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  • Healthy Moms, Healthy Babies, Healthy Communities

    The First One Thousand Days in a Baby's Life

    The first one thousand days of a child’s life are crucial for her proper development. Beginning at conception and spanning the first two years of life, many factors come into play that impact her potential to live a full life as an active contributor to her community. Before she is born, her mother’s nutritional status and health affect her growth. After birth and until the first year of life, she ... Read more

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  • Vivre avec le diabète

    Votre Guide de Contrôle

    by Collectif ...
    Cet ouvrage est adapté du guide de Your Guide to Diabetes: Type 1 and Type 2, du National Diabetes Information Clearinghouse (National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases at NIH). De nombreux conseils et des fiches pratiques vous aideront à mieux comprendre et contrôler votre diabète.Les informations contenues dans ce guide sont basées sur la recherche médicale. Il vous ... Read more

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  • Routledge Handbook of Chinese Medicine

    The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Medicine is an extensive, interdisciplinary guide to the nature of traditional medicine and healing in the Chinese cultural region, and its plural epistemologies. Established experts and the next generation of scholars interpret the ways in which Chinese medicine has been understood and portrayed from the beginning of the empire (third century BCE) to the ... Read more

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  • Peer Review, Peer Education, and Modeling in the Practice of Clinical Ethics Consultation: The Zadeh Project

    This open access book about the Zadeh Project demonstrates and explores a core question in clinical ethics: how can ethics consultants be accountable in the face of a robust plurality of ethical standpoints, especially those that underwrite practices and methods for doing ethics consultation as well as those viewpoints and values encountered in daily clinical ethics practice? Underscoring this ... Read more

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  • Coletânea Covid-19 e agendas de pesquisa nas ciências sociais

    Propõe ampliar a percepção do impacto do novo Coronavírus na história recente brasileira, o que implica não se ater apenas à questão da saúde, observando também a repercussão na sociedade e na política. Com esse objetivo, analisa a pandemia à luz das agendas de pesquisa nas ciências sociais e humanas. A coletânea aborda o tema sob múltiplos prismas: no mundo do trabalho, em um cenário de ... Read more

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  • From Melancholia to Depression

    Disordered Mood in Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry

    by Åsa Jansson ...
    Series series Mental Health in Historical Perspective
    This open access book maps a crucial but neglected chapter in the history of psychiatry: how was melancholia transformed in the nineteenth century from traditional melancholy madness into a modern biomedical mood disorder, paving the way for the emergence of clinical depression as a psychiatric illness in the twentieth century? At a time when the prevalence of mood disorders and antidepressant ... Read more

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  • Biała ksiega pandemii koronawirusa: fakty i dane ukrywane przed opinią publiczną

    W oparciu o publikacje naukowe (700+)

    Biała księga pandemii koronawirusa jest najprawdopodobniej pierwszą i jedyną na świecie pozycją, w której omówione zostały, w oparciu o olbrzymią liczbę artykułów naukowych (ponad 700), wszystkie najważniejsze aspekty związane z tzw. pandemią koronawirusa. Analizie poddano takie zagadnienia jak:Szczepienia przeciw COVID-19.Diagnostyka COVID-19, czyli w szczególności testy molekularne RT-PCR.Maski ... Read more

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  • Ethics, Integrity and Policymaking

    The Value of the Case Study

    Series Book 9 - Research Ethics Forum
    This Open Access book provides illustrative case studies that explore various research and innovation topics that raise challenges requiring ethical reflection and careful policymaking responses. The cases highlight diverse ethical challenges and provide lessons for the various options available for policymaking. Cases are drawn from many fields, including artificial intelligence, space science, ... Read more

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  • Modelo de atenção a saúde

    promoção, vigilância e saúde da família

    Series series Sala de aula
    Título discute a implementação de idéias que visam modificar a estrutura do sistema público de saúde, de forma a torná-lo mais humano e acessível para a população. Os autores reuniram os seus mais importantes textos sobre o tema, e publicam neste livro como mais um tentativa de mudança no modelo de atenção dado a saúde pública. ... Read more

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  • A Cosmopolítica da gestação, do parto e do pós-parto

    autoatenção e medicalização entre os índios Munduruku

    Series series Saúde dos povos Indígenas
    A pesquisadora Raquel Paiva Dias-Scopel, do Instituto Leônidas e Maria Deane (ILMD/Fiocruz Amazônia), levanta questões sobre a valorização e respeito à diversidade étnica e cultural dos povos indígenas e a difícil interface com o processos de medicalização e do direito ao acesso aos serviços de saúde biomédicos. O livro é parte da Coleção Saúde dos Povos Indígenas, da Editora Fiocruz e partiu da ... Read more

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  • Advances in Pharma Business Management and Research

    Volume 1

    This open access book presents a unique collection of practical examples from the field of pharma business management and research. It covers a wide range of topics such as: 'Brexit and its Impact on pharmaceutical Law - Implications for Global Pharma Companies', 'Implementation of Measures and Sustainable Actions to Improve Employee's Engagement', 'Global Medical Clinical and Regulatory Affairs ... Read more

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  • Your Guide to Get into Medical School

    It is commonly known that the application process to medical school is competitive. From our experience, about 1% of students who express an interest in becoming a physician during their first year of undergraduate studies, eventually matriculate into medical school. While pursuing a career in medicine remains a dream for many and is considered the endpoint of a journey, many different paths can ... Read more

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  • Climate Information for Public Health Action

    Series series Routledge Studies in Environment and Health
    Policy-makers are increasingly concerned about the impact of climate variability and change on the health of vulnerable populations. Variations and trends in climatic factors and extreme weather events impact many health outcomes, including malaria, heat stress and undernutrition.  Climate Information for Public Health Action is based on the premise thatclimate knowledge and information can help ... Read more

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  • Social Science Perspectives on Global Public Health

    Approaching global health through a social justice lens, this text explores both established and emerging issues for contemporary health and wellbeing.Divided into two parts, the book introduces key concepts in relation to global public health, such as ethics, economics, health disparities, and globalisation. The second part comprises chapters exploring specific challenges, such as designing and ... Read more

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  • Healthcare as a Universal Human Right

    Sustainability in Global Health

    by Rui Nunes ...
    This important book outlines how, despite varying levels of global socio-economic development, governments around the world can guarantee their citizens’ fundamental right to basic healthcare.Grounded in the philosophical position that healthcare is an essential element to human dignity, the book moves beyond this theoretical principle to offer policy-makers a basis for health policies based on ... Read more

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  • Handbook of Life Course Health Development

    This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This handbook synthesizes and analyzes the growing knowledge base on life course health development (LCHD) from the prenatal period through emerging adulthood, with implications for clinical practice and public health. It presents LCHD as an innovative field with a sound theoretical framework for understanding wellness and disease from a lifespan ... Read more

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  • State of the Young Child in India

    This Report is one of the first comprehensive studies on young children in India. It focuses on children under 6 years of age and presents key aspects of their well-being and development. With the highest number of neonatal, infant and under-5 deaths in the world, there is an urgent need to address issues that continue to affect the young child in India.This volume:Introduces two young child ... Read more

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  • SARS-CoV-2 Viral Outbreak Investigation: Laboratory Perspective

    Clinical Updates in COVID-19

    Series Book 19 - Clinical Updates in COVID
    This book contains transcript from the live webinar "Clinical Updates in COVID-19" organized by Institute for Clinical Research, NIH Malaysia on 2nd of July 2020. There are 3 panellists and 2 presentations in this webinar focusing on:Scaling up national lab capacity for COVID-19 by Dr. Hani Binti Mat Hussin, National Public Health Laboratory, MOH MalaysiaIMR's role in viral outbreak investigation: ... Read more

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  • Wandering the Wards

    An Ethnography of Hospital Care and its Consequences for People Living with Dementia

    Series series Routledge Studies in Health and Medical Anthropology
    Wandering the Wards provides a detailed and unflinching ethnographic examination of life within the contemporary hospital. It reveals the institutional and ward cultures that inform the organisation and delivery of everyday care for one of the largest populations within them: people living with dementia who require urgent unscheduled hospital care.Drawing on five years of research embedded in ... Read more

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  • Investigating the Body in the Victorian Asylum

    Doctors, Patients, and Practices

    Series series Mental Health in Historical Perspective
    This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This book explores how the body was investigated in the late nineteenth-century asylum in Britain. As more and more Victorian asylum doctors looked to the bodily fabric to reveal the ‘truth’ of mental disease, a whole host of techniques and technologies were brought to bear upon the patient's body. These practices encompassed the clinical and the ... Read more

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  • A Step-By-Step Guide to Questionnaire Validation Research

    Most validated questionnaires that are widely used around the world are created in a non-native language. If such a questionnaire is to be used in a native-speaking population, it must first be validated. This book aims to be a useful guide for describing all the steps required for validating a questionnaire. This book also provided a standard checklist with 17 items that are recommended to serve ... Read more

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  • Same-Sex Families and Legal Recognition in Europe

    Edited by Marie Digoix ...
    Series Book 24 - European Studies of Population
    This open access book focuses on family diversity from a legal, demographical and sociological perspective. It investigates what is at stake in the life of homosexuals in the field of family formation, parenting and parenthood, what it brings to everyday life, the support of the law, and what its absence implies. The book shows the paths leading to the adoption of laws while demographic analyses ... Read more

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