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Some Traditional Herbal Medicines, Some Mycotoxins, Naphthalene and Styrene
ISBN: 9789283212829 / Angielski / Miękka / 590 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Traditional herbal medicines encompass an extremely diverse group of preparations that originate from many different cultures. In recent years, such products have become widely available commercially in developed countries where mixtures prepared from medicinal plants have been marketed or uses that were never contemplated in the traditional healing systems from which they emerged.
In many countries, herbal medicines are not subject to rigorous standards with respect to manufacturing efficacy, quality and safety. For example, herbal remedies containing plant species of the genus... Traditional herbal medicines encompass an extremely diverse group of preparations that originate from many different cultures. In recent years, such p...
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Some Drinking-Water Disinfectants and Contaminants, Including Arsenic
ISBN: 9789283212843 / Angielski / Miękka / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A well-researched report from a working group of 23 experts from 13 countries convened to evaluate the evidence of carcinogenicity of drinking-water disinfectants and of arsenic (mostly naturally occurring) as a contaminant of drinking-water and of the
A well-researched report from a working group of 23 experts from 13 countries convened to evaluate the evidence of carcinogenicity of drinking-water d...
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Betel-Quid and Areca-Nut Chewing and Some Areca-Nut-Derived Nitrosamines
ISBN: 9789283212850 / Angielski / Miękka / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This monograph evaluates the evidence of carcinogenicity of Betel-quid and Areca-nut chewing as well as some Areca-nut-derived nitrosamines.
This monograph evaluates the evidence of carcinogenicity of Betel-quid and Areca-nut chewing as well as some Areca-nut-derived nitrosamines.
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Cobalt in Hard-Metals and Cobalt Sulfate, Gallium Arsenide, Indium Phosphide and Vanadium Pentoxide
ISBN: 9789283212867 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This monograph evaluates the evidence of carcinogenicity of metallic cobalt particles with or without tungsten carbide to which workers in the hard-metal industry are exposed and of cobalt sulfate and other soluble cobalt (II) salts. It also evaluates t
This monograph evaluates the evidence of carcinogenicity of metallic cobalt particles with or without tungsten carbide to which workers in the hard-me...
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Formaldehyde 2-Butoxyethanol and 1-Tert-Butoxy-2-Propanol
ISBN: 9789283212881 / Angielski / Miękka / 483 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This eighty-eighth volume of IARC Monographs evaluates the available evidence on the carcinogenic potential in humans of formaldehyde, 2-butoxyethanol and 1-tert-butoxypropan-2-ol. Formaldehyde, a potential carcinogen that is found in the workplace and in the environment, has been studied the most widely and has been evaluated three times previously. It is being re-evaluated this time following a recommendation from an Advisory group that identified formaldehyde as a high priority for future re-evaluation, based on the availability of complex mechanistic data and the anticipated...
This eighty-eighth volume of IARC Monographs evaluates the available evidence on the carcinogenic potential in humans of formaldehyde, 2-butoxy...
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Caring for the Country: Family Doctors in Small Rural Towns
ISBN: 9780387209784 / Angielski / Miękka / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Medical students lack role models in rural primary care, contributing to the severe shortage of family care physicians in rural areas. This unique book addresses that need by profiling ten graduates from the Physician Shortage Area Program (PSAP) of Jefferson Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, who are now practicing rural family medicine. At the heart of this text is a challenge to pre-med undergraduates, medical students, and family physicians to consider rural family practice. An excellent resource for pre-med and medical school advisors, the book brings into focus the true... Medical students lack role models in rural primary care, contributing to the severe shortage of family care physicians in rural areas. This unique ... |
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The Health Care Revolution: From Medical Monopoly to Market Competitionvolume 19
ISBN: 9780520254800 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. America's market-based health care system, unique among the nations of the world, is in large part the product of an obscure, yet profound, revolution that overthrew the medical monopoly in the late 1970s. In this lucid, balanced account, Carl F. Ameringer tells how this revolution came into being when the U.S. Supreme Court and Congress prompted the antitrust agencies of the federal government--the Federal Trade Commission and the Justice Department--to change the rules of the health care system. Ameringer lays out the key events that led up to this regime change; explores its broader...
America's market-based health care system, unique among the nations of the world, is in large part the product of an obscure, yet profound, revolution...
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464,87 |
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Code Red: An Economist Explains How to Revive the Healthcare System Without Destroying It
ISBN: 9780691129419 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The U.S. healthcare system is in critical condition--but this should come as a surprise to no one. Yet until now the solutions proposed have been unworkable, pie-in-the-sky plans that have had little chance of becoming law and even less of succeeding. In Code Red, David Dranove, one of the nation's leading experts on the economics of healthcare, proposes a set of feasible solutions that address access, efficiency, and quality. Dranove offers pragmatic remedies, some of them controversial, all of them crucially needed to restore the system to vitality. He pays special... The U.S. healthcare system is in critical condition--but this should come as a surprise to no one. Yet until now the solutions proposed have been u... |
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Managed Care: Practice and Progress
ISBN: 9781857752809 / Angielski / Miękka / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The concept of managed care evolved in the USA as a way of containing costs and promoting quality in health care. Some vital lessons can be learned from this experience, and many of its benefits can be applied to the UK as the NHS internal market develops. However, there are also pitfalls which it is equally important to avoid. This is the first book to provide an in-depth analysis of the contracting techniques seen in managed care. The author is in the rare position of being an NHS manager with practical experience of the US health care system, and has produced a first hand contemporary...
The concept of managed care evolved in the USA as a way of containing costs and promoting quality in health care. Some vital lessons can be learned fr...
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Managing the Risks of Managed Care
ISBN: 9780834207325 / Angielski / Skoroszyt / 275 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The dominance of managed care is spreading quickly and risk managers are suddenly faced with major new challenges. With Managing the Risks of Managed Care, the risk manager will learn about risk management challenges in an integrated delivery system. The book also presents expert analysis on issues like contracting, peer review, ethical dilemmas, antitrust and more.
The dominance of managed care is spreading quickly and risk managers are suddenly faced with major new challenges. With Managing the Risks of Managed ...
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Environmental Health for All: Risk Assessment and Risk Communication for National Environmental Health Action Plans
ISBN: 9780792354529 / Angielski / Twarda / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Accurate assessment of environmental hazards and related risks is a primary prerequisite for effective environmental health protection, at both the individual and collective level. National and regional policies on environmental health need to be guided by knowledge about the risks to the populations involved; as the Environmental Action Plan for Europe notes, 'priority setting requires the comparative assessment of risks to health of different environmental factors against the cost of controlling them.' In recent years this has assumed particular importance, for with the encouragement of the...
Accurate assessment of environmental hazards and related risks is a primary prerequisite for effective environmental health protection, at both the in...
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805,10 |
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Good Practices in Health Financing: Lessons from Reforms in Low and Middle-Income Countries
ISBN: 9780821375112 / Angielski / Miękka / 504 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For humanitarian reasons and the concern for households' economic and health security, the health sector is at the center of global development policy. Developing countries and the international community are scaling up health systems to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and are improving financial protection by securing long-term support for these gains. Yet money alone cannot buy health gains or prevent impoverishment due to catastrophic medical bills; well structured, results-based financing reforms are needed. Unfortunately, global evidence of -successful- health financing...
For humanitarian reasons and the concern for households' economic and health security, the health sector is at the center of global development policy...
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Physician's Guide to Managed Care
ISBN: 9780834203938 / Angielski / Miękka / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. You'll find the practical guidance you need to transition smoothly int o the managed care environment. You'll learn the pros and cons of prac ticing in a managed care setting, the daily life of managed care physi cians, the role of managed care in medical education and health care r eform. Discover how to take advantage of new opportunities and avoid p itfalls, balance cost consideration with clinical decision-making, and understand the case mix systems most frequently used in managed care. Written almost entirely by physicians, The Physician's Guide to Manag ed Care is a must for any...
You'll find the practical guidance you need to transition smoothly int o the managed care environment. You'll learn the pros and cons of prac ticing i...
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611,54 |
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Behavioral Social Work in Health Care Settings
ISBN: 9780789010254 / Angielski / Twarda / 130 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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479,92 |
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Urban Ecology and Health in the Third World
ISBN: 9780521411592 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume looks at the relationship between specific aspects of Third World cities and human health. Rapid and extensive urbanization of the less developed nations is perhaps the most dramatic demographic phenomenon of our times, but its impact on human biology is not well understood. Here, a cross-section of work is presented on this subject allowing human biologists, urban planners, public health workers, and other specialists to assess our knowledge and the current approaches available to increase it. Contributions fall into two groups: studies of urban ecology including the social,...
This volume looks at the relationship between specific aspects of Third World cities and human health. Rapid and extensive urbanization of the less de...
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Private Complaints and Public Health: Richard Titmuss on the National Health Service
ISBN: 9781861345608 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Richard Titmuss was one of the twentieth century's foremost social policy theorists. This accessible Reader is the first compendium of his work on public health, health promotion and health inequalities. Most of Titmuss's work has been out of print for many years. This volume, like its predecessor, Welfare and wellbeing (The Policy Press, 2001), is important in bringing the work of this highly influential thinker to the attention of a new generation of social policy students and policy makers. It also enhances current debates about how complex societies can best provide for the health of all...
Richard Titmuss was one of the twentieth century's foremost social policy theorists. This accessible Reader is the first compendium of his work on pub...
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The Machine at the Bedside: Strategies for Using Technology in Patient Care
ISBN: 9780521318327 / Angielski / Miękka / 382 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This 1984 work examines concepts and strategies for using health care technology effectively and humanely at the bedside. Applying knowledge from the decision sciences, ethics, economics, sociology, the physical sciences, law, history, and clinical medicine, this book provides a multidisciplinary framework for practitioners, educators, policy makers, and the public who must decide about and implement the technological agents of health care. Twelve chapters present basic knowledge about this technology, from the forces that create and disseminate it to the perspectives and techniques crucial...
This 1984 work examines concepts and strategies for using health care technology effectively and humanely at the bedside. Applying knowledge from the ...
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Better Health Systems for India's Poor: Findings, Analysis, and Options
ISBN: 9780821350294 / Angielski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This report focuses on health sector reform and outlines some broad measures for reform in this sector. It evaluates policy options and presents the theory and evidence to support these policy choices. This report also offers specific proposals to improve health policy and strengthen implementation across India. It is a product of extensive consultation and research undertaken by more than a dozen institutions.
This report focuses on health sector reform and outlines some broad measures for reform in this sector. It evaluates policy options and presents the t...
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102,81 |
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Population, Health & Nutrition: Selected Papers of Hector Correa
ISBN: 9781560727859 / Angielski / Twarda / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Health Professional Shortage Areas
ISBN: 9781604564099 / Angielski / Miękka / 81 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Identifies over 5,500 HPSAs designated throughout the United States as of September 2005; multiple federal programs relied on these designations to allocate resources or provide benefits.
Identifies over 5,500 HPSAs designated throughout the United States as of September 2005; multiple federal programs relied on these designations to al...
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262,88 |