Books you need to read this April (The 7th of April – The World Health Day)
World Health Day is celebrated every year on the 7th of April, the founding day of the World Health Organization. The World Health Organization was founded in 1948 and the event established in 1950 has a theme each year to draw attention to a current world health issue. The WHO puts together regional, local, and international events on this day related to that theme. Local governments also tend to jump on this band-wagon, after all, global health means everyone! You can keep up with it every year, and play a big part in helping to promote global health all around.
If you think a lot about your health and how to lead a healthy life, then those books below can help you to find the right way to a better healthy life.
Richard Wagman. The New Complete Medical and Health Encyclopedia (volumes 1-4) / Ferguson J. G. – Chicago : J. G. Ferguson Publishing Company, 1996. – 1363 p.
The Medical and Health Encyclopedia provides foryou answers to your health questions. This encyclopedia can serve as a guide for you in learning about and understanding the medical terms and conditions that you or your family may experience during your life. The books cover a wide range of topics, from skin care to how to choose a daycare center for your toddler.
The key to better health is preventing injuries and illness whenever possible. By following a healthy diet, combined with some exercise, you set yourself on a good start.
Ben Lerner. One – Minute Wellness : The Health and Happiness System that Never Fails / Loman Greg – United States,Nashville : Nelson Books, 2005. – 256 p.
In America’s “country of the blind,” people have been led to believe that an array of physical, emotional, and mental illnesses and disorders are an inevitable fact of life or poor genetics, and that their only hope for coping with their health problems is some combination of medical visits, hospital stays, and over-the-counter drugs and prescriptions. Your eyes can be opened as well . . . it takes only one minute.
Jeffrey Sacha. Macroeconomics and health : investing in health for economic development : report of the Commission on Macroeconomics and Health / Geneva : World Health Organisation, 2001. – 202 p.
The Commision on Macroeconomics and Health (CMH) was established by World Health Organisation Director-General Gro Harlem Brundtland in January 2000 to assess the place of health in global economic development. This report offers a new strategy for investing in health for economic development, especially in the world’s poorest countries, based upon a new global partnership of the developing and developed countries.
With bold decisions in 2002, the world could initiate a partnership of rich and poor offering the gift of life itself to millions of the world’s doubters that globalization can indeed work to the benefit of all humankind.
Marcia Stanhope. Public Health Nursing : Population-Centered Health Care in the Community / Jeanette Lancaster – Charlottesville : University of Virginia, 2004. – 1156 p .
The book Public Health Nursing is the synthesis of nursing theory and public health theory applied to promoting and preserving health of populations. The focus of practice is the community as a whole and the effect of the community’s health status (resources) on the health of individuals, families and groups. Care is provided within the context of preventing disease and disability and promoting and protecting the health of the community as a whole.
After Marcia Stanhope and Jeanette Lancaster this is the seventh edition of the text – 2004, while the first edition began in 1980.
Paul Insel. Connect core concepts in health / Walton Roth – Boston : McGraw-Hill, 2010 – 723 p.
McGraw-Hill Connect Personal Health is a Web-based assignment and assessment platform that makes it easy for you to connect with your instructor and your coursework online.
You will discover additional online resources and learning aids embedded in the eBook, including videos, key terms and definitions, chapter quizzes, handouts, behavior change tools, links to health-related Web sites and national organizations, and appendixes on self-care and fast food. With Connect Plus, you have everything you need online to successfully complete your work wherever and whenever you choose.
The European Health Report / Danemarca : World Health Organisation, 2002 – 115 p.
This report is an attempt to review and assess the situation in Europe and progress towards the organisation’s goal of building healthy populations and combating ill health.
It is hoped that the findings in this report, despite its recognized limitations, will help Member States assess their progress towards health for all and further develop their own capacities in the field of health-related information, as a tool for improving health policy formulation and programme management.
Laura MacLehose. Health Care Systems in Transition / Copenhagen, 2002 – 63 p.
The Health Systems in Transition (HiT) profiles are country-based reports that provide an analytical description of a health care system and of reform initiatives in progress or under development. The HiT’s are a key element of the work of the European Observatory on Health Care Systems.
The HiT profiles provide a source of descriptive information on health care systems. They can be used to inform policy-makers about experiences in other countries that may be relevant to their own national situation. They can also be used to inform comparative analysis of health care systems.
Jeanne Wissmann. Community Health – Speciality RN Edition 4.0 : review Module / United States : Assessment Technologies institute, 2000 – 135 p.
The overall goal of this Assessment Technologies Institute review module is to provide nursing students with an additional resource for the review and remediation of “Community Health” content relevant to entry level nursing practice. Content within this review module is provided in a key point plus rationale format in order to focus recall and application of relevant content. Each chapter begins with a set of learning objectives in an effort to guide the learner’s review and application of chapter content.
! The BEST thing you can do for your family’s and your own health is to learn about it. This set of books can give you the information you need about what to ask and what to expect of your doctor and your medical care. It can give you a good start on providing a safe, healthy, and happy life for you and those you love.
On this day you may take some extra steps to care for your health, consider getting a gym membership (and going!), starting a diet, or starting multi-vitamins!