Occupational Lung Diseases: Research Approaches and Methods
ISBN: 9780824713621 / Angielski / Twarda / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Occupational Voice Loss
ISBN: 9780824728779 / Angielski / Twarda / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first guide to cover aspects of voice loss from an occupational health perspective, this reference covers procedures to detect, assess, and prevent voice loss in schools, industrial facilities, and other workplace environments, as well as covers occupational groups at risk and risk factors for developing voice loss-analyzing various chemical, environmental, psychological, and medical causes of this potentially work-related condition.
The first guide to cover aspects of voice loss from an occupational health perspective, this reference covers procedures to detect, assess, and preven...
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880,10 zł |
The Practical Applicability of Toxicokinetic Models in the Risk Assessment of Chemicals: Proceedings of the Symposium the Practical Applicability of T
ISBN: 9781402009341 / Angielski / Twarda / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 2000 OpdenKamp Registration & Notification organized a two-day symposium in The Hague, The Netherlands, on The Practical Applicability of Toxicokinetic Models in the Risk Assessment of Chemicals'. Several speakers from Europe and the United States were invited to present the different aspects. A vast range of areas was discussed in relation to toxicological modeling and risk assessment, such as occupational toxicology and biomonitoring, exposure to organic solvents and crop protection products, dose-response relations in carcinogenicity, regulatory toxicology, estimation of dermal...
In 2000 OpdenKamp Registration & Notification organized a two-day symposium in The Hague, The Netherlands, on The Practical Applicability of Toxicokin...
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Euthanasia in the Netherlands: The Policy and Practice of Mercy Killing
ISBN: 9781402022500 / Angielski / Twarda / 205 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Dutch experience has influenced the debate on euthanasia and death with dignity around the globe, especially with regard to whether physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia should be legitimized or legalized. A review of the literature reveals complex and often contradictory views about the Dutch experience. Some claim that the Netherlands offers a model for the world to follow; others believe that the Netherlands represents danger, rather than promise, and that the Dutch experience is the definitive answer regarding why we should not make active euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide...
The Dutch experience has influenced the debate on euthanasia and death with dignity around the globe, especially with regard to whether physician-assi...
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385,52 zł |
Nanotechnology - Toxicological Issues and Environmental Safety
ISBN: 9781402060748 / Angielski / Twarda / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides a summary of the state-of-art knowledge on nanomaterials and nanoparticles. It examines toxicological issues, risk assessment and control measures, public participation and educational/ethical issues, as well as institutional mechanisms and status reports from various countries. Coverage also details collaborations in the field of nanotechnology regarding safe application and development. This book provides a summary of the state-of-art knowledge on nanomaterials and nanoparticles. It examines toxicological issues, risk assessment an... |
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771,08 zł |
Nanotechnology - Toxicological Issues and Environmental Safety
ISBN: 9781402060755 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides a summary of the state-of-art knowledge on nanomaterials and nanoparticles. It examines toxicological issues, risk assessment and control measures, public participation and educational/ethical issues, as well as institutional mechanisms and status reports from various countries. Coverage also details collaborations in the field of nanotechnology regarding safe application and development. This book provides a summary of the state-of-art knowledge on nanomaterials and nanoparticles. It examines toxicological issues, risk assessment an... |
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771,08 zł |
Back Injury Among Healthcare Workers: Causes, Solutions, and Impacts
ISBN: 9781566706315 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics recently calculated nearly 60,000 musculoskeletal injuries to healthcare workers resulting from heavy lifting during attempts to move patients. Often the nurses, aides, orderlies, and attendants who suffered permanent injuries were forced out of the profession, straining an already inadequate pool of workers and wasting valuable knowledge and ability.
Back Injury Among Healthcare Workers: Causes, Solutions, and Impacts presents the latest research on this topic from an epidemiological point of view. The book highlights case studies from actual injured... The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics recently calculated nearly 60,000 musculoskeletal injuries to healthcare workers resulting from heavy lifting duri...
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698,90 zł |
Organophosphates and Health
ISBN: 9781860942709 / Angielski / Twarda / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Few chemical compounds created by man have caused greater controversy than organophosphates. Conceived as insecticides, they have also been developed to become the most feared of chemical weapons. The control of vectors of diseases from which millions die or are disabled is heavily dependent on organophosphates, as are efforts to maintain food production in the face of uncontrolled population growth, diminishing arable land and the possibility of global warming. As the toxicity of organophosphates is non-specific, it has caused ill health and death in man, and has contributed to adverse...
Few chemical compounds created by man have caused greater controversy than organophosphates. Conceived as insecticides, they have also been developed ...
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828,32 zł |
Stress in the Workplace: Past, Present and Future
ISBN: 9781861561817 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume consists of nine chapters written by internationally known research workers. It begins with a psychosocial framework for understanding sickness and health in the workplace, then gives an account of research with executives in industry and the US Air Force. Tores Theorell focuses his research on the increasing demands on workers and the diminishing control they have over their working lives. Johannes Siegrist is concerned with imbalance - in this case between effort and reward at work. Then there is a report on the effects of the increase of mergers and acquisitions in the 1990s,...
This volume consists of nine chapters written by internationally known research workers. It begins with a psychosocial framework for understanding sic...
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310,35 zł |
Oxidants and Antioxidant Defense Systems
ISBN: 9783540224235 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Oxidative stress is one of the major symptoms accompanying physiological functions and numerous diseases. Oxidants and free radicals are connected with diseases such as cancer, diabetes, infectious, cardiovascular and neurodegenerative diseases and also in the aging process itself. Therefore, comprehensive knowledge of the underlying mechanisms of oxidant and free radical production and the defence against this permanent threat to cells is important for the understanding of many physiological and pathophysiological processes. This book overviews the basic mechanisms of oxidant formation and...
Oxidative stress is one of the major symptoms accompanying physiological functions and numerous diseases. Oxidants and free radicals are connected wit...
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771,08 zł |
The Principles and Practice of Contact and Occupational Dermatology in the Asia-Pacific Region
ISBN: 9789810246419 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This textbook on contact and occupational skin diseases is written for dermatologists, occupational physicians and practitioners interested in dermatology who are working in the Asia-Pacific region. It consists of contributions from experts in contact and occupational dermatology from many parts of the region. The book focuses on topics relevant to the Asia-Pacific region and the tropics, complementing the Western publications. There are differences in the epidemiology and clinical presentations of contact and occupational dermatitis in the Asia-Pacific countries and the tropics compared to...
This textbook on contact and occupational skin diseases is written for dermatologists, occupational physicians and practitioners interested in dermato...
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222,61 zł |
Das Handbuch Public Health: Theorie Und Praxis Die Wichtigsten Public-Health-Ausbildungsstätten
ISBN: 9783211831762 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Was ist Public Health? Was sind seine Aufgaben? Welche Ausbildungs- und Berufsmoglichkeiten gibt es? Welche Bedeutung hat dieser fachubergreifende Bereich angesichts der sich andernden Anforderungen an das moderne Gesundheitssystem und die dringende Notwendigkeit von Reformen? Diese und andere Fragen erortert das "Handbuch Public Health," das die derzeit umfassendste Information uber dieses Thema bietet. Internationale Experten diskutieren die Ziele und Aufgaben von Public Health, schreiben uber Management und Intervention, Analyse und Forschung, Berufsbild und Karrierechancen u.v.a. Ein...
Was ist Public Health? Was sind seine Aufgaben? Welche Ausbildungs- und Berufsmoglichkeiten gibt es? Welche Bedeutung hat dieser fachubergreifende Ber...
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324,26 zł |
Evidence-Based Practice for Occupational Therapists
ISBN: 9781405137003 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Evidence-based practice (EBP) is one of the driving forces in current healthcare practice. Occupational therapists recognise the need for research and for an evidence-based approach to interventions, but can need guidance on how to do this. This book aims to make evidence-based practice accessible and relevant to occupational therapists using examples from therapy practice. It will provide them with the skills to search for and access the required evidence to underpin or question practice.
Publication of the first edition of this book in 2000 signaled the receptiveness of the... Evidence-based practice (EBP) is one of the driving forces in current healthcare practice. Occupational therapists recognise the need for research and...
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206,81 zł |
Beyond the Factory Gates: Asbestos and Health in Twentieth Century America
ISBN: 9780826488367 / Angielski / Twarda / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Beyond the Factory Gates examines the issue of asbestos and health in the USA between the early 1900's to the mid-1970s. Areas covered include the emergence of medical concern about the three fatal diseases related to asbestos (asbestosis, lung cancer and mesothelioma); the actions of the US Navy (the main consumer of asbestos-based insulation products); the response of the federal government before and after enactment of the Occupational Safety and Health Act in 1970; and the roles of organized labour and the asbestos industry. The book provides an important insight into occupational health...
Beyond the Factory Gates examines the issue of asbestos and health in the USA between the early 1900's to the mid-1970s. Areas covered include the eme...
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Medical Treatment of Intoxications and Decontamination of Chemical Agents in the Area of Terrorist Attack
ISBN: 9781402041693 / Angielski / Miękka / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book includes reports which were presented at a NATO Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) entitled Medical Treatment of Intoxications and Decontamination of Chemical Agent in the Area of Terrorist Attack . The workshop was held on 25-28 January 2005 in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine. Currently, scientists and experts from many countries are working on development and implementation of a readiness for anti terrorist actions. In addition to chemical weapons, terrorists can use various toxic chemicals from chemical industry, agriculture or products released from terrorist acts on industrial...
This book includes reports which were presented at a NATO Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) entitled Medical Treatment of Intoxications and Decontamina...
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385,52 zł |
Medical Treatment of Intoxications and Decontamination of Chemical Agents in the Area of Terrorist Attack
ISBN: 9781402041686 / Angielski / Twarda / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book includes reports which were presented at a NATO Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) entitled Medical Treatment of Intoxications and Decontamination of Chemical Agent in the Area of Terrorist Attack . The workshop was held on 25-28 January 2005 in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine. Currently, scientists and experts from many countries are working on development and implementation of a readiness for anti terrorist actions. In addition to chemical weapons, terrorists can use various toxic chemicals from chemical industry, agriculture or products released from terrorist acts on industrial...
This book includes reports which were presented at a NATO Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) entitled Medical Treatment of Intoxications and Decontamina...
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385,52 zł |
Sick Building Syndrome: Sources, Health Effects, Mitigation
ISBN: 9780815512899 / Angielski / Twarda / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The quality of indoor air is dependent on the interaction between sources of indoor pollutants, environmental factors within buildings such as temperature and humidity, the removal of air pollutants by air cleaning devices, and the removal and dilution of pollutants. This book covers indoor air quality and ventilation in commercial buildings.
The quality of indoor air is dependent on the interaction between sources of indoor pollutants, environmental factors within buildings such as tempera...
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455,62 zł |
Changing the Course of AIDS
ISBN: 9780801448317 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Changing the Course of AIDS is an in-depth evaluation of a new and exciting way to create the kind of much-needed behavioral change that could affect the course of the global health crisis of HIV/AIDS. This case study from the South African HIV/AIDS epidemic demonstrates that regular workers serving as peer educators can be as or even more effective agents of behavioral change than experts who lecture about the facts and so-called appropriate health care behavior. After spending six years researching the response of large South African companies to the epidemic that is... Changing the Course of AIDS is an in-depth evaluation of a new and exciting way to create the kind of much-needed behavioral change that c... |
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232,96 zł |
Introduction to Occupational Health in Public Health Practice
ISBN: 9780470447680 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Introduction to Occupational Health in Public Health Practice Bernard J. Healey and Kenneth T. Walker Introduction to Occupational Health in Public Health Practice Introduction to Occupational Health in Public Health Practice uses concepts of prevention, epidemiology, toxicology, disparities, preparedness, disease management, and health promotion to explain the underlying causes of occupational illness and injury and to provide a methodology to develop cost-effective programs that prevent injury and keep workers safe. Students, health educators, employers, and other... Introduction to Occupational Health in Public Health Practice Bernard J. Healey and Kenneth T. Walker Introduction to Occupational He... |
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Occupational Strain and Efficacy in Human Service Workers: When the Rescuer Becomes the Victim
ISBN: 9780792368526 / Angielski / Twarda / 235 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Workers' compensation data in a large public sector human service agency clearly indicated that the most significant type ofcompensable incident that occurred within the organisation was that ofanxiety and stress related conditions. From September 1987 to September 1995, there had been 219 workers compensation claims relating to workplace strain (stress) in the agency. The total cost of these claims was $4,865,249. A study was commissioned by the agency in early 1996 to review workplace strain. The outcomes sought by the department following the implementation of the project recommendations,...
Workers' compensation data in a large public sector human service agency clearly indicated that the most significant type ofcompensable incident that ...
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578,30 zł |