"This practical, user-friendly manual will demystify the process of providing sexual and reproductive health information to patrons and will provide strategies for building fact-friendly reference and program services around these topics"--

"Endemic aims squarely at reckoning with our present condition: comprehending and living with a new respiratory disease and how to face the coming variants and next pandemic with reason, science, understanding, courage, and compassion. It does not shy from rigorous scrutiny, and it pulls no punches about where we have been, where we find ourselves now, and how we ought to manage the virus in the coming years"--

Dans la mise à jour de la déclaration d'Helsinki, en 2014, l'Organisation mondiale de la santé reconnaissait que les décisions prises par les gouvernements dans tous les secteurs de la vie collective pouvaient avoir une incidence, positive ou négative, sur la santé des individus et des populations. Cette reconnaissance présente un défi de taille pour les organismes de santé publique qui, dans leur devoir de protection et de promotion de la...

The Dominicans control the production and distribution of P-Dope. New York Times article, "Jury Awards 2 Drug Agents $1.5 Million (February 13, 2003, p. A31)" states: "…the Dominican Revolutionary Party 'was, and is, protected and sanctioned, unlawfully, by the agencies of the United States government, to include the CIA and State Department, enabling the Dominicans to distribute illegal drugs at will.'" The origin of some names ("P-Dope") might...

The Alberta government is looking to the private sector – and in particular to private health insurance – to solve health care problems. However, private health insurance is mired in myth and misunderstanding. The Bottom Line summarizes a huge body of evidence to get to the truth: private health insurance is more expensive and actually reduces access to health care. Evidence reveals that a manufactured cost crisis is driving the push for more...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a simulation of the process of human intelligence through computers.AI has cemented its status as a powerful technology with the ability to propel a paradigm shift in healthcare and medicine of the 21st century and the future. The insights and values gained from AI and its subset, machine learning, are essential for predicting health outcomes and improving decision-making in healthcare and medicine.AI can offer revolutionary...

"Why do kids born in the summer get diagnosed more often with A.D.H.D.? How are marathons harmful for your health, even when you're not running? What do surgeons and salesmen have in common? Which annual event made people 30 percent more likely to contract COVID-19? As a University of Chicago-trained economist and Harvard medical school professor and doctor, Anupam Jena is uniquely equipped to answer these questions. And as a critical care doctor...

This volume examines important aspects of China's century-long search to provide appropriate and effective health care for its people. Four subjects-disease and healing, encounters and accommodations, institutions and professions, and people's health-organize discussions across case studies of schistosomiasis, tuberculosis, mental health, and tobacco and health. Among the book's significant conclusions are the importance of barefoot doctors in disseminating...