Live Like Nobody Is Watching: Relational Autonomy in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Health Monitoring
ISBN: 9780197556269 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Respect for patient autonomy and data privacy are generally accepted as foundational western bioethical values. Nonetheless, as our society embraces expanding forms of personal and health monitoring, particularly in the context of an aging population and the increasing prevalence of chronic diseases, questions abound about how artificial intelligence (AI) may change the way we define or understand what it means to live a free and healthy life. Who should have access to our health and recreational data and for what purpose? How can we find a balance between users' physical safety and their...
Respect for patient autonomy and data privacy are generally accepted as foundational western bioethical values. Nonetheless, as our society embraces e...
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133,04 zł |
The Right to Health Care: Ethical Considerations
ISBN: 9783030938406 / Angielski / Miękka / 237 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides an in-depth ethical analysis of the right to health care by contrasting privatized with socialized approaches. It pays special attention to how a socialized approach can be implemented in the context of limited resources and offers a way of integrating allocation decisions at the policy level with institutional and hands-on decision-making. It also discusses how the right to health care translates into duties on part of the members of society. In an Appendix, it suggests how, in time of need, the TRIPS Agreement allows countries to side-step patent regulations that would...
This book provides an in-depth ethical analysis of the right to health care by contrasting privatized with socialized approaches. It pays special atte...
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431,93 zł |
Pandemics and Resilience: Lessons we should have learned from Zika
ISBN: 9783031253690 / Angielski / Twarda / 1122 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The aim of the book was to produce the most comprehensive examination of a pandemic that has ever been attempted. By cataloging the full extent of the Zika pandemic, this book will be the most complete history and epistemic contextualization ever attempted to date. The work should function as the primary source for students, researchers, and scholars who need information about the Zika pandemic.This book examines the technical literature, digital and popular literature, and online materials to fully contextualize this event and provide a bona fide record of this event and its implications for...
The aim of the book was to produce the most comprehensive examination of a pandemic that has ever been attempted. By cataloging the full extent of the...
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628,28 zł |
New Perspectives on Health and Social Care
ISBN: 9783031254314 / Angielski / Twarda / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The relationship between health, social care, and the teaching of disciplines such as sociology, social work, and social policy are increasing in many regions worldwide. This book explores the relationship between wider social theory and social welfare though an understanding of how power and resistance impinges on how helping professions operate in health and social spaces in the twenty-first century. The book presents a critical analysis of major Foucauldian theories and social issues in the construction and practice of health and social welfare. It discusses important theoretical and...
The relationship between health, social care, and the teaching of disciplines such as sociology, social work, and social policy are increasing in many...
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549,74 zł |
Breathing Heavy: New Evidence on Air Pollution and Health in Bangladesh
ISBN: 9781464819193 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Using data on health conditions and exposure to air pollution at the individual level from Bangladesh, this book establishes a positive association between air pollution and health risks, including mental health issues and recommends policy options for better adaptation.
Using data on health conditions and exposure to air pollution at the individual level from Bangladesh, this book establishes a positive association be...
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202,36 zł |
Comparative Studies on Pandemic Control Policies and the Resilience of Society
ISBN: 9789811999925 / Angielski / Twarda / 420 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book documents and analyses the differentiated control policies, the determinant factors behind, social resilience, and international relations during the pandemic from a comparative perspective in a facts-based, data-supporting manner. The intermittent outbreak of cases, public sentiments after long anxiety, questions over the efficacy of vaccines, have forced governments as well as the public to rethink differing approaches and policies in the combat against not just COVID, but the delta variant. In this context, this book establishes itself as a timely product, perhaps the first of...
This book documents and analyses the differentiated control policies, the determinant factors behind, social resilience, and international relations d...
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589,01 zł |
Covid-19: Health Disparities and Ethical Challenges Across the Globe
ISBN: 9783031261992 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Internationally, marginalized populations, including indigenous people, refugees fleeing both war and the effects of climate change and people-of-color, have borne a disproportionate share of serious COVID 19 illnesses and deaths. Each contributor has a background in public health, applied psychology, and international issues, bringing a unique perspective and a valuable lens through which to view these issues. Additionally, the authors are members of the COVID-19 Ethics and Legal Issues Task Force within Division 52 (International Psychology) of the American Psychological Association. The...
Internationally, marginalized populations, including indigenous people, refugees fleeing both war and the effects of climate change and people-of-colo...
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431,93 zł |
Climate Change and Health Hazards: Addressing Hazards to Human and Environmental Health from a Changing Climate
ISBN: 9783031265914 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book contains a set of papers which explore the links among climate change, health, and hazards and demonstrate how they interact. It emphasizes the urgency of immediate and more ambitious action to address climate risks. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), human-induced climate change is known to be causing dangerous and widespread disruptions in nature and is affecting the lives of billions of people around the world, despite efforts to reduce the risks. Climate change is also negatively influencing health and is mounting threat to our wellbeing and a...
This book contains a set of papers which explore the links among climate change, health, and hazards and demonstrate how they interact. It emphasizes ...
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589,01 zł |
Population Health and the Future of Healthcare
ISBN: 9783030838898 / Angielski / Miękka / 357 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Starting with a working definition, this comprehensive work defines the attributes of the population health model. It clarifies what population health is and is not. It discusses health disparities and the social determinants of health and illness and provides new ways of moving forward towards a more sustainable healthcare model in a changing society, thereby pointing out the importance of multi-sector collaboration for collective impact for community health improvement. The book takes this further by providing sources of data to support the population health model. As such, this book...
Starting with a working definition, this comprehensive work defines the attributes of the population health model. It clarifies what population heal...
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333,75 zł |
Mathematics of Public Health: Proceedings of the Seminar on the Mathematical Modelling of COVID-19
ISBN: 9783030850555 / Angielski / Miękka / 353 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: 20 dni roboczych Curated by the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences from their COVID-19 Math Modelling Seminars, this first in a series of volumes on the mathematics of public health allows readers to access the dominant ideas and techniques being used in this area, while indicating problems for further research. This work brings together experts in mathematical modelling from across Canada and the world, presenting the latest modelling methods as they relate to the COVID-19 pandemic.A primary aim of this book is to make the content accessible so that researchers share the core methods that...
Curated by the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences from their COVID-19 Math Modelling Seminars, this first in a series of volumes o...
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COVID-19 and Sleep: A Global Outlook
ISBN: 9789819902392 / Angielski / Twarda / 438 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the correlation of the coronavirus disease-19 [CE1] [AAS2] (COVID-19) infection with sleep, circadian rhythm, and sleep disorders. The chapters of the book explore sleep problems during the COVID-19 pandemic and its association with psychological distress and also review the prevalence of clinical cases of insomnia, anxiety, and depression in COVID-19 patients. The book further presents the correlation between sleep, circadian rhythms, and immunity that contributes toward more severe COVID-19. It summarizes the evidence on the interplay between circadian biology, sleep,...
This book examines the correlation of the coronavirus disease-19 [CE1] [AAS2] (COVID-19) infection with sleep, circadian rhythm, and sleep disorders...
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903,17 zł |
Learning from 50 Years of Aboriginal Alcohol Programs: Beating the Grog in Australia
ISBN: 9789819904006 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This open access book deals with community-based attempts on the part of Aboriginal communities and groups in Australia to address harms arising from alcohol misuse. Alcohol-related harms are viewed as both a product of colonisation and dispossession and a contributor to ongoing social, economic and health-related disadvantage, both in Australia and in other countries with colonised Indigenous populations, such as Canada, the US and New Zealand. This book contributes to an evidence-base by bringing together a selection of existing Australian documents considered by the editors to have...
This open access book deals with community-based attempts on the part of Aboriginal communities and groups in Australia to address harms arising from...
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196,31 zł |
Learning from 50 Years of Aboriginal Alcohol Programs: Beating the Grog in Australia
ISBN: 9789819904037 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This open access book deals with community-based attempts on the part of Aboriginal communities and groups in Australia to address harms arising from alcohol misuse. Alcohol-related harms are viewed as both a product of colonisation and dispossession and a contributor to ongoing social, economic and health-related disadvantage, both in Australia and in other countries with colonised Indigenous populations, such as Canada, the US and New Zealand. This book contributes to an evidence-base by bringing together a selection of existing Australian documents considered by the editors to have...
This open access book deals with community-based attempts on the part of Aboriginal communities and groups in Australia to address harms arising from...
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The Promise of Lithium: How an Over-the-Counter Supplement May Prevent and Slow Alzheimer\'s and Parkinson\'s Disease
ISBN: 9781544529547 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The Promise of Lithium: How an Over-the-Counter Supplement May Prevent and Slow Alzheimer\'s and Parkinson\'s Disease
ISBN: 9781544535456 / Angielski / Twarda / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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108,63 zł |
Pandemic Police Power, Public Health and the Abolition Question
ISBN: 9783030930332 / Angielski / Miękka / 277 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book critically explores how police power manifested beyond criminal law into the field of public health during the pandemic. Whilst people were engaged with anti-police violence protests, particularly in the US, they were being policed openly and notoriously by the government and medical science in the public health arena. The book explores how public health policing might be an abuse of constitutional power and encourages the abolition question to be applied consistently to the state’s discourse in the area of public health, as black people the world over continue to bear a...
This book critically explores how police power manifested beyond criminal law into the field of public health during the pandemic. Whilst people were ...
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392,66 zł |
The Role of Health Literacy in Major Healthcare Crises
ISBN: 9781799896531 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The COVID-19 pandemic clearly shows the vital role of accurate and reliable information in public health. Health literacy addresses not only patient needs but also the needs of the general population, who must not only comply with advice and instructions but also understand the severity of health crises and respond accordingly. A variety of crises imposed on healthcare systems constantly arise ranging from pandemics to natural catastrophes, terrorist attacks, and outbreaks of illnesses. In addition, there are crises within the healthcare systems, such as a lack of resources and an appropriate...
The COVID-19 pandemic clearly shows the vital role of accurate and reliable information in public health. Health literacy addresses not only patient n...
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Sickening: How Big Pharma Broke American Health Care and How We Can Repair It
ISBN: 9780063268722 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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COVID-19 and Communities: The University of Palermo's Voices and Analyses During the Pandemic
ISBN: 9783030886240 / Angielski / Miękka / 275 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume presents an interdisciplinary reflection on the SARS-COV-2 pandemic and its consequences elaborated in real-time. It embodies the University of Palermo’s values and mission by bringing together academics of very diverse disciplinary fields on an issue that is disrupting all aspects of individual and community existence. This volume captures the voices of academics during the pandemic, allowing to crystallize the discourses that are emerging in a wide variety of scientific fields as events unfold and knowledge is rapidly evolving. They share the belief that to shed adequate light...
This volume presents an interdisciplinary reflection on the SARS-COV-2 pandemic and its consequences elaborated in real-time. It embodies the Universi...
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Patient Reported Outcomes and Quality of Life in Surgery
ISBN: 9783031275968 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides a guide to the assessment of quality of life and patient reported outcomes measures in general surgery. The rapidly emerging field helps contextualise patients and helps the decision-making process within health economics, bedside medicine, public health, and health policy. All subspecialties of general surgery are covered, as well as the core principles of quality of life.The book aims to demonstrate how clinicians and policymakers can easily get access to a single source of patient reported outcomes measures and quality of life evidence to help them make the best-informed...
This book provides a guide to the assessment of quality of life and patient reported outcomes measures in general surgery. The rapidly emerging field ...
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431,93 zł |