Product Description: The Little Book of Pediatrics: Infants to Teens and Everything In Between is pocket-sized, easy-to-understand introduction into the field of pediatrics. Written with the non-physician in mind, you will not be bogged down with the heavy details, yet every basic fact that you need is right there...read more

Product Description: The Power of ColleaguesWhat happens when primary care clinicians meet together on set aside time in their practice settings to talk about their own patients?  .....Complimenting quality metrics or performance measures through discussing the actual stories of individual patients and their clinician-patient relationshipsIn these settings, how can clinicians pool their collective experience and apply that to ‘the evidence’ for an individual patient?...read more

Product Description: Amid the ongoing changes in how health care is administered and financed, prevention-oriented care is a critical and cost-effective method for improving population health through primary care. As the key figure in promoting patients' health and prevention of disease, the primary care provider can play a major role in patient engagement, self-management, and behavior change...read more

Product Description: Community nursing is the fastest growing area of nursing practice in Australia. This book offers an engaging introduction to the theory, skills and application of community and primary health care. Based on the 'Social Model of Health', An Introduction to Community and Primary Health Care in Australia explores how social and environmental factors impact healthcare in Australian communities...read more

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PHARMACOLOGY FOR THE PRIMARY CARE PROVIDER is a classroom text designed to transition into the clinical arena as your students begin practicing and prescribing. This practical book brings together the best and most important information from the medical, nursing, and pharmacology disciplines, making it an invaluable learning tool and an important companion text throughout the beginning years of clinical practice. Students will review professional roles and basic practical information about drug categories and what must be considered in prescribing and educating patients. The essentials are distilled into a thorough discussion of drug prototypes. Many helpful charts, figures, and clinical decision-making algorithms aid comprehension.* Helps students appreciate and understand evidence-based medicine and the development of clinical treatment algorithms and guidelines. * Provides a summary of important things both the practitioner and the patient should know about client-initiated and client-controlled medications (including over-the-counter drugs, alternative medicines, and herbal products.) * Presents detailed information on how to provide effective patient teaching about medications. This information also helps meet some of the accreditation objectives mandated by the National League for Nursing. * Contains pharmacokinetic tables listing the latest information on drug interactions from the Cytochrome P450 enzyme system - new information now being introduced into curriculum for all practitioners. * Lists resources and references in each chapter so students always have access to the latest information.

Product Description: Complementary and integrative medicine (CIM) has become big business. Alongside the increased consumption of complementary medicine and the swelling numbers of complementary health practitioners has emerged a growing interest in these medicines and therapies from within the ranks of conventional primary health care...read more

Product Description: Sexually Transmitted Diseases: A Guide for Primary Care, second edition, covers the diagnosis and treatment of STDs and other information critical to patient care and reflects the last five years of significant changes in information about STDs...read more

Product Description: This report documents the major reductions in mortality achieved since 1950 in all countries and the shifting burden of disease from communicable to non-communicable diseases. It also documents how that shift has entailed a change in the age profile of mortality...read more

Product Description: One hundred countries―more than half of the world’s population―have made significant strides in the last 30 years, improving life expectancy and the health of their populations. Despite socioeconomic limitations, extended wars, embargos, and geographic limitations, these countries managed to provide basic health care, primary education, and clean water for their populations...read more

Product Description: This book covers two distinct yet related topics: the primary care setting and the counselling carried out within it and can be dipped into or read straight through. Part One, using psychodynamic and systems theory, explores the holding environment of primary care, the interpersonal relationships within the primary care team, and other variables affecting counselling in a medical organizational setting...read more

Product Description: Until very recently, elder abuse was a social problem hidden from public view and mostly regarded as a private matter. Evidence is accumulating, however, to indicate that elder abuse, which includes the pervasive issue of neglect, is an important public health and societal problem that manifests itself in both developing and developed countries...read more