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Evaluation of Certain Food Additives and Contaminants, No. 909
World Health Organization 2002; US$ 31.50This report represents the conclusions of a Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee convened to evaluate the safety of residues of certain veterinary drugs in food and to recommend maximum levels for such residues in food. The first part of the report considers general principles regarding the evaluation of veterinary drugs within the terms of reference of... more...
User Centred Networked Health Care
IOS Press 2011; US$ 319.00This volume of "Studies in Health Technology and Informatics - User Centred Networked Health Care - Proceedings of MIE 2011" - contributes to the discussion of the unresolved challenges arising for 21-century health care. It highlights a number of design issues and explores experiences of health professionals and patients working and living... more...
Suffering in the Land of Sunshine
Rutgers University Press 2006; US$ 24.95The history of medicine is much more than the story of doctors, nurses, and hospitals. Seeking to understand the patient's perspective, historians scour the archives, searching for rare personal accounts. Bringing together a trove of more than 400 family letters by Charles Dwight Willard, Suffering in the Land of Sunshine provides a unique window... more...
Overdosed America
HarperCollins 2013; US$ 11.99Using the examples of Vioxx, Celebrex, cholesterol-lowering statin drugs, and anti-depressants, Overdosed America shows that at the heart of the current crisis in American medicine lies the commercialization of medical knowledge itself. Drawing on his background in statistics, epidemiology, and health policy, John Abramson, M.D., reveals the ways... more...
Research Methods in Community Medicine
Wiley 2008; US$ 86.00A simple and systematic guide to the planning and performance of investigations concerned with health and disease and with health care Offers researchers help in choosing a topic and to think about shaping objectives and ideas and to link these with the appropriate choice of method Fully updated with new sections on the use of the Web and computer... more...
Assessing Evidence to improve Population Health and Wellbeing
SAGE Publications 2011; US$ 36.00This book helps students understand the core area of the Public Health Skills and Career Framework concerned with assessing evidence of the effectiveness of interventions. more...
Normes relatives à l'eau, l'assainissement et l'hygiène en milieu scolaire dans les environnements pauvres en ressources
World Health Organization 2010; US$ 20.00Les maladies liees a l'insalubrite de l'eau, a l'absence de systeme d'assainissement et au manque d'hygiene representent un enorme fardeau pour les pays en developpement. On estime que 88% des maladies diarrheiques sont dues a l'utilisation d'eau insalubre et a des problemes d'assainissement et d'hygiene.Nombre d'etablissements... more...
Essential Environmental Health Standards for Health Care
World Health Organization 2007; US$ 15.00Health-care associated infections affect between 5 and 30% of patients. The associated burden of disease is extremely high, and is a significant drain on health-sector resources and households. Ensuring safe environmental health conditions in health care can reduce the transmission of health care associated infections. The interventions provide an... more...
Researching Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Taylor and Francis 2006; US$ 51.95Researching Complementary and Alternative Medicine provides a valuable and timely resource for those looking to understand, initiate and expand CAM research. This collection brings together leading international CAM researchers with backgrounds and expertise in a variety of areas including health social science, qualitative methodology, general... more...
Promoting Health
SAGE Publications 2002; US$ 52.95'A very interesting melange of descriptive material - in the form of case studies - and more analytical and conceptual pieces covering the broad span of the health and well-being agenda' - Health Matters Promoting Health provides an up-to-date and accessible introduction to current health promotion and public health developments in the UK.... more...









