Health Capital and Sustainable Socioeconomic Development
ISBN: 9781420046908 / Angielski / Twarda / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Given ongoing worldwide calamities such as famine, natural disasters, and drug abuse, international attention has increasingly focused upon disease detection, prevention, containment, and treatment. Serving an unmet need in the marketplace, Health Capital and Sustainable Socioeconomic Development highlights mounting evidence of the strong relationship between human capital and socioeconomic development and poses management strategies from international and interdisciplinary sources. With a fresh perspective, scholars and practitioners in the health and sustainable development...
Given ongoing worldwide calamities such as famine, natural disasters, and drug abuse, international attention has increasingly focused upon disease de...
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The Case For Alternative Healthcare: Understanding, Surviving and Thriving in the Midst of Our Collapsing Health Care System
ISBN: 9781434318848 / Angielski / Miękka / 380 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. ABOUT THIS BOOK This book is written by an insider. A hospital administrator and practitioner who participated firsthand in laying the foundation for today's collapsing heath care system. A practitioner who then went on to make radical changes in the way he practiced his profession and his philosophy of health care delivery. A practitioner who is now hell-bent on making radical changes in this disastrous health care system he helped to create 30 years ago. This book is an insider's look at the sequence of events and decisions that led to the demise of our health care system. This book is...
ABOUT THIS BOOK This book is written by an insider. A hospital administrator and practitioner who participated firsthand in laying the foundation for ...
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85,87 zł |
The Case for Alternative Healthcare: Understanding, Surviving and Thriving in the Midst of Our Collapsing Health Care System
ISBN: 9781434318855 / Angielski / Twarda / 380 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. ABOUT THIS BOOK This book is written by an insider. A hospital administrator and practitioner who participated firsthand in laying the foundation for today's collapsing heath care system. A practitioner who then went on to make radical changes in the way he practiced his profession and his philosophy of health care delivery. A practitioner who is now hell-bent on making radical changes in this disastrous health care system he helped to create 30 years ago. This book is an insider's look at the sequence of events and decisions that led to the demise of our health care system. This book is...
ABOUT THIS BOOK This book is written by an insider. A hospital administrator and practitioner who participated firsthand in laying the foundation for ...
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131,18 zł |
Politics of Women's Health
ISBN: 9781566396332 / Angielski / Miękka / 321 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Examines the real world of women's health status and health-care delivery in different countries, and the assumptions behind the dominant medical model of solving problems without regard to social conditions. This book asks what feminist health-care ethics looks like if we start with women's experiences and concerns.
Examines the real world of women's health status and health-care delivery in different countries, and the assumptions behind the dominant medical mode...
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143,23 zł |
Sudden Death and the Myth of CPR
ISBN: 9781566397162 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sudden Death and the Myth of CPR is for anyone who has taken a CPR course or who believes the images from television dramas. It is also for families of victims and survivors of CPR. It will engage emergency personnel, others in the medical field, and anyone concerned with ethical issues of death and dying.
Sudden Death and the Myth of CPR is for anyone who has taken a CPR course or who believes the images from television dramas. It is also for families o...
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145,38 zł |
Managing a Health Care Alliance: Improving Community Cancer Care
ISBN: 9781587980848 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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179,49 zł |
Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-based Competition on Results
ISBN: 9781591397786 / Angielski / Twarda / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The U.S. health care system is in crisis. At stake are the quality of care for millions of Americans and the financial well-being of individuals and employers squeezed by skyrocketing premiums--not to mention the stability of state and federal government budgets. In Redefining Health Care, internationally renowned strategy expert Michael Porter and innovation expert Elizabeth Teisberg reveal the underlying--and largely overlooked--causes of the problem, and provide a powerful prescription for change. The authors argue that competition currently takes place at the wrong level--among...
The U.S. health care system is in crisis. At stake are the quality of care for millions of Americans and the financial well-being of individuals and e...
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194,20 zł |
Making a Healthy World: Agencies, Actors and Policies in International Health
ISBN: 9781856494946 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At a time of fundamental changes in international health strategies, this is the first book to provide a comprehensive account of the international agencies involved -- notably the World Health Organisation, the World Bank, UNICEF, UNFPA and UNDP. Succinctly covering their organisation, finances, policies and practice, and paying due attention to the increasingly dominant role in health policymaking being played by the World Bank, this book also devotes attention to other actors in the health field, notably non-governmental organisations. It also examines in depth the main areas of...
At a time of fundamental changes in international health strategies, this is the first book to provide a comprehensive account of the international ag...
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179,05 zł |
Modernising Health Care: Reinventing Professions, the State and the Public
ISBN: 9781861348586 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Modernising health care: Reinventing professions, the state and the public is a crucial contribution to debates about the rapid modernisation of health care systems and the dynamics of changing modes of governance and citizenship. Structured around the role of the professions as mediators between state and citizens, and set against a background of tighter resources and growing demands for citizenship rights, Ellen Kuhlmann's book offers a much-needed comparative analysis, using the German health care system as a case study. The German system, with its strongly self-regulatory medical...
Modernising health care: Reinventing professions, the state and the public is a crucial contribution to debates about the rapid modernisation of healt...
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409,32 zł |
Don't Let Them Die: HIV/AIDS, TB, Malaria and the Healthcare Crisis in Africa
ISBN: 9781905068241 / Angielski / Miękka / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Africa's healthcare crises is well documented, even if not always accurately. What is undeniable is that millions of Africans are dying - from HIV/AIDs, tuberculosis, malaria and other illnesses - some of them easily preventable. Dr Akukwe examines the healthcare policies on Africa's major diseases - HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, showing how the healthcare crisis is bound up with, and worsens the general crisis of poverty in the continent. He also discusses how a different form of policy intervention can make all the difference. ________________________ Dr Chinua Akukwe is an adjunct...
Africa's healthcare crises is well documented, even if not always accurately. What is undeniable is that millions of Africans are dying - from HIV/AID...
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120,83 zł |
Ageing in India: Socio-Economic and Health Dimensions
ISBN: 9788171885350 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The socioeconomic, health, and public-policy aspects of aging in India are presented in this study that draws on empirical research to assess the country's preparedness. This analysis argues that many of the fundamental issues that need to be addressed by a country with a large aging population are not fully understood by public agencies. A number of policy options for the welfare of the growing number of elderly, particularly women, are proposed.
The socioeconomic, health, and public-policy aspects of aging in India are presented in this study that draws on empirical research to assess the coun...
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166,71 zł |
Understanding and Changing Health Behaviour: From Health Beliefs to Self-Regulation
ISBN: 9789058230737 / Angielski / Twarda / 390 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The identification of the factors predicting health behaviour has become a major focus of research in the field of health psychology and related disciplines. This awareness not only increases our understanding but also provides important targets for interventions to change health behaviour. Understanding and Changing Health Behaviour focuses on a range of key social cognitive factors in this process, using examples from an impressive breadth of applied settings that include smoking cessation, condom use and breast examination. The book features contributions from some of the best...
The identification of the factors predicting health behaviour has become a major focus of research in the field of health psychology and related disci...
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665,24 zł |
Malaria: A manual for community health workers
ISBN: 9789241544917 / Angielski / Miękka / 55 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Explains the many simple things that community health workers can do to treat malaria prevent new cases and thus help reduce the alarming number of deaths particularly in young children and pregnant women. Practical in its approach the manual concentr
Explains the many simple things that community health workers can do to treat malaria prevent new cases and thus help reduce the alarming number of de...
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76,56 zł |
Effective drug regulation: A multicountry study
ISBN: 9789241562065 / Angielski / Miękka / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Drugs play a crucial role in saving lives, restoring health, and preventing diseases and epidemics. But they need to be safe, efficacious, of good quality, and used rationally. This means that their production, import/export, storage, supply and distribut
Drugs play a crucial role in saving lives, restoring health, and preventing diseases and epidemics. But they need to be safe, efficacious, of good qua...
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95,70 zł |
The Optimal Duration of Exclusive Breastfeeding: A Systematic Review
ISBN: 9789241595643 / Angielski / Miękka / 50 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The longstanding debate over the optimal duration of exclusive breastfeeding has centered on the so-called "weanling's dilemma" in developing countries: the choice between the known protective effect of exclusive breastfeeding against infectious morbidity and the (theoretical) insufficiency of breast milk alone to satisfy the infant's energy and micronutrient requirements beyond 4 months of age. The primary objective of this review is to assess the effects on child health, growth, and development, and on maternal health, of exclusive breastfeeding for 6 months vs exclusive breastfeeding for...
The longstanding debate over the optimal duration of exclusive breastfeeding has centered on the so-called "weanling's dilemma" in developing countrie...
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71,78 zł |
Who Shall Live? Health, Economics, and Social Choice (Expanded Edition)
ISBN: 9789810232016 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Reviews from First Edition"It is the most useful little volume in recent years for the general reader ... Page for page, there is more fact, and more illuminatingprinciple, than in many books ten times its length". The New York Times book section"... superbly intelligent commentary on American health care ... another piece of evidence that the economists such as Fuchs arebecoming the shrewdest of the public moralists for this generation". The Washington Post Book WorldThis is a fine book, written by one of the most acute observers of the health scene in the United States today. We need more...
Reviews from First Edition"It is the most useful little volume in recent years for the general reader ... Page for page, there is more fact, and more ...
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The Vaccine Narrative
ISBN: 9780826515902 / Angielski / Biblioteczna (library binding) / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Salk vaccine seemed like a miracle to parents whose children were threatened with the scourge of polio. With its protection from polio, came also a story line-there were heroic researchers who would use science to protect us from epidemics and perhaps even eradicate disease. For most people, vaccines have become the magic bullets for dealing with dangerous diseases. The continuing quest for new vaccines, including an HIV/AIDS vaccine, despite technical, epidemiological, and social obstacles, suggests the abiding power of this narrative. The author examines four cases that span the...
The Salk vaccine seemed like a miracle to parents whose children were threatened with the scourge of polio. With its protection from polio, came also ...
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The Vaccine Narrative
ISBN: 9780826515919 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Salk vaccine seemed like a miracle to parents whose children were threatened with the scourge of polio. With its protection from polio, came also a story line-there were heroic researchers who would use science to protect us from epidemics and perhaps even eradicate disease. For most people, vaccines have become the magic bullets for dealing with dangerous diseases. The continuing quest for new vaccines, including an HIV/AIDS vaccine, despite technical, epidemiological, and social obstacles, suggests the abiding power of this narrative. The author examines four cases that span the...
The Salk vaccine seemed like a miracle to parents whose children were threatened with the scourge of polio. With its protection from polio, came also ...
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247,66 zł |
The Learning Healthcare System: Workshop Summary
ISBN: 9780309103008 / Angielski / Miękka / 374 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As our nation enters a new era of medical science that offers the real prospect of personalized health care, we will be confronted by an increasingly complex array of health care options and decisions. The Learning Healthcare System considers how health care is structured to develop and to apply evidence--from health profession training and infrastructure development to advances in research methodology, patient engagement, payment schemes, and measurement--and highlights opportunities for the creation of a sustainable learning health care system that gets the right care to people... As our nation enters a new era of medical science that offers the real prospect of personalized health care, we will be confronted by an increasing... |
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The New Sociology of the Health Service
ISBN: 9780415455985 / Angielski / Miękka / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Follow up to: The sociology of the Health Service / edited by Jonathan Gabe, Michael Calnan, and Michael Bury. 1991.
Follow up to: The sociology of the Health Service / edited by Jonathan Gabe, Michael Calnan, and Michael Bury. 1991.
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189,28 zł |