Kategoria BISAC: Medical >> Allied Health Services - General

Can I become a doctor? Should I? How can I find out? What is it like to be in medical school? What other careers in the health field might be right for me? What are the satisfactions and pitfalls of a career in medicine?

For anyone pondering a career in medicine or a related health profession, this book is an invaluable guide. It contains the firsthand advice of men and women working in the health field today. These diverse professionals describe how and why they made their career choices and what the journey has been like. They tell their stories with candor and humor, sharing their...

Learning disabilities is a subject that is usually associated with school-aged children where the research and intervention strategies are well known. Much less research has been done for assessing and diagnosing older adolescents and adults in this area. This work is an effort to provide a comprehensive review of what we know about certain of these disorders, specifically:

• language-based learning disorders;
• nonverbal learning disorders;
• high-functioning autism;
• attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder; and
• mathematics disorders
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Take charge of your life with the only weight loss book that lets you choose what you eat, when you eat, and how much you eat. Here is the fully revised and updated version of the book that has helped hundreds of thousands of readers lose weight by making them the boss. By using the Goors unique Fat Budget system, anyone can create a personal plan for permanent weight loss. It s not a fad diet, it's a whole new way of lifeone that s easy, even enjoyable, to follow. This completely revised edition of Choose to Lose features: The real truth about the unreported dangers of the new high-protein...

Written by a multi-disciplinary group of leading practitioners, Sexual Offending Against Children provides an account of the practice, policy and management issues involved in the assessment and treatment of adult and adolescent sexual offenders against children. Written for practitioners from all disciplines concerned with this area of work, it is underpinned by a strong theoretical base, giving a practical and detailed description of the management of sexual offenders, as well as the potential impact on service providers.

This textbook provides the reader with an insight into the needs of children with both physical and learning disabilities, particularly within an acute care setting. It considers the principles that underpin the fundamental aspects of care delivery to children with special needs. The key areas of knowledge and practical skills covered include:

• the social and historical context
• challenging assumptions
• best practice for giving news to parents
• communication methods
• play and movement
• nutrition and feeding
• boundary setting...

First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

In Western societies, 'lifestyle' as an explanation for health and illness has become increasingly popular.

Lifestyle in Medicine explores the ambiguity of the term 'lifestyle' and the way it is conceived and applied within medicine. Based on real doctor-patient consultations and in-depth interviews with doctors, the book discusses:

• the history behind current medical use of lifestyle
• the variable usage of the 'lifestyle' concept in different medical settings
• critical writings and recent shifts in sociological thinking about lifestyle
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Written by leading international experts this book helps students and practitioners to better understand and cater for the needs of our aging population. It examines how services can be provided to meet the expectations and needs of a growing population of aging citizens within a cost-effective, social justice and positive aging framework. It identifies how resources allocated to aged care can be distributed equitably to better meet the demands associated with housing, retirement, service provision and care, and how health promotion principles can contribute to a healthy older population....

In this book, a team of international contributors examine bodies, leakage and boundaries, illuminating the contradictions and dilemmas in women's healthcare.

Using the concept of pollution, this book highlights how women and health issues are categorised, and health workers and women are confined to roles and places defined as socially appropriate. The book explores in-depth current and historical practices, such as:

• childbirth and midwifery practice
• policies and social practices around breastfeeding
• gynaecological nursing, female incontinence and...

This text provides all of the basicinformation on anatomy and physiology necessary to entry-level nursing andcomplementary therapist students. Previous edition's material has been expanded, as suggested by reviewers.To-the-point content is augmented with basic line diagrams. More pathology information and relevant references to complementary therapies are provided where possible.

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Where do you want to go? You might already be working in the health care field and may be looking to expand your skills. You might be setting out on a new career path. Or, you might want to learn more about exciting opportunities in health care management.

Wherever you want to go, Health Care Economics will help you get there. Easy-to-read, practical, and up-to-date, this text not only helps you learn fundamental health care economic concepts; it also helps you master the core competencies and...

Today many polio survivors are finding themselves with new symptoms reminiscent of the earlier days when they first had polio-new symptoms that trigger frightening memories, along with anxieties that had long been repressed. Dr. Backman, a Clinical Psychologist, examines polio survivors' psychological reactions to their earlier experiences and to their current struggles with the late effects of polio. "The Post-Polio Experience" includes guidelines for polio survivors on:

Coping with the emotional and interpersonal aspects of Post-Polio Syndrome Managing stress and depression Negotiating...

Practitioners of all professions recognize the need and importance of collaboration, yet many find it far from easy to achieve. This book provides insights and understandings into the complexities of collaborative relationships so that individuals and groups can take constructive action to detect hindrances and attempt to overcome them.

The heightened interest in new ways of working together in health and social care has merited a new edition of this excellent text. Four new contributors have enlarged on the pioneering work of the late Sally Hornby, adding new material on collaborative...

Despite the long and distinguished history of health services research in the United States, this unparalleled work is the first comprehensive account of what health services research aims to do and what the research has actually accomplished. Specially commissioned essays by a roster of leading scholars offer an incisive look at the current potential of the field.

While many American's have found temporary success with low-carbohydrate dieting, few maintain their weight loss. Drawing on proven medical research and years of successful clinical use, Your Fat Can Make You Thin clearly explains how to regulate the body's serotonin levels to maintain energy and health while burning excess fat--and keeping it off for good.

AIDS: Setting a Feminist Agenda" presents an overview of the important issues raised for feminist theory and practice by the HIV/AIDS epidemic, and outlines the direction in which feminist debates about the subject are developing. It makes essential links between feminism and HIV/AIDS work, and not only demonstrates that AIDS is a feminist issue, but also suggests areas where feminism is long overdue. The essays discuss medical issues; the specific social and political impact of HIV/AIDS on the lives of women of colour, lesbians, injecting drug users and prostitute women; And Current Health...

Making Families Work and What To Do When They Don't offers specific recommendations for increasing family harmony through more effective parenting practices. This important new book helps parents improve family understanding and relationships by reducing the emotional interference--anger, betrayal, guilt, shame, and fear--that blocks healthier and happier family connections. Each chapter is laced with knowledge and therapeutic humor that examine dimensions to family living in a way that helps parents lighten up a little rather than tighten up a lot. Parents will find that encouraging family...

Basic Social Policy and Planning is a comprehensive introduction to policy and planning approaches, methods, models, ways of thinking, and techniques presented in a reader-friendly fashion for persons with no prior formal training in this area. It converts sophisticated policy and planning concepts and techniques into a form that non-experts can understand, relate to, and apply in their own practices to improve the lives of others.

Therapeutic Intervention with Poor, Unorganized Families: From Distress to Hope offers you integrated theories, practice, and research to provide you with the tools to be more effective when dealing with families in crisis. Therapeutic Intervention with Poor, Unorganized Families explores the decline of families into extreme distress and helps you to determine the best intervention for that particular family, as no one single method can be prescribed for all families. Therapists as well as clients favor the joint-goal intervention you will discover through this book, which is carried out...

Noted experts provide practical, effective strategies to meet global health challenges

International Social Health Care Policy, Program, and Studies presents a collection of papers drawn from the Ninth Doris Siegel Memorial Fund Colloquium that focuses on social work and international health issues, emphasizing an international exchange and cooperation as a crucial facet of meeting global health challenges. Honoring the memory and spirit of social work pioneer Doris Siegel for her accomplishments and advocacy on behalf of social-health issues, this fine selection of scholarly...