Author: Bullard, Elijah W. Publisher: Universal Publishers Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This cross-cultural study investigates help-seeking for depression among Japanese primary school teachers. Help-seeking for depressive symptoms is examined quantitatively by administering the Help-See...
Author: Ainsworth, Scott H. / Hall, Thad E. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book examines how legislators have juggled their passions over abortion with standard congressional procedures, looking at how both external factors (such as public opinion) and internal factors ...
Author: MacDougall, Heather Publisher: Dundurn Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: For more than a century, Toronto's Health Department has served as a model of evolving municipal public health services in Canada and beyond. From horse manure to hippies and small pox to AIDS, the De...
Author: Caron, David Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The deluge of metaphors triggered in 1981 in France by the first public reports of what would turn out to be the AIDS epidemic spread with far greater speed and efficiency than the virus itself. To un...
Author: Mullan, Fitzhugh Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The general practitioner was once America's doctor. The GP delivered babies, removed gallbladders, and sat by the bedsides of the dying. But as the twentieth century progressed, the pattern of medical...
Author: Mullan, Fitzhugh Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The general practitioner was once America's doctor. The GP delivered babies, removed gallbladders, and sat by the bedsides of the dying. But as the twentieth century progressed, the pattern of medical...
Author: Wagner, Marsden Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In this rare, behind-the-scenes look at what goes on in hospitals across the country, a longtime medical insider and international authority on childbirth assesses the flawed American maternity care s...
Author: Bennett, David Publisher: ReadHowYouWant Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: CANCER FOR TWO: Conquering a Cancer Together by David Bennett is groundbreaking as, of his own experience, David informs us what we might expect at two levels after a diagnosis of cancer. He writes of...
Author: O'Dowd, Enid Publisher: Original Writing Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: We are working towards developing one of the most advanced networks of radiation oncology in the world' National Cancer Control Programme press office But in a revealing chapter entitled Big business:...
Author: O'Dowd, Enid Publisher: Original Writing Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: We are working towards developing one of the most advanced networks of radiation oncology in the world' National Cancer Control Programme press office But in a revealing chapter entitled Big business:...
Author: Kronenfeld Publisher: JAI Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The theme of this volume is chronic care, health care systems and services integration. The volume is divided into three sections. The first section focuses on issues that relate to health care provi...
Author: Raz, Aviad E. Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The social and bioethical aspects of carrier testing and its assimilation by specific groups are examined through several qualitative case studies in traditional (religious, ethnic) as well as modern ...
Author: Cleary, Brenda Lewis Publisher: Springer Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "Winner of an AJN Book of the Year Award! Nursing homes are rich repositories of data, yet are underutilized for controlled research studies. This book is a hands-on guide to conducting long-term car...
Author: World Bank Publisher: The World Bank Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "The Uganda Nutrition and Early Childhood Development Project was one of the World Bank's first projects to demonstrate the value-added of strategic communication. The strategic communication componen...
Author: Rintala, Marvin Publisher: Frank Cass Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The NHS is often seen as a natural development of previous legislation, such as the 1911 National Insurance Act. The 1911 Act, however, enabled visits to general practitioners by insured workers, whil...
Author: MacLachlan, Malcolm Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "Most Western health professionals practice in multicultural societies. The influence of culture on illness, health and rehabilitation is therefore very important. Despite this, most lower level healt...
Author: Linde, Paul Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The psychiatric emergency room, a fast-paced combat zone with pressure to match, thrusts its medical providers into the outland of human experience where they must respond rapidly and decisively in sp...
Author: Plows, Alexandra Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: This book examines contemporary public debate on emerging developments in medical genetics, including cloning, gene therapy, gene patenting, biobanks, genetic testing and screening, and pharmacogenomi...
Author: Robine, Jean-Marie / Mathers, Colin D. Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "As an indicator of population health, helath expectancy allows us to address the important question of whether or not we are exchanging longer life for poorer health - extending the quantity of life ...
Author: Seiffge-Krenke, Inge Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Diabetic Adolescents and Their Families presents an innovative approach to the study of coping with chronic illness by focusing on the developmental context in its description of a longitudinal study ...
Author: Evans, John Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book investigates how 'body centred talk' around weight, fat, food and exercise is recycled in schools, enters educational processes, and impacts on the identities and health of young people.
Author: Nah, Seung-Hee / Osifo-Dawodu, Egbe Publisher: World Bank Publications Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book is a practical guide for medical professionals with little or no business experience who are interested in establishing health care facilities in developing countries. It is an introduction ...
Author: Revenga, Ana, / Over, Mead, / Masaki, Emiko, Publisher: The World Bank Format: Adobe PDF
Description: HIV is the leading cause of premature death in Thailand. Since the first case of AIDS was reported in 1984 more than one million Thais have been infected. The social, human and economic costs of this ...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Protecting the reproductive potential of young patients undergoing cancer therapy is increasingly important. With modern treatment protocols, 80% of patients can be expected to survive. It has been es...
Author: Hamit, Francis Publisher: Francis Hamit Electronic Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: These articles concern research and development in the delivery of medical services by telephony and other related technologies, especially to rural and remote areas. The last article in the collecti...
Author: N/A Publisher: IGI Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in the health sector is an idea whose time has come. The current applications of GIS in health are diverse and extensive. The present GIS environment i...
Author: N/A Publisher: IRM Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book is designed to introduce a community health group to the potential of using a geographic information system to improve birth outcomes. The book is aimed at novice to intermediate level GIS u...
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The right to health, having been previously neglected is now being deployed more and more often in litigation, activism and policy making across the world. International bodies such as the WHO, UNAIDS...
Description: Based on the findings of a global research project undertaken by the World Health Organization, this volume systematically analyzes the relationship between globalization and global trends in health o...
Author: Tong, Carrison K. S. / Wong, Eric T. T. Publisher: Medical Information Science Reference Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In the age of increasing reliance on data and the importance of sensitive information, applications and technologies have arisen to appropriately deal with assuring the security of medical informatics...
Description: Drawing on various disciplinary perspectives, this book re-focuses the debate on what makes a good health system, with a view to clarifying the uses of social science research in thinking about health...
Author: Powell, Margaret Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: In the 1970s and 80s Japan experienced some deep-rooted social changes which affected attitudes to health care services among both professionals and consumers alike. Health Care in Japan provides an i...
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The maintenance of health and the provision of services for the sick are probably some of the most challenging tasks facing modern government. "Health Care Systems in Seven Countries" looks at the way...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Increasing recognition of the impact that globalisation may be having on public health has led to widespread concern about the risks arising from emerging and re-emerging diseases, environmental degra...
Author: Hyden, Lars-Christer Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book offers a broad overview and critical analysis of the present state of the field of "illness narratives," encompassing clinical case studies, ethnographic field studies and autobiographical c...
Author: World Bank, Publisher: World Bank Publications Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This paper spells out the vision of the World Bank on how to strenghten worldwide health systems and ensure better responses to key challenges such as combating the HIV/AIDS pandemic, repositioning nu...
Author: N/A Publisher: World Bank Publications Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book offers an original perspective on AIDS as a development issue in South Asia, a region with a heterogeneous epidemic and estimated national HIV prevalence rates of up to 0.5 percent. The anal...
Author: Fleming, Juanita W. Publisher: Springer Publishing Company Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: As technology grows more sophisticated, more and more children will receive therapies such as apnea monitoring, dialysis, and prolonged IV therapy at home on an ongoing basis. This book provides an
Author: La Forgia, Gerard M. / Couttolenc, Bernard F. Publisher: World Bank Publications Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Drawing on an eclectic array of research and evaluative studies culled from a mix of sources, this volume analyzes Brazilian hospital performance along several policy dimensions including resource all...
Author: Osewe, Patrick Lumumb / Nkrumah, Yvonne K. / Sackey, Emmanuel Publisher: World Bank Publications Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property rights (TRIPS) requires all WTO members to adopt certain minimum standards for the protection of intellectual property rights including ...
Author: World Bank Publisher: The World Bank Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "In recent years, the focus in many developing regions is increasingly moving away from communicable disease, where as Africa continues to face a high burden of communicable disease, malnutrition, and...
Author: Trusko, Brett, / Pexton, Carolyn, / Gupta, Praveen, Publisher: Financial Times Prentice Hall Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The Definitive Six Sigma Guide for Healthcare: Methodologies, Tools, and Metrics Rising costs are making healthcare unaffordable for millions, and 100,000 people die every year due to medical...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This portrait of the global debate over patent law and access to essential medicines focuses on public health concerns about HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, the SARS virus, influenza, and diseases of...
