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Hitchhiker's Guide to Salutogenesis
From the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion to Planetary Health
Av Monica Eriksson, Lenneke Vaandrager m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
344 kr
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This open access book is a comprehensive yet compact volume explaining both the theory of salutogenesis and key examples of its implementation. It mainly serves as an introduction to salutogenesis for newcomers but also would appeal to teachers and students of any profession attached to health, …
From Justice to Protection
A Proposal for Public Health Bioethics
Häftad, 2011
569 kr
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In most developed countries, the epidemiological disease profile has changed from infectious to degenerative, causing major alterations in epidemiological thinking and public health policies. Less developed nations have to deal with a more complex situation, because social disparities create highly …
Medical Devices and Biomaterials for the Developing World
Case Studies in Ghana and Nicaragua
Av Olumurejiwa A. Fatunde, Sujata K. Bhatia
Häftad, 2012
569 kr
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This book focuses on the adoption of medical technology in the developing world, and the role that can be played by new biomaterials. These authors urge that advanced technology be aligned with the needs of developing and emerging markets, and an alternative definition of technology be embraced. …
HIV Treatments as Prevention (TasP)
Primer for Behavior-Based Implementation
Häftad, 2012
569 kr
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HIV Treatment as Prevention: Primer for Behavior-Based Implementationprovides the first practical guide to integrating behavioral prevention with antiretroviral therapies for people living with HIV infection. This brief book discusses the historical and social context embedding the shifting …
Naturally Based Biomaterials and Therapeutics
The Case of India
Av Veda Eswarappa, Sujata K. Bhatia
Häftad, 2012
569 kr
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This book advances biomedical innovations to address the plethora of health problems afflicting the developing world. A panoply of cultural, economic, infrastructural, and other factors prevent many interventions currently popular in the developed world from being similarly effective in the …
Complete Resource on Pediatric Office Emergency Preparedness
Av Rohit Shenoi, Faria Pereira m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
569 kr
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This book describes key knowledge concepts, skills and up-to-date algorithms pertaining to common emergencies that can take place in a pediatric office, including: seizures, anaphylaxis and shock, and diabetic ketoacidosis. The authors supported by peer review from top specialists in Pediatric …
Grantsmanship for New Investigators
Av Thomas F. Hilton, Carl G. Leukefeld
Häftad, 2018
625 kr
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This compact resource analyzes and demystifies the processes of applying for, competing for, and getting funding for research. Neither a cookbook nor a template, it encourages readers to apply the critical thinking and attention to detail they use in their investigations to the pursuit of the …
Disparities in Child Health
A Solutions-Based Approach
Av Michelle A. Lopez, Elissa Z. Faro m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
625 kr
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This forward-looking resource shines needed light on—and offers realistic solutions for eliminating—health disparities affecting one of the most vulnerable populations: children. Its multilevel framework identifies sources of pediatric health inequities in developmental, societal, familial, …
Oral Health and Herbal Medicine
Av Khalid Rehman Hakeem, Waseem Mohammed Abdul m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
625 kr
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Oral health loss is one of the major problems existing all over the world and is one of the top causes of death when unmanaged. The oral cavity is home to numerous pathogenic microorganisms, some of which are responsible for the progression and development of various systemic diseases such as …
Rural Health Disparities
Public Health, Policy, and Planning Approaches
Häftad, 2019
737 kr
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This innovative resource offers a unique, multidisciplinary approach for the utilization of planning theory to eliminate health disparities in rural communities. The book provides tools in the public health, policy, and planning disciplines to help resolve significant differences in life expectancy …
Mortality Among Hispanic and African-American Players After Desegregation in Major League Baseball
Häftad, 2019
569 kr
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This compelling book examines mortality risk among former Hispanic and African-American players in Major League Baseball (MLB) during the 40-year period following desegregation in the League. Analyzing a variety of biological, cultural, social, and environmental factors, the author illustrates the …
Successful Public Health Advocacy
Lessons Learned from Massachusetts Legislators
Häftad, 2019
681 kr
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This concise volume guides public health advocates on how to successfully advocate for their cause, strengthen their messaging and communication strategies, build coalitions, and gather political allies.In the book, the author shares lessons learned from an exploratory study in which key …
Personalised Health Care
Fostering Precision Medicine Advancements for Gaining Population Health Impact
Av Stefania Boccia, Róza Ádány m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
552 kr
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Practitioners are increasingly adopting a personalised medicine approach to individually tailored patient care, especially disease diagnosis and treatment with the use of biomarkers. However, development and implementation of such approaches to chronic disease prevention need further investigation …
Child Sexual Abuse
Current Evidence, Clinical Practice, and Policy Directions
Av Tanya S. Hinds, Angelo P. Giardino
Häftad, 2020
569 kr
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This brief approaches the challenging topic of child sexual abuse from an objective, evidence-based perspective. It offers an overview of child sexual abuse, including definitions and a clear explanation of the epidemiology. The text also explores the conceptual frameworks that seek to explain how …
COVID-19 in New York City
An Ecology of Race and Class Oppression
Av Deborah Wallace, Rodrick Wallace
Häftad, 2020
681 kr
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This book is the first social epidemiological study of COVID-19 spread in New York City (NYC), the primary epicenter of the United States. New York City spread COVID-19 throughout the United States. The context of epicenter formation determined the rapid, extreme rise of NYC case and mortality …
To Do or Not to Do a PhD?
Insight and Guidance from a Public Health PhD Graduate
Häftad, 2021
569 kr
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This book prepares and guides individuals who are about to embark (or already have embarked) on a health/medical PhD journey, with a specific focus on Public Health. Based on the author's experience as a recently graduated Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) student, readers benefit from the knowledge …
Homeless Youth of Pakistan
Survival Sex and HIV Risk
Häftad, 2021
569 kr
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While homeless young people (HYP) are typically perceived as irresponsible and morally suspect individuals who lack essential social skills to navigate their lives, this book offers an alternative and more positive perspective. It demonstrates that HYP improvise with resources available on the …
Recurrence of COVID-19 in New York State and New York City
Surfing the Second Wave
Av Deborah Wallace, Rodrick Wallace
Häftad, 2021
625 kr
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As a follow-up to COVID-19 in New York City: an Ecology of Race and Class Oppression, which showed that decades of discriminatory public policies shaped the Bronx into the epicenter of the first wave of COVID-19, this book examines the build up to the crest and subsequent ebbing of the second wave …
COVID-19 and Health System Segregation in the US
Racial Health Disparities and Systemic Racism
Av Prem Misir
Häftad, 2021
681 kr
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This book highlights and suggests remedies for the racial and ethnic health disparities confronting people of color amid COVID-19 in the United States. Racial and ethnic health disparities stem from social conditions, not from racial features, that are deeply grounded in systemic racism, operating …
Vaccines, Medicines and COVID-19
How Can WHO Be Given a Stronger Voice?
Häftad, 2021
344 kr
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This open access book is a collection of research papers on COVID-19 by Germán Velásquez from 2020 and early 2021 that help to answer the question: How can an agency like the World Health Organization (WHO) be given a stronger voice to exercise authority and leadership? The considerable health, …
Deaf Rhetoric
An Ecology of Health Communication
Av Manako Yabe
Häftad, 2022
513 kr
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This book guides healthcare professionals, hospital administrators, and medical interpreters in the United States (and internationally) in ways to better communicate with Deaf and Hard of Hearing (D/HH) patients and sign language interpreters in healthcare settings. It also provides an overview of …
Effective Public Health Policy in Organ Donation
Lessons from a Universal Public Health System in Brazil
Av Fábio Silveira, Arlene Terezinha Cagol Garcia Badoch
Häftad, 2022
513 kr
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This book shows how a successful public health policy designed to foster the culture of brain death diagnosis and improve the interaction between Organ Procurement Organizations and Intra-Hospital Organ and Tissue Donation Committees for Transplants led the Brazilian state of Paraná to reach one of …
Balancing the Socio-political and Medico-ethical Dimensions of HIV
A Social Public Health Approach
Av Amos Laar
Häftad, 2022
513 kr
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Responding to public health challenges at the global and local levels can give rise to an array of tensions. To assure sustainable public health, these tensions need to be meaningfully balanced. Using empirical evidence and lived experiences relating to HIV from the global south, this book …
Drugs and Public Health in Post-Soviet Central Asia
Soviet-Style Health Management
Häftad, 2022
569 kr
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The book outlines post-Soviet style of health management in Central Asia. Regional studies on Central Asia to date have focused on states, politics, religion and inter-ethnic relations but not on the health system within the region. Soviet-style policies have also covered only other aspects …
Providing Affirming Care to Transgender and Gender-Diverse Youth
Av Adam W. Dell, Jessica Robnett m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
513 kr
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This book aids clinicians in supporting and caring for transgender and gender-diverse children and adolescents – youth who are born into an incongruent body. A recent study using data from 19 states reported that 1.8% of American youth identified as transgender. Many people who are transgender will …
Physical, Personal, and Social Impact of Spinal Cord Injury
From the Loss of Identity to Achieving a Life Worth Living
Häftad, 2022
625 kr
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This compact book uniquely examines individual lived experience with spinal cord injury (SCI). It provides education and a clearer understanding of the many facets of a SCI -- medical, physical, psychological, cognitive, personal, and social -- in a single compact volume, so that readers learn the …
Organ Transplantation and Native Peoples
An Interdisciplinary Approach
Av Estevão Rafael Fernandes, Ana Karoline Nobrega Cavalcanti
Häftad, 2023
513 kr
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This book presents important concepts from medical and socio-cultural anthropology to health professionals working with organ transplantation involving indigenous populations. Written by an anthropologist and a nephrologist working at the Brazilian Amazon region, it presents an interdisciplinary …
Evolution of Global Child Rights
Protecting the Vulnerable
Av Kaitlyn Sacotte, Brandon Tomlin m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
513 kr
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This compact book celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Geneva Declaration of the Rights of the Child, a critical document that has shaped the relationship of adults with children worldwide. The document declares that all children must be fed, healed, protected, and given a safe place in which to …
Specialized Pediatric Palliative Care
Av Claudia Delgado-Corcoran, Ryann Bierer m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
457 kr
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This compact volume offers a brief overview of pediatric palliative care and emerging ways to expand and provide palliative care to children.Pediatric palliative care is a new specialty that is rapidly expanding across the United States. The specialty has impact throughout the lifespan of children …
Age-Friendly Ecosystems
Environments for Equitable Aging by Design
Av Valerie Chang Greer, Linda S. Edelman
Häftad, 2024
513 kr
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This compact book examines age friendliness within the framework of age-friendly ecosystems, and from a place-based approach, considering anchor institutions of neighborhoods, campuses and health environments as sites uniquely positioned to catalyze age equity and inclusivity.Age friendliness has …
