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Principles of Nutritional Assessment
ISBN: 9780195171693 / Angielski / Twarda / 928 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a comprehensive text on the methods - dietary, anthropometric, laboratory and clinical - of assessing the nutritional status of populations and of individuals in the hospital or the community. This Second Edition incorporates recent data from national nutritional surveys in the US and Europe; the flood of new information about iron, vitamin A and iodine; the role of folate in preventing neural tube defects; the use of HPLC techniques and enzyme assays; improvements in data handling; and many other developments.
A paperback edition of this book is available to readers... This is a comprehensive text on the methods - dietary, anthropometric, laboratory and clinical - of assessing the nutritional status of populations an...
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694,26 zł |
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Getting Health Reform Right: A Guide to Improving Performance and Equity
ISBN: 9780195371505 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides a multi-disciplinary framework for developing and analysing health sector reforms, based on the authors' extensive international experience. It offers practical guidance, and stresses the need to take account of each country's economic, administrative, and political circumstances. The authors explain how to design effective government interventions in five areas - financing, payment, organization, regulation, and behaviour - to improve the performance and equity of health systems around the world.
This book provides a multi-disciplinary framework for developing and analysing health sector reforms, based on the authors' extensive international ex...
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261,83 zł |
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Social Inequalities in Health : New evidence and policy implications
ISBN: 9780198568162 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Social inequalities in health remain a key public health problem. This book brings together a panel of internationally renowned experts to provide new answers to the complex reasons behind these inequalities, explaining recent scientific evidence and discussing its policy implications.
Social inequalities in health remain a key public health problem. This book brings together a panel of internationally renowned experts to provide new...
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379,76 zł |
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Risk: A Very Short Introduction
ISBN: 9780199576203 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. We find risk everywhere--from genetically modified crops, medical malpractice, and stem-cell therapy to heartbreak, online predators, identity theft, inflation, and robbery. They arise from our own acts and they are imposed on us. In this Very Short Introduction, Baruch Fischhoff and John Kadvany draw on both the sciences and humanities to illuminate both the similarities and differences of various kinds of risk. Using conceptual frameworks such as decision theory and behavioral decision research, they examine the science and practice of creating measures of risk and look at how...
We find risk everywhere--from genetically modified crops, medical malpractice, and stem-cell therapy to heartbreak, online predators, identity theft, ...
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50,47 zł |
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Work, Worklessness, and the Political Economy of Health
ISBN: 9780199588299 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. We are told that 'work is good for us' and that ill health is caused by 'individual lifestyles'. Drawing on research from public health, social policy, epidemiology, geography and political science, this evidence-based inter-disciplinary book firmly challenges these contemporary orthodoxies. It systematically demonstrates that work - or lack of it - is central to our health and wellbeing and is the underlying determinant of health inequalities. Work is the cornerstone of modern society and dominates adult life with around a third of our time spent working. It is a vital part of self-identity...
We are told that 'work is good for us' and that ill health is caused by 'individual lifestyles'. Drawing on research from public health, social policy...
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345,37 zł |
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The Risks of Prescription Drugs
ISBN: 9780231146937 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Few people realize that prescription drugs have become a leading cause of death, disease, and disability. Adverse reactions to widely used drugs, such as psychotropics and birth control pills, as well as biologicals, result in FDA warnings against adverse reactions. The Risks of Prescription Drugs describes how most drugs approved by the FDA are under-tested for adverse drug reactions, yet offer few new benefits. Drugs cause more than 2.2 million hospitalizations and 110,000 hospital-based deaths a year. Serious drug reactions at home or in nursing homes would significantly raise...
Few people realize that prescription drugs have become a leading cause of death, disease, and disability. Adverse reactions to widely used drugs, such...
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98,23 zł |
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Public Health and Society
ISBN: 9780333971734 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Public Health and Society links public health explicitly to sociological theory, in order to demonstrate the relationship between health care and the social structures that underpin the provision of health services. The book reviews developments in public health using a critical, historical and comparative analytical framework, and includes topical areas such as health inequalities, social diversity, social exclusion units, care in the community and media constructions of health. It also provides practical examples combined with current, research-based sociological studies explaining...
Public Health and Society links public health explicitly to sociological theory, in order to demonstrate the relationship between health care...
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207,43 zł |
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Calculated Risks: The Toxicity and Human Health Risks of Chemicals in Our Environment
ISBN: 9780521788786 / Angielski / Miękka / 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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138,93 zł |
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Health and Inequality: Geographical Perspectives
ISBN: 9780761968238 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At last A tour de force on cities and health by someone who knows that geography matters. This is a groundbreaking text, preoccupied as much with health and well-being as with death, disease and despair. It is concerned with who wins and who loses from the social and spatial patterning of risk... Combining breadth of coverage with depth of analysis, Health and Inequality provides an intricate map of harmful spaces and healing places, together with some guidelines on how to get from one to the other' - Professor Susan Smith, Ogilvie Professor of Geography, University of...
At last A tour de force on cities and health by someone who knows that geography matters. This is a groundbreaking text, preoccupied as much w...
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290,47 zł |
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Biomarkers: A Pragmatic Basis for Remediation of Severe Pollution in Eastern Europe
ISBN: 9780792356448 / Angielski / Miękka / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Many areas of Eastern Europe have been polluted to an extent unknown in the West. Four such sites, Kola Peninsula, northern Bohemia, upper Vistula Basin, and Katowice, have been identified and detailed accounts of the pollution at these sites are given. The status of the use of biomarkers in hazard assessment is given by several scientists from NATO countries. Four working groups, comprising scientists working on the polluted sites and western scientists with expertise in biomarkers, examine the use of biomarkers to assess the environmental health of each of these areas and make...
Many areas of Eastern Europe have been polluted to an extent unknown in the West. Four such sites, Kola Peninsula, northern Bohemia, upper Vistula Bas...
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384,63 zł |
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Trade and Public Health: The WTO, Tobacco, Alcohol, and Diet
ISBN: 9781107008410 / Angielski / Twarda / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Examines extent to which law of the WTO restricts domestic implementation of taxes, restrictions on marketing, product regulation and labeling measures for public health purposes.
Examines extent to which law of the WTO restricts domestic implementation of taxes, restrictions on marketing, product regulation and labeling measure...
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310,97 zł |
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Rural Populations and Health
ISBN: 9781118004302 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Health-related disparities remain a persistent, serious problem across the nation's more than 60 million rural residents. Rural Populations and Health provides an overview of the critical issues surrounding rural health and offers a strong theoretical and evidence-based rationale for rectifying rural health disparities in the United States. This edited collection includes a comprehensive examination of myriad issues in rural health and rural health care services, as well as a road map for reducing disparities, building capacity and collaboration, and applying prevention... Health-related disparities remain a persistent, serious problem across the nation's more than 60 million rural residents. Rural Populations and ... |
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447,45 zł |
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Towards Healthy Cities: Comparing Conditions for Change
ISBN: 9781409420668 / Angielski / Twarda / 134 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores the conditions needed to make public and private investments in healthy cities most effective. The authors argue that three conditions are essential for such investments: citizen empowerment, corporate responsibility and a coordinated improvement of urban health conditions. Using an integrated approach to health in line with the Healthy Cities philosophy of the World Health Organization, case studies in Helsinki, Liverpool, London, Udine and Vancouver are not only used to demonstrate the relevance of these conditions, but also to show how actors in these cities are trying...
This book explores the conditions needed to make public and private investments in healthy cities most effective. The authors argue that three conditi...
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752,12 zł |
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Healing Home: Health and Homelessness in the Life Stories of Young Women
ISBN: 9781442613447 / Angielski / Miękka / 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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150,37 zł |
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Collaboration in Social Work Practice
ISBN: 9781843100928 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. New or experienced social workers who are developing their collaborative practice with service users and carers and with other professionals, will find this book to be an essential source of knowledge, skills and issues for reflection. The authors explain how practitioners in social care, health and related sectors can work more effectively together in line with current developments in policy and practice, offering a critical appraisal both of the benefits and the challenges. The authors explore definitions of collaborative work, describe policy and research and give examples from their...
New or experienced social workers who are developing their collaborative practice with service users and carers and with other professionals, will fin...
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152,83 zł |
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Transforming Health Markets in Asia and Africa: Improving Quality and Access for the Poor
ISBN: 9781849714174 / Angielski / Miękka / 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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171,12 zł |
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Patient Safety, Law Policy and Practice
ISBN: 9780415859738 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Patient safety is an issue which in recent years has grown to prominence in a number of countries' political and health service agendas. The World Health Organisation has launched the World Alliance for Patient Safety. Millions of patients, according to the Alliance, endure prolonged ill-health, disability and death caused by unreliable practices, services, and poor health care environments. At any given time 1.4 million people worldwide are suffering from an infection acquired in a health facility. Patient Safety, Law Policy and Practice explores the impact of legal systems on patient safety...
Patient safety is an issue which in recent years has grown to prominence in a number of countries' political and health service agendas. The World Hea...
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228,18 zł |
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The Costs of Poor Health Habits
ISBN: 9780674422254 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Poor health habits (drinking, smoking, lack of exercise) obviously take their toll on individuals and their families. The costs to society are less obvious but certainly more far-reaching. This investigation is the first to quantify the financial burden these detrimental habits place on American taxpayers. Willard Manning and his colleagues measure the direct costs of poor health habits (fire damage, motor vehicle accidents, legal fees), as well as collectively financed costs (medical care, employee sick leave, group health and life insurance, nursing home care, retirement pensions,... Poor health habits (drinking, smoking, lack of exercise) obviously take their toll on individuals and their families. The costs to society are les... |
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285,97 zł |
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Getting Risk Right: Understanding the Science of Elusive Health Risks
ISBN: 9780231166461 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Do cell phones cause brain cancer? Does BPA threaten our health? How safe are certain dietary supplements, especially those containing exotic herbs or small amounts of toxic substances? Is the HPV vaccine safe? We depend on science and medicine as never before, yet there is widespread misinformation and confusion, amplified by the media, regarding what influences our health. In Getting Risk Right, Geoffrey C. Kabat shows how science works--and sometimes doesn't--and what separates these two very different outcomes. Kabat seeks to help us distinguish between claims that are...
Do cell phones cause brain cancer? Does BPA threaten our health? How safe are certain dietary supplements, especially those containing exotic herbs or...
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162,92 zł |
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Technical Guide 230 Environmental Health Risk Assessment and Chemical Exposure Guidelines for Deployed Military Personnel: 2013 Revision
ISBN: 9781530973514 / Angielski / Miękka / 540 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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92,16 zł |
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