The development of health across an individual’s life depends on many factors, but social determinants play a vital role. This timely Handbook simultaneously uses theoretical, descriptive, explanatory and policy approaches to explore health inequalities related to income, education, occupational status, social capital, and also biological and genetic factors. World- leading experts define and present the most prominent research topics, perspectives, and findings in the field and pose critical questions from within and beyond the research community. Structured into five parts this handbook addresses theories, methods, single stages of the life course, long-term perspectives on the whole life course, and policies. It helps readers understand the complexity of health sociology while also investigating important mechanisms and solutions through which health inequalities can be reduced. Providing a comprehensive, multi- and interdisciplinary analysis of topics and approaches to health inequalities, this Handbook will be an inspiring resource for researchers seeking to expand their knowledge and tackle new research questions. Advanced students of sociology, demography, epidemiology, public health and related fields will also benefit.

This timely Research Handbook examines sport-related research and analysis pertaining to how the sport industry has been impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic. Taking stock of the changes over the course of the pandemic, it also provides key insights into how the sport industry and its stakeholders might move forward in post-pandemic times. Organized into six parts, the first half of the book explores the areas of sport management, sport communication, and sport marketing, while the final three parts analyze sport events, sport stakeholders, and sport and society. Expert international contributors delve into a wide array of topics related to the sport industry including athletes, clubs, leagues, and brand and sport management to illuminate how the pandemic has influenced these aspects of sport. Offering a comprehensive analysis of how Covid-19 has affected the sport industry, this Research Handbook will be a key resource for business and management scholars and advanced students with a particular interest in sport, health, and well-being. Its use of global case studies will also be beneficial for sport managers and practitioners in this field.

When Dr Wu Jieping was selected by Chinese Premier Zhou En lai as his personal physician, he had little choice in the matter though it transformed his life, not always in a positive way. Olivia Cox-Fill got to know Dr Wu Jieping following the death of Zhou En Lai and while Mao's wife was still in prison. He had attended several of China's leaders, including Premier Zhou En Lai, Chairman Mao, Liu Shao Chi and Madame Mao. Over a period of three years, Olivia Cox-Fill interviewed Dr Wu and gathered vivid and unique recollections of his contacts with the Chinese leadership. But Wu specified that none of these memories should be published until after his death, which occurred in 2011, since its frank revelations would lead to state repercussions. The memoir reveals the appalling conditions in China as experienced by one of its most famous doctors, who carried out research into TB and kidney cancer while attending to the health of the country's leaders. It also shows what it took to survive in Communist China at a time when most leading intellectuals were expelled to the countryside, imprisoned or beaten to death.

This book contains essential information required for clinical practice and professional ENT examinations, as well as interviews in Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery. The contents of this book span the breadth of ENT training syllabi including Paediatric ENT Surgery, Otology, Neuro-Otology, Clinical Audiology, Rhinology, Facial Plastic Surgery, Clinical Radiology and Basic Sciences relevant to Otolaryngology. This book is suitable for both junior and senior higher-surgical trainees in Otolaryngology. Included are 800 true/false multiple choice questions (Chapters 1-4) and 325 true/false quizzes (Chapters 5-10). Collectively, the questions and quizzes assess factual material as well as clinical information. Questions are arranged randomly within each sub-specialty to reflect real life situations. Answers, along with succinct notes, are provided at the end of each chapter. This book will enhance your ENT knowledge in the shortest possible time because it separates the 'wheat' from the 'chaff'. Eight other ENT Tzar books are also available for ENT career development. From medical student to consultant level (www.enttzar.co.uk)

EL CASO DE UN CIENTIFICO A FAVOR DE LA V IDA DESPUES DE LA MUERTE
Miles de personas han tenido experiencias cercanas a la muerte, pero los cientificos han sostenido de que son imposibles. El doctor Eben Alexander era uno de esos cientificos. Un neurocirujano altamente entrenado, Alexander sabia que las experiencias cercanas a la muerte se sienten reales, pero que simplemente son fantasias producidas por el cerebro bajo un estres extremo.
Luego, el cerebro del propio doctor Alexander fue atacado por una extrana enfermedad. La parte del cerebro que controla los pensamientos y las emociones --y en esencia nos hace humanos-- se le apago por completo. Estuvo en coma durante siete dias. Entonces, mientras sus medicos consideraban parar su tratamiento, los ojos de Alexander se abrieron. Volvio.
La recuperacion de Alexander es un milagro medico. Pero el verdadero milagro de su historia yace en otro lugar. Mientras su cuerpo estaba en coma, Alexander viajo mas alla de este mundo y se encontro con un ser angelical que lo guio a los terrenos mas profundos de la existencia suprafisica. Alla conocio a, y hablo con, la fuente Divina del universo.
La historia de Alexander no es una fantasia. Antes de comenzar su viaje, no podia reconciliar su conocimiento de la neurociencia con ninguna creencia del cielo, Dios ni el alma. Hoy en dia, Alexander es un medico que cree que la verdadera salud se puede adquirir solo cuando nos damos cuenta de que Dios y el alma son reales y la muerte no es el final de la existencia personal, sino solo una transicion.
Esta historia seria extraordinaria sin importar a quien le haya ocurrido. Que le haya ocurrido al doctor Alexander la hace revolucionaria. Ningun cientifico ni persona de fe la podra ignorar. Leerla te cambiara la vida.

The number of people setting off on a global travel for business or pleasure continues to increase. The majority journey and return in good health, but some succumb to the hazards to well-being encountered on journeys abroad. This book is a practical set of guidance notes for travel health professionals, family doctors practice nurses and pharmacists involved in consultations with potential world travellers. The content is based on a series of educational webinars hosted by the British Global and Travel Health Association and articles from the BGTHA journal. The platform provides a concise, practical guide for those working in the discipline of travel related medicine. Explicit guide notes provide a definitive resource, which will aid all those working in the travel health field and help to ensure that, business people and vacationers can avoid health hazards associated with global excursions and return home fit and well.

Essential Paediatrics and Child Health ist ein praktischer Leitfaden mit umfassenden Informationen zu Kinderkrankheiten. Schritt-fur-Schritt-Anleitungen unterstutzen bei der Bewertung von Symptomen, Anamnese, Untersuchung und Diagnose. Hinzu kommen Leitfaden fur Management und Behandlung, Patientenaufklarung, Nachsorge und Prognose. Die komplett uberarbeitete Neuauflage dieses Klassikers bietet eine Fulle von Farbfotos, einzigartige und innovative Lernansatze und ist ein Muss fur Studenten der Medizin und Assistenzarzte. - Kinderkrankheiten werden zum schnellen Nachschlagen in systembezogenen Kapiteln vorgestellt. Die Symptome der wichtigsten Erkrankungen und Behinderungen im Kindesalter werden ausfuhrlich erlautert. - Verbindet aktuelle Informationen zu den jungsten Erkenntnissen aus Forschung und Klinikalltag mit Kernkompetenzen, die in dem Fachgebiet von Studenten erwartet werden. - Diagramme, Tabellen, Hinweiskastchen und Informationen auf einen Blick, Verweise auf Richtlinien und Zusammenfassungen erleichtern das Selbststudium. - Eigene Kapitel fassen die Erfahrungen von Studierenden zusammen, ermoeglichen die Selbstuberprufung des Gelernten und bieten Hilfestellung fur Praktika auf Kinderstationen, die Prufungsvorbereitung und wichtige Examina. - Eine neue Einfuhrung beschaftigt sich mit den Perspektiven der Padiatrie und gibt Handreichungen fur den gelungenen Einstieg. Neue Inhalte zu Kommunikationsstrategien, nationalen Richtlinien, Bildgebungsverfahren, Genetik und Epigenetik, Medikamentengabe bei Kindern, den jungsten Fortschritten in Diagnostik und Behandlung und viele weitere Themen runden dieses Lehrbuch ab. - Begleitende Website mit Videos zu Untersuchungsverfahren, interaktiven Patientenszenarios und Multiple-Choice-Fragen. Essential Paediatrics and Child Health ist der perfekte Begleiter fur Studenten der Medizin und Assistenzarzte.

From the bestselling author of The Patient comes another powerful novel about betrayal, family and the secrets of the past. ‘Jane Shemilt is a mistress at skilfully weaving seemingly perfect family lives with deadly secrets from the past in stunning locations.’ Jane Corry PAXOS, GREECE A young girl meets two boys on the beach one hot summer night. Her life will never be the same again. LONDON, ENGLAND Julia is the perfect spouse, mother, cook, cleaner and speech writer to her husband, James. But behind it all is a stifled woman trapped in a gilded cage. When she meets Laurel, a therapist who promises fulfilment, Julia opens herself up to the hope of a different future. BOUND BY THE PAST But what happened in Greece all those years ago that binds these two women together? And will uncovering the truth destroy everything… or set them free? THE QUEEN OF THE WHAT-IF NOVEL IS BACK WITH A TENSE, EMOTIONAL READ THAT WILL MAKE YOU QUESTION EVERYTHING… Netgalley readers LOVE All Her Secrets: ‘Jane is one of my favourite authors and this book is another masterpiece’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘10/10 ALL HER SECRETS is a triumph!’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Gripping, riveting and hard to put down’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘A must read!’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘A NAME TO WATCH. Don't think twice. Order your copy today’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Ideal summer read’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘An amazing rollercoaster ride of a story … Brilliantly done’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘A thoughtful and often hard-hitting book’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘What a great story. I loved it’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Praise for Jane Shemilt: ‘Gave me goosebumps’ CLAIRE DOUGLAS ‘This elegant, multi-layered story has taken my breath away. Much more than a murder mystery . . . luring you to the edge of your seat’ JANICE HALLETT ‘A masterclass in upmarket thriller writing’ CHARLOTTE PHILBY ‘[A] gripping tale of desire, betrayal and murder’ T.M. LOGAN ‘Constantly surprising’ SUNDAY TIMES ‘Beautifully paced’ CARA HUNTER

This work offers a systematic approach to anatomy. As opposed to the regional approach used by medical and dental students, this work is aimed in particular at the medical-related professions, for example nursing, radiography, occupational therapy and physiotherapy. It was endeavoured to comply with the requirements of these courses. The authors are members of the Anatomy Department of the University of Pretoria's Faculty of Medicine.

World-renowned authors Dr Edward M. Hallowell and Dr John J. Ratey literally 'wrote the book' on ADD/ADHD more than two decades ago. Their bestseller, Driven to Distraction, largely introduced this diagnosis to the public and sold more than a million copies along the way.

Now, most people have heard of ADHD and know someone who may have it. But lost in the discussion of both childhood and adult diagnosis of ADHD is the potential upside: many hugely successful entrepreneurs and highly creative people attribute their achievements to ADHD. Also unknown to most are the recent research developments, including innovations that give a clearer understanding of the ADHD brain in action. In ADHD 2.0, Drs Hallowell and Ratey, both of whom have this 'variable attention trait', draw on the latest science to provide both parents and adults with ADHD a plan for minimizing the downside and maximizing the benefits of ADHD at any age.

They offer an arsenal of new strategies and lifestyle hacks for thriving with ADHD, including:

• Find the right kind of difficult. Use these behaviour assessments to discover the work, activity, or creative outlet best suited to an individual's unique strengths.
• Reimagine environment. What specific elements to look for - at home, at school, or in the workplace - to enhance the creativity and entrepreneurial spirit inherent in the ADHD mind.
• Embrace innate neurological tendencies. Take advantage of new findings about the brain's default mode network and cerebellum, which confer major benefits for people with ADHD.
• Tap into the healing power of connection. Tips for establishing and maintaining positive connection, 'the other Vitamind C', and the best antidote to the negativity that plagues so many people with ADHD.
• Consider medication. Gets the facts about the underlying chemistry, side effects, and proven benefits of all the pharmaceutical options.

As inspiring as it is practical, ADHD 2.0 will help you tap into the power of this mercurial condition and find the key that unlocks potential.

From the author of the "absolutely absorbing" (USA Today) memoir Undercurrents comes an unforgettable portrait of childhood, family and community. The eldest child of a devout Irish-American Catholic family, Martha Manning weaves her story around the seven holy sacraments: baptism, penance, communion, confirmation, holy orders, marriage and last rites. She recalls her childhood pratfalls, adolescent yearnings and entrance into motherhood with wisdom, wit and remarkable honesty. At once poignant and laugh-out-loud funny, Chasing Grace is a wholly original tale of family and friends, happy times and difficult ones -- and the painful, joyous journey from childhood to adulthood.

Can literature heal? The Poetics of Palliation argues that our answers to this question have origins in the Romantic period. In the past twenty years, health humanists and scholars of literature and medicine have drawn on Romantic ideas to argue that literature cures by making sufferers whole again. But this model oversimplifies how Romantic writers thought literature addressed suffering. Poetics documents how writers like William Wordsworth and Mary Shelley explored palliative forms of literary medicine: therapies that stressed literature's manifold relationship to pain and its power to sustain, comfort, and challenge even when cure was not possible. The book charts how Romantic writers developed these palliative poetics in conversation with their medical milieu. British medical ethics was first codified during the Romantic period. Its major writers, John Gregory and Thomas Percival, endorsed a palliative mandate to compensate for doctors' limited curative powers. Similarly, Romantic writers sought palliative approaches when their work failed to achieve starker curative goals. The startling diversity of their results illustrates how palliation offers a more comprehensive metric for literary therapy than the curative traditions we have inherited from Romanticism.

'Powerful, humane and wise' JULIA SAMUEL 'Everyone should read it' NIGELLA LAWSON 'Beautiful ... This is a book for everyone. You feel held by it' PHILIPPA PERRY Most of us have a conversation we're avoiding. From the bestselling author of With the End in Mind, this is a book about the conversations that matter and how to have them better - more honestly, more confidently and without regret. A child coming out to their parent. A family losing someone to terminal illness. A friend noticing the first signs of someone's dementia. A careers advisor and a teenager with radically different perspectives. There are moments when we must talk, listen and be there for one another. Why do we so often come away from those times feeling like we could have done more, or should have been braver in the face of discomfort? Why do we skirt the conversations that might matter most? By bringing together stories with a lifetime's experience working in medicine and the newest psychology, Mannix offers lessons for how we can better speak our mind and help when others need to. Kathryn Mannix's 'With the End in Mind' was a Sunday Times bestseller the weeks ending 6 January 2018, 13 January 2018 and 3 February 2018.

Routine denial and the downplaying of harm should have no place in medicine but it is an institutional attitude and policy in the UK. The Department of Health and the MHRA play politics with people's lives. There is no doubt that the defence and underestimation of past harm, allows the continuation of a system which will produce more avoidable injury in the future. The author campaigns for drug safety and a change in the system where no one is held accountable and the victims are left to fend for themselves.

A quick and easy way to understand neurodiversity as written by neurodivergent people and our families

Neurodiversity For Dummies is your essential guide in understanding neurodivergent conditions like autism, ADHD, dyslexia, and more. This quick and easy guide is perfect for anyone needing to know more about neurodiversity. And that’s all of us―because recent estimates say that 15-20% of the world’s population have some form of neurodivergence. Your life is filled with neurodivergent people that you know and love, whether you realize it yet or not.

It’s time to learn to support and include the neurodivergent among us, and to understand how neurodiversity impacts society and the workplace. This is for the neurodivergent person wanting to thrive in life, for parents and caregivers seeking success for their child, and for teachers who are working to make a difference in their students’ lives. Filled with practical advice, Neurodiversity for Dummies also provides a helping hand to service providers, assistance for workplace managers and colleagues, and understanding for family members and friends.

Imagine a world where we all understood ourselves better and appreciated more deeply the differences in others. No matter how your own brain thinks, Neurodiversity for Dummies is for you. Check out this jargon-free introduction for an essential overview.

'If you want to read a book that moves you both at the level of sentence and the quality of language and with the emotional depth of its subject matter, then A Fortunate Woman is definitely the book you should be reading' Samanth Subramanian, Baillie Gifford Judge When Polly Morland is clearing out her mother's house she finds a book that will lead her to a remarkable figure living on her own doorstep: the country doctor who works in the same remote, wooded valley she has lived in for many years. This doctor is a rarity in contemporary medicine, she knows her patients inside out, and their stories are deeply entwined with her own. In A Fortunate Woman, with its beautiful photographs by Richard Baker, Polly Morland has written a profoundly moving love letter to a landscape, a community and, above all, to what it means to be a good doctor. 'Morland writes about nature and the changing landscape with such lyrical precision that her prose sometimes seems close to poetry' Christina Patterson, The Sunday Times 'Timely . . . compelling . . . a delicately drawn miniature' The Financial Times 'This book deepens our understanding of the life and thoughts of a modern doctor, and the modern NHS, and it expands movingly to chronicle a community and a landscape' Kathleen Jamie, The New Statesman

This 2nd edition of the UK's best selling book on medical school interviews contains up to date information on NHS current issues and extensive advice on how to handle MMI-style interviews. This book presents an in-depth look at over 150 medical school interview questions. The book provides you with techniques to address the various types of questions, analyses good and bad examples of answers, teaches you how to add depth to your answers and how to answer those difficult ethical scenarios and lateral thinking questions. If someone asked you: Why medicine? or What are the qualities of a good doctor? Would you crumble or would you respond with the same old cliche as the next candidate? How about: What makes a good team player? Are you a leader or a follower? Should alcoholics receive liver transplants? Was it a good idea to send a man to the moon?

A practical, concise and illustrative discussion of universal hand conditions. Extensively edited, rewritten and updated by an experienced hand surgeon and hand therapist.