Health Care Issues category: 1336 books

As human migration brings an ever more diverse range of people, cultures and beliefs into contact, Western medical systems must adapt to cater for the different approaches it encounters towards illness, the body, gender, mental health and death. Based upon training courses taught by the author...

As revealing as Freakonomics, shocking as Fast Food Nation and thought provoking as No Logo, The Politics of Breastfeeding exposes infant feeding as one of the most important public health issues of our time.Every thirty seconds a baby dies from infections due to a lack of breastfeeding and the use...

There is no book on the market that addresses the needs of long-term caregivers regardless of the challenges faced by their loved ones. Most books focus on specific illnesses or conditions such as survivors of stroke, head or spinal injuries, dementia and Alzheimer’s, or parenting an or disabled...

Bursting with practical ideas, reassurances and collected wisdoms, When Your Baby Cries will restore your sanity. Bestselling childcare author Deborah Jackson reminds us that babies soak up all the love we have to give. Here are ten effective ways to care for even the most distressed baby, while looking...

This second edition builds off of the starting points addressed in the first edition related to families seeking guidance with issues common to aging parents or patients. In it, Slepner, identifies questions to be raised and provides a framework for developing responses unique to each family. The second...

Pflegerisches Handeln begründen, reflektieren und professionell entscheiden! Dieses Buch richtet sich an Ethikberater, Pflegende, Lehrende, Studenten von Pflege- und Gesundheitsstudiengängen und Weiterbildungsteilnehmer und bietet konkrete Unterstützung bei der ethischen Begründung von...