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From a biopsychosocial perspective, physical and to a lesser extent mental health have been a priority for researchers, policymakers, and healthcare providers relative to social health. The hegemony of physical health weakened during the COVID pandemic as mental and social health also emerged as equally important and at risk at the same time. Not since the 1960s has society attended to the social vulnerabilities of older adults, particularly in institutional settings. For the first time, the urgency of providing care for older adults has transcended physical settings as frontline workers in hospitals, prisons, schools, and other community-based settings, as well as families in their own home...
Designing Babies examines the ethical, social, and policy concerns surrounding the use of Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ARTs). Basing his analysis on in-depth interviews with providers and patients, Robert Klitzman provides vital insights, guidance, and specific policy recommendations for understanding and regulating these procedures.
Public health officials and organizations around the world remain on high alert because of increasing concerns about the prospect of an influenza pandemic, which many experts believe to be inevitable. Moreover, recent problems with the availability and strain-specificity of vaccine for annual flu epidemics in some countries and the rise of pandemic strains of avian flu in disparate geographic regions have alarmed experts about the world's ability to prevent or contain a human pandemic. The workshop summary, The Threat of Pandemic Influenza: Are We Ready? addresses these urgent concerns. The report describes what steps the United States and other countries have taken thus far to prepare for t...
Cet ouvrage est une réédition numérique d’un livre paru au XXe siècle, désormais indisponible dans son format d’origine.
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