Search For Health

Author : Kapil Parakh,Anna Dirksen
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-20
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781421440293

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Searching for Health by Kapil Parakh,Anna Dirksen Pdf

An insider's guide to searching online, communicating with your physician, and maximizing your health from a doctor who works at Google. We've all been there. Late at night, staring into the glow of a phone trying to make sense of some health-related issue that we know nothing about. In Searching for Health, Dr. Kapil Parakh, with Anna Dirksen, brings to life knowledge he gained from working at Google and practicing medicine. Helping readers avoid common pitfalls, get the information they need, and partner effectively with their health team to figure out a path to good health together, the book distills decades of scientific research into a set of easy-to-follow tips. It also incorporates • firsthand accounts of common challenges on the path to good health; • an inside look at how doctors approach and assess health-related information; • techniques that consumers can use to locate evidence-based information online, whether in blogs, social media postings, forums, or news stories; • guidance on how individuals can make the best use of new technologies, such as health trackers and other applications; • recommendations to help patients assess health information for themselves and make decisions based on what they find; • brief summaries of the scientific studies underpinning the recommendations; and • online and offline resources—including handy checklists and worksheets—to help readers prepare for appointments, discuss tough topics with their doctors, and take control of their health. In addition to helping readers find evidence-based information online, the book provides insights into what you can expect from a visit to a doctor or hospital, how to make a decision about surgery or other treatment, what tests doctors will order, which symptom trackers are really effective, and what questions to ask about medications, supplements, and more. Searching for Health is a valuable resource for charting a healthier path through life.

Author : Mark Britnell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-13
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781350310667

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In Search of the Perfect Health System by Mark Britnell Pdf

Winner of the first prize in the Health and Social Care category at the BMA Medical Book Awards 2016. With chapters on 25 different countries, this practical and succinct guide to the world's major health systems explores what lessons can be drawn from each to improve health worldwide. Each chapter is an essay designed to give the reader essential knowledge of the history, strengths, weaknesses and lessons of each health system and provide a truly global health perspective – all in the time it takes to drink a cup of coffee. Whether a healthcare manager or a student studying health systems, this accessible and engaging book provides a fascinating insight in to how health care is delivered around the world.

Author : Paul F. Gemmill
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-30
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781512816198

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Britain's Search for Health by Paul F. Gemmill Pdf

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Author : Roy Snell,Debbie Troklus
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Learning
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Compliance
ISBN : 0834219271

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In Search of Health Care Compliance 2001 by Roy Snell,Debbie Troklus Pdf

Snell (PricewaterhouseCoopers, Minneapolis) and Troklus (U. of Louisville, KY) interview 16 compliance professionals with backgrounds in education, auditing, law, reimbursement, patient care, medicine, regulation, and administration. Topics range from the fundamentals of health-care compliance to co

Author : Hermen Kroesbergen
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781625641410

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In Search of Health and Wealth by Hermen Kroesbergen Pdf

The prosperity gospel is very influential in Africa, in Pentecostal churches, and in Reformed churches. But what is the prosperity gospel? Where did it originate? Is it biblically sound? How should we evaluate the prosperity gospel? Does it represent a wrong way of looking for health and wealth, or can we learn something from it? In this book the authors provide an analysis from different perspectives on the highly debated topic of the prosperity gospel. It is intended to be accessible and helpful both to academic colleagues and to ordinary ministers. Most of the authors are lecturers at Justo Mwale Theological University College in Lusaka (Zambia). Together with Prof. L. Togarasei from the University of Botswana, they use their theological skills to examine and assess this important topic from an African and Reformed perspective. The articles in this book will help anyone who wants to deeply explore and evaluate the intriguing phenomenon of the prosperity gospel in Africa. Book jacket.

Author : Tom Valentine,Carole Valentine,James Spounias
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1995-09-01
Category : Health
ISBN : 096483250X

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Search for Health by Tom Valentine,Carole Valentine,James Spounias Pdf

Before you can be healthy, you must know what makes you sick. This new book by long time alternative health journalist Tom Valentine, & his very health conscious family, tells you what your alternative physician & health food store don't know & don't have time to learn. Bad advice on health is killing people. There's so much confusion emanating from the medical establishment & the alternative communities alike that you don't know what to believe. This classic anthology features 58 chapters in five sections (520 pages) with more reliable, easy-to-read & understand health information than ever before. Everyone, every family, needs this information to help you live longer & stronger through the 21st Century despite all the pollution, politics & profiteering of bad health. Some topics include: Why good salt is good for you; eggs, beef & fat are quality food; famous alternative cancer cures - Essiac, Flaxseed Oil, Shark Cartilage, Kombucha - are dissected & demystified; dangers of microwave cooking & food irradiation explained rationally; dental amalgam fillings & fluoride pollution; & much, much more. To order: Valentine Communication Corp., P.O. Box 11089, Naples, FL 33941, telephone: 941-353-9688.

Author : William Bullar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1861
Category : Mediterranean Region
ISBN : OXFORD:600071579

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Letters from abroad, from a physician in search of health by William Bullar Pdf

Author : James Hingston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1868
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026232285

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Guide for Excursionists from Melbourne. Dedicated to All in Search of Health, Recreation, and Pleasure .. by James Hingston Pdf

Author : Nigel Crisp
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-15
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781853159336

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Turning the World Upside Down by Nigel Crisp Pdf

Turning the World Upside Down is a search to understand what is happening and what it means for us all. It is based on Nigel Crisp's own journey from running the largest health system in the world to working in some of the poorest countries, and draws upon his own experiences to explore new ideas and innovations around the world. The book has three unique features: Describes what rich countries can learn from poorer ones, as well as the other way round Deals with health in rich and poor countries in the same way, not treating them as totally different, and suggests that instead of talking about international development we should talk about co-development Sets out a new vision for global health, and our rights and accountabilities as citizens of the world There is an unfair import export business in people and ideas that flourishes between rich and poor countries. Rich countries import trained health workers and export their ideas and ideology about health in poorer ones, whether or not they are appropriate or useful. What, Nigel Crisp asks, if we were to turn the world upside down - so the import export business was reversed and poorer countries exported their ideas and experience whilst richer ones exported their health workers? Health leaders in poorer countries, without the resources or the baggage of rich countries, have learned to innovate, to build on the strengths of the population and their communities and develop new approaches that are relevant for the rich and poor alike. At the same time, richer countries and their health workers could help poorer countries to train, in their own country, the workers they need for the future. They would help pay a debt for all the workers who have migrated and learn themselves the new ways of working, which they will need in the 21st Century. We could stop talking about international development - as something the rich world does to the poor - and start talking about co-development, our shared learning and shared future. There is already a movement of people and ideas travelling in this direction. Young people get this intuitively. Many thousands of young professionals want a different professional education for themselves - in global health. Together with the leaders from poorer countries and the innovators around the world, they are creating a new global vision for health. Turning the World Upside Down is a search for understanding that helps us to see how Western Scientific Medicine, which has served us so well in the 20th Century, needs to adapt and evolve to cope with the demands of the 21st Century. It sets our a new vision and concludes by describing the actions we need to take to accelerate the change.

Author : Fred Burnaby
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2024-02-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783385349841

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The high Alps in Winter; Or, Mountaineering in Search of Health by Fred Burnaby Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

Author : Institute of Medicine,Board on Health Care Services,Committee on Standards for Systematic Reviews of Comparative Effectiveness Research
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07-20
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309164252

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Finding What Works in Health Care by Institute of Medicine,Board on Health Care Services,Committee on Standards for Systematic Reviews of Comparative Effectiveness Research Pdf

Healthcare decision makers in search of reliable information that compares health interventions increasingly turn to systematic reviews for the best summary of the evidence. Systematic reviews identify, select, assess, and synthesize the findings of similar but separate studies, and can help clarify what is known and not known about the potential benefits and harms of drugs, devices, and other healthcare services. Systematic reviews can be helpful for clinicians who want to integrate research findings into their daily practices, for patients to make well-informed choices about their own care, for professional medical societies and other organizations that develop clinical practice guidelines. Too often systematic reviews are of uncertain or poor quality. There are no universally accepted standards for developing systematic reviews leading to variability in how conflicts of interest and biases are handled, how evidence is appraised, and the overall scientific rigor of the process. In Finding What Works in Health Care the Institute of Medicine (IOM) recommends 21 standards for developing high-quality systematic reviews of comparative effectiveness research. The standards address the entire systematic review process from the initial steps of formulating the topic and building the review team to producing a detailed final report that synthesizes what the evidence shows and where knowledge gaps remain. Finding What Works in Health Care also proposes a framework for improving the quality of the science underpinning systematic reviews. This book will serve as a vital resource for both sponsors and producers of systematic reviews of comparative effectiveness research.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 10 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Health
ISBN : MINN:31951D02465539B

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Online health information by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jonne Annemarie Bolhaar
Publisher : Rozenberg Publishers
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789036101592

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Health Insurance. Selection, incentives and search by Jonne Annemarie Bolhaar Pdf

Author : Elliott Bowen
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-29
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781421438566

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In Search of Sexual Health by Elliott Bowen Pdf

Providing a richer, more complex understanding of a critical chapter in the history of sexually transmitted diseases, In Search of Sexual Health will prove valuable to historians of medicine, public health, and the environment, in addition to scholars of race, gender, sexuality.

Author : Tom Ferguson
Publisher : Da Capo Lifelong Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1996-03-13
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 0201409895

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Health Online by Tom Ferguson Pdf

Health Online turns a computer into your most important health tool. For newcomers, it makes going online easy by explaining e-mail and showing what's on the big commercial online services. Later chapters explore Internet mailing lists, newsgroups, and World Wide Web pages. Even online veterans will benefit from the book's listings of hundreds of health resources, especially self-help support groups. Health Online finds the healing power of electronic networks not in technology or data, but in the worldwide community of people helping each other.