This book is an introduction to issues of the social determinants of health. Social determinants of health of the living and working conditions that shape whether we remain healthy or become ill the social determinants of health are...
Medicine, health and fitness
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Author:Raphael, DennisSummary: - Author:Armstrong, Hugh, Armstrong, PatSummary:
Health care is Canada's best loved social program--and for good reason. For over forty years, Canadians have enjoyed high quality health services based on need rather than on ability to pay. Yet we hear almost daily accounts of...
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About Face: Essays on Addictions, Recovery, Therapies, and Controversies seeks to broaden the conversation around addiction in Canada. Featuring essays by a diverse group of writers, About Face delves into the major categories of...
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About Face: Essays on Addictions, Recovery, Therapies, and Controversies seeks to broaden the conversation around addiction in Canada. Featuring essays by a diverse group of writers, About Face delves into the major categories of...
- Author:Dolmage, JaySummary:
Academic Ableism brings together disability studies and institutional critique to recognize the ways that disability is composed in and by higher education, and rewrites the spaces, times, and economies of disability in higher education...
- Author:Drolet, Marie, Bouchard, Pier, Savard, JacintheSummary:
It is imperative that we train leaders who are able to intervene efficiently with service users and to support a better organization of the workplace. It is especially important to look at the many issues related to postsecondary...
- Author:MacDougall, HeatherSummary:
For more than a century, Toronto’s Health Department has served as a model of evolving municipal public health services in Canada and beyond. From horse manure to hippies and small pox to AIDS, the Department’s staff have established...
- Author:Britt, L. D., Peitzman, Andrew B., Barie, Philip S., Jurkovich, Gregory J.Summary:
Acute Care Surgery is a comprehensive textbook covering the related fields of trauma, critical care, and emergency general surgery. The full spectrum of Acute Care Surgery is expertly addressed, with each chapter highlighting cutting-...
- Author:Crozier, Lorna, Lane, PatrickSummary:
With new material from Susan Cheever, Molly Jong-Fast, and Rick Whitaker. What is this craving that overpowers all else? What is it like to be addicted, and what does it take to get straight or sober? In this new and expanded edition of...
- Author:Kovac, S. Robert, Ovid Technologies, IncSummary:
Advances in Reconstructive Vaginal Surgery is a thoroughly illustrated guide to the art and the science of vaginal surgery for general gynecologic and urogynecologic problems. Covering a wide variety of procedures, from basic...
- Author:Attanoos, Richard L., Allen, Timothy C.Summary:
Advances in Surgical Pathology: Mesothelioma, a volume in the Advances in Surgical Pathology series, features chapters on current and impending changes in the field with an emphasis on practical issues, recent developments and emerging...
- Author:Ro, Jae Y., Shen, Steven S., Zhai, Qihui, Ayala, Alberto G.Summary:
A concise and updated review of prostate cancer pathologic diagnosis with emphasis on practical issues and recent developments in the field. Each chapter addresses the basic diagnostic features, differential diagnoses, pitfalls and ways...
- Author:Lombard, Rosalie M.Summary:
Like other children of the 1930s, I read about the adventures of Sir Wilfred Grenfell, who worked among fishermen in a very cold, icy place way up north called Newfoundland and Labrador . . .
It was many years later...
- Author:McIver, Susan B. , Wyndham, RobinSummary:
Moving stories underline serious issues with medical errors and empower patients. Medical errors kill 24,000 Canadians each year, adversely affect hundreds of thousands, and cost close to two billion dollars. Victims of medical errors...
- Author:Kuchinka, JenniferSummary:
Jennifer Kuchinka was a new mother in Estevan, Saskatchewan, Canada, struggling with postpartum depression when she ran out of the hospital, onto the highway, and was hit by a tractor-trailer truck. Jennifer survived that harrowing...
- Author:Chatzky, Jean Sherman, Spiker, Ted, Roizen, Michael F., Oz, Mehmet C.Summary:
Two experts explain the vital link between health and wealth that could add years to your life and dollars to your retirement savings.
- Author:Jill, NatalieSummary:
Licensed Master Sports Nutritionist, fat-loss expert, and high-performance coach Natalie Jill has helped hundreds of thousands of people around the world get in shape and be their best selves. Now, her new program will help you turn...
- Author:Borins Ash, Irene, Ash, IrvSummary:
Through the inspirational, wise, and informative stories of the residents, either in their own words or based on interviews, and environmental photographs of each, this book focuses on various residents of long-term care facilities and...
- Author:Vaillant, George E.Summary:
In an unprecedented series of studies, Harvard Medical School has followed 824 subjects--men and women, some rich, some poor--from their teens to old age. Harvard's George Vaillant now uses these studies, the most complete ever...
- Author:Bottom Line, Inc.Summary:
Diabetes is epidemic in the United States, especially if you're over the age of 50. Even if you're already being diligent about your health, a diagnosis can feel like an overwhelming extra burden. The editors of Bottom Line Inc. present...
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