Health Risk Assessment

Discover essential skills to liberate yourself from persistent anxiety about your health.Are you constantly worrying about your health, or the health of a loved one? Do you frequently check yourself for lumps, bumps, tingling, or pain? Do you find...

We find risks everywhere--from genetically modified crops, medical malpractice, and stem-cell therapy to intimacy, online predators, identity theft, inflation, and robbery. They arise from our own acts and they are imposed on us. In this Very Short...

This book is unique in its specific subject matter aimed at veterinary professionals - previously, information for pregnant veterinarians was scattered across the internet. It reviews, summarizes and analyzes data that is otherwise only available in...

"If you want to understand how the latest advances in genomics and AI can completely transform your health, and to translate this promise into practical tools that you can apply today, read this book!"-Mark Hyman, author of Young ForeverTaking us to the...

Join "Mr. Aluminum," a scientist who has made the study of aluminum his life's work, on a journey of discovery, reflection, and the science of aluminum. Professor Christopher Exley is a firm believer that science is only useful when it is properly...

"Doubt is our product," a cigarette executive once observed, "since it is the best means of competing with the 'body of fact' that exists in the minds of the general public. It is also the means of establishing a controversy." In...

Artificial Intelligence for Improved Patient Outcomes provides new, relevant, and practical information on what AI can do in healthcare and how to assess whether AI is improving health outcomes. With clear insights and a balanced approach, this...

"A lucid, persuasive case for overhauling diagnosis regimes to catch cancer early rather than late."—Kirkus ReviewsCatching cancer early remains the single best way to combat a disease that is the second-leading killer in both the US and worldwide. But...

The latest edition of this popular text has been updated to reflect research, changes and developments in counselling. Written by one of the country's most experienced counselling authors, this text combines theory and practice to give students a full...

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780429285912, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.This innovative book addresses the question of...

The central idea for this book is that we lack consensus on principles for allocating resources and in the absence of such a consensus we must rely on a fair decision-making process for setting limits on health care. The authors characterize key elements...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905494231Author Maev-Ann WrenFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint New Island BooksPublisher New Island Books

An essential collection that advances our understanding of how cities influence our health More than half the world's population lives in cities - a figure that will grow to two-thirds by 2030. As global populations rapidly consolidate around urban...

"An invaluable primer on how inequity breeds ill health" -New England Journal of Medicine AN ESSENTIAL WORK ON SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH, NOW UPDATED AND EXPANDED This newly revised edition of the classic text is a comprehensive, up-to-date...

An essential collection that advances our understanding of how cities influence our health More than half the world's population lives in cities -- a figure that will grow to two-thirds by 2030. As global populations rapidly consolidate around urban...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789289021814Author Paul EdwardsFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint WHO Regional Office for EuropePublisher WHO Regional Office for EuropeWeight(grams) 240g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781567934151Author Marc BardFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Health Administration PressPublisher Health Administration PressWeight(grams) 548g

Over the centuries, mankind has slowly reduced the risks and hazards that even as recently as a century ago kept life expectancy to a mere 45 years. Our average lifespan has improved to 77 years by remarkable progress in public health and safety. But...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781929109500Author Danna R BodenheimerFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint New Social Worker PressPublisher New Social Worker PressWeight(grams)...

Because medicine can preserve life, restore health and maintain the body's functions, it is widely acknowledged as a basic good that just societies should provide for their members. Yet, there is wide disagreement over the scope and content of what to...

An authoritative, topical, and comprehensive reference to the key concepts and most important traditional and contemporary issues in medical sociology. Contains 35 chapters by recognized experts in the field, both established and rising young...

Globalisation is breaking down economic, political, cultural, demographic, and social barriers across the world at an astonishing pace. The topic of globalisation can arouse passionate debate in many circles including academic journals, the popular...

Winner of the 2015 Margaret Mead Award from the American Anthropological Association and the Society for Applied Anthropology After Haiti's 2010 earthquake, over half of U.S. households donated to thousands of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in that...

The central idea behind this book is that we lack consensus on principles for allocating medical resources, and in the absence of such a consensus we must develop and rely on a fair decision-making process for setting limits on health care. The authors...

In this provocative book, Sylvia Tesh shows how ""politics masquerades as science"" in the debates over the causes and prevention of disease.Tesh argues that ideas about the causes of disease which dominate policy at any given time or...

Winner of the 2015 Margaret Mead Award from the American Anthropological Association and the Society for Applied Anthropology After Haiti's 2010 earthquake, over half of U.S. households donated to thousands of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in that...

Surgery and pharmaceuticals are not the only effective procedures we have to improve our health. The natural human tendency to care for fellow humans, to support them with social networks, has proven to be a powerful treatment as well. This book, will...

This book demonstrates how, in the rapidly evolving and often uncertain health-care industry, the role of social work will become increasingly significant. Social workers will have new opportunities to help improve the health of individuals, families and...

This detailed study analyzes the U.S. health care system with special emphasis placed on examining the Federal role in establishing health policy and how the diverse pieces of the system come together.Book InformationISBN 9780275912079Author David...

The United States spends greatly more per person on health care than any other country but the evidence shows that care is often poor and inappropriate. Despite expenditures of 1.7 trillion dollars in 2003, and growing substantially each year, services...

An excellent critical analysis and scientific assessment of the nature and actual level of risk leading environmental health hazards pose to the public. Issues such as radiation from nuclear testing, radon in the home, and the connection between...

For humanitarian reasons and the concern for households' economic and health security, the health sector is at the center of global development policy. Developing countries and the international community are scaling up health systems to meet the...

This book demonstrates how, in the rapidly evolving and often uncertain health-care industry, the role of social work will become increasingly significant. Social workers will have new opportunities to help improve the health of individuals, families and...

The gold standard for evidence-based public health, The Guide to Community Preventive Services is a primary resource to improve health and prevent disease in states, communities, independent, nonfederal Task Force on Community Preventive Services, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781413459425Author Louise LaneFormat HardbackPage Count 188Imprint XlibrisPublisher XlibrisWeight(grams) 376g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789782787927Author Angela Eiterhebhe EsoimemeFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint E-Four and AafPublisher E-Four and AafWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798889404293Author J D RobinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Staten HousePublisher Staten HouseWeight(grams) 531g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9791095925187Author Laurence EstienneFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Les Editions Plum'issimePublisher Les Editions Plum'issimeWeight(grams) 116g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781678135331Author Shane SpikerFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 186gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm * 4mm