Public Health category: 1911 books
Hoping to Help
The Promises and Pitfalls of Global Health Volunteering
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
Overseas volunteering has exploded in numbers and interest in the last couple of decades. Every year, hundreds of thousands of people travel from wealthier to poorer countries to participate in short-term volunteer programs focused on health services. Churches, universities, nonprofit service organizations,...
Health Promotion and Aging, Seventh Edition
Practical Applications for Health Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016
The seventh edition of this classic text champions healthy aging by demonstrating how to prevent or manage disease, and make large-scale improvements toward health and wellness in the older adult population. The text synthesizes state-of-the-art research findings—providing convincing evidence that...
Her Health, Her Lifetime, Our World
Unlocking the Potential of Adolescent Girls and Young Women
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
CSIS launched the Task Force on Women’s and Family Health in the belief that there is an exceptional opportunity—and pressing need—for U.S. leadership in this critical area. The Task Force has generated a bold vision, detailed in this report, for a major U.S. initiative by the Trump administration...
The Health Care Data Guide
Learning from Data for Improvement
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011
The Health Care Data Guide is designed to help students and professionals build a skill set specific to using data for improvement of health care processes and systems. Even experienced data users will find valuable resources among the tools and cases that enrich The Health Care Data Guide. Practical...
by American Society for Healthcare Risk Management (ASHRM)
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2011
Continuing its superiority in the health care risk management field, this sixth edition of The Risk Management Handbook for Health Care Organizations is written by the key practitioners and consultant in the field. It contains more practical chapters and health care examples and additional material...
Overdosed America
The Broken Promise of American Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Using the examples of Vioxx, Celebrex, cholesterol-lowering statin drugs, and anti-depressants, Overdosed America shows that at the heart of the current crisis in American medicine lies the commercialization of medical knowledge itself.
Drawing on his background in statistics, epidemiology,...
by Louise Norris
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
The Insider’s Guide to Obamacare’s Open Enrollment (2015-2016) is loaded with information designed to give consumers a head start on health plan shopping before the start of the Affordable Care Act’s three-month open enrollment period (November 1, 2015 through January 31, 2016). The second...
From Management to Leadership
Strategies for Transforming Health
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2011
From Management to Leadership identifies the fundamental interpersonal skills that every health care leader (and aspiring leader) needs to develop in order to be a successful executive or manager. The third edition of the classic text offers suggestions for developing and improving essential health...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
Despite the relevance of and empirical evidence for African Traditional Medicine, based on African Indigenous Medical Knowledge (AIMK), research and development of new phytomedicines from this continent has been slow. African Indigenous Medical Knowledge and Human Health aims to provide a catalyst...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
"[A] digestible yet comprehensive resource describing the many career opportunities in healthcare management...[and] a valuable resource for current undergraduate and graduate students as well as career changers interested in pursing a job in the healthcare management field."--Choice: Current...
Value by Design
Developing Clinical Microsystems to Achieve Organizational Excellence
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
Value by Design is a practical guide for real-world improvement in clinical microsystems. Clinical microsystem theory, as implemented by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and health care organizations nationally and internationally, is the foundation of high-performing front line health care...
To Save Humanity
What Matters Most for a Healthy Future
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
"The UN was not created to take mankind to heaven, but to save humanity from hell." --Dag Hammarskjöld, United Nations Secretary-General 1953-1961 The turn of the 21st century was an objective low point in the history of human health: AIDS was scourging Africa, millions of women died each...
by Ms Juliette Oko, James Reid
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
Many students on Health and Social Care Foundation Degree and Access courses struggle with the academic expectations required of them at this level. This book is written to support such students in adapting to self-directed study, understand the assessment process and how they can make the most of...
Health inequalities
From Titanic to the crash
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2013
The third digital-only ebook taster of Unequal health: The scandal of our times by Danny Dorling. Competitively priced, it gives a flavour of one of the major themes: health inequalities and contains three chapters from the book, preceded by an all-new introduction specially written by Danny Dorling. This ‘must-read’ will introduce an even wider readership to his work.