На свете нет ни одного человека, которому нравится болеть и которого радуют преждевременные морщины и слабость. Сохранить вечную молодость, к сожалению, невозможно, но вполне реально продлить ее, поддержать свое здоровье и до глубокой старости наслаждаться жизнью. Секрет прост: надо правильно питаться. В этой книге даны правила здорового питания и приведены рецепты вкусных и полезных блюд на любой вкус.

To my parents — who provided me not only with guidance and extraordinary opportunity early on, but also with a lifetime of support and encouragement. To my wife — for her continued orbearance, her extraordinary patience, her sage counsel, and her immeasurable support and To my three children — for their consistent understanding as I worked on this book, for teaching me the things I did not know as a pediatrician, for making me look good as a father, and most important, for all of the joy that they and my wife bring into my life.

This volume grows out of an initiative in the World Bank on resource allocation and purchasing (“RAP”), which started in 2000, and continues to publish articles and books related to strategic purchasing. The initiative emerged from such questions in developing economies as: Why do individuals need help in purchasing health services from providers? Is the “middleman” really necessary? Can people not just buy health services in the same way they would go to the local market to buy bread, milk, or fruit—especially since, throughout most of history, that is what most people did? When sick, they contacted local healers directly. Public policy historically was limited largely to protecting the sick against charlatans and was enforced through ethical codes such as the Hippocratic oath. There was no expensive technology, and most serious conditions led to death. Loss of employment and burial costs were the most expensive parts of illness. With industrialization and the scientific revolution, all this changed. As understanding about the causes, prevention, and treatment of illness expanded, interventions become more complex and expensive. Health care was no longer the exclusive domain of traditional healers.

From Idiocy to Mental Deficiency is the first book devoted to the social history of people with learning disabilities in Britain. Approaches to learning disabilities have changed dramatically in recent years. The implementation of 'Care in the Community', the campaign for disabled rights and the debate over the education of children with special needs have combined to make this one of the most controversial areas in social policy today. The nine original research essays collected here cover the social history of learning disability from the Middle Ages through the establishment of the National Health Service. They will not only contribute to a neglected field of social and medical history but also illuminate and inform current debates. The information presented here will have a profound impact on how professionals in mental health, psychiatric nursing, social work and disabled rights understand learning disability and society's responses to it over the course of history.

'Employment Law and Occupational Health: A Practical Handbook' provides an essential guide to best practice for all occupational health practitioners. This readable guide to the law will help to ensure both business success and respect for individual employment rights. The cost of sickness absence can present major costs and business management problems. Safeguarding health is therefore vital to both individuals and employers. 'Employment Law and Occupational Health' explores key issues in occupational health practice from pre-employment, through health surveillance and occupational health services, to termination of employment. Topics explored include ethical and confidentiality issues, discrimination, data protection, working abroad, pregnancy and maternity leave, workplace policies, drugs and alcohol testing, stress, counselling, health surveillance and professional conduct rules. This second edition has been fully revised and updated to include a number of significant changes to employment law as well as new case law decisions that have occurred since the 1st Edition was published. Essential new material has also been included around age discrimination, disability discrimination, work related stress, corporate manslaughter and work-place bullying.

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This book is designed to provide a quick and easy checklist-style reference to the steps system administrators need to take to anticipate those attacks and compromises and harden Windows NT, 2000, XP, and Server 2003 against them.

In this small book David Hemenway has produced a masterwork. He has dissected the various aspects of the gun violence epidemic in the United States into its component parts and considered them separately. He has produced a scientifically based analysis of the data and indeed the microdata of the over 30,000 deaths and 75,000 injuries which occur each year. Consideration and adoption of the policy lessons he recommends would strengthen the Constitutional protections that all of our citizens have to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness

Chemistry: An Introduction for Medical and Health Sciences provides students and practitioners with a clear, readable introduction to the chemical terms and concepts that are relevant to their study and practice. Assuming little prior knowledge of the subject the book describes and explains the chemistry underlying many of the most commonly prescribed drugs and medicines. It also includes information on chemical aspects of digestion and nutrition, oxidation, radioactivity and an overview of how chemicals fight disease.

Eating junk food and fast food is a great all-American passion. American kids and grownups love their candy bars, Big Macs and supersized fries, Doritos, Twinkies, and Good Humor ice cream bars. The disastrous health effects from the enormous appetite for these processed fat- and sugar-loaded foods are well publicized now. This was particularly dramatically evidenced by Super Size Me (2004), filmmaker Morgan Spurlock's 30-day all-McDonald's diet in which his liver suffered the same poisoning as if he had been on an extended alcohol binge. Through increased globalization, American popular food culture is being increasingly emulated elsewhere in the world, such as China, with the potential for similar disastrous consequences. This A-to-Z reference is the first to focus on the junk food and fast food phenomena from a multitude of angles in addition to health and diet concerns. More than 250 essay entries objectively explore the scope of the topics to illuminate the American way through products, corporations and entrepreneurs, social history, popular culture, organizations, issues, politics, commercialism and consumerism, and much more.

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Any reference to or mention of manufacturers or specific brand names should not be interpreted as an endorsement or advertisement for any company or product. Some of the product names, patents, and registered designs referred to in this book are in fact registered trademarks or proprietary names even though specific reference to this fact is not always made in the text. Therefore, the appearance of a name without designation as proprietary is not to be construed as a representation by the publisher that it is in the public domain. This book, including all parts thereof, is legally protected by copyright. Any use, exploitation, or commercialization outside the narrow limits set by copyright legislation, without the publisher’s consent, is illegal and liable to prosecution. This applies in particular to photostat reproduction, copying, mimeographing or duplication of any kind, translating, preparation of microfilms, and electronic data processing and storage.

This book offers a group of essays published in memory of David Thomasma, one of the leading humanists in the field of bioethics during the twentieth century. The authors represent many different countries and disciplines throughout the globe. The volume deals with the pressing issue of how to ground a universal bioethics in the context of the conflicted world of combative cultures and perspectives.

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«Інформаційний довідник для іноземців у ЧР», створений у рамках «Концепції інтеґрації іноземців» Міністерством праці та соціальних питань у співробітництві з деякими іншими міністерствами та недержавними безприбутковими орґанізаціями. Довідник призначається, головним чином, для іноземців, що походять з так званих «третіх країн», тобто країн, що не є членами Європейського Союзу, правовий статус яких у ряді аспектів відрізняється від статусу інших іноземців. У завдання довідника не входить надання детальної та вичерпної інформації, що стосується життя у ЧР, оскільки це, враховуючи обмежений об’єм документа, не видається можливим. Її метою є надати цілісний огляд елементарної інформації про Чеську Республіку та допомогти Вам спростити орієнтацію у повсякденних життєвих ситуаціях, з якими Ви зустрічатиметися у рамках процесу інтеґрації до чеського суспільства. Крім елементарних відомостей про ЧР, довідник інформує про структуру та функціонування громадського управління, шляхи вирішення кризових ситуацій, систему освіти, охорони здоров’я та соціального забезпечення, працевлаштування, житло, транспорт та ін. До публікації включений також список окремих недержавних безприбуткових орґанізацій (НБО), що діють у сфері інтеґрації іноземців.