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Public Health: Topics, Themes and Trends
ISBN: 9781536166552 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As St George's University, Master of Public Health (MPH) program celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2019, there have been significant gains and challenges to the public's health. The old adage. At the end of this second decade of the 21st century, one of the main tools of public healthavaccinationais having an anti-vaccination experience. Lost memory of diseases prevented by vaccines and misinformation has led to an increase in vaccine refusal. This has resulted in the return of many cases of preventable communicable disease, including measles. In this book, we present a range of papers...
As St George's University, Master of Public Health (MPH) program celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2019, there have been significant gains and challe...
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979,04 zł |
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The Affordable Care Act (ACA): Patient Protection, Individual Mandate and Benefits
ISBN: 9781536169614 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The primary goals of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) are to increase access to affordable health insurance for the uninsured and to make health insurance more affordable for those already covered. This book looks at current issues associated with the ACA.
The primary goals of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) are to increase access to affordable health insurance for the uninsured and ...
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1154,49 zł |
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Advances in Health and Disease. Volume 18
ISBN: 9781536170047 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sickle cell disease is one of the most common monogenic diseases globally, and the first disease where the genetic etiology was defined. It is common in sub Saharan Africa, the Middle East and India. This collection explores the advantages of newborn screening for sickle cell disease. Following this, the authors assess the costs of using continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion therapy for type 1 diabetes treatment. Scientific evidence has shown improvement in glycated hemoglobin levels, and in the reduction of glycemic oscillations and hypoglycemia episodes when compared to multiple-dose...
Sickle cell disease is one of the most common monogenic diseases globally, and the first disease where the genetic etiology was defined. It is common ...
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1256,36 zł |
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Health Care Insurance: Background, Coverage and Rising Costs
ISBN: 9781536170948 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On October 12, 2017, President Trump issued Executive Order (E.O.) 13813, entitled "Promoting Healthcare Choice and Competition Across the United States." E.O. 13813 generally aims "to facilitate the purchase of insurance across state lines and the development and operation of a healthcare system that provides high-quality care at affordable prices for the American people." Chapter 1 answers frequently asked questions (FAQs) about E.O. 13813 and subsequent rulemaking and provides background information about AHPs, STLDI, and HRAs. The individual insurance market is 18 million Americans. It is...
On October 12, 2017, President Trump issued Executive Order (E.O.) 13813, entitled "Promoting Healthcare Choice and Competition Across the United Stat...
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1154,49 zł |
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Structural Health Monitoring 2019, Two Volume Set: Proceedings of the Twelfth International Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring
ISBN: 9781605956015 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This two-volume book set contains over 425 papers. While offering investigations into how sensors, networks, and signaling systems are used in dozens of civil and military applications, a special feature of this book is its exploration of how to enable intelligent life-cycle health management for the industrial internet of things. It demonstrates how machine-learning and stochastic methods add value to SHM data by taking into account changing environments and conditional events. It offers new insights on interactions between SHM data and big data for improving the safety and integrity of...
This two-volume book set contains over 425 papers. While offering investigations into how sensors, networks, and signaling systems are used in dozens ...
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2345,30 zł |
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E-cigarettes: Patterns of Use, Health Effects and Imports
ISBN: 9781536172201 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Chapter 1 provides background information on e-cigarettes. Tobacco use among youth and young adults in any form, including e-cigarettes, is not safe. In recent years, e-cigarette use by youth and young adults has increased at an alarming rate. E-cigarettes are now the most commonly used tobacco product among youth in the United States. Chapter 2 highlights the rapidly changing patterns of e-cigarette use among youth and young adults, assesses what we know about the health effects of using these products, and describes strategies that tobacco companies use to recruit our nation's youth and...
Chapter 1 provides background information on e-cigarettes. Tobacco use among youth and young adults in any form, including e-cigarettes, is not safe. ...
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1556,31 zł |
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When Life Expectancy Is Falling: Mortality Crises in Post-Communist Countries in a Global Context
ISBN: 9781536173680 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is an attempt to analyse the unfavourable developments in the dynamics of mortality and life expectancy in post- communist countries in the global context. It appears that this mortality crisis in post-communist countries has a lot of similarities with the recent unfavourable developments in health status in developed countries and many developing countries. Such unfavourable trends have been caused by socio-economic, anon-material' factors, namely by a loss of social dynamism and/or stress, associated with economic restructuring and social adjustments. First, the stagnation of life...
This book is an attempt to analyse the unfavourable developments in the dynamics of mortality and life expectancy in post- communist countries in the ...
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803,60 zł |
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Spatial Distribution of Health Manpower in China: Exploring its Characteristics and Determinants
ISBN: 9781536175721 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The misdistribution of health manpower is one of the major challenges faced by the Chinese health sector hindering people's access to healthcare. However, this subject remains underexplored, as spatial distribution characteristics have not been fully mapped out, nor have its causes been determined at the macro regional level. To fill this research void, this study aims to conduct sophisticated spatial analyses to examine the characteristics of health manpower distribution and test various determinants of health manpower densities. By introducing spatial techniques, this study sheds light on...
The misdistribution of health manpower is one of the major challenges faced by the Chinese health sector hindering people's access to healthcare. Howe...
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803,60 zł |
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COVID-19: Overview, Economic Implications and Federal Response
ISBN: 9781536179958 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On December 31, 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) was informed of a cluster of pneumonia cases in Wuhan City, Hubei Province of China. Illnesses have since been linked to a disease caused by a previously unidentified strain of coronavirus, designated Coronavirus Disease 2019, or COVID-19. The disease has spread to other countries, including the United States. On March 11, the WHO announced that the outbreak was officially a pandemic, the highest level of health emergency and has led to tens of thousands of cases and thousands of deaths worldwide. This book discusses a wide variety of...
On December 31, 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) was informed of a cluster of pneumonia cases in Wuhan City, Hubei Province of China. Illness...
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1154,49 zł |
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Coronavirus and U.S. Public Health Preparedness
ISBN: 9781536179392 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a respiratory illness that can spread from person to person. The virus that causes COVID-19 is a novel coronavirus that was first identified during an investigation into an outbreak in Wuhan, China. Chapters 1-16 contain information about the science behind the virus, economic implications, global response and public safety. Chapters 17 and 18 access the readiness of the United States Public Health System in response to emerging infectious diseases, pandemics and biological attacks.
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a respiratory illness that can spread from person to person. The virus that causes COVID-19 is a novel coronavi...
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979,04 zł |
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Positive Youth Development: Digital Game-Based Learning
ISBN: 9781536177954 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book furnishes a rich description and discussion on the theory and practice of DPYD (digital positive youth development) games, in particular, design, implementation, and initial evaluation. Chapters show a concerted and creative effort in providing preventive measures on commonly found adolescent developmental issues. They also demonstrate that the newly developed and specially designed games are in general efficient and effective measures to promote youth development and prevent some common adolescent problems from deteriorating in contemporary urban societies. Initial users'...
This book furnishes a rich description and discussion on the theory and practice of DPYD (digital positive youth development) games, in particular, de...
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1154,49 zł |
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Child Environmental Health Disparities: Looking at the Present and Facing the Future
ISBN: 9781536178234 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Break the Cycle of Children's Environmental Health Disparities (BTC) is an annual collaborative interdisciplinary research and training program involving university students in academic tracks that focus on the impact of adverse social, economic and environmental factors on children's health, development and education. The target populations are communities where environmental hazards are related to circumstances of social and economic disadvantage. Each student develops a project that focuses on preventing or reducing adverse environmental factors to benefit the children who live in these...
Break the Cycle of Children's Environmental Health Disparities (BTC) is an annual collaborative interdisciplinary research and training program involv...
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979,04 zł |
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Advances in Chinese Children, Adolescent and Family Research
ISBN: 9781536178708 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A survey of the literature showed that most research studies in children, adolescents and families have been conducted in Western contexts, which may not be applicable to non-Western contexts. Hence, research on children, adolescents and families in non-Western contexts is particularly important and we therefore need to enrich human development and family research in the Chinese context. In this book, we included 16 chapters to demonstrate the advances in Chinese children, adolescents, and family research. And it is our sincere hope that through this book, we can attempt to conduct more...
A survey of the literature showed that most research studies in children, adolescents and families have been conducted in Western contexts, which may ...
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1154,49 zł |
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Public Health Themes in Grenada and the Caribbean Region
ISBN: 9781536181180 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over the past decade, the regional governments in Grenada and the Caribbean region, together with public health and clinical institutions, have turned their attention to tacking the rising prevalence of non-communicable chronic diseases, in particular, hypertension, diabetes and cancer. The emergence and rising prevalence of these lifestyle diseases are suggestive of a correlation with the cultural transformation that overtook the region. In the first quarter of 2020, the region's health landscape turned another corner with the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic. Improving the health status...
Over the past decade, the regional governments in Grenada and the Caribbean region, together with public health and clinical institutions, have turned...
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1154,49 zł |
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Intellectual Disability: Some International Aspects
ISBN: 9781536178661 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Developmental disabilities or neurodevelopmental disabilities (includes intellectual disability) are a diverse group of chronic disorders that begin at anytime during the development process (including conception, birth, and growth) up to 22 years of age and last throughout an individual's lifetime. Major disabilities include intellectual disabilities, learning disabilities, communication disorders, autism spectrum disorders, cerebral palsy, and neural tube defects. We provide an introduction and review epidemiology of major disabilities and have also gathered international research from...
Developmental disabilities or neurodevelopmental disabilities (includes intellectual disability) are a diverse group of chronic disorders that begin a...
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803,60 zł |
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School Health in Asia and Africa
ISBN: 9781536178685 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Promoting healthy behaviours during adolescence, and taking steps to better protect young people from health risks are critical for the prevention of health problems in adulthood, and for countries' future health and ability to develop and thrive. This book deals with substance use and misuse, interpersonal violence, suicidal behaviour and unintentional injuries, behavioural risk factors of non-communicable diseases, under and over nutrition, child abuse and child labour, oral and hand hygiene in Asian and African countries. We hope this will be of interest to our readers.
Promoting healthy behaviours during adolescence, and taking steps to better protect young people from health risks are critical for the prevention of ...
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803,60 zł |
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The COVID-19 Pandemic: A Tribute to the Corona Whistleblowers
ISBN: 9781536181463 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Corona hype, the Corona panic, has manifested the common cold as a brand new disease. What we present here is the psychosomatic hypothesis for COVID-19. We are living in a time of change. It is easy to assume that we live in a safe and stabile world, but the Corona COVID-19 pandemic has shown the whole world that this is not the case. Mighty forces changes our way of living, thinking and things changes fast. It is difficult to understand what is happening, for you need to be an expert in many different fields in order to really get it: medicine, economy and politics. You even need...
The Corona hype, the Corona panic, has manifested the common cold as a brand new disease. What we present here is the psychosomatic hypothesis for COV...
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1154,49 zł |
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Nigeria: Perspectives of Health
ISBN: 9781536180909 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nigeria a a pluralistic society a is a sub-Saharan Africa country, home to about 200 million people from 371 cultural tribes. All tribes in Nigeria have their specific cultural beliefs and practices. As a matter of fact, many of these practices had been in existence for hundreds of years, even before British colonization (1800-1960). There exists a strong interrelationship between the society and health. Some practices in the society have negative health implications while some do not. Unfortunately, many of the traditional or cultural practices in the Nigerian society have more associated...
Nigeria a a pluralistic society a is a sub-Saharan Africa country, home to about 200 million people from 371 cultural tribes. All tribes in Nigeria ha...
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803,60 zł |