Books

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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Preventing childhood obesity	Jeffrey P. Koplan,Catharyn T. Liverman,Vivica I. Kraak,Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on Prevention of Obesity in Children and Youth.	"Preventing Childhood Obesity provides a broad-based examination of the nature, extent, and consequences of obesity in U.S. children and youth, including the social environmental medical and dietary …	OL11637591W
Communicating about health	Athena DuPré	pages cm	OL12550603W
ACSM's worksite health handbook	American College of Sports Medicine	2nd ed.	OL15165364W
Community health education	Rameshwari Pandya	With reference to India.	OL15523181W
Community-based health interventions	Sally Guttmacher	"Community Based Health Interventions: Principles and Application is a completely modern approach to worst problems in community health: diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular disease, HIV, asthma, and obe…	OL15640071W
Alcohol, tobacco and obesity	Kirsten Bell,Darlene McNaughton,Amy Salmon	xii, 233 p. : 24 cm	OL16143360W
eHealth applications	Seth M. Noar	"This volume explores current use of interactive communication (or eHealth) applications to promote behavior change. It focuses on the use of these technology-based interventions for public health pr…	OL16184615W
Ecological public health	Geof Rayner	"What is public health? To some, it is about the infrastructure for health - drains, water, food, housing. These require engineering and expert management. To others, it's about the State using medic…	OL16263717W
Legal strategies in childhood obesity prevention	Lynn Parker	Since 1980, childhood obesity rates have more than tripled in the United States. Recent data show that almost one-third of children over 2 years of age are already overweight or obese. While the prev…	OL16471766W
Vaccinations and public concern in history	Andrea Kitta	"In spite of the success of the childhood inoculation movement, questions have persisted about the safety and efficacy of vaccines. Arguments such as the relationship between the MMR vaccine and auti…	OL16767757W
Community as partner	Elizabeth T. Anderson	"This user-friendly text is presented as a handbook for students and practicing nurses who work with communities to promote health. Community as Partner focuses on the essentials of practice with the…	OL16961862W
Community/public health nursing	Mary A. Nies,Melanie McEwen	This edition contains a new chapter on disaster management and preparedness that examines this new area of concern. It contains case studies that emphasise community aspects of all steps of the nursi…	OL17999281W
The checklist : what you and your family need to know to prevent disease and live a long and health…	Manny Alvarez	The Checklist is organized as a guide to help individuals and families take the right precautions, at the right time in their lives, to avoid the most common health pitfalls and illnesses, and put th…	OL18688115W
An integrated framework for assessing the value of community-based prevention	Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on Valuing Community-Based, Non-Clinical Prevention Policies and Wellness Strategies	"During the past century the major causes of morbidity and mortality in the United States have shifted from those related to communicable diseases to those due to chronic diseases. Just as the major …	OL19858019W
The hidden half of nature	David R. Montgomery	"Prepare to set aside what you think you know about yourself and microbes. Good health--for people and for plants--depends on Earth's smallest creatures. [This book] tells the story of our tangled re…	OL20017412W
Men's health	Karen Dignan,Harrison, Tony	"A rising public awareness of the social, environmental, genetic and gender-based factors that combine to present men with unique health challenges has led to rising professional interest in men's he…	OL20630295W
Health education	S. Tilford,Keith Tones	Formerly entitled : Health education : effectiveness & efficiency.	OL20664760W
Food science, nutrition and health	Brian A. Fox,Allan G. Cameron	The new edition of this well-established book bridges the gap between the scientific principles on which good nutrition is based and the day-to-day practice of 'healthy eating'. The basic chemical na…	OL20778689W
Health for all children	David M.b. Hall,David M. B. Hall	The UK budget for preventive health care for children is probably well over two hundred million pounds per year. What does the nation get for its money? A Joint Working Party was set up in 1986 to tr…	OL20828573W
Nursing as therapy	Alan Pearson	"Over the past 20 years, nursing has begun to rediscover some of its basic 'truths' which have become obscured because of the rise in technology and medical knowledge this century. One of these basic…	OL20976945W