Kategoria BISAC: Medical >> Preventive Medicine

The goal of this book is to show how to build and manage a food safety department that is tasked with ensuring food safety within a food retail business. The experiences of the author as the head of Food and Product Safety at Chick-fil-A will be used as the model. Specifically, the book will discuss the specific components of a food safety program, the tactics needed to establish these components (forming the majority of the chapters), how to measure the success of each component, and how to influence the organization to ensure resources to support the program. The book will also focus on...

This book explores the nature of pregnancy and metabolic syndrome as proinflammatory conditions and explains how pregnancy provides a window of opportunity for preventing the lifelong complications of metabolic syndrome, during which key risk factors can be identified and beneficial dietary changes can be implemented.

The book s opening sections discuss inflammation in the context of pregnancy, including the nature of the placenta as a proinflammatory tissue. In the main body, it points to new possible connections to truncal obesity, inflammation, metabolic syndrome, and major...

This book, designed for professionals, introduces a psychobiological model for understanding the paths that lead people to illness and provides recommendations for alterations of maladaptive pathways so that health is regained. Research findings are incorporated to identify causal variables for illness that can be targets for change. Evidence based recommendations for healthy behaviors and therapies are described. Throughout the book, the authors emphasize recognition of turning points on the path to illness that, through informed decision making and implementation of behavioral change,...

Major influenza pandemics pose a constant threat. As evidenced by recent H5N1 avian flu and novel H1N1, influenza outbreaks can come in close succession, yet differ in their transmission and impact. With accelerated levels of commercial and population mobility, new forms of flu virus can also spread across the globe with unprecedented speed. Responding quickly and adequately to each outbreak becomes imperative on the part of governments and global public health organizations, but the difficulties of doing so are legion.

One tool for pandemic planning is analysis of responses to...

Das vorliegende Buch gibt einen profunden Einblick uber das Forschungsgebiet gesundheitsorientierter Dienstleistungen und deren Management im Krankenhaus. Die Erbringung von Dienstleistungen ist im Krankenhauswesen mit hohen Kosten verbunden. Eine grosse Herausforderung besteht darin die Qualitat im Dienstleistungsprozess zu erhohen, ohne dass dies parallel mit exponentiell steigenden Ressourcenverbrauchen einhergeht. Das Dienstleistungsmanagement ubernimmt hierbei die Planung, Durchfuhrung und Kontrolle von Massnahmen zur Erstellung und Vermarktung wissensbasierter Dienstleistungen im...

This new edition of White Coat Tales presents intriguing stories that give historical context to what we do in medicine today the body s holy bone and how it got its name, a surprising reason why gout seemed to be so prevalent several centuries ago, and the therapeutic misadventure that shortened the life of Eleanor Roosevelt. In addition to many new tales, this revised edition contains 128 illustrations, such as images of Baron von Munchhausen aloft with cannonballs and Vincent van Gogh s portrait of his doctor showing a clue to the painter s health. Read about legendary medical...