Public Health category: 1911 books
by Tauseef Ali
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2013
The ultimate reference for those with Crohn's and colitis and their family and friends
Crohn's disease and colitis are frustrating, often debilitating gastrointestinal diseases that can have a severe impact on the overall health of those who suffer from them. According to the latest estimates,...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2010
What enables people to bounce back from stressful experiences? How do certain individuals maintain a sense of purpose and direction over the long term, even in the face of adversity? This is the first book to move beyond childhood and adolescence to explore resilience across the lifespan. Coverage...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
This volume is relevant to quality-of-life researchers working in the areas of social medicine, sustainable development, social indicators research and health psychology/behavioral medicine. It represents a culmination of programmatic research in the science of QOL. The research methods and conceptual...
Forgotten Families
Ending the Growing Crisis Confronting Children and Working Parents in the Global Economy
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2006
In the last half-century, radical changes have rippled through the workplace and the home from Boston to Bombay. In the face of rapid globalization, these changes affect us all, and we can no longer confine ourselves to addressing working and social conditions within our own borders without simultaneously...
Sustainable Heavy Metal Remediation
Volume 1: Principles and Processes
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2017
This book covers the principles, underlying mechanisms, thermodynamic functions, kinetics and modeling aspects of sustainable technologies, particularly from the standpoint of applying physical, chemical and biological processes for the treatment of wastewater polluted with heavy metals. Particular...
Healthcare Overview
New Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
In healthcare, the realisation of an optimistic prognosis against pessimistic ones depends on current innovations in diagnostic and cost-effective treatment approaches being widely adopted in clinical practice. Utilisation of advanced early and predictive diagnostics, targeted prevention and personalised...
Prescribed
Writing, Filling, Using, and Abusing the Prescription in Modern America
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2012
America has had a long love affair with the prescription. It is much more than the written "script" or a manufactured medicine, professionally dispensed and taken, and worth hundreds of millions of dollars a year. As an object, it is uniquely illustrative of the complex relations among the...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
This book provides an in-depth, practical, and cutting-edge summary of psychotherapy for immigrant children and adolescents. This text integrates practical therapeutic methods with current empirical knowledge on the unique life stressors and mental health concerns of immigrant youth, proving essential...
Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Volume 31, 2011
Pathways Through The Transitions of Care for Older Adults
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
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This unique volume, with its person- and context-centered focus, is the only book to emphasize the need to incorporate social, cultural, and demographics into transitional care protocol for elderly patients. It encompasses the larger context of life experience in order to provide optimal...
Queer Aging
The Gayby Boomers and a New Frontier for Gerontology
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2016
As the first generation of gay men enters its autumn years, these men's responses to the physical and emotional tolls of aging promise to be as revolutionary as their advances in AIDS and civil rights activism. Older gay men's approaches to friendship, caregiving, romantic and sexual relationships,...
Tropical Diseases
A Practical Guide for Medical Practitioners and Students
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
Tropical Diseases outlines the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of diseases encountered in developing regions---areas where the unexpected can occur and where Western medical capabilities are often unavailable. Taking a pragmatic approach, it is an invaluable reference and resource for medical...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2016
The 2014-2015 Ebola outbreak in West Africa shocked the world with its devastation and its rapid migration to multiple continents. As the systems meant to respond to this sort of epidemic failed, the disease exposed not just weaknesses in international infectious disease surveillance and management,...
by World Bank, International Monetary Fund
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
What has been the impact of yet another food price spike on developing countries’ ability to make progress toward the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)? How many poor people have been prevented from lifting themselves out of poverty? How many people, and how many children, have seen their personal...
Ambulance Services
Leadership and Management Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2015
This volume provides fresh insights and management understanding of the changing role of the ambulance services against the backdrop of massive cuts in health budgets around the world and the changing context of pre-hospital care within the wider healthcare networks. The challenges of funding, training...