Health Promotion and Wellness is designed to provide health care providers with both the theoretical knowledge and practical skills they need to provide high-quality clinical preventive services. This unique resource is separated into two sections: the first section gives inform…
"En réponse à l'exceptionnel accroissement de la longévité, il est nécessaire de prévenir le vieillissement pathologique des personnes à partir de 50 ans. Selon les mots du Pr Bruno Vellas, chef du gérontopôle de Toulouse, « Maintenir les fonctions (cognitives, mobilité, visuell…
While vaccination rates have soared and cases of preventable infections have plummeted, an increasingly vocal cross section of Americans have questioned the safety and necessity of vaccines. In Vaccine Nation, Elena Conis explores this complicated history and its consequences fo…
Healthy Living in Late Renaissance Italy explores in detail the efforts made by men and women in late Renaissance Italy to stay healthy and prolong their lives. Drawing on a wide variety of sources - ranging from cheap healthy living guides in the vernacular to personal letters,…
L'auteur préconise une meilleure hygiène de vie passant par une alimentation plus équilibrée, l'abandon de petites habitudes néfastes, une pratique sportive plus fréquente et l'application de quelques conseils pour garder la forme.
L'auteur préconise une meilleure hygiène de vie passant par une alimentation plus équilibrée, l'abandon de petites habitudes néfastes, une pratique sportive plus fréquente et l'application de quelques conseils pour garder la forme.
"Bestselling author David Agus unveils the brave new world of medicine, one in which we can take control of our health like never before and doctors can fine-tune strategies and weapons to prevent illness. In his first bestseller, The End of Illness, David Agus revealed how to a…
"The AIDS epidemic has posed more urgent historical questions than any other disease of modern times. How have societies responded to epidemics in the past? Why did the disease emerge when and where it did? How has it spread among members of particular groups? And how will the p…
In this reappraisal of public health and health promotion in contemporary societies, Deborah Lupton explores public health and health promotion using contemporary sociocultural and political theory, particularly that building on Foucault's writings on subjectivity, embodiment an…
`A good history of public health developments, primarily in Australia and England, the book is a continuation of debate among health education profession over the status of any or all health education ""truths""' - Choice.