Preventive Medicine category: 265 books
Great Health Care
Making It Happen
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2011
Great Health Care is enlightening and entertaining. It’s a must read for physicians, patients, health policymakers and administrators, and the interested public---anyone who wants to understand what great health care is, and how we might build it together.
The authors share their stories...
Evidence Synthesis in Healthcare
A Practical Handbook for Clinicians
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
Evidence Synthesis in Healthcare – a Practical Handbook for Clinicians is the first book to reveal the field of Evidence Synthesis, by combining multiple sources of quantitative/qualitative data to derive the best evidence for use in healthcare. Through the use of clearly explained examples and...
Cancer and Chronic Conditions
Addressing the Problem of Multimorbidity in Cancer Patients and Survivors
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
This book addresses the growing problem of multimorbidity in cancer patients and survivors with the focus on how to best integrate the effective cancer care with the care of multiple chronic conditions. As cancer is more prevalent in older individuals, many patients with cancer also suffer from other...
by Patrick Brzoska
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
Psychometrically relevant population differences may limit the transferability of research instruments between migrants and their source population and may contribute to a low performance of quantitative questionnaires. Based on a review of existing taxonomies, this book develops a comprehensive analytical...
by John D. Mitchell, MD
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2016
Prevention and Management of Post-Operative Complications is reviewed extensively in this important Thoracic Surgery Clinics of North America issue. Articles include: Cardiovascular complications following thoracic surgery; Pain management following thoracic surgery; Persistent air leak and pleural...
by Simon Staub
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
The incidences of people being diagnosed with some form of cancer are reaching alarming rates..Preventing cancers from forming is a far better option or idea than waiting until they grow and become an often life threatening issue and then trying to treat them. My eBook of about 90 pages offers...
African Americans and HIV/AIDS
Understanding and Addressing the Epidemic
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
Among U. S. racial and ethnic minority populations, African American communities are the most disproportionately impacted and affected by HIV/AIDS (CDC, 2009; CDC, 2008). The chapters in this volume seek to explore factors that contribute to this disparity as well as methods for intervening and positively...
Reducing the Risks for Substance Abuse
A Lifespan Approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2013
Authors Raymond P. Daugherty and Carl Leukefeld argue for replacing the youth-based, `zero tolerance' approach to substance abuse prevention that has been dominant in the field over the past two decades. Their dynamic alternative is the Lifestyle Risk Reduction Model, which revises standard prevention...
Health Recklessly Abandoned
Take Back Control of Your Own Health and Live the Life You Deserve
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
"Health. Recklessly Abandoned" is designed to bring people up to date on research that is showing just how much impact we have on our own quality of life. Diseases that were once believed to be fate, or genetically programmed, are being shown to be more of a reflection of how we go about living. The...
by Sana Loue
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2007
Health researchers routinely evaluate health and illness across subgroups defined by their sex, gender, ethnicity, and race. All too often, these classifications are proffered as an explanation for any differences that may be detected, for example, in access to care, frequency of disease, or response...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
Personal protective equipment (PPE) for biological hazards – such as, gloves, gowns, aprons, masks, or protective eyewear (face shields, goggles or glasses) - reduce the risk of exposure to potentially infective materials. This book highlights the risks inherent in dermatological surgery and the...
Sadness or Depression?
International Perspectives on the Depression Epidemic and Its Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
The World Health Organization states that depression is the leading cause of disability worldwide, and predicts that by 2030 the epidemic of depression raging across the world will be the single biggest contributor to the overall burden of disease of all health conditions. Yet this gloomy picture...
Or Eyes
How to Avoid a Trip to the Or
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2012
Unbelievably real operating room cases brought to book format told from an OR nurses professional point of view so you too can learn to prevent the sometimes disfiguring and disabling effects of some of the most common diseases affecting people today; Diabetes, heart disease and some cancers are just...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2016
This book provides a broad overview of quality health care for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). It focuses on providing the reader a practical approach to dealing with the health and well-being of people with IDD in general terms as well as in dealing with specific conditions....