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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “stefano capolongo”
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  • Therapeutic Landscape Design

    Methods, Design Strategies and New Scientific Approaches

    Edited by Stefano Capolongo, Monica Botta, Andrea Rebecchi ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Through an approach strongly oriented to socio-health contexts and healthcare facilities, with multidisciplinary contributions on the methodological and technical aspects, or legislative issues, the book provides tools and design strategies to plan and realize therapeutic places and healing gardens for care, rehabilitation, interaction, and social inclusion. It addresses all the technical and ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Decision Support System for the Location of Healthcare Facilities

    SitHealth Evaluation Tool

    by Marta Dell'Ovo, Alessandra Oppio, Stefano Capolongo ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    The book examines an integrated approach for addressing decisions about the location of healthcare facilities. Supported by Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA), the approach provides comprehensive information on territory, taking into account the spatial dimensions. Due to the multiple criteria involved, site selection for urban facilities is a crucial ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Improving Sustainability During Hospital Design and Operation

    A Multidisciplinary Evaluation Tool

    Edited by Stefano Capolongo, Marta Carla Bottero, Maddalena Buffoli, Emanuele Lettieri ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    This book describes the Sustainable High Quality Healthcare (SustHealth) project, which had the goal of developing an original multidisciplinary evaluation tool that can be applied to assess and improve hospitals’ overall sustainability. The comprehensive nature of the appraisal offered by this tool exceeds the scope of most current rating systems, which typically permit a thorough evaluation of ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Indoor Air Quality in Healthcare Facilities

    Edited by Gaetano Settimo, Marco Gola, Stefano Capolongo ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This interdisciplinary guide offers background, research findings, and practical strategies for assessing and improving air quality in hospitals and other healthcare settings. Positing good air quality as critical to patient and staff well-being, it identifies disease-carrying microbes, pollutants, and other airborne toxins and their health risks, and provides localized interventions for reducing ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Healthcare Facilities in Emerging Countries

    The Challenge for India

    Edited by Stefano Capolongo, Marco Gola, Andrea Rebecchi ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This multidisciplinary book brings together medical, management, and architectural disciplines in order to formulate new approaches to the programming, planning, and design of healthcare facilities that will improve the quality of healthcare systems in rapidly developing countries, respecting local culture. It achieves this aim by drawing upon case studies on healthcare facilities and services ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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    A New Scientific Exploration

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  • How to Read a Paper

    The Basics of Evidence-Based Medicine

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    How to Read a Paper describes the different types of clinical research reporting, and explains how to critically appraise the publications. The book provides the tools to find and evaluate the literature, and implement the findings in an evidence-based, patient-centered way. Written for anyone in the health care professions who has little or no knowledge of evidence-based medicine, it provides a ... Read more

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  • Essential Mental Health Nursing Skills E-Book

    Essential Mental Health Nursing Skills E-Book

    by Madeline O'Carroll, Alistair Park, Maggie Nicol ...
    This title is directed primarily towards health care professionals outside of the United States. This book will help to identify the skills and resources that students already have and show how these can be developed into the essential skills needed for nursing in the mental health practice environment. Essential Mental Health Nursing Skills draws on the policy and theory underpinning mental ... Read more

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  • Healthy No Matter What

    How Humans Are Hardwired to Adapt

    by Alex Jadad, Tamen Jadad-Garcia ...
    A provocative manifesto that teaches you how to take control of your own health, no matter your age or circumstances—from an innovative doctor and his philosopher daughter“If you care about your health or the well-being of others, read this book.”—Ethan Kross, author of ChatterDr. Alex Jadad is the creator of the Jadad scale, which has become the world’s most widely used methodology to assess the ... Read more

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  • How the Mind Changed

    A Human History of Our Evolving Brain

    by Joseph Jebelli ...
    The extraordinary story of how the human brain evolved… and is still evolving.We’ve come a long way. The earliest human had a brain as small as a child’s fist; ours are four times bigger, with spectacular abilities and potential we are only just beginning to understand.This is How the Mind Changed, a seven-million-year journey through our own heads, packed with vivid stories, groundbreaking ... Read more

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  • Darwin's Unfinished Symphony

    How Culture Made the Human Mind

    by Kevin N. Lala ...
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