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Healthcare : the journal of delivery science and innovation.
ISSN: 22130772 Year: 2013 Publisher: [Amsterdam] : Elsevier,

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Delivery of Health Care --- Health Services --- Health services administration --- Medical care --- Services de santé --- Soins médicaux --- Periodicals. --- Administration --- Périodiques --- Health services administration. --- Medical care. --- Services, Health --- Health Service --- Service, Health --- 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 --- 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 --- Delivery of health care --- Delivery of medical care --- Health care --- Health care delivery --- Health services --- Medical and health care industry --- Medical services --- Personal health services --- Health administration --- Health care administration --- Health care management --- Health sciences administration --- Health services management --- Management --- Public health --- Health planning --- Public health administration --- Hospitals & Medical Centers --- Delivery of Health Care. --- Health Services.


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Toward integrated DoD biosurveillance : assessment and opportunities
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ISBN: 0833084666 9780833084668 9780833081513 0833081519 Year: 2013 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] Rand Corporation

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Public health surveillance --- Bioterrorism --- Communicable diseases --- Population Surveillance --- Public Health Practice --- Public Health --- Environment and Public Health --- Health Care --- Biosurveillance --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Epidemiology & Epidemics --- Prevention --- Biosurveillances --- 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 --- Environment, Preventive Medicine & Public Health --- Environment, Preventive Medicine and Public Health --- Health, Public --- Health Practice, Public --- Health Practices, Public --- Practice, Public Health --- Practices, Public Health --- Public Health Practices --- Surveillance, Population --- Contagion and contagious diseases --- Contagious diseases --- Infectious diseases --- Microbial diseases in human beings --- Zymotic diseases --- Population surveillance (Public health) --- Surveillance, Public health --- Community Health --- Health, Community --- Preventive Medicine --- Education, Public Health Professional --- Diseases --- Infection --- Epidemics --- Epidemiology --- United States. --- Rules and practice --- Evaluation. --- United States --- Armed Forces --- Medical care. --- D.O.D. --- DOD (Department of Defense) --- Mei-kuo kuo fang pu --- Ministerstvo oborony SShA --- Министерство обороны США --- National Military Establishment (U.S.)


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Canadian medicare : we need it and we can keep it
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ISBN: 0773588213 9780773588219 9780773541542 Year: 2013 Publisher: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press,

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Medicare has been a crucial part of Canadian identity for nearly fifty years, and it stands in marked contrast to the US health system. But these facts alone do not protect it from dismissive swipes and criticisms, claims that the system is unsustainable, and even proposals to change medicare's fundamentals. In Canadian Medicare, Stephen Duckett and Adrian Peetoom show that the shared values underpinning medicare still provide a sound basis for the system's design. While medicare remains an important pillar of Canadian policy, changes can and must be made. The authors argue for improved primary care to better address increases in chronic diseases, a comprehensive strategy to provide care for the elderly, and the introduction of pharmacare. They demonstrate how, with proper investment, the health of Canadians can be maintained and even enhanced while the nation remains financially responsible. Accessibly written and clearly presented, Canadian Medicare is a call for Canadian citizens to improve on the foundation built by Tommy Douglas and Lester B. Pearson, to become more knowledgeable about their health care, and to let their politicians know that they need to act.

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National health insurance --- Health care reform --- National Health Programs. --- Health Care Reform. --- Delivery of Health Care. --- 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 --- 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 --- Healthcare Reform --- Health Care Reforms --- Healthcare Reforms --- Reform, Health Care --- Reform, Healthcare --- Reforms, Health Care --- Reforms, Healthcare --- Health Services, National --- National Health Insurance --- National Health Insurance, Non U.S. --- National Health Services --- Services, National Health --- National Health Insurance, Non-U.S. --- Health Insurance, National --- Health Program, National --- Health Programs, National --- Health Service, National --- Insurance, National Health --- National Health Program --- National Health Service --- Program, National Health --- Programs, National Health --- Service, National Health --- Government Programs --- Health insurance, National --- Insurance --- Canada.


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A new idea each morning : how food and agriculture came together inone international organisation
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ISBN: 192214410X 1922144118 9781922144119 Year: 2013 Publisher: Canberra, ACT : ANU E Press,

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Food Industry --- Technology, Industry, and Agriculture --- Organizations --- Internationality --- Health Care Economics and Organizations --- Social Sciences --- Technology, Industry, Agriculture --- Industry --- Health Care --- Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena --- Agriculture --- International Agencies --- International Cooperation --- Food Supply --- Food Insecurity --- Food Security --- Food Insecurities --- Food Supplies --- Insecurities, Food --- Insecurity, Food --- Security, Food --- Supplies, Food --- Supply, Food --- Food --- Treaties --- Foreign Aid --- Aid, Foreign --- Cooperation, International --- Treaty --- Agencies, International --- Agency, International --- International Agency --- Agricultural Development --- Farming --- Development, Agricultural --- 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 --- Tertiary Sector --- Industries --- Sector, Tertiary --- Sectors, Tertiary --- Tertiary Sectors --- Science, Social --- Sciences, Social --- Social Science --- Healthcare Economics and Organizations --- Globalization --- International Aspects --- International Perspectives --- International Relations --- Multinational Aspects --- Multinational Perspectives --- Aspect, International --- Aspect, Multinational --- Aspects, International --- Aspects, Multinational --- International Aspect --- International Perspective --- Multinational Aspect --- Multinational Perspective --- Perspective, International --- Perspective, Multinational --- Perspectives, International --- Perspectives, Multinational --- Relations, International --- Non-Governmental Organizations --- Nongovernmental Organizations --- Organizations, Nongovernmental --- Non Governmental Organizations --- Non-Governmental Organization --- Nongovernmental Organization --- Organization --- Organization, Non-Governmental --- Organization, Nongovernmental --- Organizations, Non-Governmental --- Food Industries --- Industries, Food --- Industry, Food --- supply & distribution --- Food Storage --- Agricultural Inoculants --- Commerce --- Ethics, Business --- International Law --- Food supply --- International cooperation. --- International agricultural cooperation --- Agriculture, Cooperative --- Agricultural assistance


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Health care systems around the world
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ISBN: 1784025089 145227620X 1452276218 9781452276205 9781506319414 1506319416 1452203121 9781452203126 9781452276212 9781784025083 9781322307824 1322307822 Year: 2013 Publisher: Thousand Oaks, Calif.

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This concise reference provides a one-stop point of research that examines major aspects of health care systems for over 190 countries worldwide. In a consistent format, ten major health care categories are systematically examined for each country.

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Medical policy --- Medical care --- Delivery of Health Care. --- Cross-Cultural Comparison. --- Global Health. --- Health Policy. --- Health Status. --- Health care policy --- Health policy --- Medicine and state --- Policy, Medical --- Public health --- Public health policy --- State and medicine --- Science and state --- Social policy --- Level of Health --- Health Level --- Health Levels --- Status, Health --- Healthcare Policy --- National Health Policy --- Health Policies --- Health Policy, National --- Healthcare Policies --- National Health Policies --- Policy, Health --- Policy, Healthcare --- Policy, National Health --- Policy Making --- International Health --- Worldwide Health --- International Health Problems --- World Health --- Health Problem, International --- Health Problems, International --- Health, Global --- Health, International --- Health, World --- Health, Worldwide --- Healths, International --- International Health Problem --- International Healths --- Problem, International Health --- Problems, International Health --- World Health Organization --- Transcultural Studies --- Comparison, Cross-Cultural --- Comparisons, Cross-Cultural --- Cross Cultural Comparison --- Cross-Cultural Comparisons --- Studies, Transcultural --- Study, Transcultural --- Transcultural Study --- Cultural Characteristics --- Culture --- 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 --- 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 --- Government policy --- Cross-cultural comparison. --- Delivery of Health Care --- World health. --- organization & administration. --- Cross-cultural studies. --- Politique sanitaire --- Soins médicaux --- Cross-cultural studies --- Etudes transculturelles --- Health services administration --- Health administration --- Health care administration --- Health care management --- Health sciences administration --- Health services management --- Health planning --- Public health administration --- Administration --- Management


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Fast Facts for the Antepartum and Postpartum Nurse : A Nursing Orientation and Care Guide in a Nutshell
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ISBN: 0826168876 9781461954989 1461954983 9780826168870 1306219612 9781306219617 9780826168863 0826168868 Year: 2013 Publisher: New York : Springer Publishing Company,

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All aspects of safe, effective, holistic care for birthing mothers, newborns, and their families are included in this easy-access guide for new antepartum and postpartum nurses and their preceptors during the orientation period. Presented in the convenient, easy-to-use Fast Facts format, the book provides up-to-date information regarding care for both low- and high-risk antepartum and postpartum patients. It encompasses evidence-based practice guidelines and clinical recommendations for routine antepartum assessment and nursing care, care of women with pre-existing conditions prior to pregnanc

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Neonatal nursing -- Methods. --- Obstetrical nursing -- Methods. --- Perinatal care -- Methods. --- Pregnancy complications -- Nursing. --- Health Occupations --- Pediatric Nursing --- Nursing Care --- Maternal-Child Nursing --- Infant Care --- Patient Care --- Investigative Techniques --- Specialties, Nursing --- Female Urogenital Diseases and Pregnancy Complications --- Disciplines and Occupations --- Therapeutics --- Diseases --- Child Care --- Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment --- Health Services --- Health Care Facilities, Manpower, and Services --- Health Care --- Neonatal Nursing --- Methods --- Pregnancy Complications --- Obstetrical Nursing --- Perinatal Care --- Nursing --- Medicine --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Gynecology & Obstetrics --- Nursings --- Care, Perinatal --- Perinatology --- Nursing, Obstetrical --- Nursing, Obstetric --- Nursings, Obstetric --- Nursings, Obstetrical --- Obstetric Nursings --- Obstetrical Nursings --- Complications, Pregnancy --- Complication, Pregnancy --- Pregnancy Complication --- Pregnancy --- Obstetrics --- Pregnancy, High-Risk --- Methodological Studies --- Methodological Study --- Procedures --- Studies, Methodological --- Study, Methodological --- Method --- Procedure --- Nursing, Neonatal --- Nursing, Perinatal --- Perinatal Nursing --- 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 --- Healthcare Facilities, Manpower, and Services --- Services, Health --- Health Service --- Child Day Care --- Day Care, Child --- Puericulture --- Care, Child --- Child Day Care Centers --- Therapy --- Treatment --- Therapeutic --- Therapies --- Treatments --- Disease --- Nursing Specialties --- Nursing Specialty --- Specialty, Nursing --- Education, Nursing, Continuing --- Investigative Technics --- Investigative Technic --- Investigative Technique --- Technic, Investigative --- Technics, Investigative --- Technique, Investigative --- Techniques, Investigative --- Informal care --- Care, Patient --- Informal cares --- care, Informal --- cares, Informal --- Nursing, Maternity --- Maternity Nursing --- Nursing, Maternal-Child --- Maternal Child Nursing --- Nursing, Maternal Child --- Care, Nursing --- Management, Nursing Care --- Nursing Care Management --- Nursing, Pediatric --- Nursings, Pediatric --- Pediatric Nursings --- Health Professions --- Health Occupation --- Health Profession --- Profession, Health --- Professions, Health --- Occupations --- complications --- therapy --- nursing --- Obstetric Nursing. --- Neonatal Nursing. --- methods. --- nursing.


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Human trafficking
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ISBN: 8132116364 9788132116363 8132110471 9788132110477 8132117549 Year: 2013 Publisher: New Delhi Thousand Oaks, California

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Trafficking of persons is a modern-day form of slavery, threatening the dignity and security of millions of people throughout the world. Virtually every country in the world and every state of India is affected by this crime as a place of origin, transit or destination for victims. This book is an attempt to discuss various issues of human trafficking, including perspectives of various stakeholders. The book argues that crime cannot be dealt with only by applying piecemeal tactics. Instead, it will require an organised professional, multi-disciplinary and multi-agency approach, calling for

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Human trafficking --- Human Rights --- Social Control, Formal --- Health Care Economics and Organizations --- Sociology --- Social Sciences --- Health Care --- Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena --- Gender Studies & Sexuality --- Gender & Ethnic Studies --- 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 --- Science, Social --- Sciences, Social --- Social Science --- General Social Development and Population --- Healthcare Economics and Organizations --- Health Care Economics --- Health Economics --- Healthcare Economics --- Care Economic, Health --- Economic, Health --- Economic, Health Care --- Economic, Healthcare --- Economics, Health Care --- Health Care Economic --- Health Economic --- Healthcare Economic --- Regulation --- Social Control --- Control, Social --- Controls, Social --- Formal Social Control --- Formal Social Controls --- Regulations --- Social Controls --- Public Policy --- Collective Human Rights --- Equal Rights --- Linguistic Rights --- Right to Housing and Shelter --- Rights of Indigenous Peoples --- Human Rights, Collective --- Indigenous Peoples Rights --- Rights, Collective Human --- Rights, Equal --- Rights, Linguistic --- Social Justice --- Human Rights Abuses --- Forced prostitution (Human trafficking) --- People trafficking --- Sex trafficking --- Traffic in persons --- Trafficking in human beings --- Trafficking in persons --- White slave traffic --- White slavery --- Sex crimes --- White slave traffic (Human trafficking) --- White slavery (Human trafficking) --- Offenses against the person


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The Complete Resource on Pediatric Office Emergency Preparedness
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ISBN: 1461469031 146146904X Year: 2013 Publisher: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer,

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Pediatric practice can be hectic under optimal everyday conditions. Imagine what can happen when a child has an asthma attack, is choking, or goes into cardiac arrest. The efficient pediatric provider not only needs to have current knowledge of tools and skills, but must also be prepared to use them in the most relevant and up-to-date manner in a crisis.  The Complete Resource on Pediatric Office Emergency Preparedness expands the pediatric primary care physician's role by focusing on coordinated care practice, specifically working in tandem with staff and EMS crews. This handbook-and-video set gives readers protocols for best office-based practices for common emergencies (e.g., head injuries) and special cases (e.g., disasters). Its print guide identifies basic medications (with indications and dosing instructions), equipment, and life support procedures for optimum emergency preparedness, and the video fleshes out these concepts with how-to and not-to case vignettes. The package models current educational methods, both for learning and for teaching skills to professionals and parents.   Key features of The Complete Resource:   Protocols for common pediatric office emergencies. Protocols for special situations: children with special care needs, psycho-social emergencies, disasters. Instruction on basic life support skills. Videos illustrating do's and don'ts of emergency response. Quality improvement and learning assessment materials. A family education unit on health emergencies and first aid.   The Complete Resource on Pediatric Office Emergency Preparedness is a necessary addition to the pediatrician's education library, and should be of particular interest to researchers in maternal and child health.

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Pediatric emergencies. --- Primary health care. --- Age Groups --- Medicine --- Disease Attributes --- Public Health --- Therapeutics --- Disasters --- Health Facilities --- Persons --- Health Occupations --- Environment --- Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment --- Health Care Facilities, Manpower, and Services --- Environment and Public Health --- Pathologic Processes --- Health Care --- Named Groups --- Disciplines and Occupations --- Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms --- Diseases --- Child --- Emergencies --- Physicians' Offices --- Infant --- Emergency Treatment --- Pediatrics --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Emergency Therapy --- Therapy, Emergency --- Emergency Therapies --- Emergency Treatments --- Therapies, Emergency --- Treatment, Emergency --- Treatments, Emergency --- Infants --- Emergency --- Children --- Symptoms and General Pathology --- 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 --- Pathological Processes --- Processes, Pathologic --- Processes, Pathological --- Healthcare Facilities, Manpower, and Services --- Environmental Impact --- Environmental Impacts --- Impact, Environmental --- Impacts, Environmental --- Environments --- Health Professions --- Health Occupation --- Health Profession --- Occupation, Health --- Occupations, Health --- Profession, Health --- Professions, Health --- Person --- Facilities, Health --- Facility, Health --- Health Facility --- Natural Disaster --- Natural Disasters --- Disaster --- Disaster, Natural --- Disasters, Natural --- Therapy --- Treatment --- Therapeutic --- Therapies --- Treatments --- Disease --- Environment, Preventive Medicine & Public Health --- Environment, Preventive Medicine and Public Health --- Health, Public --- Attribute, Disease --- Attributes, Disease --- Disease Attribute --- Medical Specialities --- Medical Specialties --- Medical Specialty --- Specialities, Medical --- Specialties, Medical --- Specialty, Medical --- Medical Speciality --- Speciality, Medical --- Age Group --- Group, Age --- Groups, Age --- therapy --- Physician's Office --- Office, Physician's --- Office, Physicians' --- Offices, Physician's --- Offices, Physicians' --- Physician Office --- Physician Offices --- Physician's Offices --- Physicians Office --- Physicians Offices --- Physicians' Office --- Medicine. --- Maternal and child health services. --- Pediatrics. --- Primary care (Medicine). --- Medicine & Public Health. --- Maternal and Child Health. --- Primary Care Medicine. --- Pediatric emergency services --- Pediatric emergencies --- Emergency medical services for children --- Child health services --- Emergency medical services --- Maternal and infant welfare. --- Emergency medicine. --- Infant welfare --- Maternity welfare --- Child welfare --- Mothers --- Women --- Maternal health services --- Paediatrics --- Pediatric medicine --- Medicine, Emergency --- Critical care medicine --- Disaster medicine --- Medical emergencies --- Charities, protection, etc. --- Charities --- Health and hygiene --- Primary medical care --- Medical care --- Child health services.


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Mites: Ecology, Evolution & Behaviour : Life at a Microscale
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ISBN: 9400771630 9400771649 Year: 2013 Publisher: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,

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           What creatures live in the dark depths of the ocean, in the lungs of birds, in the canopies of rainforests and in the pillow beneath your head? MITES. Wherever biologists have peered, from forest floors to facial pores, they have found these tiny arachnids. More than 40,000 species have been described, and up to 1 million may grace our planet. Mites are predators, parasites, herbivores and detritivores. They are vectors of disease, vital players in soil formation and important agents of biological control. But despite the grand diversity of mites, even trained biologists are often unaware of their significance.             Mites: Ecology, Evolution and Behaviour (2nd edition) aims to fill the gaps in our understanding of these intriguing creatures. It surveys life cycles, feeding behaviour, reproductive biology and host-associations of mites without requiring prior knowledge of their morphology or taxonomy. Topics covered include evolution of mites and other arachnids, mites in soil and water, mites on plants and animals, sperm transfer and reproduction, mites and human disease, and mites as models for testing ecological and evolutionary theories.             Richly illustrated with 128 diagrams, pictures and scanning-electron micrographs, 31 of which are in colour, Mites: Ecology, Evolution and Behaviour (2nd edition) combines the authors’ more than 50 years of experience as acarologists with reviews of more than 1600 journal articles and books (450 of these new since the first edition) to reveal the bizarre ingenuity and the importance of these fascinating animals.

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Ectoparasitic Infestations --- Acari --- Arthropod Vectors --- Skin Diseases, Parasitic --- Arachnida --- Disease Vectors --- Disease Transmission, Infectious --- Arthropods --- Parasitic Diseases --- Invertebrates --- Diseases --- Public Health --- Environment and Public Health --- Animals --- Health Care --- Eukaryota --- Organisms --- Arachnid Vectors --- Mites --- Mite Infestations --- Zoology --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Invertebrates & Protozoa --- Arachnid Vector --- Vector, Arachnid --- Vectors, Arachnid --- Eucarya --- Eukarya --- Eukaryotes --- Eukaryotas --- Eukaryote --- Acariasis --- Mange --- Infestation, Mite --- Infestations, Mite --- Mite Infestation --- Acarus --- Mite --- 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 --- Ectoparasitic Infestation --- Infestation, Ectoparasitic --- Infestations, Ectoparasitic --- Animalia --- Animal --- Metazoa --- Environment, Preventive Medicine & Public Health --- Environment, Preventive Medicine and Public Health --- Health, Public --- Brachiopoda --- Mesozoa --- Brachiopodas --- Invertebrate --- Mesozoas --- Parasite Infections --- Parasitic Infections --- Disease, Parasitic --- Diseases, Parasitic --- Infection, Parasite --- Infection, Parasitic --- Infections, Parasite --- Infections, Parasitic --- Parasite Infection --- Parasitic Disease --- Parasitic Infection --- Arthropoda --- Arthropod --- Autochthonous Transmission --- Communicable Disease Transmission --- Horizontal Transmission of Infection --- Horizontal Transmission of Infectious Disease --- Infection Transmission --- Infection Transmission, Horizontal --- Infectious Disease Transmission --- Infectious Disease Transmission, Horizontal --- Pathogen Transmission --- Pathogen Transmission, Horizontal --- Transmission of Infectious Disease --- Transmission, Infectious Disease --- Autochthonous Transmissions --- Disease Transmission, Communicable --- Infection Horizontal Transmission --- Transmission, Autochthonous --- Transmission, Communicable Disease --- Transmission, Infection --- Transmission, Pathogen --- Transmissions, Autochthonous --- Disease --- Infectious Disease Vectors --- Disease Vector --- Disease Vector, Infectious --- Disease Vectors, Infectious --- Infectious Disease Vector --- Vector, Disease --- Vector, Infectious Disease --- Vectors, Disease --- Vectors, Infectious Disease --- Arachnids --- Arachnid --- Arachnidas --- Parasitic Skin Diseases --- Disease, Parasitic Skin --- Diseases, Parasitic Skin --- Parasitic Skin Disease --- Skin Disease, Parasitic --- Arthropod Vector --- Vector, Arthropod --- Vectors, Arthropod --- transmission --- Life sciences. --- Parasitology. --- Ecology. --- Biodiversity. --- Evolutionary biology. --- Invertebrates. --- Entomology. --- Life Sciences. --- Evolutionary Biology. --- Medical parasitology. --- Evolution (Biology). --- Insects --- Invertebrata --- Biological diversification --- Biological diversity --- Biotic diversity --- Diversification, Biological --- Diversity, Biological --- Biology --- Biocomplexity --- Ecological heterogeneity --- Numbers of species --- Balance of nature --- Bionomics --- Ecological processes --- Ecological science --- Ecological sciences --- Environment --- Environmental biology --- Oecology --- Environmental sciences --- Population biology --- Animal evolution --- Biological evolution --- Darwinism --- Evolutionary biology --- Evolutionary science --- Origin of species --- Evolution --- Biological fitness --- Homoplasy --- Natural selection --- Phylogeny --- Human beings --- Human parasitology --- Medical sciences --- Parasitology --- Parasitic diseases --- Ecology --- Parasites --- Mites. --- Ecology .


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The economic impact of Medicaid expansion on Pennsylvania
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ISBN: 0833081225 083308030X 9780833080301 9780833081223 Year: 2013 Publisher: Santa Monica, California : RAND Corporation,

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Legislation as Topic --- Medical Assistance --- Government --- Insurance --- Appalachian Region --- Social Sciences --- United States --- Public Assistance --- Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena --- Organizations --- Financing, Organized --- Social Control, Formal --- Health Care Economics and Organizations --- Financing, Government --- North America --- Health Care --- Americas --- Geographic Locations --- Geographicals --- Economics --- Federal Government --- Medicaid --- Pennsylvania --- Insurance Coverage --- Public Health --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Medical Care Plans --- Dental Medicaid Programs --- Medicaid Program, Dental --- Medicaid Programs, Dental --- Dental Medicaid Program --- Medical Assistance, Title 19 --- Program, Dental Medicaid --- Programs, Dental Medicaid --- National Government --- Government, Federal --- Capital --- Conditions, Economic --- Consumption --- Cost of Living --- Easterlin Hypothesis --- Economic Conditions --- Economic Factors --- Economic Policies --- Economic Policy --- Economics, Home --- Factors, Economic --- Home Economics --- Household Consumption --- Macroeconomic Factors --- Microeconomic Factors --- Policies, Economic --- Policy, Economic --- Production --- Remittances --- Utility Theory --- Consumer Price Index --- Condition, Economic --- Consumer Price Indices --- Consumption, Household --- Economic Condition --- Economic Factor --- Factor, Economic --- Factor, Macroeconomic --- Factor, Microeconomic --- Factors, Macroeconomic --- Factors, Microeconomic --- Household Consumptions --- Hypothesis, Easterlin --- Index, Consumer Price --- Indices, Consumer Price --- Living Cost --- Living Costs --- Remittance --- Theories, Utility --- Theory, Utility --- Utility Theories --- 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 --- Government Financing --- Federal Aid --- Financing, Public --- Grants and Subsidies, Government --- Hill-Burton Act --- Subsidies, Government --- Act, Hill-Burton --- Aid, Federal --- Aids, Federal --- Federal Aids --- Government Subsidies --- Government Subsidy --- Hill Burton Act --- Public Financing --- Subsidy, Government --- Healthcare Economics and Organizations --- Regulation --- Social Control --- Control, Social --- Controls, Social --- Formal Social Control --- Formal Social Controls --- Regulations --- Social Controls --- Community Financing --- Grants --- Organized Financing --- Financing, Community --- Grant --- Non-Governmental Organizations --- Nongovernmental Organizations --- Organizations, Nongovernmental --- Non Governmental Organizations --- Non-Governmental Organization --- Nongovernmental Organization --- Organization --- Organization, Non-Governmental --- Organization, Nongovernmental --- Organizations, Non-Governmental --- Assistance, Public --- Science, Social --- Sciences, Social --- Social Science --- Indemnity --- Insurance Premiums --- Insurance Premium --- Premium, Insurance --- Premiums, Insurance --- Governments --- Assistance, Medical --- Constitutional Amendments --- Laws and Statutes --- Legislation, Health --- Model Legislation --- Population Law --- Statutes and Laws --- Health Legislation --- Amendment, Constitutional --- Amendments, Constitutional --- Constitutional Amendment --- Law, Population --- Laws, Population --- Legislation, Model --- Population Laws --- Insurance Status --- Coverage, Insurance --- Status, Insurance --- Public Policy --- Health Legislation as Topic --- United States.

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