the intense effort required to bring this legislation into law. McDonough clearly explains the ACA's inner workings, revealing the rich landscape of the issues, policies, and...
This indispensable guide to the Affordable Care Act, our new national health care law, lends an insider's deep understanding of policy to a lively and...
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A Comparative Analysis of the Impact of Healthcare Insurance Availability on Health Outcomes in Hawai'i and Mississippi
ISBN: 9780983527725 / Angielski / Miękka / 114 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Health Care for Some: Rights and Rationing in the United States Since 1930
ISBN: 9780226348032 / Angielski / Twarda / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Health Care for Some, Beatrix Hoffman offers an engaging and in-depth look at America's long tradition of unequal access to health care. She argues that two main features have characterized the US health system: a refusal to adopt a right to care and a particularly American approach to the rationing of care. Health Care for Some shows that the haphazard way the US system allocates medical services--using income, race, region, insurance coverage, and many other factors--is a disorganized, illogical, and powerful form of rationing. And unlike rationing in most countries, which...
In Health Care for Some, Beatrix Hoffman offers an engaging and in-depth look at America's long tradition of unequal access to health care. She...
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133,22 |
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Being Relational: Reflections on Relational Theory and Health Law
ISBN: 9780774821896 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Relational theory has recently gained prominence in philosophy, women's and gender studies, and bioethics. Yet it has not madesubstantial inroads into many areas of law and policy. BeingRelational seeks to remedy this situation by bringing thispowerful theoretical framework to the field of health law andpolicy. At the heart of relational theory lies the idea that the human selfis fundamentally constituted in terms of its relations to others. Forrelational theorists, the self not only lives in relationship with andto others, but also owes its very existence to such relationships. Inthis...
Relational theory has recently gained prominence in philosophy, women's and gender studies, and bioethics. Yet it has not madesubstantial inroads into...
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145,98 |
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The Best Care Possible: A Physician's Quest to Transform Care Through the End of Life
ISBN: 9781583335123 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A doctor on the front lines of hospital care illuminates one of the most important and controversial social issues of our time.
It is harder to die in this country than ever before. Though the vast majority of Americans would prefer to die at home which hospice care provides many of us spend our last days fearful and in pain in a healthcare system ruled by high-tech procedures and a philosophy to fight disease and illness at all cost. Dr. Ira Byock, one of the foremost palliative-care physicians in the country, argues that how we die represents a national crisis today. To... A doctor on the front lines of hospital care illuminates one of the most important and controversial social issues of our time.
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Hippocrates Weeps: An Indictment of Changes for the American Health-Care System
ISBN: 9781469777009 / Angielski / Miękka / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over the past fifty years, medical care has changed rapidly-and not always for the better. Technological advances and alterations in clinical service delivery have challenged physicians to remember to keep the best interest of patients in sharp focus. The Hippocratic Oath commits physicians to "do no harm," but the realities of the contemporary business world have forced the erosion of some ethical priorities. Pressure to satisfy profit-driven business models and insurance industry guidelines have put physicians in the untenable position in which patient care becomes more of a... Over the past fifty years, medical care has changed rapidly-and not always for the better. Technological advances and alterations in clinica... |
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Hippocrates Weeps: An Indictment of Changes for the American Health-Care System
ISBN: 9781469777016 / Angielski / Twarda / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over the past fifty years, medical care has changed rapidly-and not always for the better. Technological advances and alterations in clinical service delivery have challenged physicians to remember to keep the best interest of patients in sharp focus. The Hippocratic Oath commits physicians to "do no harm," but the realities of the contemporary business world have forced the erosion of some ethical priorities. Pressure to satisfy profit-driven business models and insurance industry guidelines have put physicians in the untenable position in which patient care becomes more of a... Over the past fifty years, medical care has changed rapidly-and not always for the better. Technological advances and alterations in clinica... |
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Surviving American Medicine: How to Get the Right Doctor, Right Hospital, and Right Treatment with Today's Health Care
ISBN: 9781475937763 / Angielski / Twarda / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Legal and Policy Perspectives on HIV and Human Rights in the Caribbean
ISBN: 9789766403140 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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With Liberty and Coverage for All: who shall live, who shall die and how to survive under Obamacare
ISBN: 9781479305155 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 383 pages of shocking information on how the cost of health care for baby boomers is about to spiral toward the total collapse of the American economy. The government plan is to let millions of elderly and disabled folks die of treatable diseases while the health care system continues killing more than 200,000 patients per year. Find out what "end of life counseling" really means and how to stop it. The current state of health care is in shambles with doctors and nurses accidentally killing more patients than most of the diseases they are treating. The new law has failed to protect the public...
383 pages of shocking information on how the cost of health care for baby boomers is about to spiral toward the total collapse of the American economy...
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American Healthcare Unchained: The History, Myths & Economics of Health Care Policy & Reform
ISBN: 9781480070028 / Angielski / Miękka / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on his 30+ years as a primary care doctor and businessman, Dr. Jones explains clearly what is wrong with our healthcare system, how it became so over-priced and inefficient, and how we can have excellent, affordable health care for all Americans. Dr. Jones also explains the basic laws of economics and behavior that affect health care. He explores the history of our healthcare system, and debunks popular myths that obscure solutions. The problems with Medicare and Obamacare are discussed in the light of history and economics. Compared to other books on healthcare reform, this one is...
Based on his 30+ years as a primary care doctor and businessman, Dr. Jones explains clearly what is wrong with our healthcare system, how it became so...
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39,71 |
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Pluralismus Im Gesundheitswesen
ISBN: 9783034304078 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dieser Band ist eine interdisziplinare Annaherung an den Pluralismus im Gesundheitswesen. Ein pluralistisches Gesundheitssystem integriert verschiedene Ansatze als gleichwertige Bestandteile und uberwindet so die Dualitat von der Schul- gegenuber der Komplementarmedizin eine integrative Medizin entsteht.
In neun Beitragen nehmen Experten unterschiedlicher Fachrichtungen Stellung zum medizinischen Pluralismus. Nebst Berichten aus den vier von der KIKOM vertretenen Methoden Anthroposophische Medizin, Klassische Homoopathie, Neuraltherapie und Traditionelle Chinesische Medizin/Akupunktur... Dieser Band ist eine interdisziplinare Annaherung an den Pluralismus im Gesundheitswesen. Ein pluralistisches Gesundheitssystem integriert verschieden...
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Gesundheit Von Migranten
ISBN: 9783631605646 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Neben -Bevolkerungsschrumpfung- und -demografischer Alterung- ist die -Internationalisierung der Bevolkerung- ein weiterer Megatrend, der den demografischen Wandel ausmacht. Ein Trend, der hierzulande zumindest in den zuruckliegenden Jahren bemerkenswert wenig Beachtung gefunden hat. Vor allem die Zahl alterer Menschen mit Migrationshintergrund wachst dynamisch. Damit steigt deren quantitative Bedeutung im medizinischen Versorgungsgeschehen an. Interkulturelle Kompetenzen werden zur wichtigen Schlusselgrosse, um Patienten aus unterschiedlichen Herkunftslandern gleichermassen gut versorgen zu...
Neben -Bevolkerungsschrumpfung- und -demografischer Alterung- ist die -Internationalisierung der Bevolkerung- ein weiterer Megatrend, der den demograf...
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Reformkonzepte Im Gesundheitswesen Nach Der Wahl: 14. Bad Orber Gespraeche Ueber Kontroverse Themen Im Gesundheitswesen- 12.-13. November 2009
ISBN: 9783631605875 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dieser Band der Bad Orber Gesprache 2009 enthalt die erweiterten Referate eines interdisziplinaren Workshops zu Reformkonzepten im Gesundheitswesen nach der Bundestagswahl 2009. Vertreter des Gemeinsamen Bundesausschusses, der arztlichen Verbande, der Krankenhaustrager, der pharmazeutischen Industrie, der Krankenkassen und der Wissenschaft erortern Probleme und Reformoptionen hinsichtlich des Wettbewerbs im Gesundheitswesen, der Marktabgrenzung zwischen GKV und PKV, der Schnittstelle zwischen dem ambulanten und dem stationaren Sektor, selektiver Vertrage zwischen Krankenkassen und...
Dieser Band der Bad Orber Gesprache 2009 enthalt die erweiterten Referate eines interdisziplinaren Workshops zu Reformkonzepten im Gesundheitswesen na...
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314,23 |
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Nunavut: A Health System Profile
ISBN: 9780773541474 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on extensive research including visits to most health centres and facilities in Nunavut, Gregory Marchildon and Renee Torgerson have produced a comprehensive review of healthcare in Canada's newest territory. Nunavut: A Health System Profile provides an in-depth examination of population health and healthcare in the territory. Little more than a decade old, Nunavut has a population that consists of thirty-thousand residents living in twenty-five widely dispersed communities. No roads connect the territory's isolated populations and nearly all supplies and equipment are transported by...
Based on extensive research including visits to most health centres and facilities in Nunavut, Gregory Marchildon and Renee Torgerson have produced a ...
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486,78 |
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Nunavut: A Health System Profile
ISBN: 9780773541481 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on extensive research including visits to most health centres and facilities in Nunavut, Gregory Marchildon and Renee Torgerson have produced a comprehensive review of healthcare in Canada's newest territory. Nunavut: A Health System Profile provides an in-depth examination of population health and healthcare in the territory. Little more than a decade old, Nunavut has a population that consists of thirty-thousand residents living in twenty-five widely dispersed communities. No roads connect the territory's isolated populations and nearly all supplies and equipment are transported by...
Based on extensive research including visits to most health centres and facilities in Nunavut, Gregory Marchildon and Renee Torgerson have produced a ...
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131,39 |