Health Risk Assessment category: 45 books
by Stephen J. Mayall, Anjan Swapu Banerjee
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
Therapeutic risk management of medicines is an authoritative and practical guide on developing, implementing and evaluating risk management plans for medicines globally. It explains how to assess risks and benefit-risk balance, design and roll out risk minimisation and pharmacovigilance activities,...
To Your Health
How to Understand What Research Tells Us about Risk
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2005
The public is bombarded daily with reports about risk factors, many conflicting with each other, others accepted as "scientific truth" for awhile, then scientifically disproved, yet others questionable that later prove to be true. Physicians are faced with trying to make sense of those conflicting...
Assessing Performance
Designing, Scoring, and Validating Performance Tasks
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2008
A comprehensive resource for assessment practitioners, this book provides step-by-step guidance for developing, administering, scoring, and validating a range of performance tasks, including literacy and other types of proficiency assessments. The authors explore how to establish the purpose of the...
Prevent, Survive, Thrive
Every Woman's Guide to Optimal Breast Care
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Are you doing everything you can to make sure your breasts are healthy?If this question gives you pause, you’re not alone. Confusing media and conflicting advice surrounding breast health can make it challenging to know what’s best.In the United States this year, more than 40,000 women will die from...
Less Medicine, More Health
7 Assumptions That Drive Too Much Medical Care
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
The author of the highly acclaimed Overdiagnosed describes seven widespread assumptions that encourage excessive, often ineffective, and sometimes harmful medical care.
You might think the biggest problem in medical care is that it costs too much. Or that health insurance is too expensive, too...
by Daniel Kollek
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
The text is geared towards health care workers such as adult and pediatric physicians and nurses, paramedics and health care facility administrators and will cover disaster preparedness for health care facilities such as hospitals and long-term care homes. The content of the book addresses preparedness...
Translational Toxicology and Therapeutics
Windows of Developmental Susceptibility in Reproduction and Cancer
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
Written by leading research scientists, this book integrates current knowledge of toxicology and human health through coverage of environmental toxicants, genetic / epigenetic mechanisms, and carcinogenicity.
Provides information on lifestyle choices that can reduce cancer risk
Offers a systematic...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2009
This groundbreaking book covers every aspect of deadly toxic chemicals used as weapons of mass destruction and employed in conflicts, warfare and terrorism. Including findings from experimental as well as clinical studies, this one-of-a-kind handbook is prepared in a very user- friendly format that...
Healthy Markets?
The New Competition in Medical Care
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
When federal and state policy makers’ efforts to enact sweeping health care reform in the mid-1990s ended in stalemate, the private sector unleashed initiatives that have affected virtually every aspect of health care. With updated essays first published in issues of the Journal of Health Politics,...
The Secrets of Medical Decision Making
How to Avoid Becoming a Victim of the Health Care Machine
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2006
We are all patients at some time. Is the medical industry giving us the best treatment possible, at the best price? We all know that it isn't. This new book shows what goes on behind the scenes of the current medical care and how it impacts the patient. Dr. Reznik describes actual cases from his clinical...
The Social Medicine Reader, Second Edition
Volume 3: Health Policy, Markets, and Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2005
Duke University Press is pleased to announce the second edition of the bestselling Social Medicine Reader. The Reader provides a survey of the challenging issues facing today’s health care providers, patients, and caregivers by bringing together moving narratives of illness, commentaries by physicians,...
by Sheila Hardy, Richard Gray, Jacqueline White
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2015
This practical guide, written by experts in mental health nursing, is designed to support healthcare practitioners in checking the physical health of people with severe mental illness (SMI).As life expectancy is reduced by 12 to 19 years in people with SMI, this patient group should receive a physical...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
This important collection of essays, originating in a 1989 conference on the disadvantaged in American health care, provides incisive commentary on U.S. health care policy and politics. Examining public responses to health crises and analyzing the political logic of the American community, this volume...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2011
Patient safety is an issue which in recent years has grown to prominence in a number of countries’ political and health service agendas. The World Health Organisation has launched the World Alliance for Patient Safety. Millions of patients, according to the Alliance, endure prolonged ill-health,...