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Book SynopsisElaine Schattner reveals a sea change—from before 1900 to the present day—in how ordinary people talk about cancer. From Whispers to Shouts examines public perception of cancer through stories in newspapers and magazines, social media, and popular culture.Trade ReviewNamed a favorite read of 2023. * Lilith *In her innovative and insightful book, physician and cancer survivor Elaine Schattner explores the ways that we tell the story of cancer—and the ways we often fail to tell the real story of this notably complex and treacherous disease. The result is fascinating, enlightening, and, despite its difficult topic, even inspiring. -- Deborah Blum, Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer and director of the Knight Science Journalism program, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyIn From Whispers to Shouts, oncologist and cancer survivor Elaine Schattner writes a comprehensive and enlightening cultural and political history of cancer care in America while giving us a clear-eyed perspective of the future. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in learning more about cancer, which should be all of us. -- Sandeep Jauhar, New York Times best-selling author of Heart: A HistoryFrom Whispers to Shouts is the first history of cancer to focus primarily on public perceptions of cancer. It is also a cri de coeur for a more upbeat assessment of past and future efforts to control the disease from an author who—as a doctor, patient, journalist and activist—is uniquely positioned to tell this story. -- Barron Lerner, author of The Breast Cancer Wars: Hope, Fear, and the Pursuit of a Cure in Twentieth Century AmericaAn invaluable contribution to our knowledge about cancer.....should be read by anyone who wants to understand more about something that impacts the lives of so many. While cancer has had copious exposure in books, magazines, newspapers, journals, movies, television and in recent years social media, this is the first book to conduct an in-depth examination into how shifts in public perception of cancer have evolved over time. * Eating My Words *A powerfully illuminating narrative of how things changed over the last century or so, both thorough and compelling. * The Baffler *A cultural history that considers evolving societal views about cancer - including fear and silence - and their impacts on patients....an enlightening read. * Lillith *Table of ContentsProloguePart I. Cancer Awakens1. Cancer, Kept Apart (Before 1900)2. Cancer’s Spring (1900–1920)3. Educational Campaigns (1920–1930)4. Fighting Words (1930–1945)5. A Celebrity Cause (1945–1960)Part II. Cancer Comes Out6. Our Bodies, Our Decisions (1960–1980)7. Cancer in the Time of AIDS (1980–1990)8. Enthusiasm (1990–2000)9. Complications (2000–2010)10. Cancer Everywhere (2010–2020)Part III. Cancer’s Future11. The Modern Patient’s Burden12. Cancer Is Not As It Used To Be13. Is Cancer Treatment a Luxury?14. Has Awareness Backfired?15. Can We Prevent Cancer?EpilogueAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisAmee Baird explores memorable cases of brain injuries and disease that have effected significant changes in sexual behavior and reveals what these exceptional stories have to say about human sexuality. Each chapter includes striking personal accounts, many from individuals Baird has met in her clinical practice, of unexpected changes in sexuality.Trade ReviewSex in the Brain is an intoxicating read about our most important sex organ: the brain. Baird’s book explores neuroscience in a way that is both accessible and engaging, and readers will be fascinated by the untold stories of how brain injury, illness, and disease impact our sex lives. They will walk away with a greater appreciation for the incredible diversity that exists in human sexual behavior and the way it is intricately controlled by the brain. -- Justin Lehmiller, research fellow at the Kinsey Institute and author of Tell Me What You WantAmee Baird has delivered an entertaining and informative tour of the sexiest bits of the human brain, with real case studies from her research and clinical practice. In the style of the guru of popular neurology, Oliver Sacks, Baird captures the humanity of her patients. This book is at its best when it lets us into the lives of the patients and uses their cases to unfold a better understanding of the brain and what it means to be human. The sexual content is handled with great balance, neither prudish and euphemistic nor crude and voyeuristic. That isn’t easy to achieve, but achieve it Baird has. -- Rob Brooks, director of the Evolution and Ecology Research Centre, UNSW Sydney, and author of Sex, Genes, and Rock ‘n’ Roll: How Evolution Has Shaped the Modern WorldThe taboo on talking about changes in sex drive and sexual behaviors following brain damage is over! Neuropsychologist Amee Baird’s engaging case studies exploring this topic will move as well as educate the general reader and inspire professionals to incorporate this central human need into their patient assessments and treatments. -- Jenni Ogden, author of Fractured Minds and Trouble in MindA compelling overview of our current understanding of the brain mechanisms of sex, written in the tradition of Oliver Sacks. -- Mark Solms, director of neuropsychology, University of Cape TownTable of ContentsIntroduction1. Your Sexiest Brain Bits2. ‘Give It to Me Baby’ or ‘Not Tonight, Darling’3. Sexual Side Effects of Seizure Surgery4. Stimulation, Shunts and Psychosurgery5. Can Sex Change Your Brain?6. What’s Love Got to Do with It?7. From Safety Pins to Sleeping Beauties8. Sex on the Spectrum9. Porn on the Train (and on the Brain)10. Blame It on My BrainAfterwordFurther ReadingAcknowledgmentsIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewFor scholars working on health and medicine across any number of disciplines, subfields, and regions, this book can serve as an example of how to make use of these conceptual categories without being beholden to them. Perhaps most of all, the book provides a service by moving beyond the emphasis on ethnicity that has dominated most academic work on the Balkans since the 1990s. * Social History of Medicine *Jašarević's work provides fresh and distinct insight into the connections between medical anthropology and political economy, and thus is a necessary read and a great inspiration for all scholars looking to approach their own research from a sideways approach. * Suedosteuropa *Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Oddly Bodily Lives in the Market1. Just Surviving: Living Well Since the Better Life2. Insanely Generous: Making Wealth in an Economy of Debt3. On the Edge: Worries in Common and Circumstantial Communities 4. Medical Detours: Materiality and Magicality of Quotidian Cures5. Strava: Distant Bodies at Hand6. What if Not For Real? Troubles with Medical EfficacyBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisLarisa Jasarevic offers an unforgettable look at the everyday experiences of people living in post-socialist, post-war Bosnia. Not at all existing on the world's margins, Bosnians today are concerned with the good life and are as entangled in consumer debt as everyone else. The insecurities of living in an economy dominated by informal networks of trade, personal credit, and indebtedness are experienced by Bosnians in terms of physical ailments, some not recognized by Western medical science. Jasarevic follows ordinary Bosnians in their search for treatmentfrom use of pharmaceuticals to alternative medicines and folk healers of various kinds. Financial well-being and health are woven together for Bosnians, and Jasarevic adeptly traces the links between the two realms. In the process, she addresses a number of themes that have been important in studies of life under neoliberalism in other parts of the world.Trade ReviewFor scholars working on health and medicine across any number of disciplines, subfields, and regions, this book can serve as an example of how to make use of these conceptual categories without being beholden to them. Perhaps most of all, the book provides a service by moving beyond the emphasis on ethnicity that has dominated most academic work on the Balkans since the 1990s. * Social History of Medicine *Jašarević's work provides fresh and distinct insight into the connections between medical anthropology and political economy, and thus is a necessary read and a great inspiration for all scholars looking to approach their own research from a sideways approach. * Suedosteuropa *Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Oddly Bodily Lives in the Market1. Just Surviving: Living Well Since the Better Life2. Insanely Generous: Making Wealth in an Economy of Debt3. On the Edge: Worries in Common and Circumstantial Communities 4. Medical Detours: Materiality and Magicality of Quotidian Cures5. Strava: Distant Bodies at Hand6. What if Not For Real? Troubles with Medical EfficacyBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisOffers a theory of knowledge based on scientific findings about how the brain works and addresses the related compelling question: does the research imply that all knowledge can be reduced to scientific description?Trade Review"'It was William James's dream that physiology, psychology and philosophy be joined into a single discipline, and in Second Nature, the latest volume in Gerald M. Edelman's seminal series of books on Neural Darwinism, this dream of a brain-based epistemology is brought closer than ever to realization. For anyone who is interested in human consciousness, this is required reading.' Oliver Sacks, author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat"

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“A rare and nuanced scholarly effort that always remains engaging and delightful. As with any memorable journey, at the end we more deeply understand and feel our own point of departure.”—Ted J. Kaptchuk, author of The Web That Has No Weaver: Understanding Chinese Medicine “This wonderfully challenging book is an induction into another world, a translation between traditional Chinese medicine and Western post-Enlightenment bio-medicine. Judith Farquhar guides us expertly through the things, thoughts, and actions of these mutually understandable worlds.”—Stephan Feuchtwang, author of Popular Religion in China: The Imperial Metaphor “Farquhar expertly translates the materials and practices of traditional Chinese medicine into a vision for concrete action in a world that is always in the midst of becoming.”—Carla Nappi, author of The Monkey and the Inkpot: Natural History and Its Transformations in Early Modern China “Farquhar guides the reader expertly through the multiple discourses of the art of Chinese medicine. Her translations capture with clarity and passion an expertise in interpreting the living body that, while rooted in the Chinese classics, nevertheless achieves a commonplace universality; in her own words, ‘a space beyond cultural difference, beyond linguistic translation, and beyond the merely conceptual.’”—Vivienne Lo, coeditor of Imagining Chinese Medicine “Written with delicate yet exact prose and pertinent use of cosmopolitan erudition, this book allows the reader to think about medicine through the localized specificities of its practices wherever those are. This book is an achievement—an immensely inspiring one.”—Marisol de la Cadena, author of Earth Beings: Ecologies of Practice across Andean Worlds “Judith Farquhar’s beautiful book is a profound but accessible meditation on the very different world of Chinese medicine. It unsettles Western ways of thinking to recast how we think about the relations between science and religion.”—John Law, author of After Method: Mess in Social Science Research “A Way of Life is an exceptionally illuminating account of the concepts and practices of traditional Chinese medicine and their problematic relationship with Western biomedicine. Judith Farquhar effectively challenges some of the defining assumptions and categories of classical epistemology and contemporary philosophy of science.”—Barbara Herrnstein Smith, author of Natural Reflections: Human Cognition at the Nexus of Science and Religion“Judith Farquhar’s anthropological and linguistic focus is novel, making this book a welcome addition to the sometimes-confusing works that attempt to ‘translate’ Chinese medicine for a Western reader.”—William C. Summers, author of The Great Manchurian Plague of 1910–1911: The Geopolitics of an Epidemic Disease“A Way of Life is original, creative scholarship of the highest quality, presented in lovely and stylish prose. It is truly a pleasure to read.”—Dale Martin, author of Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century and of Sex and the Single Savior: Gender and Sexuality in Biblical Interpretation“Following in the footsteps of Joseph Needham, the renowned historian of Chinese thought, Judith Farquhar here blazes her own path. Using Chinese medicine as her lamp, she leads us through the misty mountains of ‘science’ and ‘religion,’ pointing out the pitfalls of translation along the way. She does so with erudition and eloquence.”—Donald Lopez, author of The Scientific Buddha: His Short and Happy Life“A Way of Life distills decades of anthropological and philosophical study of Chinese medical practice, in which Judith Farquhar was authoritatively trained, into an introduction as lucid as it is deep.”—Nathan Sivin, author of Health Care in Eleventh-Century China

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Book SynopsisAn esteemed philosopher provides a shrewd examination of the future of the human right to health.

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Book SynopsisStatistical Methods in Spatial Epidemiology, Second Edition describes, quantifies, and explains geographical variations in disease. The second edition has been updated and expanded in light of the events of September 11, 2001, and increasing concern over potential bioterrorism attacks.Trade Review"…the second edition is a substantial improvement on what was already a valuable, well structured and comprehensive reference…" (Biometrics, September 2007)Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements to Second Edition. Preface and Acknowledgements. I: The Nature of Spatial Epidemiology. 1. Definitions, Terminolgy and Data Sets. 1.1 Map Hypotheses and Modelling Approaches. 1.2 Definitions and Data Examples. 1.3 Further definitions. 1.4 Some Data Examples. 2.Scales of Measurement and Data Availability. 2.1 Small Scale. 2.2 Large Scale. 2.3 Rate Dependence. 2.4 DataQuality and the Ecological Fallacy. 2.5 Edge E.ects. 3.Geographical Representation and Mapping. 3.1 Introduction and Definitions. 3.2 Maps and Mapping. 3.3 Statistical Accuracy. 3.4 Aggregation. 3.5 Mapping Issues related toAggregated Data. 3.6 Conclusions. 4.Basic Models. 4.1 Sampling Considerations. 4.2 Likelihood-based and Bayesian Approaches. 4.3 Point EventModels. 4.4 CountModels. 5.Exploratory Approaches, Parametric Estimation and Inference. 5.1 ExploratoryMethods. 5.2 Parameter Estimation. 5.3 Residual Diagnostics. 5.4 Hypothesis Testing. 5.5 Edge E.ects. II:Important Problems in Spatial Epidemiology. 6.Small Scale: Disease Clustering. 6.1 Definition of Clusters and Clustering. 6.2 Modelling Issues. 6.3 Hypothesis Tests for Clustering. 6.4 Space-Time Clustering. 6.5 Clustering Examples. 6.6 OtherMethods related to clustering. 7.Small Scale: Putative Sources of Hazard. 7.1 Introduction. 7.2 StudyDesign. 7.3 Problems of Inference. 7.4 Modelling the Hazard Exposure Risk. 7.5 Models for Case Event Data. 7.6 ACase Event Example. 7.7 Models for CountData. 7.8 ACountData Example. 7.9 OtherDirections. 8. Large Scale: Disease Mapping. 8.1 Introduction. 8.2 Simple Statistical Representation. 8.3 BasicModels. 8.4 AdvancedMethods. 8.5 Model Variants and Extensions. 8.6 ApproximateMethods. 8.7 MultivariateMethods. 8.8 Evaluation ofModel Performance. 8.9 Hypothesis Testing in DiseaseMapping. 8.10 Space-Time DiseaseMapping. 8.11 Spatial Survival and longitudinal data. 8.12 DiseaseMapping: Case Studies. 9.Ecological Analysis and Scale Change. 9.1 Ecological Analysis: Introduction. 9.2 Small-ScaleModelling Issues. 9.3 Changes of Scale andMAUP. 9.4 A Simple Example: Sudden Infant Death in North Carolina. 9.5 ACase Study: Malaria and IDDM. 10.Infectious Disease Modelling. 10.1 Introduction. 10.2 GeneralModelDevelopment. 10.3 SpatialModelDevelopment. 10.4 Modelling Special Cases for Individual Level Data. 10.5 Survival Analysis with spatial dependence. 10.6 Individual level data example. 10.7 Underascertainment and Censoring. 10.8 Conclusions. 11.Large Scale: Surveillance. 11.1 Process ControlMethodology. 11.2 Spatio-Temporal Modelling. 11.3 Spatio-TemporalMonitoring. 11.4 Syndromic Surveillance. 11.5 Multivariate-Mulitfocus Surveillance. 11.6 Bayesian Approaches. 11.7 Computational Considerations. 11.8 Infectious Diseases. 11.9 Conclusions. Appendix A:Monte Carlo Testing, Parametric Bootstrap and Simulation Envelopes. Appendix B:Markov ChainMonte Carlo Methods. Appendix C:Algorithms and Software. Appendix D: Glossary of Estimators. Appendix E:Software. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisDetox For Dummies offers expert advice on safe and healthy detox dieting. Spring clean your system and feel great with this easy-to-follow guide.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Part I: Detox Basics 5 Chapter 1: Figuring Out What Detox Is All About 7 Chapter 2: Toxins, Toxins Everywhere 15 Chapter 3: Supporting Your Detox Organs 31 Part II: Detoxing Your Diet 55 Chapter 4: Detoxing Essentials 57 Chapter 5: What To Eat – and Why 69 Chapter 6: What Not To Eat – and Why 83 Part III: Detoxing Your Lifestyle 91 Chapter 7: Detoxing Your Lifestyle 93 Chapter 8: Overcoming Stress 105 Chapter 9: Embracing Relaxation 121 Part IV: Planning Your Detox 133 Chapter 10: DIY Detox 135 Chapter 11: Supplements for Detox 153 Chapter 12: Maintaining Detox for Life 165 Part V: Delicious Detox Recipes 175 Chapter 13: Detox Breakfasts 177 Chapter 14: Detox Soups 187 Chapter 15: Detox Salads 199 Chapter 16: Detox Snacks, Dips, and Spreads 211 Chapter 17: Vegetarian Detox Dinners 219 Chapter 18: Fish and Fowl Detox Dinners 229 Part VI: The Part of Tens 239 Chapter 19: Ten Therapies that Enhance Detox 241 Chapter 20: Ten Myths about Detox 253 Chapter 21: Ten Tips to Help You Stay Motivated 261 Appendix: The Benefits of Eating Healthily 267 Index 275

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Book SynopsisUntil recently COPD was largely neglected by health professionals and viewed as the Cinderella of respiratory conditions. Many patients were seen as heart-sink cases with a self-inflicted disease.Table of ContentsForeword by Dr Rupert Jones. Preface. Acknowledgements. Abbreviations. 1 The Background to COPD. 2 Presentation of COPD. 3 Diagnosis and Patient Assessment. 4 Investigations to Diagnose COPD. 5 Nonpharmacological Management of Patients with COPD. 6 Pharmacological Management of Patients with Stable COPD. 7 Management of Acute Exacerbations of COPD. 8 Other Treatments in the Management of COPD. 9 COPD and Its Effects on Activities of Living. 10 Palliative Care in Patients with COPD. 11 Specialist Support within Primary Care for Patients with COPD. Glossary. References. Useful addresses. Index.

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Book SynopsisIf you're sick of no-carb diets, or just looking for a healthy eating plan, then the GL Diet is for you. No more calculations, no calorie-counting and no more cravings for carbs - as long as you stick to foods that are low in GL, you can stay healthy and lose weight without having to go without.Table of ContentsIntroduction. Part I: Getting Started. Chapter 1: Introducing GL: Healthy Eating in the Real World. Chapter 2: Checking Out the Science behind GL. Chapter 3: Starting Your Low-GL Plan. Part II: Shopping and Eating Out. Chapter 4: Cruising with Confidence: Low-GL Shopping and Eating on the Run. Chapter 5: Table for Two? Eating Out GL-Style. Part III: Morning to Night Recipes. Chapter 6: Starting Your Day with a Low-GL Breakfast. Chapter 7: Doing Lunch: Low-GL Lunches at Home and on the GO. Chapter 8: Delectable Dinners: Low-GL Suppers and Ideas for Entertaining. Chapter 9: Just Desserts: Virtuous Low-GL Puddings. Chapter 10: Smart Snacks: Low-GL Quick Bites and Healthy Nibbles. Part IV: Optimising GL. Chapter 11: Replacing Common Ingredients with GL-friendly Alternatives. Chapter 12: Placing GL in the Healthy Living Jigsaw. Chapter 13: Medical Benefits of the GL Diet. Part V: The Part of Tens. Chapter 14: Ten Reasons for Eating the Low-GL Way. Chapter 15: Ten Best GL Web Sites. Chapter 16: Ten GL-Savvy Food Swaps. Appendix: A–Z List of Low-GL Foods. Index.

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Book SynopsisA comprehensive and practical guide for women of all ages to gain a clear view of the physical, mental, and emotional changes related to menopause Although menopause is a natural and inevitable stage in every woman''s life, its physical, mental, and emotional manifestations can vary greatly from one person to the next. Add the conflicting expert information about the benefits, risks, and side effects to which women are exposed on a daily basis, and it''s easy to see many women find it difficult to make informed choices about how to deal with their menopausal symptoms. Authored by a team of acknowledged experts in treating menopausal symptoms,?Menopause For Dummies?provides you with all the information you need to stay in control every step of the way. In plain English, it explains the role menopause plays in a variety of common health problems, such as osteoporosis, stroke, and heart disease. It walks you through proven measures for minimizing your risk oTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 Part I: The Main Facts about Menopause 7 Chapter 1: Mapping Out Menopause 9 Chapter 2: Talking Biology and Psychology: Your Mind and Body on Menopause 17 Chapter 3: Fooling Mother Nature: Early Menopause 31 Chapter 4: Getting In Sync with the Symptoms 41 Part II: The Effects of Menopause on Your Body and Mind 53 Chapter 5: The Business of Your Bones 55 Chapter 6: Getting a Handle on Heart Health 79 Chapter 7: Dealing with Vaginal and Urinary Changes 95 Chapter 8: Examining Your Skin and Hair on Menopause 107 Chapter 9: Maintaining Your Sex Life Through Menopause 115 Chapter 10: Mental and Emotional Issues 129 Part III: Treating the Effects 141 Chapter 11: The Basics of Hormone Therapy 143 Chapter 12: Understanding Hormone Therapy and Your Heart 161 Chapter 13: Checking Out Hormone Therapy and Breast Cancer 173 Chapter 14: Reviewing Reproductive Cancers and Hormone Therapy 185 Chapter 15: Considering Hormone Therapy and Other Health Conditions 197 Chapter 16: Making the Decision about Hormone Therapy 209 Chapter 17: Taking an Alternate Route: Non-Hormone Therapies 225 Part IV: Lifestyle Issues for Menopause and Beyond 239 Chapter 18: Eating for the Change 241 Chapter 19: Focusing on Fitness 261 Chapter 20: Enjoying a New Lease on Life 285 Part V: The Part of Tens 297 Chapter 21: Ten Menopause Myths Exposed 299 Chapter 22: Ten Medical Tests for Menopausal Women 307 Chapter 23: Ten Terrific Fitness Programs for Menopausal Women 313 Chapter 24: Ten Powerhouse Foods for Menopausal Women 319 Part VI: Appendixes 325 Appendix A: Glossary 327 Appendix B: Resources 335 Index 343

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Book SynopsisIn the evaluation of healthcare, rigorous methods of quantitative assessment are necessary to establish interventions that are beneficial, are superior to all alternatives and are cost-effective. Usually one study will not provide answers to these questions and it will be necessary to synthesize evidence from multiple sources.Table of ContentsPreface xi 1 Introduction 1 1.1 The rise of health economics 1 1.2 Decision making under uncertainty 4 1.2.1 Deterministic models 4 1.2.2 Probabilistic decision modelling 6 1.3 Evidence-based medicine 9 1.4 Bayesian statistics 10 1.5 NICE 11 1.6 Structure of the book 12 1.7 Summary key points 13 1.8 Further reading 13 References 14 2 Bayesian methods and WinBUGS 17 2.1 Introduction to Bayesian methods 17 2.1.1 What is a Bayesian approach? 17 2.1.2 Likelihood 18 2.1.3 Bayes’ theorem and Bayesian updating 19 2.1.4 Prior distributions 22 2.1.5 Summarising the posterior distribution 23 2.1.6 Prediction 24 2.1.7 More realistic and complex models 24 2.1.8 MCMC and Gibbs sampling 25 2.2 Introduction to WinBUGS 26 2.2.1 The BUGS language 26 2.2.2 Graphical representation 31 2.2.3 Running WinBUGS 32 2.2.4 Assessing convergence in WinBUGS 33 2.2.5 Statistical inference in WinBUGS 36 2.2.6 Practical aspects of using WinBUGS 39 2.3 Advantages and disadvantages of a Bayesian approach 39 2.4 Summary key points 40 2.5 Further reading 41 2.6 Exercises 41 References 42 3 Introduction to decision models 43 3.1 Introduction 43 3.2 Decision tree models 44 3.3 Model parameters 45 3.3.1 Effects of interventions 45 3.3.2 Quantities relating to the clinical epidemiology of the clinical condition being treated 50 3.3.3 Utilities 52 3.3.4 Resource use and costs 52 3.4 Deterministic decision tree 52 3.5 Stochastic decision tree 56 3.5.1 Presenting the results of stochastic economic decision models 60 3.6 Sources of evidence 66 3.7 Principles of synthesis for decision models (motivation for the rest of the book) 70 3.8 Summary key points 70 3.9 Further reading 71 3.10 Exercises 71 References 72 4 Meta-analysis using Bayesian methods 76 4.1 Introduction 76 4.2 Fixed Effect model 78 4.3 Random Effects model 81 4.3.1 The predictive distribution 83 4.3.2 Prior specification for τ 84 4.3.3 ‘Exact’ Random Effects model for Odds Ratios based on a Binomial likelihood 84 4.3.4 Shrunken study level estimates 86 4.4 Publication bias 87 4.5 Study validity 88 4.6 Summary key points 88 4.7 Further reading 88 4.8 Exercises 89 References 92 5 Exploring between study heterogeneity 94 5.1 Introduction 94 5.2 Random effects meta-regression models 95 5.2.1 Generic random effect meta-regression model 95 5.2.2 Random effects meta-regression model for Odds Ratio (OR) outcomes using a Binomial likelihood 98 5.2.3 Autocorrelation and centring covariates 100 5.3 Limitations of meta-regression 104 5.4 Baseline risk 105 5.4.1 Model for including baseline risk in a meta-regression on the (log) OR scale 107 5.4.2 Final comments on including baseline risk as a covariate 109 5.5 Summary key points 110 5.6 Further reading 110 5.7 Exercises 110 References 113 6 Model critique and evidence consistency in random effects meta-analysis 115 6.1 Introduction 115 6.2 The Random Effects model revisited 117 6.3 Assessing model fit 121 6.3.1 Deviance 121 6.3.2 Residual deviance 122 6.4 Model comparison 124 6.4.1 Effective number of parameters, pD 125 6.4.2 Deviance Information Criteria 126 6.5 Exploring inconsistency 127 6.5.1 Cross-validation 128 6.5.2 Mixed predictive checks 131 6.6 Summary key points 134 6.7 Further reading 134 6.8 Exercises 134 References 137 7 Evidence synthesis in a decision modelling framework 138 7.1 Introduction 138 7.2 Evaluation of decision models: One-stage vs two-stage approach 139 7.3 Sensitivity analyses (of model inputs and model specifications) 147 7.4 Summary key points 147 7.5 Further reading 147 7.6 Exercises 147 References 149 8 Multi-parameter evidence synthesis 151 8.1 Introduction 151 8.2 Prior and posterior simulation in a probabilistic model: Maple Syrup Urine Disease (MSUD) 152 8.3 A model for prenatal HIV testing 155 8.4 Model criticism in multi-parameter models 161 8.5 Evidence-based policy 163 8.6 Summary key points 164 8.7 Further reading 165 8.8 Exercises 166 References 167 9 Mixed and indirect treatment comparisons 169 9.1 Why go beyond ‘direct’ head-to-head trials? 169 9.2 A fixed treatment effects model for MTC 172 9.2.1 Absolute treatment effects 176 9.2.2 Relative treatment efficacy and ranking 176 9.3 Random Effects MTC models 178 9.4 Model choice and consistency of MTC evidence 179 9.4.1 Techniques for presenting and understanding the results of MTC 180 9.5 Multi-arm trials 181 9.6 Assumptions made in mixed treatment comparisons 182 9.7 Embedding an MTC within a cost-effectiveness analysis 183 9.8 Extension to continuous, rate and other outcomes 185 9.9 Summary key points 187 9.10 Further reading 187 9.11 Exercises 189 References 190 10 Markov models 193 10.1 Introduction 193 10.2 Continuous and discrete time Markov models 195 10.3 Decision analysis with Markov models 196 10.3.1 Evaluating Markov models 197 10.4 Estimating transition parameters from a single study 199 10.4.1 Likelihood 202 10.4.2 Priors and posteriors for multinomial probabilities 202 10.5 Propagating uncertainty in Markov parameters into a decision model 206 10.6 Estimating transition parameters from a synthesis of several studies 209 10.6.1 Challenges for meta-analysis of evidence on Markov transition parameters 209 10.6.2 The relationship between probabilities and rates 211 10.6.3 Modelling study effects 213 10.6.4 Synthesis of studies reporting aggregate data 215 10.6.5 Incorporating studies that provide event history data 217 10.6.6 Reporting results from a Random Effects model 219 10.6.7 Incorporating treatment effects 220 10.7 Summary key points 224 10.8 Further reading 224 10.9 Exercises 224 References 225 11 Generalised evidence synthesis 227 11.1 Introduction 227 11.2 Deriving a prior distribution from observational evidence 230 11.3 Bias allowance model for the observational data 233 11.4 Hierarchical models for evidence from different study designs 238 11.5 Discussion 244 11.6 Summary key points 244 11.7 Further reading 245 11.8 Exercises 246 References 248 12 Expected value of information for research prioritisation and study design 251 12.1 Introduction 251 12.2 Expected value of perfect information 256 12.3 Expected value of partial perfect information 259 12.3.1 Computation 261 12.3.2 Notes on EVPPI 264 12.4 Expected value of sample information 264 12.4.1 Computation 265 12.5 Expected net benefit of sampling 266 12.6 Summary key points 267 12.7 Further reading 268 12.8 Exercises 268 References 268 Appendix 1 Abbreviations 270 Appendix 2 Common distributions 272 A2.1 The Normal distribution 272 A2.2 The Binomial distribution 273 A2.3 The Multinomial distribution 273 A2.4 The Uniform distribution 274 A2.5 The Exponential distribution 274 A2.6 The Gamma distribution 275 A2.7 The Beta distribution 276 A2.8 The Dirichlet distribution 277 Index 278

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Book SynopsisDid you long ago learn to fear and dread stretching because of overbearing P.E. teachers who forced you to touch your toes? It doesna t have to be that way anymore. Stretching is a powerful tool that can bring you new ease of movement, an increase in your physical capabilities, and deep composure that requires you to do nothing more than breathe.Trade Review"…the ideal book for beginners who want to improve their flexibility, wellbeing and get rid of nagging aches and pains." (Women's Fitness, Issue 38)Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Part I: The Why’s, Where’s, When’s, and How’s of Letting Loose and Snapping Back 7 Chapter 1: Here a Stretch, There a Stretch, Everywhere a Stretch, Stretch 9 Chapter 2: Preparing for a More Flexible You 19 Chapter 3: Testing Your Flexibility to Establish Your Stretching Routine 29 Part II: Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes: Targeting Specific Areas 45 Chapter 4: Taking It from the Top: Upper Body Stretches 47 Chapter 5: Centering on the Core: Stretches for Your Middle 67 Chapter 6: Soothing Your Lower Back without Paying for a Massage 77 Chapter 7: From Your Knickers to Your Kickers: Stretches for your Bottom Half 93 Chapter 8: Total-Body Stretch Routines 115 Part III: From the Daily Grind to Ways to Unwind: Routines to Fit Your Life and Needs 135 Chapter 9: When the Cock Crows and the Evening Wind Blows: AM/PM Stretch Routines 137 Chapter 10: Stretching Out the Workday: Stretches for Work and for the Road 151 Chapter 11: Basic Warm-Up and Cool-Down Stretch Routines 165 Chapter 12: My Favorite Stretches for Specific Sports 187 Part IV: Getting Limber As You Live: Stretches for Various Life Stages 205 Chapter 13: What to Stretch When You’re Expecting and After 207 Chapter 14: Family Fun: Kid-Friendly Stretches 217 Chapter 15: Seventh Inning Stretch: Special Stuff for Seniors 233 Part V: The Part of Tens 243 Chapter 16: Ten Common Aches and Pains and Stretches that Can Help 245 Chapter 17: Ten Surprising Around-the-House Stretching Accessories 249 Index 253

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Book SynopsisAn up-to-date and comprehensive treatment of biosurveillance techniques With the worldwide awareness of bioterrorism and drug-resistant infectious diseases, the need for surveillance systems to accurately detect emerging epidemicsis essential for maintaining global safety.Trade Review“The book is especially valuable for anyone interested in automated disease surveillance because of its broad scope addressing all issues related to developing and operating automated disease surveillance systems.” (Biometrics, June 2009 ) "This book is essential reading for those learning about public health disease surveillance and for statisticians working with public health professional to improve the sensitivity, specificity, timeliness and cost-effectiveness of current surveillance systems." (Journal of the American Statistical Association, June 2008) "…creates a roadmap for scientists to follow…" (Electric Review, June/July 2007)Table of Contents1. Disease Surveillance (J. Lombardo & D. Ross). 2. Understanding the Data (S. Babin, et al.). 3. Obtaining the Data (R. Wojcik, et al.). 4. Alerting Algorithms for Biosurveillance (H. Burkom). 5. Putting It Together (L. Hauenstein, et al.). 6. Modern Disease Surveillance (S. Lewis, et al.). 7. Canadian Applications (J. Aramini & S. Mukhi). 8. Telehealth in England and Wales (D. Cooper). 9. EWORS amd Alerta DISAMAR (J. Chretien, et al.). 10. Evaulating Automated Surveillance Systems (D. Buckeridge, et al.). 11. Educating the Workforce (H. Lehmann). 12. The Road Ahead (J. Lombardo). Index.

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Book SynopsisEighty to 90 percent of all new mothers experience some form of the baby blues at some point during or after pregnancy. Postpartum depression is a more severe disorder that, if left untreated, can have tragic consequences to the mother and her relationship with her infant and family.Table of ContentsForeword. Introduction. Part I: Bringing Postpartum Depression into the Light: What It’s All About. Chapter 1: The Big Adjustment:Welcome to Motherhood. Chapter 2: These Ain’t No Baby Blues: PPD, Up Close and Personal. Chapter 3: You Mean There’s More? Five Related Postpartum Disorders. Part II: The Three Little Letters: PPD and You. Chapter 4: Looking Within: Is PPD Your Big Bad Wolf? Chapter 5: A Professional Assessment: What’s Huffing and Puffing at Your Mind’s Door? Chapter 6: Seeking Out a Therapist to Keep Your Proverbial House Standing. Part III: Diagnosis Confirmed: Looking at the Treatment Options for PPD. Chapter 7: Venting Your Mind and Heart: Psychological Treatment. Chapter 8: Counteracting a Chemical Cause: Medical Treatments. Chapter 9: All Things Natural: Alternative Treatments. Chapter 10: Creating a Comprehensive Treatment Plan. Part IV: Traveling the Road to Recovery. Chapter 11: Getting the Most Out of Your Treatment. Chapter 12: Setting the Supermom Cape Aside: Caring For Yourself. Chapter 13: Coping with Your Feelings. Chapter 14: Finding Somebod(ies) to Lean On. Chapter 15: Helping Your Partner Help You. Chapter 16: Helping the One You Love: A Chapter for Family, Friends, and Partners. Part V: Moving Beyond PPD. Chapter 17: Delight at the End of the Tunnel: Emerging with a New Sense of Self. Chapter 18: Deciding Whether to Have Another Baby. Part VI: The Part of Tens. Chapter 19: Ten Common Fantasies about Motherhood. Chapter 20: Ten Thoughts to Focus on Throughout the Day. Appendix: Resources. Index.

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Book SynopsisChemistry: An Introduction for Medical and Health Sciences provides students and practitioners with a clear, readable introduction to the chemical terms and concepts that are relevant to their study and practice.Trade Review"an excellent book to refresh long forgotten chemistry related-facts... full of cartoons that will give you a chuckle." (Accident and Emergency Nursing Journal, July 2006) "... well written and organized book... " (Education in Chemistry, January 2007)Table of ContentsPreface ix Introduction 1 How to use the book 1 1 Starting Chemistry 3 1.1 Terminology and processes used in drug manufacture 4 1.2 Atoms and things 9 1.3 Chemical reactions and the periodic table 11 2 Covalent Compounds and Organic Molecules 15 2.1 How to make stable molecules 18 2.2 Covalent compounds 18 2.3 General Properties of Covalent Compounds 22 2.4 Characteristic shapes and bond angles within covalent molecules 23 2.5 Some covalent bonds with slight ionic character 24 2.6 Double-bonded carbon compounds or ‘unsaturated’ carbon bonds 25 2.7 Some further compounds of carbon 27 2.8 The carbon cycle 28 2.9 Isomerism: some different arrangements of atoms within a molecule 29 2.10 Naming organic compounds if you really want to know! 33 2.11 Ring structures 36 2.12 Compounds of carbon containing other groups 37 2.13 Some further examples with explanations 37 3 Organic Compounds Containing Carbon, Hydrogen and Oxygen: Alcohols and Ethers 43 3.1 Alcohols, Cn H2n +1OH 45 3.2 Properties of alcohols: monohydric alcohols with one OH group 46 3.3 Other alcohols: di- and tri-hydric alcohols 48 3.4 Aromatic OH compounds: phenol 49 3.5 Ethers are isomers of alcohols 50 4 Carbonyl compounds: compounds containing C=O Groups 55 4.1 Simple aldehydes and ketones: carboxylic acids and esters 56 4.2 Carbohydrates, monosaccharides and sugars 58 4.3 Disaccharides 60 4.4 Digestion of sugars 61 4.5 More about sugars – if you really need to know! 62 4.6 Carboxylic acids: another set of CHO compounds containing C=O groups 63 4.7 Salts and esters 63 4.8 Lipids or fats 65 4.9 Chemical energy in cells 67 4.10 Chemicals in food 68 4.11 Soaps and detergents 69 5 Organic Compounds Containing Nitrogen 73 5.1 Amines and amino acids 75 5.2 Amino acids 76 5.3 Peptide formation and protein synthesis 77 5.4 Hydrolysis (action of water) of peptides 78 5.5 Other properties of amino acids 79 5.6 Protein metabolism 79 5.7 Nucleic acids, DNA and RNA 80 6 Vitamins, Steroids, Hormones and Enzymes 85 6.1 Vitamins 86 6.2 Steroids and hormones 94 6.3 Enzymes 96 7 Ions, Electrolytes, Metals and Ionic Bonding 103 7.1 Introduction to ionic bonding 105 7.2 Some common properties of ions and ionic bonds 107 7.3 Electrolytes and ions of the body 109 7.4 Major cations (positive ions) in the body: sodium, potassium and calcium ions 110 7.5 Balance between fluids 113 7.6 Essential elements present in small quantities: micronutrients and minerals 114 7.7 Cancer treatments and chemotherapies that use metal compounds 115 8 Water 119 8.1 Introduction What makes water so unique? 121 8.2 Chemical reactions in aqueous solution 123 8.3 Dissolving and solubility: water is a great solvent 124 8.4 Osmosis 126 8.5 Dialysis 127 8.6 Colloids 128 8.7 Water, washing and detergents 129 8.8 Water vapour 130 8.9 Evaporation from skin 131 8.10 Solid water 132 8.11 Hydrolysis 133 9 Acids and Bases 135 9.1 Acids 137 9.2 Bases and alkali 140 9.3 Bases containing nitrogen 141 9.4 Amino acids and zwitterions 142 9.5 Salts 142 9.6 Neutralization 143 9.7 Buffer solutions 143 9.8 Buffers in the body 144 9.9 Digestion and acid attack 145 9.10 Acids in the environment 146 10 Oxidation and Reduction 149 10.1 Definitions of oxidation and reduction 150 10.2 Burning and oxidation 153 10.3 Some applications of redox reactions to metabolic processes 153 10.4 Nitric oxide, NO or N(II)O 154 10.5 Oxygen gas 156 11 Analytical Techniques 159 11.1 The need for analysis 160 11.2 Mass spectroscopy 162 11.3 Chromatography 165 11.4 Spectroscopy of various types 168 11.5 Electron microscopes and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) 170 11.6 Magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) 173 11.7 General conclusions 174 12 Radioactivity 177 12.1 Introduction to the effects of radiation 178 12.2 Isotopes and radioactivity 179 12.3 Splitting the nuclei of atoms 181 12.4 Properties of alpha, beta and gamma radiation 182 12.5 Half-life 185 12.6 Radiation everywhere 186 12.7 Conclusion 188 13 Rates of Reaction 191 13.1 Effect of temperature on reactions and metabolism 193 13.2 Why does a chemical reaction slow down on cooling? 194 13.3 Free radicals 197 13.4 Effect of concentration on chemical reactions 197 13.5 Catalysts and enzymes 198 13.6 How catalysts and enzymes work 199 13.7 Application of chemical reactions to drug use 201 14 Overview of Chemicals Fighting Diseases 205 14.1 Drugs ancient and modern 205 14.2 Cancer treatments 210 14.3 Pain killers 213 14.4 Stopping attack by ‘aliens’ on our bodies: viruses and bacteria 214 14.5 AIDS and HIV 215 14.6 Gene therapy 217 14.7 Some changes of use of existing drugs 217 15 Numbers and Quantities 221 15.1 Standard notation, powers of 10 223 15.2 Moles 223 15.3 Powers of numbers and logs 224 15.4 Moles in formulae and equations 228 15.5 Moles in solution 229 15.6 Concentration in ppm, parts per million 230 15.7 Dilutions 230 15.8 Percentage by mass 231 Appendix 1: Alphabetical List of the Common Elements 235 Appendix 2: Periodic Classification of the Common Elements 237 Glossary 239 Bibliography 253 Index 257

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Book SynopsisAre you constantly worrying about what you or your loved ones eat? Is every dining experience an episode of anxiety for you? Being allergic to different types of food not only ruins the experience of eating, it can lead to dangerous, sometimes lethal, consequences. With Food Allergies for Dummies, you can feel safer about what you eat.Trade Review"I would thoroughly recommend this book to all serious allergy sufferers" (Women's Fitness, September 2007)Table of ContentsForeword xxi Introduction 1 About This Book 2 Conventions Used in This Book 3 What You’re Not to Read 4 Foolish Assumptions 4 How This Book Is Organized 5 Part I: Feasting on Food Allergy Fundamentals 5 Part II: Progressing from Hives to Hope: Diagnosis and Treatment 5 Part III: Living Well with Your Food Allergies 6 Part IV: The Part of Tens 6 Appendixes: Allergy-Friendly Recipes and Other Treats 6 Icons Used in This Book 7 Where to Go from Here 7 Part I: Feasting on Food Allergy Fundamentals 9 Chapter 1: Breaking Out with Food Allergies 11 Pinning Down Food Allergy: What’s an Allergy, and What’s Not? 11 Defining food allergy 12 Identifying imposters 12 Meeting the Many Faces of Food Allergies: Signs and Symptoms 13 Investigating the Conspiracy: Allergens and Other Contributing Factors 14 Digging up the root cause of food allergy 14 Playing the blame game 14 Labeling Your Maladies with a Doctor’s Diagnosis 15 Finding a food-allergy savvy allergist 16 Navigating the diagnostic process 17 Considering food intolerances 17 Battling Back with Medications, Modifications, and Other Therapies 18 Modifying your diet 18 Muffling your symptoms with meds 19 Confronting the alternative (therapy) crowd 20 Getting the Lowdown on Potential Futuristic Cures 22 Living Large with Your Food Allergies 24 Unmasking Common Food Allergy Myths 24 Chapter 2: Turning Allergies Inside Out: Probable Causes and Common Symptoms 27 Finding Out What’s Wrong with Your Food 28 Pinpointing problematic proteins 28 Separating logic from lore 29 Finding Out What’s Wrong with You 33 Going wild: Immune systems gone wild 33 Debating the nature or nurture question 35 Triggering allergies through exposure 36 Exploring the Sudden Rise in Food Allergies 38 Examining the hygiene hypothesis 38 Investigating other possible suspects 39 Gauging Your Child’s Risk for Developing a Food Allergy 40 Following the guidelines 40 Weighing the age factor 41 Exploring Common Signs and Symptoms 42 Getting under your skin 43 Taking a breather: Respiratory reactions 46 Having a gut reaction literally 46 Uncovering anaphylaxis: The shocking story 47 Taking the focus off of food allergy 50 Chapter 3: Spotting the Usual Suspects: Wherefore Art Thou, Allergen? 51 Naming the Common Culprits 52 Condemning cow’s milk 52 Cracking open the mystery of hen’s eggs 53 Pointing the finger at peanuts 54 Censoring soy 54 Blaming the bakery: Wheat 55 Shaking the tree for tree nut allergies 55 Fishing for allergens in fish 55 Prying into shellfish allergies 56 Suspecting sesame, sunflower, and other seedy culprits 56 Ingesting Allergens with Your Food 57 Gauging how much it takes to trigger a reaction 57 Predicting the severity of an ingestion reaction 58 Calming the Fears of Contact Reactions 59 Predicting the severity of a contact reaction 60 Revealing the low risk of hidden dangers: From library books to monkey bars 61 Refusing to let your allergies control your life 62 Clearing the Air About the Risks of Airborne Allergens 62 Recognizing the risk: When allergens take to the air 63 Predicting the severity of an inhalant reaction 65 Chapter 4: Picking On Peanuts: A Potentially Deadly Foe 67 Investigating the Allergic Nature of Peanuts 67 Probing the peanut protein connection 68 Acknowledging the deadly risk 68 Playing Find-the-Peanut on Your Plate 69 Uncovering peanut’s favorite hideouts 69 Dining out without peanuts 75 Inhaling Peanut Dust: Airborne Reactions 79 Ruling out airborne reactions in peanut butter and candy bars 79 Designating peanut-free zones 80 Spotting peanuts at bars and restaurants 81 Mixing peanuts with baseball 81 Steering Clear of the Other Nuts 81 Part II: Progressing from Hives to Hope: Diagnosis and Treatment 83 Chapter 5: Labeling Your Ailments with an Accurate Diagnosis 85 Taking a Flyover View of the Diagnostic Journey 86 Self-Screening for Food Allergies 88 Taking a Trip to Your General Practitioner 90 Why see your GP? 90 Knowing what to expect from your GP 90 Navigating the referral process 92 Avoiding quackologists 94 Seeking an Allergist’s Advice 94 Tracking down a qualified food allergist 95 Teaming up with your allergist for optimum results 97 Getting the Skinny on Allergy Workups 98 Making the most of your medical history 98 Getting physical with a physical exam 100 Poking around with skin tests 100 Hunting for IgE with RASTs 103 Weighing the pros and cons of RASTs and skin tests 105 Looking for Clues with Additional Diagnostic Tools 106 Daring a food to make you react: Food challenges 106 Discovering your allergens by avoiding them 107 Pursuing the causes of non-IgE mediated allergies 109 Avoiding the untested and unproven 110 Ruling out food intolerances 111 Chapter 6: Concocting Your Own Avoidance Diet 113 Setting Sensible Goals 114 Drawing Up Your Avoidance Diet 114 Maximizing your choices 115 Determining how strict you need to be 116 Decrypting Food Labels: Allergen-Savvy Grocery Shopping 116 Going on an egg hunt 117 Identifying the many faces of milk 117 A peanut by any other name 117 Spotting soy and soy products 118 Shaking the tree nuts out of a label 118 Recognizing wheat’s many aliases 119 Smelling the fish on a label 119 Cracking open mysterious shellfish labels 119 Sifting out hidden sesame 119 Approaching Warning Labels with Caution 120 Deciphering the “This package may contain ” warning 120 Decoding the “Produced in a facility ” warning 121 Taking warning labels seriously 122 Remaining cautious of foods you haven’t reacted to yet 122 Feeding Your Nutritional Needs 122 Attending to your infant’s needs 123 Keeping your toddler on the right track 124 Maintaining a healthy diet with children and adolescents 124 Focusing on calcium intake for adults 125 Taking Turns with a Rotation Diet 125 Knowing when a rotation diet can benefit you 126 Charting your game plan 126 Chapter 7: Making It Stop: Finding Symptomatic Relief 127 Pro-Acting and Reacting to Anaphylaxis 127 Defending yourself against anaphylactic episodes 128 Drawing up an anaphylactic treatment plan well in advance 129 Dealing with Itchy Stuff: Eczema 133 Dealing with More Itchy Stuff: Hives 134 Alleviating Gut-Retching Food Allergies 135 Treating oral allergy syndrome 135 Easing the effects of eosinophilic gastroenteritis 136 Muting the symptoms of eosinophilic esophagitis (EE) 137 Checking out remedies for allergic proctitis 138 Caring for enterocolitis syndrome 138 Alleviating the symptoms of celiac disease 138 Catching Your Breath Asthma Symptoms and Treatments 139 Treating a Chronic “Cold”: Allergic Rhinitis 139 Chapter 8: Debunking Alternative Tests and Therapies 141 Exposing Meaningless Tests and Other Mumbo Jumbo 142 Polling your cellular reactions: Cytotoxic testing 142 Looking at your lymphocytes with ELISA/ACT testing 144 Unclogging your energy fields with NAET 145 Discrediting the claims of other dubious tests 145 Demystifying Homeopathy: A Little Hair of the Dog That Bit You 147 Deflating the Hype Surrounding Vitamins, Minerals, and Herbs 148 Addressing the Leaky-Gut Hypothesis 149 Healing Yourself through Mind, Body, and Soul Manipulations 150 Solving Allergies through Acupuncture or Acupressure 151 Chapter 9: Exploring Cures from Mice to Man: Current Research 153 Muting Allergen Sensitivities through Immunotherapy 154 Grasping the concept of immunotherapy 154 Getting your allergy shots but not necessarily for food allergies 155 Going under the tongue with sublingual treatments 157 Chewing on oral immunotherapy 158 Battling back with modified protein vaccines 159 Going sub-cellular with DNA vaccines 162 Treating Your Allergies to an Ancient Chinese Herbal Remedy 162 Fighting Back with Anti-IgE Antibody Therapy 163 Investigating Other Futuristic Treatments 165 Immunizing with immunostimulatory sequences 165 Making the most of probiotics 166 Part III: Living Well with Your Food Allergies 167 Chapter 10: Living at Home with Your Allergies 169 Dumping the Bad Stuff or Not 169 Weighing the pros and cons of banning allergenic foods 170 Quarantining suspect substances 172 Stocking Up on the Essentials 173 Cooking and Dining Safely in the Midst of Allergies 174 Planning your meals 175 Boning up on substitutions 175 Reducing the risks of cross-contamination 175 Grounding airborne allergens 176 Cleaning the galley 177 Organizing an Information Station 179 Assembling an emergency kit 179 Bringing your sitter up to speed 180 Chapter 11: Eating Out and Traveling with Food Allergies 183 Preparing for Your Outing 183 Toting your allergy emergency kit along with you 184 Packing a safe food stash 185 Wearing a medical ID bracelet or necklace 185 Taking Your Allergies Out to Dinner 185 To eat out or not to eat out that is the question 186 Locating allergy-friendly restaurants 187 Chatting it up with the staff 188 Studying the menu for safe dishes 190 Stepping gingerly across the dessert menu 192 Traveling with Your Allergies 193 Plotting your course and itinerary 193 Planning your meals 195 Scoping out available healthcare providers 196 Flying to foreign lands: international travel 196 Flying with peanuts: avoiding peanuts on your next flight 198 Cruising for a reaction 199 Chapter 12: Conquering the Challenges of Daycare and Preschool 201 Making the Big Decision: To Send or Not to Send 202 Weighing the risks of daycare and preschool 202 Considering the benefits of daycare or preschool 203 Finding the Right Daycare Center or Preschool 203 Shopping for allergen-free schools or not 204 Assessing a facility’s knowledge and experience with food allergies 205 Gauging the size factor 207 Consulting the school nurse (or whoever’s in charge) 207 Teaming Up with Your Child’s Daycare Center or Preschool 208 Educating your child’s caregivers 209 Establishing some basic lunchroom policies 211 Making your childcare facility peanut-free 213 Planning for possible emergencies 213 Chewing on Some Snack-Time Issues 216 Keeping Parties Fun while Making Them Safe 217 Chapter 13: Sending Food Allergies Off to School: K-12 219 Selecting an Allergy-Safe Educational Environment 220 Home schooling: The ultimate in allergy safety? 221 Assessing public versus private schools 221 Making a Safe School Safer for Your Child 222 Reviewing food allergy policies 223 Pow-wowing with the nurse, administrators, and other staff 227 Dealing with medications on school grounds 229 Riding the school bus with food allergies 231 Designating peanut-free tables and other seating arrangements 232 Packing for Lunchtime: Cafeteria or Brown Bag? 234 Protecting Yourself without Becoming a Party Pooper 235 Taking Your Allergies on a Field Trip 235 Going Behind the Scenes with 504 Plans 236 Section 504 237 The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) 237 The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) 238 Citing the law to gain cooperation 238 Chapter 14: Empowering Your Adolescent or Teenager 241 Fostering an Atmosphere of Empathy 242 Acknowledging the injustice 242 Feeling the sting of teenage teasing 243 Dealing with restrictions and limitations 244 Sizing up the situation: Newly developed or long-standing allergy? 244 Empowering Your Teen to Take on More Responsibility 245 Getting a Little Help from Your Friends 247 Mastering the Art of Acceptable Risk Taking 248 Laying Down Some Safe Dating Guidelines 249 Eating out 250 Acquiring a few safe-kissing skills 250 Chapter 15: Preventing and Outgrowing a Food Allergy 253 Preventing Food Allergies: Hope or Hype? 254 Stressing early intervention 254 Focusing on baby formulas 255 Clearing the smoke from the room 255 Taking action to prevent the onset of food allergies and asthma 255 Ranking the Likelihood of Outgrowing an Allergy Food by Food 257 Charting your chances with cow’s milk 257 Outgrowing an allergy to eggs 258 Winning out against wheat and soy allergies 259 Overpowering a peanut allergy 259 Shaking a tree nut allergy 261 Surmounting a seed allergy 261 Overcoming other food allergies 261 Whipping multiple food allergies 262 Accounting for other allergic conditions 262 Speculating on the Timing 262 Prodding Your Allergy to Vacate Sooner 263 Monitoring and Managing Your Allergies 264 Safely Reintroducing the Problem Foods 266 Confronting your allergies with food challenges 266 Inviting problem foods into your home 267 Part IV: The Part of Tens 269 Chapter 16: Teaching Your Child Ten Key Food Allergy Lessons 271 Finding Comfort in Numbers: Lots of People Have Food Allergies 271 Decoding Labels and Asking Questions 272 Teaching Your Friends a Thing or Two 273 Sitting at the Cleanest Table in the Cafeteria 274 Eating Off a Plate or Napkin 274 Steering Clear of Sloppy Eaters 274 Avoiding Lunch Room Food Swaps and Food Fights 275 Stocking up on Some Healthy, Yet Yummie Snacks 275 Asking for Help Immediately when You Start Feeling Funny 276 Carrying a Health Emergency Card 276 Chapter 17: Packing Ten Key Food Allergy Tips for Camp, College, and Other Outings 279 Packing Fresh Medications 279 Taking Your Allergy Free Diet on the Road 280 Packing Emergency Information and Instructions 281 Identifying One or More Point Persons 282 Tweaking Your Emergency Plan 283 Training Counselors and Other Personnel 283 Giving Your Child a Refresher Course 284 Choosing a Food Allergy–Friendly Camp 284 Educating Bunkmates and Roommates 285 Buddying Up with a Food Allergy Savvy Pal 285 Chapter 18: Substituting Foods and Ingredients: Ten Common Dietary Substitutions 287 Discovering Peanut and Peanut Butter Alternatives 288 Replacing Milk, Ice Cream, and Yogurt 288 Discovering a Better Butter 289 Checking Out Some Cheesy Substitutes 289 Trading in Your Chocolate 290 Whipping up a Fake Egg Mixture 290 Finding a New Staple: Wheat-Free Breads 291 Breakfasting with Wheat-Free Cereals 292 Baking Your Goodies with Wheat-Free Flour 292 Discovering Safer Thickening Agents 293 Chapter 19: Exploring Ten Outstanding Food Allergy Web Sites 295 Tapping Online Resources at FAAN: Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network 295 Communing with the Allergy & Asthma Network Mothers of Asthmatics 296 Investigating the Food Allergy Initiative 297 Poking Around in the Food Allergy Kitchen 297 Visiting AAFA: Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America 298 Accessing Anaphylaxis Canada 298 Dropping in on the American Academy of Allergy Asthma & Immunology 299 Attending the American College of Allergy, Asthma, & Immunology 299 Joining the Anaphylaxis Campaign 300 Gathering Additional Information at AllAllergy.net 300 Chapter 20: Responding to a Severe Reaction: Ten Do’s and Don’ts 301 Identify the Symptoms 301 Tell Someone Immediately 302 Remain As Calm As Possible 302 Respond Immediately 303 Administer Medications 303 Call 911 304 Don’t Drive Yourself 304 Call Your Doctor 304 Call Family or Friends 305 Review What Happened 305 Part V: Appendixes: Allergy-Friendly Recipes and Other Treats 307 Appendix A: Breads & Breakfasts 309 Appendix B: Main Courses 313 Appendix C: Snacks and Cookies 317 Appendix D: Cakes and Desserts 323 Appendix E: Glossary 329 Index 335

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Book SynopsisThis no-nonsense, plain-English guide lays out the facts you need to maintain a healthy body.Hypoglycemia simply means low blood-sugar, but without concrete symptoms it's very hard to diagnose. It is nevertheless a condition that should be watched over carefully. People react differently to low blood sugar as well as to the treatment they receive. Hypoglycemia for Dummies explores this fickle condition and shows you how to manage your blood sugar to feel better. It offers expert advice on identifying symptoms, changing lifestyles, and also extensive coverage on diet, exercise, alternative treatments, and the link between low blood sugar and diabetes. This expanded 2nd edition provides: A thorough explanation of hypoglycemia and how it affects your body Exercise routines that lead to a healthier lifestyle Diet suggestions on what to eat and how often A basis for choosing a doctor that's right for yTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 About This Book 1 Conventions Used in This Book 2 What You’re Not to Read 2 Icons Used in This Book 3 Foolish Assumptions 3 How This Book Is Organized 3 Part I: Addressing Your Ups and Downs: Could This Be Hypoglycemia? 4 Part II: Diagnosing and Treating Your Hypoglycemia 4 Part III: Emulating Lifestyles of the Well and Healthy 4 Part IV: Spinning a Network of Support for Yourself (and Others) 4 Part V: The Part of Tens 4 Where to Go from Here 5 Part I: Addressing Your Ups and Downs: Could This Be Hypoglycemia? 7 Chapter 1: Riding the Blood Sugar Roller Coaster Isn’t Any Fun 9 Defining Hypoglycemia 9 Organic 10 Relative 10 Reactive 11 Like a Greased Pig: Easy to Define, Tough to Pin Down 11 Identifying key symptoms 13 Arriving at a diagnosis 13 Knowing Who’s Prone 15 Prevailing problem: The pudge! 15 Like a couple of hooligans: Linking hypoglycemia and diabetes 16 Heading Toward Better Health 16 Chapter 2: Digesting Hypoglycemia: Your Body’s Role 19 Absorbing Some Physical Food 19 Breaking down proteins 20 Pancreas plays its part 21 Insulin gone awry 23 Tracing Cause and Effect 24 Multiple causes 24 Exhausting your adrenals 25 Ravaging your health: The couch and the potato 26 Sugar, sugar, everywhere — except where you need it 27 Addressing Addictions: The Link to Low Blood Sugar 28 Chapter 3: Symptoms without a Cause 31 Jumping on Stage: No, You’re Not Faking It 31 Eying the Physical Symptoms 32 Identifying the Emotional Symptoms 33 Unmasking Hypoglycemia’s Hidden Faces 35 Reactions to food 36 Overlapping syndromes 39 Haggling with hypothyroidism 41 Joining the hypo bandwagon: Hypoadrenalism 42 Hypoglycemia and Diabetes — Flip Sides of the Same Coin? 43 Looking at the syndrome flowchart 43 Identifying the types of diabetes 44 Nailing Down Hypoglycemia: Symptoms throughout the Ages 46 Hypoglycemia and newborns 46 Hypoglycemia and children 47 Hypoglycemia and pregnant women 47 Hypoglycemia and menopausal women 48 Hypoglycemia and older people 48 Part II: Diagnosing and Treating Your Hypoglycemia 49 Chapter 4: Matching Up with the Right Doc 51 Why Seeing a Doc on a Regular Basis Is Important 51 Paging Dr. Perfection 52 Knowing what to look for in a doc 53 Finding the right doc 54 Dealing with doubters 56 Choosing a Specialist 56 Internists and family doctors 57 Endocrinologists 57 Preparing Shows You’re Caring (About Yourself) 58 What to take to your appointment 58 Following up after the appointment 61 Putting Some Ohhhhmm into It: Alternative Medicine 62 Defining your alternatives 62 Considering your alternatives 63 Working in tandem 65 Chapter 5: Getting the Lowdown on Low Blood Sugar. 69 Poking and Prodding Yourself 69 Filling in the circles: A questionnaire 70 Eating by trial 72 Getting the 411 on Hypoglycemia Testing 73 The pros and cons of these tests 74 What to expect from the tests 75 How your doc interprets the results 78 Graphing your own results 80 Chapter 6: Gorging on Good Health 85 Of Food Pyramids and Healthy Eating 86 Re-designing the familiar pyramid 86 Building a hypoglycemic pyramid 87 Keeping your diet in balance 89 Shunning problematic foods 90 The World’s Your Oyster and Your Pear — Foods to Eat 91 Life’s a bowl of cherries: Fruits 92 Vegging out isn’t a bad thing 94 The squeaky hypoglycemic gets the grease: Fats 96 Powering up with proteins 98 Doing dairy 99 Breaking the proverbial camel’s back: Breads and grains 99 Eating the Right Way 101 Starting off on the right foot 101 Eating six meals — or more — a day 103 The most important meal 103 Sizing up your servings 104 Getting back on the wagon if you’ve fallen off 105 Adding helpful food substitutes 106 Hypoglycemia in Vegetarians: What Can You Eat? 107 Chewing on a Food Journal 108 Knowing what to record 108 A food journal isn’t just for food 109 Tracking your progress 110 Chapter 7: Hanging with Herb and His Buddies Vitamin and Supplement. 111 Getting Acquainted with Herb 111 Saying Hello to Supplements and Vitamins 112 Vitamins and minerals 112 Supplements 113 Taking the Hypoglycemia Mix 114 Matching Supplements to Ails: Which Makes You Feel Better? 119 Anxiety 120 Asthma 121 Chronic fatigue syndrome 122 Constipation 122 Depression/mood swings 123 Digestive problems 125 Fatigue and energy drain 127 Fibromyalgia 128 Headaches 128 Insomnia 129 Low sex drive 130 Memory problems/poor concentration 131 Midafternoon slump 132 Nausea 133 Poor circulation 133 Stress 134 Water retention 135 Table of Contents ix Taking a Whiff: Aromatherapy 135 Rocking Bach’s Flower Remedies 136 Part III: Emulating Lifestyles of the Well and Healthy 137 Chapter 8: Easing Symptoms and Energizing with Exercise 139 Why Exercise Is Important When Battling Hypoglycemia 139 Easing Your Way into Exercise 141 Modifying your behavior 141 Finding the time to exercise 142 Timing Your Carbs 142 Improving Insulin and Feeling the Burn: Aerobics 143 Strut your stuff and work that walk 144 What’s the difference, you ask? Running and jogging 146 Shaking your groove thang: Dancing 147 Regulating Blood Sugar with Yoga and T’ai Chi 148 Going yoga 148 Taking T’ai Chi 149 Kicking Weakness with Weights 150 Building endurance with bodyweight workouts 150 Easing into free weights with body weights 152 Incorporating free weights into your exercise regimen 152 Clearing Brain Fog with Qigong 153 Chapter 9: All Stressed Out and Nowhere to Go. 155 How Stress Impacts Your Hypoglycemia 155 Determining Your Stress Level 156 Knotting Off: Relaxing Your Tight Muscles 157 Taking a Deep Breath to Relax 159 Breathing helps regulate your blood sugar 159 Trying some deep-breathing exercises to relax 160 Surfing the Alpha Wave with Meditation 161 Balancing your blood and body 162 Energizing with EFT 164 Kicking food cravings in the gut 168 Making the Ultimate Smoothie: Hypno-Soothing 171 Chapter 10: Defanging the Depression Demons 173 Revealing Another Epidemic 174 Knowing What (Gray) Matters 175 Getting Comfy on the Couch 176 Mastering new thinking skills 177 Thinking healthy 178 Easing through the transition 179 Beating the Low Blood Sugar Blues 180 Stop being so SAD 180 Taking a swing at your mood 181 Discussing dietary plans 182 Feeling Out Antidepressants 184 Identifying the different drugs 184 Considering antidepressants? Know both sides of the story 186 Working with a psychiatrist 187 Chapter 11: Making It through Your Day at Work 189 No Rings around Either: Blue and White Collar Workers 190 Hard hat area 191 Tie required 191 Addressing Your Boss and Co-Workers 192 Knowing when (and how) to tell your boss and co-workers 192 Knowing when not to tell 193 Flying with the legal eagles 194 Finding practical solutions 195 Framing your condition positively 196 Putting Up a Cot in the Cubicle? Managing Long Work Hours 197 Gettin’ in the groove with work 197 Breaking up your work day 198 Preparing for those long hours when you’re away from the office 199 Diffusing Work-Related Stress 200 Evaluating your life: Does this job impede your health? 201 Passing up the caffeine 202 Creating a cozy cubicle 203 Part IV: Spinning a Network of Support for Yourself (and Others) 205 Chapter 12: Jockeying for Support 207 Grasping the Link between Support and Hypoglycemia 207 Getting Yourself Out There 208 Getting to Know Me 209 Joining the In-Crowd 212 Netting some help 213 Doing the 12-step 215 Buddying Up 218 Matching up with a buddy 218 Starting off on the right foot with your buddy 219 Chapter 13: Dealing with Friends and Family: Eat and Let Eat. 221 How Hypoglycemia Can Affect Your Relationships 221 Explaining to Your Significant Other 222 Starting with open dialog 222 Helping your significant other cope 223 Talking to Your Children about Hypoglycemia 224 Keep it simple 224 Be prepared for questions 225 Reiterate that they didn’t make you sick 225 Involving the Whole Family 226 Can we talk? 226 Helping your loved ones help you 227 When can we eat? 228 Dealing with the Doubting Thomases 230 Staying clear of negativity 230 Avoiding conflict 231 Maintaining your boundaries 232 Sabotaging the saboteurs 233 Chapter 14: Suffering Along with Your Sweetie? 235 Introducing Mr. (or Ms.) Hyde 236 Understanding Hyde’s condition 236 Identifying Hyde’s symptoms 237 Talking It Over 237 Starting with the four Rs 238 Giving these words the green light 239 Stopping negative talk 240 Offering Your Offspring Support 241 Jumping In with Both Feet (and 2.5 Kids, a Dog, and a Cat) 242 You Be Betty Crocker and I’ll Be Julia Child 243 Part V: The Part of Tens 245 Chapter 15: Ten Myths about Hypoglycemia 247 Hypoglycemia Doesn’t Exist 247 Hypoglycemics Lack Willpower 248 Eating Sugar Is a Quick Fix 248 One Diet Fits All 249 Eliminating the “Bad” Foods Is All You Have to Do 249 You Can’t Be a Vegetarian if You’re Hypoglycemic 250 Having a “Cheat Day” Is Okay 250 Sugar Can Be Part of a Healthful Diet 251 Hypoglycemics Should Eat Low-Fat Diets 251 Blood Glucose Levels Remain the Same throughout the Day 252 Chapter 16: Ten Hints for Helping Hypoglycemics 253 Acting Practically at Home 253 Testing for Sugar 254 Controlling Blood Sugar 254 Dining Out: The Do’s and Don’ts 255 Food Facts for Tasty Health 257 Noshing on Nourishment 258 Eating Brainy Foods 259 Banishing Brain Fog 259 Remembering How to Deal with Short-Term Memory Loss 261 Changing Successfully 262 Index 263

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Book Synopsis Six new chapters on vital topics of interest such as multilocus SNP genotyping (SNP chips), RNAi, ChIP-chip, and genomic tiling arrays New edition responds to reviewers'' and users'' desire for greater coveragenow the most useful handbook on the market! Practical, concise summary of everything about genomics and emerging technologies a busy physician or medical student should know Covers concepts and techniques that are in use in medicine now, as well as those on the cutting-edge of science relevant to medicine, from bioinformatics to DNA diagnostics and proteomics NEW: Includes chapter-end exercises, enhancing the utility of the new edition as a textbook NEW: PowerPoint slides of images available at instructor website Table of ContentsPreface. 1 Introduction to Molecular Genetics. The Principles of Inheritance. Genes Are Made of DNA. DNA Structure. The Central Dogma. References. 2 Molecular Biology Technology. Cut, Copy, and Paste. Restriction Enzymes. DNA Cloning Is Copying. PCR Is Cloning without the Bacteria. DNA Sequencing. References. 3 Genome Databases. Genome Sequencing. Entrez. BLAST. Genome Annotation. Genome Browser. Human Genetic Diseases. A System for Naming Genes. Model Organisms (Comparative Genomics). Sequencing Other Genomes. References. 4 Bioinformatics Tools. Patterns and Tools. Sequence Comparison. Multiple Alignment. Pattern Finding. Phylogenetics. Biotechnology Exercise. References. 5 Human Genetic Variation. Mutation. Single-Nucleotide Polymorphisms. Linkage. Multigene Diseases. Genetic Testing. SNP Chips. The HapMap Project. Research Uses of SNP Markers. Ethnicity and Genome Diversity. References. 6 Genetic Testing for the Practitioner (Harry Ostrer). Clinical Applications of Genetic Testing. Methods of Genetic Testing. Adequacy of Genetic Testing. Informed Consent. Genetic Counseling. Clinical Vignettes. References. 7 Gene Therapy (John G. Hay). Historical Perspective. Strategies of Gene Therapy. DNA Elements for Gene Expression. Gene Delivery Systems. Targeting Gene Delivery. Formative Years and Initial Clinical Approaches. The Problems. The Future. References. 8 Microarrays. Spotting versus Synthesis on the Chip. Other Types of Arrays. Differential Gene Expression. Error and Reliability. Evolutionary Perspectives. References. 9 Analysis of Microarray Data. Experimental Design. Data Analysis Workflow. Functional Analysis. Validation. References. 10 Pharmacogenomics and Toxicogenomics. Pharmacogenomics. Environmental Chemicals. Toxicogenomics for Drug Development. References. 11 Clinical Research Informatics. Clinical Databases. Clinical Trials Management. Data Standards and Ontologies. Tissue Banks. Application to Medical Practice. References. 12 RNA Interference and MicroRNAs. Antisense RNA. RNA Interference. Ribozymes. References. 13 Alternative Splicing. Exon Arrays. Medical Applications of Alternative Splicing. References. 14 Genome Tiling Chips. Genome Chips. Resequencing Chips. Whole-Genome Transcription Profilig. ChIP-chip. ArrayCGH. References. 15 Cancer Genomics. Understanding Cancer Genomics. Copy Number Mutations. Gene Expression Signatures. Cancer Genome Atlas. References. 16 Proteomics. Protein Modifications. Quantitative Approaches. Biomarkers. Protein Databases. Protein–Protein Interactions. DNA-Binding Proteins. Structural Proteomics. Drug Targets. References. 17 Consumer Genomics and Genealogy. Genealogy. Nutrigenomics. Privacy Concerns. References. 18 The Ethics of Medical Genomics. Eugenics. Human Genome Diversity Project and Population Genetics. Genetic Discrimination. Impact on Physicians and Researchers. Clinical Research. References. Appendix: Genetic Testing: Scientific Background for Policymakers (Amanda K. Sarata). Glossary. Index.

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Book SynopsisAdolescents (a high-risk health group) are growing as a percentage of the populations. This text offers an action-oriented epidemiologic approach to understanding the risk factors affecting adolescent health, and what can be done in response.Trade Review“This book successfully addresses a need in the field to advance understanding of new directions for research and how emerging science can enhance practice. Many topics and approaches to health promotion covered in this book are not covered in other well-regarded books This edition of Emerging Theories adds new information and includes revisions that reflect the most recent and innovative thinking and research findings.” – Doody’s PublishingTable of ContentsTables and Figures. Foreword. Acknowledgements. The Editors. The Contributors. Introduction. 1 Theory in health Promotion Practice and Research (Richard A. Crosby, Michelle C. Kegler, Ralph J. DiClemente). Part 1 Individual-level Approaches. 2 The Information-Motivation-Behavioral Skills Model of HIV Preventive Behavior (Jeffrey D. Fisher, William A. Fisher, Paul A. Shuper). 3 Social Influences: The Effects of Socialization, Selection, and Social Normative Processes on Health Behavior (Bruce G. Simons-Morton, Denise Haynie, Elizabeth Noelcke). 4 Self-esteem Enhancement Theory: Promoting Health across the Life-Span (David L. DuBois, Brian R. Flay, Michael C. Fagen). 5 Conservation of Resources Theory: Application to Public Health Promotion (Stevan E. Hobfoll, Jeremiah A. Schumm). 6 Self-Determination Theory: Process Models for Health Behavior Change (Michelle S. Fortier, Geoffrey C. Williams Shane N. Sweet, Heather Patrick). 7 The Elaboration Likelihood Model of Persuasion: Developing Health Promotions for Sustained Behavioral Change (Richard E. Petty, Jamie Barden, S. Christian Wheeler). 8 An Integrative Model for Behavioral Prediction and its Application to Health Promotion (Martin Fishbein). Part 2 Community-Based Approaches. 9 The Community Coalition Action Theory (Frances D. Butterfoss and Michelle C. Kegler). 10 Community Capacity: Theory and Application (Monica L. Wendel, James N. Burdine, Kenneth R. McLeroy, Angela Alaniz, Barbara L. Norton, Michael R.J. Felix). 11 Natural Helper Models to Enhance a Community's Health and Competence (Eugenia Eng, Scott D. Rhodes, Edith Parker). 12 Community-Based Prevention Marketing: A Hybrid Framework for Public Health Professionals (Carol A. Bryant, Kelli R. McCormack Brown, Rita D. Debate, Moya L. Alfonso, Julie A. Baldwin, Paul Monaghan, Leah M. Phillips). Part 3 Ecological Approaches. 13 Changing Our Unhealthy Ways: Emerging Perspectives from Social Action Theory (Craig K. Ewart). 14 The Theory of Gender and Power: Constructs, Variables, and Implications for Developing HIV Interventions for Women (Gina M. Wingood, Christian Camp, Kristin Dunkle, Hannah Cooper, Ralph J. DiClemente). 15 The Logical and Empirical Basis for the Behavioral Ecological Model (Mel Hovell, Dennis Wahlgren, Marc Adams). 16 The Theory of Triadic Influence (Brian R. Flay, Frank Snyder, John Petraitis). 17 The Interactive Domain Model Approach to Best Practices in Health Promotion (Barbara Kahan, David Groulx, Josephine Pui-Hing Wong). 18 COMBI – Communication-for-Behavioral-Impact: A WHO Approach to Social Mobilization in the Promotion of Health (Everold Hosein, Will Parks, Renata Schiavo). 19 Issues and Challenges in Applying Theory to Health Promotion Practice and Research (Ralph J. DiClemente, Michelle C. Kegler, Richard A. Crosby). References. Index.

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Book SynopsisLike its two successful previous editions, Health & Numbers: A Problems-Based Introduction to Biostatistics, Third Edition, is the only fully problems-based introduction to biostatistics and offers a concise introduction to basic statistical concepts and reasoning at a level suitable for a broad spectrum of students and professionals in medicine and the allied health fields. This book has always been meant for use by advanced students who have not previously had an introductory biostatistics course - material often presented in a one-semester course - or by busy professionals who need to learn the basics of biostatistics. This user-friendly resource features over 200 real-life examples and real data to discuss and teach fundamental statistical methods. The new edition offers even more exercises than the second edition, and features enhanced Microsoft Excel and SAS samples and examples. Health & Numbers, Third Edition, truly strikes a balance between principles and methodsTable of ContentsPreface. Introduction from the First Edition. 1. Proportions, Rates, and Ratios. 1.1 Proportions. 1.3 Ratios. 1.4 Graphical and Computational Aids. Exercises. 2. Organization, Summarization, and Presentation of Data. 2.1 Tabular and Graphical Methods. 2.2 Numerical Methods. 2.3 Coefficient of Correlation. 2.4 Graphical and Computational Aids. Exercises. 3. Probability and Probability Models. 3.1 Probability. 3.2 The Normal Distribution. 3.3 Probability Models. 3.4 Graphical and Computational Aids. Exercises. 4. Confidence Estimation. 4.1 Basic Concepts. 4.2 Estimation of a Population Mean. 4.3 Estimation of a Population Proportion. 4.4 Estimation of a Population Odds Ratio. 4.5 Estimation of a Population Correlation Coefficient. 4.6 A Note on Computation. Exercises. 5. Introduction to Hypothesis Testing. 5.1 Basic Concepts. 5.2 Analogies. 5.3 Summaries and Conclusions. 6. Comparison of Population Proportions. 6.1 One-sample Problem with Binary Data. 6.2 Analysis of Pair-matched Data. 6.3 Comparison of Two Proportions. 6.4 The Mantel-Haenszel Method. 6.5 Computational Aids. Exercises. 7. Comparison of Population Means. 7.1 One-sample Problem with Continuous Data. 7.2 Analysis of Pair-matched Data. 7.3 Comparison of Two Means. 7.5 One-way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA). 7.6 Computational Aids. Exercises. 8. Regression Analysis. 8.1 Simple Regression Analysis. 8.2 Multiple Regression Analysis. 8.3 Graphical and Computational Aids. Exercises. Bibliography. Appendices. A. Table of Random Numbers. B. Areas under the Standard Normal Curve. C. Percentiles of the t-Distribution. D. Percentiles of the Chi-square Distribution. E. Percentiles of the F-Distribution. Answers to Exercises. Index.

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Book SynopsisDo you think that you or someone you love may suffer from and eating disorder? Eating Disorders For Dummies gives you the straight facts you need to make sense of what's happening inside you and offers a simple step-by-step procedure for developing a safe and health plan for recovery.Table of ContentsIntroduction. Part I: Eating Disorders: An All-Consuming World of Their Own. Chapter 1: Understanding Eating Disorders. Chapter 2: Getting Insight into Anorexia Nervosa. Chapter 3: Seeing Inside Bulimia Nervosa. Chapter 4: Understanding Binge Eating Disorder. Chapter 5: Eating Disorder Risk Factors. Chapter 6: Deconstructing Your Body with an Eating Disorder. Chapter 7: Sidekicks That Often Accompany Eating Disorders. Part II: Getting Well: Exploring Recovery and Treatment Options. Chapter 8: Seeing What Recovery Looks Like. Chapter 9: Deciding the Who, What, and Where for Treatment. Chapter 10: Finding the Treatment Approach That’s Right for You. Chapter 11: Including Other People in Your Treatment. Chapter 12: Exploring Medication and Other Approaches. Chapter 13: Making Good Use of the Approach You Choose. Chapter 14: Managing Early Stage Recovery and the Reality of Relapse. Part III: Eating Disorders in Special Populations. Chapter 15: Eating Disorders in Males. Chapter 16: Athletes and Eating Disorders. Chapter 17: Eating Disorders on the Stage, Screen, and Runway. Chapter 18: Eating Disorders in Children. Chapter 19: Eating Disorders Later In Life. Chapter 20: Eating Disorders and People Who Are Obese. Part IV: Advice and Help for Families and Others Who Care. Chapter 21: Forming a Plan to Help the Person with an Eating Disorder. Chapter 22: Implementing Your Plan to Help. Chapter 23: Making Life Livable While Supporting Another’s Recovery. Chapter 24: Finding Support for Yourself While Supporting Another’s Recovery. Part V: The Part of Tens. Chapter 25: Ten Don’ts: Behaviors and Thoughts to Avoid. Chapter 26: Ten Do’s: Ways to Enhance Your Recovery. Resource Guide. Index.

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Book SynopsisCulture and Health offers an overview of different areas of culture and health, building on foundations of medical anthropology and health behavior theory.Table of ContentsFigures, Tables, and Exhibits. Special Features. Preface. Medical Anthropology’s Perspectives. Chapter Overviews. Special Features of the Text. Dedication. The Author. Acknowledgments. ONE: APPLIED MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY AND HEALTH CARE. Culture and Health. Culture, Ethnomedicines, and Biomedicine. Cultural Competence in the Health Professions. Concepts of Health. Systems Approaches to Health. Chapter Summary. TWO: DISEASE, ILLNESS, SICKNESS, AND THE SICK ROLE. Experience of Maladies. Biomedical Assumptions About Disease. Social Models of Maladies and Diagnoses. Illness and Sickness Accounts. The Sick Role and Sickness Career. AIDS as Disease, Sickness, and Illness. Health Beliefs and Explanatory Models. Chapter Summary. THREE: CULTURAL COMPETENCE IN HEALTH CARE. Cross-Cultural Adaptations in Health Care. Cultural Competence. Anthropological Perspectives on Cross-Cultural Adaptation. Concepts of Culture. Interpersonal Skills for Intercultural Relations. Specialty Cross-Cultural Applications of Medical Anthropology. Using Culture to Care for Patients and Providers. Chapter Summary. FOUR: CULTURAL SYSTEMS MODELS. Cultural Models for Health Assessment. Cultural Systems Approaches to Health. Cultural Infrastructure, Structure, and Superstructure. Infrastructure. Family Infl uences on Health and Development. Understanding Worldview and Symbolic Resources. Community Health Assessment. Rapid Assessment, Response, and Evaluation (RARE). Chapter Summary. FIVE: ETHNOMEDICAL SYSTEMS AND HEALTH CARE SECTORS. Popular, Folk, and Professional Health Care Sectors. Popular-Sector Health Resources. Folk Sectors and Ethnomedicines. Professional Healers. Chapter Summary. SIX: TRANSCULTURAL PSYCHIATRY AND INDIGENOUS PSYCHOLOGY. Culture and Personality. Cultural Concepts of Normalcy and Abnormalcy. Personality and Self in Indigenous Psychology. Possession in Clinical and Cross-Cultural Perspectives. Biocultural Approaches to Indigenous Psychology. Ethnomedical Theories of Illness. Cross-Cultural Ethnomedical Syndromes. Chapter Summary. SEVEN: MEDICAL- ECOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO HEALTH. Medical Ecology and Disease. Evolutionary Adaptations and Health. Genetic, Individual, and Cultural Adaptations to the Environment. Epidemiology of Disease. Racial and Ethnic Categories and Health. Triune Brain Structures and Functions. Evolution of the Sickness-and-Healing Responses. Emotions in Biocultural Perspective. Chapter Summary. EIGHT: POLITICAL ECONOMY AND CRITICAL MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY. Political Economy Approaches to Health. Critical Medical Anthropology. Social Conditions as Causes of Disease and Health. Social Networks and Support. Macrolevel Social Effects on Clinical Health. Changing Health Through Public Policy and Community Involvement. Chapter Summary. NINE: PSYCHOBIOLOGICAL DYNAMICS OF HEALTH. Cultural Healing. Religion, Ritual, and Symbolic Healing. Stress Response. Placebos and Placebo Effects. Psychoneuroimmunology. Metaphoric Processes in Symbolic Healing. Chapter Summary. TEN: THE SHAMANIC PARADIGM OF ETHNOMEDICINE. What Is Shamanism? The Integrative Mode of Consciousness. Neurognostic Structures. Bases for Shamanistic Therapies. Shamanic Roots in Contemporary Religious Experiences and Healing. Chapter Summary. GLOSSARY. REFERENCES. NAME INDEX. SUBJECT INDEX.

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Book SynopsisHealth Issues in the Black Community THIRD EDITION The outstanding editors and authors of Health Issues in the Black Community have placed in clear perspective the challenges and opportunities we face in working to achieve the goal of health equity in America. ?David Satcher, MD, PhD, 16th Surgeon General of the United States and director, Satcher Health Leadership Institute at Morehouse School of Medicine Eliminating health disparities must be a central goal of any forward thinking national health policy. Health Issues in the Black Community makes a valuable contribution to a much-needed dialogue by focusing on the challenges of the black community. ?Marc Morial, Esq., president, National Urban League Health Issues in the Black Community illuminates comprehensively the range of health conditions specifically affecting African Americans, and the health disparities both within the black community and between racial Table of ContentsForeword (Georges C. Benjamin). Preface. Editor Biographies. Author Biographies. PART ONE Health status across the life span. 1 African American Health: An Overview (Ronald L. Braithwaite, Sandra E. Taylor, Henrie M. Treadwell). 2 “Without Health and Long Life All Else Fails”: A History of African Americans and the Elimination of Racial Disparities in Health Care (Vanessa Northington Gamble). 3 The Health Status of Children and Adolescents (Desirée A. H. Oliver, Gene H. Brody). 4 The Health Status of Black Women (Sandra E. Taylor, Kisha Braithwaite Holden). 5 The Health Status of Black Men (Jean J. E. Bonhomme, April M. W. Young). 6 Health and Black Older Adults: Insights from a Life Course Perspective (Sherrill L. Sellers, Ishtar O. Govia, James S. Jackson). PART TWO Social, mental, and environmental challenges. 7 Stigma and Mental Health in African Americans (L. DiAnne Bradford,Cassandra Newkirk, Kisha Braithwaite Holden). 8 Homicide and Violence Among African American Youth: From Epidemic to Endemic (Emilie Phillips Smith, Joseph Richardson, Rhonda BeLue? 9 Narrowing the Gap Between Supply and Demand of Organs for Transplantation: Current Issues for African Americans (Kimberly Jacob Arriola, Dana H. Z. Robinson, L. Ebony Boulware). 10 African Americans on the Frontline of Environmental Assault (Robert D. Bullard, Glenn S. Johnson, Angel O. Torres). 11 The Impact of Incarceration on the Health of African Americans (Nicholas Freudenberg, Megha Ramaswamy). PART THREE Chronic diseases. 12 Hypertension in African American Communities (Sharon K. Davis, Rakale Collins Quarells, Gary H. Gibbons). 13 A General Overview of Cancer in the United States: Incidence and Mortality Burden Among African Americans (Shedra Amy Snipes, Donella J. Wilson, Angelina Esparza, Lovell A. Jones). 14 Health Disparities: The Case for Diabetes (Gregory Strayhorn). 15 Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (S. Sam Lim, Charmayne Dunlap-Thomas, Christina Drenkard). 16 Oral Health (Rueben C. Warren, Allan Formicolatable, Caswell A. Evans). PART FOUR lifestyle behaviors. 17 Substance Abuse in the African American Community (Jean J. E. Bonhomme, Ronald L. Braithwaite Melita Moore). 18 HIV/AIDS in the Black Community (Ivory A. Toldson, Aba D. Essuon, Kamilah M. Woodson). 19 Tobacco Use and the Black Community in the United States: A Community-Focused Public Health Model for Eliminating Population Disparities (Robert G. Robinson, Rhonda Conerly Holliday). 20 Alcohol Use and Consequences for Blacks (Dionne C. Godette). 21 Nutrition and Obesity Issues for african Americans (Monica L. Baskin, Angela M. Odoms-Young, Shiriki K. Kumanyika, Jamy D. Ard). 22 Physical Activity (Antronette K. Yancey, Melicia C. Whitt-Glover, Mona Au Young). PART FIVE Alternative interventions and human resources development. 23 Chiropractic Medicine: Integral to Integrative Medicine (Malika B. Gooden, Elton D. Holden). 24 The Role of Black Faith Communities in Fostering Health (Schnavia Smith Hatcher, Kimberly S. Clay, Jeronda T. Burley). 25 Community Health Workers in the Black Community: Building Trust, Alleviating Pain, and Improving Health Access (Jacqueline Martinez, Laura Joslin Frye, Leda M. Perez). PART SIX Ethical, political, and ecological issues. 26 Using Social Marketing to Lessen Health Disparities (Mesha L. Ellis, James P. Griffin Jr., Ken Resnicow). 27 Fostering a Social Justice Approach to Health: Health Equity, Human Rights, and an Antiracism Agenda (Camara Phyllis Jones, Anthony Hatch, Adewale Troutman). 28 Closing the Gap: Eliminating Health Disparities (Henrie M. Treadwell, Ronald L. Braithwaite, Sandra E. Taylor). Afterword (Gail C. Christopher). Index.

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Book SynopsisA new edition of the classic guide to the use of statistics in medicine, featuring examples from articles in the New England Journal of Medicine Medical Uses of Statistics has served as one of the most influential works on the subject for physicians, physicians-in-training, and a myriad of healthcare experts who need a clear idea of the proper application of statistical techniques in clinical studies as well as the implications of their interpretation for clinical practice. This Third Edition maintains the focus on the critical ideas, rather than the mechanics, to give practitioners and students the resources they need to understand the statistical methods they encounter in modern medical literature. Bringing together contributions from more than two dozen distinguished statisticians and medical doctors, this volume stresses the underlying concepts in areas such as randomized trials, survival analysis, genetics, linear regression, meta-analyTrade Review"Medical Uses of Statistics, 3rd Edition" presents the concepts of medical statistics across a broad range of topics with a practical perspective, a moderate level of detail, and a minimal number of formulae... The text is clearly written in a consistent style." (Journal of Clinical Research Best Practices, November 2010) Table of ContentsContributors. Preface. Preface to the Second Edition. Preface to the First Edition. Acknowledgments. Origins of Chapters. Introduction. SECTION I: BROAD CONCEPTS AND ANALYTIC TECHNIQUES. Chapter 1 Statistical Concepts Fundamental to Investigations (Lincoln E. Moses). Chapter 2 Some Uses of Statistical Thinking (John C. Bailar III). Chapter 3 Use of Statistical Analysis in the New England Journal of Medicine (Shilpi Agarwal, Graham A. Colditz, and John D. Emerson). SECTION II: DESIGN. Chapter 4 Randomized Trials and Other Parallel Comparisons of Treatment (Nancy E. Mayo). Chapter 5 Crossover and Self-Controlled Designs in Clinical Research (John C. Bailar III, Thomas A. Louis, Philip W. Lavori, and Marcia Polansky). Chapter 6 The Series of Consecutive Cases as a Device for Assessing Outcomes of Interventions (Lincoln E. Moses). Chapter 7 Biostatistics in Epidemiology: Design and Basic Analysis (Mark S. Goldberg). SECTION III: ANALYSIS. Chapter 8 p-Values (James H. Ware, Frederick Mosteller, Fernando Delgado, Christl Donnelly, and Joseph A. Ingelfinger). Chapter 9 Understanding Analyses of Randomized Trials (Nancy E. Mayo). Chapter 10 Linear Regression in Medical Research (Paul J. Rathouz and Amita Rastogi). Chapter 11 Statistical Analysis of Survival Data (Stephen W. Lagakos). Chapter 12 Analysis of Categorical Data in Medical Studies (Paul S. Albert). Chapter 13 Analyzing Data from Ordered Categories (Lincoln E. Moses, John D. Emerson, and Hossein Hosseini). SECTION IV: COMMUNICATING RESULTS. Chapter 14 Guidelines for Statistical Reporting in Articles for Medical Journals: Amplifications and Explanations (John C. Bailar III and Frederick Mosteller). Chapter 15 Reporting of Subgroup Analyses in Clinical Trials (Rui Wang, Stephen W. Lagakos, James H. Ware, David J. Hunter, and Jeffrey M. Drazen). Chapter 16 Writing about Numbers (Frederick Mosteller, Margaret Perkins, and Stephen Morrissey). SECTION V: SPECIALIZED METHODS. Chapter 17 Combining Results from Independent Studies: Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis in Clinical Research (Michael A. Stoto). Chapter 18 Biostatistics in Epidemiology: Advanced Methods of Regression Analysis (Mark S. Goldberg). Chapter 19 Genetic Inference (Dan L. Nicolae, Thorsten Kurz, and Carole Ober). Chapter 20 Identifying Disease Genes in Association Studies (Dan L. Nicolae, Thorsten Kurz, and Carole Ober). Chapter 21 Risk Assessment (A. John Bailer and John C. Bailar III). INDEX.

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Book SynopsisAccording to the U.S. Department of Labor, nearly 6,000 workers were killed on the job in 2006.Table of ContentsFigures, Tables, and Exhibits xi Introduction xv Acknowledgments xix The Authors xxi The Contributors xxiii Part One Public Health Prevention Focus 1 1 History and Importance of Public Health 3 A Brief History of U.S. Public Health 4 Healthy People 2010 8 Responsibilities of Public Health 11 Public Health Accomplishments 11 Emphasis on Prevention Not Control 14 Public Health and Occupational Health 16 Summary 25 Key Terms 25 Questions for Discussion 25 2 Epidemiology of Occupational Safety and Health 27 Introduction to Epidemiology 28 Surveillance Systems 31 Epidemiology Studies 33 Health Hazard Evaluations 35 Public Health Systems in the Workplace 37 Chronic Disease Epidemiology in the Workplace 38 Summary 39 Key Terms 39 Questions for Discussion 39 Part Two Occupational Safety and Health 41 3 History and Importance of Occupational Safety and Health 43 Health, Disease, and Prevention 48 The Role for Public Health 51 Summary 54 Key Terms 55 Questions for Discussion 55 4 Occupational Injuries 57 Epidemiology of Injuries 58 The Case for an Epidemiological Approach 59 Epidemiology of Accidents 66 Epidemiology of Violence 68 Surveillance Systems for Occupational Injuries 69 Surveillance Results 70 Injury Prevention Programs 73 Future Challenges 77 Summary 78 Key Terms 80 Questions for Discussion 80 5 Compliance versus Prevention 81 OSHA Standards Development 84 The Inspection Process 88 Compliance or Prevention 90 Prevention of Cumulative Problems 93 Summary 93 Key Terms 93 Questions for Discussion 93 Part Three Public Health Issues in Occupational Safety and Health 95 6 Toxicology 97 Application to Occupational Epidemiology 98 Subdisciplines in Toxicology 99 Classification of Toxic Agents 100 Environmental Tobacco Smoke 103 Risk Assessment 104 Toxicology Case Studies 105 Toxin Regulation and Research 105 Summary 108 Key Terms 109 Questions for Discussion 109 7 Stress 111 Stress Basics 112 Workplace Characteristics and Stress 116 Organizational Response to Stress 117 When to Get Help 122 Summary 122 Key Terms 122 Questions for Discussion 123 8 The Impaired Employee 125 Drug Use Frequency and Demographics 127 Epidemiology of Addiction 129 Substances Often Abused 134 Drug-Free Workplaces and EAPs 136 Summary 140 Key Terms 140 Questions for Discussion 141 9 Wellness Programs 143 Chronic Diseases in the Workplace 145 The Value of Wellness Programs 146 Addressing Obesity and Nutrition 147 Addressing Physical Inactivity 151 Addressing Tobacco Use 153 Developing Comprehensive Health Programs 155 The Role for Public Health 157 Summary 159 Key Terms 160 Questions for Discussion 160 10 Emergency Response Planning 161 Definitions 162 Emergency Management Planning Steps 162 Terrorism and Bioterrorism 164 Workplace Preparedness for Terrorism 167 CDC’s Strategic Workplace Plan 168 Applying Epidemiology to Preparedness 168 Applying an Information Model to Preparedness 174 Involving OSHA and NIOSH in Planning 175 Summary 176 Key Terms 177 Questions for Discussion 177 11 Ergonomics 179 Two Approaches: Broad and Narrow 181 Ergonomists’ Roles and Experience 187 Few Absolute Limits 188 Cumulative Trauma Disorders 189 The Industrial Athlete 195 Summary 198 Key Terms 198 Questions for Discussion 198 12 Communicable Diseases 199 Epidemiology of Communicable Diseases 200 Foodborne and Waterborne Diseases 202 Tuberculosis 203 Hepatitis 204 HIV and AIDS 207 Influenza 208 Emerging Infections 209 Summary 213 Key Terms 213 Questions for Discussion 214 13 Vision and Hearing Issues 215 Protecting Vision in the Workplace 216 Protecting Hearing in the Workplace 223 Summary 231 Key Terms 232 Questions for Discussion 232 14 Occupational Health Disparities 233 Disparate Populations 234 How Do Health Disparities Persist? 251 Future Trends in Health Disparities 256 Summary 257 Key Terms 258 Questions for Discussion 258 Part Four Evaluation and Leadership Issues in Prevention 259 15 Economic Impacts of Prevention 261 Premature Mortality 262 Employer Health Insurance Costs 262 The Purposes of Economic Evaluation 264 The Burden of Injury and Illness 264 Types of Economic Analysis 266 Target Areas for Evaluation 268 Summary 276 Key Terms 277 Questions for Discussion 277 16 Impacts of Leadership and Culture 279 Using Vision and Management Skills 282 Using Power Effectively 284 Exercising Transformational Leadership 286 Changing the Process of Work 287 Motivating Employees 287 Building a Culture 288 Empowering Workers 290 Improving Team Effectiveness 291 Summary 292 Key Terms 292 Questions for Discussion 292 References 293 Index 313

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Book SynopsisThere is a need for a text that explains syndemics-the systems approach methodology for understanding and addressing complex public health problems. The book explains the use of systems approaches for brining together the largest possible picture for understanding health issues afflicting those most vulnerable in our society.Table of ContentsPreface. The Author. Acknowledgments. PART ONE INTRODUCING KEY CONCEPTS IN SYNDEMICS. 1 LEARNING FROM LICHEN: RECONCEPTUALIZING HEALTH AND DISEASE. On Not Planting Cut Flowers: The Weight of History. Germ Theory and the Biomedical Conception of Disease. Revolutions in Biomedical Realities. Problems with Postulates. Confronting Comorbidity. Toward Syndemic Reconceptualization. Local Knowledge. Connections: Human and Nonhuman. Summary. Key Terms. Questions for Discussion. PART TWO SYNDEMIC CASES. 2 TRUCKING BETWEEN THE BAILIWICKS: MULTIDISCIPLINARITY, SAVA, AND SYNERGIES IN HEALTH. Why Multidisciplinarity. The Term Syndemic. The SAVA Syndemic. SAVA Among Victims of Domestic Violence. SAVA Among MSM. SAVA Among Street Drug Users. SAVA Among Commercial Sex Workers. SAVA and Public Health. Summary. Key Terms. Questions for Discussion. 3 EXEMPLARS: SYNDEMIC CASE STUDIES. Syllables in the Biological Message. Varieties of Microlevel Disease Interaction. Syndemic Diversity. Renocardiac Syndemic. SARS–Chronic Disease Syndemic. Asthma-Infl uenza Syndemic. Diabulimia Syndemic. Summary. Key Terms. Questions for Discussion. 4 HIV/AIDS AND OTHER INFECTIONS: IMMUNE IMPARITY AND SYNDEMOGENESIS. Assessing the HIV/AIDS Syndemics. Opportunistic Infections and HIV/AIDS. Sexually Transmitted Disease Syndemics. Hepatitis and HIV/AIDS Syndemic. Tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS Syndemic Malaria and HIV/AIDS Syndemic VL and HIV/AIDS Syndemic. Helminths and HIV/AIDS Syndemic. Summary. Key Terms. Questions for Discussion. 5 BEYOND CONTAGION: HIV/AIDS AND NONINFECTIOUS DISEASE SYNDEMOGENESIS. An Aging Epidemic. Infectious and Chronic Disease Connections. Kidney Disease and HIV. Food Insuffi ciency and HIV. Cardiovascular Diseases and HIV/AIDS. Emotional and Cognitive Health and HIV/AIDS. Countersyndemics. Summary. Key Terms. Questions for Discussion. PART THREE SOCIETY, HISTORY, AND THE ENVIRONMENT. 6 INEQUITY AS A COFACTOR: THE SYNDEMIC IMPACT OF SOCIAL DISPARITIES. Disease in the Time of Disparity. The Making Social of Disease. Biologizing Experience. Supersyndemics. Health and Human Rights. Summary. Key Terms. Questions for Discussion. 7 SYNDEMICS AND THE WORLDS THEY MADE. Before Now. Irish Famine Syndemic of 1741. Gibraltar Cholera Syndemic of 1865. Massachusetts Scarlet Fever Syndemic of the 1800s. Global Influenza Syndemic of 1918. Syndemics Among Native Americans on the American Frontier. Syndemics of the Mormon Migration. Syndemics of War. Summary. Key Terms. Questions for Discussion. 8 A WORLD OUT OF BALANCE: EMERGENT AND REEMERGENT ECOSYNDEMICS. Emergent Syndemics of a Troubled World. From Emergent Infection to Emergent Syndemic. Reemergent Diseases and Emergent Syndemics. Superinfection: Intragenus Syndemics. Iatrogenic Syndemics. Unintended Countersyndemics. Ecosyndemics and the Anthropocene. Summary. Key Terms. Questions for Discussion. PART FOUR APPLICATIONS OF THE SYNDEMIC PERSPECTIVE. 9 PRACTICAL UTILITY: MOBILIZING THE SYNDEMIC MODEL IN THE PROMOTION OF HEALTH AND TREATMENT OF DISEASE. Why Study Syndemics? Public Health and Syndemic Prevention. Medical Treatment of Syndemics. Modeling Syndemics. Future Syndemics. Summary. Key Terms. Questions for Discussion. GLOSSARY. REFERENCES. INDEX.

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Book SynopsisConcepts in Male Health Concepts in Male Health: Perspectives Across the Lifespan offers a practical approach to understanding the health of males of all races, ethnicities, socioeconomic status, cultures, ages, and orientations. Each chapter of this book comprehensively reviews an important dimension of male health and examines the contributing historical, epidemiological,??psychosocial, cultural-ethical, legal, political, and economic influences. The diverse range of topics allows for complete coverage ranging from body structures??and sexuality to aggression and occupational health. ??The book contains the most recent research and evidence-based science and addresses issues in male health throughout the lifespan in an easy-to-understand format. ??Learning objectives are presented in an accessible format and reflect real life situations. Review questions provided at the end of each chapter address health-specific content included in the chapter and span both the scope and tTable of ContentsPreface ix The Author xv Chapter 1 Historical Perspectives of Male Health 1 What Is Male Health? 3 Male Health in History 7 Cultural Perspectives 9 Epidemiological and Statistical Evidence 14 Chapter 2 Birth and Infancy 29 Male Infant Mortality and Health Risks 30 Sociocultural Implications of Being Born Male 33 Circumcision 39 Chapter 3 Early Childhood 63 The Journey Begins 64 Boys Will Be Boys? The Role of Parents 65 Nutrition and Diet 68 Sexual Health 70 Disparities in Male Health Outcomes 72 Chapter 4 Toddler Years and Young Childhood 83 Defining the Toddler and Young Child 84 Vaccinations 84 Physical Health 86 Social Health 97 Temperament, Emotional Development, and Discipline 100 Chapter 5 School Age 105 Physical Health 106 Nutrition 110 Emotional Health 114 School and Learning and Social Health 116 Health Disparities Among School-Age Boys 127 Chapter 6 Preadolescence and “Tween” Years 133 The Preadolescent Years 134 Physical Health 136 Emotional Health 149 Boys and “Rites of Manhood” 155 Chapter 7 Adolescence 161 Physical Changes 162 Physical Health 163 Psychological and Emotional Changes 166 Sexual Health, Sexuality, and Sexual Orientation 169 Sexual Deviance 198 Violence, Aggression, and Bullying 203 Drug Use 206 Juvenile Offenders and Incarceration 211 Chapter 8 Young Adulthood 219 Physical Health 221 Social Health 242 Emotional Health 249 Nutritional Supplements and Anabolic-Androgenic Steroids 269 Occupational Health 273 Chapter 9 Middle Adulthood 279 Physical Health 280 Emotional Health 301 Fathers’ Rights 305 Chapter 10 Older Adulthood 311 Physical Health 312 Emotional Health 325 Chapter 11 Elder Years 331 Physical Health 332 Emotional Health 334 Social Health 339 Chapter 12 Death 349 The Seven Ages of Man 350 Getting One’s Matters in Order 353 Chapter 13 Promoting Male Health 359 Advocacy and Research 360 Male Studies 364 Andrology 366 Misandry and Social Justice 367 The Future 371 Glossary 377 References 399 Index 445

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Book SynopsisThis text provides students a foundation in public health practice and management, focusing on developing the knowledge and skills required by the real world of public health. The authors of Transforming Public Health Practice explain the drivers of change in public health practice, key success factors for public health programs, dealing with the chronic disease burden, the impact of national health policy on public health practice, and tools for understanding and managing population health. Transforming Public Health Practice covers core leadership and management skills, covering areas such as politics, workforce, partnership and collaboration, change management, outcomes orientation, opportunities for improvement, health equity, and future challenges. Case studies highlight innovations in health education, working with people with disabilities, partnerships in response to disease outbreaks, and health programs. Learning objectives, chapter summaries, key terms, and discussiTable of ContentsIntroduction xiii Acknowledgments xvii The Authors xix The Contributors xxi Part One Issues and Methods of Public Health Practice 1 The Need for Change in the Practice of Public Health 3 Mission and Services of Public Health 3 Public Health’s History and Its Impact on Current Services 10 Gap Between Mission and Current Public Health Practice 13 2 The Success of Public Health Programs: Critical Factors 27 Definition of Public Health 30 Public Health Systems 31 Community Health Workers 34 Population-Based Medicine 36 Problems in Our Health Care System 36 The Need for Improved Accountability of Public Health Professionals 39 Local Health Departments 39 Epidemic of Chronic Diseases 42 Information Management 44 Expansion of Health Education Programs 45 Public Health and the Legacy Concept 46 The Need for Leadership Development in Public Health 48 3 Critical Issues for the Future of Health Care in the United States 53 Why We Are Failing in Our Health Care Reform Efforts 57 Root Causes of the Failures of the Health Care System 60 Other Problem Areas 68 Solution to the Problems in Our Health Care System 70 New Model of Health Care Delivery 72 Public Health as a Potential Solution to the Health Care Crisis in America 75 4 Application of Epidemiological Concepts to Health Care Delivery 81 Descriptive Epidemiology 83 Epidemiology of Communicable Diseases 89 Epidemiology of Emerging Infections 91 Analytical Epidemiology 92 Epidemiology and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 95 Data Management 95 Surveillance Systems 97 Managerial Epidemiology 99 Application of Epidemiological Concepts to Health Care 101 5 Shifting the Focus from Communicable to Chronic Diseases 105 Communicable Disease Threat 108 The Challenge of Chronic Diseases 111 The Need for Investment in Preventing Chronic Diseases 114 Health Education 116 The Need for Partnerships to Combat Chronic Diseases 118 Opportunity to Improve the Way Health Care Is Delivered 121 Part Two Issues and Methods of Public Health Leadership and Management 6 Leadership and Politics in Public Health 129 Development of Power in Health Care Delivery 130 Leadership and Politics in Health Care Delivery 134 Public Health Leadership Styles 137 Transformational Leadership and Public Health 140 Public Health as a Change Agent 142 Public Health Leaders and Power 143 Public Health Leaders and Conflict Management 145 Can Political Appointees Lead Public Health Departments? 146 Communication Skills of the Leader 147 Leadership Development in Public Health 148 Culture of Public Health Workers 150 Public Health Leaders and Innovation 153 7 Empowering Public Health Workers 159 Leadership and Quality Improvement 161 The Public Health Employee 164 Transformational Leadership, Worker Empowerment, and Self-Managed Work Teams in Public Health 165 The Role of Culture 166 Culture and Change 169 Empowerment of Workers in Public Health 173 Disappearance of the Public Health Worker 176 8 Partnerships to Improve the Public’s Health 179 Public Health Partners 179 Value of Partnerships for Public Health Organizations 181 Building Community-Wide Partnerships Using an Ecological Model of Health 183 Successful Partnerships 189 Assessing the Role of Partnerships in Improving Community Health 190 9 Leading and Managing Change in Public Health Organizations 193 Public Health and the Urgent Need for Change 193 Challenges Facing Local Public Health Leaders 194 Millennium Development Goals 195 Urgent Need for System Change 196 Visioning the New Public Health 200 Leadership for the New Public Health 201 Changing the Public Health System for the Future 206 Managing Change 207 10 Developing an Outcomes Orientation in Public Health Organizations 213 Quality Nexus of Public Health and Health Care 214 Focusing on Core Functions and Essential Public Health Services 216 Current Quality Improvement Efforts in Public Health Organizations 223 Gaps in the Quality of Public Health Services 226 Federal Leadership of Quality Improvement in Public Health 227 Road Map to Improve Public Health Outcomes 233 11 Opportunities for Improvement in Public Health Practice 239 Disruption and Change in Public Health 242 Public Health Education and Health Promotion Programs 244 The Need for a Chronic Care Model 247 Minimal Political Appreciation of Public Health Activities 248 Use of Technology in Risk Communication 250 Public Health Leadership Required 252 Value of Prevention Programs 254 The Process of Innovation 259 12 Local Solutions to Reduce Inequities in Health and Safety 263 Larry Cohen, Anthony Iton, Rachel Davis, Sharon Murriguez 13 Challenges in the New World of Public Health Practice 299 Determinants of Health 300 Obesity Epidemic 302 Climate Change 305 War and Armed Conflicts 309 Case Studies Case Study 1 Innovation in Health Education Programs 315 Case Study 2 Disabilities 321 Jill D. Morrow-Gorton Case Study 3 Formation of Community Partnerships to Prepare for H1N1 327 Marc C. Marchese Case Study 4 Municipal Health Department Leadership Inside Out 331 Ted Kross Case Study 5 The Power of Data: Osceola County Secures a Federally Qualified Health Center 337 Julia Joh Elligers Case Study 6 Using MAPP to Get Up & Go! in St. Clair County 341 Lisa Jacobs Case Study 7 Partnering for Improved Infant Health in Stanislaus County 345 Lisa Jacobs Case Study 8 Innovation in Colorectal Cancer Education Programs 349 References 355 Index 375

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Book SynopsisIt is said if you take care of the pennies, the pounds will take care of themselves. Richard Burton''s excellent book takes this approach to calculations applied to the biomedical sciencesThis is certainly interesting and engaging but it avoids being complicated. Journal of Biological Education, April 2009 Biomedical Calculations: Principles and Practice is an accessible, student-friendly introduction to calculating, applying formulae and solving quantitative problems within these subjects. This book targets a problem area for many students and aims to give them the confidence which they are so often lacking when undertaking scientific calculations. It takes a unique approach to the subject and uses unit analysis as a central theme throughout the book to enhance student understanding. Clearly structured throughout, little basic knowledge of mathematics is assumed, but even the most numerate readers will be interested in the sometimes-novel biological detTrade Review?I really liked this book and the approach the author has taken. It will certainly be useful for biomedical scientists and for those teaching potential biomedical scientists, either at university or during training in the laboratory.? ( British J of Biomedical Science, 2008) "It is said if you take care of the pennies, the pounds will take care of themselves. Richard Burton's excellent book takes this approach to calculations applied to the biomedical sciences?This is certainly interesting and engaging but it avoids being complicated." ?Journal of Biological Education, April 2009Table of ContentsPreface. Acknowledgements. This book, and how to use it. PART I. 1. Unit analysis: the neglected key to confidence. 1.1 Calculating with units. 1.2 Ways of writing composite units. 1.3 How unit analysis can guide thinking and help solve problems. 1.4 When to specify substances along with units. 1.5 The need to use appropriate and compatible units in formulae. 1.6 Checking and deriving formulae. 1.7 When unit analysis raises questions about formulae. 1.8 Dimensional analysis. PART II. 2. Units: length, area, volume, mass, moles and equivalents. 2.1 The Système International and unit prefixes. 2.2 Length and distance. 2.3 Area. 2.4 Volume. 2.5 Mass. 2.6 Moles. 2.7 Equivalents. 2.8 Conversion between units. Problems. 3. Percentages. 3.1 When percentages mislead: human body fat and fat in milk. 3.2 Heat loss from the body: further questionable percentages. Problems. 4. Composite units I - density. 4.1 Specific gravity. 4.2 Specific volume. 4.3 Two definitions of body density. 4.4 Thinking about a formula. Problems. 5. Composite units II - concentration. 5.1 Concentrations: kilograms of water vs litres of solution. 5.2 Simple protein-free salt solutions. 5.3 Millimolar and millimolal concentrations in blood plasma. 5.4 Some quite different uses for Eq. (5.1). Problems. 6. Aspects of problem solving. 6.1 Letting unit analysis solve the problem. 6.2 ‘Let x be the unknown’. Problems. 7. Making up and diluting solutions. 7.1 Preparing 250 mL of 150 mM NaCl from the dry salt. 7.2 Preparing dilutions from stock solutions. Problems. 8. Calculating drug doses. Problems. 9. More about solutions - electroneutrality, osmotic pressure and activity. 9.1 The principle of electroneutrality. 9.2 But what about membrane potentials and short-circuit currents? 9.3 Anion gap. 9.4 Osmoles and osmolality. 9.5 Osmolar gap. 9.6 Osmosity. 9.7 Cell contents. 9.8 Effective osmolality, effective osmotic pressure. 9.9 Osmotic shifts of water between cells and extracellular fluid. 9.10 Free and bound concentrations, activities. PART III. 10. Graphs, straight lines and equations. 10.1 Graphs: some terminology. 10.2 Advice on drawing graphs. 10.3 The equation of a straight line. 10.4 Finding the equation of a line that passes through two specified points. 10.5 Drawing a line that is defined by a specified equation. 10.6 Finding the equation of a line from its gradient and the coordinates of a single point on it. 10.7 Finding the line that best fits a number of points when these lie only roughly in a straight line. 10.8 ‘Proportional’ and ‘inversely proportional’. 10.9 Gradients of curves. 10.10 A note on units. 10.11 On the different kinds of formulae and equations. Problems. 11. On shapes and sizes. 11.1 Areas and volumes of simple shapes. 11.2 Erythrocytes, cylinders and spheres. 11.3 The swelling of erythrocytes in hypo-osmotic solutions. 11.4 Distortion of erythrocytes in passing along narrow blood vessels. 11.5 An exercise in rearranging equations to eliminate an unwanted term. 11.6 Easy and general ways to check algebraic working. 11.7 Solving the equation by trial and error in a spreadsheet. 11.8 Why do we not have naturally spherical erythrocytes? 11.9 General properties of simple geometrical shapes. 11.10 Replacing volumes with masses in these equations. 11.11 A digression on graphs. 11.12 Calculating surface area from volume and height: another exercise in re-arranging equations and eliminating unwanted terms. 11.13 Another digression to check algebraic working. 11.14 Generalizing the formula to include the human body. 11.15 Surface/volume and surface/mass ratios. 11.16 The surface area of the human body. 11.17 Standard formulae for body surface area. 11.18 An exercise in comparing formulae containing exponents. Problems. 12. Body size, body build, fatness and muscularity: unit analysis as an aid to discovery. 12.1 Variations in fat-free mass with height and age. 12.2 The Rohrer index, or ‘height-weight index of build’. 12.3 The body mass index; estimating body fat from body mass and height. 12.4 Upper arm muscle: how its cross-sectional area varies with body height. 12.5 Weightlifting - and the cross-sectional area of muscle. 12.6 Estimating body fat from skinfold thickness measurements. 12.7 Postscript. PART IV. 13. Introducing time. 13.1 Frequency. 13.2 Speed and velocity. 13.3 Acceleration. 13.4 Rates of flow of substances carried in fluids. 13.5 Thinking about a formula. 13.6 The concept of renal clearance. 13.7 Relating the clearance formula for renal plasma flow to the Fick Principle. 13.8 Creatinine clearance as a measure of GFR, and a convenient formula for estimating it. Problems. PART V. 14. Force, pressure, energy, work and power. 14.1 Force and weight. 14.2 Pressure. 14.3 Columns of water, columns of blood. 14.4 Osmotic pressure and colloid osmotic pressure (oncotic pressure). 14.5 Energy and work. 14.6 Power. 14.7 An overview of units - from mass to pressure and power. Problems. 15. Lessons from another formula. 15.1 Poiseuille’s equation and viscosity. 15.2 Peripheral resistance. Problems. 16. Heat and temperature. 16.1 Temperature scales. 16.2 The temperature coefficient, Q10. 16.3 Heat capacity and specific heat. Problems. 17. Gases: dry and wet gas mixtures, partial pressures, gases in solution. 17.1 A reminder of units. 17.2 Natural variations in atmospheric pressure. 17.3 The gas laws. 17.4 A closer look at Eq. (17.1) and the universal gas constant, with attention to units. 17.5 Treatment of gas mixtures - percentages. 17.6 Treatment of gas mixtures - partial pressures, tensions. 17.7 Water vapour pressure. 17.8 ‘Standard temperature and pressure, dry’. 17.9 Dissolved O2 and CO2 in blood plasma and other fluids. Problems. PART VI. 18. Introduction to logarithms. 18.1 Definitions. 18.2 Rules for working with logarithms. 18.3 The usefulness of remembering log102. 18.4 Logarithmic scales on graphs. 18.5 What about units? 18.6 Natural logarithms. Problems. 19. Exponential time courses. 19.1 Use of semi-logarithmic plots. 19.2 Common complications. Problems. 20. Nernst equations in physiology and biochemistry: logarithms and ‘RT/zF’. 20.1 More on RT/zF. Problems. 21. pH - two definitions and a possible dilemma for teachers. 21.1 pH as -log[H+]. 21.2 The true definition of pH: pH as a number on a conventional scale. 21.3 The meaning of 10-pH. 21.4 Final comments. Problems. 22. Equilibrium constants, the Henderson-Hasselbalch equation, dose-response curves. 22.1 Equilibrium constants. 22.2 Concentrations or activities? 22.3 The Henderson-Hasselbalch equation. 22.4 Application of the Henderson-Hasselbalch equation to drugs. 22.5 The dependence of [AB] on [A] when ([B] + [AB]) is constant. 22.6 Concentration-response curves, dose-response curves. Problems. 23. Buffering and acid-base balance. 23.1 Non-bicarbonate buffering. 23.2 A link with dose-response curves. 23.3 Bicarbonate buffering. 23.4 CO2/HCO3- and non-bicarbonate buffers together. 23.5 The whole body: diet and the titratable acidity of urine. 23.6 Other aspects of acid-base balance. Problems. References. Appendix A. Basic mathematics and mathematical language. Appendix B. Some non-metric units. Appendix C. Notes. Appendix D. Solutions to problems. Index.

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Book SynopsisIntroducing Global Health: Practice, Policy, and Solutions is a contemporary overview of the major issues in global public health. The book explores how population health might be maximized with the right blend of health system, education, antipoverty, infectious disease, urban development, governance, and incentive-based policies. It covers topics critical for understanding the state of the world today, including wars for natural resources, the missing women phenomenon, and whether global aid really works. The book''s case studies focus on developing economies, mixed economies, and new emerging superpowers. Thematic chapters are interwoven with running motifs, such as the health risks and benefits associated with different totalitarian, capitalist, and market socialist economies. Moving beyond statistics, the book represents a major innovation in the teaching of global health by presenting technical concepts including the incidence and prevalence of disease within the contexTable of ContentsFigures and Tables ix The Authors xiii Introduction: An Overview of Global Health xv Part 1 The Basics of Global Health 1 1 A Very Brief History of Global Health Policy 3 Key Ideas 3 Health and Public Policy Through the Twentieth Century 4 The Age of Global Health Policy 11 The Fall of Global Governance 16 The Millennium Development Goals 19 An Alternative History 21 Love and Health in Modern Times 25 Summary 27 Key Terms 27 Discussion Questions 27 Further Reading 28 References 28 2 Case Studies in Development and Health 31 Key Ideas 31 The Puzzle of “Good” Development for Health 33 The Next Superpowers? Taking a Closer Look at Middle-Income Countries 37 Growth-Mediated Models 40 Support-Led Models 41 Toward a Happy Medium? 43 China’s Explosive Growth 45 Kerala’s Quality of Life 49 Chile Aims for a Balancing Act 52 Summary 56 Key Terms 56 Discussion Questions 56 Further Reading 57 References 57 Part 2 Global Health and the Art of Policy Making 61 3 The Global Burden of Disease 63 Key Ideas 63 Who Dies Where? 64 Counting Global Deaths (with an Eye Toward Saving Lives) 69 Dead Children Make for Bad Statistics 73 The Health Effects of Evil Genies 74 Quantifying the Global Burden of Disease 77 Cost-Effectiveness Analysis 81 Summary 83 Key Terms 84 Discussion Questions 84 Further Reading 84 References 84 4 Aid 87 Key Ideas 87 Different Types of Aid 88 The Aid Controversy 91 Models of Global Aid for Public Health 92 Argument: Aid Is Harmful 95 Argument: Aid Is Poorly Managed 97 Argument: Aid Is Misused 99 Argument: “Aid” Further Consolidates Power for the Powerful 101 Argument: All Is Well, Just Send More 102 Argument: We Are Making Progress, But the Hurdles Are High 102 Summary 104 Key Terms 105 Discussion Questions 105 Further Reading 106 References 106 5 Health Systems 109 Key Ideas 109 Health Care Delivery Systems 111 Health Care Payments 114 Health Care Markets 116 Health Care Delivery Systems in High-Income Countries 117 Health Care Delivery Systems in Low- and Middle-Income Countries 124 Pharmaceutical Spending 132 What Makes Us Healthy? 134 Summary 138 Key Terms 138 Discussion Questions 139 Further Reading 139 References 139 6 Social Policy and Global Health 143 Key Ideas 143 How Policies Are Made 144 Political Economy and Health 151 Lessons for Health-Optimizing Social Policies 164 Summary 165 Key Terms 166 Discussion Questions 166 Further Reading 166 References 166 7 A Closer Look at Three Political Economies: China, Kerala, and Chile 169 Key Ideas 169 China: Sustainable State of Development? 170 Kerala: Experiments with Radical Decentralization 176 Chile: A Precarious Third Way 181 Summary 190 Discussion Questions 190 Further Reading 191 References 191 8 Global Governance and Health 193 Key Ideas 193 The World Health Organization 194 The World Trade Organization 197 An Evolution of Global Governance 200 Summary 208 Key Terms 209 Discussion Questions 209 Further Reading 209 References 210 Part 3 Key Challenges in Global Health 213 9 Poverty 215 Key Ideas 215 Income and Health Across Nations 216 Definitions of Poverty 218 Why Do We Worry About Poverty in Public Health? 222 Poverty in Less-Developed Nations 228 Poverty and Health Among Wealthy Nations 232 The Complexities of Poverty 240 Summary 240 Key Terms 241 Discussion Questions 241 Further Reading 241 References 241 10 The Physical Environment and Disease 245 Key Ideas 245 Infectious Disease and Development 246 Malaria and Other Mosquito-Borne Illnesses 251 Air Pollution and Health 255 Outer-Ring Development and Health259 Climate Change and Health 262 Summary 267 Key Terms 267 Discussion Questions 267 Further Reading 268 References 268 11 The Social Environment and Disease 271 Key Ideas 271 The Ultimate Trifecta: Race, Class, and Gender 272 The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) 282 Tuberculosis 286 Social Networks and Chronic Disease 289 Individual Risk Behaviors, Urban Planning, and Health 292 Summary 297 Key Terms 297 Discussion Questions 298 Further Reading 298 References 298 12 Globalization, Internal Conflict, and the Resource Curse 303 Key Ideas 303 Globalization and Health 303 Spillover Effects of Poor Global Governance 307 Civil Conflict as a Public Health Problem 308 Resource Curses and Civil Conflict 310 Natural Resources and Civil War 316 Summary 319 Key Terms 320 Discussion Questions 320 Further Reading 321 References 321 13 Frontiers in Global Health 325 Key Ideas 325 The Many Levels of Health 328 Tidings, Good or Bad, Come in Clusters 331 Working with the System 333 A Rise in Targeted Social Policy Interventions 338 Innovations in Administration and Governance 347 Lessons on Social Policy Interventions 349 Summary 349 Key Terms 350 Discussion Questions 350 Further Reading 350 References 351 Index 357

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Book SynopsisThe new edition of Prevention Is Primary provides models, methods, and approaches for building health and equity in communities. This comprehensive book includes the theory, concepts, and models needed to harness social justice and practice primary prevention of unnecessary illness and injury. Ideal for students as well as practitioners, this thoroughly revised and updated second edition combines an overview of advances in the field with effective approaches in the current economic and health care climate. With contributions from noted experts, Prevention Is Primary shows practical applications of intervention science to social and health problems and issues facing at-risk and vulnerable groups. The book describes the overarching framework and principles guiding prevention efforts, including a focus on social justice and health equity, and community resilience. It explores the transition from prevention theory to implementation and practice and from interdisciplinary collaborTable of ContentsTables, Figures, and Exhibits. Acknowledgments. Foreword (Georges C. Benjamin). The Contributors. Introduction (Larry Cohen, Vivian Chávez and Sana Chehimi). Part One: Defining the Issues. 1 The Imperative for Primary Prevention (Larry Cohen and Sana Chehimi). 2 Achieving Health Equity and Social Justice (Wayne H. Giles and Leandris C. Liburd). Sidebar: Dolores Acevedo-Garcia, Nancy McArdle, Theresa L. Osypuk, Bonnie Lefkowitz and Barbara Krimgold. 3 Individual, Family, and Community Resilience (Bonnie Benard). Part Two: Key Elements of Effective Prevention Efforts. 4 Community Organizing for Health and Social Justice (Vivian Chávez, Meredith Minkler, Nina Wallerstein and Michael S. Spencer). 5 Working Collaboratively to Advance Prevention (Larry Cohen and Ashby Wolfe). Sidebars: Deborah Balfanz, Soowon Kim and Ellen Wu. 6 The Power of Local Communities to Foster Policy (Makani Themba-Nixon). 7 Using Media Advocacy to Influence Policy (Lori Dorfman). 8 The Impact of Corporate Practices on Health and Health Policy (Nicholas Freudenberg and Sandro Galea). 9 Primary Prevention and Program Evaluation (Daniel Perales). Part Three: Prevention in Context. 10 Preventing Injustices in Environmental Health and Exposures (Stephanie Ann Farquhar, Neha Patel and Molly Chidsey). Sidebars: Nancy M. Goff and Peter Murchie. 11 Health and the Built Environment (Howard Frumkin and Andrew L. Dannenberg). 12 Creating Healthy Food Environments to Prevent Chronic Disease (Leslie Mikkelsen, Catherine S. Erickson, Juliet Sims and Marion Nestle). 13 A Public Health Approach to Preventing Violence (Deborah Prothrow-Stith and Rachel A. Davis). Sidebar: Dionne Smith Coker-Appiah, Mysha R. Wynn and Donald Parker. 14 The Limits of Behavioral Interventions for HIV Prevention (Dan Wohlfeiler and Jonathan M. Ellen). 15 Mental Health in the Realm of Primary Prevention (Anita M. Wells, GiShawn A. Mance and M. Taqi Tirmazi). Sidebar: Joseph P. Gone. Name Index. Subject Index.

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Book SynopsisPraise for Partners in Health The combination of visionary leadership, knowledge, and superb timing makes this book a winner. Health care is evolving toward collaboration and integration, and this book is essential reading for anyone wishing to change the relationships between hospitals and physicians. ?Donald W. Fisher, PhD, president and CEO, the American Medical Group Association This book is a must-read for anyone committed to a high-performance health system. It spells out the practical steps that will move us toward an accessible, coordinated, patient-centered system of care. Its recommendations for payment and regulatory reform underscore the urgency of comprehensive health reform if the current misaligned incentives are to be changed to support those on the frontlines in providing the best care with prudent stewardship of resources. ?Karen Davis, PhD, president, The Commonwealth Fund Closer physician-hospital integration would lead to higher quality careTable of ContentsThe Editors. The Contributors. 1 Introduction and Vision (Francis J. Crosson and Laura A. Tollen). 2 History of Physician-Hospital Collaboration: Obstacles and Opportunities (Lawton R. Burns, Jeff C. Goldsmith and Ralph W. Muller). 3 Achieving the Vision: Structural Change (Stephen M. Shortell, Lawrence P. Casalino and Elliott S. Fisher). 4 Achieving the Vision: Payment Reform (Stuart Guterman and Anthony Shih). 5 Achieving the Vision: Operational Challenges and Improvement (Bruce Genovese). 6 Overcoming Barriers to Improved Collaboration and Alignment: Legal and Regulatory Issues (Robert F. Leibenluft and William M. Sage). 7 Overcoming Barriers to Improved Collaboration and Alignment: Governance Issues (Jeffrey Alexander, Gary Young and Commentary by James DeNuccio). 8 Overcoming Barriers to Improved Collaboration and Alignment: Cultural Issues (Katherine A. Schneider). 9 Special Issues for Net Hospitals and Clinics (Benjamin K. Chu). 10 Special Issues for Academic Medical Centers (David Posch and Commentary Darrell G. Kirch) 11 What Needs to Happen Next? (Francis J. Crosson). Index.

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Book SynopsisThe fourth edition of the book that has become a classic in the field offers a comprehensive review of the management and operation of health care food service departments.Table of ContentsTables, Figures, and Exhibits iv Foreword vii Preface ix Acknowledgments x The Author xi Introduction xiii Chapter 1 Foodservice Industry: An Overview 1 Part One Management of the Foodservice Department 19 Chapter 2 Leadership: Managing for Change 21 Chapter 3 Marketing and Revenue-Generating Services 37 Chapter 4 Quality Management 51 Chapter 5 Planning and Decision Making 71 Chapter 6 Organization and Time Management 95 Chapter 7 Communication 127 Chapter 8 Human Resource Management: Laws for Employment and the Employment Process 145 Chapter 9 Human Resource Management: Other Needed Skills 169 Chapter 10 Management Information Systems 189 Chapter 11 Control Function and Financial Management 207 Part Two Operation of the Foodservice Department 237 Chapter 12 Environmental Issues and Sustainability 239 Chapter 13 Microbial, Chemical, and Physical Hazards: Temperature Control 261 Chapter 14 HACCP, Health Inspections, Environmental Sanitation, Food Code, and Pest Control 285 Chapter 15 Safety, Security, and Emergency Preparedness 311 Chapter 16 Menu Planning 343 Chapter 17 Product Selection 367 Chapter 18 Purchasing 405 Chapter 19 Receiving, Storage, and Inventory Control 429 Chapter 20 Food Production 447 Appendix 20.1 A Culinary Glossary 486 Chapter 21 Distribution and Service 489 Chapter 22 Facility Design, Equipment Selection, and Maintenance 507 References 541 Index 553

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Book SynopsisThis text combines an examination of how the physical environment affects our health with a description of how public health and urban planning can work together to create environments that improve human health and well-being.Trade Review“An exceptional book for professionals and students alike. Planning, community health, and design issues are nested in well structured sections. The author does an incredibly good job documenting the sources of both historical and contemporary aspects of such a wide ranging subject matter.” —Robert Voigt, in Civic Blogger “Written in an easy-to-understand style, The Built Environment and Public Health by Russell P. Lopez contains a wealth of information. The data supplied substantiate the author’s concern that public health is definitely affected by the environment that we have built for ourselves… a must-read for all who work in public health.” —Dorothea M. Volzer, MFA, in Florida Journal of Environmental Health Table of ContentsPreface xi The Author xv Part One Background and History 1 Introduction to the Built Environment and Health 3 Dimensions of the Environment 4 Is the Built Environment Really an Environmental Factor? 6 How to Evaluate the Built Environment? 7 Public Perceptions and Assumptions Regarding the Built Environment 8 Cross-Disciplinary Nature of the Study of the Built Environment 9 Placing the Analysis of the Built Environment into a Broader Context 11 Influences on the Built Environment 13 2 History 17 The Pre-Industrial Era 18 The Era of Industrialization and Urbanization: 1825–1930 19 Reform Movements, New Technologies, and Changes in Urban Planning and Architecture: 1825–1930 25 Later Reforms and New Initiatives 1930–1980 32 The Current Era: 1980–2010 and Beyond 38 Part Two Community Design 3 Planning and Urban Design 43 Demographic, Economic, and Social Trends 44 Land Use and Planning Controls 48 Metropolitan Structure and Health 54 4 Transportation Policies 67 Current Patterns of Transportation in the United States 68 Automobiles and Health 73 Highways and Health 77 Mass Transit and Health 78 Bike Safety and Infrastructure 81 Walking and Health 82 5 Healthy Housing and Housing Assistance Programs 91 The Housing Problem 92 The Regulatory Framework 93 6 Infrastructure and Natural Disasters 115 Natural Disasters: An Introduction 116 Natural Disaster Response 125 Part Three Environmental Media 7 Indoor and Outdoor Air Quality 137 Overview 137 Land Use, the Built Environment, and Air Quality 139 Air Pollutants 141 Air Pollution–Associated Health Conditions 149 8 Water 155 Impact of Water on Health 155 Infrastructure 157 Drinking Water 159 9 Food, Nutrition, and Food Security 171 Foodborne Illnesses 172 Food Insecurity 174 Environmental Effects of Farming and Food Production 182 Part Four Population Health 10 Vulnerable Populations 193 The Built Environment and Vulnerability 195 The Definition of Race 195 Poverty 200 Children and Environmental Health 203 The Elderly and the Built Environment 205 Persons with Disabilities 207 11 Mental Health, Stressors, and Health Care Environments 209 The Beginnings 210 Biophilia 212 The Role of Stressors and Allostatic Load 219 12 Social Capital 227 Theory and Historical Beginnings 228 Measuring Social Capital 231 Improving Social Capital 236 13 Environmental Justice 247 The Environmental Justice Movement 248 A History of the Environmental Justice Movement 249 Disproportionate Burden 256 Additional Limitations of Environmental Justice Actions 262 Lessons 265 Part Five Tools and Applications 14 Assessment Tools and Data Sources 269 Tools to Inform Decision Making 270 Information Tools 275 15 Health Policy and Programs 287 Public Health Interventions 289 Community Interventions 292 School-Based Interventions 293 Individual Level Interventions 296 Legal Basis for Built Environment Regulation 297 Inserting Health into City General Plans 298 16 Sustainability 301 Defining Sustainability 302 Sustainability and Equity 303 Measures of Sustainability 304 The Local Sustainability Movement 307 The Role of Environmental Design in Sustainability 308 Global Climate Change and Greenhouse Gases 316 Glossary 321 References 329 Index 401

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Book SynopsisThis book makes a great leap in the conceptualization of transdisciplinary approaches, as well as provides concrete examples in practice, teaching, policy, and research. ?From the Foreword by Edward F. Lawlor, dean and the William E. Gordon Distinguished Professor, the Brown School; and founding director, Institute for Public Health at Washington University in St. Louis The complexity of public health and social problems is becoming more challenging. Understanding and designing solutions for these problems requires perspectives from multiple disciplines and fields as well as cross-disciplinary research and practice teams. Transdisciplinary Public Health fills a void in the literature and offers a comprehensive text that introduces transdisciplinary methods as a means for providing an innovative tool set for problem-solving in public health research and practice. With contributions from leading experts, Transdisciplinary Public Health offers Table of ContentsFigures and Tables ix Foreword xi Edward F Lawlor Preface xiii Debra Haire-Joshu and Timothy D McBride The Editors xix The Contributors xxi Part 1 Defining Transdisciplinary Research and Education 1 1 Transdisciplinary Public Health: Definitions, Core Characteristics, and Strategies for Success 3 Daniel Stokols, Kara L Hall, Amanda L Vogel 2 Transdisciplinary Training and Education 31 Sarah Gehlert, Teri Browne 3 Competencies in Transdisciplinary Public Health Education 53 Lauren D Arnold, J Aaron Hipp, Anne Sebert Kuhlmann, Elizabeth Budd 4 Measuring Success: An Evaluation Framework for Transdisciplinary Public Health 79 Douglas A Luke, Sarah Moreland-Russell, Stephanie Herbers Part 2 Cross-Cutting Themes in Transdisciplinary Research 99 5 Transdisciplinary Approaches: Sorting Out the Socioeconomic Determinants of Poverty and Health 101 Timothy D McBride, Lisa M Pollack, Abigail R Barker, Leah M Kemper 6 Transdisciplinary Public Policy: The Roles of Law and Public Health in Creating Public Policy 125 Sidney D Watson 7 Sociocultural Perspectives Applied to Transdisciplinary Public Health 141 Bradley P Stoner 8 Evidence-Based Decision Making: Transdisciplinary Problem Solving to Improve the Health of the Public 155 Ross C Brownson Part 3 Transdisciplinary Practice: Case Studies in Domestic Health 187 9 Transdisciplinary Methods in the Prevention and Control of Maternal-Child Obesity 189 Debra Haire-Joshu 10 Transdisciplinary Approaches to Violence and Injury Prevention and Treatment among Children and Youth 217 Melissa Jonson-Reid, Nancy Weaver, Brett Drake, John Constantino 11 Transdisciplinary Problem Solving for Integrating Public Health and Social Service Systems to Address Health Disparities 249 Matthew W Kreuter, Debbie Pfeiffer Part 4 Transdisciplinary Practice: Case Studies in Global Health 265 12 Transdisciplinary Problem Solving for Global Hunger and Undernutrition 267 Lora Iannotti 13 Implementing Public Health Interventions in Developing Countries: A Transdisciplinary Solution for Safe Drinking Water in Rural India 297 Ramesh Raghavan, Ravikumar Chockalingam, Zeena Johar 14 Indoor Air Pollution and Respiratory Health: A Transdisciplinary Vision 319 Gautam Yadama, Kenneth B Schechtman, Pratim Biswas, Mario Castro, Nishesh Chalise Name Index 341 Subject Index 363

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Book SynopsisIn The Strategic Health Care Manager , George H. Stevens reveals how rising competition, widespread cost control measures, and other trends have profoundly changed the way health care is delivered and managed - and have led to new responsibilities, roles and performance expectations for health care managers.

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Book SynopsisPrepare for final and penultimate-year exams with EMQs and SBAs for Medical Finals Five complete practice question papers for realistic preparation Each question paper contains 60 Single Best Answer questions and 30 Extended Matching Questions Includes topic index so that readers can target problem areas Detailed explanation of the knowledge behind both correct and incorrect answers EMQs and SBAs for Medical Finals is perfect for the student looking to test their knowledge and identify weak subject areas. Practice questions cover all key topics in medicine, with the subject balance reflecting the weighting in real exams. For this edition, all content has been updated and focused to remain relevant for today''s finalists and the exams they will face. Inclusion of the topic index means that the title allows for both wide-ranging and focused revision. All in all, an essential resource for anyone facing their finTrade Review"This book is a valuable resource for students wishing to test their readiness for examination and target weak subject areas." (Book News, 1 October 2011)Table of ContentsPreface vi Abbreviations vii Part 1 Practice Papers 1 Paper 1 Questions 3 Paper 2 Questions 28 Paper 3 Questions 59 Paper 4 Questions 87 Paper 5 Questions 110 Part 2 Answers to Practice Papers 135 Paper 1 Answers 137 Paper 2 Answers 170 Paper 3 Answers 215 Paper 4 Answers 246 Paper 5 Answers 278 Topic index 313

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Book SynopsisEase the pressure of the GP Vocational Training Scheme Stage 2 exams, and ensure your progress to Stage 3, with this complete preparation guide Featuring all question types from the exam, including SBAs, EMQs and Professional Dilemmas, and covering a range of medical and surgical specialties, this invaluable guide not only tests appropriate application of clinical knowledge, but encourages doctors to think logically and ethically - vital in recognising appropriate behaviour in professional dilemmas. The opening section provides handy advice on how to prepare for the exam and explains what the question setters are looking for - the key to success in Stage 2. Based on the contributors' own experience of typical problems and dilemmas, and including thorough explanations for each answer, this book is not just an exam crammer, but a valuable learning tool.Table of ContentsContributors, vii The Complete GPVTS Stage 2 Preparation Guide, viii How to Use This Book, xi Exam Technique, xiii Part 1 Clinical Problem Solving Questions: SBAs and EMQs, 1 1 Cardiology, 3 Questions, 3 Answers, 9 2 Dermatology, 14 Questions, 14 Answers, 19 3 Ear, Nose and Throat, 23 Questions, 23 Answers, 29 4 Endocrinology and Metabolic Disease, 34 Questions, 34 Answers, 40 5 Gastroenterology and Nutrition, 45 Questions, 45 Answers, 52 6 Genetics, 59 Questions, 59 Answers, 65 7 Haematology, 70 Questions, 70 Answers, 75 8 Immunology, 79 Questions, 79 Answers, 85 9 Infectious Diseases, 89 Questions, 89 Answers, 94 10 Musculoskeletal Disorders, 99 Questions, 99 Answers, 106 11 Neurology, 112 Questions, 112 Answers, 118 12 Ophthalmology, 122 Questions, 122 Answers, 127 13 Paediatrics, 132 Questions, 132 Answers, 138 14 Psychiatry, 142 Questions, 142 Answers, 148 15 Renal Medicine, 152 Questions, 152 Answers, 159 16 Reproductive Health, 164 Questions, 164 Answers, 169 17 Respiratory Medicine, 173 Questions, 173 Answers, 181 18 Urology, 187 Questions, 187 Answers, 194 Part 2 Professional Dilemmas, 199 19 Ranking Questions, 201 Answers, 209 20 Multiple Best Answer Questions, 217 Answers, 222 Index, 225

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Book SynopsisRheumatology Practice in Occupational Therapy: Promoting Lifestyle Management is a valuable new handbook focusing on rheumatology, a core area of occupational therapy practice. It provides practical guidance to help occupational therapists treat and manage rheumatic conditions in both clinical and community settings and emphasises a contemporary client-centred' approach as a fundamental requirement of effective and rewarding occupational therapy practice. Drawing upon personal, clinical and theoretical perspectives, Rheumatology Practice in Occupational Therapy equips the reader with an understanding of the relevant practical skills and of the clinical reasoning required to modify and apply these skills to the needs of individual people. Written by experts from occupational therapy, sociology and psychology, this book addresses the need to adapt occupational therapy interventions to each client's own experience of living with a rheumatic condition and developsTrade Review“Overall, it is easy to read and is a great book to ensure you are using the latest evidence-based approaches.” (British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 1 January 2014)Table of ContentsNotes on contributors ix Preface xi 1 Living with a rheumatic disease: the personal perspective 1 Lynne Goodacre and Margaret McArthur 1.1 Introduction 1 1.2 Living with a rheumatic condition 3 1.3 Developing new skills and learning 9 1.4 Summary 12 2 Living with rheumatic diseases: the theoretical perspective 13 Margaret McArthur and Lynne Goodacre 2.1 Introduction 13 2.2 Understanding and being understood 13 2.3 The impact of a rheumatic condition on a person’s sense of self 17 2.4 The experience of living with a rheumatic condition 23 2.5 Acknowledge the loss, promote the gain 25 3 Understanding rheumatic diseases: the occupational therapy perspective 29 Margaret McArthur 3.1 The centrality of occupation 29 3.2 Occupational potential 30 3.3 Occupational science 30 3.4 Understanding need 31 3.5 Occupational identity 33 3.6 Occupational adaptation 34 3.7 Occupational balance 34nts 3.8 Occupational gain 35 3.9 Clinical reasoning – the thinking that guides practice 36 3.10 Personal perspectives 39 4 Managing rheumatic conditions: the policy perspective 47 Lynne Goodacre 4.1 Introduction 47 4.2 Increase in the ageing population 47 4.3 Increase in long-term conditions 49 4.4 The delivery of efficient client-centred approaches to health and social care 56 4.5 Shaping policy to meet the needs of people with rheumatic conditions 58 4.6 Conclusions 59 5 Occupational therapy assessment and outcome measurement 63 Annette Sands and Lynne Goodacre 5.1 Introduction 63 5.2 Outcome measurement: the policy context 64 5.3 The occupational therapy assessment process 65 5.4 Commonly used data-collection tools 67 5.5 Factors influencing the choice of data-collection tool 72 5.6 Summary 77 6 Psychological approaches to understanding and managing rheumatic conditions 81 Deborah Harrison 6.1 Introduction 81 6.2 Health psychology and biopsychosocial perspectives 81 6.3 Coping with illness 83 6.4 Transactional model of stress 83 6.5 Self-efficacy and hardiness 85 6.6 Locus of control 86 6.7 Crisis theory 87 6.8 Coping styles 90 6.9 Moving beyond coping: hope 91 6.10 Conclusion 91 7 Approaches to promoting behaviour change 95 Sarah Drake 7.1 Introduction 95 7.2 Relevance to occupational therapists 96 7.3 Health behaviour change 96 7.4 Social Cognition theories 97 7.5 Implications for practice 98 7.6 Implications for practice 100 7.7 Motivational interviewing 101 7.8 Clinical example of the TTM 101 7.9 Limitations of the TTM 107 7.10 Conclusion 108 8 Joint protection 111 Alison Hammond 8.1 Introduction 111 8.2 What is joint protection? 111 8.3 The aims of joint protection 112 8.4 Why and when to use joint protection 112 8.5 Joint protection and energy conservation principles 114 8.6 Understanding and perceptions of joint protection 115 8.7 Goals of joint protection education 116 8.8 Evidence for joint protection effectiveness 117 8.9 The Looking After Your Joints Programme and the Lifestyle Management for Arthritis Programme 119 8.10 Teaching joint protection 119 8.11 Practical techniques 125 8.12 Conclusion 130 9 Pain management 133 Lucy Reeve and Margaret McArthur 9.1 Introduction 133 9.2 What is pain? 133 9.3 Pain and rheumatology 134 9.4 Living with rheumatic pain 135 9.5 Pain assessment 136 9.6 Pain and occupational therapy 138 9.7 Patient education 139 9.8 Fatigue management 139 9.9 Sleep hygiene 140 9.10 Medication 140 9.11 Changing behaviour 140 9.12 Vocational rehabilitation 142 9.13 Psychological interventions 143 9.14 Social support 146 9.15 Summary 147 10 Maintaining independence 153 Jill Jepson and Lynne Goodacre 10.1 Introduction 153 10.2 What is assistive technology? 154 10.3 Reducing non-use of assistive technology 154 10.4 Matching person and technology 156 10.5 Applying the MPT to AT for people with rheumatic conditions 157 10.6 Assistive technology outcomes 160 10.7 Methods of obtaining AT 161 10.8 Commonly used AT and home adaptations for people with rheumatic conditions 163 10.9 Inclusive design 163 10.10 Conclusion 166 11 Vocational rehabilitation 171 Lucy Reeve and Janet Harkess 11.1 Introduction 171 11.2 The importance of employment 172 11.3 The current context of vocational rehabilitation 172 11.4 Predictors of work disability and work instability 173 11.5 Vocational rehabilitation 174 11.6 Occupational therapy and vocational rehabilitation 175 11.7 Work evaluation and monitoring 177 11.8 Condition-specific interventions 178 11.9 Work-specific interventions 178 11.10 Advice on redeployment or retraining 180 11.11 Counselling and advocacy 180 11.12 Post-work support 181 11.13 Summary 182 12 Rheumatology splinting 189 Sarah Bradley and Jo Adams 12.1 Introduction 189 12.2 Splinting rationale 189 12.3 Clinical decision making 193 12.4 Approaches to evaluation 199 12.5 Splint construction 201 12.6 Summary 203 13 Maintaining a sense of self 207 Penny Sloane and Lynne Goodacre 13.1 Introduction 207 13.2 Impact of rheumatic conditions on body experience 209 13.3 An introduction to strategies to increase confidence in personal presentation and clothing style 212 13.4 The impact of rheumatic conditions on personal and sexual relationships 215 13.5 Conclusions 217 Index 221

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Book SynopsisThis is a book for any care provider - from advanced students and nurses to residents and even specialists - who needs to master the interpretation of ECGs, especially while on the spot at the point of care. This easy-to-use, visual guide takes a novel approach, foregrounding the visual clues or keys that readers can learn to recognize in ECGs and thus make rapid decisions about next steps at the point of care. The comparatively minimal text focuses on must-know information about the underlying cause of ECG abnormalities. This title is also available as a mobile App from MedHand Mobile Libraries. Buy it now from Google Play or the MedHand Store.Table of ContentsMaster Algorithm, viii Preface, ix Chapter 1: Technical Issues, 1 Chapter 2: The Normal ECG, 13 Chapter 3: ECG Interpretation Basics, 32 Chapter 4: Abnormal Repolarization: ST Segment Elevation, 37 Chapter 5: Abnormal Repolarization: ST Segment Depression, 98 Chapter 6: Abnormal Repolarization: T Wave Changes and the QT Interval, 117 Chapter 7: Abnormal Depolarization: A Prominent R Wave in V1 , 148 Chapter 8: Abnormal Depolarization: Wide QRS Complexes and Other Depolarization Abnormalities, 184 Chapter 9: Arrhythmias: Normal Rates and Skips, 214 Chapter 10: Arrhythmias: Bradycardia, 241 Chapter 11: Arrhythmias: Tachycardia, 272 Chapter 12: Arrhythmias: Pacing, 334 Chapter 13: Clinical Use of the ECG: Stress Testing, 347 Chapter 14: Clinical Use of the ECG: Clinical Problems, 366 Appendices, 380 Index, 387

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Book SynopsisThis book will be anaffordable,highly practical handbook on hepatology, aimed at residents/trainees in gastroenterology, GI nurses, and recently qualified consultants to use as a quick reference when managingpatients presenting with possible or overt liver disease. It will be of particular use for those GI internists/residents who have an interest specifically in hepatology. It does not aim to be a specialist textbook, but a shorter, 250pp guide that provideskey clinical information on each area of hepatology in an accessible form. Extracting relevant material from large reference textbooks can be very time consuming and for this reason, information in this handbook will be presented succinctly in a style suitable for quick reference and easy understanding. The chief emphasis will be on the clinical assessment and management of these patients, and all the major areas of liver disease will be covered, from liver cirrhosis to viral hepatitis, to autoimmune liver failure.Table of ContentsContributors ix Foreword xii Preface xiv Acknowledgements xv 1 Clinical Assessment of the Adult Patient with Possible Liver Disease: History and Physical Examination 1 Eberhard L. Renner 2 Initial Diagnosis, Workup, and Assessment of Severity of Liver Disease in Adults 13 Scott K. Fung 3 Pediatric Liver Disease: An Approach to Diagnosis and Assessment of Severity 31 Binita M. Kamath and Vicky L. Ng 4 Natural History of the Cirrhotic Patient 45 Jordan J. Feld 5 Management of Complications of Portal Hypertension in Adults and Children: Variceal Hemorrhage 63 E. Jenny Heathcote Simon Ling and Binita M. Kamath 6 Management of Ascites 80 David K.H. Wong 7 Masses in the Liver 93 Morris Sherman 8 Chronic Portosystemic Encephalopathy and Its Management 112 Leslie B. Lilly and Binita M. Kamath 9 Indications for Liver Transplantation in Adults and Children 119 Nazia Selzner and Vicky L. Ng 10 Management of Fulminant Hepatic Failure 132 Leslie B. Lilly 11 Management of the Complications of Liver Transplantation 142 Eberhard L. Renner and Eve A. Roberts 12 Acute Viral Hepatitis in Adults and Children: Hepatitis A, B, C, D, E, and Others 162 Hemant A. Shah and Eve A. Roberts 13 Chronic Viral Hepatitis in Adults and Children: Hepatitis B 185 Jordan J. Feld 14 Chronic Viral Hepatitis in Adults and Children: Hepatitis C 208 Eberhard L. Renner and Eve A. Roberts 15 Liver Disease Due to Alcohol 226 Nazia Selzner 16 Drug-Induced Liver Disease 235 Leslie B. Lilly 17 Obesity and Its Hepatic Complications in Adults and Children 244 E. Jenny Heathcote and Eve A. Roberts 18 HIV-Associated Liver Diseases 263 David K.H. Wong 19 Autoimmune Hepatitis in Adults and Children 281 Gideon M. Hirschfield 20 Chronic Cholestatic Liver Disease and Its Management in Adults and Children 297 Gideon M. Hirschfield and Binita M. Kamath 21 Vascular Diseases of the Liver 315 Jordan J. Feld 22 Approach to Metabolic and Storage Diseases 329 Hemant A. Shah and Eve A. Roberts 23 Wilson Disease: When Should You Think of Wilson Disease? 352 Eve A. Roberts and Gideon M. Hirschfield 24 Liver Disease in Pregnant Women 367 E. Jenny Heathcote 25 Cystic Disease of the Liver 383 Morris Sherman 26 An Internist’s Approach to Radiologic Examination of the Liver 396 Anthony E. Hanbidge and Korosh Khalili Index 413

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Book SynopsisHelps you identify problems and introduce solutions early for an ideal aesthetic result. This book aims to guide the practitioner in the art of interceptive management of the developing dentition. It covers growth of the jaws and tooth development, and explains the correct timing of interceptive management.Table of ContentsPreface vii 1 Introduction 1 What do we know about growth? 1 Growth and development of the jaws 2 2 Recognising the problem 9 Is an attractive smile important? 9 3 Investigations 15 Radiographs 15 Cone-beam computed tomography 17 Study models 23 Photographs 24 What is the scope of orthodontic change? 24 4 Managing the developing occlusion 29 Thumb/finger sucking 29 Crowding of the permanent lateral incisors 32 Serial extraction: a modern approach 39 The unerupted central incisor 42 Submerging deciduous second molars 45 Fusion, gemination, and morphology issues 47 Upper labial fraenum 48 Leeway space and the use of intraoral anchorage arches 50 Sagittal problems: Class II 51 Sagittal problems: Class III 59 Ectopic and impacted teeth 62 Missing teeth 65 Index 75

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