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  • Care of Adults with Chronic Childhood Conditions

    A Practical Guide

    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This book addresses the unique healthcare needs of adults with chronic childhood illnesses. It presents a model of primary and secondary prevention for emerging adulthood—primary prevention in which all young adults are screened for high-risk behaviors and health needs and secondary prevention in which young adults with chronic childhood conditions are optimized through coordinated care, ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • Care of Adults with Chronic Childhood Conditions

    A Practical Guide

    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This book addresses the unique healthcare needs of adults with chronic childhood illnesses. It presents a model of primary and secondary prevention for emerging adulthood: primary prevention, in which all young adults are screened for high-risk behaviors and health needs, and secondary prevention, in which young adults with chronic childhood conditions are optimized through coordinated care, ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • Global Health in the 21st Century

    The Globalization of Disease and Wellness

    Series series International Studies Intensives
    Perhaps no other public policy issue has greater potential to affect some of the most significant economic, political, social, and ethical changes of the 21st century than global health. In this book, a scholar/physician team authors a comprehensive introduction to global health issues and emphasises the potential of public health intervention to improve the longevity and quality of human life ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

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  • About Canada: Health and Illness, 2nd ed.

    Series Book 11 - About Canada
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  • Introduction to Aboriginal Health and Health Care in Canada

    Bridging Health and Healing

    Written by one of the leading researchers in First Nations and Inuit Health, this is the only entry-level text to address the current state of knowledge in the field of aboriginal health. The book places aboriginal health in Canada within its historical and philosophical context as it addresses social and clinical approaches to major health issues facing this population. It discusses the ... Read more

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  • Population and Society

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    This exciting new book presents the field of social demography, animating the study of population with a vibrant sociological imagination. Gregg Lee Carter provides multiple demonstrations of how taking a demographic perspective can give us a better understanding of social phenomena once thought to be largely the products of culture, politics, or the economy.Five key chapters concentrate on (1) ... Read more

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  • The Human Right to Health (Norton Global Ethics Series)

    Series series Norton Global Ethics Series
    “A broad-ranging, insightful analysis of the complex practical and ethical issues involved in global health.”—Kirkus ReviewsFew topics in human rights have inspired as much debate as the right to health. Proponents would enshrine it as a fundamental right on a par with freedom of speech and freedom from torture. Detractors suggest that the movement constitutes an impractical over-reach. Jonathan ... Read more

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  • A History of Global Health

    Interventions into the Lives of Other Peoples

    A sweeping history explores why people living in resource-poor areas lack access to basic health care after billions of dollars have been invested in international-health assistance.Over the past century, hundreds of billions of dollars have been invested in programs aimed at improving health on a global scale. Given the enormous scale and complexity of these lifesaving operations, why do millions ... Read more

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  • Social Injustice and Public Health

    Two past presidents of the American Public Health Association have edited this book on the ways in which social injustice causes and contributes to public health problems. Their previous books War and Public Health and errorism and Public Health both dealt with specific issues of social injustice as they relate to public health. The current book addresses a broader set of issues in a more ... Read more

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  • Global Health Law

    The international community has made great progress in improving global health. But staggering health inequalities between rich and poor still remain, raising fundamental questions of social justice. In a book that systematically defines the burgeoning field of global health law, Lawrence Gostin drives home the need for effective global governance for health and offers a blueprint for reform, ... Read more

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