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1) 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becomes an audience in an international conference on health and wellbeing held in Montreal, Canada after his unpublished research paper Orphan Nephrons Observation: Red Kidneys are blue to green the environment.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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Beginning with mankind's earliest recorded history, infectious disease has taken the lives of more humans than all wars, famines and natural disasters combined-not by a narrow margin but by an overwhelming landslide. Before the birth of modern science, losses to these unseen enemies were routinely blamed on the collective sins of man and the wrath of angry gods. Over the course of centuries, man's ongoing inability to comprehend the microbial world...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The second 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: social medicine 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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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...
15) Genetic Heavy Metal Toxicity: Explaining SIDS, Autism, Tourette's, Alzheimer's and Other Epidemics
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Something is dreadfully wrong. Of those who survive life in the womb, one out of two go on to have a serious defect, disease, or neurological disorder. Half the population! About 1 out of 500 babies dies of "SIDS," while about 1 out of 150 develops autism. Many more have varying degrees of Tourette's syndrome, OCD, ADHD, or behavioral disorders. Alzheimer's is an epidemic among the elderly. Depression, violence, and sleep disorders plague our society....
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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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Do cell phones cause brain cancer? Does BPA threaten our health? How safe are certain dietary supplements, especially those containing exotic herbs or small amounts of toxic substances? What role does HPV play in the development of cervical cancer, and is the HPV vaccine safe? In four detailed case studies, Geoffrey C. Kabat shows how science works or sometimes doesn't and what distinguishes these two very different outcomes. We depend on science...
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Detalla los aspectos más relevantes en el campo de la administración de los servicios de salud. Presenta de una manera clara cada uno de los conceptos desarrollados. Contiene información contextualizada y actualizada de acuerdo al modelo de salud del país. Fue desarrollado por especialistas con gran recorrido y reconocimiento en el campo administrativo de la salud.
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Para los padres jóvenes, la salud de los niños constituye a menudo un auténtico quebradero de cabeza porque cuentan con mucha información de variada procedencia. Tienen lo que han aprendido por su propia cuenta, los consejos a veces contradictorios de los amigos o de la familia y las afirmaciones extraídas de los artículos de revistas. Si hablamos de los niños, es necesario estar atentos siempre a su salud sin llegar a ser alarmistas y, sobre...
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Sin la menor duda, una de las aristas más sensible de los temas y problemas de salud es la que se refiere a la Salud Pública; esto es la consideración de las comunidades, grupos humanos y, en conjunto, de la sociedad, cuando se enfrentan epidemias, pandemias y graves crisis de salud. Pues bien, este libro se propone dirigir la mirada, desde la Salud Pública, en otra dirección. Específicamente, debe ser posible un giro hacia salud, sin más....
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