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Impact of Demographics on Health and Healthcare: Race, Ethnicity and Other Social Factors
ISBN: 9781849507141 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Focuses on differences in health and health care as linked to important social factors. This title includes six articles looking at racial disparities on a variety of topics such as: knowledge of hepatitis C Virus; health services received and patients' experiences in seeking health care; use of CAM services; and, more.
Focuses on differences in health and health care as linked to important social factors. This title includes six articles looking at racial disparities...
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506,18 |
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Adult Drug Problem, Children's Needs
ISBN: 9781904787976 / Angielski / Spiral bound / 138 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This toolkit is designed to support practitioners in their work with families where parents misuse drugs and there are concerns about the children's welfare. While focusing on drugs, it covers a wider pattern of misuse, including alcohol. It contains: summaries of key messages for practitioners tools and tips to support effective practice training and development activities a wide range of practice examples The toolkit is written for the range of professionals involved with families including drug misusing parents.
This toolkit is designed to support practitioners in their work with families where parents misuse drugs and there are concerns about the children's w...
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112,44 |
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Crash Course: A Head of School, His Son's Addiction, And Lessons For Schools and Families
ISBN: 9781484848654 / Angielski / Miękka / 126 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Michael Pratt is a distinguished educator who served for ten years as Head of the prestigious Brentwood School in Los Angeles. In his very first semester at the school he came face to face with one of the most pressing issues affecting education today - adolescent alcohol and drug use. Only in this case the student using and abusing drugs was Pratt's son, David. Until that moment he had no idea his son was an addict.
In Crash Course Pratt describes David's struggle with addiction, its impact on their family, and the numerous setbacks his son experienced on the road to recovery. It's a... Michael Pratt is a distinguished educator who served for ten years as Head of the prestigious Brentwood School in Los Angeles. In his very first semes...
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39,71 |
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Drink: The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol
ISBN: 9780062241801 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Drink: The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol, award-winning journalist Anne Dowsett Johnston combines in-depth research with her own personal story of recovery, and delivers a groundbreaking examination of a shocking yet little recognized epidemic threatening society today: the precipitous rise in risky drinking among women and girls. With the feminist revolution, women have closed the gender gap in their professional and educational lives. They have also achieved equality with men in more troubling areas as well. In the U.S. alone, the rates of alcohol... In Drink: The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol, award-winning journalist Anne Dowsett Johnston combines in-depth research w... |
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72,18 |
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The Quality Cure: How Focusing on Health Care Quality Can Save Your Life and Lower Spending Toovolume 9
ISBN: 9780520282001 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the United States, the soaring cost of health care has become an economic drag and a political flashpoint. Moreover, although the country's medical spending is higher than that of any other nation, health outcomes are no better than elsewhere, and in some cases are even worse. In The Quality Cure, renowned health care economist and former Obama advisor David Cutler offers an accessible and incisive account of the issues and their causes, as well as a road map for the future of health care reformone that shows how information technology, realigned payment systems, and value-focused...
In the United States, the soaring cost of health care has become an economic drag and a political flashpoint. Moreover, although the country's medical...
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107,38 |
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Sociology for Health Professionals
ISBN: 9781446253007 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sociology is a key topic for all trainee health professionals, but many struggle to see what sociology has to offer. Based on years of experience teaching sociology to healthcare students, Lani Russell has written a truly introductory text which explains the main sociological concepts without jargon or becoming too advanced. Using carefully chosen examples, she shows how health issues are influenced by social phenomena such as class, race or sexuality and the relevance this has for practitioners.
The book includes: -The main sociological concepts relevant to... Sociology is a key topic for all trainee health professionals, but many struggle to see what sociology has to offer. Based on years of experience teac...
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544,08 |
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Culture, Ethnicity and Chronic Conditions: A Global Synthesis
ISBN: 9780415715393 / Angielski / Twarda / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The global burden of chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs), such as hypertension, diabetes and cancers, and of common mental disorders such as depression and anxiety, has a disproportionate impact on the low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) of Africa, Asia and Latin America. The pattern persists in African and Asian migrant populations in European and North American countries, despite the higher standards of living and improved health infrastructure. This text presents new conceptual and empirical perspectives on the interconnections between culture, ethnicity and chronic conditions in...
The global burden of chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs), such as hypertension, diabetes and cancers, and of common mental disorders such as depr...
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728,68 |
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Routledge Handbook of Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Perspectives from Social Science and Law
ISBN: 9780415818940 / Angielski / Twarda / 410 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The provision and use of traditional, complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) has been growing globally over the last 40 years. As CAM develops alongside - and sometimes integrates - with conventional medicine, this handbook provides the first major overview of its regulation and professionalization from social science and legal perspectives. The Routledge Handbook of Complementary and Alternative Medicine draws on historical and international comparative research to provide a rigorous and thematic examination of the field. It argues that many popular and policy debates are stuck... The provision and use of traditional, complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) has been growing globally over the last 40 years. As CAM develop... |
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Healthcare and Big Data: Digital Specters and Phantom Objects
ISBN: 9781137502209 / Angielski / Twarda / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This highly original book is an ethnographic noir of how Big Data profits from patient private health information. Primarily told through a first-person noir narrative, Ebeling as a sociologist-hard-boiled-detective, investigates Big Data and the trade in private health information by examining the information networks that patient data traverses.
This highly original book is an ethnographic noir of how Big Data profits from patient private health information. Primarily told through a first-pers...
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442,79 |
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An Air That Still Kills: How a Montana Town's Asbestos Tragedy is Spreading Nationwide
ISBN: 9780985185121 / Angielski / Miękka / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An Air That Still Kills is the alarming and still-unfolding story of the deadliest environmental disaster in the United States. The catastrophe began in Libby, Montana, where hundreds of people died and thousands more were sickened from the asbestos that contaminated a vermiculite mine. But mine owner W.R. Grace spread the danger across North America when it exported the lethal vermiculite, which still lurks in as many as 50 million homes, businesses and schools. First authored by Andrew Schneider and David McCumber, this updated book includes frightening new disclosures by Schneider about...
An Air That Still Kills is the alarming and still-unfolding story of the deadliest environmental disaster in the United States. The catastrophe began ...
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119,69 |
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Configuring Health Consumers: Health Work and the Imperative of Personal Responsibility
ISBN: 9781349321582 / Angielski / Miękka / 267 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explore assumptions underpinning contemporary health policy discourses that emphasize personal responsibility for health, consider how they attach to changing information technologies, and discuss their influence on emerging forms of health 'work'.
This book explore assumptions underpinning contemporary health policy discourses that emphasize personal responsibility for health, consider how they ...
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201,24 |
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Globesity, Food Marketing and Family Lifestyles
ISBN: 9781349359202 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the public controversies surrounding lifestyle risks in the consumer society. Comparing news coverage of the 'globesity' pandemic in Britain and the USA, it illustrates the way moral panic brought children's food marketing to the centre of the policy debates about consumer lifestyles.
This book examines the public controversies surrounding lifestyle risks in the consumer society. Comparing news coverage of the 'globesity' pandemic i...
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201,24 |
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Greater Mekong Sub-region: Malaria Operational Plan FY 2016
ISBN: 9781532905841 / Angielski / Miękka / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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59,66 |
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Ghana: Malaria Operational Plan FY 2016
ISBN: 9781532905636 / Angielski / Miękka / 76 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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59,66 |
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Ethiopia: Malaria Operational Plan FY 2016
ISBN: 9781532905605 / Angielski / Miękka / 76 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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59,66 |
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Democratic Republic of the Congo: Malaria Operational Plan FY 2016
ISBN: 9781532905476 / Angielski / Miękka / 68 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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59,66 |
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Benin: Malaria Operational Plan FY 2016
ISBN: 9781532905353 / Angielski / Miękka / 68 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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59,66 |
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Angola: Malaria Operational Plan FY 2016
ISBN: 9781532905247 / Angielski / Miękka / 68 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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59,66 |
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The Diabetes Epidemic: Controlling, Curing, and Prevention
ISBN: 9781942852117 / Angielski / Miękka / 78 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The University of Florida has an ambitious goal: to harness the power of its faculty, staff, students, and alumni to solve some of society s most pressing problems and to become a resource for the state of Florida, the nation, and the world.
The Diabetes Epidemic explores the complicated landscape of diabetes research and offers a glimpse of the extraordinarily difficult, and sometimes serendipitous, ways in which breakthroughs occur. At the University of Florida Diabetes Institute more than 100 faculty members are working on education, research, prevention, and treatment. Their... The University of Florida has an ambitious goal: to harness the power of its faculty, staff, students, and alumni to solve some of society s most pres...
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Mali: Investment Climate Statement 2015
ISBN: 9781532814518 / Angielski / Miękka / 26 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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51,68 |
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