Health Science And Place

Author : Amy J. Blatt
Publisher : Springer
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319120034

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Health, Science, and Place by Amy J. Blatt Pdf

The main focus of this monograph is synthesizing the importance of geographic approaches to public health and patient care. The chapters are organized into four themed sections: the role of geography in health care reform; the geographies of human health; geospatial data and technologies; and geography in medicine. It is a highly informative book, providing scientific insight for geographers with an interest in advanced geospatial applications and health research. The author is an international expert in geography, GIS, and public health, who co-edited a special issue on “Geospatial Applications in Disease Surveillance,” published in the International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research. "Health, Science, and Place is a well-intentioned overview of medical geography in the context of the ACA. Blatt does an excellent job synthesizing ecologic and geographic literatures with what we know about individual health, health care systems, and public health. ... this book fills a need in the field by offering a timely discussion of the ACA and medical geography." - Jennifer L. Moss, The AAG Review of Books, Vol. 4 (2), 2016 “Amy Blatt’s pioneering new book on geomedicine and its exciting capacity to promote health and minimize risk is a robust call for understanding the role of geography for everyone’s quality of life. In Health, Science, and Place: A New Mode, Dr. Blatt’s contributions can be summarized in three categories: comprehensive analysis, creative curating, and targeted innovations... Overall, Dr. Blatt’s Health, Science, and Place: A New Model is a pathbreaking book challenging all public health and health communication scholars and practitioners to explore vigorously the role of medical geography as a shining new bridge between geography and patient care.” - John C. Pollock, PhD, MPA, Professor of Health Communication and Human Rights, and Faculty Affiliate in Public Health, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ

Author : Judith Garrard
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Publishers
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781449694906

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Health Sciences Literature Review Made Easy by Judith Garrard Pdf

This fourth edition is a text for your nursing research course and provides students with a solid foundation and the tools they need to evaluate articles and research effectively. The fourth edition builds on the digital updates made to the previous edition and highlights the Matrix Method and the skills necessary to critically evaluate articles. The text also covers Method Maps, which teach students how to effectively construct a research study. The author leads students through the process of how to manage a quality literature review in the context of evidence-based practice. A case study highlighting a typical graduate student is woven throughout the text to illustrate the importance of literature reviews and evidence-based practice. Health sciences literature review made easy, fourth edition is appropriate for graduate level nursing courses as well as undergraduate Nursing Research courses that require literature reviews.

Author : Ross Barnett,Graham Moon,Jamie Pearce,Lee Thompson,Liz Twigg
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781444361919

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Smoking Geographies by Ross Barnett,Graham Moon,Jamie Pearce,Lee Thompson,Liz Twigg Pdf

Smoking Geographies provides a research-led assessment of the impact of geographical factors on smoking. The contributors uncover how geography can show us not only why people smoke but also broader issues of tobacco control, providing deeper clarity on how smoking and tobacco is ‘governed’. The text centres on one of the most important public health issues worldwide, and a major determinant of preventable mortality and morbidity in developed and developing countries Records the outcomes of a long-term research collaboration that brings a geographical lens to smoking behaviour Uncovers how geography can play a part in understanding not only why people smoke but also broader issues of tobacco control Provides a deeper understanding of how smoking and tobacco is ‘governed’, regarding where people may smoke, but also more subtle governance as a climate is produced in which smoking becomes ‘denormalised’ Brings both quantitative and qualitative perspectives to bear on this major source of mortality and morbidity

Author : Esther M. Sternberg
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009-05-31
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780674033368

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Healing Spaces by Esther M. Sternberg Pdf

“Esther Sternberg is a rare writer—a physician who healed herself...With her scientific expertise and crystal clear prose, she illuminates how intimately the brain and the immune system talk to each other, and how we can use place and space, sunlight and music, to reboot our brains and move from illness to health.”—Gail Sheehy, author of Passages Does the world make you sick? If the distractions and distortions around you, the jarring colors and sounds, could shake up the healing chemistry of your mind, might your surroundings also have the power to heal you? This is the question Esther Sternberg explores in Healing Spaces, a look at the marvelously rich nexus of mind and body, perception and place. Sternberg immerses us in the discoveries that have revealed a complicated working relationship between the senses, the emotions, and the immune system. First among these is the story of the researcher who, in the 1980s, found that hospital patients with a view of nature healed faster than those without. How could a pleasant view speed healing? The author pursues this question through a series of places and situations that explore the neurobiology of the senses. The book shows how a Disney theme park or a Frank Gehry concert hall, a labyrinth or a garden can trigger or reduce stress, induce anxiety or instill peace. If our senses can lead us to a “place of healing,” it is no surprise that our place in nature is of critical importance in Sternberg’s account. The health of the environment is closely linked to personal health. The discoveries this book describes point to possibilities for designing hospitals, communities, and neighborhoods that promote healing and health for all.

Author : Stephen J. Walters,Michael J. Campbell,David Machin
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781119423645

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Medical Statistics by Stephen J. Walters,Michael J. Campbell,David Machin Pdf

The 5th edition of this popular introduction to statistics for the medical and health sciences has undergone a significant revision, with several new chapters added and examples refreshed throughout the book. Yet it retains its central philosophy to explain medical statistics with as little technical detail as possible, making it accessible to a wide audience. Helpful multi-choice exercises are included at the end of each chapter, with answers provided at the end of the book. Each analysis technique is carefully explained and the mathematics kept to minimum. Written in a style suitable for statisticians and clinicians alike, this edition features many real and original examples, taken from the authors' combined many years' experience of designing and analysing clinical trials and teaching statistics. Students of the health sciences, such as medicine, nursing, dentistry, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, and radiography should find the book useful, with examples relevant to their disciplines. The aim of training courses in medical statistics pertinent to these areas is not to turn the students into medical statisticians but rather to help them interpret the published scientific literature and appreciate how to design studies and analyse data arising from their own projects. However, the reader who is about to design their own study and collect, analyse and report on their own data will benefit from a clearly written book on the subject which provides practical guidance to such issues. The practical guidance provided by this book will be of use to professionals working in and/or managing clinical trials, in academic, public health, government and industry settings, particularly medical statisticians, clinicians, trial co-ordinators. Its practical approach will appeal to applied statisticians and biomedical researchers, in particular those in the biopharmaceutical industry, medical and public health organisations.

Author : Bruce Colbert,Jeff Ankney,Joe Wilson,John Havrilla
Publisher : Cengage Learning
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02-24
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1111319995

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An Integrated Approach to Health Sciences: Anatomy and Physiology, Math, Chemistry and Medical Microbiology (Book Only) by Bruce Colbert,Jeff Ankney,Joe Wilson,John Havrilla Pdf

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Author : Stephen Polgar,Shane A. Thomas
Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-31
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780702074929

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Introduction to Research in the Health Sciences - E-Book by Stephen Polgar,Shane A. Thomas Pdf

Now in its 7th edition this textbook is a must have for any health professional student. It provides a comprehensive overview of health research, in a concise and easy to read format using examples directly related to the health sciences. It helps students understand health research models, and how research goes on to inform and improve evidence-based clinical practice. For practitioners it provides guidance on published research in journals, providing an essential tool to keep their practice evidence based. Uses simple language and demystifies research jargon Covers both quantitative and qualitative research methodology, taking a very practical approach Provides an extensive glossary for better understanding of the language of research Fully updated online interactive self-assessment tests including MCQs, true or false questions and short answer questions.

Author : Melissa D. Giesbrecht,Valorie A. Crooks
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317080558

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Place, Health, and Diversity by Melissa D. Giesbrecht,Valorie A. Crooks Pdf

Although health equity and diversity-focussed research has begun to gain momentum, there is still a paucity of research from health geographers that explicitly explores how geographic factors, such as place, space, scale, community, and location, inform multiple axes of difference. Such axes can include residential location, age, sex, gender, race/ethnicity, culture, religion, socio-economic status, marital status, sexual orientation, education level, and immigration status. Specifically focussing on Canada’s rapidly changing society, which is becoming increasingly pluralized and diverse, this book examines the place-health-diversity intersection in this national context. Health geographers are well positioned to offer a valuable contribution to diversity-focussed research because place is inextricably linked to differential experiences of health. For example, access to health care and health promoting services and resources is largely influenced by where one is physically and socially situated within the web of diversity. Furthermore, applying geographic concepts like place, in both the physical and social sense, allows researchers to explore multiple axes of difference simultaneously. Such geographic perspectives, as presented in this book, offer new insights into what makes diverse people, in diverse places, with access to diverse resources (un)healthy in different ways in Canada and beyond.

Author : Gavin J. Andrews
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317075974

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Primary Health Care: People, Practice, Place by Gavin J. Andrews Pdf

Health care is constantly undergoing change and refinement resulting from the adoption of new practices and technologies, the changing nature of societies and populations, and also shifts in the very places from which care is delivered. Primary Health Care: People, Practice, Place draws together significant contributions from established experts across a variety of disciplines to focus on such changes in primary health care, not only because it is the most basic and integral form of health service delivery, but also because it is an area to which geographers have made significant contributions and to which other scholars have engaged in 'thinking geographically' about its core concepts and issues. Including perspectives from both consumers and producers, it moves beyond geographical accounts of the context of health service provision through its explicit focus on the practice of primary health care. With arguments well-supported by empirical research, this book will appeal not only to scholars across a range of social and health sciences, but also to professionals involved in health services.

Author : Jacquelyn Rhine Marshall,Sue C. Roe
Publisher : Goodheart-Wilcox Publisher
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 1631265865

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Health Science: Concepts and Applications by Jacquelyn Rhine Marshall,Sue C. Roe Pdf

The Health Science: Concepts and ApplicationsWorkbook contains activities that reinforce material presented in the Health Science: Concepts and Applications Textbook, offering a hands-on learning experience.

Author : Robin A. Kearns,Wilbert M. Gesler
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1998-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0815627688

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Putting Health into Place by Robin A. Kearns,Wilbert M. Gesler Pdf

Putting Health into Place draws together original works that collectively argue for a reinvention of medical geography. There is a growing interest worldwide in relationships between human health and the experience of place, an interest driven both by developments in sociocultural theory and observed health concerns. This book is a resource for those wishing to explore or to teach beyond the frontiers of conventional medical geography. As the first word of the book's title suggests, this is an active volume, one that contributes to situating health in the simultaneously tangible, negotiated, and experienced realities of place. Robin A. Kearns and Wilbert M. Gesler argue that medical issues are a necessary but insufficient focus in developing geographies of health and healing. This contention is supported by the authors of the thirteen substantive chapters who convey research findings from the Americas, Britain, and the Pacific. This book represents a collective commitment to exploring links between social and cultural theory, ideas about place, and discourses on health that will be of interest to readers across the social and health sciences.

Author : Brian Castellani,Rajeev Rajaram,J. Galen Buckwalter,Michael Ball,Frederic Hafferty
Publisher : Springer
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-24
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783319097343

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Place and Health as Complex Systems by Brian Castellani,Rajeev Rajaram,J. Galen Buckwalter,Michael Ball,Frederic Hafferty Pdf

The history of public health has focused on direct relationships between problems and solutions: vaccinations against diseases, ad campaigns targeting risky behaviors. But the accelerating pace and mounting intricacies of our lives are challenging the field to find new scientific methods for studying community health. The complexities of place (COP) approach is emerging as one such promising method. Place and Health as Complex Systems demonstrates how COP works, making an empirical case for its use in for designing and implementing interventions. This brief resource reviews the defining characteristics of places as dynamic and evolving social systems, rigorously testing them as well as the COP approach itself. The study, of twenty communities within one county in the Midwest, combines case-based methods and complexity science to determine whether COP improves upon traditional statistical methods of public health research. Its conclusions reveal strengths and limitations of the approach, immediate possibilities for its use, and challenges regarding future research. Included in the coverage: Characteristics of places and the complexities of place approach. The Definitional Test of Complex Systems. Case-based modeling using the SACS toolkit. Methods, maps, and measures used in the study. Places as nodes within larger networks. Places as power-based conflicted negotiations. Place and Health as Complex Systems brings COP into greater prominence in public health research, and is also valuable to researchers in related fields such as demography, health geography, community health, urban planning, and epidemiology.

Author : Gavin J. Andrews,Emma Rowland,Elizabeth Peter
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030641795

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Place and Professional Practice by Gavin J. Andrews,Emma Rowland,Elizabeth Peter Pdf

This book presents the first single comprehensive analysis of the scope of geographical realities and relevance in health care work. Conceptually, the book conveys how space, place and geographical ideas matter to clinical practice, from the historical beginnings of professional roles and responsibilities in medicine to the present day. In 8 chapters, the book covers healthcare work across a range of job types (including physician, nurse, and multiple technical and therapeutic roles in multiple specialties), and across a range of scales (focusing on global issues and trends, national and regional particularities, urban and rural issues, institutional environments and various community settings). This book is intended for students, teachers, and researchers in geography, social science and various health sciences. Chapter 1 examines how geographical ideas have been central to practitioners' thinking and practice over time. Chapter 2 reviews the scope of contemporary geographical study of health care work. Chapter 3 presents an empirical case study of the geographies in hospital-based ward work. Chapter 4 presents an empirical case study of the geographies in ambulance/rapid response work. Chapter 5 presents a case study of the geographies associated with a high profile case of criminality and neglect in practice. Chapter 6 considers concepts and the geographies in person-centred care. Chapter 7 considers concepts and the geographies in skills attainment.

Author : Wilbert M. Gesler,Robin A. Kearns
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2005-07-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781134655724

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Culture/Place/Health by Wilbert M. Gesler,Robin A. Kearns Pdf

Culture/Place/Health is the first exploration of cultural-geographical health research for a decade, drawing on contemporary research undertaken by geographers and other social scientists to explore the links between culture, place and health. It uses a wealth of examples from societies around the world to assert the place of culture in shaping relations between health and place. It contributes to an expanding of horizons at the intersection of the discipline of geography and the multidisciplinary domain of health concerns.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Subcommittee on Government Research
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015009467724

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National Commission on Health Science and Society by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Subcommittee on Government Research Pdf