Introduction to Health Promotion
It is possible to eliminate death and serious injury from Canada's roads. In other jurisdictions, the European Union, centres in the United States, and at least one automotive company aim to achieve comparable results as early as 2020. In Canada, though, citizens must turn their thinking on its head and make road safety a national priority. Since the motor vehicle first went into mass production, the driver has taken most of the blame for its failures. In a world where each person's safety is de...
The Elephant in the Room
by September Williams and San Jose Mothers' Milk Bank
The humanities in higher education are too often labeled as impractical and are not usually valued in today's marketplace. Yet in professional fields, such as the health sciences, interest in what the humanities can offer has increased. Advocates claim the humanities offer health care professionals greater insight into how to work with those who need their help.Illness and Image introduces undergraduates and professionals to the medical humanities, using a series of case studies, beginning with...
Public and Community Health Services Requiring Greater Attention
by Anita Finkelman
Designed to support current standards and goals for the nursing profession, Public and Community Health Services Requiring Greater Attention provides readers with a view of health services that require an interprofessional team of healthcare providers and others who provide social and community services, while considering the social determinants of health, equity, diversity and disparities, population health, and vulnerable populations. The text examines the population health management (PHM) f...
Community and Public Health Nursing
by Rosanna DeMarco and Judith Healey-Walsh
Drawing on research in plant science, systems ecology, environmental philosophy, and cultural anthropology, Andrew F. Smith shatters the distinction between vegetarianism and omnivorism. The book outlines the implications that these manufactured distinctions have for how we view food and ourselves as eaters.
Local Government and Community in Java (South-east Asian Social Science Monographs)
by John Sullivan
This book discusses the development and use of community as an instrument of government. It argues that the small local communities embracing most of Java's population are basically political constructions and elements of a modern capitalist order. Sullivan proposes that the practice demonstrates that it is more efficient to govern communal collectives than a smaller family or other household units, making it possible to control vast populations with little administrative overhead.
This text provides an introduction to modern statistical analysis. The book begins with descriptive statistics and continues through regression, analysis of variance and nonparametric statistics. Multiple examples and colourful and informative diagrams illustrate the topics and concepts. In addition, the appendices include six different databases that cover such diverse areas as North Carolina census data, pollution, sports and education. These data can be used for class projects or additional e...
The congressional budget resolution is an agreement between the House and Senate on a budget plan for the upcoming fiscal year and at least the following four fiscal years. As a concurrent resolution, it is not presented to the President for his signature and thus does not become law. The budget resolution, however, provides Congress a framework for subsequent legislative action on budget matters during each congressional session. The budget resolution may include reconciliation directives, inst...
Federal Budget Process
The federal budget process is the primary means by which the President and Congress select among competing demands for federal funds. The President's budget is the Administration's proposed plan for managing funds, setting levels of spending, and financing the spending of the federal government. It is not only the President's principal policy statement but is also the starting point for congressional budgetary actions. The budget's importance makes it essential that it be comprehensive and clear...
Alcohol in Africa
Controversial Issues in Educational Policy (Controversial Issues in Public Policy, #5)
by Louann A. Bierlein
Controversial Issues in Educational Policy examines the current debates in US education including such issues as parental choice, decentralization, bilingual education and the role of business. For each issue, tensions among the conflicting ideas of conservatism and liberalism and among the basic societal values of equity, liberty and efficiency and excellence are examined. Bierlein discusses multiple aspects of each topic and equips readers with a foundation necessary to carefully analyze the d...
Radiofrequency and microwaves (Environmental Health Criteria)
A Joint Response to HIV/AIDS