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Health Systems, Health Services And Inequality In Population Health

by Alastair H. Leyland, Ilmo Keskimaki e Peter P. Groenewegen

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 In addition, the brief is relevant for health policy researchers, health impact researchers, health economists, epidemiologists, public health practitioners and professionals in health services planning and management.
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Building The Ecosystem For Engaged Research

by Emma R. Dorris, Liam Cleere e Thilo Kroll

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 <p>This book discusses the ecosystem and infrastructure needed to successfully embed a culture of societally engaged research at a systems level. To date, few initiatives have concentrated on systematically building a research ecosystem that promotes engagement, enhances capacity, and integrates institutional processes to connect this engagement with research impact. The authors present a critical reflection of engaged research as a systemic and dynamic process which continuously changes, and which requires adaptation. They discuss transformations required to achieve sustainable change and the actors responsible for implementing those transformations.</p><p>Research is changing. There is an increased focus on aligning strategic research with societal needs, expectations and values nationally and globally. More open and inclusive approaches can reduce the distance between research and society, leading to greater impact for all stakeholders. The heart of engaged research is the collaborative engagement with community stakeholders throughout the research cycle. </p><p>The authors have been striving to help researchers maximise the potential societal benefit from their research. Through these experiences, it has become increasingly clear that one of the greatest stumbling blocks that researchers face is the research ecosystem itself. The systems traditionally supporting research are based on old assumptions of who has a stake in research. In order to capitalise on the vast wealth of locally held knowledge for the benefit of research, fundamental changes in how we operate are required. The book does not lay out a firm road to achieve sustainable engaged research but can be considered as a map of the terrain with suggested pathways. Among the contents covered:</p><ul><li>Chapter 1 provides an introduction and overview of the ''engaged research'' concept and sets the scene;</li><li>Chapter 2 discusses development of the engaged research ecosystem at the organisational level and the need for integrated approaches across units and services;</li><li>Chapter 3 focuses on engaged research case studies, to demonstrate how engaged research can lead to greater research impact; and</li><li>Chapter 4 considers future trends in engaged research and how we can create adaptable environments for future challenges.</li></ul><p><em>Building the Ecosystem for Engaged Research</em> is essential reading for research administrators, university leadership, policy professionals, research funders, community-based organisations, and non-governmental organisations. The book is designed to be non-discipline specific. However, it would be of particular interest to the disciplines most active in engaged research including Health and Medicine, Environment, Ecology, Biology, Conservation, Social Justice, Social Care, Psychology, Education, Law and Policy, Astronomy, Architecture and Planning, Media and Communications, and Information Sciences.</p>
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Age-Friendly Ecosystems - Environments For Equitable Aging By Design

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 <p>This compact book examines age friendliness within the framework of age-friendly ecosystems, and from a place-based approach, considering anchor institutions of neighborhoods, campuses and health environments as sites uniquely positioned to catalyze age equity and inclusivity.</p><p>Age friendliness has grown from an idea into a social movement that recognizes the diversity of older adults, and integrates research, policy, programming and design practices. Compounding pressures of rapid aging, systemic ageism, and a growing disparity of resources compel us to rethink how we achieve equity in aging through the design of places and practices.</p><p>Content for this book draws from a 2022 symposium, Age Friendly Communities as Platforms for Equity, Health & Wellness. Contributors build upon the content shared through the symposium in order to examine how neighborhoods, campuses and health environments are uniquely poised to support equity and to extend reach to historically marginalized populations of older adults. Ideas and experiences from national experts in aging, as well as "real world" experiences and narratives shared by older adults, students, community stakeholders and faculty researchers, are presented through a place-based approach. Collectively the voices in this book create a lens for empowering age-friendly ecosystems as environments for equitable aging by design. Among the topics covered:</p><ul><li>Creating an Age-Friendly Environment Across the Ecosystem</li><li>Age Friendliness as a Framework for Equity in Aging</li><li>Age-Friendly Voices in the Pursuit of an Age-Friendly Ecosystem</li><li>Age-Friendly Futures: Equity by Design</li></ul><p><em>Age-Friendly Ecosystems: Environments for Equitable Aging by Design</em> is written for people who are interested in understanding how the age-friendly movement is transforming places we live - community planners, designers, policy makers, aging service providers, academics and citizen activists. This compact volume presents a case of need for age friendliness in places we live, learn and care for our health. Readers with interests in the professional practice areas of aging studies/gerontology, architecture and planning, colleges and universities, community/neighborhood development, health systems, research, and policy will benefit from this brief that examines neighborhoods, campuses, and health environments from interdisciplinary perspectives.</p>
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Specialized Pediatric Palliative Care

by Amanda L. Thompson, Antonia Vitela-Elliott, Benjamin Moresco, Betsy Ostrander, Brandy Harman, Brooke Johnston, Claudia Delgado-Corcoran, Dominic Moore, Holly Spraker-Perlman, Katie Gradick, Lauren Cramer Finnerty, Mark Harousseau, Paige Patterson, Ryann Bierer e Sydney Kronaizl

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 <p>This compact volume offers a brief overview of pediatric palliative care and emerging ways to expand and provide palliative care to children.</p><p>Pediatric palliative care is a new specialty that is rapidly expanding across the United States. The specialty has impact throughout the lifespan of children with serious illness and supports patients, families, and those who care for children.</p><p>Authored by clinicians with expertise and extensive experience in palliative care and hospice medicine, the topics covered in the volume''s five chapters include:</p><ul><li>Introduction and Definitions</li><li>Pediatric Palliative Care Involvement in Specific Disciplines</li><li>Pediatric Palliative Care at End of Life</li><li>Accessing Pediatric Palliative Care</li><li>The Future of Pediatric Palliative Care</li></ul><p><em>Specialized Pediatric Palliative Care </em>is essential reading for pediatric healthcare professionals with short, easy-to-read contents applicable to actual practice. Other providers and professionals working with children and families with serious illness also might find the book of interest.</p>
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Evolution Of Global Child Rights - Protecting The Vulnerable

by Allison Judkins, Brandon Tomlin, Kaitlyn Sacotte e Luca Brunelli

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 <p>This compact book celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Geneva Declaration of the Rights of the Child, a critical document that has shaped the relationship of adults with children worldwide. The document declares that all children must be fed, healed, protected, and given a safe place in which to develop fully.</p><p>The brief:</p><ul><li>provides background information about the Geneva declaration and the related Convention on the Rights of the Child;</li><li>discusses a child''s rights to human dignity; and</li><li>identifies local and global threats to children’s rights as well as potential safeguards against these threats.</li></ul><p>Among the topics covered:</p><ul><li>A Brief History of Children’s Rights</li><li>Rethinking Healthcare for Children - Pivot to Human Dignity</li><li>Children’s Right to Health in the US Child Welfare System: A Case Study</li><li>Global Stakeholders in the Evolution of the Rights of the Child</li></ul><p><em>The Evolution of Global Child Rights: Protecting the Vulnerable</em> is essential reading for anyone who works with or cares about children to understand the historic and current context of the rights and role of children within our society including pediatric healthcare professionals, policy makers, child welfare professionals, and other global stakeholders on child health.</p>
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Organ Transplantation And Native Peoples - An Interdisciplinary Approach

by Ana Karoline Nobrega Cavalcanti e Estevao Rafael Fernandes

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 <p>This book presents important concepts from medical and socio-cultural anthropology to health professionals working with organ transplantation involving indigenous populations. Written by an anthropologist and a nephrologist working at the Brazilian Amazon region, it presents an interdisciplinary approach merging perspectives from medical and socio-cultural anthropology, social epidemiology and clinical medicine to blend philosophical concerns around tissue and organ exchange with transplant-related initiatives in order to help health professionals develop care protocols that take into account the specific cultures of indigenous populations.</p>The approach proposed in this book is based on the assumption that there are other concepts of bodies, personhood, health, sickness, and collectivity implicated in processes of organ transplantation and health care in general that must be taken into consideration beyond strictly biomedical perspectives. Such cultural aspects also imply challenges in terms of bioethics and legislation, given the need to respect indigenous cultures. So, in order to offer health professionals practical insights, the book presents a review of the literature available about experiences of organ transplantation in ethnically diverse countries and how the professionals involved have addressed this diversity respecting these groups from a cultural, ethical, and epidemiological point of view.<p></p><p> </p><p><i>Organ Transplantation and Native Peoples: An Interdisciplinary Approach </i>is primarily aimed at being a practical tool for health professionals working with indigenous populations, but will also be of interest to researchers in different fields of the social and health sciences, such as medical anthropology, public health, nursing, bioethics and epidemiology.</p><p></p>
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Entrepreneurial Connectivity - Network, Innovation And Strategy Perspectives

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 This book explores how entrepreneurial networks provide the basis for individuals and firms to compete based on knowledge asymmetries.
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Graphene - From Theory To Applications

by Tianrong Zhang

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 This book highlights a comprehensive introduction of graphene and graphene-based two-dimensional nanomaterials, covering topics from their atomic structures, electronic band structures, and fundamental properties to technological applications.
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The Miracle Of China - The New Symbiosis With The World

by George N. Tzogopoulos

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 This book aims to explore China's miracle under the context of complex world full of uncertainties. The author knows China's history well which makes it possible to find clues to shape China's status quo and conduct logic behind. Chapter 4 functions as a case state that examines relations between an EU and NATO member states, Greece, with China.
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Geographically Isolated And Peripheral Music Scenes - Global Insights And Perspectives

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 This book explores the influence of geographical isolation and peripherality on the functioning of music industries and scenes which operate within and from such locales. As is explored, these sites engage dynamic practices to offset challenges resulting from geographical isolation and peripherality.
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Investment Treaty Law And Climate Change

by Tomás Restrepo Rodríguez

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 The book deals with the question whether the investment treaty law system could be harmonized with the climate change international legal framework and the climate interest that lies beyond.
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The Physical, Personal, And Social Impact Of Spinal Cord Injury - From The Loss Of Identity To Achieving A Life Worth Living

by Jenny Lieberman

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 This compact book uniquely examines individual lived experience with spinal cord injury (SCI). It is written in such a way that it serves as a useful and accessible resource for people who work with persons with SCI, students and instructors with an interest in the subject, as well as persons with SCI themselves and their families.
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Vaccines, Medicines And Covid-19 - How Can Who Be Given A Stronger Voice?

by German Velasquez

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 <div>This open access book is a collection of research papers on COVID-19 by Germán Velásquez from 2020 and early 2021 that help to answer the question: How can an agency like the World Health Organization (WHO) be given a stronger voice to exercise authority and leadership? </div><div><br></div>The considerable health, economic and social challenges that the world faced at the beginning of 2020 with COVID-19 continued and worsened in many parts of the world in the second-half of 2020 and into 2021. Many of these countries and nations wanted to explore COVID-19 on their own, sometimes without listening to the main international health bodies such as WHO, an agency of the United Nations system with long-standing experience and vast knowledge at the global level and of which all countries in the world are members. <div><br></div><div>In this single volume, the chapters present the progress of thinking and debate — particularly in relation to drugs and vaccines — that wouldenable a response to the COVID-19 pandemic or to subsequent crises that may arise. Among the topics covered:</div><div><ul><li>COVID-19 Vaccines: Between Ethics, Health and Economics</li><li>Medicines and Intellectual Property: 10 Years of the WHO Global Strategy<br></li><li>Re-thinking Global and Local Manufacturing of Medical Products After COVID-19<br></li><li>Rethinking R&D for Pharmaceutical Products After the Novel Coronavirus COVID-19 Shock<br></li><li>Intellectual Property and Access to Medicines and Vaccines<br></li><li>The World Health Organization Reforms in the Time of COVID-19<br></li></ul></div><div><i>Vaccines, Medicines and COVID-19: How Can WHO Be Given a Stronger Voice?</i> is essential reading for negotiators from the 194 member countries of the World Health Organization (WHO); World Trade Organization (WTO) and World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) staff participating in these negotiations; academics and students of public health, medicine, health sciences, law, sociology and political science; and intergovernmental organizations and non-governmental organizations that follow the issue of access to treatments and vaccines for COVID-19.<br></div>
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A Graduate Course In Nmr Spectroscopy

by Ramakrishna V. Hosur e Veera Mohana Rao Kakita

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 This textbook is designed for graduate students to introduce the basic concepts of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance spectroscopy (NMR), spectral analysis and modern developments such as multidimensional NMR, in reasonable detail and rigor.
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Providing Affirming Care To Transgender And Gender-Diverse Youth

by Adam W. Dell, Cori A. Agarwal, Dana N. Johns, Emily M. Graham, Jessica Robnett, Lindsey Imber e Nicole L. Mihalopoulos

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 <div>This book aids clinicians in supporting and caring for transgender and gender-diverse children and adolescents - youth who are born into an incongruent body. </div><div><br></div><div>A recent study using data from 19 states reported that 1.8% of American youth identified as transgender. Many people who are transgender will experience gender dysphoria, the intense emotional distress that is caused by a discrepancy between a person''s gender identity and their sex assigned at birth. </div><div><br></div><div>In this compact volume, the authors discuss the variety of domains involved in addressing gender dysmorphia: social, psychological, medical, and legislative/advocacy. They provide clear and concise information on the types and timing of gender-affirming medications and surgical interventions and offer useful suggestions for making interactions in the clinic and the clinical space inclusive for transgender and gender-diverse youth. Among the topics covered include:</div><div><ul><li>identity development and gender nonconformity in early childhood and puberty</li><li>the importance of access to mental health professionals with expertise in gender nonconformity</li><li>the responsible use of developmentally appropriate gender-affirming medications and surgical interventions</li><li>related clinical issues such as nutrition counselling for youth receiving gender-affirming treatments</li><li>creating a safe and inclusive healthcare environment for transgender and gender-diverse youth</li><li>advocating for transgender and gender-diverse patients by working with local and national policy makers</li></ul></div><div><i>Providing Affirming Care to Transgender and Gender-Diverse Youth </i>is essential reading for pediatric healthcare professionals including physicians in pediatrics and family medicine, plastic surgeons, nurses, dietitians, psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, and other practitioners. Students in these fields as well aspolicy makers also would find this a useful resource.<br></div>
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Physical, Personal, And Social Impact Of Spinal Cord Injury - From The Loss Of Identity To Achieving A Life Worth Living

by Jenny Lieberman

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 This compact book uniquely examines individual lived experience with spinal cord injury (SCI). It is written in such a way that it serves as a useful and accessible resource for people who work with persons with SCI, students and instructors with an interest in the subject, as well as persons with SCI themselves and their families.
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Elimination Of Infectious Diseases From The South-East Asia Region - Keeping The Promise

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 This book discusses the historical context, country experience, and best practices that led to eliminating infectious diseases from the WHOâ€™s South-East Asia Region, such as malaria, lymphatic filariasis, yaws, trachoma, and mother-to-child HIV in the mid-twentieth and twenty-first century.
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Drugs And Public Health In Post-Soviet Central Asia - Soviet-Style Health Management

by Muyassar Turaeva

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 <p>The book outlines post-Soviet style of health management in Central Asia. Regional studies on Central Asia to date have focused on states, politics, religion and inter-ethnic relations but not on the health system within the region. Soviet-style policies have also covered only other aspects relevant for the region. This book highlights the public health situation of the region with a focus on drug abuse, HIV/AIDS in the context of increased mobility, and drug trafficking routes which became even more porous after the break-up of the Soviet Union.</p><p>Based on a qualitative study, the empirical data in the book was collected during long-term fieldwork conducted in Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan in 2010-2011 as well as shorter stays in Uzbekistan between 2012-2016. The analysis of the empirical material largely draws on the works of Foucault, particularly his concept of biopolitics when analyzing Soviet-style health management that is still practiced in the region. Applying the Foucauldian genealogical method, this study has been structured to trace the genealogy of epidemics to understand the historical path of drug abuse in the region as well as the discursive genealogy of drug politics and drug abuse. Applying the same genealogical method of Foucault, the formative and discursive trajectory of the institution of Uchyot was traced to contextualize the health governance methods that have historical legacy of Soviet-style governance and control of the total population.</p><p><i>Drugs and Public Health in Post-Soviet Central Asia: Soviet-Style Health Management </i>is a unique resource for academic specialists, practitioners/professionals, and advanced undergraduate and graduate students in public health, as well as a range of scholars and professionals in sociology, political science, anthropology, and anyone with an interest in the Central Asia region, drug addiction, or HIV. The book also could appeal to international donors in the field of HIV/drug addictionwho are working in the region.</p><br><p></p>
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Balancing The Socio-Political And Medico-Ethical Dimensions Of Hiv - A Social Public Health Approach

by Amos Laar

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 <div>Responding to public health challenges at the global and local levels can give rise to an array of tensions. To assure sustainable public health, these tensions need to be meaningfully balanced. Using empirical evidence and lived experiences relating to HIV from the global south, this book enunciates the many dimensions of national-level responses to HIV/AIDS including conceptual, philosophical, and methodological perspectives from public health, public policy, bioethics, and social sciences. Calling out glaring neglects, the book makes a bold recommendation for the destabilization of the naturalness with which national HIV/AIDS responses ignore the socio-political and medico-ethical dimensions of HIV. The case made is grounded in the philosophy of social public health. Such a critical perspective is not unique to Ghana’s response to HIV/AIDS but serves as emblematic voice for similarly situated settings of the global south. </div><div><br></div><div>The book is also timely.It is written at a time when public health actors are repositioning themselves to be competent users of not only pharmaceutic vaccines, but also social vaccines. </div><div><br></div><div>Topics explored in the chapters include:</div><div><ul><li>Public health approaches to HIV and AIDS<br></li><li>Access to life-saving public health goods by persons infected or affected by HIV</li><li>"They are criminals": AIDS, the law, harm reduction, and the socially excluded</li><li>Developing socially and ethically responsive National AIDS policies</li></ul></div><div><i>Balancing the Socio-political and Medico-ethical Dimensions of HIV: A Social Public Health Approach</i> is compelling reading for a broad spectrum of readers. The book will appeal to professionals, scholars, and students in public health, public policy, bioethics, and social sciences, as well as medical anthropologists, sociologists, and global health scholars. Public health economists, lay politicians, and civil society organizations advocating for health equity will find the book useful as well. </div>
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Effective Public Health Policy In Organ Donation - Lessons From A Universal Public Health System In Brazil

by Arlene Terezinha Cagol Garcia Badoch e Fabio Silveira

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 <p>This book shows how a successful public health policy designed to foster the culture of brain death diagnosis and improve the interaction between Organ Procurement Organizations and Intra-Hospital Organ and Tissue Donation Committees for Transplants led the Brazilian state of Paraná to reach one of the highest rates of effective organ donors per million population in the world. </p><p>Brazil has the largest public transplant system in the world, and each of the country’s 26 states is responsible for organizing its own transplant system. The state of Paraná, with 11 million inhabitants, has stood out in this regard in the last decade. It reached 47.7 effective donors per million population (pmp), performing better than countries such as the United States (33.3/pmp), Canada (21.9/pmp), Portugal (33.6/pmp) and Croatia (41.2/pmp).</p><p>The remodeling of Paraná’s transplant system, between 2011 and 2020, was based on the recognized Spanish model, but has some unique characteristics.This book seeks to describe all the steps of this remodeling, describing its characteristics and explaining how the new system was built. </p><p>By presenting an in-depth analysis of a local successful case, Effective Public Health Policy in Organ Donation: Lessons from a Universal Public Health System in Brazil seeks to provide useful information to policy makers, health professionals and students from different fields within the health sciences interested in understanding how public health policies can improve organ donation rates, especially in developing countries.</p><br><p></p>
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Elimination Of Infectious Diseases From The South-East Asia Region - Keeping The Promise

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 This book discusses the historical context, country experience, and best practices that led to eliminating infectious diseases from the WHOâ€™s South-East Asia Region, such as malaria, lymphatic filariasis, yaws, trachoma, and mother-to-child HIV in the mid-twentieth and twenty-first century.
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Deaf Rhetoric - An Ecology Of Health Communication

by Manako Yabe

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 This book guides healthcare professionals, hospital administrators, and medical interpreters in the United States (and internationally) in ways to better communicate with Deaf and Hard of Hearing (D/HH) patients and sign language interpreters in healthcare settings.
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Deaf Rhetoric - An Ecology Of Health Communication

by Manako Yabe

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 This book guides healthcare professionals, hospital administrators, and medical interpreters in the United States (and internationally) in ways to better communicate with Deaf and Hard of Hearing (D/HH) patients and sign language interpreters in healthcare settings.
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Sexual And Reproductive Health And Rights In India - Self-Care For Universal Health Coverage

by Ash Pachauri, Komal Mittal e Saroj Pachauri

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 This open access book addresses self-care on sexual and reproductive health and rights and HIV prevention and treatment in the most marginalized and vulnerable communities. The audience for this publication includes health professionals, researchers, those managing health institutions and service providers.
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