Catálogo de libros: Salud pública y medicina preventiva

1113 Catálogo de libros: Salud pública y medicina preventiva

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  • HEALTH REFORMS ACROSS THE WORLD
    KIEKE OKMA
    This book presents the health reform experiences over the past three decades of twelve small and medium-sized nations that are not often included in international comparative studies in this field. The major conclusion of the study is that despite many similarities in policy goals, policy challenges and in the menu of policy options for countries that seek to offer universal co...
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    157,40 €

  • HEALTH REFORMS ACROSS THE WORLD
    KIEKE OKMA
    This book presents the health reform experiences over the past three decades of twelve small and medium-sized nations that are not often included in international comparative studies in this field. The major conclusion of the study is that despite many similarities in policy goals, policy challenges and in the menu of policy options for countries that seek to offer universal co...
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    72,69 €

  • Cesarean Section
    Jacqueline H Wolf
    Between 1965 and 1987, the cesarean section rate in the United States rose precipitously--from 4.5 percent to 25 percent of births. By 2009, one in three births was by cesarean, a far higher number than the 5-10% rate that the World Health Organization suggests is optimal. While physicians largely avoided cesareans through the mid-twentieth century, by the early twenty-first ce...
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    33,97 €

  • Dietary Trace Minerals
    Elad Tako
    Dietary trace minerals are pivotal and hold a key role in numerous metabolic processes. Trace mineral deficiencies (except for iodine, iron, and zinc) do not often develop spontaneously in adults on ordinary diets; infants are more vulnerable because their growth is rapid and their intake varies. Trace mineral imbalances can result from hereditary disorders (e.g., hemochromatos...
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    54,76 €

  • Healthcare Quality Management
    Healthcare Quality Management: A Case Study Approach is the first comprehensive case-based text combining essential qualitymanagement knowledge with real-world scenarios. With in-depth healthcare quality management case studies, tools, activities,and discussion questions, the text helps build the competencies needed to succeed in quality management.Written in an easy-to-read st...
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    132,24 €

  • Sustainable Work Ability and Aging
    Clas-Håkan Nygård
    In many industrialized countries, there is a sharp increase of the aging population due to a decrease in fertility rate and an increase in life expectancy. Due to which, the age dependency ratio rises and may cause increased economic burden among working age population. One strategy to combat this problem is to prolong peoples working career. A sufficient work ability is a requ...
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    62,19 €

  • The Chinese Year of the Flying Rat
    Dr. Peter A.J. Holst / DrPeter A.JHolst
    Since Aug 2018 there have been outbreaks of African swine fever in several provinces of China. Up to 200 million pigs have been culled or died due to the disease, while pork output felt by 30%. At the end of 2019, there was a first outbreak of corona virus in Wuhan, which has since been established to be the source of this virus. After the 2013 SARS epidemic, which spread from ...
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    17,85 €

  • Health Services Research and Analytics Using Excel
    Nalin Johri
    Health Services Research and Analytics Using Excel® is a practical resource for graduate and advancedundergraduate students in programs studying healthcare administration, public health, and socialwork as well as public health workers and healthcare managers entering or working in the field. Thisbook provides one integrated, application-oriented resource for common quantitative...
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    109,82 €

  • Implementing Pediatric Integrative Medicine in Practice
    Hilary McClafferty
    This Special Issue provides an overview of pediatric integrative medicine, an emerging field that blends conventional and evidence based complementary therapies with an emphasis on preventive health and wellbeing.  It is one of the first publications to capture the field’s background as well as the implementation of pediatric integrative programs and therapies in both the Unite...
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    54,75 €

  • Walkable Neighborhoods
    It is now widely recognized that individual-based motivational interventions alone are not sufficient to address the global pandemic of physical inactivity (lack of exercise and too much sitting time). There has been a growing interest in the effect the physically built environment can have on people’s active behaviors. The fundamental assumption is that surrounding physical en...
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    59,84 €

  • Certification in Public Health (CPH) Q&A Exam Review
    Oladele A Ogunseitan
    Certification in Public Health (CPH) Q&A Exam Review provides the ultimate resource for all studentsand practitioners seeking the professional credential and committed to lifelong learning and careergrowth in public health. Chapters are organized by all ten core competency domain areas, beginningwith Evidence-Based Approaches to Public Health and including chapters on Communica...
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    110,23 €

  • Waste Management Techniques for Improved Environmental and Public Health
    A central concern that has remained relevant in recent years has been the management of waste and pollution. Improper disposal methods such as open-air burning and unsafe recycling have led to significant public and environmental health issues including respiratory disorders, resource depletion, and infant mortality. Adopting new waste management techniques is a necessity in or...
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    275,16 €

  • Dietary Behavior and Physical Activity in Children and Adolescents
    In recent years, diet- and lifestyle-related disorders have become a major health threat in Europe and worldwide. The contributions in this monograph include 2 review articles and 19 original contributions from several countries that provide new information on the existing research elucidating important aspects of children’s and adolescents’ nutrition and lifestyle behavior. Th...
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    83,89 €

  • Dietary Intake and Type 2 Diabetes
    Omorogieva Ojo
    The prevalence of diabetes is on the increase in the UK and worldwide, partly due to changes in lifestyle which predispose individuals to overweight and obesity. It is estimated that about 90% of the currently diagnosed adults have type 2 diabetes, and based on the World Health Organisation (WHO) report, about 422 million adults were living with diabetes in 2014 compared with 1...
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    75,92 €

  • The Role of Pregnancy Nutrition in Maternal and Offspring Health
    Ekaterina Maslova
    In pregnancy, maternal nutrition sustains and nourishes the developing child. Imbalances in either the direction of nutritional excess or deficiency can have adverse consequences for child health. In addition, more research now suggests that good pregnancy nutrition influences child health beyond pregnancy and delivery. This includes modifying the risk of child health outcomes ...
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    75,91 €

  • Long-Term Health Effects of the 9/11 Disaster
    The terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center towers on September 11, 2001, also referred as 9/11, was an iconic event in US history that altered the global and political response to terrorism. The attacks, which involved two planes hitting the twin towers in Lower Manhattan, New York City, resulted in the collapse of the buildings and over 2800 deaths of occupants of the bui...
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    67,98 €

  • Waste Management Techniques for Improved Environmental and Public Health
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    209,31 €

  • Impact of Textile Dyes on Public Health and the Environment
    As society has become increasingly concerned with the protection and preservation of the environment, many industries have been pushed to comply with new policies and social demands for more environmentally-friendly and sustainable practices and products. However, the textile dyeing industry remains a significant source of complex environmental issues with legislative requireme...
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    353,95 €

  • Sedation, Suicide, and the Limits of Ethics
    James A. Dunson / James A. III Dunson / James AIII Dunson
    In this book, James Dunson explores end-of-life ethics including physician-assisted suicide and continuous sedation. He argues that debates ignore the experience of the dying patient in an effort to focus on policy creation, and proposes that the dying experience should instead be prioritized and used to inform policy development. ...
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    50,64 €

  • From Crisis to Calm
    Nicole Christensen
    Are you overwhelmed and underprepared?Feeling confused or even guilty?Concerned that you could miss something?Don’t have all the answers?Caregiving is a journey that can be both beautiful and frustrating (sometimes at the same time). The truth is it is devastating seeing someone you love sick, hurt or facing declining health.  Care Coordination and patient advocacy is the guida...
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    13,27 €

  • Using Narrative Writing to Enhance Healing
    Jennifer Lynne Bird
    The fields of writing as healing and health coaching have expanded to aid in the physical and emotional healing of patients. Using writing as a healing method allows patients to create new perspectives of their healing processes and professionals to propose new methods of healing that promote and maintain a positive outlook. Using Narrative Writing to Enhance Healing is an esse...
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    399,71 €

  • A Doctor’s Cure for Medical Myths
    M.D. Dominic Gaziano
    Being healthy is a choice. But people need facts, not fiction to make the right decisions. Unfortunately, medical myths abound and once an idea takes hold, it’s tough to dislodge. The result can be deadly: patients refusing to take life-saving medicines, parents withholding vaccines from their children, heart attack victims misreading the signs.What’s the “cure” for medical mis...
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    13,14 €

  • Impact of Textile Dyes on Public Health and the Environment
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    268,51 €

  • STAND UP TO DEPRESSION
    Kathi Fairbend / MS RPT Fairbend
    Stand Up to Depression adds an entirely new dimension to the treatment of depression. This is a revolutionary guide to using one’s musculature—harnessing the power of proper posture—to heal one’s mind.  Complete with patient vignettes and simple-to-follow exercises, this book gives readers all they need to reverse the hobbling effects of depression on the body, which can simult...
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    13,31 €

  • The Immunotherapy Revolution
    Jason R. Williams / Jason RWilliams
    The Future Of Treating Cancer Has Finally Arrived.Cancer treatments can be torture! Surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation are not only extreme but can be just as painful and dangerous as the cancer itself.When doctors treat cancer aggressively it leaves the body in a weakened, susceptible state open to contracting other diseases or relapses. Most of the medical field refuses to ...
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    25,13 €

  • Research Methods for Public Health
    Isabelle Bray / Nick de Viggiani / Stuart McClean
    Offers an in-depth introduction to the theories, concepts, approaches and practices, relevant to research methods in a public health setting. ...
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    201,53 €

  • Research Methods for Public Health
    Isabelle Bray / Nick de Viggiani / Stuart McClean
    Offers an in-depth introduction to the theories, concepts, approaches and practices, relevant to research methods in a public health setting. ...
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    71,35 €

  • The Vaping Controversy
    Laurie Hillstrom
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    55,42 €

  • Health Benefits of Mediterranean Diet
    Growing evidence shows that a dietary pattern inspired by Mediterranean dietprinciples is associated with numerous health benefits. A Mediterranean-typediet has been demonstrated to exert a preventive effect toward cardiovasculardiseases, in both Mediterranean and non-Mediterranean populations. Part ofthese properties may depend on a positive action toward healthier metabolism,...
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    67,92 €

  • The Rediscovery of Tobacco
    Jacob Grier
    The cigarette is the most lethal consumer product in history. The movement to extinguish smoking, however, has become alarmingly illiberal. Smoking bans have spread beyond restaurants and bars to parks, beaches, and sidewalks; rising cigarette taxes rob the wages of society’s least well-off; moral panic threatens smokers’ access to potentially life-saving e-cigarettes; and smok...
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    18,72 €


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