The Bright Side and the Dark Side of Patient Empowerment

Rocco Palumbo

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Public Health
• Patient empowerment as a key component in the future of healthcare systems is the focus of this concise in-depth analysis. It begins by defining patie... Lees meer

From Justice to Protection

Miguel Kottow

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Public Health | nr. 1
• In most developed countries, the epidemiological disease profile has changed from infectious to degenerative, causing major alterations in epidemiolog... Lees meer

Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in India

Saroj Pachauri, Ash Pachauri, Komal Mittal

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Public Health
• This open access book addresses self-care on sexual and reproductive health and rights and HIV prevention and treatment in the most marginalized and v... Lees meer

The Physical, Personal, and Social Impact of Spinal Cord Injury

Jenny Lieberman

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Public Health
• This compact book uniquely examines individual lived experience with spinal cord injury (SCI). It provides education and a clearer understanding of th... Lees meer

Indoor Air Quality in Healthcare Facilities

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Public Health
• This interdisciplinary guide offers background, research findings, and practical strategies for assessing and improving air quality in hospitals and o... Lees meer

Rural Health Disparities

Monica M Taylor

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Public Health
• This innovative resource offers a unique, multidisciplinary approach for the utilization of planning theory to eliminate health disparities in rural c... Lees meer

Nutritional Adequacy, Diversity and Choice Among Primary School Children

Shreelata Rao Seshadri, Jyoti Ramakrishna

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Public Health
• This book highlights the reality of malnutrition among school-age children in India and relates it with dietary adequacy, diversity and choice. Using ... Lees meer

Deaf Rhetoric

Manako Yabe

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Public Health
• This book guides healthcare professionals, hospital administrators, and medical interpreters in the United States (and internationally) in ways to bet... Lees meer

Homeless Youth of Pakistan

Muhammad Naveed Noor

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Public Health
• While homeless young people (HYP) are typically perceived as irresponsible and morally suspect individuals who lack essential social skills to navigat... Lees meer

Successful Public Health Advocacy

Chris Chanyasulkit

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Public Health
• This concise volume guides public health advocates on how to successfully advocate for their cause, strengthen their messaging and communication strat... Lees meer

Application of the Political Economy to Rural Health Disparities

Monica M Taylor

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Public Health
• This thought-provoking monograph analyzes the longstanding political and economic structures underlying entrenched health inequities in rural areas wo... Lees meer

Workplace Environmental Design in Architecture for Public Health

Stamatina Th Rassia

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Public Health
• This concise volume analyzes the potential for the workplace environment--where so many people spend so much of their day--to improve workers' capacit... Lees meer

Covid-19 in New York City

Deborah Wallace, Rodrick Wallace

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Public Health
• This book is the first social epidemiological study of COVID-19 spread in New York City (NYC), the primary epicenter of the United States. New York Ci... Lees meer

Naturally Based Biomaterials and Therapeutics

Veda Eswarappa, Sujata K Bhatia

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Public Health
• This book advances biomedical innovations to address the plethora of health problems afflicting the developing world. A panoply of cultural, economic,... Lees meer

To Do or Not to Do a Phd?

Sarah Cuschieri

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Public Health
• This book prepares and guides individuals who are about to embark (or already have embarked) on a health/medical PhD journey, with a specific focus on... Lees meer

Age-Friendly Ecosystems

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Public Health
• This compact book examines age friendliness within the framework of age-friendly ecosystems, and from a place-based approach, considering anchor insti... Lees meer

Oral Health and Herbal Medicine

Khalid Rehman Hakeem, Waseem Mohammed Abdul, Mohd Muzzammil Hussain, Syed Shoeb Iqbal Razvi

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Public Health
• Oral health loss is one of the major problems existing all over the world and is one of the top causes of death when unmanaged. The oral cavity is hom... Lees meer

Tuberculosis in Adults and Children

Dorothee Heemskerk, Maxine Caws, Ben Marais, Jeremy Farrar

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Public Health | nr. 2
• This work contains updated and clinically relevant information about tuberculosis. It is aimed at providing a succinct overview of history and disease... Lees meer

Grantsmanship for New Investigators

Thomas F Hilton, Carl G Leukefeld

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Public Health
• This compact resource analyzes and demystifies the processes of applying for, competing for, and getting funding for research. Neither a cookbook nor ... Lees meer

Cultural Competence in Health

Crystal Jongen, Janya McCalman, Roxanne Bainbridge, Anton Clifford

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Public Health
• Comprehensively updates readers on the cultural competence literature Supports well-informed decision making to improve cultural competence Widely rel... Lees meer

Food Democracy

Sue Booth, John Coveney

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Public Health
• This book explores the links between food and democracy. It addresses how democratic principles can be used to shape our food system and takes a pract... Lees meer

Promoting Aboriginal Health

Mary Whiteside, Komla Tsey, Yvonne Cadet-James, Janya McCalman

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Public Health
• "Those of us who have worked on the frontline of Aboriginal health for any length of time know that beneath the surface reality of Aboriginal people's... Lees meer

Medical Devices and Biomaterials for the Developing World

Olumurejiwa A Fatunde, Sujata K Bhatia

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Public Health
• This book focuses on the adoption of medical technology in the developing world, and the role that can be played by new biomaterials. These authors ur... Lees meer

HIV Treatments as Prevention (Tasp)

Seth C Kalichman

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Public Health | nr. 1
• ​HIV Treatment as Prevention: Primer for Behavior-Based Implementation provides the first practical guide to integrating behavioral prevention with an... Lees meer