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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “maureen benjamins”
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  • Microbiomes and Emerging Applications

    Edited by Nwadiuto (Diuto) Esiobu, James C. Ogbonna, Charles Oluwaseun Adetunji, Olawole O. Obembe, Ifeoma Maureen Ezeonu, Abdulrazak B. Ibrahim, Benjamin Ewa Ubi ...
    Series series Multidisciplinary Applications and Advances in Biotechnology
    This book covers a range of important topics and recent advances in metagenomics, microbiomes and their emerging applications, including microbiota transplantation and its health implications. It also discusses microbiome composition and development in humans. The contributors of this volume provide detailed information on prebiotics and probiotics for enhanced human health. They also introduce ... Read more

    $95.99 CAD

  • Unequal Cities

    Structural Racism and the Death Gap in America's Largest Cities

    Edited by Maureen R. Benjamins, Fernando G. De Maio ...
    Series series Health Equity in America
    Across the United States, Black people have shorter life expectancies than white people—reflecting structural racism and deep-rooted drivers of population health. But are some cities more equal than others?The elimination of racial and ethnic inequities—differences that are avoidable, unnecessary, and unfair—has been one of the overarching health-related goals of the United States for decades. Yet ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD

  • Urban Health

    Combating Disparities with Local Data

    by Steven Whitman, Ami Shah, Maureen Benjamins ...
    The 1980s opened a discussion of the varying nature of health in different segments of the United States. Falling under the rubric of "health disparities," a great deal of research has been published demonstrating the substantial differences in health status within a population. The causes of health disparities are varied and not always clear but most researchers agree that disparities are a ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

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    How the Microbiome Is Revolutionizing the Pursuit of a Healthy Life

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    "Eyeopening... Fascinating... may presage a paradigm shift in medicine.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"Teeming with information and big ideas... Outstanding.”—Booklist (starred review)The origin of asthma, autism, Alzheimer's, allergies, cancer, heart disease, obesity, and even some kinds of depression is now clear. Award-winning researcher on the microbiome, professor Rodney Dietert presents a ... Read more

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  • Realities of Canadian Nursing

    Professional, Practice, and Power Issues

    by Carol McDonald, Marjorie McIntyre ...
    In Realities of Canadian Nursing, influential scholars throughout Canada give voice to the unheard concerns of nurses and go to great lengths to ensure the text offers readers more than an update on current and pressing professional, legal, ethical, political, social, economic, and environmental issues in nursing and healthcare. In chapter 1 of the text, authors Carol McDonald PhD, RN and Marjorie ... Read more

    $140.99 CAD

  • Too Much of a Good Thing

    How Four Key Survival Traits Are Now Killing Us

    by Lee Goldman ...
    The dean of Columbia University's medical school explains why our bodies are out of sync with today's environment and how we can correct this to save our health.Over the past 200 years, human life-expectancy has approximately doubled. Yet we face soaring worldwide rates of obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, mental illness, heart disease, and stroke. In his fascinating new book, Dr. Lee ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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  • Aging in Canada

    by Neena L. Chappell, Marcus J. Hollander ...
    Canada, like other countries, is aging. The media has reported on a "grey tsunami," a demographic change reflecting longer life expectancy and the retirement of the so-called baby boomer generation. The numbers and percentages of older adults within our population continue to increase. In 2010, 15.3 percent of Canada's population was over 65; in 2030, it will be 24.1 percent. Many commentators ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Anti-Aging Therapeutics Volume XII

    by A4M American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine ...
    Proceedings of the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine's (A4M) Seventeenth World Congress on Anti-Aging Medicine & Regenerative Biomedical Technologies Spring Summer and Winter Sessions (2009 conference year). Also includes Anti-Aging Clinical Protocols 2010-2011. ... Read more

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  • Health Care in Canada

    A Citizen's Guide to Policy and Politics

    by Katherine Fierlbeck ...
    Health Care in Canada examines the challenges faced by the Canadian health care system, a subject of much public debate. In this book Katherine Fierlbeck provides an in-depth discussion of how health care decisions are shaped by politics and why there is so much disagreement over how to fix the system.Many Canadians point to health care as a source of national pride; others are highly critical of ... Read more

    $44.99 CAD

  • Dark Matter

    The New Science of the Microbiome

    by James Kinross ...
    ‘Will change your life’ Chris Evans‘Completely fascinating’ Heston Blumenthal‘Important and devastating’ The TimesFrom a world-leading microbiome scientist and surgeon comes Dark Matter, a pioneering guide to hacking your microbiome for a healthier life.Our microbiome – the complex ecosystem of bacteria, viruses and other microbes inside us – is vital for our health and wellb... ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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  • Skin Aging Handbook

    An Integrated Approach to Biochemistry and Product Development

    by Nava Dayan ...
    Series series Personal Care and Cosmetic Technology
    Anti-aging products are undergoing exceptional growth in the cosmetics industry far beyond that of general cosmetics. This book is the only available text that assembles the key pieces developers need to produce new breakthroughs for a growing market that demands quicker and more effective results. It also focuses much needed attention on the biochemical and clinical differences between Caucasian ... Read more

    $225.59 CAD

  • Social Injustice and Public Health

    by Barry S. Levy;Victor W. Sidel;Marian Wright Edelman ...
    Two past presidents of the American Public Health Association have edited this book on the ways in which social injustice causes and contributes to public health problems. Their previous books War and Public Health and errorism and Public Health both dealt with specific issues of social injustice as they relate to public health. The current book addresses a broader set of issues in a more ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD