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Lifestyle in Medicine
ISBN: 9780415356855 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Western societies, 'lifestyle' as an explanation for health and illness has become increasingly popular. Lifestyle in Medicine explores the ambiguity of the term 'lifestyle' and the way it is conceived and applied within medicine. Based on real doctor-patient consultations and in-depth interviews with doctors, the book discusses:
In Western societies, 'lifestyle' as an explanation for health and illness has become increasingly popular. Lifestyle in Medicine ... |
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274,86 zł |
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Trusting Medicine: The Moral Costs of Managed Care
ISBN: 9780415364829 / Angielski / Twarda / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Providing a fascinating overview of healthcare spending and cost-containment mechanisms in the US, this book explores the consequences of managed care for the community with particular attention paid to doctor-patient relationships. The author studies this significant relationship from a social perspective arguing that shifting financial risk onto doctors in a profit-making system seriously damages patient trust. In addition this undermines overall social capital, which in turn has been linked to health outcomes. Including case study examples and policy implications, this... Providing a fascinating overview of healthcare spending and cost-containment mechanisms in the US, this book explores the consequences of managed c... |
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700,25 zł |
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Trusting Medicine: The Moral Costs of Managed Care
ISBN: 9780415364836 / Angielski / Miękka / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Providing a fascinating overview of healthcare spending and cost-containment mechanisms in the US, this book explores the consequences of managed care for the community with particular attention paid to doctor-patient relationships. The author studies this significant relationship from a social perspective arguing that shifting financial risk onto doctors in a profit-making system seriously damages patient trust. In addition this undermines overall social capital, which in turn has been linked to health outcomes. Including case study examples and policy implications, this... Providing a fascinating overview of healthcare spending and cost-containment mechanisms in the US, this book explores the consequences of managed c... |
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228,18 zł |
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Hospital Social Work: The Interface of Medicine and Caring
ISBN: 9780415950671 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hospital Social Work introduces the reader to the world of medicine and social work as seen through the eyes of actual social workers. An essential reference for both students and professionals. Over 100 social workers in dozens of hospitals were interviewed to provide the reader with first-hand experiences and discussions of practice principles, policy considerations, and theoretical treatments to provide each chapter with a unique blend of theory and practice. Joan Beder, a professor of social work and a practicing social worker, recently noted an apparent lack... Hospital Social Work introduces the reader to the world of medicine and social work as seen through the eyes of actual social workers. An ... |
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202,24 zł |
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Cutting the Cost of Cold: Affordable Warmth for Healthier Homes
ISBN: 9780419250500 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this book academics and practitioners from a wide range of disciplines provide a survey of research into buildings, epidemiology and medical issues, followed by an assessment of the tools available to the practitioner. The book goes on to provide clear guidance on putting theory into practice.
This will be a powerful reference source and a compelling read for a wide range of built environment and health professionals from surveyors to environmental health officers. In this book academics and practitioners from a wide range of disciplines provide a survey of research into buildings, epidemiology and medical issues...
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503,09 zł |
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Body Composition Techniques in Health and Disease
ISBN: 9780521031929 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Body composition studies are used in a wide variety of fields including human biology, medicine, sports science, epidemiology, and nutrition. They may be used to predict later body composition from childhood measures, to detect bone density loss in the elderly or in athletes under heavy training, to assess obesity in children and adults, and to investigate the likely effects of malnutrition. Recently, there has been a resurgence of interest in the field of body composition, together with rapid development of a whole new range of assessment techniques. In this volume, new and old techniques...
Body composition studies are used in a wide variety of fields including human biology, medicine, sports science, epidemiology, and nutrition. They may...
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302,20 zł |
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Body Composition Techniques in Health and Disease
ISBN: 9780521461795 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Body composition studies are used in a wide variety of fields including human biology, medicine, sports science, epidemiology, and nutrition. They may be used to predict later body composition from childhood measures, to detect bone density loss in the elderly or in athletes under heavy training, to assess obesity in children and adults, and to investigate the likely effects of malnutrition. Recently, there has been a resurgence of interest in the field of body composition, together with rapid development of a whole new range of assessment techniques. In this volume, new and old techniques...
Body composition studies are used in a wide variety of fields including human biology, medicine, sports science, epidemiology, and nutrition. They may...
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659,86 zł |
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Refugee and Immigrant Health: A Handbook for Health Professionals
ISBN: 9780521535601 / Angielski / Miękka / 396 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on the authors' combined forty-plus years of work as clinicians and teachers in refugee and immigrant health, this handbook is practical, yet theory-based, so it can be used in the field and as a teaching text, wherever immigrants and refugees seek a safe haven from war. Bridging the factors that contribute to physical health by highlighting infectious disease risks, mental health, and spiritual issues, it also details the health beliefs and practices of 30 cultures from more than 40 countries in an age of constantly shifting populations.
Based on the authors' combined forty-plus years of work as clinicians and teachers in refugee and immigrant health, this handbook is practical, yet th...
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443,59 zł |
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Am I at Risk?: The Patient's Guide to Health Risk Factors
ISBN: 9780595467396 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For your physician to give you quality medical care, you must be aware of your medical history and issues. Here's how you can help your medical provider:
Learn about your risk factors and current medical diagnoses Ask questions when you don't understand Obtain second, third, or more opinions Maintain copies of your medical records Review these records often Keep yourself educated The medical profession is depending on you to help them keep you healthy! For your physician to give you quality medical care, you must be aware of your medical history and issues. Here's how you can help your medical provid...
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55,76 zł |
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Am I at Risk?: The Patient's Guide to Health Risk Factors
ISBN: 9780595704699 / Angielski / Twarda / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For your physician to give you quality medical care, you must be aware of your medical history and issues. Here's how you can help your medical provider:
Learn about your risk factors and current medical diagnoses Ask questions when you don't understand Obtain second, third, or more opinions Maintain copies of your medical records Review these records often Keep yourself educated The medical profession is depending on you to help them keep you healthy! For your physician to give you quality medical care, you must be aware of your medical history and issues. Here's how you can help your medical provid...
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98,81 zł |
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Occupational Health Risk Assessment and Management
ISBN: 9780632041992 / Angielski / Twarda / 504 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first book to integrate all aspects of workplace risk assessment and management, now the overriding emphasis in occupational health.
Topics include: basic concepts and developments; toxic hazards; hazard characteristics and identification; setting standards; requirements of monitoring workplace exposure; contaminants; exposure modeling; risk perception and management; prevention and control; economics; emergency response; health surveillance; auditing; compliance; pesticides, chemicals, carcinogens, biological agents, and radiation; equipment screening; manual handling;... This is the first book to integrate all aspects of workplace risk assessment and management, now the overriding emphasis in occupational health. |
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1151,79 zł |
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Risk-Benefit Analysis : Second Edition
ISBN: 9780674005297 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over the centuries, mankind has slowly reduced the risks and hazards that even as recently as a century ago kept life expectancy to a mere 45 years. Our average life span has improved to 77 years by remarkable progress in public health and safety. But with this improvement has come a demand for greater efforts to improve both life expectancy and the quality of life. The first edition of this book, published in 1982, was a pioneer in the development of logical, yet simple, analytic tools for discussion of the risks which we all face. This new edition, revised, expanded, and illustrated in...
Over the centuries, mankind has slowly reduced the risks and hazards that even as recently as a century ago kept life expectancy to a mere 45 years. O...
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114,39 zł |
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China's Urban Health Care Reform: From State Protection to Individual Responsibility
ISBN: 9780739106600 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One way to describe the importance of social policy is to say it's about "what is and what might be." This ethos is the driving force behind Chack-Kie Wong, Vai Io Lo, and Kwong-leung Tang's China's Urban Health Care Reform. Based on a study of a mid-level city in China, these three scholars provide analysis and offer theory-based recommendations on health care development. Using a comparative policy framework, supported by a legal expert's knowledge of regulatory specifications, China's Urban Health Care Reform argues that a strategy with priority in economic growth, as in the case of China,...
One way to describe the importance of social policy is to say it's about "what is and what might be." This ethos is the driving force behind Chack-Kie...
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518,70 zł |
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China's Urban Health Care Reform: From State Protection to Individual Responsibility
ISBN: 9780739113509 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One way to describe the importance of social policy is to say it's about 'what is and what might be.' This ethos is the driving force behind Chack-Kie Wong, Vai Io Lo, and Kwong-leung Tang's China's Urban Health Care Reform. Based on a study of a mid-level city in China, these three scholars provide analysis and offer theory-based recommendations on health care development. Using a comparative policy framework, supported by a legal expert's knowledge of regulatory specifications, China's Urban Health Care Reform argues that a strategy with priority in economic growth, as in the case of China,...
One way to describe the importance of social policy is to say it's about 'what is and what might be.' This ethos is the driving force behind Chack-Kie...
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218,40 zł |
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Effective Health Risk Messages: A Step-By-Step Guide
ISBN: 9780761915089 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner of the Distinguished Book Award by the Applied Communication Division of the National Communication Association, 2001 Effective Health Risk Messages provides step-by-step instructions for developing theoretically based campaigns that work. Students and readers will learn about message development theories, formative and summative evaluation, and even basic research designs for evaluating your campaign. Worksheets are provided at the end of each chapter to provide readers with hands-on, practical experiences in developing effective health risk messages. This book is suitable for... Winner of the Distinguished Book Award by the Applied Communication Division of the National Communication Association, 2001 Effective Health Ris... |
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788,42 zł |
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Effective Health Risk Messages: A Step-By-Step Guide
ISBN: 9780761915096 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner of the Distinguished Book Award by the Applied Communication Division of the National Communication Association, 2001, (USA) Effective Health Risk Messages provides step-by-step instructions for developing theoretically based campaigns that work. Students and readers will learn about message development theories, formative and summative evaluation, and even basic research designs for evaluating your campaign. Worksheets are provided at the end of each chapter to provide readers with hands-on, practical experiences in developing effective health risk messages. This book is suitable for...
Winner of the Distinguished Book Award by the Applied Communication Division of the National Communication Association, 2001, (USA) Effective Health R...
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565,38 zł |
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The Quality Solution: The Stakeholder's Guide to Improving Health Care: The Stakeholder's Guide to Improving Health Care
ISBN: 9780763727482 / Angielski / Miękka / 321 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Poor healthcare quality is a public health emergency. Landmark reports by the Institute of Medicine and other leading groups exposed the continuing inadequacies that plague the United States healthcare system. Despite the "red flags" that these reports raised, there has been only marginal improvement in healthcare quality. Therefore, improving the quality of health care should be one of our highest public health priorities. The Institute of Medicine called the substantial gulf between the vision of ideal care and the reality of what most individuals receive a quality chasm. The Quality...
Poor healthcare quality is a public health emergency. Landmark reports by the Institute of Medicine and other leading groups exposed the continuing in...
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482,13 zł |
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Mad Cows and Mother's Milk
ISBN: 9780773516199 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Communicating the nature and consequences of environmental and health risks is one of the most problematic areas of public policy in Western democracies. Given the perceived risks associated with the food we eat, chemicals in the environment, and modern technologies, consumers need clear and timely explanations of the nature of those risks - but they rarely get them. Using a series of case studies, Douglas Powell and William Leiss outline the crucial role of risk management in dealing with public controversies and analyse risk communication practice and malpractice to provide a set of lessons...
Communicating the nature and consequences of environmental and health risks is one of the most problematic areas of public policy in Western democraci...
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155,56 zł |
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Mad Cows and Mother's Milk: The Perils of Poor Risk Communication, Second Edition
ISBN: 9780773528178 / Angielski / Miękka / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Communicating the nature and consequences of environmental and health risks is still one of the most problematic areas of public policy in Western democracies. Mad Cows and Mother's Milk outlines the crucial role of risk management in dealing with public controversies and analyses risk communication practice to provide a set of lessons for risk managers and communicators. This second edition adds new case studies on mad cow disease in North America, climate change and genetic technologies. The first of the new case studies brings the story of the Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE)...
Communicating the nature and consequences of environmental and health risks is still one of the most problematic areas of public policy in Western dem...
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155,56 zł |
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Cross-Cultural Caring: A Handbook for Health Professionals
ISBN: 9780774810258 / Angielski / Miękka / 365 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cross-Cultural Caring A Handbook for Health Professionals, Second Edition describes Vietnamese, Cambodian, Laotian, Chinese, Japanese, Iranian, South Asian, and Central American ethno-cultural groups. It stresses the need to understand both the cultural beliefs and daily life issues facing immigrants, such as work, income, child-rearing, and aging, all of which impinge on health. Each chapter describes one ethno-cultural group, discussing such issues as childbirth, mental illness, dental care, hospitalization, and death, as well as home country culture, common reasons for... Cross-Cultural Caring A Handbook for Health Professionals, Second Edition describes Vietnamese, Cambodian, Laotian, Chinese, Japanese, Irani... |
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155,56 zł |
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