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Your Body: The Missing M...
The Missing Manual
What, exactly, do you know about your body? Do you know how your immune system works? Or what your pancreas does? Or the myriad -- and often simple -- ways you can improve the way your body functions? > This full-color, visually rich guide answers these questions and more. Ma...
(2009)
8 bookmarks
Fitness for Geeks
Real Science, Great Nutrition, and Good Health
If you're interested in how things work, this guide will help you experiment with one crucial system you usually ignore--your body and its health. Long hours focusing on code or circuits tends to stifle notions of nutrition, but with this educational and highly useful book you...
(2012)
3 bookmarks
Childhealth
Epidemiological foundations
The key tasks of the BZgA include strengthening the health-related skills of children and young people and providing them with assistance in coping healthily with the various developmental stages from childhood and adolescence to adulthood. Against this backdrop, the BZgA stag...
(1999)
1 bookmarks
Food allergy survival guide
surviving and thriving with food allergies and sensitivities
by Vesanto Melina, Jo Stepaniak, and Dina Aronson
This essential reference work presents a thorough discussion of the major food allergies and how to deal with them in a positive, affirming way. Readers will learn about testing for allergies, safety measures for life-threatening conditions, shopping and kitchen basics, and a ...
(2004)
1 bookmarks
Young Drivers
The Road to Safety
With traffic crashes being the single greatest killer of those aged 15-24 in OECD countries, this report provides an overview of the scope of the problem of young driver risk, its primary causes and concrete options to combat it. It systematically examines the specifics of you...
(2006)
1 bookmarks
Apple Cider Vinegar
For Weight Loss and Good Health
Clearly written and easy to understand, this valuable resource book contains facts on the history, properties, and health benefits of apple cider vinegar. There is an extensive section on weight loss, providing sound background information on how to use apple cider vinegar ...
(2002)
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What keeps people healthy?
The current state of discussion and the relevance of Antonovskys Salutogenic model of health
The salutogenic model developed by Aaron Antonovsky is encountering growing interest, particularly among health promotion professionals. Consequently, the BZgA commissioned an expert report which was to discuss the relevance of the salutogenic model and its potential consequen...
(1999)
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Evaluations as a quality...
How can the effectiveness of health promotion programmes be monitored? How can their strengths and weaknesses be identified? The subject of quality assurance is also playing an increasingly important role in health promotion. In this context, it is not simply a matter of putti...
(1999)
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The organ donation proce...
An analysis of the content and methods of available studies
Most people in Germany have a basically positive attitude towards organ donation and only insignificantly fewer of them are willing to donate organs themselves after their death. In contrast, only a small portion of the population possesses an organ donor card, and a major sho...
(2001)
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Strategies to reduce hea...
Creating an internet platform to improve networking
Since the mid-nineties, it has been an undisputed fact in Germany that people from socially disadvantaged groups of the population have a shorter life expectancy and higher incidence of illness than people from higher status population groups. A current, well-researched study ...
(2003)
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Theirs nothing like star...
Stimuly views and models of prectice
Successful promotion of health competence at pre-school age would have wide-reaching effects which would shape the development of children, their ideas and behaviour with regard to health, and therefore also the later behaviour of adults with regard to health. An ideal field f...
(2003)
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Qualitiy kriteria for pr...
Qualitiy gried for preventative meassures for overweight and obese children and adolescents
The Quality grid for preventative measures for overweight children and adolescents were developed in a working group. The quality grid is aimed at services for overweight children who have not yet developed any secondary diseases. Representatives of various institutions such a...
(2005)
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The treatment of overwei...
The number of overweight and obese children and young people, which has been rising for years, means that there is a need for nationwide provision with treatment initiatives, tailored to individual requirements. Consequently, there are already numerous inpatient, outpatient or...
(2009)
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Health for children and ...
This concept presents the principles of one of the central fields of work of the BZgA. It provides information on the framework conditions and the epidemiological stating situation. Objectives and subject areas are formulated, working on the basis of an approach which focuses ...
(1999)
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Health education and hea...
After “Health for Children and Adolescents”, the first volume of a series of concepts, the present volume “Health Education and Health Promotion in Schools”, provides further basic principles for a central field of work of the BZgA. It gives information on the overall conditio...
(2001)
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Health promotion at Kind...
Following the concepts on "Health for Children and Adolescents" and "Health Education and Health Promotion in Schools" these notes on the promotion of health at kindergarten are the necessary supplement to the work focusing on "Health for Children and Adolescents" carried out ...
(2002)
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Improving Value in Healt...
Measuring Quality
Are breast cancer survival rates higher in the United States than in the United Kingdom and France? Are a patient's chances of dying within 30 days after admission to a hospital with a heart attack lower in Canada than in Korea? Are surgeons in some countries more likely to l...
(2010)
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Drugs and Driving
Detection and Deterrence
Driving while impaired by drugs – whether licit or illicit – has emerged as an important road safety issue. This report provides a state-of-the-art review of the role and impact of drugs in road accident risk. It reviews the legislation, deterrence and roadside detection prac...
(2010)
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Allergies - Disease in D...
How to heal your allergic condition permanently and naturally
Allergy is generally misunderstood. Left untreated it can lead to serious degenerative disease. Asthma, migraines, arthritis, ulcers and obesity have all been linked to allergy. Fatigue, irritability, body aching, digestive problems, and other vague ailments are typical of all...
(1994)
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