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Designing and Conducting Health Surveys: A Comprehensive Guide
ISBN: 9780787975609 / Angielski / Twarda / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Designing and Conducting Health Surveys is written for students, teachers, researchers, and anyone who conducts health surveys. This third edition of the standard reference in the field draws heavily on the most recent methodological research on survey design and the rich storehouse of insights and implications provided by cognitive research on question and questionnaire design in particular. This important resource presents a total survey error framework that is a useful compass for charting the dangerous waters between systematic and random errors that inevitably accompany the survey...
Designing and Conducting Health Surveys is written for students, teachers, researchers, and anyone who conducts health surveys. This third edit...
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Gender Race Class Health
ISBN: 9780787976637 / Angielski / Miękka / 470 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Gender, Race, Class, and Health examines relationships between economic structures, race, culture, and gender, and their combined influence on health. The authors systematically apply social and behavioral science to inspect how these dimensions intersect to influence health and health care in the United States. This examination brings into sharp focus the potential for influencing policy to improve health through a more complete understanding of the structural nature of race, gender, and class disparities in health. As useful as it is readable, this book is ideal for students and...
Gender, Race, Class, and Health examines relationships between economic structures, race, culture, and gender, and their combined influence on ...
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300,83 |
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Injury and Violence Prevention: Behavioral Science Theories, Methods, and Applications
ISBN: 9780787977641 / Angielski / Twarda / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Injury and Violence Prevention: Behavioral Science Theories, Methods, and Applications is a cutting-edge volume that provides a comprehensive understanding of injury and violence prevention. This detailed resource draws on the breadth and depth of many scientific disciplines and public health practice experiences. Written by internationally renowned experts in the field, Injury and Violence Prevention emphasizes the specific theories, methods, and applications that make behavioral science approaches relevant and central to reducing injury-related harm. The book covers a wide...
Injury and Violence Prevention: Behavioral Science Theories, Methods, and Applications is a cutting-edge volume that provides a comprehensive u...
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433,50 |
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Advancing Health Literacy : A Framework for Understanding and Action
ISBN: 9780787984335 / Angielski / Miękka / 396 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Advancing Health Literacy addresses the crisis in health literacy in the United States and around the world. This book thoroughly examines the critical role of literacy in public health and outlines a practical, effective model that bridges the gap between health education, health promotion, and health communication. Step by step, the authors outline the theory and practice of health literacy from a public health perspective. This comprehensive resource includes the history of health literacy, theoretical foundations of health and language literacy, the role of the media, a series of...
Advancing Health Literacy addresses the crisis in health literacy in the United States and around the world. This book thoroughly examines the ...
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300,83 |
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Tobacco Control Policy
ISBN: 9780787987459 / Angielski / Miękka / 608 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Required reading for anyone wishing to be conversant with tobacco control policy, the book is edited by Kenneth E. Warner--dean of the School of Public Health at the University of Michigan and a leading tobacco policy researcher--who leads with an overview of the field. Warner's overview is supported by reprints of some of the field's most significant articles, written by leading scholars and practitioners. The topics discussed are:
Required reading for anyone wishing to be conversant with tobacco control policy, the book is edited by Kenneth E. Warner--dean of the School of Publi...
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397,78 |
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Coalitions and Partnerships in Community Health
ISBN: 9780787987855 / Angielski / Twarda / 608 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Coalitions and Partnerships in Community Health is a step-by-step guide for building durable coalitions to improve community and public health.
This important resource provides an in-depth, analytical, and practical approach to building, sustaining, and nurturing these complex organizations. Author Frances Dunn Butterfoss includes all the tools for success in collaborative work from a research and practice-based stance. The book contains useful approaches to the issues, recommendations for action, resources for further study, and examples from actual coalition work. ...Coalitions and Partnerships in Community Health is a step-by-step guide for building durable coalitions to improve community and public health....
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377,37 |
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Health Care in the Black Community: Empowerment, Knowledge, Skills, and Collectivism
ISBN: 9780789004567 / Angielski / Twarda / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Empower patients with culture-specific strategies for promoting health, treating disease, and preventing violence Current reports show that Black Americans have the highest death rate of all racial and ethnic groups. They suffer disproportionately from a number of fatal diseases, including hypertension, diabetes, and certain cancers. Moreover, violence takes far too high a toll, especially among young Black men. Clearly a different approach to health education and promotion is needed to end this tragic waste of valuable human lives. Health Care in the Black Community: Empowerment,...
Empower patients with culture-specific strategies for promoting health, treating disease, and preventing violence Current reports show that ...
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872,61 |
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New International Directions in HIV Prevention for Gay and Bisexual Men
ISBN: 9780789005380 / Angielski / Twarda / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It is widely recognized that current HIV intervention models are falling short of their goals. What are the alternatives?To answer this question, New International Directions in HIV Prevention for Gay and Bisexual Men presents a collection of articles from European and American authors that rival dominant paradigms of HIV prevention. Researchers, practitioners, and community organizations will be challenged to examine current assumptions and to consider neglected aspects of risk behavior such as love, trust, and the dynamics of sexual intimacy. New International Directions in HIV...
It is widely recognized that current HIV intervention models are falling short of their goals. What are the alternatives?To answer this ques...
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533,26 |
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Practical Government Budgeting: A Workbook for Public Managers
ISBN: 9780791403921 / Angielski / Miękka / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides descriptions, instructions, and exercises to help readers master government budgeting as it is actually practiced. University courses and training programs serving present and future state and local officials and staff will learn how to do public budgeting in this relevant, practical, and useful workbook. Each chapter presents techniques followed by step-by-step instructions complete with examples to help students learn the material. Self-test exercises conclude each chapter.
This book provides descriptions, instructions, and exercises to help readers master government budgeting as it is actually practiced. University cours...
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126,45 |
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Anthropology and International Health: South Asian Case Studies
ISBN: 9780792300052 / Angielski / Twarda / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this book I present a series of eleven essays written between 1978 and 1987 on subjects relevant to the anthropology of health and international health. The issues addressed in these essays were investigated during 38 months of fieldwork in rural southwest peninsular India (197 4-86) and 15 months of fieldwork in southwest Sri Lanka (1983-84 ).;During various periods of this time I conducted ethnographic fieldwork, explored the feasibility of participatory community research, facilitated the development of a postgraduate health education training program, and served as a consultant to...
In this book I present a series of eleven essays written between 1978 and 1987 on subjects relevant to the anthropology of health and international he...
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803,21 |
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The Ortho Side of PCBs: Occurrence and Disposition
ISBN: 9780792385417 / Angielski / Twarda / 269 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. PCBs have captured the attention of scientists, journalists and the public for three decades, but during most of that time attention was focused on a small number of the 209 possible chlorobiphenyls. Recent work has implicated many of the forgotten and/or unstudied congeners as neuro-endocrine active and potential developmental toxicants. This interest has created a need for information regarding the non-dioxin-like' PCBs. The ortho Side of PCBs: Occurrence and Disposition integrates historical information, analytical interpretations, and global concepts with recent...
PCBs have captured the attention of scientists, journalists and the public for three decades, but during most of that time attention was focused on a ...
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Black Lung
ISBN: 9780801431869 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the definitive history of a twentieth-century public health disaster, Alan Derickson recounts how, for decades after methods of prevention were known, hundreds of thousands of American miners suffered and died from black lung, a respiratory illness caused by the inhalation of coal mine dust. The combined failure of government, medicine, and industry to halt the spread of this disease and even to acknowledge its existence resulted in a national tragedy, the effects of which are still being felt. The book begins in the late nineteenth century, when the disorders brought on by... In the definitive history of a twentieth-century public health disaster, Alan Derickson recounts how, for decades after methods of prevention were ... |
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Child Health in America: Making a Difference Through Advocacy
ISBN: 9780801884535 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Who will speak for the children? is the question posed by Judith S. Palfrey, a pediatrician and child advocate who confronts unconscionable disparities in U.S. health care-a system that persistently fails sick and disabled children despite annual expenditures of $1.8 trillion. In Child Health in America, Palfrey explores the meaning of advocacy to children's health and describes how health providers, community agencies, teachers, parents, and others can work together to bring about needed change. Palfrey presents a conceptual framework for child health advocacy consisting of four...
Who will speak for the children? is the question posed by Judith S. Palfrey, a pediatrician and child advocate who confronts unconscionable disparitie...
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121,15 |
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Shipbuilders of the Venetian Arsenal: Workers and Workplace in the Preindustrial City
ISBN: 9780801886256 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The master ship builders of seventeenth-century Venice formed part of what was arguably the greatest manufacturing complex in early modern Europe. As many as three thousand masters, apprentices, and laborers regularly worked in the city's enormous shipyards. This is the social history of the men and women who helped maintain not only the city's dominion over the sea but also its stability and peace. Drawing on a variety of documents that include nearly a thousand petitions from the shipbuilders to the Venetian governments as well as on parish records, inventories, and wills, Robert... The master ship builders of seventeenth-century Venice formed part of what was arguably the greatest manufacturing complex in early modern Europe. ... |
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125,02 |
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Media Advocacy & Public Health
ISBN: 9780803942899 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Using the media to promote public health is an innovative and valuable approach. Media Advocacy and Public Health develops the concept of media advocacy as a central strategy for the prevention of public health problems. How we think about health problems, and what we do about them, is largely determined by how they are reported on television, radio, and in the newspaper. Often, crucial issues of public health policy are discussed and decided only after they are made visible by the media. A traditional communication strategy like social marketing focuses on giving people a message. Media...
Using the media to promote public health is an innovative and valuable approach. Media Advocacy and Public Health develops the concept of media advoca...
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644,76 |
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Critical Health Issues Asian Pacific Island
ISBN: 9780803951136 / Angielski / Twarda / 472 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first book that exclusively addresses the range of health issues confronting Asian and Pacific Islanders in the United States. It critically examines and reviews the distribution of factors associated with health problems in specific Asian and Pacific Islander populations. Expert contributors address the top priority health problems and issues facing these groups including infectious diseases, diabetes, hypertension, cancer, AIDS//HIV, substance abuse, and mental health.
In addition, current trends in health care policy are examined as well as the methodological problems that... This is the first book that exclusively addresses the range of health issues confronting Asian and Pacific Islanders in the United States. It critical...
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930,78 |
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Race, Gender and Health
ISBN: 9780803955059 / Angielski / Miękka / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The influence of race and gender on the health status of nonwhite women in the United States is the theme of this book. Four distinct groups of women are examined closely: African Americans; American Indians and Alaskan Natives; Asian//Pacific Islander Americans; and Latinas. Contributors focus in particular on structural and cultural factors which affect women's health issues. The concluding chapter calls for the development of new paradigms to improve the delivery of health care for these women and for the US population as a whole.
The influence of race and gender on the health status of nonwhite women in the United States is the theme of this book. Four distinct groups of women ...
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407,22 |
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Patient-Centered Medicine: Transforming the Clinical Method
ISBN: 9780803956896 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Emphasizing an holistic philosophy, this important book encourages practitioners to surpass treatment based strictly on a one-dimensional, biomedical assessment of their patients. Among the topics covered are: conceptualizations of ill-health; consideration of the patient as an individual; the establishment of goals and cooperative strategy between physician and patient; and the realistic allocation of time, energy, and other resources of the health care provider.
Emphasizing an holistic philosophy, this important book encourages practitioners to surpass treatment based strictly on a one-dimensional, biomedical ...
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552,66 |
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Cigarettes, Nicotine, and Health: A Biobehavioral Approach
ISBN: 9780803959477 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Smoking is one of the world's most pressing public health problems. This up-to-date work reviews the severe problems caused by smoking and examines individual and public health approaches to reducing smoking and its attendant health problems. Written by experts, Cigarettes, Nicotine and Health provides a broad perspective from disciplines as diverse as social and cognitive psychology, behavioral pharmacology, physiology, epidemiology, history, medicine, and public health policy. It's accessible style makes the book ideal for use with students in drugs and health psychology courses, as well as...
Smoking is one of the world's most pressing public health problems. This up-to-date work reviews the severe problems caused by smoking and examines in...
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552,66 |
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Health Communication: A Multicultural Perspective
ISBN: 9780803973671 / Angielski / Miękka / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Please update Sage UK and Sage INDIA addresses on imprint page.
Please update Sage UK and Sage INDIA addresses on imprint page.
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