The health of populations : beyond medicine /
"The Health of Populations: Beyond Medicine uses current research and in-depth analysis to provide insights into the issues and challenges of population health; a subject of increasing concern, due largely to rapid population growth, population aging, rising costs and diminishing resources, hea...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Academic Press,
2015.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part 1. The science of health
- 1. The origins of health
- 2. Current patterns of death and disease
- 3. Twelve millennia of changing human habits and habitats
- 4. Biomedicine and common causes of mortality and morbidity
- Part 2. The harm of medicine
- 5. Medical harm: what is it and what is the extent?
- 6. Sources of harm: prescription drugs, surgery, and infections
- 7. The commercial culture of medicine
- 8. Big pharma entanglement with biomedical science
- 9. The charms and harms of personalized medicine
- Part 3. Achieving optimal health sustainably
- 10. Healing practices and evidence-based medicine
- 11. Placebo and the therapeutic process
- 12. Prevention and control of disease
- 13. Associated prevention concepts and models
- 14. Optimal healthcare: risk factor reduction and adjunctive biomedical intervention
- 15. Mental health.