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For almost four decades, controversy has surrounded the tactical use of herbicides in Southeast Asia by the United States military. Few environmental or occupational health issues have received the sustained international attention that has been focused on Agent Orange,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2009-04-21
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This brand new title in the popular ABC series offers an up-to-date introduction on improving patient safety in primary and secondary care. The ABC of Patient Safety covers an area of increasing importance in healthcare and provides a clear description of the underlying...
Editeur :
BMJ Books
Parution :
2009-04-08
Collection :
ABC Series
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Pediatric Solid Organ Transplantation is a comprehensive and succinct text on all aspects of pediatric solid organ transplantation. It provides a ready source of reference, to both the basic science and organ specific surgical technique and after care. This second...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-04-08
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This ground-breaking textbook examines Asian American health from a public health perspective. It provides an overview of the social, political, economic, and cultural forces that influence the distribution of disease and illness in Asian American communities. The book...
Editeur :
Jossey-Bass
Parution :
2009-04-03
Collection :
Public Health/Vulnerable Populations
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Risk Management Handbook for Health Care Organizations, Student Edition This comprehensive textbook provides a complete introduction to risk management in health care.Risk Management Handbook, Student Edition, covers general risk management techniques; standards of...
Editeur :
Jossey-Bass
Parution :
2009-03-27
Collection :
Jossey-Bass Public Health
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For over half a century, food policy has mapped a path for progress based upon a belief that the right mix of investment, scientific input, and human skills could unleash a surge in productive capacity which would resolve humanity's food-related health and welfare...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2009-03-19
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Health promotion is an increasingly important part of the work of most health professionals. Yet health promotion is qualitatively different from traditional health care activities. This book will be a focused introduction to, and exploration of, ethical issues in...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-02-12
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The health care of a growing older adult population is a crucial issue, and one of increasing concern and cost. This text explores the health system's effect on health care and professional practice on societal, institutional, and health team levels. It also clarifies...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2009-01-21
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The second edition of Putting Patients First showcases what Planetree facilities and the Planetree organization have learned about the commitments, conditions, practices, and policies that are needed to do more than give lip service to being--patient-centered.--It...
Editeur :
Jossey-Bass
Parution :
2009-01-16
Collection :
Jossey-Bass Public Health
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Culture and Health offers an overview of different areas of culture and health, building on foundations of medical anthropology and health behavior theory. It shows how to address the challenges of cross-cultural medicine through interdisciplinary cultural-ecological...
Editeur :
Jossey-Bass
Parution :
2008-12-05
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"This is a very good text for undergraduate students as it gives a broad overview of the concept of public health, utilising case studies to illustrate practical application. This book would be also be an excellent way for practitioners to increase their own knowledge...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2008-11-19
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The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has recognized genomics as a priority area in public health education. To help public health students and professionals achieve proficiency in the language of genetics and attain genomics competencies delineated by the CDC, this...
Editeur :
Jossey-Bass
Parution :
2008-11-03
Collection :
Jossey-Bass Public Health
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More and more, health promotion is a crucial component of public health, to the extent that public health interventions are called on to prove their effectiveness and appraised for scientific validity, a practice many in the field consider self-defeating. Health...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2008-10-26
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Many serious public health problems confront the world in the new millennium. Anthropology and Public Health examines the critical role of anthropology in four crucial public health domains: (1) anthropological understandings of public health problems such as malaria,...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2008-10-17
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Virtually every school of public health teaches a global health course, yet the major textbooks provide little on the actual practice of international health. This new book comprises a series of vivid first person accounts in which physicians, epidemiologists, health...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2008-09-30
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Brands are designed to build relationships between consumers and the products, services, or organizations they represent by providing added value to their objects. Through brand promotion, consumers form associations with brands, which can become established and lead to...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2008-09-11
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Obesity is one of the most important contributing factors to disease throughout the world and is an area of great current interest among researchers and clinicians. The genetics of common obesity is complex, and an important thread through this labyrinth is the study of...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2008-08-29
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Resources for teaching and learning are posted at tinyurl.com/Glanz4e and www.med.upenn.edu/hbhe4. This fourth edition of the classic book, Health Behavior and Health Education: Theory, Research, and Practice provides a comprehensive, highly accessible, and in-depth...
Editeur :
Jossey-Bass
Parution :
2008-08-28
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Undertaking economic evaluations of occupational health and safety interventions can be difficult for a number of reasons. This is reflected by the significant lack of evidence on their cost-effectiveness. Particular challenges include: complex labour legislation,...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2008-08-21
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Evidence-based practice is an idea whose time has come. Few concepts can have achieved the status of unchallengeable common sense in such a short space of time, and across such a broad range of professional activity. As yet there have been few opportunities to take...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-30
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