50 studies every internist should know
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat42099
edited by Kristopher J. Swiger, Joshua R. Thomas, Michael E. Hochman, Steven D. Hochman.
--Oxford, UK:
Oxford University Press
, c2015.
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50 Studies Every Internist Should Know presents key studies that shape today's practice of internal medicine. Selected using a rigorous methodology, the studies cover topics including: preventative medicine, endocrinology, hematology and oncology, musculoskeletal diseases, nephrology, gastroenterology, infectious diseases, cardiology, pulmonology, geriatrics and palliative care, and mental health.
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- Swiger, Kristopher J.
- Responsibility
- edited by Kristopher J. Swiger, Joshua R. Thomas, Michael E. Hochman, Steven D. Hochman
- Alternate Title
- Fifty studies every internist should know
- Studies every internist should know
- Place of Publication
- Oxford, UK
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Date of Publication
- c2015
- Physical Description
- 332 p.
- Series Title
- 50 studies every doctor should know
- ISBN
- 9780199349937
- Abstract
- 50 Studies Every Internist Should Know presents key studies that shape today's practice of internal medicine. Selected using a rigorous methodology, the studies cover topics including: preventative medicine, endocrinology, hematology and oncology, musculoskeletal diseases, nephrology, gastroenterology, infectious diseases, cardiology, pulmonology, geriatrics and palliative care, and mental health.
- Format
- e-Book
- Location
- Online
Adolescent Health and Wellbeing : Current Strategies and Future Trends
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat44756
Alessandro Pingitore, Francesca Mastorci, Cristina Vassalle, editors.
--Cham:
Springer
, c2019.
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This book presents a detailed and updated review of the widespread changes that take place during adolescence, adopting a preventive perspective that reflects physical, social, cognitive, and emotional changes. It addresses a broad range of aspects, including: the preventive programs and their systemic effects; the role of environment in influencing the healthy behaviors of adolescents and young adults; the use of e-Health technology in health and behavioral interventions for adolescents; and t…
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- Pingitore, Alessandro
- Mastorci, Francesca
- Vassalle, Cristina
- Responsibility
- Alessandro Pingitore, Francesca Mastorci, Cristina Vassalle, editors
- Place of Publication
- Cham
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2019
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xii, 352 p.) : 45 illus., 37 illus. in color
- ISBN
- 9783030258160
- 9783030258153 (Print ed.)
- 9783030258177 (Print ed.)
- 9783030258184 (Print ed.)
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Adolescent
- Health Promotion
- Preventive Medicine
- Social Determinants of Health
- Subjects (LCSH)
- Pediatrics
- Health promotion
- Primary care (Medicine)
- Medical policy
- Child psychiatry
- Specialty
- Adolescent Health
- Abstract
- This book presents a detailed and updated review of the widespread changes that take place during adolescence, adopting a preventive perspective that reflects physical, social, cognitive, and emotional changes. It addresses a broad range of aspects, including: the preventive programs and their systemic effects; the role of environment in influencing the healthy behaviors of adolescents and young adults; the use of e-Health technology in health and behavioral interventions for adolescents; and the clinical and prognostic implications of primordial prevention in healthy adolescents. All of these elements are subsequently reviewed using a multidimensional approach, in order to offer extensive information on the complex changes that characterize adolescents’ physiological, psychological, and neurobiological development. In addition, the book depicts the preventive strategies currently used in various social settings (school, family, sport club, health policies) aimed not only at reducing lifestyle risk behaviors, but also at improving resilience, happiness, social involvement, self-esteem, and sociability. This update is essential in the light of the fact that, to date, prevention has mainly been directed towards adolescents with physical or mental disorders rather than their healthy peers. As such, the book offers a valuable tool for pediatricians, child and adolescents psychiatrists, and for all professionals involved in Health Promotion and Disease Prevention.
- Contents
- Part I. Primordial Prevention: General Aspects - 1. Preventive Primordial Strategies: Times Are Changing -- 2. Fetal Programming of Adult Disease in a Translational Point of View -- 3. Physical Activity, Sedentary Behaviour and Mental Health in Young People: A Review of Reviews -- 4. Habits and Quality of Diet -- 5. Biochemical Markers in Primordial Prevention: Premises and Promises -- Part II. Adolescents’ Mental Health and Well-Being -- 6. Prenatal and Early Postnatal Influences on Neurodevelopment: The Role of Epigenetics -- 7. The Role of Environmental Enrichment on Neurodevelopment: Emotion Regulation in Adolescence as a Model Paradigm -- 8. Relationship Between Emotions, Sleep and Well-Being -- 9. Adolescents in the 21st Century: Back to Dialogue from Marked Lives vs Dreamed Lives -- Part III. Adolescence and the Social Determinants of Health -- 10. Adolescence and Social Determinants of Health: Family and Community -- 11. The Role of Well-Being in the School of Inclusion -- 12. Two-Faced Janus: The Role of Peers in Adolescence -- Part IV. The Digital Era in Adolescent’s Health and Well-Being -- 13. Adolescence Between Past and Future -- 14. e-Health Strategies -- 15. Images and Perspectives of Play for Children’s and Adolescents’ Well-being -- 16. New Perspectives for Multidisciplinary and Integrated Strategies of Adolescent Health and Well-being.
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- e-Book
- Location
- Online
An Information Technology Framework for Predictive, Preventive and Personalised Medicine : A Use-Case with Hepatocellular Carcinoma
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat39137
Leonard Berliner, Heinz U. Lemke, editors.
--Cham:
Springer
, c2015.
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This book explores how PPPM, clinical practice, and basic research could be best served by information technology (IT). A use-case was developed for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). The subject was approached with four interrelated tasks: (1) review of clinical practices relating to HCC; (2) propose an IT system relating to HCC, including clinical decision support and research needs; (3) determine how a clinical liver cancer center can contribute; and, (4) examine the enhancements and impact tha…
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- Other Authors
- Berliner, Leonard
- Lemke, Heinz U
- Responsibility
- Leonard Berliner, Heinz U. Lemke, editors
- Place of Publication
- Cham
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2015
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xx, 130 p. : 23 illus., 15 illus. in color)
- Series Vol.
- v. 8
- ISBN
- 9783319121666
- 9783319121659 (print ed.)
- ISSN
- 2211-3495
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Carcinoma, Hepatocellular - therapy
- Medical Informatics - methods
- Precision Medicine - methods
- Preventive Medicine - methods
- Abstract
- This book explores how PPPM, clinical practice, and basic research could be best served by information technology (IT). A use-case was developed for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). The subject was approached with four interrelated tasks: (1) review of clinical practices relating to HCC; (2) propose an IT system relating to HCC, including clinical decision support and research needs; (3) determine how a clinical liver cancer center can contribute; and, (4) examine the enhancements and impact that the first three tasks will have on the management of HCC. An IT System for Personalized Medicine (ITS-PM) for HCC will provide the means to identify and determine the relative value of the wide number of variables, including clinical assessment of the patient -- functional status, liver function, degree of cirrhosis, and comorbidities; tumor biology, at a molecular, genetic and anatomic level; tumor burden and individual patient response; medical and operative treatments and their outcomes.
- Contents
- Preface -- Introduction -- The Digital Patient Model and Model Guided Therapy -- Hepatocellular Carcinoma and Patient Assessment -- Imaging in Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Radiologic Assessment -- Imaging in Hepatocellular Carcinoma: PET/CT -- Personalized Chemotherapy for Hepatocellular Carcinoma -- Surgical Treatment for Hepatocellular Carcinoma -- Minimally Invasive Therapies for Hepatocellular Cancer: Ablation Technologies -- Minimally Invasive Therapies for Hepatocellular Cancer: Ablation Therapies -- Minimally Invasive Therapies for Hepatocellular Cancer: Catheter-Directed Therapies -- Radiation Oncology in the Treatment of Hepatocellular Carcinoma -- Design of an IT System for Hepatocellular Carcinoma -- Outlook and Expert Recommendations for Predictive, Preventive and Personalized Medicine and Hepatocellular Carcinoma.
- Format
- e-Book
- Location
- Online
Canadian guide to clinical preventive health care, The
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat52944
Richard B. Goldbloom, editor and chairman.
--Ottawa, ON:
Canada Communication Group - Publishing
, 1994.
- Call Number
- WA 108 DC2 C21 1994 RES
- Location
- IWK Health Sciences Library
- Sub-Location
- RESERVE
- Call Number
- WA 108 DC2 C21 1994 RES
- Author
- Goldbloom, Richard B.
- Corporate Author
- Canadian Task Force on the Periodic Health Examination
- Responsibility
- Richard B. Goldbloom, editor and chairman
- Alternate Title
- Clinical preventive health care
- Place of Publication
- Ottawa, ON
- Publisher
- Canada Communication Group - Publishing
- Date of Publication
- 1994
- Physical Description
- 1009 p.
- ISBN
- 660157322
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Preventive Health Services
- Preventive Medicine
- Primary Prevention
- Immunization
- Immunization Programs
- Mass Screening
- Canada
- Notes
- Issued also in French under title: Guide canadien de médecine clinique préventive.
- Format
- Book
- Location
- IWK Health Sciences Library
- Sub-Location
- RESERVE
- Copies
- 1
- Loan Period
- In library use
Defining prevention science
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat33435
Zili Sloboda, Hanno Petras, editors.
--New York:
Springer
, c2014.
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Whoever coined the adage "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure" could not have known how important this adage would become. The challenge of altering the health trajectories of poor lifestyle decisions for such behaviors as smoking, drinking, and using illicit drugs, violence, dropping out of school, engagement in risky sexual behaviors, and crime through prevention research has led to a new discipline, prevention science. DefiningPrevention Science covers this emerging field of scie…
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- Other Authors
- Sloboda, Zili
- Petras, Hanno
- Responsibility
- Zili Sloboda, Hanno Petras, editors
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2014
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xxii, 626 pages)
- Series Vol.
- [1]
- Series Title
- Advances in prevention science
- ISBN
- 9781489974242 (electronic bk.)
- 9781489974235
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Preventive Medicine - methods
- Preventive Health Services
- Subjects (LCSH)
- Medicine, Preventive
- Medical care
- Abstract
- Whoever coined the adage "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure" could not have known how important this adage would become. The challenge of altering the health trajectories of poor lifestyle decisions for such behaviors as smoking, drinking, and using illicit drugs, violence, dropping out of school, engagement in risky sexual behaviors, and crime through prevention research has led to a new discipline, prevention science. DefiningPrevention Science covers this emerging field of science: its goals,its conceptual and theoretical foundations, its methods, and especially its utility. Not content to simply differentiate the field from its close allies: epidemiology, psychology, neuroscience, sociology, economics, the text explains how these many disciplines enhance each other at both research and intervention levels, and how prevention science draws on these biological, behavioral, and social sciences to create an innovative knowledge base that has provided cost-effective, evidence-based prevention interventions and policies. To this end, familiar developmental benchmarks are recast in prevention/health promotion context, from the crucial importance of adolescence in encountering and deterring high-risk behaviors to the risks and resiliencies of single-mother families. An international group of contributors offers current findings, up-to-date methods for effective evidence-based interventions, and improvements in research technologies in these key areas: Physical, cognitive, and emotional vulnerability across the life course. The roles of developmental influences in prevention. Intervention development, delivery, and implementation. Bringing the intervention approach to research design. New directions in analytic methods. Cost analysis and policy implications. Defining Prevention Science aims to inspire further refinements in the field and encourage communication among researchers in its own and related disciplines, including public health, epidemiology, psychology, and criminology. This is the first volume in the series, Advances in Prevention Science, that provides the framework for other volume that will focus on such issues as: Prevention Science in School Settings: Complex Relationships and Processes; Preventing Crime and Violence; and The Prevention of Substance Use.
- Contents
- Prevention Science: An Epidemiological Approach -- Part I. Individual Physical, Cognitive, and Emotional Vulnerability Across the Life Course: Benchmarks and Developmental Challenges -- Benchmarks, Developmental Challenges, and Risks During the Prenatal and Infancy Period -- Childhood and the Entry into Adolescence: A Pivotal Period in Health-Related Behaviors and Prevention -- Adolescence and Early Adulthood -- Stressors and Vulnerabilities in Middle and Old Age: Opportunities for Prevention -- Part II. Environmental Influences and Implications for Intervention Development -- Family -- School Influences on Child and Youth Development -- Peer Networks -- Risk and Resilience Processes in Single-Mother Families: An Interactionist Perspective -- Environmental Influences: The Workplace and Mental Health-Models, Vulnerability Factors, and Interventions -- An Integrated Prevention Science Model: A Conceptual Foundation for Prevention Research -- Design of Prevention Interventions -- Implementation Science and the Effective Delivery of Evidence-Based Prevention -- Factors Affecting Implementation: Cultural Adaptation and Training -- Measuring Fidelity -- Part III. Research Design -- Translating the Intervention Approach into an Appropriate Research Design: The Next-Generation Adaptive Designs for Effectiveness and Implementation Research -- The Epidemiologic Case-Crossover and Case-Control Approaches in Prevention Research -- The Use of Simulation Models in Public Health with Applications to Substance Abuse and Obesity Problems -- Meta-analysis in Prevention Science -- Mixed Methods Research Design for Prevention Science: Methods, Critiques, and Recommendations -- Part IV. Analytic Methods -- Latent Class Analysis in Prevention Science -- Discrete-Time Survival Analysis in Prevention Science -- Using Mediation and Moderation Analyses to Enhance Prevention Research -- Advances in Missing Data Models and Fidelity Issues of Implementing These Methods in Prevention Science -- Part V. Cost Analysis and Policy -- Economic Analysis and Policy Studies: Special Challenges in the Prevention Sciences -- Strengthening Prevention Science to Ensure Effectiveness of Intervention in Practice: Setting up an International Agenda.
- Format
- e-Book
- Location
- Online
The encyclopedia of primary prevention and health promotion
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat33278
Thomas P. Gullota, Martin Bloom, editors.
(Second edition)
--New York:
Springer Reference
, c2014.
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- View e-Book
- Location
- Online
- Available Online
- View e-Book
- Other Authors
- Gullotta, Thomas P
- Bloom, Martin
- Responsibility
- Thomas P. Gullota, Martin Bloom, editors
- Edition
- Second edition
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Publisher
- Springer Reference
- Date of Publication
- c2014
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource
- ISBN
- 9781461459996 (electronic bk.)
- 9781461459989
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Health Promotion
- Preventive Medicine
- Primary Health Care
- Subjects (LCSH)
- Health promotion - Encyclopedias
- Medicine, Preventive - Encyclopedias
- Format
- e-Book
- Location
- Online
Guide to clinical preventive services : report of the U.S. Preventive Services Task
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat53462
United States Preventive Services Task Force.
(2nd ed.)
--Baltimore, MD:
Williams & Wilkins
, 1996.
- Call Number
- WA 108 AA1 U84 1996
- Location
- IWK Health Sciences Library
- Call Number
- WA 108 AA1 U84 1996
- Corporate Author
- United States Preventive Services Task Force
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Place of Publication
- Baltimore, MD
- Publisher
- Williams & Wilkins
- Date of Publication
- 1996
- Physical Description
- 953 p. : ill.
- ISBN
- 683002376
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Preventive Medicine
- Health Promotion
- Health Promotion - methods
- Preventive Health Services
- Primary Prevention - standards
- United States
- Notes
- Donated by: Dr. Goldbloom, Pediatrics, 1996.
- Format
- Book
- Location
- IWK Health Sciences Library
- Copies
- 1
- Loan Period
- 2 weeks
Health promotion throughout the life span
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat24498
Edelman, Carole Lium.
(7th ed.)
--St. Louis, MO:
Mosby Elsevier
, 2010.
- Call Number
- WY 100 E21h 2010
- Location
- Nova Scotia Hospital
- Call Number
- WY 100 E21h 2010
- Author
- Edelman, Carole Lium
- Other Authors
- Mandle, Carol Lynn
- Edition
- 7th ed.
- Place of Publication
- St. Louis, MO
- Publisher
- Mosby Elsevier
- Date of Publication
- 2010
- Physical Description
- 697 p.
- ISBN
- 9780323056625
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Health Promotion
- Preventive Medicine
- Format
- Book
- Location
- Nova Scotia Hospital
- Loan Period
- 3 weeks
Healthy people 2000 : national health promotion and disease prevention objectives
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat53555
United States Department of Health and Human Services. Public Health Service.
--Washington, DC:
United States Department of Health and Human Services
, [1991].
- Call Number
- WA 100 H42 1991
- Location
- IWK Health Sciences Library
- Call Number
- WA 100 H42 1991
- Place of Publication
- Washington, DC
- Publisher
- United States Department of Health and Human Services
- Date of Publication
- [1991]
- Physical Description
- 692 p. : ill.
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Health Promotion
- Preventive Medicine
- Public Health
- United States
- Format
- Book
- Location
- IWK Health Sciences Library
- Copies
- 1
- Loan Period
- 2 weeks
Indoor Environmental Quality and Health Risk toward Healthier Environment for All
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat44855
Reiko Kishi, Dan Norbäck, Atsuko Araki, editors.
--Singapore:
Springer
, c2020.
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- Location
- Online
This volume discusses the effects of indoor air environment and pollution in modern buildings on human health. Highlighting epidemiological studies and the determining factors, it offers proposals for improving indoor air quality (IAQ) in different environments. Focusing not only on homes and offices, but also vehicles and aircrafts, it details practical methods of measuring and assessing indoor air quality. Written by pioneering researchers, Indoor Environmental Quality and Health Risk toward …
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- Other Authors
- Kishi, Reiko
- Norbäck, Dan
- Araki, Atsuko
- Responsibility
- Reiko Kishi, Dan Norbäck, Atsuko Araki, editors
- Place of Publication
- Singapore
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2020
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (viii, 333 p.) : 75 illus., 50 illus. in color
- ISBN
- 9789813291829
- 9789813291812 (Print ed.)
- 9789813291836 (Print ed.)
- 9789813291843 (Print ed.)
- ISSN
- 2364-8333
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Air Pollutants
- Air Pollution, Indoor
- Environmental Exposure
- Environmental Health
- Preventive Medicine
- Quality Improvement
- Specialty
- Environmental Health
- Abstract
- This volume discusses the effects of indoor air environment and pollution in modern buildings on human health. Highlighting epidemiological studies and the determining factors, it offers proposals for improving indoor air quality (IAQ) in different environments. Focusing not only on homes and offices, but also vehicles and aircrafts, it details practical methods of measuring and assessing indoor air quality. Written by pioneering researchers, Indoor Environmental Quality and Health Risk toward Healthier Environment for All is a valuable resource for both new and established researchers as well as students seeking a comprehensive overview of the facts on indoor air quality and health. Also is also of interest to hygiene experts in industry, occupational health and safety professionals, governmental public health sectors and school physicians.
- Contents
- Part I. Introduction -- 1. Importance of Indoor Environmental Quality on Human Health toward Achievement of the SDGs -- Part II. Epidemiological Studies on Indoor Air Quality and Health -- 2. Sick Building/House Syndrome -- 3. Associations with Home Environment for Asthma, Rhinitis and Dermatitis -- 4. Offices -- 5. The Indoor Environment in Schools, Kindergartens and Day Care Centres -- 6. In-Vehicle Exposures at Transportation and the Health Concerns -- Part III. Factors Determining Indoor Air Qualities and Their Health Impacts -- 7. Aldehydes, Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs), and Health -- 8. Semi-Volatile Organic Compounds (SVOCs): Phthalates and Phosphorous Frame Retardants and Health Risks -- 9. Microbial Agents in the Indoor Environment: Associations with Health -- 10. Dampness, Indoor Mould and Health -- 11. Particles Matter, Nitrogen Dioxide and Sulfur Dioxide -- 12. Combustion and Cookstoves -- 13. Indoor Thermal Environment and Cardiovascular Diseases -- Part IV. Provision for Improving Indoor Environment Quality and Health -- 14. Housing Performance and Equipment for Healthy Indoor Environment -- 15. Sick Building Syndrome (SBS), Personality, Psychosocial Factors and Treatment -- 16. Guidelines and Regulations for Indoor Environmental Quality -- Part V. Conclusion -- 17. Future Directions of Research on Indoor Environment, Indoor Air Quality (IAQ), and Health.
- Format
- e-Book
- Location
- Online
Integrative medicine
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat31903
[edited by] David Rakel.
(4th ed.)
--Philadelphia, PA:
Elsevier
, c2018.
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- Access
- Registration required for PDF access.
- Location
- Online
- Available Online
- View e-Book
- Other Authors
- Rakel, David
- Responsibility
- [edited by] David Rakel
- Edition
- 4th ed.
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia, PA
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Date of Publication
- c2018
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource
- ISBN
- 9780323358682 (electronic bk.)
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Integrative Medicine - methods
- Complementary Therapies - methods
- Preventive Medicine - methods
- Primary Health Care - methods
- Subjects (LCSH)
- Integrative medicine
- Medicine - Practice
- Integrative Medicine - methods
- Complementary Therapies - methods
- Preventive Medicine - methods
- Primary Health Care - methods
- Specialty
- Complementary Therapies
- Integrative Medicine
- Access
- Registration required for PDF access.
- Format
- e-Book
- Location
- Online
Integrative medicine
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat50843
Rakel, David.
(4th ed.)
--Philadelphia, PA:
Elsevier
, 2018.
- Available Online
- View e-Book
- Location
- Online
- Available Online
- View e-Book
- Author
- Rakel, David
- Edition
- 4th ed.
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia, PA
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Date of Publication
- 2018
- ISBN
- 9780323358682
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Integrative Medicine - methods
- Complementary Therapies - methods
- Preventive Medicine - methods
- Primary Health Care - methods
- Notes
- Access to this online resource is restricted to IWK Health Centre employees working from inside the hospital network.
- Format
- e-Book
- Location
- Online
Jekel's epidemiology, biostatistics, preventive medicine, and public health
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat50857
Elmore, Joann G.
(5th ed.)
--Philadelphia, PA:
Elsevier
, 2019.
- Available Online
- View e-Book
- Location
- Online
- Available Online
- View e-Book
- Author
- Elmore, Joann G.
- Other Authors
- Wild, Dorothea
- Katz, David L.
- Nelson, Heidi D.
- Edition
- 5th ed.
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia, PA
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Date of Publication
- 2019
- ISBN
- 9780323642019
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Biometry
- Epidemiologic Methods
- Preventive Medicine
- Notes
- Access to this online resource is restricted to IWK Health Centre employees working from inside the hospital network.
- Format
- e-Book
- Location
- Online
Macrosocial Determinants of Population Health
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat28243
by Sandro Galea.
--New York, NY:
Springer Science+Business Media
, c2007.
- Available Online
- View e-Book
- Location
- Online
- Available Online
- View e-Book
- Author
- Galea, Sandro
- Responsibility
- by Sandro Galea
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Publisher
- Springer Science+Business Media
- Date of Publication
- c2007
- Physical Description
- xi, 502 p.
- ISBN
- 9780387708126
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Health Promotion
- Population Health
- Preventive Medicine
- Public Health
- Social Determinants of Health
- Social Medicine
- Socioeconomic Factors
- Format
- e-Book
- Location
- Online
Medicine of the future : risk assessment, elimination or mitigation and action plans for 28 diseases and medical conditions
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat33458
Yann Meunier.
--Cham, Switzerland:
Springer
, c2014.
- Available Online
- View e-Book
- Location
- Online
This book outlines risk assessments for 28 diseases and medical conditions including the following aspects: genetics, biochemistry, serology, past medical history, family history, co-morbidities, age, gender, ethnicity, nutrition and lifestyle. Recommendations are made for how to avoid, eliminate or mitigate risks. Preventing measures concerning chemical compound intake, lifestyle and nutrition are proposed. The unique content and approach of the book to chronic disease management make it a sta…
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- Author
- Meunier, Yann
- Responsibility
- Yann Meunier
- Alternate Title
- Risk assessment, elimination or mitigation and action plans for twenty eight diseases and medical conditions
- Place of Publication
- Cham, Switzerland
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2014
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xvi, 163 pages)
- ISBN
- 9783319072999 (electronic bk.)
- 9783319072982
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Chronic Disease - prevention & control
- Health Behavior
- Preventive Medicine
- Risk Assessment
- Risk Factors
- Subjects (LCSH)
- Medical innovations
- Abstract
- This book outlines risk assessments for 28 diseases and medical conditions including the following aspects: genetics, biochemistry, serology, past medical history, family history, co-morbidities, age, gender, ethnicity, nutrition and lifestyle. Recommendations are made for how to avoid, eliminate or mitigate risks. Preventing measures concerning chemical compound intake, lifestyle and nutrition are proposed. The unique content and approach of the book to chronic disease management make it a state-of-the-art reference work, addressing a missing component of medical care and reflecting the cutting edge of preventive medicine.
- Contents
- 1. Diseases and Medical Conditions -- 1.1 Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm -- 1.2 Alzheimer’s Disease -- 1.3 Atrial Fibrillation -- 1.4 Brain Aneurysm -- 1.5 Breast Cancer -- 1.6 Celiac Disease -- 1.7 Colorectal Cancer -- 1.8 Crohn’s Disease -- 1.9 Deep Venous Thrombosis -- 1.10 Diabetes Mellitus (Type 2 -- 1.11 Glaucoma -- 1.12 Graves’ Disease -- 1.13 Hemochromatosis (Primary/HFE Related) -- 1.14 Lactose Intolerance -- 1.15 Lung Cancer -- 1.16 Lupus Erythematosus (Systemic) -- 1.17 Macular Degeneration (Age Related) -- 1.18 Melanoma -- 1.19 Multiple Sclerosis -- 1.20 Myocardial Infarction -- 1.21 Obesity -- 1.22 Osteoarthritis -- 1.23 Prostate Cancer -- 1.24 Psoriasis -- 1.25 Restless Legs Syndrome -- 1.26 Rheumatoid Arthritis -- 1.27 Sarcoidosis -- 1.28 Stomach Cancer (Hereditary Diffuse Gastric Cancer) -- 2. Pointer Documents -- Appendices.
- Format
- e-Book
- Location
- Online
New strategies to advance pre/diabetes care : integrative approach by PPPM
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat32643
Mahmood S. Mozaffari, editor.
--Dordrecht:
Springer
, c2013.
- Available Online
- View e-Book
- Location
- Online
The writings of earliest civilizations reveal that diabetes mellitus has afflicted man for a very long time. Unfortunately, however, we are now experiencing a world-wide pandemic of the disease which has not been adequately addressed. Available evidence suggests that worldwide every 10 seconds one patient dies of diabetes and its severe complications. The outlook is even more bleak with the prediction of half of a billion diabetic patients by the year 2030. The cost-impact of the disease poses …
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- View e-Book
- Other Authors
- Mozaffari, Mahmood S
- Responsibility
- Mahmood S. Mozaffari, editor
- Place of Publication
- Dordrecht
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2013
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xvii, 538 p. : 146 ill., 116 ill. in color)
- ISBN
- 9789400759718
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Diabetes Mellitus - prevention & control
- Individualized Medicine - methods
- Prediabetic State - prevention & control
- Preventive Medicine - methods
- Subjects (LCSH)
- Medicine
- Diabetes
- Endocrinology
- Metabolic diseases
- Nephrology
- Cytology
- Abstract
- The writings of earliest civilizations reveal that diabetes mellitus has afflicted man for a very long time. Unfortunately, however, we are now experiencing a world-wide pandemic of the disease which has not been adequately addressed. Available evidence suggests that worldwide every 10 seconds one patient dies of diabetes and its severe complications. The outlook is even more bleak with the prediction of half of a billion diabetic patients by the year 2030. The cost-impact of the disease poses a major challenge for both developed and developing countries and their economies. Thus, it is high time to reconsider and revise the current strategies in diabetes care. Accordingly, a paradigm shift from reactive to perspective medicine has become a timely consideration. This shift is based on the concept of Predictive, Preventive and Personalized Medicine (PPPM). The rationale for PPPM relates to the recognition that prediction of persons at high risk for the disease (i.e., diabetes mellitus) should help devise strategies to prevent its target organ complications, and create effective treatments tailored to the individual patient, thereby reducing morbidity, and associated costs, and mortality. The current book entitled 'New Strategies to Advance Pre/Diabetes Care: Integrative Approach by PPPM' is intended to serve as a reference source for researchers and the healthcare industry with a special emphasis on health promotion in the general population and help design innovative strategies to prevent the onset of diabetes mellitus and its secondary complications.
- Contents
- Global Figures Argue in Favour of Preventive Measures and Personalised Treatment to Optimise Diabetes Care -- Three Levels of Prediction, Prevention & Individualised Treatment Algorithms to Advance Diabetes Care: Integrative Approach -- Diabetes mellitus: new challenges and innovative therapies -- Identification of Biomarkers for beta cell failure as detection tools for predictive screening in type 2 pre-Diabetes -- Endothelial dysfunction in diabetes: role of circulating biomarkers as potential diagnostic and prognostic tolls -- Endothelial progenitor dysfunction in the pathogenesis of diabetic retinopathy: treatment concept to correct diabetes-associated deficits -- Oxidative stress and apoptotic biomarkers in diabetic retinopathy -- Diabetic Retinopathy: the Need for Predictive, Preventive and Personalized Approach to Management -- The role of inflammatory cytokines in diabetic nephropathy: Potential use as predictive markers for early detection and progression -- Preventing hyperglycemia and tissue injury in diabetes: The dynamic role of 2,3 dioxygenase in diabetes and its complications -- An Integrative Approach to Chronic Wounds in Patients with Diabetes: PPPM in Action -- Understanding inflammation as the key to targeted preventive measures for diabetes in relation to periodontics -- Cancer predisposition in diabetics: risk assessment and targeted preventive measures -- Recognition of individual risks by analysis of subcellular imaging insights into chromium picolinate therapy in pre/diabetes care, search into its safety and opinion controversy -- Remote control in diabetes -- Drug delivery systems for predictive medicine: polymers as tools for advanced application -- Author Index -- Subject Index.
- Format
- e-Book
- Location
- Online
Preventing disease : beyond the rhetoric
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat54251
Richard B. Goldbloom [and] Robert S. Lawrence, editors.
--New York, NY:
Springer-Verlag
, 1990.
- Call Number
- WA 108 P94 1990
- Location
- IWK Health Sciences Library
- Call Number
- WA 108 P94 1990
- Author
- Goldbloom, Richard B.
- Responsibility
- Richard B. Goldbloom [and] Robert S. Lawrence, editors
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Date of Publication
- 1990
- Physical Description
- 487 p.
- Series Title
- Frontiers of primary care
- ISBN
- 387970630
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Health Promotion
- Mass Screening
- Preventive Health Services
- Preventive Medicine
- Format
- Book
- Location
- IWK Health Sciences Library
- Copies
- 1
- Loan Period
- 2 weeks
Prevention : the science and art of promoting health child and adolescent development
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat54253
Borkowski, John G.
--Baltimore, MD:
Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co.
, 2006.
- Call Number
- WS 105.5 P86 2006
- Location
- IWK Health Sciences Library
- Call Number
- WS 105.5 P86 2006
- Author
- Borkowski, John G.
- Other Authors
- Weaver, Chelsea M.
- Place of Publication
- Baltimore, MD
- Publisher
- Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co.
- Date of Publication
- 2006
- Physical Description
- 298 p.
- ISBN
- 155766868X
- Format
- Book
- Location
- IWK Health Sciences Library
- Copies
- 1
- Loan Period
- 2 weeks
Preventive and Predictive Genetics : Towards Personalised Medicine
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat39215
Godfrey Grech, Iris Grossman, editors.
--Cham:
Springer
, c2015.
- Available Online
- View e-Book
- Location
- Online
Traditionally, medical research comprised of the identification of the pathological causes of a disease, its epidemiology and empirical investigation of treatment response. Intensive genetic research, marked by the completion of the human genome project in 2003, heralded a new era in medical research. While epidemiology and gross pathology are still mainstay useful tools, genetics and genomics have gradually been shown to increase the resolution of drug response research, showing great potentia…
- Available Online
- View e-Book
- Other Authors
- Grech, Godfrey
- Grossman, Iris
- Responsibility
- Godfrey Grech, Iris Grossman, editors
- Place of Publication
- Cham
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2015
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xx, 378 p. : 18 illus., 8 illus. in color)
- Series Vol.
- v. 9
- ISBN
- 9783319153445
- 9783319153438 (print ed.)
- ISSN
- 2211-3495
- Abstract
- Traditionally, medical research comprised of the identification of the pathological causes of a disease, its epidemiology and empirical investigation of treatment response. Intensive genetic research, marked by the completion of the human genome project in 2003, heralded a new era in medical research. While epidemiology and gross pathology are still mainstay useful tools, genetics and genomics have gradually been shown to increase the resolution of drug response research, showing great potential in also informing and identifying the role of genes and their encoded products in the pathophysiology of diseases. This information is already being applied in the prevention of illness, effective early diagnosis, better risk assessment (prognosis), as well as targeted effective and safe treatment allocation (prediction and monitoring). Genetic testing and genomics support personalised medicine by translating genome-based knowledge into clinical practice, offering enhanced benefit for patients and health-care systems at large. Current routine practice for diagnosing and treating patients is conducted by correlating parameters such as age, gender and weight with risks and expected treatment outcomes. In the new era of personalised medicine the healthcare provider is equipped with improved ability to prevent, diagnose, treat and predict outcomes on the basis of complex information sources, including genetic and genomic data. Targeted therapy and reliable prediction of expected outcomes offer patients access to better healthcare management, by way of identifying the therapies effective for the relevant patient group, avoiding prescription of unnecessary treatment and reducing the likelihood of developing adverse drug reactions.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Preventive and Predictive Genetics: a perspective -- Roadmap to Drug Development Enabled by Pharmacogenetics -- Preventative and Predictive Genetics: Towards Personalised Medicine -- Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacogenetics: bringing the magic bullet closer to reality -- Pharmacogenetics of Adverse Drug Reactions -- Pharmacogenomics for Haemoglobinopathies Therapeutics -- Pharmacogenetics of Neurodegenerative Disorders -- Pharmacogenetics of Asthma -- Pharmacogenetics and Antineoplastic Therapies -- Pharmacogenetics of Coumarin Anticoagulant Therapy -- Implementation of Genomic Medicine: tools and challenges -- Ethical Considerations in the Genomic Era.
- Format
- e-Book
- Location
- Online
Rare Diseases : Integrative PPPM Approach as the Medicine of the Future
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat39544
Meral Özgüç, editor.
--Dordrecht:
Springer Netherlands
, c2015.
- Available Online
- View e-Book
- Location
- Online
This book focuses on predictive, preventative and personalised medicine (PPPM) and how it is related to the healthcare of rare diseases. Readers will discover how advanced rare diseases healthcare provides an excellent "proof-of-principles" for the personalisation of healthcare systems on a global scale. Chapters look at national plans for rare disease, at biobanking, gene identification, rare cancers, virus gene therapy, induced pluripotency for cell therapy amongst other topics. There is a ch…
- Available Online
- View e-Book
- Other Authors
- Özgüç, Meral
- Responsibility
- Meral Özgüç, editor
- Alternate Title
- Integrative predictive, preventive, personalised medicine approach as the medicine of the future
- Place of Publication
- Dordrecht
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Date of Publication
- c2015
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xviii, 208 p. : 12 illus., 11 illus. in color)
- Series Vol.
- v. 6
- ISBN
- 9789401792141
- 9789401792134 (print ed.)
- ISSN
- 2211-3495
- Abstract
- This book focuses on predictive, preventative and personalised medicine (PPPM) and how it is related to the healthcare of rare diseases. Readers will discover how advanced rare diseases healthcare provides an excellent "proof-of-principles" for the personalisation of healthcare systems on a global scale. Chapters look at national plans for rare disease, at biobanking, gene identification, rare cancers, virus gene therapy, induced pluripotency for cell therapy amongst other topics. There is a chapter dedicated to personalised medicine for hereditary deafness, and another exploring the complexity of genotype-phenotype correlations. Specific diseases such as Fabry's, Gauchers and mitochondrial cytopathies are highlighted and we look at enzyme replacement therapy in lysosomal storage diseases. This work is part of a series, produced with the involvement of the European Association for Predictive, Preventive and Personalised Medicine. The series focusses on the concept of an integrative medical approach by PPPM. This volume is dedicated to all aspects related to the prediction, prevention and personalised treatments of rare diseases, and in doing so it explores developments relevant to all medical branches. The authors cover ethical considerations, the creation of a robust platform for professional communication, synergies with patient organisations, "doctor-patient" collaboration and a new philosophy of integrative medicine by PPPM. This volume serves as a reference source for scientific and medical centres in the field and can be used both at medical curricula and graduate level in the life sciences. Those who place a special emphasis on healthcare promotion and innovations intended to combat rare diseases, save the affected lives and enhance life quality will all find this book of great value.
- Contents
- National Plans on Rare Diseases -- Biobanking for Rare Diseases: Impact on Personalized Medicine -- Emerging Technologies for Gene Identification in Rare Diseases -- Personalized Medicine for Hereditary Deafness -- Mitochondrial Diseases -- Complexity of Genotype-Phenotype Correlations in Mendelian Disorders: Lessons from Gaucher Disease -- Enzyme Replacement Therapy in Lysosomal Storage Diseases -- Rare Cancers -- Adeno-Associated Virus Gene Therapy and its Application to the Prevention and Personalized Treatment of Rare Diseases -- Induced Pluripotency for the Study of Disease Mechanisms and Cell Therapy.
- Format
- e-Book
- Location
- Online
