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by Kelly-Ann Richards
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
The Ideal Health Guide - Your Simple Guide to Achieving & Maintaining Good Health aims to help readers improve and maintain good health naturally. The guide covers a number of common health problems such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, headaches & migraines, skin care and...
Mental Health Issues for Sexual Minority Women
Redefining Women's Mental Health
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Get a full understanding of lesbian mental health concerns!
Mental Health Issues for Sexual Minority Women: Redefining Women's Mental Health presents much-needed research on sexual orientation and sexual minority populations missing from most mental health studies. This unique book identifies...
Singapore's Health Care System
What 50 Years Have Achieved
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2015
How did Singapore's health care system transform itself into one of the best in the world? It not only provides easy access, but its standards of health care, not only in curative medicine but also in prevention, are exemplary. Fifty years ago, the infant mortality rate (IMR) was 26 per thousand live...
Health and Humanity
A History of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 1935–1985
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Between 1935 and 1985, the nascent public health profession developed scientific evidence and practical know-how to prevent death on an unprecedented scale. Thanks to public health workers, life expectancy rose rapidly as generations grew up free from the scourges of smallpox, typhoid, and syphilis....
by Jennie Naidoo, Jane Wills
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
This title is now out of print. A new edition with e-book is available under ISBN 9780702044540. This package provides you with the book plus the eBook - giving you the printed book and also giving access to the complete book content electronically. Evolve eBooks allows you to quickly search...
Decentralizing Health Services
A Global Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Decentralizing Health Services
A Global Perspective
Krishna Regmi, editor
Current economic, demographic, and environmental shifts are presenting major challenges to health care systems around the world. In response, decentralization--the transfer...
Understanding Health Inequalities and Justice
New Conversations across the Disciplines
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
The need for informed analyses of health policy is now greater than ever. The twelve essays in this volume show that public debates routinely bypass complex ethical, sociocultural, historical, and political questions about how we should address ideals of justice and equality in health care. Integrating...
Routledge Handbook of Global Mental Health Nursing
Evidence, Practice and Empowerment
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
Awarded second place in the 2017 AJN Book of the Year Awards in Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing.
"I welcome, at long last, a book on global mental health targeted to nurses, the front-line health worker for billions of people around the world. The roles that nurses can, and should,...
by Maryse Gaimard
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2013
This book provides an overview of the health of developing nations in the early twenty-first century. The basic assumption is that the health of a population is not independent of broader demographic trends, and does follow the health transition model. The coverage is broad, ranging from health transition...
The Lancet: Universal Health Coverage
Global Health Series
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
Margaret Chan, Director General of the World Health Organization, has stated that "Universal Health Coverage is the single most powerful concept that public health has to offer." In this Series from The Lancet, the first of three papers explores the evidence on the links between expansions in coverage...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2012
A updated overview of Australia’s health care system, addressing its core features, concepts and issues
Understanding the Australian Health Care System, 2nd edition is an excellent university book for undergraduate and postgraduate students alike.
Published four years after the original,...
Health Care Politics, Policy and Services
A Social Justice Analysis, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012
This new edition of the AJN Award-winning textbook analyzes the most current health care reforms and their effect on our health system from a social justice perspective. It addresses the reforms of the landmark health care reform bill passed in March, 2010, and provides students of health care policy...
HEALTH RADAR’S ENCYCLOPEDIA OF NATURAL HEALING
Health Breakthroughs to Prevent and Treat Today's Most Common Conditions
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
NYT Bestselling author Nick Tate brings together the latest cutting edge health information from the experts at HEALTH RADAR to help individuals and families stay healthy, live longer, and live better - naturally.
Through a monthly newsletter and website, Health Radar is chock-full of valuable information...
Rural Public Health
Best Practices and Preventive Models
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
"[A] welcome addition to the rural health care practitioner's tool kit. It will energize those interested in vulnerable rural residents and their unique characteristics through a public health perspective... Highly recommended."--CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries
"This...