Understanding Your Health takes an exciting and practical approach to the teaching of personal health and its traditional content areas. Its two themes, the six dimensions of health and the five developmental tasks, help students apply the text's content to their own lives by improving their decision-making skills.
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BDNF has been referred to as the “Miracle-Gro” of the brain: For an easily digestible discussion of this topic, and a review of some of the earlier research on exercise and the brain, see J. Ratey and E. Hagerman (2008), ...
This startling book contains proposals for ensuring that public health service programs are efficient and effective enough to deal not only with the topics of today, but also with those of tomorrow.
The essays contained here champion an approach to health that is consequentialist and rooted in social justice -- an expansion of traditional, quantitatively motivated public health that will both inform and inspire any reader from student ...
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TRAVELING. SAFELY. WITH. INFANTS. &. CHILDREN. Michelle S. Weinberg, Nicholas Weinberg, Susan A. Maloney ... In 2016, an estimated 2.81 million international travelers from the United States were children or adults traveling with ...
After all, to err is human. Instead, this book sets forth a national agendaâ€"with state and local implicationsâ€"for reducing medical errors and improving patient safety through the design of a safer health system.
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In this book, the eminent neuroscientist Peter Sterling describes a broader concept: allostasis (coined by Sterling and Joseph Eyer in the 1980s), whereby the brain anticipates needs and efficiently mobilizes supplies to prevent errors.
I've long been a big believer in the power of authentic leadership to create a healthy company culture. This is an uplifting book about managing a company wisely toward a state of sustainable wellness. I hope the book is a great success.