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The purpose of this book is to place computer simulation studies within the paradigm of intervention research that is concerned with comparing the outcomes of health care delivered under different policies. This book presents computer simulation as a tool for testing...
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Springer
Parution :
2012-07-12
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Advancing Health Literacy addresses the crisis in health literacy in the United States and around the world. This book thoroughly examines the critical role of literacy in public health and outlines a practical, effective model that bridges the gap between health...
Editeur :
Jossey-Bass
Parution :
2012-07-02
Collection :
Jossey-Bass Public Health
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Mental disorders are among the most prevalent sources of disease burden in the world. Increasing recognition of this burden has led to an explosion of scientific research as well as widespread public attention. Understanding causes and consequences of mental health and...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2012-06-28
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Many students on Health and Social Care Foundation Degree and Access courses struggle with the academic expectations required of them at this level. This book is written to support such students in adapting to self-directed study, understand the assessment process and...
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Learning Matters
Parution :
2012-06-22
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American health care has made great strides in the past hundred years. Life expectancy has increased dramatically and advances in medicine and treatments have eradicated many life-threatening diseases. However, in today's health care arena there is divergence between...
Editeur :
Jossey-Bass
Parution :
2012-06-20
Collection :
Jossey-Bass Public Health
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This invaluable guide shows students and professionals how measurements and data can be used to balance quality services and financial viability and how measures can help to evaluate and improve organizational, clinical, and financial processes. The book explains the...
Editeur :
Jossey-Bass
Parution :
2012-06-19
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Why Nobody Believes the Numbers introduces a unique viewpoint to population health outcomes measurement: Results/ROIs should be presented as they are, not as we wish they would be. This viewpoint contrasts sharply with vendor/promoter/consultant claims along two very...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2012-06-08
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'Building on the core competences for public health, this book focuses on the key areas of leadership and collaborative working to improve health and wellbeing. Aimed at those undertaking Masters courses in public health and health promotion, (as well as those seeking...
Editeur :
Learning Matters
Parution :
2012-04-24
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Written by the President and CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) and a leading health care journalist, this groundbreaking book examines how leading organizations in the United States are pursuing the Triple Aim—improving the individual experience of...
Editeur :
Jossey-Bass
Parution :
2012-03-15
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Essentials of Toxicology for Health Protection is ideal as both a course book for students and a handbook for field professionals involved in responding to chemical incidents and local environmental concerns.
Produced by Health Protection England, it offers a...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2012-03-15
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This comprehensive reference source will benefit all transplant specialists working with pharmacologic and biologic agents that modulate the immune system. Compiled by a team of world-renowned editors and contributors covering the fields of transplantation, nephrology,...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2012-02-23
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A physician who is treating a patient confronts a complex and incompletely understood living system that is sensitive to pain. An engineer or programmer who develops a new device, on the other hand, operates within the less emotional domains of materials and...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2012-02-15
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A compelling argument of how human health is adversely affected by our poor treatment of non-human animals. The author contents that in order to successfully confront the 21st Century's health challenges, we need to broaden the definition of the word 'public' in public...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-02-14
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Worldwide, more than 50 million people die each year and it is estimated on the basis of the conditions leading to death that up to 60% of them could benefit from some form of palliative care. It is a public health challenge to ensure that these people can access good...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2012-01-19
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The Ukraine faced two very different kinds of health crises during the twentieth century. First, in the 1930s and 1940s, famine, war and political upheaval caused massive population losses. Previous evaluations of overall losses have given an idea of the scale of these...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2012-01-07
ePub
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This book is a comprehensive guide to the essential areas of health care human resources management, and is an immediately useful practical handbook for practitioners as well as a textbook for use health care management programs. Written by the authors of Handbook for...
Editeur :
Jossey-Bass
Parution :
2011-12-27
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Leaflets, information sheets and written materials designed to influence people's health-related behaviours often fail to achieve their aims. To improve such written materials we need to understand:
(i) how people read and process information,
(ii) how to design...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2011-12-16
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In most developed countries, the epidemiological disease profile has changed from infectious to degenerative, causing major alterations in epidemiological thinking and public health policies. Less developed nations have to deal with a more complex situation, because...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2011-12-09
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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
Collection :
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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