Human health as well as aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems are threatened from increa sing levels of environmental radiation of various sources, many of them of anthropoge nic causality: large areas of the former Soviet Union suffer from radioactive pollution, in particular after the Chemobyl accident; the increase in the incidence of UVB radiati on at the Earth's surface as a result of a progressive depletion of stratospheric ozone is a global problem that requires international concerted ac...
Conceived as a core text for more theoretically based courses, "A Systems Approach to Small Group Interaction" uses Tubbs' "systems model" as a framework for explaining and integrating the major small group theories. The book thus offers an opportunity to enable undergraduates to clearly view theories that are usually only found in more advanced books. The new edition has been thoroughly updated to include over 100 new citations, more practical applications of small group interactions, plus new...
Care is a diverse and evolving concept. It is taken as a natural part of life yet it is shaped by philosophical, ideological, political and economic arguments concerning its definition and purpose as well as how, where and to whom it is provided and funded. This lucid book provides an introduction to the concept of care, mapping out and unravelling the complex debates that surround its theory and practice. Key aspects of care, such as boundaries, cultural and geographical spheres of care, the e...
Earth Observation, Public Health and One Health
This book focuses on the potential for Earth Observation (EO) to contribute to public health practice. Remote sensing experts from the EO community together with epidemiologists, modelling experts, policy makers, managers and public health researchers gathered at the One Earth-One Health workshop held at the Canadian Earth Observation Summit in Montreal in 2017. They shared how EO is being used to understand, track, predict, and manage infectious diseases and discussed the challenges and signifi...
If you had asked most people a year ago, they would have told you there was no way that school children could shift overnight to online learning; that it was impossible for banks to offer mortgage holidays; impossible to double unemployment benefits; impossible to house rough sleepers or put a hold on evictions; impossible to offer wages subsidies and definitely impossible to get Australians to stay home from the beach and the pub. COVID-19 has resulted in changes none of us could have imagined,...
Making Sense of Sleep Medicine (Making Sense of)
This is a practical and patient-complaint focused handbook, directed to motivate non-sleep experts and beginners in sleep medicine and technology. This book provides a basic review of the area of sleep, identifies some common patient presentations and illustrates the types of investigations that should be requested. With sleep and breathing problems being so common and affecting many other chronic clinical conditions, it is important that primary care and other general physicians as well as alli...
You Bet Your Life! The Top 10 Reasons You Need a Professional Patient Advocate by Your Side (You Bet Your Life Books)
by Trisha Torrey
Package for advanced undergraduate and graduate students and clinicians. Text alone was listed in approval week 1998-45.
Stress? Ursachen, Erklarungsmodelle und praventive Ansatze Gemeinsam mit der Medizinischen Hochschule Hannover fasst die Kaufmannische Krankenkasse (KKH) den Stand der Wissenschaft zu wichtigen Aspekten des Themas Stress zusammen. Die Auswertung der Routinedaten der KKH zeigt, dass nicht nur Erwachsene mittleren Lebensalters zunehmend von Stress (mit-)verursachten psychosomatischen Gesundheitsbeschwerden, psychischen Storungen sowie Alkoholproblemen betroffen sind, sondern auch Kinder und Jugend...
Endocrine Disruptors and Pharmaceuticals in Drinking Water
by Peter Weyer
Consumer Reports Complete Guide to Health Services for Seniors
by Trudy Lieberman
Policy Recommendations for Smoking Cessation and Treatment of Tobacco Dependence
by V. Da Costa E Silva
EMF Effects from Power Sources and Electrosmog (Electromagnetic Frequency Sensitivities)
The field of electromagnetic sensitivity is the new epidemic of the 21st century, and can cause disease of the automatic nerve system in any part of the body. This is as a result of chemical sensitivity, in which over 80,000 chemicals are involved, resulting in innumerable combinations. A cursory understanding of the combinations can help clinicians partially understand the associated problems and thus help in the diagnosis and treatment of electromagnetic sensitivities. But a basic understandin...
Social Justice in Contemporary Housing (Routledge Focus on Housing and Philosophy)
by Helen Taylor
Philosophy is not usually seen as a guidance for modern housing policy, but in this new book, Dr Helen Taylor argues that there is something innovative, unusual, and worth discussing about the application of philosophy to housing. The philosophical framework used within this book is John Rawls’ conception of justice as fairness. The UK has gone through several shifts in housing policy over the past decade, most recently by introducing the controversial ‘Bedroom Tax’, in an effort to make more cu...
Modern Public Services for Britain (Command Paper, #4011)
The book quantifies the impact of in-port ships' greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution in adjacent cities, and evaluates the feasibility of implementing shore-side electricity facilities in Europe to reduce the unwanted social and environmental effects of ships at berth. The book also discusses the potential of future "green" ports and the use of shore side electricity as a means of achieving them. Individual chapters focus on the economic and social costs of in-port ships' emissions by ill...
Chancen Fur Das Deutsche Gesundheitssystem
by Both Professors Michael E Porter and Clemens Guth
Die Kosten im deutschen Gesundheitssystem steigen, zugleich werden Qualitatsprobleme immer offensichtlicher - trotz aller Reformbemuhungen. Die Autoren gehen davon aus, dass nicht Kostenkontrolle, sondern die Steigerung des Patientennutzens das Ziel ist, das alle Akteure vereinen kann. In zwoelf Empfehlungen erklaren sie, wie sich Leistungserbringer im Wettbewerb um Qualitat organisieren sollten, wie Krankenkassen eine aktivere Rolle spielen und das Vergutungssystem kunftig Exzellenz in der Vers...
Health Effects of Transport-Related Air Pollution
by M. Krzyzanowski, B. Kuna-Dibbert, and Jurgen Schneider
Understanding Violence Against Women
Violence against women is one factor in the growing wave of alarm about violence in American society. High-profile cases such as the O.J. Simpson trial call attention to the thousands of lesser-known but no less tragic situations in which women's lives are shattered by beatings or sexual assault. The search for solutions has highlighted not only what we know about violence against women but also what we do not know. How can we achieve the best understanding of this problem and its complex ramifi...
Risk Assessment of Listeria Monocytogenes in Ready-to-Eat Foods (Microbiological Risk Assessment, #4)
by Who and World Health Organization