Access to Primary Care and Preventative Health Services of Migrants
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat42918
Aldo Rosano, editor.
--Cham:
Springer
, c2018.
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This salient volume surveys the state of access to primary care and preventive health services by migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers across Europe. Experts in public health and allied fields identify obstacles to healthcare interventions for migrants, including costs, legal status, health-related behaviors and beliefs, and cultural and language barriers. The book includes the latest data concerning access to specific preventive services (e.g., vaccinations, colorectal screenings), specific …
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- Rosano, Aldo
- Responsibility
- Aldo Rosano, editor
- Place of Publication
- Cham
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2018
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (x, 115 p.) : 3 illus., 1 illus. in color
- Series Title
- SpringerBriefs in public health
- ISBN
- 9783319736303
- 9783319736297 (print ed.)
- 9783319736310 (print ed.)
- ISSN
- 2192-3698
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Emigrants and Immigrants
- Health Policy
- Health Services Accessibility
- Preventive Health Services
- Refugees
- Transients and Migrants
- Other Subjects
- Europe
- Specialty
- Minority Health
- Abstract
- This salient volume surveys the state of access to primary care and preventive health services by migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers across Europe. Experts in public health and allied fields identify obstacles to healthcare interventions for migrants, including costs, legal status, health-related behaviors and beliefs, and cultural and language barriers. The book includes the latest data concerning access to specific preventive services (e.g., vaccinations, colorectal screenings), specific issues of women and sexual minorities, and the potential for health promotion in prevention. Best practices for improving access are outlined as a basis for public health and policy directives toward reducing health disparities between migrant and native populations. Among the topics covered: Access to medical examination for prevention among migrants Access and barriers to infant vaccinations, female cancer screening and colorectal screening among migrant populations; Provision and policy gap between the primary and preventive care required by and the care provided to LGBTQ+ migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers; Health related lifestyles and intermediate health conditions of migrants; Quality of primary healthcare and preventive health services provided to migrants; Adaptations of primary health care for migrants; Access to primary health care and policies on migration and health at a time of economic crisis. Dedicated to bridging research and policy gaps in this vital area, Primary Care Access and Preventive Health Services of Migrants is intended for an international audience of academics, researchers, policymakers, and practitioners in public health and related disciplines.
- Contents
- 1. Foreword -- 2. Rights to primary care access and health prevention of non-nationals and migrants in the European Union Countries -- 3. Access and barriers to childhood immunization among migrant populations -- 4. Access to medical examination for primary prevention among migrants -- 5. Avoidable hospitalization among migrants and ethnic minorities in western countries -- 6. Female migrants' attitudes and access to cervical and breast cancer screening in Europe -- 7. Access to colorectal screening -- 8. Health-related lifestyles among migrants -- 9. Adaptation of primary health care for migrants: recommendations and best practices -- 10. Health policies, patterns, and barriers to migrants' access to primary health care -- 11. Access to primary care and preventive health services of LGBTQ+ migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers -- 12. Concluding remarks.
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- e-Book
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- Online
Asian immigrants in North America with HIV/AIDS : stigma, vulnerabilities and human rights
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat34053
AKM Ahsan Ullah, Ahmed Shafiqul Huque.
--Singapore:
Springer
, c2014.
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This book explores a number of issues related to the stigma arising from HIV/AIDS infection, perceived or actual discrimination from the community and society, and the extent of vulnerabilities for infected Asian refugees and immigrants. It assesses the health care and treatment regimen for HIV/AIDS accessed by immigrants and refugee claimants in North America, including treatments offered by the health-care system and ethnic communities, and their perceptions and biases relating to HIV/AIDS is…
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- Author
- Ullah, A. K. M. Ahsan
- Other Authors
- Huque, Ahmed Shafiqul
- Responsibility
- AKM Ahsan Ullah, Ahmed Shafiqul Huque
- Place of Publication
- Singapore
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2014
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xix, 198 pages)
- ISBN
- 9789812871190 (electronic bk.)
- 9789812871183
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
- Asian Continental Ancestry Group
- Emigrants and Immigrants
- HIV Infections
- Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
- Minority Health
- Social Stigma
- Socioeconomic Factors
- Other Subjects
- Canada
- Abstract
- This book explores a number of issues related to the stigma arising from HIV/AIDS infection, perceived or actual discrimination from the community and society, and the extent of vulnerabilities for infected Asian refugees and immigrants. It assesses the health care and treatment regimen for HIV/AIDS accessed by immigrants and refugee claimants in North America, including treatments offered by the health-care system and ethnic communities, and their perceptions and biases relating to HIV/AIDS issues. On another level, the book identifies the ways in which HIV-sufferer immigrants and refugees/refugee claimants from Asia are vulnerable to discrimination due to 1) lack of information about HIV/AIDS incidence in the community; 2) inability of the health system to respond appropriately; and 3) the community's need for introspection on their own health issues. This book reveals the dynamics that influence choice, behavior, and lifestyle of HIV sufferer immigrants, adds to the existing knowledge about refugees and migrants, and proposes a unified theory of discrimination and stigmatization within the context of human rights. In addition, the book presents a number of policy recommendations based on empirical findings with a view to helping reshape polices regarding refugee HIV sufferers and their social ramifications. This book will be of interest to researchers and students in any field from social sciences, health and psychology, as well as practitioners in the field of development and public policy.
- Contents
- 1. Refugees, Immigrants and HIV/AIDS -- 2. Understanding and Exploring HIV/AIDS and Discrimination -- 3. Poverty, Migrants and HIV/AIDS in Canada -- 4. Discrimination, Xenophobia and Stigmatization -- 5. Vulnerability and Resilience in Living with HIV/AIDS -- 6. Managing the Crisis and Policy Directions.
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- e-Book
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Attitudes of psychiatric nurses toward patients with HIV/AIDS
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat20684
Tobacca, Allan.
--Halifax, NS:
Dalhousie University
, 1998.
- Call Number
- WC 503 T551A 1998
- Location
- Nova Scotia Hospital
- Call Number
- WC 503 T551A 1998
- Author
- Tobacca, Allan
- Place of Publication
- Halifax, NS
- Publisher
- Dalhousie University
- Date of Publication
- 1998
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Nurses
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
- HIV infections
- Format
- Book
- Location
- Nova Scotia Hospital
- Loan Period
- 3 weeks
Clinical Medical Ethics : Landmark Works of Mark Siegler, MD
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat41735
Laura Weiss Roberts, Mark Siegler, editors.
--Cham:
Springer
, 2017.
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This instant gold standard title is a major contribution to the field of clinical medical ethics and will be used widely for reference and teaching purposes for years to come. Throughout his career, Mark Siegler, MD, has written on topics ranging from the teaching of clinical medical ethics to end-of-life decision-making and the ethics of advances in technology. With more than 200 journal publications and 60 book chapters published in this area over the course of his illustrious career, Dr. Sie…
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- Roberts, Laura Weiss
- Siegler, Mark
- Responsibility
- Laura Weiss Roberts, Mark Siegler, editors
- Place of Publication
- Cham
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- 2017
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xvii, 419 pages) : 17 illus., 8 illus. in color
- ISBN
- 9783319538754
- 9783319538730 (print ed.)
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Ethics, Medical
- Ethics, Clinical
- Abstract
- This instant gold standard title is a major contribution to the field of clinical medical ethics and will be used widely for reference and teaching purposes for years to come. Throughout his career, Mark Siegler, MD, has written on topics ranging from the teaching of clinical medical ethics to end-of-life decision-making and the ethics of advances in technology. With more than 200 journal publications and 60 book chapters published in this area over the course of his illustrious career, Dr. Siegler has become the pre-eminent scholar and teacher in the field. Indeed his work has had a profound impact on a range of therapeutic areas, especially internal medicine, pediatrics, surgery, oncology, and medical education. Having grown steadily in importance the last 30 years, clinical ethics examines the practical, everyday ethical issues that arise in encounters among patients, doctors, nurses, allied health workers, and health care institutions. The goal of clinical ethics is to improve patient care and patient outcomes, and almost every large hospital now has an ethics committee or ethics consultation service to help resolve clinical ethical problems; and almost every medical organization now has an ethics committee and code of ethics. Most significantly, clinical ethics discussions have become a part of the routine clinical discourse that occurs in outpatient and inpatient clinical settings across the country. This seminal collection of 46 landmark works written by Dr. Siegler with colleagues throughout his career was edited by Dr. Laura Weiss Roberts and by Dr. Siegler. Dr. Roberts is a prominent psychiatric ethicist and physician-scientist as well as a mentee and longtime collaborator of Dr. Siegler. The text is organized around five themes of foundational scholarship: restoring and transforming the ethical basis of modern clinical medicine, the doctor-patient relationship, education and professionalism, end-of-life care, and clinical innovation.With introductory perspectives by a group of renowned scholars in medicine, Clinical Medical Ethics: Landmark Works of Mark Siegler, MD explains the field authoritatively and comprehensively and will be of invaluable assistance to all clinicians and scholars concerned with clinical ethics. .
- Contents
- Part I -- Restoring and Transforming the Ethical Basis of Modern Clinical Medicine -- 1. An Introduction from Laura Weiss Roberts, M.D., M.A. -- 2. A Perspective from Mark Siegler, M.D. -- 3. A Perspective from Daniel P. Sulmasy, M.D., Ph.D. -- 4. A Perspective from Dana Levinson, M.P.H., Holly J. Humphrey, M.D., and Kenneth S. Polonsky, M.D. -- 5. A Perspective from Jordan J. Cohen, M.D. -- 6. A Perspective from Peter A. Singer, M.D. -- Part II Landmark Works on Clinical Medical Ethics by Mark Siegler, M.D. -- 7. Foundational Scholarship -- 7.1 Clinical ethics and clinical medicine (1979) -- 7.2 Decision-making strategy for clinical ethical problems in medicine (1982) -- 7.3 An ethics consultation service in a teaching hospital. Utilization and evaluation (1988) -- 7.4 Clinical medical ethics (1990) -- 7.5 Ethics committees and consultants (1990) -- 7.6 Future directions in clinical ethics (1991) -- 7.7 Clinical ethics (1991) -- 7.8 Clinical ethics in the practice of medicine (1996) -- 7.9 Five major themes in bioethics (1997) -- 7.10 The contributions of clinical ethics to patient care (1997) -- 8. The Doctor-Patient Relationship -- 8.1 Searching for moral certainty in medicine: a proposal for a new model of the doctor-patient encounter 1981) -- 8.2 Clinical intuition: a procedure for balancing the rights of patients and the responsibilities of physicians (1981) -- 8.3 The doctor-patient encounter and its relationship to theories of health and disease (1981) -- 8.4 The physician-patient accommodation: a central event in clinical medicine (1982) -- 8.5 Confidentiality in medicine: a decrepit concept (1982) -- 8.6 Medical consultations in the context of the physician-patient relationship (1982) -- 8.7 Metaphors and models of doctor-patient relationships: their implications for autonomy (1984) -- 8.8 The progression of medicine: from physician paternalism to patient autonomy to bureaucratic parsimony (1985) -- 8.9 Learning from our patients: one participants impact on clinical trial research and informed consent (1997) -- 8.10 The physician-surrogate relationship (2007) -- 9. Education and Professionalism -- 9.1 A legacy of Osler: teaching clinical ethics at the bedside (1978) -- 9.2 Basic curricular goals in medical ethics: the DeCamp conference on the teaching of medical ethics (1985) -- 9.3 Fellowship training programs in clinical ethics (1988) -- 9.4 Development of a teaching program in clinical medical ethics at the University of Chicago (1989) -- 9.5 Internal medicine residents' preferences regarding medical ethics education (1989) -- 9.6 Caring for medical students as patients (1990) -- 9.7 Teaching clinical ethics (1990) -- 9.8 Medical students as patients: a pilot study of their health care needs, practices, and concerns (1996) -- 9.9 What and how psychiatry residents at ten training programs wish to learn about ethics (1996) -- 9.10 Clinical ethics teaching in psychiatric supervision (1996) -- 9.11 Training doctors for professionalism: some lessons from teaching clinical medical ethics (2002) -- 10. End-of-Life Care -- 10.1 Pascal's wager and the hanging of crepe (1975) -- 10.2 Critical illness: the limits of autonomy (1977) -- 10.3 Brain death and live birth (1982) -- 10.4 Against the emerging stream: should fluids and nutritional support be discontinued? (1985) -- 10.5 Euthanasia: a critique (1990) -- 10.6 Elective use of life-sustaining treatments in internal medicine (1991) -- 10.7 Intimacy and caring: the legacy of Karen Ann Quinlan (1993) -- 10.8 The rise and fall of the futility movement (2000) -- 11. Clinical Innovation 11.1 Ethical issues in growth hormone therapy (1989) -- 11.2 Orthopedic surgeons' attitudes and practices concerning the treatment of patients with human immunosuppressive virus infection (1989) -- 11.3 Ethics of liver transplantation with living donors (1989) -- 11.4 Bone marrow transplantation for sickle cell disease; a study of parentsÇÖ decisions (1991) -- 11.5 Ethical justification for living liver donation (1992) -- 11.6 Transplantation of liver grafts from living donors into adults: too much, too soon (2001) -- 11.7 Elective surgical patients as living organ donors: a clinical and ethical innovation (2009) -- Appendix.
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Creativity : theories and themes : research, development, and practice
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat27208
Runco, Mark A.
--Burlington, MA:
Elsevier Academic Press
, 2007.
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- Online
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- Author
- Runco, Mark A
- Place of Publication
- Burlington, MA
- Publisher
- Elsevier Academic Press
- Date of Publication
- 2007
- Physical Description
- 492 p.
- ISBN
- 9786610747047
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Creativity
- Contents
- Cover -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- PREFACE -- EVERYDAY AND EMINENT CREATIVITY -- THE FIELD OF CREATIVE STUDIES AND THE CREATIVITY COMPLEX -- ORGANIZATION OF THE BOOK -- CHAPTER 1: Cognition and Creativity -- INTRODUCTION -- CREATIVITY AND INTELLIGENCE -- ANALOGICAL THINKING AND METAPHOR -- PROBLEM SOLVING -- PROBLEM FINDING -- STAGE MODELS OF CREATIVE COGNITION -- RESTRUCTURING AND INSIGHT -- EXPERIENCE, EXPERTISE, INFORMATION, AND INSIGHT -- INTUITION -- UNCONSCIOUS PROCESSES AND CREATIVE COGNITION -- PERCEPTION AND CREATIVITY -- SYNAESTHESIA -- MINDFULNESS -- OVERINCLUSIVE THINKING -- CONCLUSION -- CHAPTER 2: Developmental Trends and Influences on Creativity -- INTRODUCTION -- TRENDS AND STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT -- PEER STATUS AND CREATIVITY -- ADULT DEVELOPMENT -- CONCLUSION -- CHAPTER 3: Biological Perspectives on Creativity -- INTRODUCTION -- HEMISPHERIC ASYMMETRY AND THE SPLIT BRAIN -- HANDEDNESS AND HEMISPHERICITY -- BRAIN WAVES AND THE ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM -- PREFRONTAL CORTEX -- HIERARCHIES WITHIN THE BRAIN -- CEREBELLUM AND CREATIVITY -- THE EMOTIONAL BRAIN -- MANIPULATIONS OF THE HUMAN BRAIN -- THE BRAIN OF ALBERT EINSTEIN -- ALTERED STATES AND BRAIN FUNCTION -- DIFFERENT TASKS, DIFFERENT STRUCTURES, AND NETWORKS -- GENETIC BASIS OF CREATIVE POTENTIAL -- CONCLUSION -- CHAPTER 4: Health and Clinical Perspectives -- INTRODUCTION -- AFFECTIVE DISORDERS -- AFFECT AND MOOD -- SUICIDE -- STRESS -- ANXIETY -- ALCOHOLISM AND DRUG ABUSE -- PRIMARY AND SECONDARY PROCESS -- PSYCHOSIS AND PSYCHOTICISM -- ADHD AND CREATIVITY -- PHYSICAL IMPAIRMENTS -- ADAPTABILITY AND MALADAPTATIONS -- ENCOURAGING CREATIVITY -- SELF-ACTUALIZATION AND THE COURAGE TO CREATE -- CONCLUSION -- CHAPTER 5: Social, Attributional, and Organizational Perspectives -- INTRODUCTION -- SOCIAL INFLUENCES ON ENVIRONMENTS AND SETTINGS -- SOCIAL JUDGMENT -- CONCERNS WITH SOCIAL AND ATTRIBUTIONAL PERSPECTIVES -- BIAS IN SOCIAL JUDGMENT -- COLLABORATION AND CREATIVITY -- COMPETITION AND CREATIVITY -- PERSON-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTIONS -- ORGANIZATIONAL THEORIES -- ORGANIZATIONAL CLIMATE -- LEADERS AND LEADERSHIP -- ORGANIZATIONAL ATTITUDE -- COMMUNITARIANISM AND CREATIVITY -- AGGREGATE CREATIVITY AND SOCIETY AT LARGE -- HUMAN CAPITAL AND THE CREATIVE CLASS -- CONCLUSION -- CHAPTER 6: Educational Perspectives -- INTRODUCTION -- THE IDEAL STUDENT -- IMPLICIT THEORIES OF TEACHERS -- TEACHING EXPERIENCE -- CLASSROOM ENVIRONMENT AND SETTING -- TEACHERS AND MENTORS -- EGO-STRENGTH AND SELF-EFFICACY -- CREATIVE ATTITUDES -- ENHANCING IMAGERY AND ARTISTIC SKILLS -- PROBLEM FINDING AND EDUCATION -- REMOTE MODELS -- BRAINSTORMING -- INFORMATION AND CREATIVITY -- EXPLICIT INSTRUCTIONS -- LEARNING THEORIES -- GOODBYE TEACHER -- GENERALIZATION AND MAINTENANCE -- META-COGNITION -- DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN AND REINFORCEMENT -- GIFTED STUDENTS -- CONCLUSION -- CHAPTER 7: History and Historiometry -- INTRODUCTION -- HISTORICAL ANALYSES -- PREHISTORY -- ZEITGEIST AS HISTORICAL PROCESS -- A GENIUS AHEAD OF HIS OR HER TIME? -- MULTIPLE DISCOVERIES AND SIMULTANEITIES -- TOOLS AND CREATIVITY -- LAMARCKIAN EVOLUTION AND CHANGE -- DOMAIN DIFFERENCES AND
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- e-Book
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- Online
Critical issues in reproductive health
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat40986
Andrzej Kulczycki, editor.
--Dordrecht:
Springer
, c2014.
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- Location
- Online
- Available Online
- View e-Book
- Other Authors
- Kulczycki, Andrzej
- Responsibility
- Andrzej Kulczycki, editor
- Place of Publication
- Dordrecht
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2014
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (ix, 351 pages)
- Series Vol.
- v. 33
- ISBN
- 9789400767225
- 9789400767218 (print ed.)
- ISSN
- 1389-6784
- 2215-1990 (e)
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Health Policy
- Reproductive Health Services
- Reproductive Health
- Contents
- 1. Introduction and Overview -- Part I. Expanding the Research Base -- 2. The Vocabulary of Reproductive Health -- 3. Prevalence, Attitudes, Risk factors, and Selected Health-Related Outcomes Associated with Spousal Physical Violence During Pregnancy in Egypt -- 4. Addressing Men’s Concerns About Reproductive Health Services and Fertility Regulation in a Rural Sahelian Setting of Northern Ghana: The “Zurugelu Approach” -- 5. Social Class and Sexual Stigma: Local Interpretations of Emergency Contraception in Egypt -- 6. Using New Data and Improved Study Designs to Examine Infertility-Service Seeking and Adverse Maternal and Perinatal Outcomes in the South-Central United States -- Part II. Advancing Policy -- 7. The Evolution of Consensus on Population and Development: Prospects for Resurgent Policy and Program Action -- 8. How Problematic Will Liberal Abortion Policies Be for Pronatalist Countries? -- 9. Climate Change Science, Policy and Programming: Where Are Population and Reproductive Health? -- 10. Reproductive Health Aid: A Delicate Balancing Act -- 11. Looking Back and Looking Ahead to Where Are We Going: A Round-Table Symposium on the Past, Present, and Future of Reproductive Health -- Part III. Strengthening Service and Program Capacity -- 12. Fostering Change in Medical Settings: A Holistic Programming Approach to “Revitalizing” IUD Use in Kenya -- 13. Radical Common Sense: Community Provision of Injectable Contraception in Africa -- 14. Global Introduction of a Low-Cost Contraceptive Implant -- 15. An Integrated Approach to Targeted, Evidence-Based Livelihood and Sexual and Reproductive Health Programs for Vulnerable Young People in Fragile States: The Case of Liberia.
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- e-Book
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- Online
Cultural Differences and the Practice of Sexual Medicine : A Guide for Sexual Health Practitioners
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat44837
David L. Rowland, Emmanuele A. Jannini, editors.
--Cham:
Springer
, c2020.
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The aim of this book is twofold: to promote an awareness of cultural differences in connection with sexual medicine among health care providers, and to demonstrate how such differences are relevant to the care and treatment of patients with sexual issues. Individual sexuality represents the cumulative effects of biological, psychological, and cultural influences. Yet much of the study of sexuality—including issues ranging from sexual identity to sexual response—has been conducted through a West…
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- Rowland, David L.
- Jannini, Emmanuele A.
- Responsibility
- David L. Rowland, Emmanuele A. Jannini, editors
- Place of Publication
- Cham
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2020
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xii, 347 p.) : 25 illus., 10 illus. in color
- Series Title
- Trends in andrology and sexual medicine
- ISBN
- 9783030362225
- 9783030362218 (Print ed.)
- 9783030362232 (Print ed.)
- 9783030362249 (Print ed.)
- ISSN
- 2367-0088
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Cultural Characteristics
- Cultural Diversity
- Gender Identity
- Sexual Behavior
- Sexual Health
- Specialty
- Sexual Health
- Abstract
- The aim of this book is twofold: to promote an awareness of cultural differences in connection with sexual medicine among health care providers, and to demonstrate how such differences are relevant to the care and treatment of patients with sexual issues. Individual sexuality represents the cumulative effects of biological, psychological, and cultural influences. Yet much of the study of sexuality—including issues ranging from sexual identity to sexual response—has been conducted through a Western lens. Although a substantial body of work in anthropology has taken up the study of human sexuality from a cross-cultural perspective, two points are notable. First, this work seldom crosses the desks of medical and psychological health practitioners, and second, the relevance of specific cultural differences is rarely apparent to the typical sexual health practitioner. To address this situation, this book adopts a global perspective, focusing on how cultural practices and values can impact health care, treatment, and outcomes. In this regard, it covers three broad domains: Sexual Identity and Orientation; Sexual Response and Dysfunction; and Sexual Diversity. Each chapter consists of two parts: a general description of the relevant issues, and a discussion of how these issues can be relevant to clinical practice. The book offers a valuable, practical tool for specialists in sexual medicine and sexual psychology, for sexual healthcare givers, and for sexological researchers who want to better serve their patients by developing an awareness of and sensitivity to cultural differences, and by providing a framework for dealing with issues of sexuality and sexual health that takes cultural values into consideration, while adhering to best practices in patient care.
- Contents
- Part I: Introduction -- Culture and Practice: Identifying the Issues -- Role of Medical Anthropology in Understanding Cultural Differences in Sexuality -- Part II: Sexual Issues, Identity, and Challenges -- Socio-cultural Perspectives, Challenges, and Approaches to Sexual Health in the Indian Subcontinent -- Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexuality from a Cross-Cultural Perspective -- Transcultural Homo- and Trans-Phobia -- Impact of Chinese Traditional Culture on Sexuality -- Sexual Fluidity Behind Culture -- Part III: Dealing with Sexual Issues -- Middle East Cultural Challenges and the Treatment of Sexual Problems in Men -- Central Asian Challenges in Sexual Issues -- Western, Asian, and Middle Eastern Societies’ Cultural Attitudes and Barriers Impacting the Management of Sexual Health Care -- Latin American and Latina/Latino Issues in Sexual Health -- Cultural Issues Impacting the Acceptance of Psychosexual Therapy -- Normal or Normative? Italian Medical Experts' Discourses on Sexual Ageing in the Viagra era -- Part IV: Sexual Differences and Cultural Variation -- Pleasure, Orgasm, and Sexual Mutilations in Different Cultural Settings -- Disposition and Treatment of Paraphilia in Non-Western Cultures -- Disability and Sexuality -- Sexual Surgery through the Ages, in Varying Cultures -- Pornography Use: What Do Cross-Cultural Patterns Tell Us? -- Cross Cultural Research: Opportunities and Strategies for Discovery.
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- e-Book
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- Online
Current and Emerging mHealth Technologies : Adoption, Implementation, and Use
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat42874
edited by Emre Sezgin, Soner Yildirim, Sevgi ©ûzkan-Yildirim, Evren Sumuer.
--Cham:
Springer
, c2018.
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- Online
The promise and prospects for mobile technologies in healthcare service delivery'particularly as experienced by patients and other users'are the focus of this forward-looking volume. Its detailed sociotechnical perspective takes in factors influencing patient and provider adoption of technological advances, in addition to the well-known cost and accessibility advantages. Enlightening reports show mobile health technologies in multiple contexts as an impetus for behavioral change, a means of mon…
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- Other Authors
- Sezgin, Emre
- Yildirim, Soner
- ©ûzkan-Yildirim, Sevgi
- Sumuer, Evren
- Responsibility
- edited by Emre Sezgin, Soner Yildirim, Sevgi ©ûzkan-Yildirim, Evren Sumuer
- Place of Publication
- Cham
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2018
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (vi, 311 p.) : 48 illus., 32 illus. in color
- ISBN
- 9783319731353
- 9783319731346 (print ed.)
- 9783319731360 (print ed.)
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Cultural Competency
- Organizational Case Studies
- Telemedicine - methods
- Telemedicine - organization & administration
- Specialty
- Telemedicine
- Abstract
- The promise and prospects for mobile technologies in healthcare service delivery'particularly as experienced by patients and other users'are the focus of this forward-looking volume. Its detailed sociotechnical perspective takes in factors influencing patient and provider adoption of technological advances, in addition to the well-known cost and accessibility advantages. Enlightening reports show mobile health technologies in multiple contexts as an impetus for behavioral change, a means of monitoring health changes, a growing trend in service delivery, and an emerging health frontier worldwide. Together, these chapters point to the continued expansion'and global reach'of mobile technology in the next stage of healthcare services. Included in the coverage: Behavior change techniques used in mobile applications targeting physical activity: a systematic review Mobile health integration in pregnancy Unintended users, uses, and consequences of mobile weight loss apps: using eating disorders as a case study Intention vs. perception: understanding the differences in physicians' attitudes towards mobile health applications HealthGuide: a personalized mobile patient guidance system Adoption of sensors in mobile health Current and Emerging mHealth Technologies is salient reading for researchers interested in mobile health development and implementation as well as technology adoption, and mobile health system developers and managers who are interested in the implications of mobile health use by patients and/or healthcare professionals. It can also be used for courses in technology adoption and health technologies.
- Contents
- Part I - Behavioral Change in mHealth -- Use of Persuasion Strategies in Mobile Health Applications -- Behavior Change Techniques Used in Mobile Applications Targeting Physical Activity: A Systematic Review -- Exploring Intention on Continuous Use of Mobile Health Applications Designed by Persuasive Technology: "Admsayar" Case Study -- Part II - Monitoring and tracking with mHealth -- Mobile Health Integration in Pregnancy -- Utilizing M-Health Applications in Emergency Medical Services of Turkey -- User Adoption and Evaluation of Mobile Health Applications: The Case for Physical Activity Monitoring -- Unintended Users, Uses, and Consequences of Mobile Weight Loss Apps: Using Eating Disorders as a Case Study -- Part III - mHealth use and adoption in healthcare delivery -- Understanding Cross-Cultural Requirements in m-Health Design: Findings of a Usability Study of Indian Health Professionals -- Intention vs. Perception: Understanding the Differences in Physi-cians' Attitudes towards Mobile Health Applications -- HealthGuide: A Personalized Mobile Patient Guidance System -- Mobile Applications User Trend Analysis of Turkish Physicians in Digital Environments -- Acceptance of Mobile Homecare Technologies: An Empirical Investigation on Patients with Chronic Diseases -- Part IV - Global perspectives and issues with mHealth -- Improving Access to Health Services in Sub- Saharan Africa Using Mobile and Wireless Technologies -- Big Data in mHealth -- Adoption of Sensors in Mobile Health -- Adoption of Internet of Things in Healthcare Organizations.
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- e-Book
- Location
- Online
Diagnosing and Caring for the Child with Autism Spectrum Disorder : A Practical Guide for the Primary Care Provider
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat44941
Tina Iyama-Kurtycz.
--Cham:
Springer
, c2020.
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- Online
This unique resource is designed to be a practical, user-friendly guide for pediatricians, primary care providers, and all healthcare providers who work with children with autism spectrum disorder. Diagnosing and Caring for the Child with Autism Spectrum Disorder offers state-of-the art instruction to clinicians on how to recognize, diagnose and assist children with autism spectrum disorders, from early in life to transition to adulthood. This book will also delve into how to support pediatric …
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- Iyama-Kurtycz, Tina
- Responsibility
- Tina Iyama-Kurtycz
- Place of Publication
- Cham
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2020
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xvi, 269 p.) : 15 illus., 1 illus. in color
- ISBN
- 9783030265311
- 9783030265304 (Print ed.)
- 9783030265328 (Print ed.)
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Autism Spectrum Disorder - diagnosis
- Autism Spectrum Disorder - therapy
- Child
- Parent-Child Relations
- Primary Health Care - methods
- Specialty
- Pediatrics
- Psychiatry
- Abstract
- This unique resource is designed to be a practical, user-friendly guide for pediatricians, primary care providers, and all healthcare providers who work with children with autism spectrum disorder. Diagnosing and Caring for the Child with Autism Spectrum Disorder offers state-of-the art instruction to clinicians on how to recognize, diagnose and assist children with autism spectrum disorders, from early in life to transition to adulthood. This book will also delve into how to support pediatric patients by working with families, and discuss how to best interact with and support these families. The book opens with a comprehensive introduction of ASD and obstacles to diagnosis and common myths. Section Two is devoted to the early recognition of atypical development and reviews the steps in diagnosing autism, including the evaluation, the diagnostic visit, the developmental exam, and the discussion of findings with parents. Section Three covers treatment and interventions for the autism spectrum and includes a discussion on alternative therapies and how to direct parents toward evidence-based or plausible treatments. Section Four and Five addresses special topics that are relevant to the PCP’s or pediatrician’s long-term relationship with families, including chapters on anxiety, parents, challenging behaviors and common scenarios that occur across childhood for those who have ASD. Later chapters delve more deeply into providing informed, sensitive care for patients with intersecting identities, and discusses how gender identity and cultural perspective and attitudes can impact the pediatric patient with ASD. Engaging, and written in a conversational style, Diagnosing and Caring for the Child with Autism Spectrum Disorder will be an ideal resource for the pediatrician, primary care provider, and all healthcare providers working with children with ASD, providing concrete, step-by-step methods that readers can incorporate into their own practice.
- Contents
- Part I. Introduction -- 1. Introduction to the Book and the Concept of Autism Spectrum Disorder -- 2. Obstacles to Diagnosing Autism Spectrum Disorder and Myths About Autism -- 3. Autism Screening and Early Identification: If You See Something, Say Something -- Part II. Diagnosing Autism Spectrum Disorder -- 4. Steps to Diagnosis and the First Minute -- 5. Elicit a Developmental History -- 6. Overview of the Diagnostic System: Using Diagnostic Criteria -- 7. The Developmental Physical Exam -- 8. Assessing Current Developmental Levels and Making a Diagnostic Decision -- 9. Discussing Your Findings with Parents: Saying the “A” Word -- 10. Connect the Family with Community Resources -- 11. Documentation: What You Say Matters -- Part III. Treatment and Intervention -- 12. Evidence-Based Treatments -- 13. Alternative Interventions and the Placebo Effect -- Part IV. Working with Parents: Primary Care Issues in ASD -- 14. Respect for the Sensory and Anxiety Issues of Children with ASD -- 15. Teaching Effective and Positive Parenting Skills -- 16. Challenging Behaviors in ASD -- 17. Primary Care Issues by Age -- 18. Looking Forward -- Part V. Special Topics in Caring for the Child with ASD and the Family -- 19. The Diagnostic Borderlands of the Autism Spectrum -- 20. Females with ASD -- 21. Gender Identity in ASD -- 22. Cultural Perspectives in ASD -- 23. Prevention of ASD -- 24. Conclusions -- Appendices.
- Format
- e-Book
- Location
- Online
Discussing Migraine With Your Patients : A Common Sense Guide for Clinicians
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat41227
Dawn A. Marcus, Duren Michael Ready.
--New York, NY:
Springer
, 2017.
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- Location
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This engaging and highly practical title is designed to support healthcare professionals in providing the best possible care for their patients with migraine. Developed by two leading authorities in the field who bring wit and warmth to their writing, the book combines the valuable wisdom of their clinical expertise with cutting edge scientific synthesis and helpful clinical pearls. Replete with a plethora of instructional aids and clinical tools (such as patient handouts, questionnaires, check…
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- Author
- Marcus, Dawn A
- Other Authors
- Ready, Duren Michael
- Responsibility
- Dawn A. Marcus, Duren Michael Ready
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- 2017
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xi, 251 pages) : 41 illus., 36 illus. in color
- ISBN
- 9781493964840
- 9781493964826 (print ed.)
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Health Behavior
- Migraine Disorders - therapy
- Patient Education as Topic
- Abstract
- This engaging and highly practical title is designed to support healthcare professionals in providing the best possible care for their patients with migraine. Developed by two leading authorities in the field who bring wit and warmth to their writing, the book combines the valuable wisdom of their clinical expertise with cutting edge scientific synthesis and helpful clinical pearls. Replete with a plethora of instructional aids and clinical tools (such as patient handouts, questionnaires, checklists, video clips, and quick-reference boxes), Discussing Migraine with Your Patients: A Common Sense Guide for Clinicians reviews migraine treatment in an evidence-based manner -- according to the empirical data and FDA and consensus-based guidelines. Discussion topics include acute and preventive pharmacotherapy, medical interventions and devices, behavioral and psychological nonpharmacologic therapies, education, trigger management, healthy lifestyle practices, stress management, neutraceuticals, and alternative medicine offerings. In addition, this easy-to-read title covers genetics and pathophysiology, symptoms and comorbidities, and a range of essential clinical skills that are useful in achieving the best possible outcomes with patients. In invaluable addition to the literature, this title will serve as the ultimate go-to resource for primary care clinicians and trainees. Headache specialists, too, will find value in this work.
- Contents
- 1. Sorting Through Headache Patterns -- 2. Looking for the Migraine Gene -- 3. The Sensitive Migraine Brain -- 4. Migraine Is More than "Just a Headache" -- 5. Accepting Migraines -- 6. The Migraine Team -- 7. The Do's and Don'ts of Headache Diaries -- 8. Using Behavioral Therapy as a Treatment Foundation -- 9. Changing Thoughts and Attitudes About Migraine -- 10. When, How Much, and How Often -- 11. What to Try When Nothing's Working -- Appendix 1. Patient Handouts -- Appendix 2. Patient and Physician Resources.
- Format
- e-Book
- Location
- Online
Drugs and Social Context : Social Perspectives on the Use of Alcohol and Other Drugs
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat43328
Telmo Mota Ronzani, editor.
--Cham:
Springer
, c2018.
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- Online
This book goes beyond the traditional approaches to drug use and discusses the issue from a societal perspective, integrating contributions from different disciplines such as psychology, public health, anthropology, law, public policies and sociology to address specifically the social aspects of the phenomenon. Given its complexity, drug use demands a multidisciplinary approach from many different perspectives, but despite the vast literature about the topic, the majority of the books are restr…
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- Other Authors
- Ronzani, Telmo Mota
- Responsibility
- Telmo Mota Ronzani, editor
- Place of Publication
- Cham
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2018
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xviii, 114 p.)
- ISBN
- 9783319724461
- 9783319724454 (print ed.)
- 9783319724478 (print ed.)
- 9783319891835 (print ed.)
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Alcohol Drinking
- Drug and Narcotic Control
- Drug Users
- Social Control, Informal
- Socioeconomic Factors
- Street Drugs
- Social Stigma
- Specialty
- Policy
- Sociology, Medical
- Abstract
- This book goes beyond the traditional approaches to drug use and discusses the issue from a societal perspective, integrating contributions from different disciplines such as psychology, public health, anthropology, law, public policies and sociology to address specifically the social aspects of the phenomenon. Given its complexity, drug use demands a multidisciplinary approach from many different perspectives, but despite the vast literature about the topic, the majority of the books are restricted either to a purely medical perspective (focused mainly on treatment techniques) or to a criminological perspective (focused mainly on drug trafficking and organized crime). The social approach adopted in this volume challenges this dichotomy and analyzes both the social contexts to which drug use is related and the social and political consequences of the attitudes and policies adopted by governments and other social groups towards drug users, addressing topics such as: Drugs and poverty; Drugs and gender; Drugs and race; Drugs and territory; Stigmatization of drug use; Prohibitionism. Given its broad and innovative approach, Drugs and Social Context - Social Perspectives on the Use of Alcohol and Other Drugs will be of interest for researchers, clinicians and other health professionals, since the study of the social aspects of drug use is central to everyone who deals with the issue.
- Contents
- Drugs and society -- 1. The context of drug use in the consumer society -- 2. The stigmatization of drug use as mechanism of legitimation of exclusion -- 3. Social effects of prohibitionism in the Americas and new drug policies -- Social issues -- 4. Drugs and poverty: interfaces of oppression in the capitalist world -- 5. Drugs and gender -- 6. Drugs and race -- 7. (Des)Occupation of urban and rural spaces, gentrification and drug use.
- Format
- e-Book
- Location
- Online
Emotional, physical and sexual abuse : impact in children and social minorities
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat33901
Giovanni Corona, Emmanuele A. Jannini, Mario Maggi, editors.
--Cham, Switzerland:
Springer
, c2014.
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- Online
This book describes different kinds of psychological, physical and sexual maltreatment and explains their possible consequences, especially as regards quality of life, psychopathology and sexual life. The focus is specifically on the victims of abuse, who are among the more frail and vulnerable members of society. The book examines the impacts of maltreatment of both children and social minorities, such as homosexuals and gender dysphoric individuals or those affected by disabilities and descri…
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- Other Authors
- Corona, Giovanni
- Jannini, Emmanuele A.
- Maggi, Mario
- Responsibility
- Giovanni Corona, Emmanuele A. Jannini, Mario Maggi, editors
- Place of Publication
- Cham, Switzerland
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2014
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (vii, 113 pages)
- ISBN
- 9783319067872 (electronic bk.)
- 9783319067865
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Child Abuse - psychology
- Child Abuse, Sexual - psychology
- Homophobia
- Minority Groups
- Pedophilia - psychology
- Subjects (LCSH)
- Child sexual abuse
- Sex crimes - Prevention
- Psychological abuse
- Psychological child abuse
- Child abuse
- Psychiatry
- Pediatrics
- Abstract
- This book describes different kinds of psychological, physical and sexual maltreatment and explains their possible consequences, especially as regards quality of life, psychopathology and sexual life. The focus is specifically on the victims of abuse, who are among the more frail and vulnerable members of society. The book examines the impacts of maltreatment of both children and social minorities, such as homosexuals and gender dysphoric individuals or those affected by disabilities and describes skills that are of value in supporting victims of maltreatment and preventing discrimination. The work will be useful to sexual medicine specialists, medical doctors, psychologists and psychiatrists, as well as graduate students in these disciplines. By fostering a better understanding of discrimination triggers and effects, it will help clinicians to provide improved support through the tailoring of therapies to the needs of maltreated individuals.
- Contents
- Pedophilia -- Treatment of paraphilic sex offenders -- Negative attitudes to lesbians and gay men: persecutors and victims -- Transphobia -- Sexual abuse and sexual function -- Childhood sexual abuse and psychopathology -- Atypical sexual offenders.
- Format
- e-Book
- Location
- Online
Enabling People with Dementia : Understanding and Implementing Person-Centred Care
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat44730
Pat Hobson.
(Third edition)
--Cham:
Springer
, c2019.
- Available Online
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- Location
- Online
This new updated edition challenges the perceptions, beliefs and attitudes of professionals working in dementia care settings by drawing on the theory of person-centred care. It demonstrates the importance of this theory for interacting with and caring for people with dementia. It also provides an overview of the theory in relation to two other well-known theories on dementia, and stresses the need to consider the world from the perspective of people with dementia. Moreover, the book examines t…
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- Author
- Hobson, Pat.
- Responsibility
- Pat Hobson
- Edition
- Third edition
- Place of Publication
- Cham
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2019
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xix, 92 p.) : 20 illus., 12 illus. in color
- ISBN
- 9783030204792
- 9783030204785 (Print ed.)
- 9783030204808 (Print ed.)
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Dementia
- Patient-Centered Care
- Specialty
- Psychiatry
- Abstract
- This new updated edition challenges the perceptions, beliefs and attitudes of professionals working in dementia care settings by drawing on the theory of person-centred care. It demonstrates the importance of this theory for interacting with and caring for people with dementia. It also provides an overview of the theory in relation to two other well-known theories on dementia, and stresses the need to consider the world from the perspective of people with dementia. Moreover, the book examines the importance of dementia care environments, positive interactions, meaningful activities and the concept of personhood, which are all essential to improving the health and wellbeing of people living with dementia. In closing, it underscores the need to remember that the focus of care should be on maximizing the person’s abilities, enabling them, and promoting person-centred care. Given its content and style, the book offers a resource that can be read and understood by health and social care professionals alike, as well as anyone else caring for someone with dementia, including family members and carers.
- Contents
- 1. Background to Person-Centred Care Theory -- 2. Malignant Social Psychology (MSP): Behaviours That Threaten Dignity and Respect -- 3. Positive Person Work (PPW): Behaviours That Promote Dignity -- 4. Person-Centred Models in Dementia -- 5. Experiences of the Person with Dementia and How It Affects Them -- 6. Different Stages and Types of Dementia -- 7. Implementing Person-Centred Communication -- 8. Managing Behaviours That Challenge -- 9. Designing Environments That Enable -- 10. Maintaining Meaningful Activities -- 11. Conclusion.
- Format
- e-Book
- Location
- Online
Essentials of Hypertension : The 120/80 paradigm
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat42856
Fl©vio Danni Fuchs.
--Cham:
Springer
, c2018.
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- Online
The main purpose of this book is to select and present the most essential information about hypertension. It aims to select all the more relevant data to guide the attitudes to prevent, diagnose, and treat hypertension. Hypertension accounts for more than 50% of deaths from stroke and ischemic heart disease worldwide. New blood pressure (BP) diagnostic thresholds for hypertension were released, which were set at 130/80 mmHg. As a consequence, millions of individuals in the world will be diagnos…
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- Author
- Fuchs, Fl©vio Danni
- Responsibility
- Fl©vio Danni Fuchs
- Place of Publication
- Cham
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2018
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xiii, 151 p.) : 70 illus., 34 illus. in color
- ISBN
- 9783319632728
- 9783319632711 (print ed.)
- 9783319632735 (print ed.)
- 9783319875149 (print ed.)
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Hypertension
- Specialty
- Cardiology
- Abstract
- The main purpose of this book is to select and present the most essential information about hypertension. It aims to select all the more relevant data to guide the attitudes to prevent, diagnose, and treat hypertension. Hypertension accounts for more than 50% of deaths from stroke and ischemic heart disease worldwide. New blood pressure (BP) diagnostic thresholds for hypertension were released, which were set at 130/80 mmHg. As a consequence, millions of individuals in the world will be diagnosed as hypertensive, recognizing that they are at greater risk of presenting a CV event. Prevention and control of high BP will become the main focus for reducing the burden of CV disease, requiring a changing of cultural beliefs in some way similar to what happened in the last century with smoking. Strategies for prevention of the rising of BP with age, and the BP reduction in individuals already with high levels, are more complex than those related to smoking control. These strategies involve solid evidence to be implemented in populations. The extensive scientific literature dealing with hypertension and BP regulation is among the top dedicated to a single disease. The chapters and contents follow the clinical reasoning pathways. The characterization of the risks of high blood pressure is presented in the first chapter, discussing the evidence that led to changes in diagnostic thresholds and to the recommendations for maintaining BP within these limits in populations. Reasons for BP rising with age will follow, identifying the causes that must be fought to preventing the incidence of hypertension. Diagnosis of hypertension deserves a special chapter. The final chapter presents the fundamentals to select drug and non-drug therapies indicated in the prevention and controlling of high blood pressure.
- Contents
- Risks of high BP and goals of treatment -- Pathogenesis -- Diagnosis and evaluation -- Prevention and treatment.
- Format
- e-Book
- Location
- Online
Ethics of Innovation in Neurosurgery
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat44164
Marike L. D. Broekman, editor.
--Cham:
Springer
, 2019.
- Available Online
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- Location
- Online
This book covers all ethical aspects of introducing novel implants and procedures in neurosurgery in a structured way, addressing the current knowledge gap concerning ethical innovations in neurosurgery. Initially it explores the difficulties involved in defining when a procedure should be considered innovation, research, or care. To this end, it presents not only an overview of current literature, but also data from a recent survey among neurosurgeons in Europe. The book subsequently discusses…
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- Other Authors
- Broekman, Marike L. D.
- Responsibility
- Marike L. D. Broekman, editor
- Place of Publication
- Cham
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- 2019
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xviii, 167 p.) : 1 illus.
- ISBN
- 9783030055028
- 9783030055011 (Print ed.)
- 9783030055035 (Print ed.)
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Ethics, Clinical
- Neurosurgery - ethics
- Neurosurgical Procedures - ethics
- Specialty
- Neurosurgery
- Abstract
- This book covers all ethical aspects of introducing novel implants and procedures in neurosurgery in a structured way, addressing the current knowledge gap concerning ethical innovations in neurosurgery. Initially it explores the difficulties involved in defining when a procedure should be considered innovation, research, or care. To this end, it presents not only an overview of current literature, but also data from a recent survey among neurosurgeons in Europe. The book subsequently discusses the ethical issues related to innovation. These include: informed consent (what should a surgeon tell the patient and how should he/she do so), oversight (can any surgeon simply implant a novel spinal device?), the learning curve (when should a surgeon be allowed to perform a novel procedure?), vulnerable patients (how to innovate in the pediatric population or in an emergency setting), and conflicts of interest, as well as the ethics of paying for innovative treatments. In turn, the closing chapters focus on the evaluation of neurosurgical research and innovation. Are cultural changes necessary and how could innovation benefit from (international) collaborations? Given the range of topics addressed, the book offers neurosurgeons, residents, scientists, companies and hospital administrations a valuable guide to introducing novel implants and techniques in neurosurgery.
- Contents
- Part I. Innovation in Neurosurgery: Key Ethical Challenges -- 1. Defining Innovation in Neurosurgery: Challenges and Implications -- 2. Informed Consent for Neurosurgical Innovation -- 3. Ethical Challenges of Current Oversight and Regulation of Novel Medical Devices in Neurosurgery -- 4. Ethics of Neurosurgical Innovation: Oversight and Regulation -- 5. The Ethics of the Learning Curve in Innovative Neurosurgery -- 6. Innovation in Pediatric Neurosurgery: The Ethical Agenda -- 7. Conflict of Interest in Neurosurgical Innovation -- Part II. Payment for and Right to Innovation in Neurosurgery -- 8. The Ethics of Funding Innovation: Who Should Pay? -- 9. Public Pressure for Neurosurgical Innovation -- 10. Surgical Innovation for Terminal Illnesses: Do Patients have a Right to Access Innovative Treatments? -- 11. Ethics Committees, Innovative Surgery, and Organizational Ethics -- Part III. Evaluation of Innovations in Neurosurgery -- 12. Evaluating Awake Craniotomies in Glioma Patients: Meeting the Challenge -- 13. Ethical Considerations of Neuro-Oncology Trial Design in the Era of Precision Medicine -- 14. The Ethics of Passive Data and Digital Phenotyping in Neurosurgery -- 15. Research Ethics: When Innovation is Clearly Research -- Part IV. Innovation in Neurosurgery: Required Culture and Team Collaboration. 16. Innovation and Team Collaboration in Neurosurgery -- 17. Culture and Attitudes Supporting Ethical Innovation in Neurosurgery -- 18. Perspective: Future of Innovation in Neurosurgery.
- Format
- e-Book
- Location
- Online
Gastrointestinal physiology : a clinical approach
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat33871
Eugene Trowers, Marc Tischler.
--Cham, Switzerland:
Springer
, c2014.
- Available Online
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- Location
- Online
This volume provides a practical hands on guide to gastrointestinal physiology. The book emphasizes an appreciation of basic physiological concepts and their application to novel clinical situations. It exposes the physician-in-training to fundamental principles that are useful in treating patients and lays the groundwork for more advanced study in the future. The authors present relevant cases which incorporate newer adult learning strategies in medical education. These cases provide a forum i…
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- Author
- Trowers, Eugene
- Other Authors
- Tischler, Marc E.
- Responsibility
- Eugene Trowers, Marc Tischler
- Place of Publication
- Cham, Switzerland
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2014
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (vii, 199 pages)
- ISBN
- 9783319071640 (electronic bk.)
- 9783319071633
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Gastrointestinal Tract - physiology
- Subjects (LCSH)
- Gastroenterology
- Gastrointestinal system - Physiology
- Digestion
- Abstract
- This volume provides a practical hands on guide to gastrointestinal physiology. The book emphasizes an appreciation of basic physiological concepts and their application to novel clinical situations. It exposes the physician-in-training to fundamental principles that are useful in treating patients and lays the groundwork for more advanced study in the future. The authors present relevant cases which incorporate newer adult learning strategies in medical education. These cases provide a forum in which the student can apply acquired knowledge, skills and attitudes. Connections are made to reader's life, whether in the classroom, on the wards or out and about town. Designed for medical students who are studying gastrointestinal physiology for the first time, Gastrointestinal Physiology: A Clinical Approach provides a superb review for upper level medical students and house officers. Nursing and allied health professions students will also find this text to be a useful guide. GI fellows and attending physicians in need of a concise review of fundamental GI physiology principles will also benefit from reading this book.
- Contents
- Clinical Gastrointestinal Physiology: A Systems Approach -- Form and Function: The Physiological Implications of the Anatomy of the Gastrointestinal System -- Brain-Gut Axis and Regional Gastrointestinal Tract Motility -- Gastrointestinal Secretion: Aids in Digestion and Absorption -- Physiology of the Liver, Gallbladder and Pancreas: "Getting By" with Some Help from Your Friends -- Nutrient Exchange: Matching Digestion and Absorption -- Salt and Water: Intestinal Water and Electrolyte Transport -- Gastrointestinal Manometry: Tales of the Intrepid Transducer.
- Format
- e-Book
- Location
- Online
Gender Confirmation Surgery : Principles and Techniques for an Emerging Field
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat44868
Loren S. Schechter, editor.
--Cham:
Springer
, c2020.
- Available Online
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- Location
- Online
Gender confirming surgery represents one of many therapies for individuals with gender dysphoria and can be pivotal in allowing individuals to become their true selves. An emerging field, this text represents a continuing evolution of surgical techniques, as well as a framework around whisurgical therapies are based. Providing a fundamental understanding of the surgical principles while also recognizing the fast-paced nature of the advances in technique, Gender Confirmation Surgery touches upon…
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- Other Authors
- Schechter, Loren S.
- Responsibility
- Loren S. Schechter, editor
- Place of Publication
- Cham
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2020
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xi, 274 p.) : 180 illus. in color
- ISBN
- 9783030290931
- 9783030290924 (Print ed.)
- 9783030290948 (Print ed.)
- 9783030290955 (Print ed.)
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Sex Reassignment Procedures - methods
- Sex Reassignment Surgery - methods
- Transgender Persons
- Specialty
- Sexual Health
- Surgical Procedures, Operative
- Abstract
- Gender confirming surgery represents one of many therapies for individuals with gender dysphoria and can be pivotal in allowing individuals to become their true selves. An emerging field, this text represents a continuing evolution of surgical techniques, as well as a framework around whisurgical therapies are based. Providing a fundamental understanding of the surgical principles while also recognizing the fast-paced nature of the advances in technique, Gender Confirmation Surgery touches upon the challenges and complexities in the surgical care of transgender individuals, featuring detailed sections for transwomen and transmen surgeries, non-surgical options, and establishing educational programs. Written as a guide primarily for surgeons in plastics, urology, and gynecology, this book can also appeal to primary care practitioners, mental health professionals, and endocrinologists. By representing an evolution of technique and advances in the field, Gender Confirmation Surgery offers a framework around whipractitioners can familiarize themselves with gender surgery.
- Contents
- 1. History, Societal Attitudes, and Contexts -- 2. Etiology of Gender Dysphoria -- 3. History of Gender Identity and Surgical Alteration of the Genitalia -- 4. Language and Terminology in Transgender Health -- 5. The Mental Health Assessment for Surgery -- 6. Primary Care for the Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Patient -- 7. Hormone Therapy for Transgender Women -- 8. Hormone Therapy for Transgender Men -- 9. Medical Management of the Adolescent Individual with Gender Dysphoria -- 10. Male-to-Female Breast Augmentation and Body Contouring -- 11. The Importance of Facial Gender Confirmation Surgery -- 12. Facial Gender Affirmation Surgery: Facial Feminization Surgery and Facial Masculinization Surgery -- 13. Fertility Preservation Options for Transgender and Trans Masculine Patients Planning Hysterectomy 14. Penile Inversion Vaginoplasty -- 15. Intestinal Vaginoplasty -- 16. Chest Masculinization Surgery -- 17. Urethral Anatomy and Urethral Reconstruction in Phalloplasty and Metoidioplasty -- 18. MLD (Musculocutaneous Latissimus Dorsi) Phalloplasty -- 19. Radial Forearm (RF) and Anterolateral Thigh (ALT) Phalloplasty Reconstruction -- 20. Management of Urethral Complications Following Metoidioplasty and Phalloplasty -- 21. Strategies to Optimize Sexual Function with Feminizing and Masculinizing Genital Gender-Affirming Surgery -- 22. Postoperative Care from the Primary Care Perspective -- 23. Religious Attitudes Toward Gender-Confirming Surgery -- 24. Establishment of a Gender Confirmation Program.
- Format
- e-Book
- Location
- Online
High Performance in Hospital Management : A Guideline for Developing and Developed Countries
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat41878
Edda Weimann, Peter Weimann.
--Berlin, Heidelberg:
Springer
, 2017.
- Available Online
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- Location
- Online
This book provides a broad overview of what is needed to run hospitals and other health care facilities effectively and efficiently. All of the skills and tools required to achieve this aim are elucidated in the book, including business engineering and change management, strategic planning and the Balanced Scorecard, project management, integrative innovation management, social and ethical aspects of human resource management, communication and conflict management, staff development and leaders…
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- Author
- Weimann, Edda
- Other Authors
- Weimann, Peter
- Responsibility
- Edda Weimann, Peter Weimann
- Place of Publication
- Berlin, Heidelberg
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- 2017
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xix, 219 pages) : 65 illus., 57 illus. in color
- ISBN
- 9783662496602
- 9783662496589 (print ed.)
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Developed Countries
- Developing Countries
- Hospital Administration - standards
- Leadership
- Organizational Innovation
- Notes
- The book is based on the German edition "High performance im Krankenhausmanagement" and was adapted for health systems in developing and developed countries.
- Abstract
- This book provides a broad overview of what is needed to run hospitals and other health care facilities effectively and efficiently. All of the skills and tools required to achieve this aim are elucidated in the book, including business engineering and change management, strategic planning and the Balanced Scorecard, project management, integrative innovation management, social and ethical aspects of human resource management, communication and conflict management, staff development and leadership. The guidance offered is exceptional and applicable in both developed and developing countries. Furthermore, the relevant theoretical background is outlined and instructive case reports are included. Each chapter finishes with a summary and five reflective questions. Excellence can only be achieved when health care professionals show in addition to their medical skills a high level of managerial competence. High performance in Hospital Management assists managers of health care providers as well as doctors and nurses to engage in the successful management of a health care facility.
- Contents
- Engage your nurses, clinicians and patients to drive your hospital -- Create a corporate identity -- Develop your vision and communicate it -- Face your competitors -- Improve communication and appreciation -- Creating positive attitudes towards change -- Develop and communicate your strategy -- Find the best staff and develop their skills -- Manage your conflicts professionally -- Be a visionary leader.
- Format
- e-Book
- Location
- Online
Integrated palliative care of respiratory disease
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat32305
Stephen J. Bourke, E. Timothy Peel, editors.
--London:
Springer
, c2013.
- Available Online
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- Online
Palliative care of respiratory disease is often complex because of the high level of symptoms experienced by these patients and the variable and sometimes unpredictable trajectories of these diseases. It is often most appropriate to integrate palliative care into the multidisciplinary team with specialist palliative care clinicians working alongside the respiratory team. This encourages a focus on symptom management, supportive care and quality of life at an earlier stage in the disease process…
- Available Online
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- Other Authors
- Bourke, Stephen J
- Peel, E. Timothy
- Responsibility
- Stephen J. Bourke, E. Timothy Peel, editors
- Place of Publication
- London
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2013
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (x, 246 p. : 20 ill., 6 ill. in color)
- ISBN
- 9781447122302
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Palliative Care - methods
- Respiratory Tract Diseases - therapy
- Subjects (LCSH)
- Internal medicine
- Pneumology
- Pain medicine
- Abstract
- Palliative care of respiratory disease is often complex because of the high level of symptoms experienced by these patients and the variable and sometimes unpredictable trajectories of these diseases. It is often most appropriate to integrate palliative care into the multidisciplinary team with specialist palliative care clinicians working alongside the respiratory team. This encourages a focus on symptom management, supportive care and quality of life at an earlier stage in the disease process, and can facilitate discussions about advanced care planning and end of life issues. Integrated Palliative Care of Respiratory Disease brings together the knowledge, skills and attitudes of specialists in both respiratory and palliative medicine to focus on the palliative care of patients with respiratory diseases. The book begins with an overview of palliative care principles in relation to the palliation of chronic progressive lung disease, then delves into the causation and management of specific respiratory symptoms, and concludes with an overview of the management of the major lung diseases. This comprehensive text deals not only with end of life care but also with symptom control and supportive care to improve the quality of life of those living with advanced progressive lung disease. This book is an invaluable reference for doctors, trainees and clinical nurse specialists in respiratory and palliative medicine, and would be of interest to anyone who wishes to gain a better understanding of the complex nature of palliative care in respiratory disease.
- Contents
- 1. Palliative Care of Respiratory Disease -- 2. Breathlessness -- 3. Haemoptysis -- 4. Cough and Respiratory Secretions -- 5.Pain in Respiratory Disease -- 6. Lung Cancer -- 7. Pleural Effusions and Mesothelioma -- 8. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease -- 9. Interstitial Lung Disease -- 10. Cystic Fibrosis -- 11. Respiratory Care in Neuromuscular Disease -- 12. Palliative Care in the Intensive Care Unit -- 13: End of Life Care -- Appendix -- Index.
- Format
- e-Book
- Location
- Online
Integrated Palliative Care of Respiratory Disease
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat44649
Stephen J. Bourke, Tim Peel, editors.
(Second edition)
--Cham:
Springer
, c2019.
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- Location
- Online
The second edition of this book brings together the knowledge, skills and attitudes of specialists in both respiratory and palliative medicine to focus on the palliative care of patients with respiratory diseases. It deals not only with end of life care but also with symptom control and supportive care to improve the quality of life of those living their lives with advanced progressive lung disease. Integrated Palliative Care of Respiratory Disease builds on the previous edition introducing new…
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- View e-Book
- Other Authors
- Bourke, Stephen J.
- Peel, Tim
- Responsibility
- Stephen J. Bourke, Tim Peel, editors
- Edition
- Second edition
- Place of Publication
- Cham
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2019
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (x, 264 p.) : 18 illus., 10 illus. in color
- ISBN
- 9783030189440
- 9783030189433 (Print ed.)
- 9783030189457 (Print ed.)
- 9783030189464 (Print ed.)
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Palliative Care - methods
- Respiratory Tract Diseases - therapy
- Specialty
- Palliative Care
- Pulmonary Medicine
- Abstract
- The second edition of this book brings together the knowledge, skills and attitudes of specialists in both respiratory and palliative medicine to focus on the palliative care of patients with respiratory diseases. It deals not only with end of life care but also with symptom control and supportive care to improve the quality of life of those living their lives with advanced progressive lung disease. Integrated Palliative Care of Respiratory Disease builds on the previous edition introducing new models of care for patients with advanced lung disease. These models emphasize the introduction of palliative and supportive care at an earlier stage in the disease, and running disease-modifying and palliative treatments in parallel. There is a new chapter on the role of palliative care in lung transplantation. The book highlights significant new research into key respiratory diseases and some on-going controversies about issues such as best models of care for different diseases and advance care planning. This book is an invaluable reference for doctors, trainees and clinical nurse specialists in respiratory and palliative medicine, and is of interest to anyone who wishes to gain a better understanding of the complex nature of palliative care in respiratory disease.
- Contents
- Part I. Palliative Care Principles -- 1. Palliative Care of Respiratory Disease -- Part II. Respiratory Symptoms -- 2. Breathlessness -- 3. Hemoptysis -- 4. Cough and Respiratory Secretions -- 5. Pain in Respiratory Disease -- Part III. Respiratory Diseases -- 6. Lung Cancer -- 7. Malignant Pleural Effusions and Mesothelioma -- 8. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease -- 9. Interstitial Lung Disease -- 10. Cystic Fibrosis -- 11. Neuromuscular Disease -- 12. Palliative Care in the Critical Care Unit -- 13. Lung Transplantation -- Part IV. End of Life Care -- 14. End-of-Life Care -- Appendix: Respiratory Palliative Formulary.
- Format
- e-Book
- Location
- Online
