The federal and state partnership in supporting immunization programs that benefit the general population evolved over the last half of the 20th century from a simple cost-sharing arrangement for vaccine purchase for disadvantaged children to a more complicated mix of programs, health care coverage benefits, and public-private partnerships.
Preparedness, Response and Recovery Considerations for Children and Families is the summary of a workshop convened in June, 2013 by the Institute of Medicine Forum on Medical and Public Health Preparedness for Catastrophic Events to discuss disaster preparedness, response, and resilience relative to the needs of children and families, including children with special health care needs.
As women of childbearing age have become heavier, the trade-off between maternal and child health created by variation in gestational weight gain has become more difficult to reconcile.
In response to a request from Congress, the Health and Medicine Division of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine conducted a study comparing the process to develop the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2020-2025 (DGA 2020-2025) to recommendations included in the previously published National Academies report, Redesigning the Process for Establishing the Dietary Guidelines for Americans.
Dietary assessment in older adults presents many unique problems due to the diversity of health states and capabilities that span the population group.
In the early 1970s 'baby battering' accounted for an estimated 700 child deaths a year in Britain, while a further 4-5,000 children were seriously injured - all this in spite of the knowledge gained from the research done both in Britain and in the United States.
This is the first book to examine how effectively American and supranational EU governments have regulated innovative pharmaceuticals during the last 30 years regarding public health.
If you are a woman between the ages of 45 and 75 and are trying to decide whether to try, or stick with, hormone therapy (HT), or if you are a physician with patients fitting this description, this book is for you - unless you are looking for a simple answer.
This collection of six papers on the role of quantitative risk assessment in the promulgation of recent regulatory standards represents the latest contribution to a series of volumes published by Lester Lave and the Brookings Institution on regulatory decisionmaking.
People who need more energy and want to avoid stimulants that will make them edgy should consider taking supplements of carnitine or acetyl-l-carnitine, two forms of the same nutrient found naturally in protein.
One of the most remarkable natural antioxidants ever discovered, Pycnogenol is a complex of more than forty individual antioxidants extraced from the bark of French maritime pine trees.
Im Zentrum des Buches stehen Arbeitsplatzgestaltung, Mitarbeiterbelastung und Arbeitsschutz im Gebäudetechnik Handwerk:• Welche Belastungen und Gefährdungen können bei der technischen -Gebäudeausrüstung auftreten?
Covering a wide range of popular alternative medicine and health issues, User' are written by leading experts and science writers and are designed to answer the consumer's basic questions about disease, conventional and alternative therapies, and individual dietary supplements.
Covering a wide range of popular alternative medicine and health issues, User's Guides are written by leading experts and science writers and are designed to answer the consumer's basic questions about disease, conventional and alternative therapies, and individual dietary supplements.
Explains how to use amino acids to achieve optimum health and describes their beneficial roles in fighting cancer, Alzheimer's disease, depression, heart disease, and more.
With this expaned revision of the 1982 classic, The Sugar Trap, Beatrice Trum Hunter, noted writer on food issues, brings readers invaluable help for avoid the sweetener trap.
A Whole Foods Primerdescribes the special characteristics that consumers should seek when shopping so they can identify the peak of nutritional flavor and value in whole foods.
Covering a wide range of popular alternative medicine and health issues, User's Guides are written by leading experts and science writers and are designed to answer the consumer's basic questions about disease, conventional and alternative therapies, and individual dietary supplements.
This book addresses a potential radiation incident caused by the war in Ukraine, from an interdisciplinary approach of medical, nuclear safety and security, nuclear research, geostrategic and population's resilience perspectives.
This collection of essays by leading exponents of contemporary Buddhism and psychotherapy brings together appreciation and critical evaluation of Mindfulness, a phenomenon that has swept the mental health field over the last two decades.
Umfassendes und komplexes Grundlagenwissen, kompakt, kritisch und praxisnah auf den Punkt gebracht: • Individualmedizin und Bevölkerungsgesundheit (Public Health) • Gesundheit und Krankheit: Theorien und Modelle • Evidenzbasierte berufliche Praxis • Epidemiologie, Forschungsmethoden, Gesundheitsberichterstattung • Prävention und Gesundheitsförderung • Ungleichheiten der Gesundheit.
This book provides concrete scientific basis that we can conceive the possibility of modifying or even completely canceling aging process, despite the fact that aging is commonly regarded as the result of the overall effects of many uncontrollable degenerative phenomena.
