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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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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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200,80 |
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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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651,40 |
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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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651,40 |
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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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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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588,68 |
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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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857,10 |
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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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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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651,40 |
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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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303,61 |
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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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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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Healthy Markets?: The New Competition in Medical Care
ISBN: 9780822322368 / Angielski / Twarda / 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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528,96 |
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Bioterrorism in Medical and Healthcare Administration
ISBN: 9780824756512 / Angielski / Twarda / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bioterrorism in Medical and Healthcare Administration provides an efficient method to identify, manage, and control transformations in the provision of health services during elevated levels of bioterrorist threat - offering step-by-step procedures and templates to prepare and implement a coordinated response to high-alert situations.
Outlines procedures to analyze events of significance, properly train personnel, maintain working relationships among various groups, and effectively cope with the threat or use of bioweaponry. Essential to public health preparedness, this book... Bioterrorism in Medical and Healthcare Administration provides an efficient method to identify, manage, and control transformations in the provision o...
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783,64 |
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The Second Sickness: Contradictions of Capitalist Health Care
ISBN: 9780847698875 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since the appearance of Waitzkin's The Second Sickness, a landmark book of the 1980s, American medicine has been dramatically transformed. Waitzkin's earlier edition used qualitative research to take readers inside the "black box" of medical decisionmaking. This new, fully updated and expanded edition retains the earlier edition's vivid approach and adds timely analysis of how managed care and other economic and social forces influence medical practice today.
Since the appearance of Waitzkin's The Second Sickness, a landmark book of the 1980s, American medicine has been dramatically transformed. Waitzkin's ...
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225,30 |
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Future Health Organizations and Systems
ISBN: 9781403917522 / Angielski / Twarda / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Given the fundamental and growing importance of health to the economy and society, this book addresses some of the key questions being asked in relation to health in the future. What will the health system look like, how much will it cost, what ethical framework will underlie future health policy and can we really have a system that is designed to improve health as well as provide health care? Based on the 'Policy Futures for UK Health' project, this collection explores the shape of the health system and its key components, taking a multidisciplinary approach to health policy questions that...
Given the fundamental and growing importance of health to the economy and society, this book addresses some of the key questions being asked in relati...
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402,53 |
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Balanced Choice: A Common Sense Cure for the U.S. Health Care Systems
ISBN: 9781425956707 / Angielski / Miękka / 173 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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68,74 |
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Biomedicine Examined
ISBN: 9781556080722 / Angielski / Miękka / 558 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The culture of contemporary medicine is the object of investigation in this book; the meanings and values implicit in biomedical knowledge and practice and the social processes through which they are produced are examined through the use of specific case studies. The essays provide examples of how various facets of 20th century medicine, including edu cation, research, the creation of medical knowledge, the development and application of technology, and day to day medical practice, are per vaded by a value system characteristic of an industrial-capitalistic view of the world in which the idea...
The culture of contemporary medicine is the object of investigation in this book; the meanings and values implicit in biomedical knowledge and practic...
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885,61 |
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Silicone Survivors: Women's Experiences with Breast Implants
ISBN: 9781566396127 / Angielski / Miękka / 225 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work is a result of conversation with 40 women about perhaps one of the most sensitive issues of the body image and health - their breasts, the chief attributes of femininity. In the aftermath of the early 1990s controversy over the use of silicone breast implants, how do women decide to undergo surgery to enhance or reconstruct their bodies? How did they face the possibility of debilitating autoimmune disease from rupturing or leaking implants?
This work is a result of conversation with 40 women about perhaps one of the most sensitive issues of the body image and health - their breasts, the c...
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132,18 |
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Occupational Exposure Assessment for Air Contaminants
ISBN: 9781566706094 / Angielski / Twarda / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Addressing occupational exposure assessment for air contaminants as a coherent body of knowledge, this is the first book to explore occupational air contaminant measurement and properties, human exposure assessment, design of exposure strategies, and the statistical interpretation of exposure measurements in one comprehensive source. The book covers both the technological aspects of measuring air contaminants and the occupational hygiene framework within which such measurements take place. The all-inclusive exploration of the major theories and practices of occupational exposure assessment...
Addressing occupational exposure assessment for air contaminants as a coherent body of knowledge, this is the first book to explore occupational air c...
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747,55 |
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