Kategoria BISAC: Medical >> Public Health

This book focuses on environmental engineering, and on wastewater treatment and reuse in particular, which is a vital aspect for countries and regions suffering from water shortages. It introduces a new water cycle management concept for designing water systems that mimic the hydrological cycle, where reclaimed water is produced, stored/regulated, supplied and used in a semi-natural manner so that its self-purification capacity and system efficiency can be maximized. To ensure safe water throughout the cycle, emphasis is placed on the control of ecological and pathogenic risks using a...

Zur Sicherstellung dauerhafter Finanzierbarkeit des Gesundheitswesens wird zunehmend eine Priorisierung medizinischer Leistungen gefordert. Sie soll helfen, implizite Rationierung zu vermeiden und eine gerechtere Verteilung der Leistungen aufgrund demokratisch entwickelter Verteilungsgrundsatze herbeizufuhren.

In dem vorliegenden Band werden die im Ausland gemachten Erfahrungen mit einer Priorisierung medizinischer Leistungen sowie ihre oft komplexen Wirkungen auf das gesundheitswirtschaftliche und -politische Gefuge umfassend dargestellt und analysiert.

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Understanding the origin of fecal pollution is essential in assessing potential health risks as well as for determining the actions necessary to remediate the quality of waters contaminated by fecal matter. As a result, microbial source tracking (MST) has emerged as a field that has evolved and diversified rapidly since the first approaches were described only a decade ago. In response to the emergence of MST, there have been three large multi-laboratory method comparison studies (two in the US and one in Europe), plus numerous workshops, book chapters, and review articles dedicated to...

In the United States, work is the key to economic success, as well as the major source of health care coverage and retirement security. While Europeans look to the State for these benefits, Americans for the most part do not. This system of employment-based benefits means that those disadvantaged in the labor market are also disadvantaged in terms of health care coverage and retirement security.

The authors of this work examine the overrepresentation of Mexican Americans in low wage or service sector jobs, which rarely come with health insurance or retirement coverage. At all ages,...

This book explores the unresolved paradox at the heart of population aging, namely how to account for the fact that death rates from most non-communicable diseases rise as people age, yet aggregate death rates from such diseases have decreased overall despite an increasingly aging population. It provides a long-term historical perspective on this issue, presenting evidence that the underpinnings of modern aging extend as far back as the nineteenth century, and that aging has boosted per capita healthcare spending.

The book first outlines the three eras of the Epidemiologic...

Governing Health Systems: For Nations and Communities Around the World examines the complex relationships between governance and performance in community and national health systems. Each chapter provides an in-depth case study, using both qualitative and quantitative methods, on health systems in many countries, including Uganda, Ghana, India, Zambia, Japan, Nigeria, Indonesia, Brazil, Palestine, and South Korea. The chapters were written by former Takemi Fellows, who were mid-career research fellows at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and their colleagues. This case study...

Sono descritte le tecniche di diagnosi prenatale dei difetti congeniti e delle principali patologie genetiche.

Sono trattati i principali aspetti clinici, diagnostici e preventivi delle patologie gravidiche materno/fetali.

Lo scopo e quello di presentare in un unico testo le molteplici problematiche (ostetriche, genetiche, internistiche e medico legali ) connesse alla gravidanza, dal consulto preconcezionale al parto. Il volume contiene un CD accluso con informazioni su un migliaio di malattie genetiche di interesse prenatale.

The construct ''quality of life (QoL)'', since the 1980s, when it was introduced, is being used mainly in the context of health problems. Areas of one's life that contribute to QoL are good physical and mental health, efficient cognitive functioning, social support, being able to meet the requirements of professional life, positive emotions, etc (Power, 2003). Work on subjective well-being (SWB), on the other hand, was developed in the context of healthy everyday life; it also has a history of more than 30 years. During this 30-year period factors that have an impact on SWB, such as SES,...

"The authors' knowledge of long-term care is obvious and they provide professional perspectives of the challenges and choices long-term care stakeholders face... Score: 92 - 4 Stars "

--Nicky Martin, BS, LNHA, MU Sinclair School of Nursing, Doody's Reviews

This is a comprehensive graduate textbook focusing on the full spectrum of long-term care settings ranging from family and community-based care through supportive housing options to a variety of institutional long-term care alternatives. Integrating theory and practice, the book features the perspectives...

Ein Leben ohne Schmerzen - der Wunschtraum vieler leidgeplagter Schmerzpatienten, fur die Schmerz zum Alltag gehort und sich in den Mittelpunkt des Lebens drangt.

Der erste Abschnitt des Buches vermittelt theoretisches Wissen zum Thema Schmerz und Somatoforme Storungen inkl. DSM-V Klassifikation und beschreibt die wichtigsten Krankheitsbilder.

Im zweiten Abschnitt des Buches schildern die Autorinnen sowohl die schul-als auch komplementarmedizinische Schmerztherapie und psychotherapeutische Moglichkeiten in ihrer Vielfaltigkeit, aber auch Gemeinsamkeit....