Contents

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Contents VII

**Part 3 General Issues 313**

Yasutaka Chiba

Chapter 21 **The Role of Mass Media** 

Chapter 22 **The Unresolved Issue** 

Chapter 19 **Design of Scoring Models for** 

Paolo Barbini and Gabriele Cevenini

**Communication in Public Health 399** 

**of the "Terminal Disease" Concept 415** 

**in Sheep: Highlights of a Twenty-Year** 

Giuseppe Rubino and Ferruccio Petazzi

Chapter 25 **The Foragining Ecology of the Green Turtle** 

Chapter 23 **Prolactin and Schizophrenia, an Evolving Relationship 433**

**Experience in a Mediterranean Environment 451**

**in the Baja California Peninsula: Health Issues 477**  Rafael Riosmena-Rodriguez, Ana Luisa Talavera-Saenz,

Gustavo Hinojosa-Arango, Mónica Lara-Uc and Susan Gardner

Chapter 20 **Human Walking Analysis, Evaluation and** 

Daniel Catalán-Matamoros

Sergio Eduardo Gonorazky

Chapter 24 **Tolerance to Tick-Borne Diseases**

Chris J. Bushe and John Pendlebury

Elisa Pieragostini, Elena Ciani,

**Randomized Trials with Noncompliance 315** 

**Trustworthy Risk Prediction in Critical Patients 337**

**Classification Based on Motion Capture System 361**  Bofeng Zhang, Susu Jiang, Ke Yan and Daming Wei

Chapter 18 **Causal Inference in** 

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Chapter 8 **Non-Invasive Methods for Monitoring Individual** 

Chapter 9 **Environmental Pollution and Chronic**

**Part 2 Disease Management 195** 

Chapter 10 **Epidemiology and** 

Chapter 11 **Health Infrastructure** 

Robert Parker

Chapter 14 **Disease Management of Avian** 

Chapter 15 **Affectation Situation of** 

Chapter 16 **Strengthening Health** 

Chapter 17 **Performance Measurement** 

Chapter 13 **Three Decades**

Bernard Fong and A. C. M. Fong

**Bioresponses in Relation to Health Management 143** Vasileios Exadaktylos, Daniel Berckmans and Jean-Marie Aerts

**Disease Management – A Prognostics Approach 161** 

**Recovery in Mental Health in the Twenty First Century 215**

**Services Program in India: Progress and Problems 243** 

**and Implications for Effective Actions for the Poor 285**

**Healthcare Systems: Differences and Similarities 299**

**A Focus on Maintaining Healthy Live Birds 259**

**Prevention of Traffic Accidents in Cuba 181**  Humberto Guanche Garcell and Carlos Martinez Quesada

**Inequality and Rural-Urban Utilization of Orthodox and Traditional Medicines in Farming Households: A Case Study of Ekiti State, Nigeria 197** Taiwo Ejiola Mafimisebi and Adegboyega Eyitayo Oguntade

Chapter 12 **A New Economic and Social Paradigm for Funding** 

**of the Integrated Child Development** 

Niyi Awofeso and Anu Rammohan

**Influenza H5N1 in Bangladesh –** 

Muhiuddin Haider and Bethany Applebaum

**HIV/AIDS in Colombian Children 271**  Ana María Trejos Herrera, Jorge Palacio Sañudo Mario Mosquera Vásquez and Rafael Tuesca Molina

**Systems in Yemen: Review of Evidence** 

Abdulwahed Al Serouri, John Øvretveit, Ali A. Al-Mudhwahi and Majed Yahia Al-Gonaid

**Features of the Italian Regional** 

Milena Vainieri and Sabina Nuti


Preface

processes efficiently.

following sections:

conducive to keeping her/him in good health.

recipients and dimensions of constituting areas of their activities.

Advances in modern medicine have enabled the ability to significantly prolong the average lifespan expectancy. The development of this knowledge ensures unprecedented possibilities in terms of explaining the causes of diseases and effective treatment. However, increased capabilities create new issues. Both, researchers and clinicians, as well as managers of healthcare units face new challenges: increasing validity and reliability of clinical trials, effectively distributing medical products, managing hospitals and clinics flexibly, and managing treatment

In the past decades, the development of a new, fascinating discipline of science has been observed. This discipline is called "health management". For the purposes of this book, the report by the Canadian Minister of National Health and Welfare, Marc LaLonde, has been taken as a point of reference. The report proclaimed in 1974 is considered to be ʺthe first modern government document in the western world to acknowledge that our emphasis upon a biomedical health care system is wrong, and that we need to look beyond the traditional health care (sick care) system if we wish to improve the health of the publicʺ. It has offered new prospects for the issues of health care. It emphasizes the responsibility of an individual in developing behaviors

LaLonde assumes that there are four main factors of health: human biology, the environment, the lifestyle, and health care services. He contended that health cannot be secured only by development of medical sciences, but by making wise and rational decisions by individuals and the whole society too. His legacy includes a recommendation according to which health care interventions should focus on groups at risk of a disease development and point health inequalities out. LaLondeʹs work widened significantly as the range of actions related to health care services by incorporating categories had not been associated with it before. At present, thanks to LaLonde, health management strategies are highly differentiated with respect to its

Many great authors have contributed to this book. Their work is divided in the three
