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Tummy Time, Head Shape and Your Baby

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IWK. Physiotherapy, IWK. Rehabilitation Care Team. Halifax, NS: IWK Health Centre , 2018.

Pamphlet Number: PL-1038

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Information about positional plagiocephaly and your baby's head shape. Babies are born with soft heads that are easily molded by staying in one position for too long. If a baby has a preference to look or to lie on one side, a flat spot can occur. Plagiocephaly is when a baby’s head becomes flat or misshapen on one side.

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Corporate Author: IWK. Physiotherapy; IWK. Rehabilitation Care Team

Place of Publication: Halifax, NS

Publisher: IWK Health Centre

Date of Publication: 2018

Format: Pamphlet

Language: English

Physical Description: 1 electronic document : digital, PDF file

Subjects (MeSH): Child Development; Infant Care; Plagiocephaly, Nonsynostotic

Subjects (LCSH): Newborn infants--Care; Newborn infants--Development

Abstract: Information about positional plagiocephaly and your baby's head shape. Babies are born with soft heads that are easily molded by staying in one position for too long. If a baby has a preference to look or to lie on one side, a flat spot can occur. Plagiocephaly is when a baby’s head becomes flat or misshapen on one side.

Responsibility: IWK Physiotherapy, Halifax, NS

Pamphlet Number: PL-1038

Enhancing early child development : a handbook for clinicians

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Durriyah Sinno, Lama Charafeddine, Mohamad Mikati, authors ; with contributions by Rebecca L. Holt, Aravindhan Veerapandiyan. --New York, NY: Springer , c2013.

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Location: Online

Early childhood development refers to the skills that children acquire within their first five years of life, which lay the foundation for future learning. Children need care and support to stimulate their growth and healthy development. The stimulation of language, understanding, personal, social and motor skills of the child are important at an early age and it is one of the primary physicians' responsibilities to give proper advice to parents on how to promote their children's physical and m…

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Author: Sinno, Durriyah

Other Authors: Charafeddine, Lama; Mikati, Mohamad

Responsibility: Durriyah Sinno, Lama Charafeddine, Mohamad Mikati, authors ; with contributions by Rebecca L. Holt, Aravindhan Veerapandiyan

Place of Publication: New York, NY

Publisher: Springer

Date of Publication: c2013

Physical Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 164 p. : 79 ill., 59 ill. in color)

ISBN: 9781461448273

Subjects (MeSH): Child Development; Child - Handbooks; Disabled Children

Subjects (LCSH): Family medicine; Pediatrics; Emergency medicine; Developmental psychology

Abstract: Early childhood development refers to the skills that children acquire within their first five years of life, which lay the foundation for future learning. Children need care and support to stimulate their growth and healthy development. The stimulation of language, understanding, personal, social and motor skills of the child are important at an early age and it is one of the primary physicians' responsibilities to give proper advice to parents on how to promote their children's physical and mental development. Enhancing Early Child Development: A Handbook for Clinicians is a quick reference guide for pediatricians, clinicians, and pediatric nurse practitioners that aims at promoting early stimulation and intervention for optimizing development of normal children as well as children with cerebral palsy and autism. Designed to be used in daily practice, this book will provide counsel for clinicians, parents and caregivers and advise them on the appropriate methods to enhance their child's development at different ages based on their health condition. In addition, Enhancing Early Child Development: A Handbook for Clinicians, incorporates a summary of the manual entitled "Counsel the Family on Care for Child Development" developed by UNICEF and WHO, which addresses child development in low resource countries.

Contents: Enhancing childhood development in a normal child -- Enhancing childhood development in children with autism -- Enhancing childhood development in children with cerebral palsy and other disorders -- Enhancing childhood development in children with behavioral and psychological disorders -- Nutrition for better development -- Summary of the "Care for Childhood Development" program (UNICEF/WHO) -- Index.

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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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

Pediatric Development and Neonatology : A Practically Painless Review

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Christine M. Houser. --New York, NY: Springer , c2014.

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Often, information in review books can raise as many questions as it answers. This interferes with the study process, because the learner must either look up additional information or skip ahead without truly comprehending what he or she has read. As an alternative, Pediatric Development and Neonatology: A Practically Painless Review presents bite-sized chunks of information that can be read and processed rapidly, helping learners to stay active while studying to understand and process new info…

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Author: Houser, Christine M

Responsibility: Christine M. Houser

Place of Publication: New York, NY

Publisher: Springer

Date of Publication: c2014

Physical Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 148 p.)

ISBN: 9781461486817; 9781461486800 (print ed.)

Subjects (MeSH): Child Development; Embryonic Development; Infant, Newborn; Neonatology

Abstract: Often, information in review books can raise as many questions as it answers. This interferes with the study process, because the learner must either look up additional information or skip ahead without truly comprehending what he or she has read. As an alternative, Pediatric Development and Neonatology: A Practically Painless Review presents bite-sized chunks of information that can be read and processed rapidly, helping learners to stay active while studying to understand and process new information the first time they read it. This book's question and answer format allows for self-testing or study with a partner or a group. The format also facilitates dipping into the book during a few minutes of downtime at the hospital or office. Pediatric Development and Neonatology: A Practically Painless Review is a quick and easy way to master these tricky topics and is suitable for those studying for the pediatric board exam, practicing physicians brushing up on their skills, medical students and pediatric residents doing rotations, and any busy clinician who wants to learn more about these topics while on the go.

Contents: Developmental Topics -- Neonatal Physiology: Things That Make Them Special -- Brief Overview of Reproductive Embryology -- Cryptoorchism and Contraindications to Breast Feeding in Developed Nations -- Neonatal Topics.

Format: e-Book

Publication Type: Examination Questions; Outline

Location: Online

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

Baby basics [videorecording]

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[by] T. Berry Brazelton. --Cambridge, MA: Vida Health Communications , 1987.

Call Number: WS 420 B82 1987 VIDEO

Location: IWK Health Sciences Library

Call Number: WS 420 B82 1987 VIDEO

Author: Brazelton, T. Berry

Responsibility: [by] T. Berry Brazelton

Place of Publication: Cambridge, MA

Publisher: Vida Health Communications

Date of Publication: 1987

Physical Description: 1 VHS videocassette (110 min) : col.

Subjects (MeSH): Child Development; Infant Care; Infant, Newborn; Parenting; Postnatal Care

Notes: Contents: The Newborn at birth - Caring for yourselves postpartum - Your first days at home - Daily care - Feeding - Health and Safety - Crying and sleeping - Growth and development.