Health Sociology

Good mental health is critical to the enjoyment of life, work, and relationships. This book provides practical step-by-step suggestions for improving work-life balance, mood, vitality, focus, and motivation. The practical self-assessments, strategies, and resources will enable you to take action in your own life. Other chapters discuss alarming rates of addiction to alcohol and opioids and suicide among men, mood disorders and options for managing them, quality of life, mental health, and finding meaningful purpose in life.

Healthcare is evolving, and our smartphones are driving that disruption, better connecting us with the stakeholders who help keep us happy and healthy. The Digital Health Revolution is the first consumer look at how digital health technologies are helping us collect, analyze, and take action on our personal healthcare data. Whether you are managing a chronic condition or simply striving to stay healthy, plug in and catch up with the innovators driving disruption and delivering better value for us all.

This book offers approaches from professionals working with the mind-body connection to reduce stress and anxiety, build motivation and enable individuals to understand and respond to their needs. You will discover the impact of three pillars of health and wellness: Awareness, Information and Learning. This provides you with the framework to deepen your professional knowledge - skills and confidence to support others in times of uncertainty and crisis.

Healthcare in America is such that everyone needs to be advocates for themselves and their families. Too many have been injured in the course of medical care. We need activists like those women who developed Mothers Against Drunk Driving to take charge and become healthcare warriors.

It is critical to break down the growing body of myths and misinformation and to discover the truth about everyday health and well-being. Dr. Bernard Patten suggests that the benefits from even small changes in nutrition, exercise, and lifestyle are enormous, and, properly applied, will increase your life-span and greatly decrease your healthcare costs. Health Is Wealth is the place to start making these changes.

Over the last decade, Kevin Dedner has been on a mission to explore this powerful and troubling question, shining an unconventional spotlight on the impact of racism on mental health. In his debut book, The Joy of the Disinherited, Dedner articulates his call for urgent change: We must knock down the invisible barriers that make it harder for Black people to get the mental health care they need and deserve.

After John R. Patrick's career at IBM, he took a seat on the board of a teaching hospital. He was surprised to learn how hospitals and physicians lagged at adopting information technology, and was appalled at the needless complexity of healthcare delivery processes. Instead of shaking his head and walking away, Patrick took action.

I am writing about my experience in the hope that it can be helpful to other patients who are still suffering from the effects of a stroke. Many are unable to communicate their feelings and needs to their families, therapists, and doctors. Although these helpers have much knowledge, they seldom have the intimate understanding that comes with first-hand experience. I have been very blessed to have regained my strength and speech and clear thinking.

In Against Football Steve Almond details why, after 40 years as a fan, he can no longer watch the game he still loves. Using a synthesis of memoir, reportage, and cultural critique, Almond asks a series of provocative questions: Does our addiction to football foster a tolerance for violence, greed, racism, and homophobia? What does it mean that our society has transmuted the intuitive physical joys of childhood--run, leap, throw, tackle--into a billion-dollar industry?

Finders Keepers is the remarkable true tale of an ordinary man faced with an extraordinary dilemma - what do you do when you find $1.2 million in unmarked bills? - and the fascinating reactions - from complicity to concern to betrayal - of the friends, family, and neighbors to whom he turns. From Mark Bowden, author of Black Hawk Down.

In More than Medicine, LaTonya J. Trotter chronicles the everyday work of a group of nurse practitioners (NPs) working on the front lines of the American health care crisis as they cared for 400 African American older adults living with poor health and limited means. Trotter describes how these NPs practiced an inclusive form of care work that addressed medical, social, and organizational problems that often accompany poverty.

A brilliantly simple look at how we can fix healthcare without drastic policy change and political diatribes. Since FDR, the US healthcare system has been mired in politics and policy. All the while it has only increased in complexity and cost. Today half of all personal bankruptcies are attributable to healthcare costs. Many community hospitals are barely getting by with single digit profit margins. With a system teetering on the edge of a systemic crisis, we need to turn to a brand-new approach to rescue the US healthcare system.

Cuando en la antigua Grecia un esclavo sufría una dolencia, el médico le aplicaba un remedio que aplacara la molestia para que volviera de inmediato a sus labores. En cambio, cuando era un hombre libre el que recurría a sus servicios, el médico acostumbraba a "retirarlo del mundo"; lo enviaba a un lugar silencioso y tranquilo para que pudiera escuchar su cuerpo, observar sus procesos internos y entender así qué quería decirle ese síntoma o malestar.

Since FDR, the US healthcare system has been mired in politics and policy. All the while it has only increased in complexity and cost. Today half of all personal bankruptcies are attributable to healthcare costs. Many community hospitals are barely getting by with single digit profit margins. With a system teetering on the edge of a systemic crisis, we need to turn to a brand-new approach to rescue the US healthcare system.

This two audiobook bundle, Healthy Gut: Transform Your Health from the Inside Out, for a Healthy You, provides excellent value, it contains two manuscripts in one. It is an informative guidebook with an all-around, multifaceted, holistic approach to the immune system, autoimmune disorders, anti-inflammatory foods, healthy eating, sugar addiction and weight loss; you can listen and refer back to time and time again.

This 25th Anniversary edition completely updates the powerful insights and policy recommendations of Not What the Doctor Ordered, first published in 1993 by renowned healthcare futurist and medical economist the author. It presents specific solutions to serious problems of cost, quality, access, and outcomes by allowing all Americans to purchase services directly from caregivers who provide an expanding array of medical services at least as well as physicians—at lower cost.

You’re a teenage girl, and this is the time you’re coming into your own. Girl empowerment is more accessible than you think. In The Book of Awesome Girls, celebrate famous girls who have shaped, and continue to shape, our future. Now is the time for girl power!

A guide to medical terms in Mexican Spanish. This includes words, phrases and medical terminology. Topics covered include patient discussions, medical examinations, personnel, medical equipment, medical clothing and accessories, surgical tools and procedures, pain assessments and specialist medical terminology across a range of topics (renal, endocrine, respiratory, oncology, reproductive, cardiovascular etc.).

Exciting new technology is revolutionizing healthcare in the twenty-first century. This visionary guide by the former CIO of the Cleveland Clinic shows you how to design, implement, and maximize your organization's IT systems to deliver fully integrated, coordinated, high-quality care. Using the latest advancements in IT, you'll be able to access and apply a range of online tools and field-tested strategies to any organization. Go behind the scenes at Clinic Cleveland to see how caregivers executed their IT strategy in a working environment—and how patients benefitted as a result.

Die Zahlen sind alarmierend: immer mehr Menschen in Deutschland leiden an Burnout und dauerhaften Stress. Kein Wunder, schließlich wird in unserer heutigen Leistungsgesellschaft auch immer mehr von uns abverlangt. Wenn es da einmal zu einem persönlichen Rückschlag kommt werden viele Menschen schnell aus der Bahn geworfen. Aber wie kann es sein, dass einige Menschen an Rückschlägen förmlich zerbrechen, während andere Menschen diese scheinbar mühelos wegstecken können?