Preventive Medicine category: 265 books
by Louise Lassonde
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
Despite rapidly decreasing rates of population growth caused by reduced fertility in the majority of world regions, demographers are predicting that the world's population will still double by the year 2050. The question is therefore no longer the traditional one of whether the planet can support...
Formative Research in Social Marketing
Innovative Methods to Gain Consumer Insights
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
This book brings together the state of the art and current debates in the field of formative research, and examines many of the innovative methods largely overlooked in the available literature. This book will help social marketing to move beyond surveys and focus groups.
The book addresses...
by John MacDonald
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
'John Macdonald once again turns the traditional approach to health care on its head. Instead of merely diagnosing and managing disease, he urges health services � and indeed society � to foster health ... and articulates a vision of a health promoting � a salutogenic � society'. Dimity Pond,...
by Madrean Schober
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2017
This eagerly anticipated book equips readers to understand the dynamics of policy processes, relevant decision-making and the significance of key decision-makers. It also emphasizes the usefulness of negotiation and diplomacy skills in order to support the development of an advanced nursing practice...
Epidemics
Science, Governance and Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
Recent disease events such as SARS, H1N1 and avian influenza, and haemorrhagic fevers have focussed policy and public concern as never before on epidemics and so-called 'emerging infectious diseases'. Understanding and responding to these often unpredictable events have become major challenges for...
Diseases of Globalization
Socioeconomic Transition and Health
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
The emergence of a global economy has led to the erosion of local autonomy and national sovereignty with an associated emphasis on the spread of liberal, free-market economics. A clear divide is appearing between those benefiting from and those disadvantaged by this process. Among the most important...
Avian Influenza
Science, Policy and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2010
Over the past decade, substantial resources have been spent on tackling avian influenza and building a global capacity for a pandemic response. The catastrophic costs of the 1918 influenza pandemic are well documented, and the swine flu pandemic of 2009-10 has raised the alarm yet again. Across the...
The End of World Population Growth in the 21st Century
New Challenges for Human Capital Formation and Sustainable Development
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
The 20th century was the century of explosive population growth, resulting in unprecedented impacts; in contrast, the 21st century is likely to see the end of world population growth and become the century of population aging. We are currently at the crossroads of these demographic regimes. This book...
Making Sense
Beauty, Creativity, and Healing
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2015
Regardless of field, from the art world to healthcare delivery, there is a growing need for practically useful theory and theoretically informed practice. The time is ripe for a collaborative, creative conversation among thinkers and doers who are concerned about the larger world and our role in it....
Bio-Identical Hormones and Telomerase
The Nobel Prize–Winning Research into Human Life Extension and Health
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2011
As we grow older, many of us experience a tremendous amount of frustration because something inside us doesnt work the way it used to. Nutrition experts tell us to eat certain kinds of food some claim free radicals are the sole cause of aging, and that the only way to longevity is through antioxidant...
Public Health Perspectives on Disability
Epidemiology to Ethics and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2010
Traditionally, the public health viewpoint on disability was geared toward primary prevention of disabling conditions or events. More recently, with the movement for disability rights and the emergence of disability studies, the challenge to the field has been to promote positive health outcomes in...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
From the early days of its recognized occurrence, AIDS has been per ceived as posing tremendous threats, burdens and challenges to human beings. Individuals, societies and, in a global point of view, mankind are affected by the effects of the HN infection, the nature and extent of which is still...
by Lisa Rosner
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017
This authoritative and unbiased narrative—supported by 50 primary source documents—follows the history of vaccination, highlighting essential medical achievements and ongoing controversies.
• Provides readers with accurate, unbiased accounts of medical breakthroughs and critics
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Health Assets in a Global Context
Theory, Methods, Action
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2010
As global health inequities continue to widen, policymakers are redoubling their efforts to address them. Yet the effectiveness and quality of these programs vary considerably, sometimes resulting in the reverse of expected outcomes. While local political issues or cultural conflicts may play a part...