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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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1083,13 |
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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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107,57 |
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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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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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204,81 |
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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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770,69 |
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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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556,07 |
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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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425,26 |
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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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141,40 |
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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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141,40 |
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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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141,40 |
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Fundamentals of Perinatal Social Work : A Guide for Clinical Practice with Women, Infants, and Families
ISBN: 9780789000439 / Angielski / Twarda / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fundamentals of Perinatal Social Work: A Guide for Clinical Practice provides perinatal social work students and beginning practitioners with an overview of the basics of perinatal social work theory and practice, allowing you to identify and promote a healthy social and emotional environment for pregnant women and/or infants. This book covers the knowledge bases of obstetric and neonatal medicine--and other specialized topics--as applied to social work practice that you?ll need to be familiar with in order to provide effective care for mother and child. As a guide for new workers, students,...
Fundamentals of Perinatal Social Work: A Guide for Clinical Practice provides perinatal social work students and beginning practitioners with an overv...
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756,05 |
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Fundamentals of Perinatal Social Work : A Guide for Clinical Practice with Women, Infants, and Families
ISBN: 9780789000491 / Angielski / Miękka / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fundamentals of Perinatal Social Work provides a reference for new perinatal social workers as they face the challenge of overwhelming medical information and technology which they must understand in order to function in their positions. This accessible book illustrates the depth and breadth the field of perinatal social work encompasses and stresses the unchanging goal of perinatal social work--to maximize the potential of every infant and every family.
Fundamentals of Perinatal Social Work provides a reference for new perinatal social workers as they face the challenge of overwhelming medical informa...
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282,86 |
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International Perspectives on Social Work in Health Care: Past, Present, and Future
ISBN: 9780789003256 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Academics and practitioners discuss what managed care, cost containment, corporatization, and pre-payment portend for the field of social work, in papers from a January 1995 conference. Papers are arranged in sections on health policy and social work, social work practice issues in health, developments in health social work research, and social wor
Academics and practitioners discuss what managed care, cost containment, corporatization, and pre-payment portend for the field of social work, in pap...
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756,05 |
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Social Work Practice in Home Health Care
ISBN: 9780789004833 / Angielski / Twarda / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Through Social Work Practice in Home Health Care, social workers will discover a unique "how-to" approach to social work practice in home health care agencies. You will find a historical perspective on home health care and clinical interventions to help you improve home health care for your patients. A wide range of clients, such as the developmentally disabled, post-hospitalization patients, the physically disabled and chronically impaired of all ages, the mentally ill, the terminally ill, newborn infants and their mothers, abused older adults, and abused children are in need of appropriate...
Through Social Work Practice in Home Health Care, social workers will discover a unique "how-to" approach to social work practice in home health care ...
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975,56 |
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Social Work Practice in Home Health Care
ISBN: 9780789004840 / Angielski / Miękka / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Through Social Work Practice in Home Health Care, social workers will discover a unique "how-to" approach to social work practice in home health care agencies. You will find a historical perspective on home health care and clinical interventions to help you improve home health care for your patients. A wide range of clients, such as the developmentally disabled, post-hospitalization patients, the physically disabled and chronically impaired of all ages, the mentally ill, the terminally ill, newborn infants and their mothers, abused older adults, and abused children are in need of appropriate...
Through Social Work Practice in Home Health Care, social workers will discover a unique "how-to" approach to social work practice in home health care ...
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360,91 |
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Family Health Social Work Practice : A Knowledge and Skills Casebook
ISBN: 9780789007179 / Angielski / Twarda / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cases are used to introduce an emerging practice paradigm in social work in this book for social work students and professionals. Material is presented on the theory and skills of the practice, and a framework is described for developing a family health intervention plan, illustrated by case scenari
Cases are used to introduce an emerging practice paradigm in social work in this book for social work students and professionals. Material is presente...
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1195,06 |
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Behavioral Social Work in Health Care Settings
ISBN: 9780789010261 / Angielski / Miękka / 124 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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146,29 |
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Family Health Social Work Practice: A Knowledge and Skills Casebook
ISBN: 9780789016485 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Edited by pioneers of the family health approach, this volume introduces the theoretical model and skills of the practice, including a framework for developing a family health intervention plan.
Edited by pioneers of the family health approach, this volume introduces the theoretical model and skills of the practice, including a framework for d...
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282,86 |
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Clinical Data-Mining in Practice-Based Research : Social Work in Hospital Settings
ISBN: 9780789017086 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this collection of ten articles, 19 social workers most affiliated with Mount Sinai Hospital demonstrate how practitioner use of a single practice-based research strategy can inform social work practice and programs in health care settings. An introductory chapter discusses administrative strategies to promote reflective social work practice. Ch
In this collection of ten articles, 19 social workers most affiliated with Mount Sinai Hospital demonstrate how practitioner use of a single practice-...
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463,34 |
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Clinical Data-Mining in Practice-Based Research : Social Work in Hospital Settings
ISBN: 9780789017093 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Design more effective social work programs with research data from your clinical files A well-planned research program helps social workers provide consistent, effective services to their clients, but stretched budgets and tight schedules make it difficult to find the resources for data gathering. Clinical Data-Mining in Practice-Based Research shows how you can use the existing records already kept by every health-care institution as your primary data source. By analyzing documented clinical information, you can do groundbreaking research and custom-tailor programs to fit the specific needs...
Design more effective social work programs with research data from your clinical files A well-planned research program helps social workers provide c...
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175,55 |