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When you buy drugs, you don't expect them to be contaminated with antifreeze, industrial chemicals, glass, or dangerous bacteria. But this happens every day when uninformed consumers buy generic drugs or over-the-counter and behind-the-counter drug...

""Anatom������a del Coraz������n"" es una novela original escrita por Teodoro Guerrero en 1856. La historia sigue la vida de un joven llamado Juan, quien se enamora de una mujer llamada Rosa. Sin embargo, su amor se ve obstaculizado por la...

The Guide to Civil Psychiatric Assessment has been written by Dr Michael Epstein, one of the most highly regarded psychiatrists in Australia in this area. He has worked in this field for many years and has distilled his experience into this book. There...

Prose Award Finalist for Nursing and Allied Health Services Category!Awarded First Place in the AJN 2022 Book of the Year Awards in the Community/Public Health Category!"Practical Implementation Science: Moving Evidence Into Action provides the ideal...

Now in its sixth edition, this authoritative classic remains the only text to provide a wide range of essential information for nurses who work in sparsely populated and vulnerable geographical areas. Focusing on rural nursing concepts, theory, research,...

Awarded third place in the 2022 AJN Book of the Year Awards in Professional IssuesFills a crucial need in helping nurses to provide safe, culturally-competent care to LGBTQ+ patientsThis pivotal resource-the first written specifically for nurses-focuses...

One of the critical challenges facing Africa is how to harness the potential of internal and international migration in the interests of development. The Southern African Migration Project (SAMP) is an international network of organizations founded in...

The book is intended for users of health care cost-effectiveness analysis--health care policy authorities, researchers, students, and others--who wish to know and understand the discipline's theoretical foundations. The decision rules by which public...

Health and Social Progress is a book written by Rudolph Michael Binder in 1920. The book explores the relationship between health and social progress, and how improvements in one can lead to improvements in the other. Binder argues that social progress...

Formulaire Homoeopathique is a French language book written by Jules Prost-Lacuzon in 1897. The book serves as a guide for treating common diseases using homeopathic remedies. The author provides a pathogenic guide to help readers identify the symptoms...

The study of health information seeking has become increasingly important in recent years due to the growing emphasis on the consumer/client relationship in the health arena. This trend implies a shift away from the development of health campaigns with...

Originally published in 1984, this book attempted to fill a gap by providing a broad-ranging structural analysis of the health care sector and the political and economic forces which influence its shape and contents, both in the western world and...

Originally published in 1977, this book explored some of the major problems besetting the Health Service during the second half of the twentieth century. Now, as then, they offer both historical perspective on contemporary difficulties and invite debate...

This book examines the role of law and policy in addressing the public health crisis of COVID-19 and offers reforms that could improve pandemic preparedness for future outbreaks. Focusing on a number of countries most expected to provide agility and...

Published in 1918, this book proposes an ambitious plan to reform the public health system in the United States. Drawing on his experience as a statistician and public health expert, Frederick Ludwig Hoffman argues that the existing system is inadequate...

Family life has changed rapidly over te past fifty years and the number of people living longer increases year on year Family and Community Life of Older People revisits three areas (Bethnal Green in London, Wolverhampton in the Midlands and Woodford in...

Healthcare Leadership Practices book is a nursing management and transformational leadership book. Effective nurse management is essential to increase engagement and nurse retention.This nurse management book explores the root causes of the enduring...

This report, published by the Sanitary Bureau of Japan, provides an overview of the medical system in the country at the turn of the 20th century. It covers topics such as public health, hospitals, medical education, and more. A fascinating glimpse into...

"Rationing can be defined as a way of limiting products in short supply in order to assure equal distribution.World History has examples of rationing. Examples have included the USA during World War II and Cuba since 1961. Recent examples in Medicine...

This new work surveys how rapid changes taking place at the start of the twenty-first century in social, cultural, political and economic domains impact on sexuality, health and human rights. The relationships between men, women and children are changing...

ABOUT THIS BOOKThis book is written by an insider. A hospital administrator and practitioner who participated firsthand in laying the foundation for today's collapsing heath care system. A practitioner who then went on to make radical changes in the...

"This unique Fast Fact serves as a quick resource for foundational, relevant data, knowledge, and vital information, not only about the nature of medical errors, but why they occur. More importantly, Hunt shows us how to comprehensively address problems:...

In few places in American society are adults so dependent on others as in nursing homes. Minimizing this dependency and promoting autonomy has become a major focus of policy and ethics in gerontology. Yet most of these discussions are divorced from the...

This volume documents the results of the 34th UIA/PHG International Seminar on Public Healthcare Facilities held in Durban, South Africa, 3-7 August 2014, as part of the more extensive conference entitled "architecture OTHERWHERE, XXV International Union...

Since the end of the Second World War, society has been characterised by rapid and extensive political, economic, scientific, and technological change. Opportunities for education, employment, human relations, and good health, have all been greatly...

This highly-anticipated book documents the experiences and opinions of a well-known, pioneering doctor in the management of chronic Lyme disease. It also contains eleven opinionated essays about this challenging and fascinating disease.About the Author:...

There is increasing recognition that advances in medicine are only part of the answer to better health care. These advances, together with rising expectations of health care users, mean that demands on the way we organize and deliver services will become...

Health Impacts of Globalization brings together an interdisciplinary group of researchers to analyze specific case studies that provide much needed empirical analysis of the impact of globalization on health. The range of issues covered-AIDS, tobacco...

The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare the world's vulnerabilities to health and economic ruin from disease outbreaks. But the pandemic merely reveals fundamental weaknesses and contradictions in global health. What are the roots of discontents in global...

Protect yourself against America's number one cause of bankruptcy! Medical bills can bury you in debt for the rest of your life, but it doesn't have to be that way.Crush Medical Debt provides the tools you need to get the healthcare you need, avoid bills...

Everyone 'knows' what addiction is and what should be done for it. But as this book shows, individual experience cannot apply universally. The psychology of denial is the most devastating feature of addiction. This book offers much practical guidance -...

This book is written to bring to light the many wrongs that are going on in the health care insurance system in the U.S. The U.S. health care insurance system is the most expensive health care system in the world and the most inefficient health care...

The State and the Doctor is a book written by Sidney Webb and published in 1910. In this book, Webb examines the relationship between the state and the medical profession. He argues that the state should take a more active role in regulating and...

In the midst of a national nursing shortage, many nurses who can and want to work are being denied the opportunity. They are being pushed out of jobs and turned away from unfilled positions, all because they have disabilities.Eleven nurses who defied...

What are the political dimensions that are revealed in women's preferences for health care during pregnancy and childbirth? The answers to this question vary from one community to the next, and often from woman to the next, although the trends in the...

As countries confront new health care challenges in the 21st century, their health care systems reflect the problems and political settlements of an earlier age. Meeting these new challenges requires reform of existing health care system arrangements...

The goal of assessing health care quality is to recognize gaps in performance and identify opportunities for improvement that will increase the health of individuals and society. The complexity inherent in health care systems, health care delivery and...

The Netherlands' response to AIDS is widely regarded as well organized and effective. This is largely due to the timely response to the threat of the disease, with a prevention programme starting in 1982. This Dutch example provides an instructive case...

Most countries in the developed world consider health care a basic human right, but the United States of America continues to struggle with reducing costs and making it available to everyone.Some have proposed that promoting a "Medicare for All" agenda...