This book explains the rationale and value of routine blood tests. A valuable guide for health care providers, it allows professionals to effectively assess blood test results and explain them to patients.
A collection of essays on our planet’s environmental challenges. The contributions connect resilience with ecology, health, and biotechnology, concluding with an ethical analysis of overlapping problems that require urgent attention and long-term resolution.
Indicative of the fast-developing field, this comprehensive new edition on aspects of audiology discusses important changes in standards and codes of practice. Simple diagrams and photographs are provided, and the text includes more diversity and detail than previous editions.
Voice Ergonomics
A well-functioning voice is part of the professional skills needed in many occupations. Voice Ergonomics offers background knowledge and concrete guidelines on how to improve communication environments and practices for decreasing voice loading.
This book reveals invisible relationships in public health systems. Learn not only how to use computer models to understand epidemiology, vaccination, and health policy, but also how to build your own models to solve any complex problem.
This guide helps therapists and health professionals hone their clinical decision-making skills and provides the necessary tools to practice ethically.
This introductory text helps physiotherapists integrate research evidence into their practice. It bridges the gap for those lost in the language of research, offering a platform to develop an understanding of critical appraisal and gain confidence.
This book explores the lives of Hungarian Jewish doctors between the World Wars. It answers how these doctors treated patients while inmates themselves, and why so many Jewish youth chose the medical profession in Hungary.
This one-of-a-kind textbook introduces occupational therapy specifically for technicians. Using a unique Q&A and problem-based format with images, it explains complex concepts, diversity, and the technician’s role in current conditions like COVID-19 and modern technology.
This book presents the spiritual foundations of occupational therapy, arguing the profession originated in existentialist philosophy and the humanist approach. The main goal of treatment is to rehabilitate the fallen spirit of the patient.
Age-Related Evolution of the Professional Singing Voice
This book discusses the age-related evolution of the professional singing voice, providing specific examples of singers from 8 to 88 years old. Drawing on 60 years of experience, the author provides new ideas for all those working with ageing voices.
This book maps the vital substances of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), like Qi, to modern signaling molecules. By explaining the molecular mechanism behind TCM’s proven success, it bridges Eastern and Western medicines to enable more effective treatment of disease states.
This book collects interviews with eight master cardiovascular surgeons, trailblazers of the 20th century whose contributions affect medical practice today. Each interview offers insights on the surgeons’ personal and professional lives.
First Language Bidialectism in Second Language Interface Acquisition
This book helps separate language difference from disorder in multidialectal L2 learners. It offers empirical and theoretical support for linguists and speech-language pathologists, with valuable implications for teaching, assessment, and clinical practice.
Voice Classification by Phonetography
An essential guideline for all voice professionals. This book uses phonetographic analysis to present an age- and gender-specific pattern card of the human voice, based on a database of more than 1000 phonetograms, enabling basic voice classification for education and therapy.
Information Systems in Healthcare
This book examines the power of information systems (IS) to re-shape healthcare. Addressing demands for accountability, cost-effectiveness, and quality, it shows how IS can change management and offers a fresh look at the future of healthcare in the digital era.
This book links chronic degenerative diseases to inflammation, blending scientific findings with folklore. It explores how natural remedies can halt the progression of chronic disease by acting on this root cause. A concise guide for students and medical practitioners.
Music
This book explores applications of music in healthcare with research from music therapy, sociology, and psychology. International authors present how music participation creates community, promotes health, and delivers patient-centred care.
Transdisciplinarity and Translationality in High Dilution Research
Evidence for the biological effects of high dilutions is often ignored by the scientific community. This book provides direct access to the latest research, offering a sound, evidence-based “no” to the question: “Is homeopathy really that implausible?” An essential contribution.
Explore healthcare tourism in the Asia Pacific, with a special focus on under-researched South Asia. This guide uncovers the socio-economic forces driving this resilient industry, fueled by the region’s unique blend of ancient traditions and modern health infrastructure.