Hyping Health Risks: Environmental Hazards in Daily Life and the Science of Epidemiology
ISBN: 9780231141499 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The media constantly bombard us with news of health hazards lurking in our everyday lives, but many of these hazards turn out to have been greatly overblown. According to author and epidemiologist Geoffrey C. Kabat, this hyping of low-level environmental hazards leads to needless anxiety and confusion on the part of the public concerning which exposures have important effects on health and which are likely to have minimal or no effect. Kabat approaches health scares as "social facts" and shows that a variety of factors can contribute to the inflating of a hazard. These include skewed...
The media constantly bombard us with news of health hazards lurking in our everyday lives, but many of these hazards turn out to have been greatly ove...
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152,29 zł |
Social Work in Public Health and Hospitals
ISBN: 9781926692852 / Angielski / Twarda / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Social Work in Public Health and Hospitals deals with a variety of issues on social work in hospital settings and public policy issues. Included are chapters on hospital stays for the elderly, identifying postnatal depression during well-child visits, breast- feeding and awareness of health recommendations, maternal health services in Nigeria, children living with parents with HIV and AIDS, patients rights in hospitals, harm reduction in hospitals, and more. In addition to hospitals, the book looks at public health services at rural and community clinics, at university hospitals, and at...
Social Work in Public Health and Hospitals deals with a variety of issues on social work in hospital settings and public policy issues. Included are c...
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594,22 zł |
A Socio-cultural Perspective on Patient Safety
ISBN: 9781409408628 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This edited volume of original chapters brings together researchers from around the world who are exploring the facets of health care organization and delivery that are sometimes marginal to mainstream patient safety theories and methodologies but offer important insights into the socio-cultural and organizational context of patient safety. By examining these critical insights or perspectives and drawing upon theories and methodologies often neglected by mainstream safety researchers, this collection shows we can learn more about not only the barriers and drivers to implementing patient...
This edited volume of original chapters brings together researchers from around the world who are exploring the facets of health care organization and...
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775,06 zł |
Social Justice in Clinical Practice: A Liberation Health Framework for Social Work
ISBN: 9780415698955 / Angielski / Twarda / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Social work theory and ethics places social justice at its core and recognises that many clients from oppressed and marginalized communities frequently suffer greater forms and degrees of physical and mental illness. However, social justice work has all too often been conceptualized as a macro intervention, separate and distinct from clinical practice. This practical text is designed to help social workers intervene around the impact of socio-political factors with their clients and integrate social justice into their clinical work. Based on past radical traditions, it introduces... Social work theory and ethics places social justice at its core and recognises that many clients from oppressed and marginalized communities freque... |
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723,39 zł |
Social Justice in Clinical Practice: A Liberation Health Framework for Social Work
ISBN: 9780415698962 / Angielski / Miękka / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Social work theory and ethics places social justice at its core and recognises that many clients from oppressed and marginalized communities frequently suffer greater forms and degrees of physical and mental illness. However, social justice work has all too often been conceptualized as a macro intervention, separate and distinct from clinical practice. This practical text is designed to help social workers intervene around the impact of socio-political factors with their clients and integrate social justice into their clinical work. Based on past radical traditions, it introduces... Social work theory and ethics places social justice at its core and recognises that many clients from oppressed and marginalized communities freque... |
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273,80 zł |
Politics of Occupation-Centred Practice: Reflections on Occupational Engagement Across Cultures
ISBN: 9781444336986 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Politics of Occupation-Centred Practice addresses the cultural aspects of occupational identity and draws out the implications for practice, moving beyond the clinical environment to include the occupational therapist's work in the wider community.
It explores the development of individual occupational narratives, community traditions and their roots in everyday experiences, offering a range of examples from distinctive populations to demonstrate approaches to forming sustainable occupational engagements. Chapters span such key areas as 'Experiences of Disaster', 'Social Inclusion',... Politics of Occupation-Centred Practice addresses the cultural aspects of occupational identity and draws out the implications for practice, moving be...
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190,09 zł |
Transforming Health Markets in Asia and Africa: Improving Quality and Access for the Poor
ISBN: 9781849714167 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There has been a dramatic spread of health markets in much of Asia and Africa over the past couple of decades. This has substantially increased the availability of health-related goods and services in all but the most remote localities, but it has created problems with safety, efficiency and cost. The effort to bring order to these chaotic markets is almost certain to become one of the greatest challenges in global health. This book documents the problems associated with unregulated health markets and presents innovative approaches that have emerged to address them. It outlines a framework...
There has been a dramatic spread of health markets in much of Asia and Africa over the past couple of decades. This has substantially increased the av...
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671,72 zł |
Ultrafine Particles in the Atmosphere
ISBN: 9781860943584 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Following the recognition that airborne particulate matter, even at quite modest concentrations, has an adverse effect on human health, there has been an intense research effort to understand the mechanisms and quantify the effects. One feature that has shone through is the important role of ultrafine particles as a contributor to the adverse effects of airborne particles. In this volume, many of the most distinguished researchers in the field provide a state-of-the-art overview of the scientific and medical research on ultrafine particles.
Following the recognition that airborne particulate matter, even at quite modest concentrations, has an adverse effect on human health, there has been...
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625,21 zł |
Rural Women's Health
ISBN: 9781442645394 / Angielski / Twarda / 472 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The well-being of rural communities affects the well-being of those who reside in towns and cities because of rural-urban connections through food, drinking water, infectious disease, extreme environmental events, recreation, and for many, retirement residence. In rural areas themselves, women play a critical role in the health of their families and communities, yet women's health is often marginalized or ignored. There have been limited studies to date about rural women and health in Canada. Filling an important gap in scholarship, this collection identifies priority issues that must be... The well-being of rural communities affects the well-being of those who reside in towns and cities because of rural-urban connections through food,... |
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Inside National Health Reform: Volume 22
ISBN: 9780520274525 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This indispensable guide to the Affordable Care Act, our new national health care law, lends an insider's deep understanding of policy to a lively and absorbing account of the extraordinary--and extraordinarily ambitious--legislative effort to reform the nation's health care system. Dr. John E. McDonough, DPH, a health policy expert who served as an advisor to the late Senator Edward Kennedy, provides a vivid picture of the intense effort required to bring this legislation into law. McDonough clearly explains the ACA's inner workings, revealing the rich landscape of the issues, policies, and...
This indispensable guide to the Affordable Care Act, our new national health care law, lends an insider's deep understanding of policy to a lively and...
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163,17 zł |
Health Workforce Governance: Improved Access, Good Regulatory Practice, Safer Patients
ISBN: 9781409429210 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With increasing recognition of the international market in health professionals and the impact of globalism on regulation, the governance of the health workforce is moving towards greater public engagement and increased transparency. This book discusses the challenges posed by these processes such as improved access to health services and how structures can be reformed so that good practice is upheld and quality of service and patient safety are ensured. With contributions from regulators, academics, lawyers and health professionals, this book presents arguments from multiple perspectives. Of...
With increasing recognition of the international market in health professionals and the impact of globalism on regulation, the governance of the healt...
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Rural Women's Health
ISBN: 9781442613485 / Angielski / Miękka / 472 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The well-being of rural communities affects the well-being of those who reside in towns and cities because of rural-urban connections through food, drinking water, infectious disease, extreme environmental events, recreation, and for many, retirement residence. In rural areas themselves, women play a critical role in the health of their families and communities, yet women's health is often marginalized or ignored. There have been limited studies to date about rural women and health in Canada. Filling an important gap in scholarship, this collection identifies priority issues that must be... The well-being of rural communities affects the well-being of those who reside in towns and cities because of rural-urban connections through food,... |
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191,18 zł |
My Trials: Living Life with Sugar Diabetes
ISBN: 9781462071302 / Angielski / Miękka / 68 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Living life as an insulin-dependent diabetic should not be without hope. A full, rich, and healthy life can be yours when you learn how to properly manage your disease. But there's so much information out there, it's hard to know what to trust. Even the doctors and specialists can't agree on what's best some days. If you find all the medical books and jargon confusing, this book was written for you. Author Ethereal T. Henry Jr. is not a doctor or a diabetes educator. He wouldn't call himself an expert. What he is, however, is a person who has found a way to live his life with type-1 diabetes,...
Living life as an insulin-dependent diabetic should not be without hope. A full, rich, and healthy life can be yours when you learn how to properly ma...
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38,90 zł |
Biomarkers: Research and Application in the Assessment of Environmental Health
ISBN: 9783642846335 / Angielski / Miękka / 119 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Biological markers used to assess the effects of environmental pollution have attracted considerable attention from regulatory agencies and are currently under evaluation at a number of research facilities throughout the world. However promising a biomarker-based biomonitoring approach may be, the development of this concept is complicated by a range of technical issues. This book provides a conceptional framework for research and application of biomarkers. International experts on biomonitoring have formulated a unified strategy for the development and validation of biomarkers in assessing...
Biological markers used to assess the effects of environmental pollution have attracted considerable attention from regulatory agencies and are curren...
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383,73 zł |
The Global HIV Epidemics Among People Who Inject Drugs
ISBN: 9780821397763 / Angielski / Miękka / 135 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. People who inject drugs (PWID) are at higher risk for acquiring HIV infection than the general population in many countries. Injecting drug use is present in 148 countries including a wide array of low and middle income countries where HIV incidence is growing in recent years - even as it declines elsewhere. This study was undertaken as the third of a series of three economic analyses examining the global epidemics of HIV/AIDS in vulnerable populations. Informed by a critical review of epidemiological evidence and the most recent analyses of intervention efficacy, this work modeled the costs...
People who inject drugs (PWID) are at higher risk for acquiring HIV infection than the general population in many countries. Injecting drug use is pre...
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164,23 zł |
Comrades in Health: U.S. Health Internationalists, Abroad and at Home
ISBN: 9780813561202 / Angielski / Miękka / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since the early twentieth century, politically engaged and socially committed U.S. health professionals have worked in solidarity with progressive movements around the world. Often with roots in social medicine, political activism, and international socialism, these doctors, nurses, and other health workers became comrades who joined forces with people struggling for social justice, equity, and the right to health. Anne-Emanuelle Birn and Theodore M. Brown bring together a group of professionals and activists whose lives have been dedicated to health internationalism. By presenting a...
Since the early twentieth century, politically engaged and socially committed U.S. health professionals have worked in solidarity with progressive mov...
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180,85 zł |
Comrades in Health: U.S. Health Internationalists, Abroad and at Home
ISBN: 9780813561219 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since the early twentieth century, politically engaged and socially committed U.S. health professionals have worked in solidarity with progressive movements around the world. Often with roots in social medicine, political activism, and international socialism, these doctors, nurses, and other health workers became comrades who joined forces with people struggling for social justice, equity, and the right to health. Anne-Emanuelle Birn and Theodore M. Brown bring together a group of professionals and activists whose lives have been dedicated to health internationalism. By presenting a...
Since the early twentieth century, politically engaged and socially committed U.S. health professionals have worked in solidarity with progressive mov...
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640,71 zł |
Perspectives on Biologically Based Cancer Risk Assessment
ISBN: 9781461371496 / Angielski / Miękka / 319 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first meeting of the NATO/CCMS Pilot Study "Dose-Response Analysis and Biologically-Based Risk assessment for Initiator and Promoter Carcinogens" was held in Rome, Italy, in the spring of 1991, and was followed by annual or bi-annual meetings held in Germany, Greece, Netherlands, Portugal, USA, up to the end of 1995; in large part supported by NATO/CCMS grants or fellowships, and organized by Pilot Study participants. The Pilot Study activity has been characterized by a higly collaborative atmosphere, which was essential for a deep and detailed analysis of a problem on which different...
The first meeting of the NATO/CCMS Pilot Study "Dose-Response Analysis and Biologically-Based Risk assessment for Initiator and Promoter Carcinogens" ...
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Healing Home: Health and Homelessness in the Life Stories of Young Women
ISBN: 9781442645318 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on research that was awarded the Governor General's Academic Gold Medal, Healing Home is an exploration of the lives and health of young women experiencing homelessness. Vanessa Oliver employs an innovative methodology that blends sociology and storytelling practices to investigate these women's access to health services, their understandings of health and health care delivery, and their health-seeking behaviours. Through their life stories, Oliver demonstrates how personal and social experiences shape health outcomes. In contrast to many previous studies that have... Based on research that was awarded the Governor General's Academic Gold Medal, Healing Home is an exploration of the lives and health of y... |
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Tackling Noncommunicable Diseases in Bangladesh: Now Is the Time
ISBN: 9780821399200 / Angielski / Miękka / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bangladesh is undergoing a double transition--demographic and epidemiological. Increasing life expectancy and declining fertility entail a demographic transition fueling a shift in the disease burden toward noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). Yet due to absence of a robust routine health information system in the country, it is hard to accurately assess the disease burden and corresponding risk factors. So, using a wide range of sources, this book looks at the status of major NCDs in Bangladesh (and briefly in South Asia), touches on their economic impact, analyzes their common risk factors, and...
Bangladesh is undergoing a double transition--demographic and epidemiological. Increasing life expectancy and declining fertility entail a demographic...
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127,82 zł |