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The Health Consequences of 'Modernisation': Evidence from Circumpolar Peoples
ISBN: 9780521474016 / Angielski / Twarda / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this book, the authors assess the impact of "modernization" on various populations in the circumpolar regions. They examine the adaptations shown culturally, behaviorally, and physically by the indigenous peoples, and discuss the effect of changes in habitual activity, diet, and general life style due to more urban living patterns on body composition, pulmonary function and susceptibility to disease.
In this book, the authors assess the impact of "modernization" on various populations in the circumpolar regions. They examine the adaptations shown c...
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576,32 zł |
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Evaluating Hlth Risks
ISBN: 9780521478786 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A major problem in health economics is how to give a value to changes in health. This is the first book to examine all the money measures that are used in such evaluations. Changes in health might be caused by medical treatments, by public safety programmes and by anti-pollution programmes, and the cost-benefit analysis of such programmes involves the use of money measures. The author defines the properties of these money measures, examining them in both a certain and a risky world. He evaluates available empirical approaches for the assessment of the value of health changes, and considers...
A major problem in health economics is how to give a value to changes in health. This is the first book to examine all the money measures that are use...
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158,58 zł |
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Calculated Risks: The Toxicity and Human Health Risks of Chemicals in Our Environment
ISBN: 9780521783088 / Angielski / Twarda / 358 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Safeguarding economic prosperity, whilst protecting human health and the environment, is at the forefront of scientific and public interest. This book provides a practical and balanced view on toxicology, control, risk assessment and risk management, addressing the interplay between science and public health policy. This revised edition provides a detailed analysis on chemical and by-product exposure, how they enter the body and the suitability of imposed safety limits. Chapters on dose, with particular emphasis on children and vulnerable subpopulations, reproductive and developmental...
Safeguarding economic prosperity, whilst protecting human health and the environment, is at the forefront of scientific and public interest. This book...
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595,98 zł |
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Pesticide Selectivity, Health and the Environment
ISBN: 9780521811941 / Angielski / Twarda / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The re-evaluation of many compounds for their long-term toxicity to humans and the environment has resulted in extensive reforms of the pesticide industry. This book explores the actions of pesticides and their effects on non-target organisms, the environment and human health. In addition to the chemical and biological actions of pesticides, the volume covers the regulatory framework within which manufacturers of compounds function, and the influence that pressure groups and the media have on the industry.
The re-evaluation of many compounds for their long-term toxicity to humans and the environment has resulted in extensive reforms of the pesticide indu...
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625,46 zł |
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AIDS in Nigeria: A Nation on the Threshold
ISBN: 9780674018686 / Angielski / Miękka / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Every minute a Nigerian man, woman, or child becomes infected with HIV. Soon Nigeria will be home to more people living with HIV than any other country in Africa. With 5 percent of its inhabitants already infected, Nigeria has reached the critical threshold that can catapult rates to nearly 40 percent of a country's population. The full magnitude of Nigeria's epidemic will be determined by its response now.
"AIDS in Nigeria" helps guide that response. Written by dozens of the country's leading HIV experts, the book explores the dynamics of the epidemic, analyzes prevention efforts,... Every minute a Nigerian man, woman, or child becomes infected with HIV. Soon Nigeria will be home to more people living with HIV than any other count...
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141,69 zł |
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The Harvard Medical School Guide to Men's Health: Lessons from the Harvard Men's Health Studies
ISBN: 9780684871820 / Angielski / Miękka / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Harvard Medical School Guide to Men's Health assembles into a single volume a quarter-century's worth of hard-won knowledge about men's health -- knowledge that men need to lead longer, healthier lives.
More than twenty-five years ago, researchers at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health began what have become the largest aggregate studies ever of men's health. Tracking 96,000 American men over decades, these studies provide the ultimate resource on what keeps men healthy -- and what doesn't. The result is The Harvard Medical School Guide to Men's... The Harvard Medical School Guide to Men's Health assembles into a single volume a quarter-century's worth of hard-won knowledge about men's hea...
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134,86 zł |
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The Joslin Guide to Diabetes: A Program for Managing Your Treatment
ISBN: 9780743257848 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An indispensable, up-to-date resource for managing your diabetes from the global leader in diabetes research, care, and education
Finding out that you have diabetes immediately raises questions about the condition, its treatment, and its impact on your future. Why did I get diabetes? What will I have to do to treat it? How will my future health be affected by having diabetes? What will my life be like? Getting accurate answers to these and many other questions will determine how well you are able to live with diabetes. This completely updated edition of The Joslin Guide to... An indispensable, up-to-date resource for managing your diabetes from the global leader in diabetes research, care, and education
Finding out tha... |
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78,39 zł |
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AIDS as a Gender Issue: Psychosocial Perspectives
ISBN: 9780748402311 / Angielski / Twarda / 283 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This international collection examines a wide range of psycho-social aspects of AIDS and HIV infection, including prevention, education, healthcare and policy in terms of gender challenges.
This international collection examines a wide range of psycho-social aspects of AIDS and HIV infection, including prevention, education, healthcare an...
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933,66 zł |
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AIDS as a Gender Issue: Psychosocial Perspectives
ISBN: 9780748402328 / Angielski / Miękka / 283 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This international collection examines a wide range of psycho-social aspects of AIDS and HIV infection, including prevention, education, healthcare and policy in terms of gender challenges.
This international collection examines a wide range of psycho-social aspects of AIDS and HIV infection, including prevention, education, healthcare an...
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269,67 zł |
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Healthcare Reform and Interest Groups: Catalysts and Barriers in Rural Australia
ISBN: 9780761833017 / Angielski / Miękka / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rural Australia has faced many economic and demographic disadvantages. Advances in medical technology and economic reforms have led to the closure or near closure of many rural hospitals. Since the late 1980s, the Australian government has increased their focus on the quality and functionality of rural health. Most notable was the development of a rural health strategy and the introduction of flexibly funded, integrated health services, otherwise known as Multipurpose Services (MPS). Healthcare Reform and Interests Groups explores the resistance that the MPSs encountered from rural health...
Rural Australia has faced many economic and demographic disadvantages. Advances in medical technology and economic reforms have led to the closure or ...
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329,56 zł |
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Health Promotion at the Community Level: New Advances
ISBN: 9780761913047 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Like the First Edition, this book serves as a guide to the science and art of community health promotion. The last decade of research and development has considerably advanced the science of achieving and maintaining health. In this new edition, international contributors share their experiences and expertise about diverse health promotion and point out areas needing adjustment in community implementation, both on an international and domestic level
Like the First Edition, this book serves as a guide to the science and art of community health promotion. The last decade of research and development ...
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663,94 zł |
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Smoking: Risk, Perception, and Policy
ISBN: 9780761923800 / Angielski / Twarda / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'This important book reveals why the young start smoking and why, as adults, they regret having started. It is a great contribution to helping end a national epidemic' - Cheryl Healton, President/CEO, American Legacy Foundation 'This book is a must for everyone concerned about how to address the problem of tobacco use among young people. Virtually all new smokers are children. Many of them are in their early teens and one out of every three children who begin to smoke will die prematurely because of their use of tobacco. This book includes the most objective, thorough and authoritative...
'This important book reveals why the young start smoking and why, as adults, they regret having started. It is a great contribution to helping end a n...
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663,94 zł |
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Smoking: Risk, Perception, and Policy
ISBN: 9780761923817 / Angielski / Miękka / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book presents a counter-view, based on a survey of several thousand young persons and adults, probing attitudes, beliefs, feelings, and perceptions of risk associated with smoking. The authors agree that young smokers give little or no thought to health risks or the problems of addiction. The survey data contradicts the model of informed, rational choice and underscores the need for aggressive policies to counter tobacco firmsOCO marketing and promotional efforts and to restrict youth access to tobacco.a"
This book presents a counter-view, based on a survey of several thousand young persons and adults, probing attitudes, beliefs, feelings, and percep... |
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420,15 zł |
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Insurance and Risk Management Strategies for Physicians and Advisors: A Strategic Approach
ISBN: 9780763733421 / Angielski / Miękka / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In his foreword to this collection of 20 chapters, a California surgeon notes that he has over ten separate insurance policies for his practice. This situation is typical, as is his lack of understanding about the coverage and need for each of these policies. The contributors clearly explain many aspects relating to such insurance including: e.g.,
In his foreword to this collection of 20 chapters, a California surgeon notes that he has over ten separate insurance policies for his practice. This ...
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664,85 zł |
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Faith, Medicine, and Science: A Festschrift in Honor of Dr. David B. Larson
ISBN: 9780789018717 / Angielski / Twarda / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A perfect introduction to the connection between religious faith and physical and mental health
Faith, Medicine, and Science: A Festschrift in Honor of Dr. David B. Larson is a comprehensive collection of groundbreaking work from one of the principal figures in the establishment, expansion, and acceptance of scientific research at the interface of religion, spirituality, and health. Dr. Jeff Levin and Dr. Harold G. Koenig honor their late colleague with a retrospective of his writings on the impact of religious faith and identity on physical and mental health and on a variety of social... A perfect introduction to the connection between religious faith and physical and mental health
Faith, Medicine, and Science: A Festschrift in H... |
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907,73 zł |
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Health Inequality: Morality and Measurement
ISBN: 9780802092441 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the last decade, there has been an explosion of academic interest in health inequality. Although it is seldom stated explicitly, research into this area is inexorably tied to questions of morality and ethics. In this study, Yukiko Asada seeks to acknowledge the role that morality and theories of justice play in health inequality research, and to articulate the moral philosophy underlying this field of inquiry. Comprised of two distinct parts, Health Inequality first proposes a framework for measuring health inequality reflecting moral concern, then goes on to show how this... In the last decade, there has been an explosion of academic interest in health inequality. Although it is seldom stated explicitly, research into t... |
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285,29 zł |
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Family Caregiving Across the Lifespan
ISBN: 9780803944312 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Examining caregiving issues from a multigenerational, family life cycle perspective, this volume deals with the broad spectrum of chronic illnesses that necessitate family caregiving throughout the lifespan and discusses responses to these challenges by both caregiving families and caregiving systems. Part One addresses the caregiving paradigm and the relationship of family caregiving research to family life studies. Part Two examines conceptual aspects of caregiving, ranging from the expansion of the caregiving paradigm, caregiving processes and tasks, to the positive aspects of caregiving....
Examining caregiving issues from a multigenerational, family life cycle perspective, this volume deals with the broad spectrum of chronic illnesses th...
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663,94 zł |
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Social Psychology of Health and Illness
ISBN: 9780805805543 / Angielski / Miękka / 366 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This books describes how and why distant social influences, such as socialization practices, interpersonal relationships, and social organization, are often just as important as medical considerations in determining an individual's tendency toward health or illness. The essays describe some of the pathways through which these social influences are exerted and also offer suggestions as to how these influences can be swayed in the direction of good health. The editors' broader aim is to stress the importance of social psychological orientation as a useful conceptual tool for the analysis of...
This books describes how and why distant social influences, such as socialization practices, interpersonal relationships, and social organization, are...
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305,98 zł |
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Mad Cow Crisis: Health and the Public Good
ISBN: 9780814775103 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the spring of 1996, when numerous reports of bovine spongioform encephalopathy, popularly known as -mad cow disease, - coincided with an outbreak of a similar neuropathological disease in humans, a panic spread across Britain, Europe, and subsequently to the United States. Described as -the biggest crisis the European Union ever had, - the mad cow controversy raised important issues about the ways in which risks to the public heath are assessed, disseminated, and controlled. Was the -epidemic- merely a failure of management, the lessons of which could be incorporated into a new strategy... In the spring of 1996, when numerous reports of bovine spongioform encephalopathy, popularly known as -mad cow disease, - coincided with an outbrea... |
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549,24 zł |
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Healthy Markets?: The New Competition in Medical Care
ISBN: 9780822321385 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When federal and state policy makers' efforts to enact sweeping health care reform in the mid-1990s ended in stalemate, the private sector unleashed initiatives that have affected virtually every aspect of health care. With updated essays first published in issues of the "Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law," "Healthy Markets? "offers the most comprehensive and critical examination yet found in a single volume of the economic, political, and social implications of this recent market transformation of health care in the United States.
With original contributions from leading... When federal and state policy makers' efforts to enact sweeping health care reform in the mid-1990s ended in stalemate, the private sector unleashed i...
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129,62 zł |
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