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Concepts in Male Health: Perspectives Across the LifespanConcepts in Male Health: Perspectives Across the Lifespan offers a practical approach to understanding the health of males of all races, ethnicities, socioeconomic status, cultures, ages, and orientations. Each...
Editeur :
Jossey-Bass
Parution :
2011-12-07
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Public Health/AAHE
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Every year over a quarter of a million children die of AIDS. Another two million children currently live with HIV, most in sub-Saharan Africa. Millions more are affected when AIDS enters their families or their communities. Orphans are perhaps the most visible: 15...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2011-12-07
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Mastering Public Health will enable you to improve your performance and productivity within your organization and with the people and the communities you serve. Designed for new and seasoned public health workers alike, this user-friendly guide focuses on the day-to-day...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2011-10-28
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We are told that 'work is good for us' and that ill health is caused by 'individual lifestyles'. Drawing on research from public health, social policy, epidemiology, geography and political science, this evidence-based inter-disciplinary book firmly challenges these...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2011-10-27
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Chronic diseases-heart disease, diabetes, lung disease, and common cancers-claim more than one out of every two lives worldwide. Within the next few decades their toll will rise, most greatly in developing countries. Yet this rapid growth of chronic diseases is not...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2011-10-20
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Chronic diseases-heart disease, diabetes, lung disease, and common cancers-claim more than one out of every two lives worldwide. Within the next few decades their toll will rise, most greatly in developing countries. Yet this rapid growth of chronic diseases is not...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2011-10-20
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Designing Healthy Communities, the companion book to the acclaimed public television documentary, highlights how we design the built environment and its potential for addressing and preventing many of the nation's devastating childhood and adult health concerns. Dr....
Editeur :
Jossey-Bass
Parution :
2011-09-20
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The Causes and Behavioral Consequences of Disasters brings a public health perspective to the literature, reflecting the increasing importance of the field in both disaster preparedness and disaster response. Arguing that a disaster is not only the event but its...
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Springer
Parution :
2011-09-18
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24 hours to save the NHS. It was a political slogan but it hid a deeper question. Could the NHS survive? Could it continue to offer free health care for every citizen regardless of their ability to pay? Could the extraordinary, liberating ambition and dream of its...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2011-09-15
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24 hours to save the NHS. It was a political slogan but it hid a deeper question. Could the NHS survive? Could it continue to offer free health care for every citizen regardless of their ability to pay? Could the extraordinary, liberating ambition and dream of its...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2011-09-14
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Latinos are the fastest growing and largest minority group in the United States. In 2008, this group numbered over 47 million; by 2050, the population is expected to triple, reaching 133 million. Traditionally,Latinos have immigrated to large urban centers (e.g., New...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2011-09-08
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This text provides students a foundation in public health practice and management, focusing on developing the knowledge and skills required by the real world of public health. The authors of Transforming Public Health Practice explain the drivers of change in public...
Editeur :
Jossey-Bass
Parution :
2011-08-24
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Medical information is now widely available on the Internet and through telephone helplines such as NHS Direct and the focus on patient self care is likely to increase. Clinicians in all specialties will often encounter patients who have made self-directed searches for...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2011-08-05
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The Nursing Profession: Development, Challenges, and Opportunities is designed to be a resource for those who are interested in or touched by nursing. This book is designed in part to complement the report by the Institute of Medicine on the future of nursing....
Editeur :
Jossey-Bass
Parution :
2011-08-02
Collection :
Public Health/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Anthology
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There is more to a person than a particular symptom or disease: patients are individuals but they are not isolated, they are part of a family, a community, an environment, and all these factors can affect in many different ways how they manage health and illness. This...
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Learning Matters
Parution :
2011-07-04
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Written to support practitioners undertaking a Masters in public health, this book considers the main concepts, issues and methodologies of the second core competence of the Public Health Skills and Career Framework: 'Assessment of evidence of the effectiveness of...
Editeur :
Learning Matters
Parution :
2011-07-01
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Designing and Conducting Research in Health and Human Performance shows students how to become effective producers and consumers of health and human performance research. The book provides comprehensive coverage of both quantitative and qualitative research methods and...
Editeur :
Jossey-Bass
Parution :
2011-06-30
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Renegotiating Health Care Since the first edition ofRenegotiating Health Care was published in 1995, new treatments, technologies, business models, reimbursement methods, and regulations have tangibly transformed the substance of health care negotiation. This...
Editeur :
Jossey-Bass
Parution :
2011-06-15
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In the past century there has been awareness of the importance of a global public health perspective in understanding the etiology, course and treatment of mental disorders. However, just recently there has been a focus on population science and with it an...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2011-06-14
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