Health Risks of Ozone from Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution (Euro Publication)
by Who Regional Office for Europe
If you are struggling to feel comfortable in your own body, then this inspiring and interactive self-love workbook is for you. The Gift of Self-Love is an honest, heartfelt, and relatable book that will guide you on your journey to self-love, self-care, and body positivity. Bestselling author and speaker Mary Jelkovsky’s story of battling an eating disorder and conquering her deepest insecurities has been featured in Teen Vogue, Health, and Shape magazine. Now in this empowering book, Mary shar...
Mammography Wars (Critical Issues in Health and Medicine)
by Asia Friedman
Social Risk Management Strategies and Health Risk Exposure
by Gerald Leppert
Join "Mr. Aluminum," a scientist who has made the study of aluminum his life's work, on a journey of discovery, reflection, and the science of aluminum. Professor Christopher Exley is a firm believer that science is only useful when it is properly communicated. Scientific papers are difficult vehicles for the wider communication of science and thus he has always endeavored to tell the story of his scientific research as widely as possible through myriad blogs, presentations, and interviews. Th...
Preventing Disease through Healthy Environments
Handbook of Social Work in Health and Aging
by Barbara Berkman and Sarah D'Ambruoso
Presents research on social work with older people. This handbook provides knowledge and resources to equip social workers to care for an aging population.
Humanizing Health Care (Health, medicine & society)
by Jan M. Howard and Anselm L. Strauss
Lecture Notes on Community Medicine
by R. D. T. Farmer and D L Miller
Making Threats
Today we live in times of proliferating fears. The daily updates on the ongoing 'war on terror' amplify fear and anxiety as if they were necessary and important aspects of our reality. Concerns about the environment increasingly take center-stage, as stories and images abound about deadly viruses, alien species invasions, scarcity of oil, water, food; safety of GMOs, biological weapons, and fears of overpopulation. Making Threats: Biofears and Environmental Anxieties addresses how such environ...
Social Work in Health Care (Sage Sourcebooks for the Human Services, #33)
by Dr Surjit Singh Dhooper
Social Work in Health Care: Its Past and Future gives social workers up-to-date, comprehensive information about the roles and the kinds of skills needed in all aspects of health care in the field. The book focuses on health care′s four major domains: acute care, ambulatory care, illness prevention and health promotion, and long-term care. Surjit SIngh Dhooper reviews the past and present of each of these areas, projects their major needs in the future, and suggests how social work can help meet...
Risk assessment has become a dominant public policy tool for making choices, based on limited resources, to protect public health and the environment. It has been instrumental to the mission of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as well as other federal agencies in evaluating public health concerns, informing regulatory and technological decisions, prioritizing research needs and funding, and in developing approaches for cost-benefit analysis. However, risk assessment is at a crossro...
Written for those who provide care for others, this text shows how to get help, offering effective, practical ways to exchange help and share support with friends, neighbours and co-workers. It includes 200 stories from caregivers.
Home-visiting Strategies (Social Problems & Social Issues)
by Terry Eisenberg Carrilio
Rich with proven, practical advice, ""Home Visiting Strategies"" is a comprehensive guide for in-home case management of vulnerable populations that without direct visits might not receive needed interventions. Drawing on her decades of experience in direct caregiving and classroom instruction of social workers, Terry Eisenberg Carrilio offers a useful primer for students and practitioners in establishing and maintaining the type of intervention program that has proved especially effective in pr...
Social Work in Health Care in the 21st Century (SAGE Sourcebooks for the Human Services, v. 33)
by Surjit Singh Dhooper
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. Focusing on four major health-care domains - acute care, ambulatory care, illness prevention//health promotion and long-term care - the author provides social workers with current, comprehensive information about the roles they can...