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Allied Health
Practice Issues and Trends into the New Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Make the most of your contribution to health care delivery!
Allied Health: Practice Issues and Trends in the New Millennium is a comprehensive look at present and future concerns in the allied health care field. Leading experts in allied health practice and education address practice and policy...
by Liam J. Donaldson, Paul Rutter
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
Donaldsons’ Essential Public Health has been in continuous print for 35 years, evolving through successive editions. This unrivalled record of success for a textbook of public health shows the enduring appeal of its content, style, and accessibility to generations of students and practitioners....
Health Policy Reform in China
A Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2014
Most of the existing literature on health system reform in China deals with only one part of the reform process (for example, financing reform in rural areas, or the new system of purchasing pharmaceuticals), or consists of empirical case studies from particular cities or regions. This book gives...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
"Health care managers, practitioners, and students must both operate as effectively as they can within the daunting and continually evolving system at hand and identify opportunities for reform advances… Health Care Delivery in the United States has been an indispensable companion to those preparing...
by Victoria D. Weisfeld, MPH
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2011
This tenth edition of a classic textbook, updated in November 2013 with a free, downloadable chapter on the Affordable Care Act (ACA), presents the critical issues and core challenges surrounding our health care system. Designed for graduate and advanced undergraduate students, it includes the contributions...
Leading Public Health
A Competency Framework
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2014
"James Begun and Jan Malcolm combine the wisdom of an academic and a practitioner to provide a comprehensive, accessible guide to impactful public health leadership. It is timely because now more than ever the stakes and oppotunities are high. A must-read for any aspiring Public Health leader."
Risa...
Promoting Health
The Primary Health Care Approach
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2014
The must-have health promotion textbook now in a new updated edition.
Increasing disparities in health globally mean the imperative for primary health care is greater than ever.
Now in its fifth edition, Promoting Health: the primary health care approach remains an essential toolkit...
The Handbook of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Public Health
A Practitioner's Guide to Service
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Get the comprehensive resource for LGBT public health issues!
Public health services for sexual minorities have suffered from practitioners’ lack of knowledge about sexual or gender orientation, specific health concerns, and inherent system homophobia and heterosexism. The Handbook of Lesbian,...
by Tony Kelbrat
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
This book is a basic framework of medical websites, organizations, hospitals and healthcare facilities in the United States. It’s a wealth of information for anyone interested in learning more about their own medical well-being and for people in the medical profession.
Major Medical...
Workplace Health Promotion Programs
Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2015
Shine a spotlight on the benefits of promoting health in the workplace
Workplace Health Promotion Programs focuses on the incredible value that employee health programs can offer by exploring six key topics: behavioral health, physical health, healthy environments, health education, nutritional...
Bright Futures
Guidelines for Health Supervision of Infants, Children, and Adolescents
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
This essential resource provides key background information and recommendations for themes critical to healthy child development along with well-child supervision standards for 31 age-based visits—from Newborn through 21 Years.What’s in the Bright Futures Guidelines, Fourth Edition?Twelve health...
How to Unbreak Your Health
Your Map to the World of Complementary and Alternative Therapies
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2010
Find better health with your map to the world of complementary and alternative therapies in this comprehensive health and wellness guide for mind, body, and spirit.
Are you sinking into the Quicksand of Pain? Are you stranded in the Mountains of Misery or simply lost in a Forest of Symptoms? Find...
The New Public Health
An Introduction for the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2008
The New Public Health has established itself as a solid textbook throughout the world. Translated into 7 languages, The New Public Health distinguishes itself from other public health textbooks, which are either highly locally oriented or, if international, lack the specificity of local issues relevant...
Public Health Practice in Australia
The organised effort
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Public Health Practice in Australia offers a thorough introduction to what public health practitioners do, and the 'effort' involved in improving the health of the public.
This second edition has been fully revised and updated in line with current policies and practice. It highlights common...