The Book of Health

The Book of Health
Title The Book of Health PDF eBook
Author Randolph Lee Clark
Publisher
Pages 1086
Release 1973
Genre Health & Fitness
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Health Care Off the Books

Health Care Off the Books
Title Health Care Off the Books PDF eBook
Author Danielle T. Raudenbush
Publisher University of California Press
Pages 208
Release 2020-02-11
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0520305620

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Millions of low-income African Americans in the United States lack access to health care. How do they treat their health care problems? In Health Care Off the Books, Danielle T. Raudenbush provides an answer that challenges public perceptions and prior scholarly work. Informed by three and a half years of fieldwork in a public housing development, Raudenbush shows how residents who face obstacles to health care gain access to pharmaceutical drugs, medical equipment, physician reference manuals, and insurance cards by mobilizing social networks that include not only their neighbors but also local physicians. However, membership in these social networks is not universal, and some residents are forced to turn to a robust street market to obtain medicine. For others, health problems simply go untreated. Raudenbush reconceptualizes U.S. health care as a formal-informal hybrid system and explains why many residents who do have access to health services also turn to informal strategies to treat their health problems. While the practices described in the book may at times be beneficial to people’s health, they also have the potential to do serious harm. By understanding this hybrid system, we can evaluate its effects and gain new insight into the sources of social and racial disparities in health outcomes.

How to Eat, Move, and Be Healthy! (2nd Edition)

How to Eat, Move, and Be Healthy! (2nd Edition)
Title How to Eat, Move, and Be Healthy! (2nd Edition) PDF eBook
Author Paul Chek
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2018-07
Genre Health
ISBN 9781583870129

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This book provides the structure of a four-step program for creating a healthier lifestyle including developing a unique eating plan and a personalized exercise program.

The Ministry of Healing

The Ministry of Healing
Title The Ministry of Healing PDF eBook
Author Ellen Gould Harmon White
Publisher
Pages 558
Release 1909
Genre California
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This book has been around a while. Since it was first published, a lot of other books about health have come and gone. Some of them have been bigger than this one, but none of them have ever been better. Perhaps you have noticed the explosion in diet and exercise publications. Today it is obvious that the pursuit of health and fitness is more than just a quick fad. Looking and feeling good isn't optional, for many people these days, it's a high lifestyle priority. "The Ministry of Healing" is a book that crusades for total fitness, not just physical fitness because we are human beings and are more than just bodies. This book speaks to the needs of the whole person, body, mind and spirit. For a whole lot less than one visit to the Doctor, this classic on health will tell you how to manage stress, get well and prevent disease while feeling vibrantly alive. - The True Medical Missionary. The Work of the Physician. Medical Missionaries and Their Work. The Care of the Sick. Health Principles. The Home .The Essential Knowledge. The Worker's Need. Scripture Index. General Index

The Dancer's Book of Health

The Dancer's Book of Health
Title The Dancer's Book of Health PDF eBook
Author Lawrence M. Vincent
Publisher Princeton
Pages 158
Release 1988
Genre Ballet dancers
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What Is Health?

What Is Health?
Title What Is Health? PDF eBook
Author Peter Sterling
Publisher MIT Press
Pages 259
Release 2020-02-25
Genre Science
ISBN 0262043300

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An argument that health is optimal responsiveness and is often best treated at the system level. Medical education centers on the venerable “no-fault” concept of homeostasis, whereby local mechanisms impose constancy by correcting errors, and the brain serves mainly for emergencies. Yet, it turns out that most parameters are not constant; moreover, despite the importance of local mechanisms, the brain is definitely in charge. 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. Allostasis evolved early, Sterling explains, to optimize energy efficiency, relying heavily on brain circuits that deliver a brief reward for each positive surprise. Modern life so reduces the opportunities for surprise that we are driven to seek it in consumption: bigger burgers, more opioids, and innumerable activities that involve higher carbon emissions. The consequences include addiction, obesity, type 2 diabetes, and climate change. Sterling concludes that solutions must go beyond the merely technical to restore possibilities for daily small rewards and revivify the capacities for egalitarianism that were hard-wired into our nature. Sterling explains that allostasis offers what is not found in any medical textbook: principled definitions of health and disease: health as the capacity for adaptive variation and disease as shrinkage of that capacity. Sterling argues that since health is optimal responsiveness, many significant conditions are best treated at the system level.

Inside National Health Reform

Inside National Health Reform
Title Inside National Health Reform PDF eBook
Author John E. McDonough
Publisher Univ of California Press
Pages 368
Release 2012-09-03
Genre Medical
ISBN 0520274520

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A guide to the Affordable Care Act, our new national health care law. An account of the process from the 2008 presidential campaign to the moment in 2010 when the bill was signed into law before anyone had a chance to digest the document. At a time when the nation is taking a second look at the ACA, "Inside National Health Reform" provides essential information for Americans to review the governmental processes and politics in enacting this legislation.