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Ten Quality Improvement Initiatives to Standardize

WEBQuality improvement is a continuous journey to standardize healthcare processes and structure to reduce variation, achieve predictable results, and improve …

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Health Literacy: An Intervention to Improve Health Outcomes

WEB2. Introduction. The term health literacy was introduced in 1974 in a paper calling for minimum health education standards for all grade-school levels in the United …

Category:  Health Go Health

Healthcare Delivery Systems in Rural Areas IntechOpen

WEBHealth care is a fundamental right of every human being. About half of the world’s population (An estimated 3.4 billion of the world’s 7.6 billion in 2018) lived in rural …

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Patient Safety: Preventing Patient Harm and Building Capacity for

WEBPatient safety is a global public health concern. It is a health care discipline with ever evolving advancement and complexity resulting in consequential rise in patient …

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Physical Activity and Health Promotion: A Public Health Imperative

WEBContinuing epidemiological and clinical studies have accumulated evidence that appropriate regular physical activity (PA) results in significant health benefits and …

Category:  Health Go Health

Introductory Chapter: What Is Global Health

WEB1. Introduction. A useful definition of “global health” is an elusive prey, hiding among its congeners of public health, international health, tropical public health, and …

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Positive Psychology and Healthy Lifestyles for Health and …

WEBPositive psychology in combination with a healthy lifestyle has the potential to enhance health and well-being at a level beyond that achieved by healthy lifestyle …

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Social Marketing for Health: Theoretical and Conceptual

WEB2. Key concepts of social marketing. Health interventions to be considered as social marketing programs need to fulfill some criteria. The benchmark criteria …

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Health Promotion and Its Challenges to Public Health Delivery …

WEB1. Introduction: conceptualizing health promotion. According to Tannahill [], health promotion is an umbrella term covering overlapping fields of health education, …

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Improving Healthcare Access through Digital Health: The Use of

WEBHealthcare has been going through major digital transformations due to the extensive use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in the sector. Many …

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Impact of Poverty on Health IntechOpen

WEBPoverty is not merely the absence of money but the absence of resources to get the necessities of life. Poverty and health are always in a reciprocal relationship. …

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Health Promotion and Disease Prevention in Botswana IntechOpen

WEBThis chapter discusses health promotion and its usefulness in preventing diseases in Botswana. Document analysis, published and non-published, was …

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Health Impacts of Poor Solid Waste Management in the 21st Century

WEBIndustries and households globally accumulate solid waste at a heightened rate, due to increased global population, food and essentials to survive. Although steps …

Category:  Food Go Health

Community Engagement to Enhance Environmental Health

WEBThis chapter describes increasing and sustaining environmental health literacy (EHL) within the less disadvantaged and minority communities in third-world …

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Gender and Health IntechOpen

WEB1. Introduction. The existence of gender differences in health, and the reason for such differences, is a complex issue whose research and explanations are not bias …

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Herbal Medicines in African Traditional Medicine IntechOpen

WEBAfrican traditional medicine is a form of holistic health care system organized into three levels of specialty, namely divination, spiritualism, and herbalism. The …

Category:  Medicine Go Health

Impact of Pesticides on Environmental and Human Health

WEBHuman body burden due to organochlorine pesticides results from the universal presence of these contaminants in the environment. This constitutes a major …

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Introductory Chapter: Bio-Psychosocial Model of Health

WEBThe aim of this chapter is to examine possible contributory connections between bio-psychosocial factors and health at the population level. The book explores …

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