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Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
The criminal justice system now serves as the chief provider of health care services to a significant portion of society. This includes the provision of physical and mental health care for offender populations who require substantial health care resources. To date, little is known or understood with...
Social Work, Marriage, and Ethnicity
Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
By looking at a variety of racial and ethnic groups in society, Social Work, Marriage and Ethnicity examines the conventional knowledge, theories and best practices relating to marriages. Contributors address marriage interventions, female empowerment, parenting, and cohabitation, as well as the variables...
Cuban Health Care
Utopian Dreams, Fragile Future
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
Cuba’s health care system, often publicized as the Cuban Revolution’s greatest accomplishment, has been the subject of much international attention and debate while revealing jarring contrasts: hospitals lack basic supplies while Cuba’s overseas medical missions generate good will towards the...
Heal America, Heal Yourself by Correcting Your Habits
Guidance for Preventing and Reversing Various Kinds of Diseases
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
Familiarity with Western medicine, Asian doctors, and chiropractors have given me insight about medicine and health care is the U.S.Learning different philosophies and procedures made me think about health and how human bodies function. The Happy Planet index (www.ahappyplanet.com) about happiness worldwide...
Self-Tracking, Health and Medicine
Sociological Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Self-tracking practices are part of many health and medical domains. The introduction of digital technologies such as smartphones, tablet computers, apps, social media platforms, dedicated patient support sites and wireless devices for medical monitoring has contributed to the expansion of opportunities...
by Andrei Besedin
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Balance! It is the key when it comes to your body water and you. Of course, we all want to be in great shape, and good health and one of the very best ways to do that is to bring a balance between your body water and you. There are many reasons it is important to stay hydrated.
You don’t...
by Dr. Angela Lanfranchi, Prof. Ian Gentles, Elizabeth Ring-Cassidy
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
The world's most comprehensive investigation of abortion and women's health.
Rigorously researched and scientifically documented, Complications: Abortion's Impact on Women examines the role of abortion in almost every aspect of women's health: depression, infertility, autoimmune disease, cancer,...
Our Bodies, Our Data
How Companies Make Billions Selling Our Medical Records
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
How the hidden trade in our sensitive medical information became a multibillion-dollar business, but has done little to improve our health-care outcomes
Hidden to consumers, patient medical data has become a multibillion-dollar worldwide trade industry between our health-care providers, drug...
Fresh Medicine
How to Fix Reform and Build a Sustainable Health Care System
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
Last spring, after congress passed sweeping legislation to reform our nation’s health care system, the editorial board of the New York Times wrote: Just as Social Security grew from a modest start in 1935 to become a bedrock of the nation’s retirement system, this is a start on health care reform,...
Integral Pastoral Care in Ghana
Proposals for Healing in the Asante Context
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
What is Pastoral Care? Pastoral Care is differently defi ned by many authorities. Encyclopedia defi nes it as the ministry of care and counseling provided by pastors, chaplains, and other religious leaders to members of their church or congregation, to anyone within institutional settings, with a...
Admit One
What You Must Know When Going to the Hospital—But No One Actually Tells You!
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
Admit One: What You Must Know When Going to the Hospital—But No One Actually Tells You! explains—in plain language—everything to expect in the hospital environment. Whether it's you or a loved one who is being admitted, you can use this insider's guide to understand as much as possible about the...
by Randy Stapilus
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
America's health care system is bankrupting its people, businesses and society while it both over-treats and under-treats, with poorer results than in most of the industrialized world. Its ills are so many there is no single cure. But there are many things we can do, and this book includes 50 of them....
The Best Healthcare for Less
Save Money on Chronic Medical Conditions and Prescription Drugs
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2010
You can afford the care you need.
If you're one of the millions who suffer from medical conditions such as cancer, heart disease, or diabetes, you know that these illnesses can, over time, cause extreme financial hardship. In this timely, thorough resource, Dr. David Nganele helps you identify...
This Time Get It Right: Good-Bye ObamaCare
Health Savings Accounts Open the Door to Universal Coverage and Lower Costs
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
ObamaCare needs replacing. Instead of universal coverage at lower costs, it leaves tens of millions uncovered and increasingly greater numbers with skyrocketing premiums and costs, fewer insurance choices.
Its "top-down" approach means huge bureaucracies and prolix rules just to...