Public Health category: 1911 books
by Eva U.B. Kibele
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Regional mortality differences are one dimension of health inequalities, but its trends and determinants in Germany are widely unknown. This book examines and illustrates patterns of regional mortality in Germany—with focus on small-area differentials—and their changes over time. It identifies...
by Bhalwar Rajvir
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2018
This book fulfills the unmet need of quick review question answer book and at the same time cover the entire syllabus of Community Medicine, spread over 30 chapters. Each chapter has 1 or 2 solved long questions, 8 to 10 solved short notes, viva voce and MCQs related to that chapter. These long /...
Challenges of Psychoanalysis in the 21st Century
Psychoanalysis, Health, and Psychosexuality in the Era of Virtual Reality
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
During discussion of psychoanalysis and virtual reality in the new millennium, it was predicted that in the next century the differences between the conscious, unconscious, and the pre-conscious will have to be reconsidered in view of the ever-expanding concepts created by virtual reality. There will...
BIOTERRORISM
The Personal Emergency Response System
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
A clear and expert guide to protecting yourself and your family in large-scale emergencies.
With critical information about the most likely biological threats, this concise book explains the basic steps to take before, during, and after a terrorist attack or other emergency...
Structural Dynamics of HIV
Risk, Resilience and Response
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
This book examines the structural dynamics of HIV among populations at heightened vulnerability to infection as the result of stigma, discrimination and marginalization. It first examines how the socio-structural context shapes HIV risk and how affected populations and national governments and programs...
A Safer Death
Multidisciplinary Aspects of Terminal Care
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
During the past two decades professional interest in Terminal Care has increased dramatically. It is always difficult to trace the origins of a change of emphasis in medical and nursing care but it is likely that three influences have contributed to bring this about. Firstly, the rise of the modern...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
Stemming from a 2012 conference entitled Brain Degenerations and Emerging Mental Health Challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa, this book is aimed at both the general practitioner interested in CNS disorders, and the specialist who would like to know more about CNS pathology in Africa. By employing a broad...
Teaching Transcultural Care
A guide for teachers of nursing and health care
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Perhaps I should begin by saying that I am not, in terms of ethnic origin, English. My parents emigrated to England from the Irish Republic, and we have all lived in Britain for so long that no one can see the join - or can they? Some years ago, my mother was admitted to hospital for a routine operation....
Eating Disorders in Special Populations
Medical, Nutritional, and Psychological Treatments
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
Eating disorders are among the most complex disorders to treat, typically requiring medical, nutritional, and psychotherapeutic interventions. High relapse rates and the sense of urgency to save lives and minimize or prevent lifelong problems present challenges for even the most seasoned treatment...
AIDS in Asia
A Continent in Peril
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
AIDS in Asia provides a thorough introduction to the social and economic issues surrounding the AIDS epidemic in Asia including:
* Geographic obstacles to health care
* Gender inequality and human trafficking
* Political turmoil and poor leadership
* Asia's role in the sex and drug trade
* Economic...
Modernizing Sexuality
U.S. HIV Prevention in Sub-Saharan Africa
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
Moving beyond the boundaries of HIV scholarship, Modernizing Sexuality shows how Western idealizations of normative sexuality and the power of modernity intersect in U.S. HIV prevention policy. In this book, Anne Esacove gathers interview, archival, and ethnographic data from the United States and...
Dual Diagnosis
Evaluation, Treatment, Training, and Program Development
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Patients who have both a psychiatric disorder and a substance abuse problem cause most clinicians to throw up their hands in despair. The clinical problems that these "dual diagnosis" patients present are enor mously complex. Diagnostically, how is one to tell if disorders of mood and...
NHS Please Don't Kill Me!
Your survival guide to NHS care
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2018
When you need the NHS, how can you make sure you get the best possible care? Have you ever thought about what you could do to influence and improve the quality of care you receive when using the NHS? Or do you just turn up hoping that the healthcare professional in front of you diagnoses and treats...
The Osteoporotic Syndrome
Detection, Prevention, and Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2000
Metabolic bone degeneration (osteoporosis) affects millions of people--primarily postmenopausal women--and is directly responsible for debilitating hip, vertebral, and limb fractures in the elderly. Incorporating advances made within just the past five years, The Osteoporotic Syndrome: Detection,...