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1) School
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This book describes gross things found in school buildings and playgrounds, including head lice, bacteria, and viruses, and offers advice on living in a healthy way.
2) 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becomes an audience in an international conference on health and wellbeing held in Montreal, Canada after his unpublished research paper Orphan Nephrons Observation: Red Kidneys are blue to green the environment.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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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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Las experiencias relatadas sobre los meses de confinamiento, reunidas en este libro, serán comprensibles para todo aquel que ha vivido las circunstancias de esta pandemia global. Se trata de una marca muy profunda que hemos recibido de manera colectiva y, por lo tanto, las lectoras y lectores de este libro serán capaces de sentirse cómplices de estos relatos.
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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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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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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...
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Greg Critser's brilliantly incisive Generation Rx moves the conversation about prescription drugs to where it hits home: our own bodies. How, he asks, has "big pharma" created a nation of pharmaceutical tribes, each with its own unique beliefs, taboos, and brand loyalties? How have powerful chemical compounds for chronic diseases, once controlled by physicians, become substances we feel entitled to, whether we need them or not? How did we come to...
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Dans la plupart des pays en développement, l'irrigation des cultures est faite avec des eaux usées. Ce livre aborde ce sérieux problème d'un point de vue pratique en présentant des méthodes d'avant-garde d'évaluation quantitative des risques pour la santé de même que des solutions peu coûteuses pour la réduction de ces risques.
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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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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...
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La acción de reducir a la condición de cosa a una persona, simbolizada en la mitología griega con la alegoría de medusa, la gorgona con cabellos de serpiente que convertía en piedra a quien la mirara a los ojos, es el tema de este libro, en el que se postula que la cosificación de la relación paciente-familia-cuidadores, como una estrategia habitual para los colaboradores del sector salud, debe ser abordada, tanto para su diagnóstico como...
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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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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...
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Partout dans les pays avancés, on cherche des solutions novatrices pour mieux répondre aux besoins des individus en ce qui a trait aux services sociaux et de santé. Le présent ouvrage explore une piste particulièrement prometteuse, mais exigeante: celle de l'intégration. Pour la suivre jusqu'au bout, il faut passer d'un mode d'organisation traditionnel fondé sur les besoins des systèmes à une approche qui se soucie d'aménager les services...
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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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Legalización versus criminalización, servicios médicos seguros versus clandestinidad, liberalización versus restricciones conservadoras: el aborto en América Latina presenta un abanico de situaciones tan contradictorio y diverso como nuestras sociedades. En esta trama compleja, quienes luchan por la legalización y quienes resisten esas reivindicaciones recurren cada vez más al derecho para fundar sus demandas. ¿Qué herramientas jurídicas...
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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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