The Stressed Sex: Uncovering the Truth About Men, Women, and Mental Health by Daniel Freeman, Jason Freeman
2013 | ISBN: 0199651353 | English | 256 pages | PDF | 1 MB
2013 | ISBN: 0199651353 | English | 256 pages | PDF | 1 MB
Showing posts with label Health. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Health. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 30, 2015
Monday, September 28, 2015
Partnerships and Foundations in Global Health Governance
Partnerships and Foundations in Global Health Governance (International Political Economy Series) by Owain David Williams and Simon Rushton
English | 2011 | ISBN: 0230238769 | 320 pages | PDF | 1 MB
English | 2011 | ISBN: 0230238769 | 320 pages | PDF | 1 MB
This book argues that the new actors in global health constitute a "private turn" in global health governance, and provides theoretical and practical grounds for viewing global health partnerships and philanthropic foundations as closely aligned in their ideational and material approaches to a range of important issues and crises.
Bioethics in Perspective: Corporate Power, Public Health and Political Economy
Bioethics in Perspective: Corporate Power, Public Health and Political Economy by Scott Mann
English | 2010 | ISBN: 0521756561 | 294 pages | PDF | 1 MB
English | 2010 | ISBN: 0521756561 | 294 pages | PDF | 1 MB
In Bioethics in Perspective Scott Mann demonstrates the importance of issues of corporate power, global inequality and sustainability in shaping health outcomes around the world. The text develops a comprehensive ethical and practical critique of the neoliberal economic ideas which have guided policy in the English-speaking world. It explores the consequences of such policies for health and healthcare around the world, in terms of increasing health inequalities, serious food and water shortages, inadequate health care provision and the marketing of dangerous and unnecessary drugs. With clear proposals for political and economic reform to effectively address these problems, Bioethics in Perspective provides an important counterbalance to much conventional commentary on bioethics. It takes readers with little or no prior knowledge of ethics, economics or medicine quickly and easily into advanced debates and discussions about the causes and consequences of health and illness around the world.
Wednesday, September 23, 2015
Pediatrics in Practice: A Health Promotion Curriculum for Child Health Professionals (repost)
Pediatrics in Practice: A Health Promotion Curriculum for Child Health Professionals by Henry H. Bernstein DO
English | 2005 | ISBN: 0826127258 | 280 pages | PDF | 1,6 MB
English | 2005 | ISBN: 0826127258 | 280 pages | PDF | 1,6 MB
Pediatrics in Practice is a faculty development health promotion curriculum based on the principles of Bright Futures. Through the resources presented, maternal and child health (MCH) educators can prepare healthcare professionals with the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to communicate effectively, partner with, and educate children and families as their advocates to promote health and prevent illness in a time-efficient manner.
This innovative curriculum is based on six core concepts that serve as the foundation for effective health encounters:
• Partnership
• Communication
• Health promotion/Illness prevention
• Time Management
• Education
• Advocacy
These six concepts provide the tools for building successful partnerships and promoting positive interactions among health professionals, children, and families during health encounters. By learning how to integrate these core concepts into clinical practice, health professionals can be assured that they are delivering time-efficient health promotion services.
This curriculum developed in collaboration with Children"s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, and Bright Futures, will be of interest to anyone who cares for pediatric-age children, including all maternal and child health professionals such as pediatricians, nurses, public health specialists, nurse practitioners, physicians" assistants, social workers, dentists, and medical educators.
Sunday, September 13, 2015
Getting Better: Improving Health System Outcomes in Europe and Central Asia
Getting Better: Improving Health System Outcomes in Europe and Central Asia (Europe and Central Asia Reports) by Owen Smith and Son Nam Nguyen
English | 2013 | ISBN: 0821398830 | 210 pages | PDF | 4,3 MB
English | 2013 | ISBN: 0821398830 | 210 pages | PDF | 4,3 MB
Improving health system outcomes is a major development challenge for Europe and Central Asia (ECA). Fifty years ago, average lifespans in the region were slightly behind those in Western Europe, but far better than in East Asia, Latin America, or the Middle East. Since then, the gap between ECA and its western neighbors has widened, while the other middle-income regions have now all moved ahead. Some countries in ECA have performed very well, and the overall regional trend has recently improved, but long-term progress has certainly lagged behind the rest of the world.
In the future, health sector issues are likely to loom ever larger in policy agendas across the region. Living a long, healthy life will increasingly matter to people as much as achieving ever-higher incomes. Opinion polls indicate that health is the top priority for government spending among populations across ECA, and expectations for a strong government role in the sector are high. Yet these aspirations must be reconciled with the reality of aging populations and significant fiscal constraints.
Getting Better: Improving Health System Outcomes in Europe and Central Asia draws on a wealth of new evidence to explore the challenges facing health sectors in ECA. It highlights three key agendas to help countries seeking to catch up with the world"s best-performing health systems. The first is the health agenda, where the main priority is to strengthen public health and primary care to help achieve the "cardiovascular revolution" that has taken place elsewhere in recent decades. The second is the financing agenda, in which the growing demand for medical care must be satisfied without imposing an undue burden on households or government budgets. The third agenda relates to broader institutional arrangements, where the task is to adopt some of the key ingredients common to most advanced health systems that are still missing in many ECA countries. A common theme for all three agendas is the emphasis on improving outcomes, or "Getting Better".
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Pharmacy on a Bicycle: Innovative Solutions to Global Health and Poverty
Pharmacy on a Bicycle: Innovative Solutions to Global Health and Poverty by Eric G. Bing and Marc J. Epstein
English | 2013 | ISBN: 1609947894 | 240 pages | PDF | 4,4 MB
English | 2013 | ISBN: 1609947894 | 240 pages | PDF | 4,4 MB
Every four minutes, over 50 children under the age of five die. In the same four minutes, 2 mothers lose their lives in childbirth. Every year, malaria kills nearly 1.2 million people, despite the fact that it can be prevented with a mosquito net and treated for less than $ 1.50.
Sadly, this list goes on and on. Millions are dying from diseases that we can easily and inexpensively prevent, diagnose, and treat. Why? Because even though we know exactly what people need, we just can’t get it to them. They are dying not because we can’t solve a medical problem but because we can’t solve a logistics problem.
In this profoundly important book, Eric G. Bing and Marc J. Epstein lay out a solution: a new kind of bottom-up health care that is delivered at the source. We need microclinics, micropharmacies, and microentrepreneurs located in the remote, hard-to-reach communities they serve. By building a new model that “scales down” to train and incentivize all kinds of health-care providers in their own villages and towns, we can create an army of on-site professionals who can prevent tragedy at a fraction of the cost of top-down bureaucratic programs.
Bing and Epstein have seen the model work, and they provide example after example of the extraordinary results it has achieved in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. This is a book about taking health care the last mile—sometimes literally—to prevent widespread, unnecessary, and easily avoided death and suffering. Pharmacy on a Bicycle shows how the same forces of innovation and entrepreneurship that work in first-world business cultures can be unleashed to save the lives of millions.
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Public Health Policy: Issues, Theories, and Advocacy
Public Health Policy: Issues, Theories, and Advocacy by Dhrubajyoti Bhattacharya
English | 2013 | ISBN: 1118164350 | 512 pages | PDF | 5 MB
English | 2013 | ISBN: 1118164350 | 512 pages | PDF | 5 MB
This introductory text explains theoretical frameworks and analytical tools from a variety of disciplines essential to sound public health policy. It focuses on key issues for public health, covering a much wider range of topics than health administration-oriented policy books. Case studies illuminate important public health problems, prevention strategies, health promotion, and advocacy. This innovative book provides students with theoretical frameworks to approach public health policy issues, and empower them to articulate precise problem statements, engage in robust multi-disciplinary data analysis, and develop thoughtful recommendations.
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Transdisciplinary Public Health: Research, Education, and Practice
Transdisciplinary Public Health: Research, Education, and Practice by Debra Haire-Joshu and Timothy D. McBride
English | 2013 | ISBN: 0470621990 | 432 pages | PDF | 8 MB
English | 2013 | ISBN: 0470621990 | 432 pages | PDF | 8 MB
This title combines a detailed introduction to transdisciplinary methods with a description of how to apply these methods to problem-solving in public health research and practice. Edited by leaders in the application of transdisciplinary methods, this book provides graduate public health students with a foundation for collaborative thinking to guide problem identification, solutions, and analysis. Practical application of transdisciplinary concepts are presented across numerous case studies, as well as evaluation of these approaches, giving future practitioners a toolset for promoting long-term solutions to complex human health problems.
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Reimagining Global Health: An Introduction
Reimagining Global Health: An Introduction (California Series in Public Anthropology, Book 26) by Paul Farmer and Arthur Kleinman
English | 2013 | ISBN: 0520271971, 0520271998 | 504 pages | PDF | 41 MB
English | 2013 | ISBN: 0520271971, 0520271998 | 504 pages | PDF | 41 MB
Bringing together the experience, perspective and expertise of Paul Farmer, Jim Yong Kim, and Arthur Kleinman, Reimagining Global Health provides an original, compelling introduction to the field of global health. Drawn from a Harvard course developed by their student Matthew Basilico, this work provides an accessible and engaging framework for the study of global health. Insisting on an approach that is historically deep and geographically broad, the authors underline the importance of a transdisciplinary approach, and offer a highly readable distillation of several historical and ethnographic perspectives of contemporary global health problems.
The case studies presented throughout Reimagining Global Health bring together ethnographic, theoretical, and historical perspectives into a wholly new and exciting investigation of global health. The interdisciplinary approach outlined in this text should prove useful not only in schools of public health, nursing, and medicine, but also in undergraduate and graduate classes in anthropology, sociology, political economy, and history, among others.
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Care Planning in Mental Health: Promoting Recovery
Care Planning in Mental Health: Promoting Recovery, 2 edition by Angela Hall and Mike Wren
English | 2013 | ISBN: 0470671866 | 248 pages | PDF | 8,2 MB
English | 2013 | ISBN: 0470671866 | 248 pages | PDF | 8,2 MB
Care planning and delivery are essential parts of everyday practice for all mental health practitioners. This new edition of Care Planning in Mental Health: Promoting Recovery moves away from a professionally-oriented model of care planning towards the active promotion of the personal narrative as being central to planning effective mental health care. It outlines essential concepts linked to the recovery process which is carried out in partnership with people with mental health problems and those closest to them. New to this edition: * A stronger, more explicit focus on recovery * A unique interpretation and explication of the recovery process * A greater promotion of the centrality of personhood * Examples drawing on a range of international perspectives and experiences * Enhanced user-friendly pedagogy, including practical case illustrations and first-hand accounts throughout Care Planning in Mental Health: Promoting Recovery is an ideal resource for anyone involved in the field of mental health care. It is also a valuable learning resource for students studying mental health care and the qualified and experienced practitioner wishing to gain a fresh approach to planning recovery-focused care.
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