Public Health category: 1911 books
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Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2010
Problem-based learning (PBL) has excited interest among educators around the world for several decades. Among the most notable applications of PBL is the approach taken at the Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life sciences (FHML) at Maastricht University, the Netherlands. Starting in 1974 as a medical...
Pandemics
What Everyone Needs to Know®
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Pandemics. The word conjures up images of horrific diseases sweeping the globe and killing everyone in their path. But such highly lethal illnesses almost never create pandemics. The reality is deadly serious but far more subtle. In Pandemics: What Everyone Needs to Know®, Peter Doherty, who won...
Clinical Research
From Proposal to Implementation
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2012
This book will serve as a road map for students and junior researchers seeking to successfully design, implement, and publish clinical research. It covers the basic elements of research proposals and implementation including regulatory approvals, continuing regulatory oversight, investigational new...
When Someone You Know Is Living in a Dementia Care Community
Words to Say and Things to Do
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Life changes dramatically for the entire family when the decision is made to move a person who has dementia from home to community care. Rachael Wonderlin, a gerontologist, dementia care expert, and popular dementia care blogger, helps caregivers cope with the difficult behaviors, emotions, and anxieties...
Genetic Heavy Metal Toxicity
Explaining Sids, Autism, Tourette's, Alzheimer's and Other Epidemics
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2008
Something is dreadfully wrong. Of those who survive life in the womb, one out of two go on to have a serious defect, disease, or neurological disorder. Half the population! About 1 out of 500 babies dies of "SIDS," while about 1 out of 150 develops autism. Many more have varying degrees...
Inside Rehab
The Surprising Truth About Addiction Treatment--and How to Get Help That Works
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
An eye-opening tour of the addiction treatment industry explores the gap between what should happen and what does
What happens inside drug and alcohol rehabilitation centers and how rehab works are a mystery to those outside the industry – and sometimes even to those inside it.
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by Stephen B. Hulley, Steven R. Cummings, Warren S. Browner
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2013
Designing Clinical Research sets the standard for providing a practical guide to planning, tabulating, formulating, and implementing clinical research, with an easy-to-read, uncomplicated presentation. This product incorporates current research methodology--including molecular and genetic clinical...
by Bill Runciman, Alan Merry, Merrilyn Walton
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
As more and more people survive into old age, the burden of caring for them becomes greater and greater. Although it is now possible to alleviate many of the afflictions that beset mankind, no society can afford to pay for all the healthcare that is now available or technically possible. People working...
Psychosocial Well-being of Children and Adolescents in Latin America
Evidence-based Interventions
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2017
This book discusses child well-being, with children and adolescents as key informants, from a Latin American perspective. It explores theoretical and empirical issues related to well-being and associated aspects, in order to understand the well-being of this population. Topics analyzed in this volume...
The Chronically Mentally Ill
Research and Services
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The topic of chronic mental illness has been much discussed, but there is still no widely accepted strategy of intervention for patients suffering from disorders of this kind. These patients have received little attention until recently, because they are difficult to treat effectively. Although methods...
by Rachel Carlson, Albert F. Simon, Bob McMullen
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2015
The most complete question-and-answer review for the PANCE and PANRE—now fully revised and updated
Lange Q&A Physician Assistant Examination is filled with over 1,300 Q&As that help you gear up for the PANCE and PANRE. All questions appear in the style you will see on the actual exam,...
Living with Lymphoma
A Patient's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
When neurobiologist Elizabeth M. Adler was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma almost twenty years ago, she learned everything she could about the disease, both to cope with the emotional stress of her diagnosis and to make the best possible decisions for her treatment. In Living with Lymphoma, she...
Second Chances
Surviving AIDS in Uganda
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
During the first decade of this millennium, many thousands of people in Uganda who otherwise would have died from AIDS got second chances at life. A massive global health intervention, the scaling up of antiretroviral therapy (ART), saved them and created a generation of people who learned to live...
by Charles E. Davis, MD
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
The last thing a world traveler wants is to get sick. To stay healthy, travelers need to protect themselves from viruses, bacteria, and parasites, including many they have seldom, if ever, encountered. With precise, simple explanations, this indispensable guide helps international travelers avoid...