Breast Cancer Politics
ISBN: 9783639091540 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Breast cancer continues to be one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality for women in the United States. It is estimated that every three minutes a woman is diagnosed with breast cancer and every twelve minutes a woman dies from this disease. Research has identified three potential causes for breast cancer: genetics, lifestyle choices and the environment. Genetics and lifestyle choices contribute to less than 30% of breast cancer cases; the remaining 70% of all cases can be linked to the environment and environmental carcinogens. Environmental carcinogens can be found in cosmetics,...
Breast cancer continues to be one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality for women in the United States. It is estimated that every three mi...
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The Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center Care Coordination Program: Assessment of Program Structure, Activities, and Implementation
ISBN: 9780833080998 / Angielski / Miękka / 98 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Survivors of improvised explosive device attacks often have traumatic brain injuries (TBIs). Those recovering from TBIs often find they must coordinate services across multiple systems of care, something that would be difficult even without cognitive challenges. This report documents RAND s assessment of a program designed to facilitate care coordination for such individuals."
Survivors of improvised explosive device attacks often have traumatic brain injuries (TBIs). Those recovering from TBIs often find they must coordinat...
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108,94 zł |
Ospital-Based Integrative Medicine: A Case Study of the Barriers and Factors Facilitating the Creation of a Center
ISBN: 9780833045591 / Angielski / Miękka / 171 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Although some factors clearly worked in favor of the single hospital-based integrative medicine center, the hospital had few models to guide it and no experience in creating such a clinic. This title presents the results of a five-year study of a hospital-based center for integrative medicine.
Although some factors clearly worked in favor of the single hospital-based integrative medicine center, the hospital had few models to guide it and no...
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Adolescent Health: Policy, Science, and Human Rights
ISBN: 9780773535114 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Adolescent Health a contemporary setting is used to illustrate the intersection of evidence and ethics in policy making. Individual chapters describe the social determinants of youth health (chronic conditions, ethnicity, family income, school and peer relationships) and youth health behaviours and outcomes (substance use, violence, sexual and physical activity). Within this broad landscape of youth health issues, the authors apply the human rights principles of the Convention to their research to illustrate the often competing frameworks of evidence and ethics. The underlying question is...
In Adolescent Health a contemporary setting is used to illustrate the intersection of evidence and ethics in policy making. Individual chapters descri...
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535,29 zł |
Performance Incentives for Global Health: Potential and Pitfalls
ISBN: 9781933286297 / Angielski / Miękka / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume demonstrates how incentives can improve the delivery and use of health services in low- and middle-income countries. The authors describe the rationale for introducing incentives tied to achievement of specific health-related targets, and they provide clear guidance about designing, implementing, and evaluating programs that provide incentives to health care providers and patients. A set of case studies focuses on recent uses of incentives addressing a range of health conditions in diverse countries. In particular, these studies emphasize how explicit incentives can be used to... This volume demonstrates how incentives can improve the delivery and use of health services in low- and middle-income countries. The authors descri... |
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Governance of Hiv/AIDS: Making Participation and Accountability Count
ISBN: 9780415485647 / Angielski / Twarda / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nearly thirty years since HIV/AIDS was first identified, confusion over effective mechanisms of controlling and eradicating the illness remain prevalent. This book highlights the need for comprehensive approaches to governance, as responses to HIV/AIDS become increasingly focused upon the health aspect of the epidemic, and financial commitments become subject to aid fatigue. This book examines the roles and influence of multiple actors and initiatives that have come to constitute the global response to the epidemic. It considers how these actors and structures of governance... Nearly thirty years since HIV/AIDS was first identified, confusion over effective mechanisms of controlling and eradicating the illness remain prev... |
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Diversity and Women's Health
ISBN: 9780801892806 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Once focusing solely on reproduction and reproductive matters, the study of women's health has expanded to include cardiovascular disease, breast cancer, colorectal cancer, and osteoporosis. The United States has established an office dedicated to researching women's health issues, and the Women's Health Initiative has begun collecting data on the prevention of diseases common among women. Yet the health care issues affecting diverse groups of women have remained underfunded and understudied. Diversity and Women's Health calls attention to this glaring discrepancy and... Once focusing solely on reproduction and reproductive matters, the study of women's health has expanded to include cardiovascular disease, breast c... |
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229,33 zł |
Workplace Exercise and Physical Activity Interventions
ISBN: 9783639110609 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sedentary living is prevalent in society, despite
evidence on the health benefits of exercise and physical activity. Against this background, the workplace can provide a key setting from which to promote lifestyle health improvement. There are various opportunities, perspectives, and outcomes to be explored in the evaluation of workplace physical activity interventions. This book reflects the complexity of evaluation, using a multi-perspective approach and behavioural theory to explore the potential effectiveness of interventions. The comparison of "lifestyle" activity messages... Sedentary living is prevalent in society, despite
evidence on the health benefits of exercise and physical activity. Against this background,... |
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Neighborhood Context, Parenting, and Adolescent Smoking and Drinking
ISBN: 9783639042696 / Angielski / Miękka / 92 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book contains three studies. The first study
addresses whether neighborhood influences on adolescent substance use are mediated through parental and peer characteristics. The second study compares differences in neighborhood mechanisms on adolescent substance use between census tracts and block groups. The third study examines whether parenting effects on adolescent substance use vary by neighborhood type. The sample includes 924 adolescents 12 to 14 years of age whose addresses were matched with 1990 census tracts and census block groups. The findings are as follows: (1)... This book contains three studies. The first study addresses whether neighborhood influences on adolescent substance use are mediated through |
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243,34 zł |
Soy Mi Dignidad. Eutanasia y Suicidio Asistido
ISBN: 9781597544757 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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129,33 zł |
Health Policy in Britain
ISBN: 9780230507562 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Systematically updated throughout, the 6th edition of this leading text takes the story of health policy to the end of the Blair era and into the early years of the Brown premiership. It offers a clear and thorough introduction to the history of the NHS, its funding and priorities, and to the process of policy making.
Systematically updated throughout, the 6th edition of this leading text takes the story of health policy to the end of the Blair era and into the earl...
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727,58 zł |
Pharmaceutical Safety Withdrawals: A Comparative Study of the United States and Canada
ISBN: 9781934844106 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Cured! The Insider's Handbook for Health Care Reform
ISBN: 9780984055616 / Angielski / Miękka / 490 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Veteran health care insider Stephen S. S. Hyde says we can cure today's health care crisis by enabling every American consumer to demand the answers to two question: Which are the best doctors and hospitals for my medical needs? and Which of them are the least expensive? None of these answers are available now. They should be, and they can be. But to get there we must first correct the fundamental market and regulatory failure that has given us 7 decades of misguided actions by employers, government, insurers, medical providers, and consumers to produce the dysfunctional mess we have today....
Veteran health care insider Stephen S. S. Hyde says we can cure today's health care crisis by enabling every American consumer to demand the answers t...
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Cured! The Insider's Handbook for Health Care Reform
ISBN: 9780984055609 / Angielski / Twarda / 490 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Veteran health care insider Stephen S. S. Hyde says we can cure today's health care crisis by enabling every American consumer to demand the answers to two question: "Which are the best doctors and hospitals for my medical needs?" and "Which of them are the least expensive?" None of these answers are available now. They should be, and they can be. But to get there we must first correct the fundamental market and regulatory failure that has given us 7 decades of misguided actions by employers, government, insurers, medical providers, and consumers to produce the dysfunctional mess we have...
Veteran health care insider Stephen S. S. Hyde says we can cure today's health care crisis by enabling every American consumer to demand the answers t...
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206,91 zł |
Disability, Personal Care Assistance, and Quality of Life
ISBN: 9783639157734 / Angielski / Miękka / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. People with disabilities often require personal
care assistance (PCA) to perform daily activities and pursue life roles. PCA has historically been institution-based, resulting in the segregation of disabled people. Home-based PCA is an alternative to institutional care. These services can be agency- directed or consumer-directed. Disability rights activists strongly advocate for consumer-directed programs since personal control is key to a satisfying life. This text describes the foundations of consumer-direction and a study which tested the postulate that having control of and... People with disabilities often require personal
care assistance (PCA) to perform daily activities and pursue life roles. PCA has historicall... |
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Obama, Doctors, and Health Reform: A Doctor Assesses the Odds for Success
ISBN: 9781440146763 / Angielski / Miękka / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Obama, Doctors, and Health Reform: A Doctor Assesses the Odds for Success
ISBN: 9781440146749 / Angielski / Twarda / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Developing Residency Training in Global Health: A Guidebook
ISBN: 9780595516568 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first ever guide to help residency programs, trainees, and other champions create, expand, and improve global health education. Learn from the experiences of existing programs, the unique career paths of successful globally active physicians, and the ethical considerations of leaders in the field of global health education. This guidebook both raises and answers critical questions necessary to create and sustain quality global health exposure for resident physicians.
This is the first ever guide to help residency programs, trainees, and other champions create, expand, and improve global health education. Learn from...
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61,37 zł |
Research Policies for Health for All
ISBN: 9789289010535 / Angielski / Miękka / 60 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Elaborates policies that can help European countries improve health and shape a better future through the promotion of goal-directed research in the biomedical, behavioural, and social sciences. Noting the increasing complexity and expense of scientific investigations, the report sets out to define a general framework that can guide the formulation of research policies in line with 38 health targets adopted by European countries. The objective is to give policy-makers criteria for choosing research priorities and then ensuring that the prerequisites for successful investigations are met.
Elaborates policies that can help European countries improve health and shape a better future through the promotion of goal-directed research in the b...
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a review of the hhs family planning program: mission, management, and measurement of results
ISBN: 9780309131179 / Angielski / Miękka / 179 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Review of the HHS Family Planning Program provides a broad evaluation of the Title X family planning program since its establishment in 1970. The program successfully provides family planning services to its target audience of low-income individuals, but there is room for improvement. While the program's core goals are apparent, a secondary set of changing priorities has emerged without a clear, evidence-based strategic process. Also, funding for the program has increased in actual dollars, but has not kept pace with inflation or increased costs. Several aspects of the program's... A Review of the HHS Family Planning Program provides a broad evaluation of the Title X family planning program since its establishment in ... |
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306,35 zł |