Health Care Issues category: 1336 books

This new edition of a very successful textbook provides an up-to-date, broad and authoritative introduction to studying health. With chapters including biology, epidemiology, anthropology, politics and psychology, it is the only book to explore all the major disciplines and highlight how they can...

First published in 1935, this book provides a valuable contribution to the history of Public Health and Preventive Medicine. Written as a recollection of the experiences and knowledge of Sir Arthur Newsholme, the book covers a period in which phenomenal progress was made.

What is yeast infection?  What are the symptoms?  What can be done to permanently get rid of yeast infection? All this and much more is addressed in the short yet comprehensive, informative free Aceso Health Care eBook!  The eBook contains accurate information about yeast infection, making you more...

People have health problems and issues from time to time. This book has a list of simple remedies for Anemic problems, Blood Purification, Block in blood vessels, Breast Pain , Cold, Digestion, Dry cough, Eye Problems, Gastric problems, Heart, Hemoglobin, Indigestion, Menstrual problem, Mouth odor,...

Can you Imagine this? Do you remember the last time, if you ever had a minor burn, you watched as a small part of your skin peeled off? Picture what it would be like if your whole skin peeled off. How would you feel about yourself? Stories about the skin are fascinating and compelling. The...

From the parking lot to the exam room, doctors can improve the physical surroundings for their patients, yet often they do not. Given the numerous and varied duties doctors must perform, it may fall to the design profession to implement changes, many based on research, to improve healthcare experiences....

This ground-breaking text provides a comprehensive guide to occupational therapy in Australia, from its role in the healthcare system to the scope and nature of its practice. The authors begin with an overview of the history of occupational therapy in Australia, the ethical and legal aspects of its...

In seven years of blogging, Duncan Cross's posts ranged far and wide across the healthcare landscape. The essays in I Hurt So Hard It Laughed range from the symptoms and side effects of his illness, to the social and romantic challenges of hiding a disease, to the politics and advocacy of disability....

Over the last twenty-five years, medicine and consumerism have been on an unchecked collision course, but, until now, the fallout from their impact has yet to be fully uncovered. A writer for The New Yorker and The Atlantic Monthly, Carl Elliott ventures into the uncharted dark side of medicine,...

Urine Therapy works! That is the plain and simple message that author Steve Rowley gets over to you in this amazing guide to curing health problems with your own natural medicine. He even cured his own 'incurable heart attack' using nothing more than urine – so discover how 'untreatable' skin and...

Brian Boyle tells a personal story of his fight back from near death after a horrific automobile accident. He focuses on his experience as a patient who, while in a two-month long medically induced coma, was unable to move or talk to anyone around him, yet he was able to hear, see and feel pain. Brian...

This autobiography covers a seventy-year period of the author's spiritual journey and services overseas. The title is a play on the title of 'The Sound of Music', due to her marriage in Kenya to John, a missionary widow with five children and her care of them. That care included fifteeen years of...

TABLE OF CONTENTS FORWARD PART A – The whys and how’s of reforming Health Care? I. So what’s the problem? II. How Obamacare was passed into Law? PART B - What has happen so far? III. Ten Titles/sections of Obamacare IV. Pros & Cons V. Implementation VI. Medicare and Medicaid reforms PART C - How...

My law office was in an old building and off the beaten path. A woman walked in one day with a look of concern on her face. Her name was Mary. With a diagnosis of late stage cancer, Mary was unable to work and had consequently lost her health insurance through her employer. Discusses...