Títulos en Medicina y sector de la salud

Public health runs on data—but data only becomes useful when you know how to analyze it, visualize it, and turn it into clear research insights. R Programming for Public Health Data Analysis is a practical beginner-friendly guide for students, analysts, researchers, and public health professionals who want to use RStudio to work with real-world health data more confidently. Inside this audiobook, you’ll learn how R can help you organize datasets, run basic statistics, examine epidemiology data, track disease trends, create useful visualizations, and prepare cleaner research reports.

Nursing While Black: The Struggles and Triumphs of Black Nurses is a powerful, honest, and deeply moving exploration of what it means to navigate the nursing profession while carrying the weight of race, history, and expectation. Through compelling personal narratives, historical insight, and lived experience, Dr. Felicia Cobbs illuminates the often-unspoken realities Black nurses face—bias, microaggressions, isolation, and systemic barriers—while also celebrating their resilience, excellence, and undeniable impact on healthcare.

Work is just life. And life is messy. For years, Jason and his maintenance crew pulled off a miracle. They kept a cancerous, ancient, rust-bucket of a machine running with a basic workaround, simply because the machine needed to run and the company refused to fix it. Every day they succeeded, they were rock stars. But the day the outcome slot machine finally spit out a loss, Jason was instantly labeled "uncaring," "lacking common sense," "willful and reckless," and "just plain stupid."

Level 3 Autism: What Families Wish the World Understood is a compassionate and informative guide that explores the realities faced by individuals with Level 3 Autism Spectrum Disorder and the families who support them every day. Written in an easy-to-understand and relatable style, this book goes beyond common misconceptions to reveal what life with high-support-needs autism is truly like. Through ten eye-opening chapters, listeners gain insight into the challenges, triumphs, and often-overlooked experiences of individuals who require substantial daily support.

Humans have long observed animals for advanced warnings of danger. What can they tell us about the growing threat of viruses and other infectious organisms in the age of climate change? Coronaviruses jump from bats to chimpanzees to humans. You can give your cat the flu, and pass tuberculosis to an elephant. The scientific term for this –zoonosis – reveals how human and animal lives are inextricably linked. Scientists warn that human destruction of the environment is responsible for the accelerating spillover of animal diseases, posing a global health threat.

People have always traveled for health, but as industrial pollution increased in nineteenth-century Britain, doctors started ordering their patients abroad in ever-growing numbers. This work explores the intensity and sheer strangeness of life in these colonies, governed by illness, but where patients (before the rise of the sanatorium) could move around freely, and even indulge in winter sports. Focusing on Menton on the Riviera and Davos in the Swiss Alps, from the 1860s to the 1920s, In Quest of a Cure explores the literary and medical cultures of these resorts.

*INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER* From award-winning journalist Kathryn Blaze Baum, a powerful account of one woman's quest for answers—and a miracle—from the big business of fertility. After having their first child without issue, Kathryn and her husband were trying for a second. She suffered...

A personable, story-driven explanation of how the systems around us—where we live, work, learn, and connect—shape our health, and how each of us can help create healthier communities. A powerful blend of deeply human stories and rigorous research, The Collective Cure reveals how social and...

“A magisterial history” (The Guardian) of humanity’s greatest natural disaster—the Black Death—that reveals the true global impact and terrible human cost of this calamity, from the renowned author of The Crusades and The Greatest Knight. “Terrific—and truly terrifying. Thomas...

An Instant #1 National Bestseller Finalist for the Writers' Trust Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing From one of Canada's most respected and high-profile health professionals (and former federal Minister of Health), a timely, practical, ambitious, and deeply personal call for action...

Immerse yourself in the history of medicine - a colourful story of skill, serendipity, trial and error, moments of genius, and dogged determination. From traditional Chinese medicine to today's sophisticated gene therapies and robotic surgery, A Short History of Medicine combines riveting...

An accessible guide to more than 90 of the most important and groundbreaking milestones in the history of medicine, and the people behind them. How are illnesses diagnosed? When did the first successful organ transplant take place? Why are some pandemics so deadly? This audiobook explores big...

What would it mean for your career to be able to speak and write freely in English when working in the medical industry? How about understanding more of what you hear or read? The idioms, phrases, words, and expressions in Medical English Dialogues are designed to improve your English quickly and easily.

Registered Nurse Exam Vocabulary: A Short Guide to Learning and Remembering Key RN Exam Terms Efficiently is the essential study companion for nursing students preparing for their RN licensure exams.

Don’t Wait for the Fall is a practical fall prevention guide for older adults, families, caregivers, healthcare providers, and community leaders. It explains why senior falls are a major public health concern and how hidden risks—poor balance, muscle weakness, medication side effects, dizziness, low vision, osteoporosis, loose rugs, poor lighting, unsafe stairs, and cluttered walkways—can lead to hip fractures, traumatic brain injuries, disability, fear, and loss of independence.

Dr. Lorio, an executive coach who has worked with thousands of healthcare professionals, shares her experiences shadowing and coaching physicians and clinicians on effective patient communication. Through her work, she uncovered the secret to creating a simple yet powerful connection with every patient, every time. If you're looking to enhance the patient experience while enjoying delightful stories, this is a fun and interesting listen for you as you discover the key to making meaningful connections with patients consistently.

Most healthcare organizations aren't failing. They're underperforming - held back by the silent creep of indecision and governance structures that reward polished silence over early truth. Strategic Leadership When Time Is the Constraint is a practical governance framework for healthcare executives, board members, CFOs, and nonprofit leaders navigating the structural pressures now reshaping complex institutions.

The System Doesn’t Sell Health examines why the United States spends more on healthcare than any other nation yet continues to struggle with preventable chronic disease, rising costs, and widespread public frustration. Written in plain language for general readers, the book argues that the current system is designed primarily to diagnose and manage disease after it develops rather than to build health before it is lost.

Medical terminology is more than a list of words, it is the architecture of communication in medicine, the system that allows anatomy, pathology, diagnostics, treatment, and documentation to speak with precision. This audiobook study guide transforms that language into an accessible, flowing learning experience designed for real life. Whether you are commuting, exercising, or doing chores, you can use the rhythm of your day to build real fluency in the vocabulary of healthcare.

In this riveting account of the pandemic and its devastating ripple effects, Gale captures the pandemic's messy realities the panic it spurred, the misinformation and political infighting that stood in the way of controlling it, and the heroic efforts by scientists and health care workers to contain it. Gale exposes what went wrong, what worked, and what continues to threaten us. From the pandemic's chaotic beginnings to the hidden toll of Long Covid, he examines how governments shaped and sometimes warped the public narrative around the pandemic.