Public Health 86

The Operational Plan for Health, 2015-2020 articulates the focused and scaled-up response of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to the health sector needs of its developing member countries. As they s……続きを見る

This volume's contributors evaluate the accomplishments, limits, and consequences of using quantitative metrics in global health. Whether analyzing maternal mortality rates, the relationships betwee……続きを見る

Against a background of debate around global ageing and what this means in terms of the future care need of older people, this book addresses key concerns about the nature and site of care and care-……続きを見る

Twentieth century Europe went through a dramatic transition from low income populations experiencing hunger and nutritionally inadequate diets, to the recent era of over-consumption and growing numb……続きを見る

7 Ways to Transform the Lives of Wounded Students provides a wealth of strategies and ideas for teachers and principals who work with wounded studentsーthose who are beyond the point of "at-risk" an……続きを見る

This brief provides approaches to help family caregivers understand the role of caregiving, its challenges and consequences. Using real life case examples, it illustrates the essentials of family ca……続きを見る

Aquesta publicació, per la seva rellevància fins el dia d?avui en l?àmbit anglosaxó, esdevé una de les principals guies possibles per als educadors de la salut en tant que els proporciona una visió ……続きを見る

Aquest llibre presenta, per primera vegada en castellà, el recull de declaracions més recents i rellevants relacionades amb la promoció de la salut a nivell mundial, textos que són periòdicament sot……続きを見る

En aquest llibre, de gran importància en la literatura de l?àmbit de la promoció de la salut, els autors presenten els conceptes bàsics de la promoció i l?educació per a la salut, així com una revis……続きを見る

En razón de su vocación, los establecimientos sanitarios y de servicios sociales se toman muy en serio la salud de los usuarios, pero también la de su personal, que, gracias a su dedicación, garanti……続きを見る

Patiently Waiting For… is the story of the indomitable, feisty, and subversive Ruth, who, having quadriplegia, longs to access a wider world through use of available software and a computer. She dec……続きを見る

Over the past 15 years, geography has made many significant contributions to our understanding of disabled people's identities, lives, and place in society and space. 'Towards Enabling Geographies' ……続きを見る

The last twenty years have witnessed an important movement in the aspirations of public policy beyond meeting merely material goals towards a range of outcomes captured through the use of the term '……続きを見る

In Understanding Treatment Without Consent, key contributors examine the work of the UK Mental Health Act Commission (MHAC), which was established to ensure the care and rights of people subjected t……続きを見る

"A rip-roaring read."ーNature Fresh out of college in the 1960s, Mary Guinan aspired to be an astronautーuntil she learned that NASA's astronaut program wasn't recruiting women. Instead, Guinan went……続きを見る

Sexually active young people urgently need this book. A 2009 Book of the Year, USA Book News “It can’t happen to me.” Many high school students and young adults, seduced by their sense of invincibil……続きを見る

Six fail-proof steps to social marketing success! This book shows students and practitioners how to develop social marketing programs through a simple, six-step process of strategic planning and des……続きを見る

Public health research methods for the 21st century Designed to meet the needs of public health students, practitioners, and researchers, this exciting and contemporary new text from the author of Q……続きを見る

Deliver quality healthcare in the most challenging field conditions Comprehensive yet compact, practical, and enduring, Improvised Medicine: Providing Care in Extreme Environments, Second Edition, i……続きを見る

All too frequently, clinical practice consists of repeating year after year the methods learned in graduate training, occasionally seasoned by a technique learned in a continuing-education workshop.……続きを見る

Encephalitis is a devastating condition whose impact upon people should not be underestimated. It robs people of abilities most of us take for granted, it leaves people without their loved ones, and……続きを見る

Intellectual disability is often overlooked within mainstream disability studies, and theories developed about disability and physical impairment may not always be appropriate when thinking about in……続きを見る

First published in 1977, this book focuses on the disability of spina bifida in children. Children with the condition frequently suffer with severe physical handicaps such as lower limb paralysis an……続きを見る

The sociology of hazardous waste, risk, and disasters is a relatively new discipline. This book focuses on hazardous and toxic wastes releases, industrial toxic disasters, contamination of communiti……続きを見る

Starting with more general issues of healthcare policy and governance in a global perspective and using the lens of national case studies of healthcare reform, this handbook addresses key themes in ……続きを見る

This book examines how the news media in general, and investigative journalism in particular, interprets environmental problems and how those interpretations contribute to the shaping of a discourse……続きを見る

Based on extensive research, this book is a fundamental critique of psychiatry that examines the foundations of psychiatry, refutes its basic tenets, and traces the workings of the industry through ……続きを見る

The ending of the Soviet Union in 1991 had a major political and economic impact on Central Asia. Kyrgyzstan was one of the most severely affected countries, suffering a deeper recession than the ot……続きを見る

Analysing Health Care Organizations seeks to link the world of health policy and management with the academic field of organization studies in a novel and additive way. It outlines the main developm……続きを見る

Epidemiology is one of the fastest growing and increasingly important sciences. This thorough analysis lays out the conceptual foundations of epidemiology, identifying traps and setting out the bene……続きを見る