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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...
3) 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becomes an audience in an international conference on health and wellbeing held in Montreal, Canada after his unpublished research paper Orphan Nephrons Observation: Red Kidneys are blue to green the environment.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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"This book documents the decline of white-working class lives over the last half-century and examines the social and economic forces that have slowly made these lives more difficult. Case and Deaton argue that market and political power in the United States have moved away from labor towards capital-as unions have weakened and politics have become more favorable to business, corporations have become more powerful. Consolidation in some American industries,...
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Do cell phones cause brain cancer? Does BPA threaten our health? How safe are certain dietary supplements, especially those containing exotic herbs or small amounts of toxic substances? What role does HPV play in the development of cervical cancer, and is the HPV vaccine safe? In four detailed case studies, Geoffrey C. Kabat shows how science works or sometimes doesn't and what distinguishes these two very different outcomes. We depend on science...
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This book is unique since it provides deep insight on significant aspects that are of value to the scientists as the source of valuable information that has been, archived for easy reference while being equally significant for the beginners to acquire information about the earlier studies on important aspects of the disease.
Focus of rabies control has to be on canine rabies. Thus, a chapter that delves into the significance and threats of canine...
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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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Sin la menor duda, una de las aristas más sensible de los temas y problemas de salud es la que se refiere a la Salud Pública; esto es la consideración de las comunidades, grupos humanos y, en conjunto, de la sociedad, cuando se enfrentan epidemias, pandemias y graves crisis de salud. Pues bien, este libro se propone dirigir la mirada, desde la Salud Pública, en otra dirección. Específicamente, debe ser posible un giro hacia salud, sin más....
10) 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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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 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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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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Detalla los aspectos más relevantes en el campo de la administración de los servicios de salud. Presenta de una manera clara cada uno de los conceptos desarrollados. Contiene información contextualizada y actualizada de acuerdo al modelo de salud del país. Fue desarrollado por especialistas con gran recorrido y reconocimiento en el campo administrativo de la salud.
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Sanitation is now increasingly recognized as one of the most 'publicly relevant issues' in our country. The book deals with why it is appropriate, rather, necessary for this issue to be duly considered as a field of historiosociological studies in the Indian academia. Further, the details of the habits and practices regarding sanitation which prevailed in different periods of our history have been discussed. Besides, an attempt has also been made...
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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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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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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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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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