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Endocrine Disruption: Biological Bases for Health Effects in Wildlife and Humans
ISBN: 9780195137491 / Angielski / Twarda / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book addresses the biological effects of the reasonably large number of classes of compounds that have been recognized as endocrine disrupters. These compounds have been found to persist as pollutants in the environment, and have been blamed for causing developmental disorders and/or fertility problems in fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and possibly humans. This book presents the relevant fundamentals of the endocrine systems of animals and humans, the toxicology, developmental toxicology, ecology, and risk assessment methods, and lays out the current state of understanding for the...
This book addresses the biological effects of the reasonably large number of classes of compounds that have been recognized as endocrine disrupters. T...
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473,51 zł |
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The Dutch Response To HIV : Pragmatism and Consensus
ISBN: 9781857288162 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The way in which the Netherlands has responded to AIDS is arguably regarded as well organized and effective. This is possibly due to the timely and effective response to the threat of the disease, with a prevention programme starting in 1982. This book uses the Dutch example to provide an instructive case study for other countries with relevance for policy makers now and in the future. It documents and discusses the Dutch prevention policy, most specifically the prevention policies and activities for various target groups. It examines prevention research and studies on sexuality and health...
The way in which the Netherlands has responded to AIDS is arguably regarded as well organized and effective. This is possibly due to the timely and ef...
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770,57 zł |
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Sense of Direction It Needs to Be Restored: Part I Healthcare
ISBN: 9781434384935 / Angielski / Twarda / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Our health care system is broken and messy. It is serving neither the patient nor the doctor well. It behooves us, the physicians, to take the lead and diligently try to fix it. --from THE SENSE OF DIRECTION The "invisible hand" will start healing and Adam Smith's "what is good for me" will still be vehemently pursued but not at the expense of others. With a restored sense of direction, it will be easy to not only fix the health care mess but tackle other problems also. --from THE SENSE OF DIRECTION
Our health care system is broken and messy. It is serving neither the patient nor the doctor well. It behooves us, the physicians, to take the lead an...
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156,24 zł |
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Risk Assessment and Management in Cancer Genetics
ISBN: 9780198529606 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The need to expand expertise in cancer genetics beyond highly specialized genetics clinics is increasingly being recognized. In response, this practical book provides oncologists, specialist nurses, genetic counsellors, family doctors, and geneticists with comprehensive and easy-to-use guidelines on risk assessment and appropriate management.
The book focuses on common familial cancers such as breast, colorectal, ovary, prostate and melanoma, and separate chapters cover cancer predisposing syndromes such as neurofibromatosis, familial adenomatous polyposis and their management. The need to expand expertise in cancer genetics beyond highly specialized genetics clinics is increasingly being recognized. In response, this practic...
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565,98 zł |
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Engineering Safety: Fundamentals, Techniques, and Applications
ISBN: 9789812382214 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Safety has become very important because each year a vast number of people die due to workplace and other accidents. For example, in the United States for the year 1996 as per the National Safety Council, there were 93,400 deaths and 20,700,000 disabling injuries due to workplace accidents, with a total loss of $121 billion. Today there are a large number of books available on safety, but to the best of the author's knowledge none covers both general and systems safety (at a significant depth) and application or specialized areas such as software safety, robot safety, health care safety, and...
Safety has become very important because each year a vast number of people die due to workplace and other accidents. For example, in the United States...
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308,23 zł |
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Engineering Safety: Fundamentals, Techniques, and Applications
ISBN: 9789812383280 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Safety has become very important because each year a vast number of people die due to workplace and other accidents. For example, in the United States for the year 1996 as per the National Safety Council, there were 93,400 deaths and 20,700,000 disabling injuries due to workplace accidents, with a total loss of $121 billion. Today there are a large number of books available on safety, but to the best of the author's knowledge none covers both general and systems safety (at a significant depth) and application or specialized areas such as software safety, robot safety, health care safety, and...
Safety has become very important because each year a vast number of people die due to workplace and other accidents. For example, in the United States...
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184,94 zł |
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South African Case-study on Social Exclusion
ISBN: 9780796922311 / Angielski / Miękka / 56 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Social exclusion is a dynamic, multi-dimensional phenomenon. Driven by unequal power relationships, it works to exclude groups of people in particular contexts from engaging fully in community or social life. This study explores factors that enable or constrain the implementation of policies and programmes that address social exclusion.
Social exclusion is a dynamic, multi-dimensional phenomenon. Driven by unequal power relationships, it works to exclude groups of people in particular...
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70,02 zł |
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No Family History: The Environmental Links to Breast Cancer
ISBN: 9780742564084 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. No Family History presents compelling evidence of environmental links to breast cancer, ranging from everyday cosmetics to industrial waste. Sabrina McCormick weaves the story of one survivor with no family history into a powerful exploration of the big business of breast cancer. As drugs, pink products, and corporate sponsorships generate enormous revenue to find a cure, a growing number of experts argue that we should instead increase focus on prevention--reducing environmental exposures that have contributed to the sharp increase of breast cancer rates. But the dollars continue to pour...
No Family History presents compelling evidence of environmental links to breast cancer, ranging from everyday cosmetics to industrial waste. Sabrina M...
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259,56 zł |
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Handbook of Toxicology of Chemical Warfare Agents
ISBN: 9780123744845 / Angielski / Twarda / 1147 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This groundbreaking book covers every aspect of deadly toxic chemicals used as weapons of mass destruction and employed in conflicts, warfare and terrorism. Including findings from experimental as well as clinical studies, this one-of-a-kind handbook is prepared in a very user- friendly format that can easily be followed by students, teachers and researchers, as well as lay people. Stand-alone chapters on individual chemicals and major topics allow the reader to easily access required information without searching through the entire book.
This is the first book that offers in-depth... This groundbreaking book covers every aspect of deadly toxic chemicals used as weapons of mass destruction and employed in conflicts, warfare and terr...
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945,23 zł |
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Toward the Healthy City: People, Places, and the Politics of Urban Planning
ISBN: 9780262513074 / Angielski / Miękka / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In distressed urban neighborhoods where residential segregation concentrates poverty, liquor stores outnumber supermarkets, toxic sites are next to playgrounds, and more money is spent on prisons than schools, residents also suffer disproportionately from disease and premature death. Recognizing that city environments and the planning processes that shape them are powerful determinants of population health, urban planners today are beginning to take on the added challenge of revitalizing neglected urban neighborhoods in ways that improve health and promote greater equity. In Toward the... In distressed urban neighborhoods where residential segregation concentrates poverty, liquor stores outnumber supermarkets, toxic sites are next to... |
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207,47 zł |
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Managed Care Made Simple 2e
ISBN: 9780632043781 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Now more than ever, the need is great for medical students, physicians, nurse practitioners, and other healthcare providers to understand managed care. With clear explanations of issues ranging from medical costs to healthcare reform, Managed Care Made Simple is an invaluable resource for anyone who has chosen a career in the health professions. The second edition of this successful book updates the latest in this rapidly changing field. Every chapter has been revised and a new section on legislative initiatives has been added. Dr Baldor's straightforward approach offers a greater...
Now more than ever, the need is great for medical students, physicians, nurse practitioners, and other healthcare providers to understand managed care...
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956,85 zł |
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Performance-Based Medicine: Creating the High Performance Network to Optimize Managed Care Relationships
ISBN: 9781439812884 / Angielski / Twarda / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With healthcare making the transition from volume-based reimbursement programs to value-based approaches, understanding performance measurement is vital to optimize payment and quality outcomes. Performance-Based Medicine: Creating the High Performance Network to Optimize Managed Care Relationships guides readers through the maze of definitions and discussions related to value-based purchasing, healthcare delivery, and pricing. It tackles the question of how hospitals, HMOs, physician groups, and employers can arrive at an optimized reimbursement cost and coverage access... With healthcare making the transition from volume-based reimbursement programs to value-based approaches, understanding performance measurement is ... |
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318,45 zł |
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Comprehensive Healthcare for the U.S.: An Idealized Model
ISBN: 9781439829554 / Angielski / Twarda / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Three years in its creation, Comprehensive Healthcare for the U.S.: An Idealized Model brings together contributions from physicians, nurses, administrators, and social workers from around the globe to critically examine the mire of excellent technical quality and inefficient delivery that has become the United States healthcare system. Written by award-winning author William Roth, the book systematically explores the key elements that must be part of any comprehensive model. Roth examines facility network and staffing patterns. He looks at approaches to... Three years in its creation, Comprehensive Healthcare for the U.S.: An Idealized Model brings together contributions from physicia... |
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231,12 zł |
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Six Countries, Six Reform Models: The Healthcare Reform Experience of Israel, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Singapore, Switzerland and Taiwan - Health
ISBN: 9789814261586 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book presents the healthcare reform experiences of six small- to mid-sized, but dynamic, economies spanning the Asia-Pacific, the Middle East and Europe. Usually not given serious consideration in major international comparisons because of their small size, each in fact provides a fascinating case study that illuminates the understanding of the dynamics of healthcare reform. Although dissimilar in historical and cultural backgrounds, they share some important features: all faced very similar pressures for change in the 1970s and 1980s; all considered a very similar range of policy...
This book presents the healthcare reform experiences of six small- to mid-sized, but dynamic, economies spanning the Asia-Pacific, the Middle East and...
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488,03 zł |
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Toward Sustainable Transitions in Healthcare Systems
ISBN: 9780415888417 / Angielski / Twarda / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Health systems have long been considered key determinants of wellbeing within modern societies, a valuable resource which have faced a series of reform initiatives throughout the past decades. These reforms have been used to manage the cost of development, measure the tenability of health systems in globalizing economies and promote the increasing importance of health problems related to lifestyle and living conditions, yet they have failed to provide a true resolution to the persistent economical and logistical problems facing modern day health systems. This rich,... Health systems have long been considered key determinants of wellbeing within modern societies, a valuable resource which have faced a series of re... |
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693,51 zł |
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Managing Risks of Nitrates to Humans and the Environment
ISBN: 9781855738089 / Angielski / Twarda / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume concentrates on research information on the beneficial effects of nitrates and their fate in the environment. Adopting an integrated approach it covers the agricultural, environmental and medical aspects of this emotive topic. In addition, there is an extensive description of the biochemistry of nitrates in plants, animals and humans including the positive aspects as well as the hazards.
This volume concentrates on research information on the beneficial effects of nitrates and their fate in the environment. Adopting an integrated appro...
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945,23 zł |
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Breaking the Chain of Disease
ISBN: 9781462082544 / Angielski / Twarda / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Every twenty minutes, the scientific and medical communities discover yet another disease. If that doesn't get your attention, consider this: every nine seconds, someone is infected with HIV; drug resistant skin infections are spreading uncontrollably; and impending flu pandemics are inevitable. But despite all this, it's still possible to change your behavior to live a healthier life. Get the prescription you need to avoid disease and sickness with this guidebook that provides * information on how diseases have affected society in the past and how they'll continue to affect the... Every twenty minutes, the scientific and medical communities discover yet another disease. If that doesn't get your attention, consider this: ev... |
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106,53 zł |
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Breaking the Chain of Disease
ISBN: 9781462082568 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Every twenty minutes, the scientific and medical communities discover yet another disease. If that doesn't get your attention, consider this: every nine seconds, someone is infected with HIV; drug resistant skin infections are spreading uncontrollably; and impending flu pandemics are inevitable. But despite all this, it's still possible to change your behavior to live a healthier life. Get the prescription you need to avoid disease and sickness with this guidebook that provides * information on how diseases have affected society in the past and how they'll continue to affect the... Every twenty minutes, the scientific and medical communities discover yet another disease. If that doesn't get your attention, consider this: ev... |
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65,48 zł |
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Health Impact Assessment: Past Achievement, Current Understanding, and Future Progress
ISBN: 9780199656011 / Angielski / Miękka / 313 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Health Impact Assessment (HIA) is a process which helps decision making by predicting the consequences for health of choosing different options in terms of policies, plans, and projects. There is growing interest among health professionals, planners and politicians in using HIA to help safeguard and improve the health of populations and reduce health inequalities.
Health Impact Assessment Past Achievement, Current Understanding, and Future Progress explores the past development of HIA, its current practice and possible future. Written in two parts, the first section by John Kemm provides... Health Impact Assessment (HIA) is a process which helps decision making by predicting the consequences for health of choosing different options in ter...
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381,05 zł |
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Transfusion Medicine and Patient Safety
ISBN: 9783110286977 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Blood transfusion is considered a life-saving therapy since ancient times, but, at the same time, a high-risk procedure. Nowadays the common perception is that infection is the greatest risk, even if the blood has never been safer from this point of view. Currently, the residual risk of transfusion must be related mainly to immunological mechanisms underlying to AB0 and minor blood systems, to compatibility of blood transfused and to development of irregular antibodies in transfused patients. "Transfusion Medicine and Patient Safety" aims to provide the basic of immunohematology to... Blood transfusion is considered a life-saving therapy since ancient times, but, at the same time, a high-risk procedure. Nowadays the common percep... |
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150,96 zł |