Using an evidence-based, critical, population health approach, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of the key errors and most effective interventions to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. It also examines the root determinants of pandemic risk on a global scale and addresses the policy changes to be implemented to prevent health crises.

Concise, readable, and engaging, MRI: The Basics, 4th Edition, offers an excellent introduction to the physics behind MR imaging. Clinically relevant coverage includes everything from basic principles and key math concepts to more advanced topics, including the latest MR techniques and optimum image creation. Hundreds of high-quality illustrations, board-style questions and answers, legible equations, and instructive diagrams take you from the basics of MR physics through current applications...

Medical Terminology With Case Studies: A Navigated Guide to Learning for Health Care Professionals, Third Edition, is a fun, engaging, and easy-to-read resource on medical terminology for allied health students in athletic training, occupational therapy, physical therapy, and more.

A series of case studies, inspired by the author’s real-life experience, exploring ethical and practical dilemmas occurring in health and social care practice with people living with dementia in a variety of settings from care homes to intermediate healthcare settings.

Bijna doodgaan is een intense ervaring, zo intens dat veel mensen daarna hun leven een andere wending geven.

De verhalen van zij die terugkeerden uit de dood fascineren ons al sinds mensenheugenis. De tunnel van licht, de troostende engelen, het gevoel buiten je lichaam te treden: telkens lijken dezelfde elementen terug te keren. Tot vandaag worden bijna-doodervaringen aangehaald als bewijs van een leven na de dood. Ons menselijke bewustzijn maakt mogelijk zelfs deel uit van een groter,...

‘Aambeien met slagroom’ is een boek van huisarts Eric Deckers, die allerlei medische onderwerpen bespreekt in korte, losse verhalen. Het spreekwoord in de titel verwijst naar de diversiteit van de onderwerpen, die niets met elkaar te maken hebben, behalve dat ze over geneeskunde gaan. Informatieve, verrassende en vermakelijke verhalen met humor en relativering. Deckers deelt zijn verwondering over de geneeskunde, gebaseerd op eigen ervaringen en kennis. De verhalen zijn toegankelijk gesch...

As the number of patients receiving home care nutrition support increases, proper assessment and management of this therapy is crucial, and clinicians need to practice at an advanced level.

This fascinating book offers a pathway for the NHS to adopt low-cost but effective innovations from areas of the world traditionally seen as beneficiaries rather than providers of help and support.

This is an essential guide for all health and social work practitioners supporting an increasing number of learners, trainees, apprentices and pre-registration students engaging in practice-based and work-based learning. Applying educational learning, this accessible book presents strategies for practice learning and personal development.

The Patient-Centered Clinical Method has been a core tenet of the practice and teaching of medicine since the first edition published in 1995. This fourth edition continues to define the principles underpinning the patient-centered clinical method using four major components, clarifying its evolution and consequent development.