Social Work, Health, and International Development: Compassion in Social Policy and Practice
ISBN: 9780789035127 / Angielski / Miękka / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sharpen your social work in health care knowledge and skills
Social Work, Health, and International Development: Compassion in Social Policy and Practice presents leading international experts from a range of disciplines providing the latest in research, theory, and practical solutions to advance social work in health care issues. Readers get a refreshed view on ways to put social policy into a compassionate and empathetic framework with strategies to more effectively meet today's challenges in social work and health care. This superb selection of papers from the Fourth International... Sharpen your social work in health care knowledge and skills
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Rights to Health Care
ISBN: 9780792311379 / Angielski / Twarda / 382 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Human existence is marked by pain, limitation, disability, disease, suffering, and death. These facts of life and of death give ample grounds for characterizing much of the human condition as unfortunate. A core philosophical question is whether the circumstances are in addition unfair or unjust in the sense of justifying claims on the resources, time, and abilities of others. The temptation to use the languages of rights and of justice is und- standable. Faced with pain, disability, and death, it seems natural to complain that "someone should do something," "this is unfair," or "it just...
Human existence is marked by pain, limitation, disability, disease, suffering, and death. These facts of life and of death give ample grounds for char...
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576,96 zł |
Health Impacts of Waste Management Policies: Proceedings of the Seminar 'Health Impacts of Wate Management Policies' Hippocrates Foundation, Kos, Gree
ISBN: 9780792363620 / Angielski / Twarda / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This chapter introduces key themes from the book, reflecting the topics of the 'Awareness of the Health Impacts of Waste Management Policies' Seminar, in Kos, Greece. November, 1998. The waste management and health scene is introduced by an outline of concems relating to persistent organic pollutants, as well as through perspectives from Less Developed Countries and from industry. An overview of policy lines for waste management includes an assessment of recent proposals by the European Commission, as well as selected examples from European countries and the USA. Descriptions of developments...
This chapter introduces key themes from the book, reflecting the topics of the 'Awareness of the Health Impacts of Waste Management Policies' Seminar,...
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576,96 zł |
Social and Psychosocial Determinants of Self-Rated Health in Central and Eastern Europe
ISBN: 9780792376040 / Angielski / Twarda / 213 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Life expectancy in countries of Central and Eastern Europe is substantially shorter than in Western Europe, and a similar divide exists in self-rated health.
This exhaustive study of populations in seven Central and European countries - Russia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland, Czech Republic and Hungary - examines the social and psychosocial determinants of this divide. Practitioners and graduate students of public health and social psychology will find this an invaluable resource. Life expectancy in countries of Central and Eastern Europe is substantially shorter than in Western Europe, and a similar divide exists in self-rated ...
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384,63 zł |
Risk Analysis Foundations, Models, and Methods
ISBN: 9780792376156 / Angielski / Twarda / 556 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Risk Analysis: Foundations, Models, and Methods fully addresses the questions of "What is health risk analysis?" and "How can its potentialities be developed to be most valuable to public health decision-makers and other health risk managers?" Risk analysis provides methods and principles for answering these questions. It is divided into methods for assessing, communicating, and managing health risks. Risk assessment quantitatively estimates the health risks to individuals and to groups from hazardous exposures and from the decisions or activities that create them. It applies...
Risk Analysis: Foundations, Models, and Methods fully addresses the questions of "What is health risk analysis?" and "How can its potentialit...
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576,96 zł |
Quality of Life in Health Promotion and Rehabilitation: Conceptual Approaches, Issues, and Applications
ISBN: 9780803959149 / Angielski / Miękka / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book convincingly argues that Quality of Life is the vital link between health promotion and rehabilitation. The contributors first review the conceptual basis for understanding and discussing quality of life in health promotion and education. They continue by addressing critical issues such as ethics, policy, quality assurance, and measurement - exploring applications of quality of life in the context of a wide range of current social issues and populations. Finally, they consider the implications for future research and practice.
This book convincingly argues that Quality of Life is the vital link between health promotion and rehabilitation. The contributors first review the co...
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519,88 zł |
Social Work in Health Care in the 21st Century
ISBN: 9780803959330 / Angielski / Miękka / 396 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book demonstrates how, in the rapidly evolving and often uncertain health-care industry, the role of social work will become increasingly significant. Social workers will have new opportunities to help improve the health of individuals, families and communities.
This book demonstrates how, in the rapidly evolving and often uncertain health-care industry, the role of social work will become increasingly signifi...
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550,41 zł |
Narratives, Health, and Healing: Communication Theory, Research, and Practice
ISBN: 9780805850314 / Angielski / Twarda / 534 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume explores how narratives are used in the social construction of wellness and illness. It is intended for scholars and advanced students in health communication and applied health disciplines.
This volume explores how narratives are used in the social construction of wellness and illness. It is intended for scholars and advanced students in ...
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Narratives, Health, and Healing : Communication Theory, Research, and Practice
ISBN: 9780805850321 / Angielski / Miękka / 534 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This distinctive collection explores the use of narratives in the social construction of wellness and illness. Narrative as an area of study in communication has been gaining popularity in recent years, and its application in the health area has become particularly strong. The emphasis of Narratives, Health, and Healing is on what the process of narrating accomplishes--how it serves in the health communication process where people define themselves and present their social and relational identities. Organized into four parts, the chapters included here examine health narratives in...
This distinctive collection explores the use of narratives in the social construction of wellness and illness. Narrative as an area of study in commun...
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297,74 zł |
Hidden Arguments: Political Ideology and Disease Prevention Policy
ISBN: 9780813513157 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this provocative book, Sylvia Tesh shows how politics masquerades as science in the debates over the causes and prevention of disease.Tesh argues that ideas about the causes of disease which dominate policy at any given time or place are rarely determined by scientific criteria alone. The more critical factors are beliefs about how much government can control industry, who should take risks when scientists are uncertain, and whether the individual or society has the ultimate responsibility for health. Tesh argues that instead of lamenting the presence of this extra-scientific reasoning, it...
In this provocative book, Sylvia Tesh shows how politics masquerades as science in the debates over the causes and prevention of disease.Tesh argues t...
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191,80 zł |
Health Services Privatization in Industrial Societies
ISBN: 9780813514383 / Angielski / Miękka / 321 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An examination of the theory and practice of privatization of health services internationally. Amongst other topics this book looks at public and private hospitals, environmental health, prepaid health plans, and the multinational pharmaceutical industry.
An examination of the theory and practice of privatization of health services internationally. Amongst other topics this book looks at public and priv...
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171,61 zł |
The Dilemma of Federal Mental Health Policy: Radical Reform or Incremental Change?
ISBN: 9780813539584 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Severe and persistent mental illnesses are among the most pressing health and social problems in contemporary America. Recent estimates suggest that more than three million people in the U.S. have disabling mental disorders. The direct and indirect costs of their care exceed 180 billion dollars nationwide each year. Effective treatments and services exist, but many such individuals do not have access to these services because of limitations in mental health and social policies. For nearly two centuries Americans have grappled with the question of how to serve individuals with severe...
Severe and persistent mental illnesses are among the most pressing health and social problems in contemporary America. Recent estimates suggest that m...
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292,75 zł |
Just Don't Get Sick: Access to Health Care in the Aftermath of Welfare Reform
ISBN: 9780813540917 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The ability to obtain health care is fundamental to the security, stability, and well-being of poor families. Government-sponsored programs provide temporary support, but as families leave welfare for work, they find themselves without access to coverage or care. The low-wage jobs that individuals in transition are typically able to secure provide few benefits yet often disqualify employees from receiving federal aid. Drawing upon statistical data and in-depth interviews with over five hundred families in Oregon, Karen Seccombe and Kim A. Hoffman assess the ways in which welfare reform...
The ability to obtain health care is fundamental to the security, stability, and well-being of poor families. Government-sponsored programs provide te...
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186,75 zł |
Rationing America's Medical Care: The Oregon Plan and Beyond
ISBN: 9780815781974 / Angielski / Miękka / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As America's struggle with the dual problem of exploding health costs and assuring access to health care for the uninsured, health care rationing has moved to the centre of the public policy debate. A prime example of this is the intense public discussion surrounding the proposal by the state of Oregon to provide universal health care but to ration which diagnoses and treatments will be covered. Focusing largely on the Oregon proposal, this volume examines a wide range of ethical, methodological, legal and political issues that must be addressed by any serious programme of health care...
As America's struggle with the dual problem of exploding health costs and assuring access to health care for the uninsured, health care rationing has ...
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100,89 zł |
Health System Innovations in Central America: Lessons and Impact of New Approaches
ISBN: 9780821362785 / Angielski / Miękka / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Similar to developing countries elsewhere, during the 1990s, Central American countries faced pressures to improve the performance of their health systems. In most countries, there was a consensus that the systems were failing to live up to their potential. Rather than take on system-wide change, each country opted to step into reform through launching innovations to address specific problems or deficiencies in a particular program, function or intervention of the system. 'Health Systems Innovations in Central America' reports on how these experiences fared a hospital in Panama, a nutrition...
Similar to developing countries elsewhere, during the 1990s, Central American countries faced pressures to improve the performance of their health sys...
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137,88 zł |
Phytosterols as Functional Food Components and Nutraceuticals
ISBN: 9780824747503 / Angielski / Twarda / 450 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Analyzes food and biological samples of phytosterols and discusses plant sterol analysis with respect to functional foods. Investigates the safety of phytosterols and phytosterol esters and associated health risks, including potential impact on cancer development and the lowering of cholesterol levels. Details the chemistry, occurrence, and biological effects of phytosterol oxides. Analyzes food and biological samples of phytosterols and discusses plant sterol analysis with respect to functional foods. Investigates the safety ... |
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Community Organization: Action and Inaction
ISBN: 9780837197883 / Angielski / Twarda / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Handbook of Stress Medicine and Health
ISBN: 9780849318207 / Angielski / Twarda / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Research now shows us that long-term activation of the stress cycle can have a hazardous, even lethal, effect on the body, increasing the risk of obesity, heart disease, depression, cancer, and other illnesses. This new edition of an award-winning book presents cutting-edge research on the effects of stress.
Edited by one of the world s authorities in stress management, occupational psychology, and occupational medicine, Handbook of Stress Medicine and Health, Second Edition offers a completely revised and updated look at the different types of stress, including their... Research now shows us that long-term activation of the stress cycle can have a hazardous, even lethal, effect on the body, increasing the risk of obes...
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Readings in Risk
ISBN: 9780915707553 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Suitable as a reference work in graduate and undergraduate courses as well as for researchers, policymakers, and interested laypersons, this book features a collection of journal articles about risk. It includes articles that deal with various public policy, regulatory, management, energy, and environmental issues.
Suitable as a reference work in graduate and undergraduate courses as well as for researchers, policymakers, and interested laypersons, this book feat...
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Public Health Risk Assessment for Human Exposure to Chemicals
ISBN: 9781402009204 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Risks to humans as a consequence of chemical exposures are a complex issue with worldwide implications, especially in our modern societies. The effective management of human exposure to a variety of chemicals present in various sectors of society has indeed become a very important public health policy issue - and risk assessment promises a systematic way for developing appropriate strategies to aid public health risk management decisions. Risk assessment generally serves as a tool that can be used to organize, structure, and compile scientific information in order to help identify existing... Risks to humans as a consequence of chemical exposures are a complex issue with worldwide implications, especially in our modern societies. The eff... |
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576,96 zł |