Public Health

DARE To Be You (DTBY) is a program that has both a conceptual foundation and is demonstrably effective in building assets linked to a decrease in problem behaviors. Its success is based on working not only with the individual child, but also with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781014068842Author University of ManchesterFormat PaperbackPage Count 474Imprint Legare Street PressPublisher Legare Street PressWeight(grams) 658g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013601286Author Sebastian 1821-1897 KneippFormat HardbackPage Count 430Imprint Legare Street PressPublisher Legare Street PressWeight(grams) 776g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781014465405Author Clayton O (Clayton Orville) B SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Legare Street PressPublisher Legare Street PressWeight(grams) 59g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781014255242Author John Harvey 1852-1943 KelloggFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Legare Street PressPublisher Legare Street PressWeight(grams) 367g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013960734Author Michigan State Board of HealthFormat HardbackPage Count 530Imprint Legare Street PressPublisher Legare Street PressWeight(grams) 912g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013678356Author Michigan State Board of HealthFormat HardbackPage Count 274Imprint Legare Street PressPublisher Legare Street PressWeight(grams) 558g

Offering a trenchant analysis of the effect that culture has in determining our perceptions - and expectations - of health care, this provocative volume challenges traditional, Westernized, medical models. The author surveys various aspects of the health...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013760860Author Michigan State Board of HealthFormat HardbackPage Count 226Imprint Legare Street PressPublisher Legare Street PressWeight(grams) 494g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013915062Author Mrs (Isabella Mary) 1836-1865 BeetonFormat HardbackPage Count 456Imprint Legare Street PressPublisher Legare Street PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013841347Author Michigan State Board of HealthFormat HardbackPage Count 422Imprint Legare Street PressPublisher Legare Street PressWeight(grams) 767g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013294273Author Anthony J CulyerFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013471711Author John Harvey 1852-1943 KelloggFormat HardbackPage Count 260Imprint Legare Street PressPublisher Legare Street PressWeight(grams) 540g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013714269Author Michigan State Board of HealthFormat HardbackPage Count 574Imprint Legare Street PressPublisher Legare Street PressWeight(grams) 975g

The field of medical anthropology is a discipline that incorporates the perspective of a wide range of approaches-from anthropologists, sociologists, epidemiologists, physicians, nurses, public health administrators, biologists, and many others,...

Exploring the multiple communities of healing among the Tuareg people of Niger, this work examines the beliefs and practices that surround healing and the quest for medicine. In studying ideals of healing that face challenges from wider political and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781014381705Author Florence 1820-1910 NightingaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 20Imprint Legare Street PressPublisher Legare Street PressWeight(grams) 45g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013695957Author John C (John Christie) 1849 McVailFormat PaperbackPage Count 326Imprint Legare Street PressPublisher Legare Street PressWeight(grams) 458g

Youth have nearly always exhibited behaviors that frustrate adults. It can be diffi cult to understand why young people engage in risky or destructive behavior, and it is challenging to develop strategies to encourage more healthy and responsible...

Documenting the daily efforts of African Americans to protect their community against highly oppressive conditions, this ground-breaking volume chronicles the unique experiences of black women that place them at higher risk for morbidity and mortality -...

In preparation for role-play during a RIPP class, 6th grade students consider the following conflict situation: Sharon and Josie, who are good friends, tryout for the basketball team. Josie makes the team, but Sharon does not. The week after tryouts,...

This book focuses on todays attempts to reshape the federal healthcare system. The major strength of the text lies in its use of examples that show how process redesign and the integration of enabling technologies lead to performance improvement and cost...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781014107688Author James J (James Joseph) 1865- WalshFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Legare Street PressPublisher Legare Street PressWeight(grams) 354g

This text deals with the design and accuracy of epidemiologic studies. It will give students a clear understanding of the research strategies used in experimental and non-experimental studies to ask the right questions, select the study population and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013884917Author Newton Henry ChittendenFormat HardbackPage Count 340Imprint Legare Street PressPublisher Legare Street PressWeight(grams) 653g

What is the relationship between social science research and public health policy, particularly in the developing world? This question is at the heart of this collection of essays drawn from Rockefeller Foundation-sponsored conferences at Harvard...

There is very little argument that the world is facing severe environmental challenges. Ongoing air and water pollution, increasing energy consumption, and the depletion of natural resources have all placed considerable stress on the capacity of our...

A holistic view of the factors that impact the health of a patient beyond the illness itself, this book examines what it is like to be a patient. It espouses the view that terminal illness may not be a tragedy but, an opportunity for emotional growth...

One of the most exciting medical developments during the past thirty years has been the rebirth of family medicine as a dynamic specialty. In the face of ever-widening definitions of health, the family physician has been challenged to integrate the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013363580Author Lina 1874-1944 CavalieriFormat HardbackPage Count 344Imprint Legare Street PressPublisher Legare Street PressWeight(grams) 658g

In this textbook, the author defines what is meant by diversity and reviews what we know today about the effects of alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, cocaine and crack, hallucinogens and heroin. This is then put into a broader context by examining the...

Paralleling emerging trends in cyber-health technology, concerns are mounting about racial and ethnic disparities in health care utilization and outcomes. This book brings these themes together, challenging readers to use, promote, and develop new...

This book explores the complex roles of mobile, transient, and displaced populations in the worldwide spread of disease. While biomedical events cause disease, social forces such as poverty and marginalization magnify them by giving them opportunities to...

Emphasizing developmentally and contextually appropriate prevention service delivery models, the authors of this volume identify state-of-the-art, empirically based strategies to strengthen the environments in which children develop. Since programmes...

The growing problem of diabetes presents difficult challenges for sufferers and for those in the healthcare professions, who are in the unenviable position of trying to convince patients to change their lifestyle "for their own good." Handbook...

African-Americans suffer disproportionately to their percentage of the population from ill health and poor or non-existent medical care. Because health and illness are related to social status, only a change in economic and social policies will remedy...

In the Handbook of Injury and Violence Prevention, over fifty experts present the current landscape of intervention methods - from risk reduction to rethinking social norms - as they address some of the most prevalent forms of accidental and violent...

In 1898 Heroin, the Bayer trademark name for diacetylmorphine, was commercially introduced to every corner of the Earth. Contrary to common assertion, Heroin was not recommended for treatment of morphine or opium habits. Rather, Heroin filled a desperate...

In the United States alone, industrial and agricultural toxins account for about 60,000 avoidable cancer deaths annually. Pollution-related health costs to Americans are similarly staggering: $13 billion a year from asthma, $351 billion from...

The long separation of health and International Relations, as distinct academic fields and policy arenas, has now dramatically changed. Health, concerned with the body, mind and spirit, has traditionally focused on disease and infirmity, whilst...