Catálogo de libros: Salud pública y medicina preventiva

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  • LONGEVITY
    Sofie Bakken
    With modern science, you can add a few extra years to your life!Sofie Bakken - who, in her earlier books, has already examined Nordic lifestyle trends that de-stress - now continues her research by putting together the current scientific knowledge on what you realistically can do to live longer.This book is not about strange theories or mystical or esoteric concepts but shows y...
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    4,00 €

  • Biodiversity and Health in the Face of Climate Change
    Aletta Bonn / Horst Korn / Melissa R Marselle
    This open access book identifies and discusses biodiversity’s contribution to physical, mental and spiritual health and wellbeing. Furthermore, the book identifies the implications of this relationship for nature conservation, public health, landscape architecture and urban planning - and considers the opportunities of nature-based solutions for climate change adaptation. This ...
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    87,39 €

  • Biodiversity and Health in the Face of Climate Change
    Aletta Bonn / Horst Korn / Melissa R Marselle
    This open access book identifies and discusses biodiversity’s contribution to physical, mental and spiritual health and wellbeing. Furthermore, the book identifies the implications of this relationship for nature conservation, public health, landscape architecture and urban planning - and considers the opportunities of nature-based solutions for climate change adaptation. This ...
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    102,90 €

  • Non-Communicable Disease Prevention
    Anthony J Culyer / Rachel A Archer / Yot Teerawattananon
    Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are the leading cause of death worldwide, contributing to over 73% of all deaths annually. Each day NCDs cause more than 100,000 deaths, 80% of which occur in low- and middle-income countries. NCDs, however, are largely preventable, and a great deal of technical knowledge exists about how to prevent and manage them. Why, then, have we, as a glob...
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    63,52 €

  • Non-Communicable Disease Prevention
    Anthony J Culyer / Rachel A Archer / Yot Teerawattananon
    Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are the leading cause of death worldwide, contributing to over 73% of all deaths annually. Each day NCDs cause more than 100,000 deaths, 80% of which occur in low- and middle-income countries. NCDs, however, are largely preventable, and a great deal of technical knowledge exists about how to prevent and manage them. Why, then, have we, as a glob...
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    48,01 €

  • Tobacco Control Policy in the Netherlands
    Marc C Willemsen
    Governments have known since the 1960s that smoking results in irreversible health damage. This open access book examines why governments have done so little to combat this when they have been aware of the problem and its solutions for decades. What are the strategies and decisions that make a difference, given that policy environments are often not conducive to change? Taking ...
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    63,62 €

  • Tobacco Control Policy in the Netherlands
    Marc C Willemsen
    Governments have known since the 1960s that smoking results in irreversible health damage. This open access book examines why governments have done so little to combat this when they have been aware of the problem and its solutions for decades. What are the strategies and decisions that make a difference, given that policy environments are often not conducive to change? Taking ...
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    77,98 €

  • Undocumented Migrants and Healthcare
    Marianne Jossen
    What do undocumented migrants experience when they try to access healthcare? How do they navigate the (often contradictory) challenges presented by bureaucratic systems, financial pressures, attitudes to migrants, and their own healthcare needs?This urgent study uses a grounded theory approach to explore the ways in which undocumented migrants are included in or excluded from h...
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    53,81 €

  • Undocumented Migrants and Healthcare
    Marianne Jossen
    What do undocumented migrants experience when they try to access healthcare? How do they navigate the (often contradictory) challenges presented by bureaucratic systems, financial pressures, attitudes to migrants, and their own healthcare needs?This urgent study uses a grounded theory approach to explore the ways in which undocumented migrants are included in or excluded from h...
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    38,29 €

  • Coronavirus and the Leadership of the Christian Church
    Daniel O’Roark / Ernest Springer / Joel Yeager
    'Coronavirus and the Leadership of the Christian Church: A Sacred Trust Broken.' What a striking if not provocative title to address a current subject that has not only gripped the heart, mind, body and soul of all members of the visible Church, but has challenged the very stability and testimony of those who profess the name of Christ. As Jesus is our Lord and Savior and the v...
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    20,80 €

  • Global Health Collaboration
    Caprice A Knapp / Margaret S Winchester / Rhonda BeLue
    This stimulating open access volume details the innovative work of the Pan Institution Network for Global Health in creating collaborative research-based answers to large-scale health issues. Equitable partnerships among member universities representing North America, Africa, Asia, and Europe reverse standard cross-national dynamics to develop locally relevant responses to heal...
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    53,13 €

  • Global Health Collaboration
    Caprice A Knapp / Margaret S Winchester / Rhonda BeLue
    This stimulating open access volume details the innovative work of the Pan Institution Network for Global Health in creating collaborative research-based answers to large-scale health issues. Equitable partnerships among member universities representing North America, Africa, Asia, and Europe reverse standard cross-national dynamics to develop locally relevant responses to heal...
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    67,50 €

  • MHealth Innovation in Asia
    Amina Tariq / Emma Baulch / Jerry Watkins
    This book offers a detailed account of a range of mHealth initiatives across South, Southeast and East Asia. It provides readers with deep insights into the challenges such initiatives face on the ground, and a view of the diverse cultural contexts shaping strategies for overcoming these challenges. The book brings together various discussions on the broader mHealth literature,...
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    54,19 €

  • MHealth Innovation in Asia
    Amina Tariq / Emma Baulch / Jerry Watkins
    This book offers a detailed account of a range of mHealth initiatives across South, Southeast and East Asia. It provides readers with deep insights into the challenges such initiatives face on the ground, and a view of the diverse cultural contexts shaping strategies for overcoming these challenges. The book brings together various discussions on the broader mHealth literature,...
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    68,56 €

  • Handbook of Life Course Health Development
    Christopher B Forrest / Neal Halfon / Richard M Lerner
    This handbook synthesizes and analyzes the growing knowledge base on life course health development (LCHD) from the prenatal period through emerging adulthood, with implications for clinical practice and public health. It presents LCHD as an innovative field with a sound theoretical framework for understanding wellness and disease from a lifespan perspective, replacing previous...
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    120,96 €

  • Clinical Text Mining
    Hercules Dalianis
    This open access book describes the results of natural language processing and machine learning methods applied to clinical text from electronic patient records.It is divided into twelve chapters. Chapters 1-4 discuss the history and background of the original paper-based patient records, their purpose, and how they are written and structured. These initial chapters do not requ...
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    58,62 €

  • Clinical Text Mining
    Hercules Dalianis
    This open access book describes the results of natural language processing and machine learning methods applied to clinical text from electronic patient records.It is divided into twelve chapters. Chapters 1-4 discuss the history and background of the original paper-based patient records, their purpose, and how they are written and structured. These initial chapters do not requ...
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    74,14 €

  • A Demographic Perspective on Gender, Family and Health in Europe
    Gabriele Doblhammer / Jordi Gumà
    This open access book examines the triangle between family, gender, and health in Europe from a demographic perspective. It helps to understand patterns and trends in each of the three components separately, as well as their interdependencies. It overcomes the widely observable specialization in demographic research, which usually involves researchers studying either family or ...
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    86,39 €

  • Handbook of Life Course Health Development
    Christopher B Forrest / Neal Halfon / Richard M Lerner
    This handbook synthesizes and analyzes the growing knowledge base on life course health development (LCHD) from the prenatal period through emerging adulthood, with implications for clinical practice and public health. It presents LCHD as an innovative field with a sound theoretical framework for understanding wellness and disease from a lifespan perspective, replacing previous...
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    105,45 €

  • A Demographic Perspective on Gender, Family and Health in Europe
    Gabriele Doblhammer / Jordi Gumà
    This open access book examines the triangle between family, gender, and health in Europe from a demographic perspective. It helps to understand patterns and trends in each of the three components separately, as well as their interdependencies. It overcomes the widely observable specialization in demographic research, which usually involves researchers studying either family or ...
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    72,03 €

  • Grandpa on a Skateboard
    Tim Farmer
    The Mental Capacity Act (2005) provides health and legal professionals with an academic framework to assess and evaluate an individual’s ability to make a decision, but in practice, mental capacity assessments are often misunderstood and poorly conducted.Grandpa on a Skateboard is a practical book for health and legal professionals that uses real-life case studies and provides ...
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    18,92 €

  • MEDICAL COMMUNICATION
    Tao Wang / Yi Mou / Zhongqing Xu / ZHONGQING XU & YI MOU TAO WANG
    People in general are concerned about the health of themselves and their families, but they lack reliable access to health knowledge. In order to ensure that people get accurate medical knowledge, dissemination of such knowledge by medical professionals is advocated. This is the basis of medical communication. This book covers the theoretical model of medical communication, exp...
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    132,64 €

  • The New Science of Fighting Silent Heart Disease
    Harold L. Karpman / Harold L. MD Karpman / Harold LMD Karpman
    Every minute of every day, millions of people are walking around with the equivalent of a hidden time bomb ticking away in their chests. In his latest book, celebrated cardiologist Harold Karpman, MD, reveals the true causes and best treatments for this little known but dangerous condition known as silent heart disease. ...
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    36,40 €

  • Covid-19 and World Order
    Hal Brands
    The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has killed hundreds of thousands of people and infected millions while also devastating the world economy. The consequences of the pandemic, however, go much further: they threaten the fabric of national and international politics around the world. As Henry Kissinger warned, 'The coronavirus epidemic will forever alter the world order.' What will b...
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    39,61 €

  • COVID-19
    WENHONG ZHANG
    This book introduces the epidemiological characteristics, etiology, molecular biology, virology and the latest research progress of COVID-19. It also presents the clinical manifestations, diagnosis and treatment of the new infectious disease. The content is based on literature review of a large number of relevant articles published in China and abroad, as well as the experience...
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    107,80 €

  • Urban transformations and public health in the emergent city
    This book is a collection of essays exploring different aspects of health and wellbeing in cities today. With contributions on Brazil, China, South Africa and the United Kingdom, the volume covers a range of fields including mental health, migration, mobility, sanitation, gendered violence and structural racism from a multidisciplinary perspective. ...
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    157,60 €

  • LGBTQ Health Research
    Ron Stall
    The first book focused entirely on the growing field of LGBTQ health research, this volume provides the necessary public health tools to teach about and study LGBTQ populations effectively.Over the last 30 years, the health needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer Americans have become increasingly recognized, in particular for the ways in which they are distinct...
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    66,71 €

  • I can cure your cancer with this poem
    belfort wunder / Patrick Muller
    An optimal and dynamic baseline for health across an individual’s life can be achieved by understanding medicine and health as stories and then assembling 'poems' that facilitate one’s health. This book is not a how-to book but a shared journey that will introduce the reader to the concept of health as storytelling. ...
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    13,55 €

  • To Vaccinate or not to Vaccinate
    AAmantonio / A. Amantonio
    In recent years, we hear more and more often that vaccines are safe and effective, that opponents of vaccination are dull and ignorant, that the amount of aluminum in one dose of a vaccine is less than a child gets from food, and that autism is in no way associated with vaccination. Let us see if these are truths, myths, or lies that cost you and your children’s health, and som...
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    42,32 €

  • Health Equity
    conditions of health disparities across a range of populations in the United States, positions thosedisparities within the broader sociopolitical framework that leads to their existence, and most importantly,presents specific ways in which health equity solutions can be designed and implemented. Presentingcurrent theoretical foundations, cultural context, and evidence-based mod...
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    124,88 €


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