Kategoria BISAC: Medical >> Public Health

Disasters and Public Health: Planning and Response, Second Edition, examines the critical intersection between emergency management and public health. It provides a succinct overview of the actions that may be taken before, during, and after a major public health emergency or disaster to reduce morbidity and mortality.

Five all-new chapters at the beginning of the book describe how policy and law drive program structures and strategies leading to the establishment and maintenance of preparedness capabilities. New topics covered in this edition include disaster behavioral...

Dieses essential bietet einen Einblick in die gesundheitliche Situation - physisch wie psychisch - am Arbeitsplatz, deren Betrachtung inzwischen nach dem Arbeitsschutzgesetz auch fur die kleinen Betriebe zur Verpflichtung geworden ist. Die Autoren zeigen die neue Sichtweise auf die Gesundheit, aus der sich gerade fur kleine und mittelstandische Unternehmen viele Moglichkeiten ergeben, gesundheitsfordernde Rahmenbedingungen in ihrem Betrieb zu schaffen. Der Zugang zu dieser betrieblichen Gesundheitsarbeit fuhrt kunftig uber das Wissen daruber, welchen Einfluss der Lebens- und Arbeitsstil...

Komplementare Therapieverfahren stellen insbesondere in Bezug auf chronische Krankheiten eine wesentliche Erganzung zu den Angeboten der Regelmedizin dar. Wenn sich ihre Wirkung oft auch schwer erklaren lasst, besitzen sie doch mindestens das Potential, die Lebensqualitat zu verbessern.
Das okologische Modell ermoglicht es, alle wesentlichen Dimensionen therapeutischer Prozesse Selbst, Bewusstsein, Leib, Korper und Umwelt in den Blick zu nehmen. Es bietet damit eine rationale Grundlage sowohl fur die individuelle Therapieentscheidung und -beurteilung als auch fur die Forschung.

Body Reshaping through Muscle and Skin Meridian Therapy: An Introduction to 6 Body Types shows you how your weight and body shape can be a direct result of ill health and explains the structures and functions involved. It explores much more than just what your scale and the fit of your clothes might tell you. It looks at skin, fat, muscles, diaphragm, historical illnesses or injuries, body posture, body clock or circadian rhythm, digestion, blood vessels, nutrition, sympathetic nervous system, parasympathetic nervous system, and enteric nervous system. By examining the...

This brief provides approaches to help family caregivers understand the role of caregiving, its challenges and consequences. Using real life case examples, it illustrates the essentials of family caregiving. The caregiving role can be a source of caregiver stress and can become increasingly burdensome. People are now living longer and acquiring chronic diseases, which makes it necessary to involve caregivers to assist in disability care for longer periods of time, and live out their end-time at home, which means caregivers are more and more needed, especially at the end-of-life.
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The healing power of the bond between men and dogs is explored in this unique book. Three important themes emerge: attachment, loss, and continued bonds with canine companions for males across the life span and from various contextual backgrounds. The contributors replace common assumptions with needed context pertaining to men's emotions and relationships, starting with the impact of gender norms on attachment, and including robust data on how canine companionship may counter Western culture socialization. The chapters engage readers with details pertaining to ways in which dogs help men...

Ranging from influence over world trade laws affecting health to population health issues such as obesity to the use of comparative data to affect policy, the EU s public health policies are increasingly important, visible, expensive and effective. They also provide an invaluable case study for those who want to understand the growth and impact of the EU as well as how states can affect their populations lives and health. "

European Union Public Health Policy" capitalizes on extensive new research, providing an introduction to the topic and indicating new intellectual directions...

Written by a team of experts from across academia and practice...

This is the second edition of the only book to be devoted exclusively to the total cancer picture in adolescents and young adults (AYA), now expanded from the age range 15-29 to that of 15-39 years. For each of the diverse spectrum of cancers encountered in the AYA group, the epidemiology, natural progression, diagnostic approaches, and treatment options are described, with special emphasis on strategies for early detection and prevention. Comparison is made with management of both younger and older patients, and model programs are presented that address common diagnostic, staging,...