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Understanding the Global Dimensions of Health
"Health is not escaping the current bulldozer of 'globalization,' with its attendant benefits, errors, complications, and unknowns. Economic, social, political, environmental, behavioural, and even transcendental factors are being perceived as shaping the increasingly borderless world...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Springer US : Imprint: Springer,
2005.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. 2005. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto Completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Fundamentals
- A Brief History of Advances Toward Health
- The Health, Poverty, and Development Merry-Go-Round
- Old and New Pestilences
- Value Systems and Healthcare Ethics
- World Health
- Systems
- Health Policies versus Public Policies
- A Medicine Based on Evidence
- The Promise of Technology
- Critical Inquiries on Technology Utilization
- Therapeutic Patient Education for Chronic Diseases
- The Dynamics
- The Humanitarian Imperative in Major Health Crises and Disasters
- Dealing with Global Infectious Disease Emergencies
- Knowledge-Based Methodologies in the Health Sector
- Food Safety: A Pressing Public-Health and Economic Issue
- Future Health in an Ageing World
- The Controversies
- Disease and Health in the Cultural Context
- Global Issues and Health Interactions
- The Coming Storm
- Education, Understanding, and Eudaemonia
- Postscript: The Present and the Future of Global Health.