Kategoria BISAC: Medical >> Public Health

Through the twentieth century, the nature of medical practice has changed more quickly, more dramatically, and far more publicly than that of any other profession in Canada. In this study Bernard Blishen identifies the social and political pressures on the medical profession and assesses how it has responded to them.

Among the changes doctors have confronted are third-party pressures from government and hospital bureaucracies, greater public knowledge, improved technology, recognition of patients' rights, and legal challenges. Blishen discusses how the doctors achieved dominance in...

Dieses Fachbuch enthalt die Grundlagen fur die Erstellung von Kausalitatsgutachten auf dem Gebiet der Erkrankungen, Verletzungen und Uberlastungsschaden am Bewegungsapparat.

Es erscheint in Form von zwei eigenstandigen Banden. Der erste Band umfasst die Bereiche Gelenkflachen, Osteonekrosen, Epiphysen, Impingement und Synovialis. Der zweite Band widmet sich den folgenden Inhalten: Meniskus, Diskus, Bandscheiben, Labrum, Ligamente sowie Sehnen.

Neu ist der interdisziplinare Ansatz mit der Integration von Anatomie, Pathogenese, Histopathologie, Radiologie und Klinik....

Dieses Fachbuch enthalt die Grundlagen fur die Erstellung von Kausalitatsgutachten auf dem Gebiet der Erkrankungen, Verletzungen und Uberlastungsschaden am Bewegungsapparat.

Es erscheint in Form von zwei eigenstandigen Banden. Der erste Band umfasst die Bereiche Gelenkflachen, Osteonekrosen, Epiphysen, Impingement und Synovialis. Der zweite Band widmet sich den folgenden Inhalten: Meniskus, Diskus, Bandscheiben, Labrum, Ligamente sowie Sehnen.

Neu ist der interdisziplinare Ansatz mit der Integration von Anatomie, Pathogenese, Histopathologie, Radiologie und Klinik....

This book details cutting-edge methods and findings that may shape the future of applied demography. Inside, readers will discover new insights into the databases, substantive issues, and methodological approaches that can help them to improve how they use demography in decision making and planning problems in both public and private settings.

The topics and perspectives are found in the book's 23 chapters, which are organized into three major sections: (I) Demographic Information for Decision-Making: Case Studies; (II) Data: Issues and Analyses; and (III) Projection and Estimation...

The Measurement of Health and Health Status: Concepts, Methods and Applications from a Multidisciplinary Perspective presents a unifying perspective on how to select the best measurement framework for any situation. Serving as a one-stop shop that unifies material currently available in various locations, this book illuminates the intuition behind each method, explaining how each method has special purposes, what developments are occurring, and how new combinations among methods might be relevant to specific situations. It especially emphasizes the measurement of health and health...

Health and Safety Communication: A Practical Guide Forward is an easy introduction to the principles and practice of health and safety communications, providing all you need to know to design and implement communications efforts on a wide range of health and safety topics and issues. Whether you're a student grappling with a health communications course or a professional wishing to learn how to communicate health and safety messages effectively to a range of audiences using a variety of communications media, Health and Safety Communication is all you'll need.

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Health and Safety Communication: A Practical Guide Forward is an easy introduction to the principles and practice of health and safety communications, providing all you need to know to design and implement communications efforts on a wide range of health and safety topics and issues. Whether you're a student grappling with a health communications course or a professional wishing to learn how to communicate health and safety messages effectively to a range of audiences using a variety of communications media, Health and Safety Communication is all you'll need.

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Volume 2 focuses on egg safety and nutritional quality. Part one provides an overview of egg contaminants, covering both microbial pathogens and chemical residues. Salmonella control in laying hens is the focus of part two. Chapters cover essential...

This book offers new histories and geographies of quarantine islands and isolation hospitals across the world, bringing their local and global pasts and present into view. An international cast of leading experts examine the enduring historical problems...

From a new perspective, namely focusing on the interaction of selenium and mercury, this thesis provides new insights into traditional research on biogeochemical cycles of mercury in soil-plant interaction and associated human exposure and risks. The subject of this thesis is both valuable and timely, providing essential information not only on selenium-mercury interaction in the soil-plant system but also on how to assess the combined benefits and risk of co-exposure to mercury and selenium. This work also sheds light on future aspects regarding prevention, remediation and risk management...

Die aus der Gerechtigkeitsmotivtheorie abgeleiteten Dimensionen Vertrauensuberzeugung, Handlungsaktivierung und kognitive Assimilation konnen mit dem in diesem Buch vorgestellten Fragebogen zum subjektiven Gerechtigkeitsempfinden vollstandig erfasst werden. Basierend auf der geschaffenen diagnostischen Breite des Gerechtigkeitsmotivs bieten sich vielfaltige Forschungsmoglichkeiten, wie z. B. die Analyse eines individuellen Gerechtigkeitsprofils, an. Die jeweilige dimensionale Auspragungsstarke gibt Aufschluss uber bevorzugte Copingstrategien, personliche kognitive Muster und...