Public Health category: 1911 books
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Numerous economic, sociocultural, and health problems continue to impede the optimal progress of many millions of people in the developing countries in tropical and other geographic regions of the world. Thus, tropical medicine has many aspects including parasitology, bacteriology, and virology, environmental...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
Obstetrics and Gynecology in Low-Resource Settings provides practical guidelines for ensuring quality care to women in locations where facilities are inadequate, equipment and medications are in short supply, and medical staff are few. This reference will be an essential companion to health care providers throughout the world.
The Fragile Wisdom
An Evolutionary View on Women's Biology and Health
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2013
Women’s physiology evolved to aid reproduction, not to reduce disease. Any trait—however detrimental to post-reproductive health—is preserved in the next generation if it increases the chances of having offspring who will survive and reproduce. For this reason, the author argues, many common diseases are especially difficult for women to prevent.
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Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2016
This edited volume presents a detailed portrait of couples living with mixed HIV status, where one partner is HIV-positive and the other negative. Readers will come to understand the various and complex ways in which these mixed-status, or serodiscordant couples build a life together within the shadow...
Santé et maladies
Les Grands Articles d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: September 19, 2016
Si, depuis le développement de la pathologie, on n'emploie plus le mot maladie(s) qu'au pluriel, la notion de santé (au singulier) a survécu trop longtemps, car c'est un concept vide pour lequel on s'efforce de trouver une espèce de contenu dans l'existence d'une force biologique intérieure à...
Hygiène
Les Grands Articles d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: September 19, 2016
L'hygiène est classiquement la science qui enseigne les mesures propres à conserver la santé, voire à l'améliorer. Elle a été présente dans toute les civilisations depuis les plus primitives mais avec une évolution des approches liées aux progrès des connaissances et aux transformations des ...
Improving Access to HIV Care
Lessons from Five U.S. Sites
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
The availability of combination antiretroviral therapy has changed the lives of millions of people living with HIV (PLWH), for whom a once fatal infection can now be a manageable chronic disease. Yet only 30 percent of PLWH in the United States are virally suppressed, and significant gaps in access...
Sex-Selective Abortion in India
Gender, Society and New Reproductive Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2006
This collection of 11 essays unravels the reasons for the depleting child sex ratio in India. The contributors, all distinguished demographers and social scientists, describe the political economy of sentiments and sexual mores that leads parents to kill unborn daughters.
The contributors examine...
by Sana Loue
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2007
Epidemiology has often been defined as the study of the distribution of disease, together with the distribution of factors that may modify that risk of disease. As such, epidemiology has often been reduced to a methodology only, providing a mechanism for the study of disease that is somehow removed,...
The ESC Handbook of Preventive Cardiology
Putting Prevention into Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2016
The ESC Handbook of Preventive Cardiology is a 'how-to' manual for busy healthcare professionals. Complementing the 2012 Joint European Guidelines on cardiovascular disease prevention and in line with recommendations from the European Association of Preventive Cardiology and it is an invaluable source...
Mastering Mentorship
A Practical Guide for Mentors of Nursing, Health and Social Care Students
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
This book is an essential guide to mentorship in health and social care. The chapters focus specifically on the eight Nursing and Midwifery Council domains for the preparation and training of mentors. A rich range of real-life case studies are included in every chapter, to demonstrate the challenges...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Rates of childhood obesity are alarmingly high and increasing each year. Studies have shown that obese children are more likely to become obese adults and are likely to suffer with numerous health consequences like coronary heart disease, high blood pressure, and Type II diabetes, among others. Studies...
Cooking Data
Culture and Politics in an African Research World
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
In Cooking Data Crystal Biruk offers an ethnographic account of research into the demographics of HIV and AIDS in Malawi to rethink the production of quantitative health data. While research practices are often understood within a clean/dirty binary, Biruk shows that data are never clean; rather,...
by Ajay Kumar Jha
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2017
This book provides information on proper underground mine ventilation in order to detail its importance in maintaining safe, productive, healthy and effective underground environments at all times for employees. The text covers correct design, implementation and maintenance of mine ventilation through...