Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health (Vintage)
by Gary Taubes
from Anchor
For decades we have been taught that fat is bad for us, carbohydrates better, and that the key to a healthy weight is eating less and exercising more. Yet despite this advice, we have seen unprecedented epidemics of obesity and diabetes. Taubes argues that the problem lies in refined carbohydrates, like white flour, easily digested starches, and sugars, and that the key to good health is the kind of calories we take in, not the number. In this groundbreaking book, award-winning science writer Gary Taubes shows us that almost everything we believe about the nature of a healthy diet is wrong.
Occupational Therapy Examination Review Guide, Third Edition
by Caryn R. Johnson
from F. A. Davis Company
Tell your students to prepare for the computerized NBCOT OTR exam with the book that comes with a money-back guarantee that they will pass the test! Over 1,000 review questions in five practice examinations help identify areas of weakness and improve students' test taking performance. The questions help them become familiar with the format of the questions in the actual examination.
Environmental Health: From Global to Local (Public Health/Environmental Health)
from Jossey-Bass
Environmental Health: From Global to Local offers students a comprehensive introduction to environmental health. It provides an overview of methods and paradigms used in this exciting field, ranging from ecology to epidemiology, from toxicology to environmental psychology, from genetics to ethics to religion. The authors survey the major issues in contemporary environmental health, ranging from global issues such as climate change and war to regional issues such as air, water, transportation, and energy to local issues such as food safety, pest control, and occupational health. The book includes a strong focus on the real-world practice of environmental public health, offering chapters on such applied topics as risk assessment, risk communication, health services, regulations, and legal remedies. While Environmental Health is grounded in the U.S. experience, it emphasizes global issues and perspectives on such topics as economic development, population, urbanization, and sanitation.
Prize or Award
- AAP Awards for Excellence in Professional and Scholarly Publishing, 2006
Occupational Therapy for Physical Dysfunction
from Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Pedretti's Occupational Therapy: Practice Skills for Physical Dysfunction (Occupational Therapy Skills for Physical Dysfunction (Pedretti))
from Mosby
Pedretti's Occupational Therapy Skills for Physical Dysfunction gives a comprehensive, in-depth overview of occupational therapy history and theory, the occupational therapy process and practice, evaluation and intervention in the occupational performance areas, performance skills and client factors, implementation of intervention, and intervention applications. The text focuses on occupation-based practice in the context of working with physical disabilities, and takes a client-centered approach. New chapters and expert contributors bring a fresh approach to the text. New content on motor control and learning, prevention, and cultural diversity is integrated throughout.
- Information on motor control and learning, and prevention
- Cultural diversity/sensitivity
- Evidence-based content
- Case examples
- Client-centered perspective
- OT practice framework
- Threaded Case Study boxes
- lOccupational Therapy Practice Notes boxes
- Ethical Considerations boxes
- Glossary
- New chapters include:
- Occupational Therapy Practice Framework and the World Health Organization's International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health
- Instructional Methods in Occupational Therapy
- Performance Skills: Definitions and Evaluation in the Context of the Occupational Therapy Practice Framework
- Motor Relearning
- Completely revised chapters include:
- Health Promotion and Wellness for People with Physical Disabilities
- Documentation of Occupational Therapy Services
- Leisure Occupations
- Evaluation of Sensation and Intervention for Sensory Dysfunction
- Personal and Social Contexts of Disability: Implications for Occupational Therapists
Fundamentals of Hand Therapy: Clinical Reasoning and Treatment Guidelines for Common Diagnoses of the Upper Extremity
by Cynthia Cooper
from Mosby
This illustrated text and reference emphasizes the fundamentals of hand therapy - for both specialists and non-specialists who encounter clients with hand issues. It provides a consistent format with tips and guidelines for hand therapy treatment. Coverage includes hand anatomy, key terms and concepts, and the evaluation process. A focus on professional issues includes clients with functional somatic syndromes and challenging behavior, client-therapist rapport, and the roles of therapy assistants. Providing many case studies, this text helps therapists think critically about clients' individual needs.
- Emphasizes the development of clinical reasoning skills, describing the components of the evaluation process and addressing how to decide what to evaluate.
- Covers a broad array of common diagnoses seen in hand therapy, including shoulder and elbow disorders, peripheral nerve problems, wrist and hand fractures, tendonitis and tendonosis, finger sprains and deformities, tendon injuries, arthritis, burns, infections, ganglion cysts, stiffness, Dupuytrens, and pediatric and geriatric hand problems.
- Diagnostic-specific information and treatment guidelines follow a consistent format:
- Overview
- Diagnosis and pathology
- Timelines and healing
- Anatomy
- Treatment (non-operative and/or operative)
- Questions to ask the doctor
- What to say to clients
- Evaluation tips
- Diagnosis-specific information that affects clinical reasoning
- Tips from the field
- Precautions and concerns
- Role of therapy assistants
- Case examples
- Offers topics to use as mental prompts when working in the clinical setting:
- Questions to ask the doctor
- What to say to clients
- Tips from the field
- Precautions and concerns
- Over 400 illustrations in the text and on the CD demonstrate important concepts.
- Case studies in the common diagnoses chapters demonstrate the use of clinical reasoning and highlight the "human" side of each client encounter.
- Clinical pearls and precautions share advice from the author and contributors, learned from years of clinical experience.
- Describes the role of the therapy assistant with the client, showing how the therapy assistant may be included in the therapy process.
- Glossary includes key terms from the text, offering easy access to definitions of key terms.
- CD provides samples of hand therapy exercises and clinical forms that may be used with clients.
Quick Reference to Occupational Therapy
by Kathlyn L. Reed
from Pro-Ed
...provides fast, up-to-date facts on diseases, disorders, & dysfunctions, including description, cause, assessment problems, and treatment management...shows how to use occupational therapy in a total patient care program.
Fitting The Task To The Human, Fifth Edition: A Textbook Of Occupational Ergonomics
by Karl H.E. Kroemer
from CRC
Our working conditions have undergone rapid and fundamental changes during the last few years. One example is the widespread use of the individual computer in the shop, office and home. Another major development is that women now hold many jobs that used to be in the male domain, and that many more women choose a life-long occupational career. Workforces, tasks, conditions and tools are changing! Many office and industrial workers are tied into human-machine systems. Repetitive work can create cumulative health problems such as the often-reported visual strains, mental stress and physical injury. Proper ergonomic measures can avoid such harmful effects and instead promote healthy conditions that are both efficient and agreeable. In this new edition of Fitting the task tot he Man, Professor Karl Kroemer has revised and updated the text and data while remaining true tot he spirit of Professor Grandjean's earlier editions. The aim is, as before, to impart basic knowledge of occupational ergonomics in a straightforward and lucid fashion to those responsible for design, management and safety in the workplace, and to those who study it.
Therapeutic Exercise: Moving Toward Function
by Carrie M Hall
from Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Current Occupational & Environmental Medicine (Lange Medical Books)
by Joseph LaDou
from McGraw-Hill Medical
Up-to-the-minute, thorough, clinical coverage of common and important occupational and environmental diseases, injuries, and exposures
Complete, yet concise, this clinically focused guide offers the definitive overview of common occupational and environmental illnesses, covering their diagnosis and treatment-plus preventive and remedial measures in the workplace and community. With its practical format and emphasis on fundamental topics, CURRENT Occupational and Environmental Medicine is just as essential for students and residents as it is for practicing physicians. You can count on the new fourth edition to deliver the bottom-line answers you need to stay on track in this complex, fast-breaking field.
Features:
- The latest OSHA/NIOSH guidelines for occupational exposure standards
- Detailed diagnostic checklist for major diseases, injuries, and exposure that help expedite diagnosis and treatment
- The most clinically relevant perspectives on disability prevention-required reading for the occupational physician
- Skill-building insights on the importance of ergonomics in the workplace
- A step-by-step review of how to effectively manage an occupational health and safety program
- Details on substance abuse and employee assistance programs, health risk analysis, and the legal aspects of occupational and environmental medicine
- Preventive approaches to terrorist attacks on industry
- Information-packed primer on epidemiology and biostatistics for the occupational and environmental health specialist
- Up-to-date references with PMID numbers and peer-reviewed websites
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