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"Despite all the debate about health care, Americans tend to assume they are in the best of hands when they enter the hospital. This is inaccurate : American health care is in the bottom half of all industrialized countries. This is only the largest in a broad set of misperceptions. We appropriately worry about the security of technology, but fail to see how its absence kills hundreds of people every day from medical errors. We over-value the impact...
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A child of immigrants, Abdul El-Sayed grew up feeling a responsibility to help others. He threw himself into the study of medicine and excelled--winning a Rhodes Scholarship, earning two advanced degrees, and landing a tenure-track position at Columbia University. At age thirty, he became the youngest city health official in America, tasked with rebuilding Detroit's health department after years of austerity policies. But El-Sayed found himself disillusioned....
4) Kidney
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Inder Jeet, a rag picker lives with Jhihari and his brother Ranchits family in the slum of landfi ll area of Ghazipur in Delhi miraculously becomes an audience in an international conference on health and wellbeing held in Montreal, Canada after his unpublished research paper Orphan Nephrons Observation: Red Kidneys are blue to green the environment. Like kidney in animal body, they fi lter the reusable items from waste to give back into the bloody...
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By exploring the impact of different dimensions of governance on decision-making, this book argues that governance and population health are inextricably linked. Relevant to students, practitioners, policy-makers and anyone interested in governance and decision-making for public health.
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Peter Piot, founding executive director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), reports on the influence of civil society in international relations and traditional partisan divides. AIDS thrust health into national and international politics where, he argues, it rightly belongs. The global reaction to AIDS over the past decade is the positive result of this partnership, showing what can be acheved when science, politics, and policy...
7) Genetic Heavy Metal Toxicity: Explaining SIDS, Autism, Tourette's, Alzheimer's and Other Epidemics
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Something is dreadfully wrong. Of those who survive life in the womb, one out of two go on to have a serious defect, disease, or neurological disorder. Half the population! About 1 out of 500 babies dies of "SIDS," while about 1 out of 150 develops autism. Many more have varying degrees of Tourette's syndrome, OCD, ADHD, or behavioral disorders. Alzheimer's is an epidemic among the elderly. Depression, violence, and sleep disorders plague our society....
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How has austerity impacted on health and wellbeing in the UK? Health in hard times explores its repercussions for social inequalities in health. The result of five years of research, the book draws on a case study of Stockton-On-Tees in the northeast of England, home to some of the starkest health divides. By placing individual and local experiences in the context of national budget cuts and welfare reforms, it provides a holistic perspective on countrywide...
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Actualmente, los destinos exóticos y lejanos están muy de moda, pero nunca hay que olvidar que las normas sanitarias difieren de un país a otro, por lo que las precauciones siempre son necesarias e imprescindibles. Gracias a esta práctica y útil obra, usted sabrá cómo prevenir el jet lag, qué precauciones tomar si viaja a la India, qué vacunas son necesarias para determinados destinos, qué alimentos es conveniente no tomar... Además, conocerá...
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Gracias a los espectaculares avances de la medicina, nuestra esperanza de vida aumenta de forma constante y, en la actualidad, la gran mayoría de las personas de más de sesenta años vive con pleno disfrute de sus capacidades. Sin embargo, para disfrutar con total plenitud y autonomía de la segunda juventud, es fundamental prepararse lo mejor posible. Bajo la práctica forma de 200 preguntas, las más frecuentes, con sus correspondientes respuestas,...
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Para los padres jóvenes, la salud de los niños constituye a menudo un auténtico quebradero de cabeza porque cuentan con mucha información de variada procedencia. Tienen lo que han aprendido por su propia cuenta, los consejos a veces contradictorios de los amigos o de la familia y las afirmaciones extraídas de los artículos de revistas. Si hablamos de los niños, es necesario estar atentos siempre a su salud sin llegar a ser alarmistas y, sobre...
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This book shows how living in a highly racialized society affects health through multiple social contexts, including neighborhoods, personal and family relationships, and the medical system. Black-white disparities in health, illness, and mortality have been widely documented, but most research has focused on single factors that produce and perpetuate those disparities, such as individual health behaviors and access to medical care. This is the first...
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Anonymous Nurse Nightingale is a licensed nurse currently working in methadone treatment center in the Unites States. She has written down, in this short piece, a review of the experiences and observations she has witnessed handing out methadone to hundreds of patients. This short read is more than that however. It also discusses drug addiction and the nuts and bolts of a methadone treatment program from the point of view of an "insider." A quick...
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The first digital-only ebook taster of Unequal health: The scandal of our times by Danny Dorling. Competitively priced, it gives a flavour of one of the major themes: public health and contains three chapters from the book, preceded by an all-new introduction specially written by Danny Dorling. This 'must-read' will introduce an even wider readership to his work.
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The third digital-only ebook taster of Unequal health: The scandal of our times by Danny Dorling. Competitively priced, it gives a flavour of one of the major themes: health inequalities and contains three chapters from the book, preceded by an all-new introduction specially written by Danny Dorling. This 'must-read' will introduce an even wider readership to his work.
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The second digital-only ebook taster of Unequal health: The scandal of our times by Danny Dorling. Competitively priced, it gives a flavour of one of the major themes: social medicine and contains three chapters from the book, preceded by an all-new introduction specially written by Danny Dorling. This 'must-read' will introduce an even wider readership to his work.
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Americans live three years less than their counterparts in France or Sweden. Scottish men survive two years less than English men. Across Europe, women in the poorest communities live up to ten years less than those in the richest. Revealing gaps in life expectancy of up to 25 years between places just a few miles apart, this important book demonstrates that where you live can kill you. Clare Bambra, a leading expert in public health, draws on case...
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L'auteure propose une réflexion sur la violence subie par des adolescentes dans le cadre de leurs relations amoureuses. Elle explore le cycle de la violence à l'adolescence et offre une description du processus par lequel les adolescentes s'adaptent à ce type de relation et décident d'y mettre un terme. Elle suggère des pistes de réflexion afin de prévenir cette violence et de promouvoir des relations égalitaires.
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Le système de santé canadien, bien qu'universel, présente un portrait contrasté des états de santé et de l'espérance de vie. Qu'advient-il lorsqu'on compare les profils de santé des communautés de langue officielle minoritaire à la communauté linguistique majoritaire? C'est la question sur laquelle se penchent les auteurs.
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Décideurs et intervenants de santé publique s'interrogent sur le rle joué par les médias dans la construction des normes en matière de santé. Comment les médias contribuent-ils à la naissance et au renforcement de ces normes sociales? C'est à cette question encore peu étudiée que cherchent à répondre les auteurs de cet ouvrage, fruit du travail du Groupe de recherche Médias et santé.
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