Preventive Medicine

This book adopts a human ecology approach to present an overview of the biological responses to social, political, economic, cultural and environmental changes that affected human populations in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, since the Classic Maya...

Incentives for innovation are particularly relevant in the pharmaceutical industry where not all social needs provide equally profitable opportunities and where most OECD countries try to implement different measures that promote research in these less...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732698802Author Phyllis KankiFormat HardbackPage Count 554Imprint New Academia Publishing, LLCPublisher New Academia Publishing, LLCWeight(grams) 1719g

This timely reference analyzes the rationale, impact, and feasibility of taxation of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) as a public health measure to contribute curbing obesity and diabetes rates, specifically in Canada. It presents the pros and cons of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781449729448Author Judy Ponsford BSN RN WHNPFormat HardbackPage Count 174Imprint Westbow PressPublisher Westbow PressWeight(grams) 414g

This monograph is essentially the outcome of corporate endeavour on the part of members of the Committee on Public Education of the International Union against Cancer, from the decision taken in September 1963, via a lengthy and arduous rework ing of the...

This book adopts a human ecology approach to present an overview of the biological responses to social, political, economic, cultural and environmental changes that affected human populations in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, since the Classic Maya...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789535135197Author Michael S FirstenbergFormat HardbackPage Count 188Imprint IntechopenPublisher IntechopenWeight(grams) 503g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789535111450Author Silpi BasakFormat HardbackPage Count 102Imprint In TechPublisher In Tech

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789535137306Author Michael S FirstenbergFormat HardbackPage Count 202Imprint IntechopenPublisher IntechopenWeight(grams) 522g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789535123996Author Oreste CapelliFormat HardbackPage Count 174Imprint IntechopenPublisher IntechopenWeight(grams) 481g

This timely book serves as an overview of the challenges in global health leadership from multiple perspectives, bringing together an interdisciplinary group of academics, researchers, and leaders from around the world who are conducting innovative and...

This wide-ranging volume reviews the experience and treatment of HIV/AIDS in rural America at the clinical, care system, community, and individual levels. Rural HIV-related phenomena are explored within healthcare contexts (physician shortages, treatment...

This inclusive work presents a comprehensive update on vaccines for the international traveller. In over 21 chapters, written by leading writers in travel medicine from Australia, New Zealand and Singapore, vaccinology for travel is explained in...

From the stresses of repeated deployments to the difficulties of re-entry into civilian life, we are just beginning to understand how protracted conflicts, such as those in Iraq and Afghanistan, are affecting service members. Issues such as risky health...

The traditional concept of social justice is increasingly being challenged by the notion of a humankind that spans current and future generations. This book, with a foreword by Roger Brownsword, is the first systematic examination of how the rights of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648344353Author Hira SinghFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Hill of Content PublishingPublisher Hill of Content PublishingWeight(grams) 186g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780461433258Author Shoolbred ShoolbredFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint HardPress LtdPublisher HardPress Ltd

It could be said with some justification that the task of education is to safe guard people's right to learn about important aspects of human culture and experience. Since health and illness occupy a prominent place in our everyday experience, it might...

More and more, health promotion is a crucial component of public health, to the extent that public health interventions are called on to prove their effectiveness and appraised for scientific validity, a practice many in the field consider self-defeating...

The facts are hard to ignore: rising rates of chronic disease, epidemic obesity and diabetes, a widening longevity gap between rich and poor, health care "reforms" at odds with patient interests. In response, Policy Innovations for Health argues that a...

From the stresses of repeated deployments to the difficulties of re-entry into civilian life, we are just beginning to understand how protracted conflicts, such as those in Iraq and Afghanistan, are affecting service members. Issues such as risky health...

Based on European health initiatives on reducing workplace risks and promoting workplace health, this book focuses on issues that predominantly or exclusively affect women, or have gender-specific implications due to workplace inequalities. Among the...

Despite the public alarm following several high-profile school shootings that occurred in the United States over the past decade, little is known about the actual incidence and characteristics of school-associated violence. School Violence and Primary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780412163005Author Édwárd Jóséph Lístér LówbúrýFormat PaperbackPage Count 325Imprint Chapman and HallPublisher Chapman and HallWeight(grams) 522g

Focusing on the most prevalent conditions affecting seniors - including diabetes, cardiovascular disease, osteoporosis, arthritis, and fibromyalgia - Morewitz and Goldstein analyze the impact of chronic disease on aging. Separate chapters are devoted to...

The client group referred to as the long-term mentally ill, the persistently severely mentally distressed, the chronically psychotic ill, or people with long-term mental health problems have generally received a poor deal from the traditional psychiatric...

"Work and Health" provides an overview to students on nursing and health programmes of the dynamics of the work/health relationship. The conceptual framework of future nurse training progresses from wellness and health to disease and disorder, means that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780306431210Author Paul R. AmatoFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint Kluwer Academic/Plenum PublishersPublisher Springer Science+Business...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780978300548Author Dr Constance SantegoFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Maximillian Enterprises Inc.Publisher Maximillian Enterprises Inc.Weight(grams)...

Our aim was quite clear when we agreed to write this book, and this was to cover in a single text, at the correct level, the syllabus for the Joint Board of Clinical Nursing Studies Course 900. The second edition has undertaken to produce further...

Here is an important work that uniquely focuses on both gay/queer-self-identified men from diverse minority communities (African American, Latino, Native American, Asian and Pacific Islander) and men of these ethnic communities who have sex with men but...

Among U. S. racial and ethnic minority populations, African American communities are the most disproportionately impacted and affected by HIV/AIDS (CDC, 2009; CDC, 2008). The chapters in this volume seek to explore factors that contribute to this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780620922388Author Craige GoldingFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Golding InstitutePublisher Golding InstituteWeight(grams) 148g

As health improvement initiatives take center stage worldwide, public health professionals face an ongoing challenge to prove that the programs are worthwhile and that interventions make an impact. The Global Programme on Health Promotion Effectiveness...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780306449482Author Marc Alan SchuckitFormat PaperbackPage Count 428Imprint Kluwer Academic/Plenum PublishersPublisher Springer Science+Business...

How successful are HIV prevention programs? Which HIV prevention programs are most cost effective? Which programs are worth expanding and which should be abandoned altogether? This book addresses the quantitative evaluation of HIV prevention programs,...

Everyone knows the old adage, "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure," but we seem not to live by it. In the Western world's health care it is commonly observed that prevention is underfunded while treatment attracts greater overall...

Analyzing the dimensions of the struggle for effective health care in the developing countries, this study demonstrates how current governmental and donor agency policies in such countries as Uganda, Ghana, Nepal, Pakistan and Vietnam have failed to...

This thought-provoking volume defines child abuse and neglect as a public health crisis, both in terms of injuries and mental health problems and as a link to poverty and other negative social outcomes. The author identifies key factors contributing to...