Health Assessment Through the Life Span

Health Assessment Through the Life Span Review

This information-packed, easy-to-use pocket guide serves both as a reference for nurses working in clinical settings and as a student text for programs that offer condensed coverage of health assessment in lieu of a more comprehensive, more expensive book. Organized by body systems, the focus of this updated edition remains on assessing, documenting, and reporting the current status and changes in the condition of patients for all age groups.

Natural Health, Natural Medicine: The Complete Guide to Wellness and Self-Care for Optimum Health

Natural Health, Natural Medicine: The Complete Guide to Wellness and Self-Care for Optimum Health Review

The bible of natural medicine--(Larry Dossey, M.D.), Natural Health, Natural Medicine is a comprehensive resource for everything you need to know to maintain optimum health and treat common ailments. This landmark book incorporates Dr. Weil's theories of preventive health maintenance and alternative healing into one extremely useful and readable reference, featuring general diet and nutrition information as well as simple recipes, answers to readers' most pressing questions, a catalogue of home remedies, invaluable resources, and hundreds of practical tips. This new edition includes up-to-the-minute scientific findings and has been expanded to provide trustworthy advice about low-carb diets, hormone replacement therapy, Alzheimer's, attention deficit disorder, reflux disease, autism, type 2 diabetes, erectile dysfunction, the flu, and much more.

Your Genes, Your Health: A Critical Family Guide That Could Save Your Life

Your Genes, Your Health: A Critical Family Guide That Could Save Your Life Review

New advances in genetics have dramatically expanded our ability to avoid, prevent, diagnose, and treat a wide range of disorders. Now, more than ever, families need to know about these new discoveries, especially as there are some 7,000 rare genetic diseases that afflict about 1 in 12 of us. In Your Genes, Your Health, Aubrey Milunsky provides an invaluable and authoritative guide to what you should know about your genes. Illustrated with poignant family histories that underscore the lifesaving importance of knowing one's family medical history and ethnic origin, the book highlights the importance of recognizing seemingly unrelated disorders in a family as due to the same gene mutation and it outlines the key genetic tests needed for diagnosis, detection of carriers, and prenatal diagnosis. Many genetic disorders are discussed including cancer, heart disease, autism, mental illness, birth defects, neurologic disorders, diabetes, obesity and much more. The message of this book is clear--know your family history, be cognizant of your ethnic origins, seek appropriate consultations, and opt for meaningful genetic tests. Recognition of your risk(s) enables prompt preemptive action. By knowing your genes, you may save your life and the lives of those you love.

Rosemary Gladstar's Family Herbal: A Guide to Living Life with Energy, Health, and Vitality

Rosemary Gladstar's Family Herbal: A Guide to Living Life with Energy, Health, and Vitality Review

Considered the mother of modern herbalism in North America, Rosemary Gladstar has inspired an entire generation of herbalists and has been a driving force in herbal education. Now everyone can share in her wisdom and enthusiasm with this practical yet evocative compendium. It offers easy-to-understand information for achieving optimal health, as well as tried-and-true advice for feeling positive and energetic - naturally. Gladstar offers intensely personal and uplifting insights into her own life and the lives of her mentors and friends, giving readers a cross-generational guide to living life with true and boundless enthusiasm. Her herbal recipes address everyday ailments, ease stress and anxiety, and promote radiant beauty within and without while nurturing longevity and well-being throughout the life cycle. An herbal apothecary at the end of the book provides an A-to-Z guide to herbs and their healing uses, along with safety precautions, dosage information, and guidelines for when to seek traditional medical help.

Harvard Medical School Family Health Guide

Harvard Medical School Family Health Guide Review

The first health guide for the era of managed care is also the only one that will never go out of date. www.health.harvard.edu/fhg offers page and index searches for updated information on every entry.

Today we all have a better chance of living a longer, healthier life than ever before -- but only if we know how to utilize the advances in medicine science has given us. Whether you depend on traditional fee-for-service health care or some form of managed care, you must make health decisions in partnership with doctors...doctors with whom you may only spend a few minutes. How can you sort out the confusing, often contradictory health information that is bombarding you daily and communicate clearly and effectively with your doctor? How can you gain access to the best care and evaluate the care you are getting?

The "Harvard Medical School Family Health Guide" answers these essential questions and many more. The first health guide written specifically to empower readers in the era of managed care, it is the culmination of 200 years of clinical care, health education, and medical research -- bringing you the expertise of more than 7,000 health professionals from some of the nation's most esteemed hospitals and research centers. In this book, they have gathered the most authoritative, comprehensive, easy-to-understand, up-to-the-minute information about the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease in every stage of life to help you:

Make the most of the time you spend with your doctor.

Decide when and if you need to see a doctor.

Avoid dangerous drug interactions.

Explore alternative treatments safely.

Choose wisely among treatmentoptions.

Access emergency and other important information easily.

Learn the most effective ways to prevent disease.

Consult with the most renowned doctors in America, including Herbert Benson, T. Berry Brazelton, Robert Coles, and Richard Ferber.

Receive the most current information from our Web site, which gives you free online updates.

Harvard Medical School consists of world-renowned affiliated hospitals, clinics, and research foundations, which include:

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center - Brigham and Women's Hospital* - Cambridge Hospital - Center for Blood Research - Children's Hospital* - Dana Farber Cancer Institute - Harvard Pilgrim Health Care - Joslin Diabetes Center* - Judge Baker Children's Center - Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary - Massachusetts General Hospital* - Massachusetts Mental Health Center - McLean Hospital - Mount Auburn Hospital - Schepens Eye Research Institute - Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital - VA Boston Healthcare System

(*CONSISTENTLY RANKED AMONG THE 10 BEST HEALTH INSTITUTIONS IN THE UNITED STATES)

Throughout its history, Harvard's doctors have made important medical breakthroughs, including: the discovery of anesthesia - the birth of brain surgery - the first human organ transplantation (Nobel Prize) - the discovery of the polio virus (Nobel Prize) - the discovery of vitamin B12 as the cure for pernicious anemia (Nobel Prize) - the discovery of how the human eye sees (Nobel Prize) - the discovery of the aspirin-a-day prevention strategy for heart disease

Fit and Healthy Summer (First Place 4 Health)

Fit and Healthy Summer (First Place 4 Health) Review

Summertime is filled with sunshine, picnics at the lake, special outings, family vacations and celebrations. But it is also a time when disruptions in the normal routine can make it difficult to stay committed to healthy living. Fit and Healthy Summer is designed to help First Place 4 Health members and participants stay on course through their journey toward a balanced life. This six-week Bible study includes Scripture memory cards, six weeks of Live It Trackers and Prayer Partner forms, a leader’s discussion guide for group study and two   weeks of menu plans and grocery lists . . . plus, a special “Summertime Helps” section to help readers deal with the unique temptations of the season! A rejuvenating, adventure-filled vacation begins with the choice of a destination, and the same is true of a healthy, well-balanced life.

 

Helping Children Cope With Moving (Family Matters)

Helping Children Cope With Moving (Family Matters) Review

According to the Census Bureau, over six million American children move every year. For most of these youngsters, a family move, whether it is just down the block or to a strange, new city, is a difficult and trying experience that usually involves a degree of sadness, apprehension and emotional upheaval that some authors have compared to dealing with death or divorce.

For adults, moving to a new home or apartment may be an accepted fact; but for children simply moving to a new school ranks among their 20 most stressful life experiences. Furthermore, school-aged children who move to a new community often encounter no less than eight of the 42 items listed as potential stressors on “The Social Readjustment Scale,” giving them a 50% greater risk of suffering a stress-related illness if the stressors are not alleviated.

Studies of the Denver Public Schools have also demonstrated that moving during elementary school can significantly affect a child’s academic performance. In one such study, second graders who had changed schools at least twice since kindergarten scored 20% lower on achievement tests than students who had not moved. Results also pointed out a direct link between students’ moving and the likelihood of their dropping out of school. About 95% of those students who attended a single elementary, middle and high school graduated, while 68% of students who changed schools just once in 12 years graduated. Of students who moved three or more times, only 30% eventually graduated.

A survey of nearly 2,500 elementary and middle school students indicated a mix of emotions when children talked about moving. At one level, youngsters thought that moving was exciting and adventurous; yet, most shared their fears and apprehensions of having to adjust to a new school or community along with sadness at leaving behind old friends and familiar places. Their concerns also focused on the reasons for moving, the degree of difficulty they would encounter in a new classroom and their own ability to adjust to new surroundings and make new friends.

For the majority of children, many of the immediate emotional disruptions caused by moving pass with time. However, parents, educators and counselors can help children adjust more quickly and with less upset through 1) an awareness of the questions and concerns children experience when facing a move, 2) understanding and supportive discussion of feelings and fears and 3) simple preventive measures and appropriate planning before, during and after a move. Parents should also be aware of situations in which a child’s behavior indicates unusual difficulties in adjusting to a move, and which may require professional intervention.