Catálogo de libros: Salud pública y medicina preventiva

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  • Perspectives on Stress and Wellness Management in Times of Crisis
    Rohit Bansal
    The COVID-19 pandemic has had a major effect on our lives. During the crisis, people across the world experienced increased levels of distress and anxiety, particularly as a result of social isolation. Many of us are facing challenges that can be stressful, overwhelming, and cause strong emotions in both adults and children. It is essential to learn to cope with stress in a hea...
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    321,42 €

  • Standing Up for Science
    Salim S. Abdool Karim
    Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, Salim S. Abdool Karim was catapulted into a prominent position in the media and on television as the face of South African science in the country’s response to the pandemic. Up to that point, his groundbreaking research on AIDS had garnered many awards, leading to his recognition as one of the world’s leading epidemiologists, making him ideally p...
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    48,32 €

  • Personalized Medicine Care Planner
    Kara Ware
    From the outside, this planner looks like any other planner - but inside, it’s specially designed to be your record-keeping journal, helping you track essential information on your functional medicine journey.The care planner is your best tool for beating overwhelm and burnout, creating a sustainable budget, and communicating effectively with your medical providers. Inside you ...
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    37,38 €

  • Supporting Effective Quality Care in Public and Community Health
    Anita Finkelman
    Designed to support current standards and goals for health care, Supporting Effective Quality Care in Public and Community Health provides readers with an examination of continuous quality improvement and its integration into public and community health organizations, services, and programs. The text underscores the idea that continuous quality improvement activities must consi...
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    35,39 €

  • System Dynamics Models for Public Health and Health Care Policy
    System dynamics is a simulation modeling approach to strategic and policy analysis that has been applied to many health care and public health issues since the 1960s and has become increasingly prevalent since the 2000s. The ten articles in this reprint appeared in a Special Issue of Systems and cover a broad cross-section of relevant methodological topics as well as applicatio...
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    73,20 €

  • FLATTENING THE CURVE
    A S CHAKRABARTIENTE & A B C CHATTERJEE
    One of the key issues the world grappled with during COVID-19 was the distributional implications of lockdowns globally. The shadow of lockdown policies continues when nations still try to emerge out of the pandemic. Heterogeneity herein over time, country and even within nations in policy making resulted in unintended consequences and debates between citizens, scientists, poli...
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    215,66 €

  • Prevalence of Orphans
    Elizabeth A. M. Makau
    We have entered an ephod fundamentally at variance with anything we have experienced before, in the third world. The plight of orphans from poor and deprived backgrounds in the face of HIV/AIDS related deaths have impacted health of many children. In the face of postmodernism where traditional family network support is diminishing, an effective alternative option is required. A...
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    18,82 €

  • Post-Covid Public Health
    Austin Mardon / Daniel Gurin / Tristan Ramsubag
    After three years of lockdowns, masks, and uncertainty, it’s time to ask the question: are we done now? Is it even possible for us to return to what we once considered normal? These are important questions, which this book hopes to answer, covering topics from the crumbling of the healthcare system to why everyone had a colloquial ennui. Welcome to the aftermath. ...
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    29,87 €

  • Community Mental Health and Well-Being in the New Normal
    The COVID-19 pandemic had a tremendous effect on the mental health of people globally. It is critical to examine how people adapted to this new normal to understand the effects on society and its citizens. Community Mental Health and Well-Being in the New Normal discusses the mental health concerns of individuals during the pandemic, the new normal, and the transition stage. Th...
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    314,56 €

  • Community Mental Health and Well-Being in the New Normal
    The COVID-19 pandemic had a tremendous effect on the mental health of people globally. It is critical to examine how people adapted to this new normal to understand the effects on society and its citizens. Community Mental Health and Well-Being in the New Normal discusses the mental health concerns of individuals during the pandemic, the new normal, and the transition stage. Th...
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    235,64 €

  • Lazaretto
    David Barnes
    How the controversial practice of quarantine saved nineteenth-century Philadelphia after a series of deadly epidemics.In the 1790s, four devastating yellow fever epidemics threatened the survival of Philadelphia, the nation’s capital and largest city. In response, the city built a new quarantine station called the Lazaretto downriver from its port. From 1801 to 1895, a strict q...
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    40,73 €

  • Global Perspectives on Health Assessments for an Aging Population
    Today’s society recognizes that the last decades of an individual’s life are usually those in which health tends to deteriorate and chronic pathologies increase. Action at this level is verified through the increased concern of government officials with the elderly population motivated by the socio-economic impact of costs associated with the provision of healthcare in this gro...
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    485,34 €

  • 'Depression
    Swatantra Bahadur
    A book on depression is likely to be a comprehensive guide that provides insight into the complexity of the mental disorder, its symptoms, causes, and effective ways to manage and overcome it. The book may draw from personal experiences of individuals who have suffered from depression and share their stories of struggle and triumph.It may also cover various types of depression,...
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    18,74 €

  • Blood Pressure Log Book
    Russ West
    This Large Print Blood Pressure Log Book is a convenient way to track your blood pressure on a daily basis. It features large, easy-to-read numbers that make it easier to read after checking your blood pressure. The pages also include boxes for recording your heart rate and pulse at the same time. This book includes a good quality cover to protect it from spills and other damag...
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    15,05 €

  • A World Undivided
    Joseph Saba / Mariana M. Rodrigues
    Are we ready for the next global health threat? COVID-19 opened the world’s eyes to the inadequacies of our global healthcare system, and it’s on us to change what happens next. Through personal accounts gathered during his nearly forty years of experience in global health, infectious disease physician Joseph Saba provides an eye-opening analysis of healthcare’s resistance to g...
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    13,17 €

  • Stretch Your Legacy
    Dr. John Theeck D.C.
    Pickleball is a rapidly growing recreational activity with a high risk of injury. Dr. John Theeck aims to protect you from pickleball injuries by adopting the appropriate measures. Dr. Theeck has extensive experience managing pickleball injuries in The Villages, the Mecca of pickleball. This book was created to help provide the best treatment options for common pickleball injur...
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    10,94 €

  • Coronavirus Disease 2019
    Francis Sarr
    In responding to the Covid-19 pandemic, states, institutions and organisations worldwide have been working on different ways of dealing with the pandemic. Even so, at the beginning of the pandemic, while some countries acted early and fast, others acted too little too late. There was little or no coordination and collaboration between countries, even between states in one count...
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    50,94 €

  • Public Health and Economic Resilience
    Dr Bharath
    Book explores the relationship between public health and economic resilience in the context of India. From the COVID-19 pandemic to the challenges of health equity, this book provides a deep dive into the strategies, policies, and technologies that can build a more resilient future for businesses, governments, and communities. With insights from experts in public health, econom...
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    9,76 €

  • TREATMENT OF DRY EYE
    LI PAN QINGYAN ZENG / Qingyan Zeng / David Wen Wei Woo
    Dry eye is one of the most common ocular diseases. With the wide use of consumer electronics, environmental pollution and aging population, it has been prevalent and has seen a rising trend globally. Symptoms of dry eye affect daily activities and quality of life. This book details and illustrates popular medical science knowledge about dry eye. The cartoonist also shares her o...
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    58,39 €

  • Obesity in Women
    Georgina Seera
    The Double Burden of Malnutrition (DBM) has become a major global problem particularly in the so-called low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) because of the rapidly increasing prevalence of obesity and overweight, particularly in women - as indicated by the Body Mass Index (BMI), alongside the slow decreases in the long-standing problems of hunger and childhood undernutritio...
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    51,63 €

  • Publics and their health
    Why are some groups and individuals seen as problems for public health? How does this change over time and place? Through a series of case-studies, this collection explores the making of ’problem publics’ and their relationship with public health authorities. ...
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    169,84 €

  • Black Health in the South
    Steven S Coughlin
    A collection of important essays on the health and well-being of African Americans in the southern United States.For African Americans in the southern United States, the social determinants of health are influenced by a unique history that encompasses hundreds of years of slavery, injustices during the Jim Crow era, the Great Migration, the civil rights era, and contemporary ex...
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    79,31 €

  • Global Perspectives on the Opportunities and Future Directions of Health Tourism
    Oğuz Doğan
    Millions of patients travel abroad every year, and the number of trips around the world to benefit from health services is increasing. The high level of global demand for health services has influenced the rapid development of the tourism industry. Many destinations providing high-quality healthcare services at low prices have emerged. Due to these developments in the industry,...
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    353,87 €

  • Global Perspectives on the Opportunities and Future Directions of Health Tourism
    Oğuz Doğan
    Millions of patients travel abroad every year, and the number of trips around the world to benefit from health services is increasing. The high level of global demand for health services has influenced the rapid development of the tourism industry. Many destinations providing high-quality healthcare services at low prices have emerged. Due to these developments in the industry,...
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    268,42 €

  • The Promise of Lithium
    Thomas Guttuso
    For most patients, a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s places a looming specter over the future without any proven treatment to stop the inevitable progression of symptoms.Based on a serendipitous discovery in a patient with Parkinson’s, The Promise of Lithium describes, in easy-to-understand language, the compelling body of evidence dating as far back as 1959 supporting ...
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    12,88 €

  • Well Connected
    Tessa Farmer
    How a community in Cairo, Egypt, has adapted the many systems required for clean water.Who is responsible for ensuring access to clean potable water? In an urbanizing planet beset by climate change, cities are facing increasingly arid conditions and a precarious water future. In Well Connected, anthropologist Tessa Farmer details how one community in Cairo, Egypt, has worked co...
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    64,56 €

  • Education for Community Health
    Francis Sarr
    This book presents a thorough and critical account of the theories and concepts of community health education in an increasingly networked era. It examines basic concepts in education for community health; in-depth understanding of concepts such as learning space design, ICT, pedagogy and curriculum design and types of learning. It discusses professional development and develop...
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    43,25 €

  • Role of Sustainability Impact Assessment in Public Health Policy Change
    Francis Sarr
    This book presents analyses of the concepts of public health, sustainability and policy change. It describes stakeholder analysis and national health accounts frameworks in Gambia. The case study is the Sustainability Impact Assessment framework and its role in policy change in immunization systems. Francis Sarr is Associate Professor of Community Health Education at the Univer...
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    37,08 €

  • Global Health Policy And Programme Challenges
    Mbuso Mabuza
    This book aims to identify the policy and programme challenges for improving the health of populations in low- and middle-income countries. In this book we define policy as ’a purposive course of action followed by an actor or set of actors in dealing with a problem or matter of concern’. In looking at public policy, we are concerned with the formal institutions of government, ...
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    31,83 €

  • Assessing the Need for a Comprehensive National Health System in the United States
    There is significant debate regarding the quality of the national health system of the United States relative to those of other countries. The U.S. healthcare system has been heavily criticized as a highly inefficient, disorganized, fragmented, and under-resourced primary care system that contributes to high healthcare costs, high rates of uninsured individuals, and a number of...
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    248,57 €


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