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Preventing childhood obesity
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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 … |
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Communicating about health
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Athena DuPré |
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Why our health matters
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Andrew Weil |
A landmark book that shows us exactly how we have let health and medicine become a crisis in our society and what we can all do to resolve it Healthcare is no longer just a public issue; for millions… |
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Securing our future
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United Nations. Economic Commission for Africa. Commission on HIV/AIDS and Governance in Africa. |
Across Africa, people dying prematurely from AIDS continues to pose serious challenges to the ability of African States to maintain efficient public institutions and deliver sound policies and promot… |
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ACSM's worksite health handbook
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American College of Sports Medicine |
2nd ed. |
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Community health education
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Rameshwari Pandya |
With reference to India. |
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Cancer control
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J. Mark Elwood |
"Cancer control is the term applied to the development of integrated population-based approaches to reduce the incidence and mortality from cancer and to minimize its impact on affected individuals a… |
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Community-based health interventions
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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… |
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Ebersole & Hess' toward healthy aging
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Theris A. Touhy,Kathleen Freudenberger Jett |
Grounded in the core competencies recommended by the AACN in collaboration with the Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing, The 8th edition of this textbook is a comprehensive resource on health pr… |
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Alcohol, tobacco and obesity
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Kirsten Bell,Darlene McNaughton,Amy Salmon |
xii, 233 p. : 24 cm |
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eHealth applications
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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… |
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Ecological public health
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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… |
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The weight of the nation
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Judith A. Salerno |
"Readers know America is getting fatter but might not know that 75% of us may be overweight or obese by 2018, that children are at risk for obesity and diabetes as never before, or that obesity is th… |
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Legal strategies in childhood obesity prevention
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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… |
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Vaccinations and public concern in history
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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… |
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Community as partner
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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… |
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Obesogenic environments
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Tim G. Townshend,Seraphim Alvanides,Amelia Lake |
"The obesogenic environment describes the sum of influences that our surroundings, opportunities or conditions of life have on promoting obesity in individuals or populations. In a world where obesit… |
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HealthierUS School Challenge
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United States. Food and Nutrition Service |
"Within these pages are tools, tips, and ideas for submitting a winning application for the HealthierUS School Challenge. The HealthierUS School Challenge was established to recognize schools that ar… |
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Community/public health nursing
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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… |
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The checklist : what you and your family need to know to prevent disease and live a long and health…
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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… |
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