Preventive Medicine category: 265 books
The Medical School’s Mission and the Population’s Health
Medical Education in Canada, The United Kingdom, The United States, and Australia
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Medical schools exist as part of a complex educational and health care sys tem with affiliations to universities, teaching hospitals, outpatient clinics, students, and communities. Those of us who serve as trustees and volunteers on boards and commit tees of medical schools carry obvious responsibilities...
The Value-Driven Eye Care Game
A Player's Survival Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2013
With the establishment of optometry as the primary eye care profession, and significant reforms under way in health care, the opportunity exists now to add value to an independent eye care practice for both the doctor and the patient. The favorable geographic distribution of optometrists in rural...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
The dynamics of body metabolism are changed in the disease process and interact with physical activity. The alteration of metabolism and its consequences raise the need for simple and reliable methods for assessment of body composition. The chapters aim to investigate various interacting components...
Understanding Military Workforce Productivity
Effects of Substance Abuse, Health, and Mental Health
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
From the stresses of repeated deployments to the difficulties of re-entry into civilian life, we are just beginning to understand how protracted conflicts, such as those in Iraq and Afghanistan, are affecting service members. Issues such as risky health behaviors and chemical dependence raise productivity...
by Joanne E. Mantell, Anthony T. DiVittis, Marilyn I. Auerbach
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
This user-friendly, comprehensive guide places evaluation in the context of HIV to give all health care professionals the necessary tools for developing and implementing successful HIV interventions. Every aspect of evaluation is discussed, including:
the social and political context of evaluation
coding...
Health Education
Effectiveness and efficiency
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
It could be said with some justification that the task of education is to safe guard people's right to learn about important aspects of human culture and experience. Since health and illness occupy a prominent place in our everyday experience, it might reasonably be argued that everyone is entitled...
by Conrad Samayoa
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2017
A concise guide to understand Bullying!
Suggestions for coping with this epidemic.
Easy to Understand and Implement.
Workplace Environmental Design in Architecture for Public Health
Impacts on Occupant Space Use and Physical Activity
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
This concise volume analyzes the potential for the workplace environment—where so many people spend so much of their day—to improve workers’ capacity for health and wellness. It pinpoints the link between sedentary lifestyles and poor health, and explores the role of office spatial design in...
Building a Healthy Child
Food Introduction Nutritional Program—A Parent’S Guide to Foundational Childhood Nutrition for Lifelong Health
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
Melina Roberts, N.D., has developed a revolutionary program that introduces infants and toddlers to food that helps them develop their bodies and health.
Many parents feed their children as if theyre adults, without ever thinking that perhaps they should not be eating like a fully-grown adult....
by Anne LaFond
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Analyzing the dimensions of the struggle for effective health care in the developing countries, this study demonstrates how current governmental and donor agency policies in such countries as Uganda, Ghana, Nepal, Pakistan and Vietnam have failed to develop efficient systems. The author argues against...
Work and Health
An introduction to occupational health care
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
by Bertalan Meskó
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013
The number of patients using social media and the number of applications and solutions used by medical professionals online have been sky-rocketing in the past few years, therefore the rational behind creating a well-designed, clear and tight handbook of practical examples and case studies with simple...
The Environment for Children
Understanding and Acting on the Environmental Hazards That Threaten Children and Their Parents
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
Each year, millions of children die of environmental causes and many more suffer serious illness or injury. Children are often the most vulnerable to the condition of their environment -and their health is an index of its quality - but their wellbeing is rarely given priority by governments or aid...
by Keith S. Kaye, MD, MPH
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
Dr. Kaye and Dr. Dhor have assembled top experts to write about clinical management of infections in Part II of their two issues devoted to Infection Prevention and Control in Healthcare. Articles in this issue are devoted to: CLABSI; UTI; Tuberculosis; Ventilator-Assisted Pneumonia; Surgical Site...