Environmental Health for All: Risk Assessment and Risk Communication for National Environmental Health Action Plans
ISBN: 9780792354529 / Angielski / Twarda / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Accurate assessment of environmental hazards and related risks is a primary prerequisite for effective environmental health protection, at both the individual and collective level. National and regional policies on environmental health need to be guided by knowledge about the risks to the populations involved; as the Environmental Action Plan for Europe notes, 'priority setting requires the comparative assessment of risks to health of different environmental factors against the cost of controlling them.' In recent years this has assumed particular importance, for with the encouragement of the...
Accurate assessment of environmental hazards and related risks is a primary prerequisite for effective environmental health protection, at both the in...
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765,72 zł |
Good Practices in Health Financing: Lessons from Reforms in Low and Middle-Income Countries
ISBN: 9780821375112 / Angielski / Miękka / 504 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For humanitarian reasons and the concern for households' economic and health security, the health sector is at the center of global development policy. Developing countries and the international community are scaling up health systems to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and are improving financial protection by securing long-term support for these gains. Yet money alone cannot buy health gains or prevent impoverishment due to catastrophic medical bills; well structured, results-based financing reforms are needed. Unfortunately, global evidence of -successful- health financing...
For humanitarian reasons and the concern for households' economic and health security, the health sector is at the center of global development policy...
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309,55 zł |
Physician's Guide to Managed Care
ISBN: 9780834203938 / Angielski / Miękka / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. You'll find the practical guidance you need to transition smoothly int o the managed care environment. You'll learn the pros and cons of prac ticing in a managed care setting, the daily life of managed care physi cians, the role of managed care in medical education and health care r eform. Discover how to take advantage of new opportunities and avoid p itfalls, balance cost consideration with clinical decision-making, and understand the case mix systems most frequently used in managed care. Written almost entirely by physicians, The Physician's Guide to Manag ed Care is a must for any...
You'll find the practical guidance you need to transition smoothly int o the managed care environment. You'll learn the pros and cons of prac ticing i...
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688,19 zł |
Behavioral Social Work in Health Care Settings
ISBN: 9780789010254 / Angielski / Twarda / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An essential resource for social work professionals As the focus of the health care industry shifts from predominantly hospital-based care to out-patient managed care, social workers must adapt to a new environment. Owing to changes driven by major advances in medical care knowledge, technology, and skill, new issues in ethics, practice, and policy have arisen. Behavioral Social Work in Health Care Settings addresses the impact that changing patterns in health care delivery have had (and will continue to have) on social work professionals, presenting a thoughtful collection of...
An essential resource for social work professionals As the focus of the health care industry shifts from predominantly hospital-based care t...
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492,71 zł |
Urban Ecology and Health in the Third World
ISBN: 9780521411592 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume looks at the relationship between specific aspects of Third World cities and human health. Rapid and extensive urbanization of the less developed nations is perhaps the most dramatic demographic phenomenon of our times, but its impact on human biology is not well understood. Here, a cross-section of work is presented on this subject allowing human biologists, urban planners, public health workers, and other specialists to assess our knowledge and the current approaches available to increase it. Contributions fall into two groups: studies of urban ecology including the social,...
This volume looks at the relationship between specific aspects of Third World cities and human health. Rapid and extensive urbanization of the less de...
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630,38 zł |
Private Complaints and Public Health: Richard Titmuss on the National Health Service
ISBN: 9781861345608 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Richard Titmuss was one of the twentieth century's foremost social policy theorists. This accessible Reader is the first compendium of his work on public health, health promotion and health inequalities. Most of Titmuss's work has been out of print for many years. This volume, like its predecessor, Welfare and wellbeing (The Policy Press, 2001), is important in bringing the work of this highly influential thinker to the attention of a new generation of social policy students and policy makers. It also enhances current debates about how complex societies can best provide for the health of all...
Richard Titmuss was one of the twentieth century's foremost social policy theorists. This accessible Reader is the first compendium of his work on pub...
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158,29 zł |
The Machine at the Bedside: Strategies for Using Technology in Patient Care
ISBN: 9780521318327 / Angielski / Miękka / 382 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This 1984 work examines concepts and strategies for using health care technology effectively and humanely at the bedside. Applying knowledge from the decision sciences, ethics, economics, sociology, the physical sciences, law, history, and clinical medicine, this book provides a multidisciplinary framework for practitioners, educators, policy makers, and the public who must decide about and implement the technological agents of health care. Twelve chapters present basic knowledge about this technology, from the forces that create and disseminate it to the perspectives and techniques crucial...
This 1984 work examines concepts and strategies for using health care technology effectively and humanely at the bedside. Applying knowledge from the ...
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271,60 zł |
Population, Health & Nutrition: Selected Papers of Hector Correa
ISBN: 9781560727859 / Angielski / Twarda / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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622,39 zł |
Health Professional Shortage Areas
ISBN: 9781604564099 / Angielski / Miękka / 81 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Identifies over 5,500 HPSAs designated throughout the United States as of September 2005; multiple federal programs relied on these designations to allocate resources or provide benefits.
Identifies over 5,500 HPSAs designated throughout the United States as of September 2005; multiple federal programs relied on these designations to al...
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264,48 zł |
Homelessness, Health Care and Welfare Provision
ISBN: 9780415050005 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In recent years the problem of homelessness has escalated into a critical social issue stimulating a wave of concern from the voluntary sector, pressure groups and policy makers. As shopfronts, underpasses and doorways are transformed into hotels for the needy, the shock of homelessness becomes ever more public. These homeless people are the most vulnerable sector of the population to illness and disease and, as they are not part of the system, they are the most isolated from the welfare services.
In recent years the problem of homelessness has escalated into a critical social issue stimulating a wave of concern from the voluntary sector, pressu...
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243,74 zł |
Unnatural Selection: The Challenges of Engineering Tomorrow's People
ISBN: 9781844076222 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Should we engineer humans to be stronger, smarter - even immortal? This is a controversial and important topic which raises fundamental ethical questions about evolution, what it is to be human and control over enhancement technologies
Should we engineer humans to be stronger, smarter - even immortal? This is a controversial and important topic which raises fundamental ethical questi...
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186,68 zł |
What Risk? : Paperback edition
ISBN: 9780750642286 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Whether the public or the environment is at risk is a commonly discussed question in numerous areas of public life, most recently and publicly with regard to issues like BSE, passive smoking and the dangers from pesticides in food production. It is therefore of great importance for everyone concerned with these issues - both policy makers and the public who may be subject to their decisions - to understand the basis on which 'risk' policy is made. The principle objective of this book is to highlight the uncertainties inherent in 'scientific' estimates of risk to the public and the... Whether the public or the environment is at risk is a commonly discussed question in numerous areas of public life, most recently and publicly with... |
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212,61 zł |
Environmental Health for All: Risk Assessment and Risk Communication for National Environmental Health Action Plans
ISBN: 9780792354536 / Angielski / Miękka / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Accurate assessment of environmental hazards and related risks is a primary prerequisite for effective environmental health protection, at both the individual and collective level. National and regional policies on environmental health need to be guided by knowledge about the risks to the populations involved; as the Environmental Action Plan for Europe notes, 'priority setting requires the comparative assessment of risks to health of different environmental factors against the cost of controlling them.' In recent years this has assumed particular importance, for with the encouragement of the...
Accurate assessment of environmental hazards and related risks is a primary prerequisite for effective environmental health protection, at both the in...
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765,72 zł |
Neuroscience and Social Work Practice: The Missing Link
ISBN: 9781412926973 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over the past 30 years, findings in the neurosciences have grown exponentially and have provided a profound understanding of the link between behavior and biology. Although the Social Work community has long taken pride in using a bio-psycho-social-spiritual (BPSS) framework in conceptualization and intervention, the biological aspect of this BPSS framework has been sorely missing. Neuroscience and Social Work Practice provides the critical missing link. Introducing the latest neuroscience research, it gives practitioners essential data--in an easily accessible form--with... Over the past 30 years, findings in the neurosciences have grown exponentially and have provided a profound understanding of the link between behav... |
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788,42 zł |
Neuroscience and Social Work Practice: The Missing Link
ISBN: 9781412926980 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over the past 30 years, findings in the neurosciences have grown exponentially and have provided a profound understanding of the link between behavior and biology. Although the Social Work community has long taken pride in using a bio-psycho-social-spiritual (BPSS) framework in conceptualization and intervention, the biological aspect of this BPSS framework has been sorely missing. Neuroscience and Social Work Practice provides the critical missing link. Introducing the latest neuroscience research, it gives practitioners essential data--in an easily accessible form--with... Over the past 30 years, findings in the neurosciences have grown exponentially and have provided a profound understanding of the link between behav... |
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565,38 zł |
Private Complaints and Public Health: Richard Titmuss on the National Health Service
ISBN: 9781861345615 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Richard Titmuss was one of the twentieth century's foremost social policy theorists. This accessible Reader is the first compendium of his work on public health, health promotion and health inequalities. Most of Titmuss's work has been out of print for many years. This volume, like its predecessor, Welfare and wellbeing (The Policy Press, 2001), is important in bringing the work of this highly influential thinker to the attention of a new generation of social policy students and policy makers. It also enhances current debates about how complex societies can best provide for the health of all...
Richard Titmuss was one of the twentieth century's foremost social policy theorists. This accessible Reader is the first compendium of his work on pub...
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807,17 zł |
Determinants of Minority Mental Health and Wellness
ISBN: 9780387756585 / Angielski / Twarda / 396 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The United States is experiencing a dramatic shift in demographics, with minorities comprising a rapidly growing proportion of the population. It is anticipated that this will likely lead to substantial changes in previously established values, needs, and priorities of the population, including health and mental health for individuals, families, and society at large. This volume focuses on determinants of minority mental health and wellness. This emphasis necessarily raises the question of just who is a minority and how is minority to be defined. The term has been defined in any number of...
The United States is experiencing a dramatic shift in demographics, with minorities comprising a rapidly growing proportion of the population. It is a...
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191,40 zł |
Leadership in Interprofessional Health Education: And Practice
ISBN: 9780763749835 / Angielski / Miękka / 478 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Changing Landscape Of Health Care Continues To Grow More Diverse. As Young Health Professionals Move Into Clinical Practice And Face Challenging Health Demands And Increasing Health Care Costs, They Must Be Prepared To Work In Interprofessional Teams Despite A Lack Of Experience In Team-Based Skills. Interprofessional Healthcare: Education And Practice For Rural And Underserved Populations Represents A Collective Response To This Problem From Educators, Clinicians, And Community Health Leaders To Create A Resource For Interprofessional Education And Practice. Divided Into Five Sections,...
The Changing Landscape Of Health Care Continues To Grow More Diverse. As Young Health Professionals Move Into Clinical Practice And Face Challenging H...
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600,97 zł |
Families and Health: Cross-Cultural Perspectives
ISBN: 9780789016591 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Promote culturally competent social work practice with families of many traditions This broad-ranging book highlights the enormous importance of the family in enhancing individuals' health and in safeguarding mental health. Families and Health offers an international scope and a multicultural frame of reference. The original research presented here includes both qualitative and quantitative studies on the role of family support in maintaining personal well-being. These empirical studies look at groups as diverse as elderly Samoans living in Hawaii, Nigerian families living in Africa, and...
Promote culturally competent social work practice with families of many traditions This broad-ranging book highlights the enormous importance of the ...
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202,24 zł |
Priority Setting Processes for Healthcare: In Oregon, Usa; New Zealand; The Netherlands; Sweden; And the United Kingdom
ISBN: 9781857750331 / Angielski / Miękka / 114 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the face of the relentless rise in health costs, many countries have had to set priorities so that maximum benefit can be made of unlimited funds. This book shares the experience of those which have taken a lead in this field, and draws on models being developed in Oregon, New Zealand, The Netherlands and Sweden as well as the UK. It discusses the strengths and weaknesses of each system from which healthcare planners and managers can draw their own conclusions and apply to the situation for which they are responsible.
In the face of the relentless rise in health costs, many countries have had to set priorities so that maximum benefit can be made of unlimited funds. ...
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140,00 zł |