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Health impact assessment
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ISBN: 0191629502 0199656010 0191748021 9780191748028 9780191629501 9780199656011 Year: 2013 Publisher: Oxford Oxford University Press

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This book describes the past development of Health Impact Assessment (HIA), its current practice and possible future. It provides an overview of HIA methods and addresses the controversies that are impacting the evolution of HIA, through the experiences of the author and other HIA practitioners around the world.


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Sociétés, environnements, santé
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ISBN: 2709918137 2709916940 Year: 2013 Publisher: Marseille : IRD Éditions,

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Les domaines de la santé et de l’environnement ont longtemps été considérés, tant par les décideurs que par les scientifiques, comme des réalités disjointes. Il a fallu attendre les dernières décennies pour que soit reconnu et que se concrétise le lien entre environnements et santé avec la création d’agences spécialisées. Qu’il s’agisse de foyers de maladies parasitaires ou de pollution atmosphérique, les situations d’exposition à un risque sanitaire lié à l’environnement relèvent de facteurs particuliers : épidémiologiques, géographiques, politiques, et bien évidemment sociaux. À partir de zones géographiques situées tant au Sud qu’au Nord, les auteurs de cet ouvrage présentent un large éventail de configurations dans lesquelles s’exprime la complexité des relations entre santé et environnements dans leur rapport avec les groupes humains. Ils mettent l’accent sur l’importance de la perception et de la pratique des acteurs (des décideurs aux bénéficiaires des mesures, en passant par les médecins) pour penser le risque sanitaire selon les milieux. Ils soulignent tout l’intérêt de l’apport des sciences sociales et des pratiques interdisciplinaires dès lors qu’il s’agit d’envisager les relations entre un pathogène et l’homme. Chacune des approches s’attache ainsi à éclairer les différentes facettes du risque environnemental, depuis le comportement des individus jusqu’aux politiques nationales, en invitant le lecteur à se départir de toute vision déterministe et simplificatrice.


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Exposed science
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ISBN: 0520955242 9780520955240 9780520275171 0520275179 9780520275188 0520275187 Year: 2013 Publisher: Berkeley

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We rely on environmental health scientists to document the presence of chemicals where we live, work, and play and to provide an empirical basis for public policy. In the last decades of the 20th century, environmental health scientists began to shift their focus deep within the human body, and to the molecular level, in order to investigate gene-environment interactions. In Exposed Science, Sara Shostak analyzes the rise of gene-environment interaction in the environmental health sciences and examines its consequences for how we understand and seek to protect population health. Drawing on in-depth interviews and ethnographic observation, Shostak demonstrates that what we know - and what we don't know - about the vulnerabilities of our bodies to environmental hazards is profoundly shaped by environmental health scientists' efforts to address the structural vulnerabilities of their field. She then takes up the political effects of this research, both from the perspective of those who seek to establish genomic technologies as a new basis for environmental regulation, and from the perspective of environmental justice activists, who are concerned that that their efforts to redress the social, political, and economical inequalities that put people at risk of environmental exposure will be undermined by molecular explanations of environmental health and illness. Exposed Science thus offers critically important new ways of understanding and engaging with the emergence of gene-environment interaction as a focal concern of environmental health science, policy-making, and activism.

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Health risk assessment. --- Pollution. --- Environmental health --- Assessment, Health risk --- Health hazard appraisal --- Health hazard assessment --- Health risk appraisal --- HRA (Public health) --- Human risk assessment --- Medicine, Preventive --- Public health --- Risk assessment --- Environmental quality --- Health --- Health ecology --- Environmental engineering --- Health risk assessment --- Chemical pollution --- Chemicals --- Contamination of environment --- Environmental pollution --- Pollution --- Contamination (Technology) --- Asbestos abatement --- Bioremediation --- Factory and trade waste --- Hazardous waste site remediation --- Hazardous wastes --- In situ remediation --- Lead abatement --- Pollutants --- Refuse and refuse disposal --- Political aspects. --- Health aspects --- Environmental aspects --- Environmental aspects. --- Hygiène du milieu --- Risques pour la santé --- Aspect politique --- Aspect de l'environnement --- Evaluation --- 20th century. --- engaging. --- environmental hazards. --- environmental health sciences. --- environmental health scientists. --- environmental justice activists. --- environmental regulation. --- ethnographic observation. --- experiments. --- gene environment interactions. --- genomic technologies. --- health policy. --- history of medicine. --- human condition. --- in depth interviews. --- medical. --- medicine. --- page turner. --- political effects. --- population health. --- public policy. --- science and technology. --- scientists. --- structural vulnerabilities.


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Oncology in primary care
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ISBN: 146983054X 1469873990 9781469830544 9781451111491 1451111495 9781451175998 145117599X Year: 2013 Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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Oncology in Primary Care is for primary care clinicians who need practical and concise information on caring for their patients with cancer.Written in an easy-to-browse format, chapters cover risk factors, prevention, screening, prognosis, and surveillance strategiesvaluable information that helps primary care clinicians advise their patients regarding therapeutic and end-of-life decisions and become true partners in the care of their patients with cancer.Each chapter also includes an abundance of figures and tables to help clinicians find quick answers to questions commonly encountered in the primary care setting. Plus, a companion website is available allowing easy accessibility to the content.FEATURES:" Includes a glossary of common cancer-related terms and an annotated list of internet and community resources for cancer care" Provides rapid access to essential information needed to assist in the treatment of complications of cancer therapy" Emphasizes prognosis, long-term effects of therapy, survivorship, and surveillance to help the primary care clinician manage co-morbid conditions and advise patients regarding therapeutic and end-of-life decisions" Includes access to full text and image bank online

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Neoplasms -- Diagnosis. --- Neoplasms -- Therapy. --- Primary health care -- Methods. --- Risk assessment. --- Epidemiologic Measurements --- Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment --- Risk Management --- Investigative Techniques --- Risk --- Comprehensive Health Care --- Diseases --- Probability --- Public Health --- Patient Care Management --- Organization and Administration --- Statistics as Topic --- Health Services Administration --- Environment and Public Health --- Epidemiologic Methods --- Health Care --- Health Care Evaluation Mechanisms --- Quality of Health Care --- Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation --- Risk Assessment --- Methods --- Neoplasms --- Diagnosis --- Primary Health Care --- Medicine --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Oncology --- Administration and Organization --- Administrative Technics --- Administrative Techniques --- Coordination, Administrative --- Logistics --- Supervision --- Technics, Administrative --- Techniques, Administrative --- Administration --- Administrative Coordination --- Administrative Technic --- Administrative Technique --- Technic, Administrative --- Technique, Administrative --- Care Management, Patient --- Management, Patient Care --- Community Health --- Environment, Preventive Medicine & Public Health --- Environment, Preventive Medicine and Public Health --- Health, Community --- Health, Public --- Preventive Medicine --- Education, Public Health Professional --- Probabilities --- Comprehensive Healthcare --- Health Care, Comprehensive --- Healthcare, Comprehensive --- Family Practice --- Relative Risk --- Relative Risks --- Risk, Relative --- Risks --- Risks, Relative --- Incidence --- Risk Reduction Behavior --- Harm Reduction --- Investigative Technics --- Investigative Technic --- Investigative Technique --- Technic, Investigative --- Technics, Investigative --- Technique, Investigative --- Techniques, Investigative --- Hospital Incident Reportings --- Incident Reporting --- Incident Reportings, Hospital --- Management, Risks --- Reporting, Hospital Incident --- Reportings, Hospital Risk --- Voluntary Patient Safety Event Reporting --- Hospital Incident Reporting --- Incident Reporting, Hospital --- Hospital Risk Reporting --- Hospital Risk Reportings --- Incident Reportings --- Management, Risk --- Reporting, Hospital Risk --- Reporting, Incident --- Reportings, Hospital Incident --- Reportings, Incident --- Risk Reporting, Hospital --- Risk Reportings, Hospital --- Risks Management --- Truth Disclosure --- Measurements, Epidemiologic --- Epidemiologic Measurement --- Measurement, Epidemiologic --- Primary Healthcare --- Primary Care --- Care, Primary --- Care, Primary Health --- Health Care, Primary --- Healthcare, Primary --- Antemortem Diagnosis --- Diagnoses and Examinations --- Examinations and Diagnoses --- Postmortem Diagnosis --- Diagnose --- Antemortem Diagnoses --- Diagnoses --- Diagnoses, Antemortem --- Diagnoses, Postmortem --- Diagnosis, Antemortem --- Diagnosis, Postmortem --- Postmortem Diagnoses --- Disease --- Benign Neoplasms --- Malignancy --- Malignant Neoplasms --- Neoplasia --- Neoplasm --- Neoplasms, Benign --- Cancer --- Tumors --- Benign Neoplasm --- Cancers --- Malignancies --- Malignant Neoplasm --- Neoplasias --- Neoplasm, Benign --- Neoplasm, Malignant --- Neoplasms, Malignant --- Tumor --- Medical Oncology --- Methodological Studies --- Methodological Study --- Procedures --- Studies, Methodological --- Study, Methodological --- Method --- Procedure --- Health Risk Assessment --- Risks and Benefits --- Assessment, Risk --- Benefit-Risk Assessment --- Risk Analysis --- Risk-Benefit Assessment --- Analysis, Risk --- Assessment, Benefit-Risk --- Assessment, Health Risk --- Assessment, Risk-Benefit --- Benefit Risk Assessment --- Benefit-Risk Assessments --- Benefits and Risks --- Health Risk Assessments --- Risk Analyses --- Risk Assessment, Health --- Risk Assessments --- Risk Benefit Assessment --- Risk-Benefit Assessments --- Healthcare Quality, Access, and Evaluation --- Pharmacy Audit --- Quality of Care --- Quality of Healthcare --- Audit, Pharmacy --- Care Quality --- Health Care Quality --- Healthcare Quality --- Pharmacy Audits --- Healthcare Evaluation Mechanisms --- Evaluation Mechanism, Healthcare --- Evaluation Mechanisms, Healthcare --- Healthcare Evaluation Mechanism --- Mechanism, Healthcare Evaluation --- Mechanisms, Healthcare Evaluation --- Community-Based Distribution --- Contraceptive Distribution --- Delivery of Healthcare --- Dental Care Delivery --- Distribution, Non-Clinical --- Distribution, Nonclinical --- Distributional Activities --- Healthcare --- Healthcare Delivery --- Healthcare Systems --- Non-Clinical Distribution --- Nonclinical Distribution --- Delivery of Dental Care --- Health Care Delivery --- Health Care Systems --- Activities, Distributional --- Activity, Distributional --- Care, Health --- Community Based Distribution --- Community-Based Distributions --- Contraceptive Distributions --- Deliveries, Healthcare --- Delivery, Dental Care --- Delivery, Health Care --- Delivery, Healthcare --- Distribution, Community-Based --- Distribution, Contraceptive --- Distribution, Non Clinical --- Distributional Activity --- Distributions, Community-Based --- Distributions, Contraceptive --- Distributions, Non-Clinical --- Distributions, Nonclinical --- Health Care System --- Healthcare Deliveries --- Healthcare System --- Non Clinical Distribution --- Non-Clinical Distributions --- Nonclinical Distributions --- System, Health Care --- System, Healthcare --- Systems, Health Care --- Systems, Healthcare --- Epidemiologic Method --- Epidemiological Methods --- Methods, Epidemiologic --- Epidemiological Method --- Method, Epidemiologic --- Method, Epidemiological --- Methods, Epidemiological --- Epidemiology --- Administration, Health Services --- Health Services --- Area Analysis --- Estimation Technics --- Estimation Techniques --- Indirect Estimation Technics --- Indirect Estimation Techniques --- Multiple Classification Analysis --- Service Statistics --- Statistical Study --- Statistics, Service --- Tables and Charts as Topic --- Analyses, Area --- Analyses, Multiple Classification --- Area Analyses --- Classification Analyses, Multiple --- Classification Analysis, Multiple --- Estimation Technic, Indirect --- Estimation Technics, Indirect --- Estimation Technique --- Estimation Technique, Indirect --- Estimation Techniques, Indirect --- Indirect Estimation Technic --- Indirect Estimation Technique --- Multiple Classification Analyses --- Statistical Studies --- Studies, Statistical --- Study, Statistical --- Technic, Indirect Estimation --- Technics, Estimation --- Technics, Indirect Estimation --- Technique, Estimation --- Technique, Indirect Estimation --- Techniques, Estimation --- Techniques, Indirect Estimation --- diagnosis --- methods --- organization & administration --- Oncologie --- Access to Primary Care --- Techniques --- Technique --- Cancer. --- Primary care (Medicine)

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