Health Risk Assessment

Molecular Biological Markers for Toxicology and Risk Assessment provides an introduction to the exciting field of biomarkers and their use in toxicology and risk assessment. In recent years, new classes of molecular biomarkers capable of detecting early...

Richard Titmuss was one of the twentieth century's foremost social policy theorists. This accessible Reader is the first compendium of his work on public health, health promotion and health inequalities. Most of Titmuss's work has been out of print for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798822951020Author Sandra Lena SilvermanFormat HardbackPage Count 360Imprint Palmetto PublishingPublisher Palmetto PublishingWeight(grams) 485g

This volume presents the ethical implications of risk information as related to genetics and other health data for policy decisions at clinical, research and societal levels. Ethical, Social and Psychological Impacts of Genomic Risk Communication...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783039106738Author Brigit ObristFormat PaperbackPage Count 359Imprint Verlag Peter LangPublisher Verlag Peter LangWeight(grams) 460g

Duke University Press is pleased to announce the second edition of the bestselling Social Medicine Reader. The Reader provides a survey of the challenging issues facing today's health care providers, patients, and caregivers by bringing together moving...

Duke University Press is pleased to announce the second edition of the bestselling Social Medicine Reader. The Reader provides a survey of the challenging issues facing today's health care providers, patients, and caregivers by bringing together moving...

Duke University Press is pleased to announce the second edition of the bestselling Social Medicine Reader. The Reader provides a survey of the challenging issues facing today's health care providers, patients, and caregivers by bringing together moving...

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...

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

Blood transfusion is considered a life-saving therapy since ancient times, but, at the same time, a high-risk procedure. Nowadays the common perception is that infection is the greatest risk, even if the blood has never been safer from this point of view...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647849573Author S J KlumpenhowerFormat PaperbackPage Count 62Imprint EhgbooksPublisher EhgbooksWeight(grams) 104g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439209554Author Joseph T McFaddenFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Booksurge PublishingPublisher Booksurge PublishingWeight(grams) 254g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439249055Author Richard H RaheFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Booksurge PublishingPublisher Booksurge PublishingWeight(grams) 209gDimensions(mm)...

This paper presents unique evidence on health workers' career choices in Ethiopia. It shows that challenges like health workers' limited willingness to work in rural areas, as well as their likelihood to migrate abroad vary substantially and are...

The Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region is making progress in opening the doors of development to all. But it still has a long way to go. At the current pace, it would take, on average, a generation for the region to achieve universal access to the...

Here is a study of Salem, Massachusetts, as that community went about conducting a self-study to discover its needs and moved toward meeting some of them. The story of how a committee was appointed and what it finally accomplished makes a fascinating...

This book addresses health care coverage, quality and costs and future better-quality coverage to all Americans.Book InformationISBN 9781607415329Author Damien B. VerbruggenFormat HardbackPage Count 126Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova...

This book identifies over 5,500 HPSAs designated throughout the United States as of September 2005; multiple federal programs relied on these designations to allocate resources or provide benefits. We estimated that slightly more than half of the HPSAs...

What is the likelihood that common chemicals such as bisphenol-A, which is found in plastic water bottles, are harming us? Should shoppers be concerned about pesticide residues on fruits and vegetables in the supermarket produce aisle? Are we risking...

Population, Health & Nutrition - Selected Papers of Hector CorreaBook InformationISBN 9781560727859Author Solomon CohenFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 584g

This book provides an overview of the issues of rural healthcare programs and rural homelessness. Telemedicine offers a way to improve health care access for patients in rural areas through remote access, medical diagnosis and patient care; often from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780833035110Author Catherine A. JacksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint RANDPublisher RANDWeight(grams) 354g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789241565196Author World Health OrganizationFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint World Health OrganizationPublisher World Health Organization

In 2019 the world was struck with the Coronavirus (COVID-19) infecting major portions of the world's population. There were no vaccines or treatments available to help mitigate the disease or offer a cure. The worlds health systems were inundated with...

This book explores the factors which are critical in the selection of an appropriate animal species for toxicology studies and the subsequent extrapolation of the data to humans. It provides some future directions for risk assessment activities at the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789241548076Author World Health OrganizationFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint World Health OrganizationPublisher World Health OrganizationWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789289041966Author F. RacioppiPage Count 95Imprint WHO Regional Office for EuropePublisher WHO Regional Office for EuropeWeight(grams) 400g