Preventive Medicine category: 265 books
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Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Whoever coined the adage "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure" could not have known how important this adage would become. The challenge of altering the health trajectories of poor lifestyle decisions for such behaviors as smoking, drinking and using illicit drugs, violence,...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
Immunopotentiators in Modern Vaccines, Second Edition, provides in-depth insights and overviews of the most successful adjuvants, those that have been included in licensed products, also covering the most promising technologies that have emerged in recent years. In contrast to existing books on the...
Stopping Domestic Violence
How a Community Can Prevent Spousal Abuse
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This volume examines models of collaboration between personnel in social service agencies, women's centers, domestic violence programs, medical and mental health settings, and law enforcement. Techniques are detailed that allow knowledge about domestic violence and primary prevention to be integrated...
Current and Emerging mHealth Technologies
Adoption, Implementation, and Use
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2018
The promise and prospects for mobile technologies in healthcare service delivery—particularly as experienced by patients and other users—are the focus of this forward-looking volume. Its detailed sociotechnical perspective takes in factors influencing patient and provider adoption of technological...
Healthy Cities
The Theory, Policy, and Practice of Value-Based Urban Planning
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2017
This forward-looking resource recasts the concept of healthy cities as not only a safe, pleasant, and green built environment, but also one that creates and sustains health by addressing social, economic, and political conditions. It describes collaborations between city planning and public health...
Negotiating Public Health in a Globalized World
Global Health Diplomacy in Action
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2012
In a new era of global health diplomacy, the most important tool for decision-making is negotiation. Globalization is binding countries, issues and people together as never before. In the domain of public health, traditional international concerns like the spread of infectious diseases have been joined...
Mobile Persuasion Design
Changing Behaviour by Combining Persuasion Design with Information Design
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Mobile Persuasion Design presents ten conceptual design projects (or ‘Machines’) for new mobile application's (smartphone or tablet with Web portals) that combine theories of persuasion and information design to change people’s behaviour.
Areas such as the environment, health, learning...
Health Communication
Strategies for Developing Global Health Programs
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Promotion of healthy behaviors and prevention of disease are inextricably linked to cultural understandings of health and well-being. Health communication scholarship and practice can substantially and strategically contribute to people living safer, healthier, and happier lives. This book represents...
Healthy City Projects in Developing Countries
An International Approach to Local Problems
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
With the growth of cities and towns throughout the developing world have come significant health problems. The urban poor are particularly affected, faced with the worst of both worlds: urban problems such as pollution and stress, combined with infectious diseases common in both rural and urban areas....
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Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
This book comprises proceedings from the Third International Conference on Advances in Nutrition and Cancer, held in Naples in May 2012. This highly multidisciplinary meeting analyzed “nutrition and cancer” from different perspectives and on the basis of distinct and up-to-date experimental approaches....
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Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Health and healthy life styles are something that we all would like to induce in our youths and children. This book provides a new perspective for health education. It represents Finnish ideas and solutions of health education and provides analyses of health promotion. In today’s world, health education...
by Samuel S. Epstein, Allesandra C. Gibson
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
The Increasing Incidence but Decreasing Mortality Rates Of Major Childhod Cancers, 1975-2009* SITE % Increase Incidence % Decrease Mortality** Overall 35 53 Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia 58 70 Bone & Joint 57 33 Brain & Nervous System 52 33 Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma 40 75 Leukemia 33 65 Kidney (Wilms...
Fundamentals of Biologicals Regulation
Vaccines and Biotechnology Medicines
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Fundamentals of Biologicals Regulation: Vaccines and Biotechnology Medicines serves as an introduction to the international regulatory arena in which biologicals are developed and offers an overview of the processes and insight into the scientific concepts underpinning global regulations. This book...
Health and Environmental Impact Assessment
An Integrated Approach
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
This text shows why we need to develop an integrated approach to health and environmental impact assessment of development projects, and how this might be achieved. Case studies and examples are provided