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Una buena educación no está orientada hacia el mercado, sino, trabaja como afirmación y potenciación de vida. Esta es la base de las relaciones entre educación y complejidad. Los lenguajes, las estructuras, los procesos y las instancias organizativas merecen ser re-pensadas de cara a estas relaciones. Este es el tema del libro, escrito por una red de investigación conformada por profesores de la Universidad de la Serena (Chile), la Universidad...
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Pensar la salud es una tarea que jamás se ha emprendido en Occidente. Hasta la fecha, la preocupación fue siempre negativa, así: el rechazo de la enfermedad, la superación de la pobreza y otras expresiones semejantes. Es posible decirlo en términos fuertes y directos: el llamado a la salud coincide con un auténtico giro civilizatorio. Mientras que Occidente siempre supo solo de la enfermedad y cómo vencerla, asistimos a los albores de una nueva...
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Tras algunas décadas de investigación y deliberación rigurosas, la bioética en América Latina—Nuestra América, como la llamó José Martí—está pensando con cabeza y voz propias. Esta investigación teórica intenta explorar los primeros pasos para una fundamentación propedéutica de la bioética latinoamericana o, más bien, de las bioéticas latinoamericanas, que son plurales y diversas. El autor plantea, en primer lugar, una aproximación...
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"Where does one go without health insurance, when turned away by hospitals, clinics, and doctors? In The People's Hospital, physician Ricardo Nuila's stunning debut, we follow the lives of five uninsured Houstonians as their struggle for survival leads them to a hospital where insurance comes second to genuine care. Each patient eventually lands at Ben Taub, the county hospital where Dr. Nuila has worked for over a decade. Nuila delves with empathy...
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This sourcebook provides up-to-date information regarding ADB environmental safeguards, poverty and social analysis, and compliance procedures in order to support the process of health impact assessment. It is a useful reference for ADB staff, borrowers, executing agencies, consultants, and others seeking a better understanding of how to implement health impact assessments. The publication outlines the procedures, methods, and tools that health impact...
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In Faith-Based Health Justice, a stellar assembly of scholars mines critical insights into the promotion of health justice across Christian and Islamic faith traditions and beyond. Contributors to the volume consider what health justice might mean today, if developed in accordance with faith traditions whose commandment to care for the poor, ill, and marginalized lies at the core of their theology. And what kind of transformation of both faith traditions...
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"Este libro habla de la obra de un trabajador de la salud, que realizó una apasionada e intensa tarea a lo largo de su vida profesional para que el Derecho a la Salud se haga realidad en el ámbito de la Salud Pública.
Es un relato autobiográfico que debe ser contextualizado en la década de 1960 en adelante, y especialmente en las provincias del norte de nuestro país, en donde existían los más bajos indicadores socioeconómicos y sanitarios....
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Artificial intelligence (AI) is a simulation of the process of human intelligence through computers.AI has cemented its status as a powerful technology with the ability to propel a paradigm shift in healthcare and medicine of the 21st century and the future. The insights and values gained from AI and its subset, machine learning, are essential for predicting health outcomes and improving decision-making in healthcare and medicine.AI can offer revolutionary...
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Libro especializado que se ajusta al desarrollo de la cualificación profesional y adquisición del certificado de profesionalidad "SANT0108. ATENCIÓN SANITARIA A MÚLTIPLES VÍCTIMASY CATÁSTROFES". Manual imprescindible para la formación y la capacitación, que se basa en los principios de la cualificación y dinamización del conocimiento, como premisas para la mejora de la empleabilidad y eficacia para el desempeño del trabajo.
70) Road to Sobriety
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Road to Sobriety can be a significant challenge, but it can also be an opportunity to improve your quality of life. This book focuses on helping people understand the reasons behind their alcohol dependence and providing tools and techniques to overcome it. It is approached from a comprehensive approach, including the physical, psychological and emotional aspects of dependency.The book offers practical advice and strategies for resisting temptation...
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Natural landscapes are intricately tied to human health and well-being. While contemporary lifestyles have caused people to feel disconnected from the natural environment, this relationship is now recognized as vitally important, with landscapes increasingly valued for their stress-reduction, aesthetic, and restorative benefits. Providing an overview of the history, theoretical concepts, and individual and societal implications of human connection...
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The Alberta government is looking to the private sector – and in particular to private health insurance – to solve health care problems. However, private health insurance is mired in myth and misunderstanding. The Bottom Line summarizes a huge body of evidence to get to the truth: private health insurance is more expensive and actually reduces access to health care. Evidence reveals that a manufactured cost crisis is driving the push for more...
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This report details the key achievements of the Regional Malaria and Other Communicable Disease Threats Trust Fund from its creation in 2013 to the first half of 2018. It provides detailed analysis of the results by outcome, profiles specific projects that serve as exemplars of the fund's impact, and offers insights into how similar trust funds can be managed for success in future.
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Les systèmes de santé sont des organismes extrêmement complexes qui doivent répondre à des besoins multiples. De nombreux
professionnels, des gestionnaires, des organismes ainsi que du personnel de soutien parviennent néanmoins à assurer une prestation de services coordonnés et intégrés.
Le but de cet ouvrage est de simplifier cette réalité, afin d'en faciliter la compréhension et la gestion. La démarche présentée explique les facettes...
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Este ensayo de Sandra Caponi respira una atmósfera de pospandemia cuando todavía sus consecuencias no se han extinguido, sino que, por el contrario, son bien palpables. En un campo de intersección entre la epistemología, la historia de la psiquiatría y la historia social de las enfermedades, la autora logra introducir una interrogación histórica acerca del surgimiento del neuroléptico, sus condiciones de posibilidad y la utilización que se...
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"Imagine microscopic worms living in the soil. They enter your body through your bare feet, travel to your intestines, and stay there for years sucking your blood like vampires. You feel exhausted. You get sick easily. It sounds like a nightmare, but that's what happened in the American South during the 1800s and early 1900s. Doctors never guessed that hookworms were making patients ill, but zoologist Charles Stiles knew better. Working with one of...
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Do cell phones cause brain cancer? Does BPA threaten our health? How safe are certain dietary supplements, especially those containing exotic herbs or small amounts of toxic substances? What role does HPV play in the development of cervical cancer, and is the HPV vaccine safe? In four detailed case studies, Geoffrey C. Kabat shows how science works or sometimes doesn't and what distinguishes these two very different outcomes. We depend on science...
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"Fatal conveniences are the toxic products we routinely use and the unhealthy things we do that our culture and corporations have made us believe are safe and necessary for living well and efficiently. These things--from deodorant, cosmetics, dental floss, and sunscreen to laundry detergent, air fresheners, carpets, and crayons to candles, tea bags, cell phones, and chewing gum--are ubiquitous in daily life . . . and they are wreaking havoc on our...
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As medical science progressed through the nineteenth century, the United States was at the forefront of public health initiatives across the Americas. Dreadful sanitary conditions were relieved, lives were saved, and health care developed into a formidable institution throughout Latin America as doctors and bureaucrats from the United States flexed their scientific muscle. This wasn't a purely altruistic enterprise, however, as Jose Amador reveals...
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