Health category: 185398 books
Managing Health in Africa
The Health Systems Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
An authoritative analysis of the challenges of public health management in Africa, based on a combined experience of more than 83 years in national and ...
by Monte Kline
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2018
Find Out What's "Missing" in Your Health!
Identify and Correct the "Holes" in Your "Wholeness"
The Bible recognizes that we are body, mind and spirit, but how does that relate to our everyday health? How do we discover our physical, emotional and spiritual...
Global Child Health
A Toolkit to Address Health Disparities
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2018
This timely resource brings child health to the forefront of global health and the crucial goal of universal equity of care. Its resource-based framework offers contemporary perspective on factors driving child health disparities, specific vulnerabilities of underserved children, and ways readers...
Beyond Obamacare
Life, Death, and Social Policy
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2015
Health care spending in the United States today is approaching 20 percent of GDP, yet levels of U.S. population health have been declining for decades relative to other wealthy and even some developing nations. How is it possible that the United States, which spends more than any other nation on health...
Community/Public Health Nursing - E-Book
Promoting the Health of Populations
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2014
Covering the nurse’s role in promoting community health, Community/Public Health Nursing, 6th Edition provides a unique ‘upstream’ preventive focus and a strong social justice approach in a concise, easy-to-read text. It shows how you, as a nurse, can take an active role in social action and...
Building a Culture of Health
A New Imperative for Business
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
This ambitious volume sets out to understand how every company impacts public health and introduces a robust model, rooted in organizational and scientific knowledge, for companies committed to making positive contributions to health and wellness. Focusing on four interconnected areas of corporate...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2008
The facts are hard to ignore: rising rates of chronic disease, epidemic obesity and diabetes, a widening longevity gap between rich and poor, health care “reforms” at odds with patient interests. In response, Policy Innovations for Health argues that a nation’s well-being mirrors the health...
by Lisa Y. Adams, PhD, MSc
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
"This text provides a comprehensive overview, if not thesis, of the contributing factors to workplace stress and how to revisit [them] and our own mental health. How can nurses and health care workplaces expect to offer health and healing when such basic foundational human dynamics of mental...
by American College of Sports Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2009
Encouraging and maintaining a healthy workforce have become key components in the challege to reduce health care expenditures and health-related productivity losses. As companies more fully realize the impact of healthy workers on the financial health of their organization, health promotion professionals...
Health Care Politics, Policy, and Services, Third Edition
A Social Justice Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
This AJN award-winning textbook helps readers understand and critically assess the US health care system and policies.
This AJN award-winning textbook helps readers understand and critically assess the US health care system and policies. With a focus on the prevalence of disparities in health...
Health, Happiness, and Longevity
Health & Spiritual Series
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
"Health, Happiness & Longevity" is a practical guide that includes a complete style of living, including diet, exercise and development of the mind's powers: "Some people just keep jogging. That won't work." "Health is as much mental as physical." To be healthy and...
Pathways to Global Health
Case Studies in Global Health Diplomacy(Volume 2)
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
Following the publication of Negotiating and Navigating Global Health: Case Studies in Global Health Diplomacy edited by Ellen Rosskam and Ilona Kickbusch, this second volume of case studies will complement the first volume and extends its scope. The new book focuses on health diplomacy negotiations,...
If You Are Well
Health and Wellness Tips for the Empowered Health Care Consumer
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
IF You Are Well: Health and Wellness Tips for the Empowered Health Care Consumer is a guide to help your employees make the choices and lifestyle changes necessary to stay healthy and out of the health care system, as well as understand how their personal wellness and health care spending habits contribute...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2008
The Indian health system has a poor global ranking. A new perspective on health system planning and development is required to improve the situation and build a health system responsive to the needs of the country. Strategic Issues and Challenges in Health Management addresses these concerns while...