This book attempts to outline the theoretical underpinnings of philosophy of health promotion. In doing so, it draws upon seminal work done by various experts and agencies in this field. The book a...
Health promotion strategies aim to reduce the chances of diseases occurrence.Health promotion requires action at various levels to achieve optimum health for the masses. This entails honoring of ri...
In this book, authors added the information about the diabetic mellitus, sedentary lifestyle of the individuals, and the quality of life related to the older people. Healthy older adults who partic...
Health related quality of life (HRQOL) has been noted to changed among cancer children during bone marrow transplantation (BMT) recovery and with increased survival rates after pediatric bone marro...
Over the last few decades, the practice of human trafficking has enormously increased. In fact, human trafficking has gone beyond all boundaries and is clearly an important public health concern. T...
The study investigated the interplay of health needs, health seeking behaviors, and barriers to healthcare access of the Tingguians, Kankanaeys, and Bagos of Alilem and Lidlida, Ilocos Sur. A Free ...
Amongst the top-rate sought-after service on a global scale is good health.Amidst palpable advances in Health care delivery, certain peoples maintain poor health status indices; thought to be linke...
There is a keen interest at present in exploring the potentials of social health insurance to increase access and affordability of health care in Africa. Ghana's National Health Insurance Bill was ...
Taking into consideration, high prevalence of under nutrition in children from various national surveys, this study has been undertaken by the author to know the health status of school children, ...
Birth control is the use of any practices, methods or devices to prevent pregnancy from occurring in sexually active women, also referred to as family planning, pregnancy prevention, fertility cont...
With the aim of assessing health status of geriatric people, present study was conducted in the urban field practice area of J.S.S. Medical College, Mysore. Thus a study to explore morbidity patter...
By 2007, health centers in primary health care are public entities, autonomous, contracted by HII, financed according to package of services, self managed. Health centre is managed by Manager and e...
The research focused on the concept of directly observed therapy, short course (DOTS) strategy recommended by WHO as the basis of control of TB in the world. Objectives: the study was undertaken to...
Providing culturally sensitive health care to diverse population of immigrant Nigerian men would be enhanced by better understanding their experiences with the health care system and their percepti...
Buruli ulcer (BU) is one of the least studied neglected tropical diseases. It is a chronic necrotising skin and soft tissue disease that may also affect the bone. The majority of BU affected people...
Revision with unchanged content. Indicators are used to characterize different society issues such as demographic situation, status of environment, economy development. In this book I used four cat...
Many avoidable shortcomings in the health sector that result in poor quality health services are due to inaccessible data, information, and knowledge. Lost and unreliable data, poor documentation, ...
Healthcare waste has been managed anyhow in the past mainly to avoid its stockpile, nuisance and public reaction without much concern to public health and the environment. Two waste categories are ...
Patient care in hospitals and other healthcare facilities necessarily generate wastes which are hazardous and infectious. If not manged properly it poses grave hazard to human health, and the envir...
Hospital does not work in isolation. It is itself a community within the community.The medical fraternity has always been focused on curing and controlling disease for mankind. The art and science ...