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Lifestyle Medicine : A Manual for Clinical Practice

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Jeffrey I. Mechanick, Robert F. Kushner, editors. (1st ed.) --Cham: Springer , c2016.

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Lifestyle--the manner in which people live--is fundamental to health, wellness, and prevention of disease. It follows that attention to lifestyle is critically important to effective and successful health care. But here's the challenge: health care professionals receive very little, if any, formal training about lifestyle counseling and therefore are ill equipped to incorporate lifestyle issues into clinical practice. In response, "Lifestyle Medicine" is evolving as a means to fill this knowled…

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Other Authors: Mechanick, Jeffrey I; Kushner, Robert F

Responsibility: Jeffrey I. Mechanick, Robert F. Kushner, editors

Edition: 1st ed.

Place of Publication: Cham

Publisher: Springer

Date of Publication: c2016

Physical Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 363 p. : 40 illus., 20 illus. in color)

ISBN: 9783319246871; 9783319246857 (print ed.)

Subjects (MeSH): Attitude to Health; Health Behavior; Health Promotion; Life Style; Primary Prevention; Risk Factors

Abstract: Lifestyle--the manner in which people live--is fundamental to health, wellness, and prevention of disease. It follows that attention to lifestyle is critically important to effective and successful health care. But here's the challenge: health care professionals receive very little, if any, formal training about lifestyle counseling and therefore are ill equipped to incorporate lifestyle issues into clinical practice. In response, "Lifestyle Medicine" is evolving as a means to fill this knowledge gap. Lifestyle medicine approaches health and wellness by harnessing the power of lifestyle-related behaviors and influencing the environment we live in. It is a formal approach that promises to enhance and strengthen a re-invigorated health care system that is still outpaced by the epidemic proportions and complexity of chronic diseases like obesity, diabetes, depression, hypertension, and cancer, among others. Lifestyle Medicine: A Manual for Clinical Practice presents this formal approach in a pragmatic context. This unique and practical manual provides clear and succinct guidance on nearly all aspects of lifestyle medicine. The approach is both explanatory and pragmatic, providing case studies and bulleted translation of academic information into clinical practice recommendations. There is an emphasis on scientific evidence wherever possible as well as opinions by the expert chapter authors who practice lifestyle medicine. There is a "how-to" rationality to the book, consistent with a premise that any and all health care professionals should, and perhaps must, incorporate lifestyle medicine. A valuable checklist is included at the close of the book that summarizes key points and provides a practical tool for routine patient encounters.

Contents: Why Lifestyle Medicine? -- The importance of Healthy Living and Defining Lifestyle Medicine -- Communication and Behavioral Change Tools: A Primer for Lifestyle Medicine Counseling -- Paradigms of Lifestyle Medicine and Wellness -- Composite Risk Scores -- Clinical Assessment of Lifestyle and Behavioral Factors During Weight Loss Treatment -- Anthropometrics and Body Composition -- Physical Activity Measures -- Metabolic Profiles - Based on the 2013 Prevention Guidelines -- The Chronic Care Model and the Transformation of Primary Care -- Guidelines for Healthy Eating -- A Review of Commercial and Proprietary Weight Loss Programs -- Physical Activity Programs -- Behavior Modification and Cognitive Therapy -- Treating Tobacco Use in Clinical Practice -- Alcohol Use and Management -- Sleep Management -- Integrative Medicine -- Transcultural Applications to Lifestyle Medicine -- Community Engagement and Networks: Leveraging Partnerships to Improve Lifestyle -- Lifestyle Therapy as Medicine for the Treatment of Obesity -- Lifestyle Therapy for Diabetes Mellitus -- Lifestyle Therapy in the Management of Cardiometabolic Risk: Diabetes Prevention, Hypertension, and Dyslipidemia -- Cancer -- Lifestyle Medicine for the Prevention and Treatment of Depression -- Promoting Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors in Patients with Persistent Pain -- Forestalling Age-Related Brain Disorders -- Chronic Kidney Disease -- Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease and Steatohepatitis -- Gastroenterology Disease and Lifestyle Medicine -- Lifestyle Medicine and Chronic Pulmonary Disease -- Lifestyle Medicine and HIV-infected patients.

Format: e-Book

Location: Online

Reasoning and Public Health: New Ways of Coping with Uncertainty

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Louise Cummings. --Cham: Springer , c2015.

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Location: Online

This book argues that in order to be truly effective, public health must embrace a group of reasoning strategies that have traditionally been characterized as informal fallacies. It will be demonstrated that these strategies can facilitate judgements about complex public health issues in contexts of uncertainty. The book explains how scientists and lay people routinely resort to the use of these strategies during consideration of public health problems. Although these strategies are not deducti…

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Author: Cummings, Louise

Responsibility: Louise Cummings

Place of Publication: Cham

Publisher: Springer

Date of Publication: c2015

Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 242 p. : 15 illus.)

ISBN: 9783319150130; 9783319150123 (print ed.)

Subjects (MeSH): Attitude to Health; Logic; Public Health; Public Opinion; Science; Uncertainty

Abstract: This book argues that in order to be truly effective, public health must embrace a group of reasoning strategies that have traditionally been characterized as informal fallacies. It will be demonstrated that these strategies can facilitate judgements about complex public health issues in contexts of uncertainty. The book explains how scientists and lay people routinely resort to the use of these strategies during consideration of public health problems. Although these strategies are not deductively valid, they are nevertheless rationally warranted procedures. Public health professionals must have a sound understanding of these cognitive strategies in order to engage the public and achieve their public health goals. The book draws upon public health issues as wide ranging as infectious diseases, food safety and the potential impact on human health of new technologies. It examines reasoning in the context of these issues within a large-scale, questionnaire-based survey of nearly 900 members of the public in the UK. In addition, several philosophical themes run throughout the book, including the nature of uncertainty, scientific knowledge and inquiry. The complexity of many public health problems demands an approach to reasoning that cannot be accommodated satisfactorily within a general thinking skills framework. This book shows that by developing an awareness of these reasoning strategies, scientists and members of the public can have a more productive engagement with public health problems.

Contents: 1. The Challenge for Public Health -- 2. Philosophy and Public Health -- 3. Argument from Ignorance -- 4. Argument from Authority -- 5. Argument from Analogy -- 6. Circular Argument -- 7. Fallacies in Public Health -- 8. Theory of Public Health Reasoning -- Appendices.

Format: e-Book

Location: Online

Handbook of child life, The : a guide for pediatric psychosocial care

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Thompson, Richard H. --Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas , 2009.

Call Number: WS 105.5 H7 H358 2009 RES Child Life

Location: IWK Health Sciences Library

Call Number: WS 105.5 H7 H358 2009 RES Child Life

Author: Thompson, Richard H.

Place of Publication: Springfield, IL

Publisher: Charles C. Thomas

Date of Publication: 2009

Physical Description: 362 p.

ISBN: 9.78E+12

Subjects (MeSH): Child Psychology; Child Development; Child Health Services; Child, Hospitalized - psychology; Child Welfare

Notes: Child Life Reserve Collection.

Format: Book

Location: IWK Health Sciences Library

Copies: 1

Loan Period: 2 weeks

Mind/body health : the effects of attitudes, emotions and relationships

https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat22893

Karren, Keith J. (3rd ed.) --San Francisco, CA: Pearson Benjamin Cummings , 2006.

Call Number: WM 90 M663 2006

Location: Dickson Building

Call Number: WM 90 M663 2006

Author: Karren, Keith J

Edition: 3rd ed.

Place of Publication: San Francisco, CA

Publisher: Pearson Benjamin Cummings

Date of Publication: 2006

Physical Description: 702 p.

ISBN: 0805378863

Subjects (MeSH): Psychosomatic Medicine; Psychophysiology; Attitude to Health; Emotions; Personality; Social Support

Format: Book

Location: Dickson Building

Loan Period: 3 weeks

Health behavior change : a guide for practitioners

https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat53514

Rollnick, Stephen. --Edinburgh, Scotland: Churchill Livingstone , 1999.

Call Number: W 85 R65 1999

Location: IWK Health Sciences Library

Call Number: W 85 R65 1999

Author: Rollnick, Stephen

Other Authors: Mason, Pip; Butler, Christopher

Place of Publication: Edinburgh, Scotland

Publisher: Churchill Livingstone

Date of Publication: 1999

Physical Description: 225 p.

ISBN: 443058504

Subjects (MeSH): Health Behavior; Attitude to Health; Health Promotion

Format: Book

Location: IWK Health Sciences Library

Copies: 1

Loan Period: 2 weeks

Statistical report on the health of Canadians

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--Ottawa, ON: Health Canada , 1999.

Call Number: WA 100 S64 1999

Location: IWK Health Sciences Library

Call Number: WA 100 S64 1999

Place of Publication: Ottawa, ON

Publisher: Health Canada

Date of Publication: 1999

Physical Description: [various pagings]

Subjects (MeSH): Health Status; Health Status Indicators; Attitude to Health; Canada

Notes: http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca

Format: Book

Publication Type: Statistics

Location: IWK Health Sciences Library

Copies: 1

Loan Period: 2 weeks

Toward a healthy future

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Prepared by the Federal, Provincial and Territorial Advisory Committee on Population Health. --[Ottawa, ON]: Minister of Public Works and Government Services Canada , 1999.

Call Number: WA 100 T64 1999

Location: IWK Health Sciences Library

Call Number: WA 100 T64 1999

Corporate Author: Federal, Provincial and Territorial Advisory Committee on Population Health

Other Authors: Meeting of the Ministers of Health (Sept., 1999: Charlottetown, PE)

Responsibility: Prepared by the Federal, Provincial and Territorial Advisory Committee on Population Health

Place of Publication: [Ottawa, ON]

Publisher: Minister of Public Works and Government Services Canada

Date of Publication: 1999

Physical Description: various pagings

ISBN: 662276256

Subjects (MeSH): Health Status; Health Status Indicators; Child Development; Child Welfare; Attitude to Health; Canada

Notes: http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca

Format: Book

Location: IWK Health Sciences Library

Copies: 1

Loan Period: 2 weeks

Family care and medical management for Jehovah's Witnesses

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Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania. --Brooklyn, NY: Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of New York , 1995.

Call Number: BX 8526 F33 1995

Location: IWK Health Sciences Library

Call Number: BX 8526 F33 1995

Corporate Author: Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania

Place of Publication: Brooklyn, NY

Publisher: Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of New York

Date of Publication: 1995

Physical Description: various pagings

Subjects (MeSH): Jehovah's Witnesses; Christianity; Religion and Medicine; Blood Substitutes; Attitude to Health; Treatment Refusal

Format: Book

Location: IWK Health Sciences Library

Copies: 1

Loan Period: 2 weeks

How to help children through a parent's serious illness

https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat53593

[by] Kathleen McCue with Ron Bonn. --New York, NY: St. Martin's Press , c1994.

Call Number: WS 105.5 A8 M64 1994 RES Child Life

Location: IWK Health Sciences Library

Call Number: WS 105.5 A8 M64 1994 RES Child Life

Author: McCue, Kathleen

Other Authors: Bonn, Ron

Responsibility: [by] Kathleen McCue with Ron Bonn

Place of Publication: New York, NY

Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Date of Publication: c1994

ISBN: 312113501

Subjects (MeSH): Attitude to Health; Attitude to Death; Child of Impaired Parents - psychology; Grief; Parent-Child Relations; Child

Notes: Child Life Reserve collection

Format: Book

Location: IWK Health Sciences Library

Copies: 1

Loan Period: 2 weeks

Health of Canada's youth, The : views and behaviors of 11-, 13- and 15-year-olds from 11 countries

https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat53542

[by] Alan J.C. King [and] Beverly Coles. --Ottawa, ON: Health and Welfare Canada , 1992.

Call Number: WA 900 DC2 K52 1992

Location: IWK Health Sciences Library

Call Number: WA 900 DC2 K52 1992

Author: King, Alan J.C.

Other Authors: Coles, Beverly

Responsibility: [by] Alan J.C. King [and] Beverly Coles

Place of Publication: Ottawa, ON

Publisher: Health and Welfare Canada

Date of Publication: 1992

Physical Description: 198 p.

ISBN: 662193732

Subjects (MeSH): Attitude to Health; Health Behavior; Health Surveys - statistics & numerical data; Adolescent; Canada

Notes: Also published in French under title: Nos jeunes, leur santé : opinions et comportements des 11,13 et 15 ans au Canada et dans 10 autres pays.