HEALTH / MEDICAL
Open Access* e-Books
(incl. Physiology, Nutrition)
(See also: Psychology & Psychiatry; Disability...;)
*NOTE: A few titles in these lists are not formally Open Access, but all are free (no fee for e-access)
Embedded Files
Contents:
VARIOUS Health Aspects (incl. Health Guides)
Nursing & Care of Patients
Nutrition & Eating
Research Guides for Medical researchers
Spirituality in Health Care
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VARIOUS Health Aspects (incl. Health GUIDES)
Aging Well
: Solutions to the Most Pressing Global Challenges of Aging
(authors: Jean Galiana & William A. Haseltine)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
Year of publication: 2019
This open access book outlines the challenges of supporting the health and wellbeing of older adults around the world and offers examples of solutions designed by stakeholders, healthcare providers, and public, private and nonprofit organizations in the United States. The solutions presented address challenges including: providing person-centered long-term care, making palliative care accessible in all healthcare settings and the home, enabling aging-in-place, financing long-term care, improving care coordination and access to care, delivering hospital-level and emergency care in the home and retirement community settings, merging health and social care, supporting people living with dementia and their caregivers, creating communities and employment opportunities that are accessible and welcoming to those of all ages and abilities, and combating the stigma of aging.
The innovative programs of support and care in Aging Well serve as models of excellence that, when put into action, move health spending toward a sustainable path and greatly contribute to the well-being of older adults.
Contents page:
Front Matter
Demographics
Healthcare in the United States
Long-Term Care Financing
Person-Centered Long-Term Care
Home-Based Palliative Care and Aging in Place and Community
Coordinated Primary Care
Emergency Medicine and Hospital Care in the Home and Community
Support for Those Living with Dementia and Their Caregivers
Merging Health and Social Services
Purpose and Social Inclusion
Eight Lessons for Social Inclusion and High-Quality Sustainable Elder Care
Back Matter
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Keywords:
Medicine; Geriatrics; Geriatric nursing; Palliative treatment; Social work
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Reviews:
"The purpose is to inspire, educate, and network individuals who are in leadership positions in healthcare. … The book is written for physicians and administrators in healthcare professions across the long-term healthcare continuum." --Wendy Boren, Doody's Book Reviews, August 16, 2019.
"As populations age across the world, over-burdened health systems struggle with the challenges. Aging Well provides solutions. Revealing innovative programs, new models, and evolving practices, Galiana and Haseltine offer prescriptions to providers, payers, policymakers, and patients that can ensure a healthier future for generations to come." --Paul Irving, Chairman, Milken Institute Center for the Future of Aging, Chairman of Encore.org, Distinguished Scholar in Residence, University of Southern California Davis School of Gerontology.
"Policymakers, insurers, and providers of care to older people, and indeed anyone interested in the future of aging, should read this book. It describes amazing work responding to the challenges of an aging population in the United States. It will inspire others to follow these examples for everyone’s benefit, not just the lucky few who have enjoyed these innovations." --Ian Philp, Professor of Global Ageing Studies, University of Stirling, UK.
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The Construction of Social Health Systems
: History and Self-Reference of Medicine and Public Health
(author: João Costa)
Publisher: Transcript
Year of publication: 2025
Despite governmental and international funding as well as numerous publications on health systems, questions remain. João Costa offers new insight into health systems thinking by emphasizing the social nature of health systems. He traces health systems back to their origins in Ancient Greece and investigates their development throughout history, focusing on the notion of systems’ self-reference, a constitutive feature of social systems. The study is built on Luhmann’s Social Systems Theory and his outline of health as social system.
Valuable for health professionals, the book discusses communication as lifeblood for making health systems self-referential.
[ See also this author's 2023 book, "Health as a Social System". ]
Contents page:
Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface
Ch. 1: Introduction
PART I
Ch. 2: Social Systems Theory
Ch. 3: Self-Reference
PART II
Ch. 4: The History of Medicine in Four Acts
Ch. 5: Canguilhem and Foucault
PART III
Ch. 6: “Anatomy” of Public Health: Indicators and Self-Reference
Ch. 7: The Construction of the Self-Reference of Social Health Systems
PART IV
Ch. 8: Concluding Remarks
Ch. 9: Advanced Theoretical Topics
Appendix
References
Brief Glossary of Luhmann’s Terms
Index
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Keywords:
Health Systems; History of Medicine; Public Health; Self-Reference
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Contemporary Health Issues
Publisher: Lumen Learning
Year of publication: ? [no date given]
FREE DOWNLOAD: https://library.achievingthedream.org/herkimerhealth/
This course was developed by Judy Baker, Ph.D., Dean of Foothill Global Access at Foothill College. This compilation is licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Feel free to use, reuse, customize, or share in accordance with the open license conditions of each source.
You are invited to suggest improvements to this online course. Contact Judy Baker at bakerjudy <at> foothill.edu
Contents Page:
I.
1. Course Overview & Introduction
II. 1. Introduction to Personal Health
2. Introduction to Personal Health Overview & Objectives
3. Health and Disease, Influence of Family and Community
4. Three Levels of Health Promotion/Disease Prevention
5. Culture, Beliefs, Attitudes, and Stigmatized Illnesses
6. Determinants of Health, Risk Factors, and Prevention
III. 2. Nutritional Health
7. Overview & Objectives
8. Nutritional Guidelines: Carbohydrates, Fats, and Proteins
9. Myths and Misconceptions about Nutrition
10. Ethnic Foods
11. Dietary Supplements
12. Body Composition
13. Obesity
14. Diet and Weight Control
15. Eating Disorders
IV. 3. Personal Relationships and Violence
16. Overview & Objectives
17. Communication
18. Sexuality and Intimacy
19. Marriage and Relationships
20. Loss
21. Parenting
22. Family and Societal Violence
V. 4. Human Sexuality, Contraception, and Reproduction
23. Overview
24. Behavioral Presentation of Human Sexuality
25. Sexual Bias and Misconceptions
26. Contraception
27. Reproduction
VI. 5. Physical Activity
28. Overview & Objectives
29. The Relationship between Physical Activity and Health
30. Aerobic, Muscle-Strengthening, and Bone-Strengthening Activity
31. Health Benefits of Physical Activity
32. Dealing with Inactivity
33. Safe and Activity
34. Pregnancy and Disabilities
35. Community Efforts to Increase Physical Activity
VII. 6. Substance Abuse and Addictions
36. Overview & Objectives
37. Drugs
38. Alcohol
39. Tobacco
40. Misuse of Prescription Drugs
41. Drugs, Abuse, and Addiction
VIII. 7. Aging, Dying, and Death
42. Overview
43. Profile of Older Americans
44. Diseases Common in Elderly Population
45. Aging and Mental Health
46. Healthy Aging
47. Safety
48. Ageism
49. End-of-Life Issues
IX. 8. Diseases and Disorders
50. Overview & Objectives
51. Introduction to Epidemiology
52. Noncommunicable Diseases and Disorders
53. Cardiovascular Diseases and Disorders
54. Cancer
55. Communicable (Infectious) Diseases
56. Immunity and Immunizations
X. Faculty Resources
57. Request Access
XI. Course Information
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CPR, AED & First Aid
: Provider handbook
Publisher: Satori Continuum Publishing
Year of publication: 2026
FREE DOWNLOAD: https://advancedmedicalcertification.com/free-ebooks-download
Check out our collection of free eBooks specifically designed for health care professionals preparing for ACLS, BLS, PALS, or CPR certifications. With well-written, detailed content, these free eBooks are a valuable resource for anyone wishing to increase their medical knowledge.
Note:
The idea behind the Save a Life Initiative is simple – take the same advanced life-saving training we developed for health care providers, and give it to the underserved, at home and abroad. The Disque Foundation works in conjunction with SaveaLife.com to fulfill its mission of advancing health care education to the underserved through advanced technology.
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Disease Prevention and Healthy Lifestyles
(author: Trina DiGregorio)
Publisher: Lumen Learning
Year of publication: ? [no date given]
FREE DOWNLOAD: https://library.achievingthedream.org/monroecchealthed
This compilation has been developed by Trina DiGregorio, M.S., Adjunct Professor at Monroe Community College.
The framework for this online textbook was adapted from Contemporary Health Issues by Judy Baker, Ph.D., Dean of Foothill Global Access at Foothill College.
Contents Page:
I. Faculty Resources
1. Request Access
2. Attributions
3. I Need Help
II. Chapter 1: Introduction to Health and Wellness
4. Dimensions of Wellness
5. Healthy People 2020
6. Major Health Concerns
7. Risk Factors and Levels of Disease Prevention
8. Behavior Change and Goal Setting
III. Chapter 2: Physical Activity
9. Physical Activity Guidelines for Adults
10. Target Heart Rate Zone
11. Health Related Components of Physical Fitness
12. Health Benefits of Physical Activity
13. Developing a Personal Exercise Program
IV. Chapter 3: Stress Management
14. Stress Overview
15. Yerkes-Dodson Law
16. The Stress Response
17. Health Effects of Stress
18. Managing Stress
V. Chapter 4: Weight Management
19. Prevalence of Overweight and Obesity
20. Balancing Calories
21. Body Mass Index
22. Health Effects of Overweight and Obesity
VI. Chapter 5: Infectious Diseases
23. STD/STI Data
24. Influenza
25. Types of STDs/STIs
26. STD/STI Treatments
27. STD/STI Prevention
VII. Chapter 6: Relationships and Sexuality
28. Love and Attraction Theory
29. Healthy Relationships
30. Sex, Gender, and Sexuality
31. Effective Communication
32. LGBT Health
VIII. Chapter 7: Cardiovascular Disease
33. Heart Disease and Stroke Facts
34. Coronary Artery Disease (CAD)
35. Types of Stroke
36. Metabolic Syndrome
37. Cholesterol Management
IX. Chapter 8: Cancer
38. Cancer Overview
39. Types of Cancer
40. Risk Factors for Cancer
41. Cancer Prevention
X. Chapter 9: Violence and Injury
42. Factors That Influence Violence
43. Intimate Partner Violence
44. Risk Factors for Intimate Partner Violence
45. Protecting Yourself from Relationship Violence
46. Unintentional Injuries
XI. Chapter 10: Drug Use and Addiction
47. Understanding Drug Use and Addiction
48. Health Effects of Drug Abuse
49. Consequences of Drug Abuse
50. Treatment Approaches for Drug Addiction
51. Synthetic Drugs
XII. Chapter 11: Alcohol and Tobacco Use
52. Alcohol Facts
53. Health Effects of Alcohol Abuse
54. Rethinking Drinking
55. Tobacco Use
56. Quitting Smoking
XIII. Chapter 12: Nutrition
57. Nutrition Basics
58. Dietary Guidelines for Americans
59. Disease Risk and Nutrition
60. Nutrition Facts Label
61. Organic Foods
XIV. Chapter 13: Mental and Emotional Health
62. Mental Health Overview
63. Psychological Constructs
64. Anxiety Disorders
65. Depression
66. Suicide Prevention
67. Eating Disorders
XV. Chapter 14: Complementary and Integrative Health
68. Definition of Terms
69. Types of Complementary Health Approaches
70. Dietary Supplements
XVI. Chapter 15: Consumer Health
71. Finding Reliable Health Information
72. Health Fraud
73. Quick Tips for Evaluating Health Websites
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Epidemiological Change and Chronic Disease in Sub-Saharan Africa
: Social and historical perspectives
Publisher: Design House; UCL Press
Year of publication: 2021
FREE DOWNLOAD: https://www.uclpress.co.uk/collections/open-access/products/128266
Epidemiological Change and Chronic Disease in Sub-Saharan Africa offers new and critical perspectives on the causes and consequences of recent epidemiological changes in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly on the increasing incidence of so-called ‘non-communicable’ and chronic conditions. Historians, social anthropologists, public health experts and social epidemiologists present important insights from a number of African perspectives and locations to present an incisive critique of ‘epidemiological transition’ theory and suggest alternative understandings of the epidemiological change on the continent.
Arranged in three parts, ‘Temporalities: Beyond Transition’, ‘Numbers and Categories’ and ‘Local Biologies and Knowledge Systems’, the chapters cover a broad range of subjects and themes, including the trajectory of maternal mortality in East Africa, the African smoking epidemic, the history of sugar consumption in South Africa, causality between infectious and non-communicable diseases in Ghana and Belize, the complex relationships between adult hypertension and paediatric HIV in Botswana, and stories of cancer patients and their families as they pursue treatment and care in Kenya.
In all, the volume provides insights drawn from historical perspectives and from the African social and clinical experience to offer new perspectives on the changing epidemiology of sub-Saharan Africa that go beyond theories of ‘transition’. It will be of value to students and researchers in Global Health, Medical Anthropology and Public Health, and to readers with an interest in African Studies.
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Fundamentals of Anatomy and Physiology
(Australian edition)
Publisher: University of Southern Queensland
Year of publication: 2021
This textbook is a tool to support first year anatomy and physiology courses taught in Australia, aiming to provide students with an increased access to free, high-quality learning materials (the University of Southern Queensland USQ is committed to advancing the use of open textbooks in higher education.).
The material in this textbook is largely based on OpenStax’s Anatomy & Physiology textbook, however, has been modified for Australian course curriculum.
The coverage and scope of the current text includes:
Levels of organisation, homeostasis and nomenclature
Cells: structure and reproduction
Tissues, organs, and Systems
Integumentary System
Blood
Cardiovascular system
Lymphatic system and immunity
Respiratory systems
Muscle system
Skeletal system
Musculoskeletal system
Digestive system
Nervous system
Endocrine system
Reproductive System
Pregnancy and human development
Urinary system
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Governance for Public Health across the health and allied sectors
: A report to guide country-level institutional capacity for essential public health functions underpinning multisectoral approaches
Publisher: World Health Organization
Year of publication: 2025
FREE DOWNLOAD: https://www.who.int/publications/b/80535
The diverse public health challenges require multisectoral, integrated action, supported by robust and well-coordinated governance that involves actors within and beyond the health sector. Framed around Essential Public Health Functions, the report serves as a reference for national and global public health actors, providing guidance to define and strengthen public health governance to ensure effective delivery of public health functions and services.
Specific objectives are to collate the current understanding of public health governance and develop an operational definition; identify and describe the core components, enablers and guiding principles required to improve public health governance across health and other sectors responsible for various aspects of population health; promote the roles of existing institutional set-up (including ministries of health, national public health institutes or their equivalent with heads of government) in benchmarking and building public health governance, considering the dispersed nature of public health stakeholders in countries.
The report is intended for national and subnational actors—within and beyond the health sector—who are involved in public health governance and in coordinating and delivering public health functions and services. This includes governments, ministries of health, public health institutes, research and professional bodies, allied ministries with key responsibilities for public health, such as finance, planning, local administration, environment, education, agriculture, and commerce, and subnational authorities.
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Rights:
© World Health Organization 2025
Some rights reserved. This work is available under the CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO licence. You are free to copy, redistribute, translate and adapt the work for non-commercial purposes, provided the work is appropriately cited.
Translations and adaptations must be licensed under the same or similar licence terms. See Permissions and Licensing for further information.
Commercial use of the work is subject to permission from WHO.
Contents page:
Contents
Acknowledgements...................................................................................................vi
Abbreviations............................................................................................................vii
1. Background.............................................................................................................1
1.1 Challenges and needs for public health governance ............................................................................. 1
1.2 Aim, objectives and target audience.........................................................................................................3
1.3 Method.......................................................................................................................................................3
2. Results.............................................................................................................................................................. 4
2.1 Defining public health governance.............................................................................................................. 4
2.2 Stakeholder landscape in public health governance...................................................................................6
2.3 Core components, enablers and guiding principles for public health governance.......................................9
2.4 Public health governance arrangements.....................................................................................................13
Arrangement 1: National public health institute or institutes as parastatal or arm-length body ...............15
Arrangement 2: Semi-autonomous national public health institute or institutes as line agency
(executive agency or body).....................................................................................................................16
Arrangement 3: Public health within the ministry of health..................................................................... 17
Arrangement 4: Interministerial coordinating body .................................................................................18
3. Discussion..........................................................................................................................................24
4. Conclusion ........................................................................................................................................ 28
References ..............................................................................................................................................30
Annex 1. Methodology ............................................................................................................................. 32
Annex 2. Summary of definitions of terms relevant to public health governance, from literature...............34
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A Guy's Guide
: What Every Man Needs to Know About Their Health
Publisher: [Clemson University]
Year of publication: 2021
Men’s health is an important topic as males can be at a greater risk for certain diseases and conditions than females. Advocating for positive behaviors and better education on men’s health topics is vital to both quality and quantity of life. They need to visit medical care regularly for age-related screenings and take action in preventing certain diseases. This book was written with men in mind; the goal is to educate men (or anyone concerned about them) on how to maintain health, prevent disease, and know when to seek care. Each chapter explores a different issue and provides an insight into men’s health through text and visuals such as infographics.
A Guys’ Guide is the researched work of Clemson University Public Health Science upper-class undergraduate students in the course HLTH 3200 Maintenance of Men’s Health. The goal of this course project was to meet the course learning objectives while creating a public resource for young men.
Contents Page:
Title Page
Dedication and Acknowledgements
A Letter to the Readers
Introduction
Why Men Don’t Seek Help
I. Body Conditions that Concern Men
1. Arthritis
2. Abdominal Obesity
3. Autism in Boys
4. Color Blindness
5. Hormones
6. Male Hair Loss
7. Male Infertility
8. Metabolism and Health
9. Testicular Torsion
II. Genetic and Chronic Conditions
10. Cholesterol
11. High Blood Pressure
12. Parkinson’s Disease
13. Type 2 Diabetes
III. Men and Cancer
14. Breast Cancer
15. Colorectal Cancer
16. Lung Cancer
17. Prostate Cancer
IV. What Men Can Help Prevent
18. Automobile Accidents
19. Domestic Violence
20. Suicide
21. COVID-19
22. HIV
Appendix – Answers to chapter quizzes
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Health in Transition
: Translating developmental origins of health and disease science to improve future health in Africa
(authors: A. Macnab, A. Daar & C. Pauw)
Publisher: Sun Press
Year of publication: 2020
FREE DOWNLOAD: http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/109583
This volume summarizes the expertise and experience of a leading group of international scientists led by Abdallah Daar, brought together at STIAS as part of the ‘Health in Transition’ programme. ["STIAS" = "Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Studies"]
At STIAS, the ‘Health in Transition’ theme includes a programme to address the epidemic rise in the incidence of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as Type 2 diabetes, hypertension, obesity, coronary heart disease and stroke in Africa. The aim is to advance awareness, research capacity and knowledge translation of science related to the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) as a means of preventing NCDs in future generations.
Application of DOHaD science is a promising avenue for prevention, as this field is identifying how health and nutrition from conception through the first 1 000 days of life can dramatically impact a developing individual’s future life course, and specifically predicate whether or not they are programmed in infancy to develop NCDs in later life.
Prevention of NCDs is an essential strategy as, if unchecked, the burden of caring for a growing and ageing population with these diseases threatens to consume entire health budgets, as well as negatively impact the quality of life of millions.
Africa in particular needs specific, focussed endeavors to realize the maximal preventive potential of DOHaD science, and a means of generating governmental and public awareness about the links between health in infancy and disease in adult life.
[In the book,] the section on focus areas for intervention highlights the fundamental importance to human health of breastfeeding and addresses the challenges in urban areas of sub-Saharan Africa to ensure appropriate infant nutrition through the first 1 000 days of life. How environmental exposures early in life may influence the phenotypes of non-communicable diseases in Africa is described, as this is an essential fundamental science component able to contribute to future evidencebased intervention relevant to DOHaD. The epidemic of diabetes is discussed as this is central to current DOHaD science and thinking; the impact on health and the economy of hyperglycaemia and has valuable lessons for low and middleincome countries
Subjects:
Public Health: Africa
Children: Health & Hygiene: Africa
Diseases: Causes and Theories of Causation
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Health Reform Manual
: Eight practical steps
Publisher: World Health Organization
Year of publication: 2026
FREE DOWNLOAD: https://www.who.int/publications/b/82510
This manual provides practical, structured guidance to support government policy-makers, analysts, advisers and advocates in navigating the complexity of health system reform. Building on previous frameworks, it presents an action-oriented approach using a control panel. The manual is organized around eight flexible steps – from initiating a reform process and diagnosing system performance challenges, to designing politically feasible reform packages, managing implementation and evaluating impact. Each step highlights key actions and is supported by practical tools, including 14 worksheets and five annexes, to help users adapt the approach to real-world contexts. While focused on government-led, system-wide reform, the manual can also be applied to more targeted reforms, supporting evidence-informed decision-making and more effective, equitable and resilient health systems.
From the Preface, by Professors Winnie Yip and Michael R. Reich:
Health reform manual: eight practical steps was written to assist people who are seeking to improve the performance of health systems in countries around the world.
This manual was developed as part of the India Health Systems Reform Project at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The primary objective of the Project is to conduct collaborative research and build capacity to improve equitable and affordable access to good-quality health care in India. The manual was originally written as a tool for the Project to support the ongoing health system strengthening efforts of India’s central and state governments.
Once we completed the manual, we found broader interest in using the text in other countries and settings. We therefore appreciate the decision by the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research at the World Health Organization (WHO) to publish this version. In writing this document, we sought to create a practical tool, written in accessible language, for all health policy-makers, analysts, implementers and other stakeholders shaping health reform efforts. We hope the manual will be useful to policymakers and analysts around the world.
The key concepts of this text are founded in the book Getting health reform right: a guide to improving performance and equity (GHRR), which was published two decades ago by the late Marc J. Roberts, William Hsiao, Peter Berman and one of this manual’s coauthors, Michael R. Reich (Roberts et al., 2004). GHRR presents an approach to health system analysis and reform that is often called the control knobs framework. This framework has been adopted (and adapted) for national and state health system reforms in many countries. This manual serves as a companion text to GHRR, with a focus on the practice of health reform.
We believe that there is room for improvement in any system, including our systematic approach to health reform. We look forward to hearing from you, the readers, about your experiences using this manual. And we welcome your suggestions on how to improve the manual to support efforts to strengthen the performance and equity of health systems around the world.
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Rights:
© World Health Organization 2026
Some rights reserved. This work is available under the CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO licence. You are free to copy, redistribute, translate and adapt the work for non-commercial purposes, provided the work is appropriately cited.
Translations and adaptations must be licensed under the same or similar licence terms. See Permissions and Licensing for further information.
Commercial use of the work is subject to permission from WHO.
Contents page:
Foreword................................................................................................................................................... v
Preface...................................................................................................................................................... vi
Acknowledgements.................................................................................................................................. vii
Abbreviations and acronyms..................................................................................................................... viii
Executive summary................................................................................................................................. ...ix
Introduction................................................................................................................................................ 1
Step one: Decide to start a health reform process………………………………..................................9
Step two: Create a Health Reform Team..........................................................................................17
Step three: Assess health system performance and define performance problems........................23
Step four: Diagnose the causes of performance problems..............................................................33
Step five: Decide your reform package............................................................................................43
Step six: Conduct political analysis and design political strategies..................................................51
Step seven: Manage the implementation of health reform to achieve results .................................59
Step eight: Evaluate impacts and create resilience for your health reform .....................................69
Worksheets...............................................................................................................................................75
Annex 1: Methods ....................................................................................................................................101
Annex 2: Key terms and concepts.............................................................................................................103
Annex 3: Measuring health system performance outcomes....................................................................111
Annex 4: Additional resources to assess health system outcomes..........................................................121
Annex 5: Developing political strategies..................................................................................................123
Annex 6 : Example models used to evaluate health reforms...................................................................125
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Healthcare ethics
: for Healthcare Practitioners
(Editors: Laetus O.K. Lategan & Gert J. Van Zyl)
Publisher: Sunbonani Scholar
Year of publication: 2017
FREE DOWNLOAD: http://doi.org/10.18820/9781920382995
Healthcare ethics cannot be limited in scope to apply only to the patient but needs to apply to the healthcare practitioner as well. The relationship between the patient and the healthcare practitioner has shifted from a power relationship to a complementary relationship. Leadership, mentorship and coaching play important roles in facilitating this shift. Several themes informed this book on healthcare ethics: Vulnerability in healthcare ethics, Decisions between right and wrong, Quality of healthcare, Life-ending decisions, Community-based research, Ethical decision-making, Spritiuality in healthcare
Summary of Contents page:
1. An introduction to healthcare ethics
Laetus O.K. Lategan, Gert J. Van Zyl
2. Unpacking vulnerability in healthcare ethics
Laetus O.K. Lategan
3. The difference between right and wrong
Gert J. Van Zyl, Paulina M. Van Zyl
4. The quality of healthcare: A care ethics approach
Roger Burggraeve, Linus Vanlaere
5. The Influence of culture, values and faith on end-of-life decisions
Amber R. Comer, Joyce MacKinnon
6. Ethics and Human Rights in Healthcare
Andrè J. Moore
7. Euthanasia, do we dare?
Charné Viljoen
8. Community-based participatory research in healthcare: ethical issues and impact on healthcare practitioners
Pamela Campbell, Beth Cross, Moira S. Lewitt
9. Ethical decision making processes
Willem Kruger
10. Spirituality and healthcare
Marius J. Swart
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HESPERIAN HEALTH GUIDES [20 free eBooks]
Publisher: Hesperian Health Guides
Year of publication: various
FREE DOWNLOAD (of book Chapters): https://hesperian.org/books-and-resources/
NOTE: Hesperian's free online resources are used by over 20,000 people every day. Help them continue to provide this essential information to communities in need by giving a gift to Hesperian, or buying directly from them.
Hesperian Health Guides publishes 20 titles, spanning women’s health, children, disabilities, dentistry, health education, HIV, and environmental health. At their online books page page you can buy, download, or read health materials.
A Book for Midwives
A Book for Midwives
A vital resource for practicing midwives and midwifery training programs around the world, this book covers the essentials of care before, during, and after birth. Updated to reflect new WHO/UNICEF guidelines for mothers and newborns.
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A Community Guide to Environmental Health
A Community Guide to Environmental Health
This guide contains information, activities, stories, and instructions for simple technologies that help health promoters, environmental activists, and community leaders take charge of their environmental health.
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The Childbirth Picture Book
The Childbirth Picture Book
The Childbirth Picture Book provides a simple and complete guide to the basics of conception, pregnancy, childbirth, and breastfeeding. This 67-page book contains 34 pages of detailed line drawings depicting every step of the reproductive process. Also available in Spanish, French and Arabic.
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Disabled Village Children
Disabled Village Children
This manual contains a wealth of clear and detailed information along with easy-to-implement strategies for all who are concerned about the well being of children with disabilities, especially those living in communities with limited resources.
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Health Actions for Women
Health Actions for Women
Provides inspiring activities, strategies, and stories that help challenge violence against women, improve access to family planning, foster safe motherhood, promote strategies for better sexual health, counteract restrictive gender roles, and improve health services for women and girls.
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A Health Handbook for Women with Disabilities
A Health Handbook for Women with Disabilities
Developed with the participation of women with disabilities in 42 countries, this guide helps women to overcome the barriers of social stigma and inadequate care to improve their general health, self-esteem, and independence.
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Helping Children Live with HIV
Helping Children Live with HIV
A new, innovative community health guide, designed to empower families and communities affected by HIV in their efforts to support children’s well-being and healthy development. Richly illustrated, filled with unique stories and practical advice, this resource addresses both the physical and emotional health needs of children living with HIV.
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Helping Children Who Are Blind
Helping Children Who Are Blind
The simple and engaging activities in this book can help parents, caregivers, teachers, health workers, rehabilitation workers, and others help a child with vision problems develop all of his or her capabilities.
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Helping Children Who Are Deaf
Helping Children Who Are Deaf
This groundbreaking book, packed with activities on how to foster language learning through both sign and oral approaches, supports parents and other caregivers in building the communication skills of babies and young children.
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Helping Health Workers Learn
Helping Health Workers Learn
An indispensable resource for health educators, this book provides hundreds of methods, aids, and learning strategies to make health education engaging and effective, encouraging community involvement through participatory education.
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"NEW Where There Is No Doctor" [supplementary chapters]
"NEW Where There Is No Doctor" [supplementary chapters]
Timely and important health materials for treatment, prevention, and community action on diabetes, cancer, heart disease, vaccines, reproductive and sexual health, and so much more. New topics and translations are added regularly to the Healthwiki and several booklets are available for purchase.
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Pesticides are Poison
Pesticides are Poison
This resource provides detailed information about pesticides and addresses how to treat people in pesticide emergencies and reduce harm caused by pesticides. It also offers alternate pest control methods that do not use harmful chemicals.
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Recruiting the Heart, Training the Brain
Recruiting the Heart, Training the Brain
Tells the story of how Latino Health Access developed its groundbreaking model of peer-to-peer outreach and education in Santa Ana, California to address health problems exacerbated by poverty and discrimination. Their strategies and accomplishments will inspire change across an increasingly unhealthy America.
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Sanitation and Cleanliness
Sanitation and Cleanliness
This resource offers information on basic sanitation and hygiene, including instructions on building safe, affordable, environmentally-friendly sanitation systems, as well as learning activities to help communities understand and prevent sanitation-related health problems.
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Water for Life
Water for Life
This selected material from Hesperian's Community Guide to Environmental Health explains how to improve drinking water sources, treat water as a right for all people, make it safe for drinking, and organize water projects to improve community health in 46 pages.
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Where There Is No Dentist
Where There Is No Dentist
This basic dental manual uses clear language and step-by-step instructions to discuss preventive care of teeth and gums, diagnosis and treatment of common dental problems, and oral health and HIV.
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Where There is No Doctor [See Also: "NEW Where There Is No Doctor"]
Where There is No Doctor [See Also: "NEW Where There Is No Doctor"]
The most widely-used health care manual for health workers, educators, and others involved in primary health care and health promotion around the world. Current edition includes updated information on malaria, HIV, and more.
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Where Women Have No Doctor
Where Women Have No Doctor
An essential resource that helps a community understand, treat, and prevent many health problems that affect women. Topics include reproductive health, violence, mental health, HIV, and more.
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Women's Health Exchange
Women's Health Exchange
The Women’s Health Exchange is a series of resources for education and training on a broad range of women’s health topics, from family planning, to domestic violence, to women and work.
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Working Together to Stop Obstetric Fistula
Working Together to Stop Obstetric Fistula
How to prevent fistula and the devastating social, economic and health problems caused by it are explained in this pamphlet. It includes information on the surgery to repair fistula and where to get it.
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Workers' Guide to Health and Safety
Workers' Guide to Health and Safety
Shows how workers can assess their workplaces, recognize hazards, and take charge of their health and safety, especially in electronics, shoe, and garment factories. Focuses on developing actionable alternatives to hazardous conditions and organizing for improvements.
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Integrating Everything
(Series: The Integrated Practitioner)
Publisher: CRC Press
Year of publication: 2020
This extraordinary new series (The Integrated Practitioner) fills a void in practitioner development and well-being. The books take a reflective step back from the tick-box, target-driven and increasingly regulated world of 21st century health practice; and invite us to revisit what health and health practice actually are. Building carefully on the science and philosophy of health, each book addresses the messy, complex and often chaotic world of real-life health practice and offers an ancient but now almost revolutionary understanding for students and experienced practitioners alike: that health practice is a fundamentally creative and compassionate activity. The series as a whole helps practitioners to redefine and recreate their daily practice in ways that are healthier for both patients and practitioners.
“Integrating Everything” is the fourth book in the series. It considers the 'we', the 'me' and the 'other' perspectives of books 1-3 and integrates everything into 'health practice' as a single entity. It recognises the multifaceted nature of healthcare, its different constraints and varied pressures, but also views it from a new perspective, fostering a happier, healthier and more skilful whole within the real-life, complex and often messy world of health practice. Brilliantly written, practitioners, students and trainees and GP trainers will find the enlightening, witty, conversational style a joy to read.
“Being a practitioner ... involves integration. It involves weaving together many threads into one whole tapestry. It involves taking a constrained and limited palate and painting freely. It may be a science, it may be technical, it may be psychological, it may be spiritual, but it is always an art, because it integrates everything in order to create. And what we create is better health.” --Justin Amery
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Introduction to Substance Use Disorders
(authors: Patricia Stoddard Dare & Audrey Begun)
Publisher: MSL Academic Endeavors
Year of publication: 2020
FREE DOWNLOAD: https://pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu/substancemisusepart1/
Introduction to Substance Use Disorders (2020) is an Open Educational Resource book designed for use in an introductory substance misuse course. These materials were developed using a variety of published sources and online materials, including resources produced by U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Institute on Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse (NIAAA), National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), and Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), the World Health Organization (WHO), the Routledge Handbook of Social Work and Addictive Behavior (2020), edited by A.L. Begun and M.M. Murray, and most notably Theories and Biological Basis of Substance Misuse, Part I and Part 2 by A.L. Begun.
Table of Contents:
Creative Commons Licensing
Interest/Adoption Form and Feedback/Report Form
Introduction to the Coursebook
Chapter 1.0: Introduction
Ch. 1.1: Background Facts and Figures
Ch. 1.2: A Brief History of Substance Use and Policy Responses in the U.S.
Ch. 1.3: Interprofessional Roles in Substance Use Disorder Treatment
Ch. 1.4: Considering the Language We Use
Ch. 1.5: Key Terms
Ch. 1.6: References and Image Credits
Chapter 2.0: Biological Models of Substance Misuse, Pharmacokinetics, and Psychopharmacology Principles
Ch. 2.1: Genetic Influences
Ch. 2.2: Neurobiology and Substance Use
Ch. 2.3: Basic Pharmacokinetic and Psychopharmacology Principles
Ch 2.4: Key Terms
Ch. 2.5: References and Image Credits
Chapter 3.0: Key Definitions, Diagnostic Criteria, Classification of Substances, and Models
Ch. 3.1: Key Definitions and Diagnostic Criteria
Ch. 3.2: Classification Systems for Different Types of Substances
Ch. 3.3: Definition of Addiction, Historic Disease Model, Brain Disease Model, Bio-psycho-social-spiritual Aspects
Ch. 3.4: Key Terms
Ch. 3.5: References and Image Credits
Chapter 4.0: Psychological Models of Substance Misuse
Ch. 4.1: Cognitive and Learning Theories
Ch. 4.2: Developmental Theories
Ch. 4.3: Theories of the Psyche
Ch. 4.4: Expectancies and Cravings
Ch. 4.5: Key Terms
Ch. 4.6: References and Image Credits
Chapter 5.0: Social Context and Physical Environment Models of Substance Misuse
Ch. 5.1: Social Contexts and Physical Environments
Ch. 5.2: Family as Social Context
Ch. 5.3: Peer Groups as Social Context
Ch. 5.4: Key Terms
Ch. 5.5: References and Image Credits
Chapter 6.0 Spiritual Considerations
Ch. 6.1: Spirituality and Religion in Substance Misuse Prevention and Recovery
Ch. 6.2: Integrating Spirituality or Religion into Assessment and Treatment
Ch. 6.3: Key Terms
Ch. 6.5: References and Image Credits
Chapter 7.0: Theory Integration, Transtheoretical Model, and Risk/Protective Factors in Substance Misuse
Ch. 7.1: Theory Integration and Prevention
Ch. 7.2: Prevention and the Continuum of Care
Ch. 7.3: Theory Integration in the Transtheoretical Model of Behavioral Change
Ch. 7.4: Key Terms
Ch. 7.5: References and Image Credits
Chapter 8.0: Co-Occurring Conditions
Ch. 8.1: Co-Occurring Mental and Behavioral Health Challenges
Ch. 8.2: Key Terms
Ch. 8.3: References and Image Credits
Chapter 9.0: Opioids
Ch. 9.1: Introduction to the Opioid Epidemic
Ch. 9.2: Contributing Factors to the Opioid Epidemic
Ch. 9.3: Harm Reduction
Ch. 9.4: Medication Assisted Treatment
Ch. 9.5: Neonatal Exposure to Opioids
Ch. 9.6: Key Terms
Ch. 9.7: References and Image Credits
Chapter 10.0: Alcohol
Ch. 10.1: The Nature and Effects of Alcohol
Ch. 10.2: Alcohol Epidemiology
Ch. 10.3: Key Terms
Ch. 10.4: References and Image Credits
Chapter 11.0: Stimulants
Ch. 11.1: Stimulants and Their Effects
Ch. 11.2: Stimulant Epidemiology
Ch. 11.3: Key Terms
Ch. 11.4: References and Image Credits
Chapter 12.0: Introduction to Cannabinoids and other Hallucinogenic and Dissociatives
Ch. 12.1: Cannabis
Ch. 12.2: Hallucinogenic and Dissociatives
Ch. 12.3: Key Terms
Ch. 12.4: References and Image Credits
Chapter 13.0: Introduction to Sedative Hypnotics
Ch. 13.1: Sedative-Hypnotics and CNS Depressants
Ch. 13.2: Club Drugs
Ch. 13.3: Key Terms
Ch. 13.4: References and Image Credits
Chapter 14.0: Inhalants, Steroids, Over the Counter and Prescription Medication Misuse
Ch. 14.1: Inhalants and Steroids
Ch. 14.2: Over the Counter and Prescription Drug Misuse
Ch. 14.3: Key Terms
Ch. 14.4: References and Image Credits
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A Laboratory Guide to Clinical Hematology
(authors: Valentin Villatoro and Michelle To)
Publisher: University of Alberta
Year of publication: 2019
FREE DOWNLOAD: https://dx.doi.org/10.29173/oer1
A textbook which can be used for the field of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, featuring digitized scans of laboratory slides which enables students to learn clinical hematology without access to a laboratory.
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Leadership and Governance in Primary Healthcare
: An Exemplar for Practice in Resource Limited Settings
Publisher: CRC Press
Year of publication: 2023
Good leadership and governance at all levels of the healthcare system is necessary for better performance of the system and health outcomes. Lack of good leadership and governance practices can lead to misuse of health system inputs such as human resources, health commodities and financial resources hence lowering the quality of services delivered. Thus, this guide was developed through collaborative efforts envisioned to respond to the needs of improving good governance practices at the primary healthcare level in resource-limited healthcare systems.
Contents Page:
Ch. 1 Leadership and Governance
Ch. 2 Management and Governance of Health Facilities
Ch. 3 Health Services Delivery
Ch. 4 Health Workforce
Ch. 5 Health Information Systems
Ch. 6 Health Commodities and Technologies
Ch. 7 Health Financing and Financial Management
Ch. 8 Community Health Systems Management & Governance
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Medical Terminology
: An Interactive Approach
Publisher: LOUIS: The Louisiana Library Network
Year of publication: 2022
FREE DOWNLOAD: https://louis.pressbooks.pub/medicalterminology/
This textbook was created as part of the Interactive OER for Dual Enrollment project, facilitated by LOUIS: The Louisiana Library Network and funded by a $2 million Open Textbooks Pilot Program grant from the Department of Education.
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The cohort-developed OER course materials are released under a license that permits their free use, reuse, modification and sharing with others. This includes a corresponding course available in MoodleNet and Canvas Commons that can be imported to other Learning Management System platforms. For access/questions, contact Affordable Learning Louisiana.
If you are adopting this textbook, we would be glad to know of your use via this brief survey.
This textbook offers students the ability to learn basic medical terminology to prepare them for education and a profession in the medical field. This text book has been adapted from the Building a Medical Terminology Foundation OER textbook by Kimberlee Carter and Marie Rutherford, which was adapted from the OpenStax Anatomy and Physiology textbook by Betts et al. Changes were made to the Building a Medical Terminology Foundation textbook to better suit the needs of our specific learners. These changes include the following:
Some anatomy and physiology content was deemed excessive relative to the goals of a medical terminology textbook and was therefore removed.
Interactive H5P elements that corresponded to this excessive anatomy and physiology content were also removed accordingly.
The skeletal and muscular systems are combined into a single chapter.
Separate chapter sections were created for structural terms and word parts, diseases and disorders, and medical, surgical & viewing terms and abbreviations. The word lists in these sections were also expanded from the original text.
Individual chapters were divided and modularized on Pressbooks to reduce the need to scroll and to allow students to leave and return to the text as they need without losing their place in the text.
When possible, images were replaced with images that provided a more diverse representation of people.
The term “gender” was changed to “sex” (see the University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School Inclusive Language Guidelines for more details on this decision).
A short comparison of the male and female pelvic bones was added to inform the learner of the distinction between the two since the male skeleton is often presented as the universal form when it is not.
Despite these changes, we thank the original authors for all of their prestigious work.
Contents (summary):
Preface
Introduction
I. Introduction to Word Parts and Medical Language Rules
II. Directional Terms and Anatomic Planes, Regions, and Quadrants
III. Body Structure, Color, and Oncology
IV. Musculoskeletal System
V. Nervous System
VI. Endocrine System
VII. Integumentary System
VIII. Cardiovascular System—Part I: The Heart
IX. Cardiovascular System—Part II: Blood and Blood Vessels
X. Cardiovascular System—Part III: The Lymphatic and Immune Systems
XI. Respiratory System
XII. Digestive System
XIII. Urinary System
XIV. Male Reproductive System
XV. Female Reproductive System
XVI. Embryology, Pregnancy, and Neonatology
XVII. Eye and Ear
Appendix A: Checklist for Accessibility
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Mental Health Problems
: Theories and Treatments
Publisher: [Portland State University]
Year of publication: ? [no date given]
This book is written for a college level course in Abnormal Behavior.
With great appreciation, this book is adapted from two sources:
Essentials of Abnormal Psychology (2018) by Alexis Bridley PhD and Lee Daffin Jr. PhD, and published by https://opentext.wsu.edu/abnormalpsychology , // CC BY 4.0 ShareAlike
NOBA series on psychology at nobaproject.com, // CC BY 4.0 ShareAlike
Please see individual chapters for further citation information.
Contents Page:
Introduction
I. Main Body
1. Chapter I: History of Mental Illness
2. Chapter 2: Therapeutic Orientations
3. Chapter 4 Anxiety Disorders and OCD Related Disorders
4. Chapter/Lecture 5 Stress Disorders and Dissociative Disorders
5. Chapter/Lecture 6 Mood Disorders (Depressive Disorders and Bipolar Disorders)
6. Chapter/Lecture 8 Somatic Disorders
7. Chapter/Lecture 9 Eating Disorders
8. Chapter/Lecture 10 Substance Use Disorders
9. Chapter/Lecture 11 Sexuality and Gender Disorders
10. Chapter/Lecture 12 Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders
11. Chapter/Lecture 13 Personality Disorders
12. Chapter/Lecture 14 ADHD and Behavior Disorders in Children
13. Chapter/Lecture 15 Aging and Disorders of Aging and Cognition
14. Glossary
Appendix
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National Health Act Guide
(3rd edition)
Publisher: Siber Ink
Year of publication: 2019
The National Health Act Guide, now in its third edition, is an invaluable resource for government, health care workers, health service users, academics, students and civil society. The Guide contains not only the Act itself but also detailed analysis and commentary, including links to and explanations of related legislation, regulations and policy. The Guide also contains an up-to-date list of contact details for all health departments in the country.
The National Health Act Guide focuses on what all of us can do to improve health in South Africa: from participation in clinic committees and hospital boards, to becoming organ donors, to taking part in the budget- and policy-making process.
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Power, Knowledge, and Covid-19
: The Making of a Scientific Orthodoxy
(authors: Alex Broadbent, Pieter Streicher)
Publisher: Routledge
Year of publication: 2026
FREE DOWNLOAD: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003732495
This book shows, step by step, how a dominant scientific line on Covid-19 was built and defended – and what it left out.
Through tightly argued case studies, Alex Broadbent and Pieter Streicher reconstruct how early modelling distinctions (notably the suppression/mitigation frame) and threshold-based reasoning made lockdown the default; how debates on masking and vaccination hardened into dogma; and how rival views were sidelined through credentialing, gatekeeping, and the control of forums. The book names and analyses five recurring features of this orthodoxy – methodological rigidity, scientific dogma, suppression of dissent, indirect political authority (“follow the science”), and scientific injustice – and shows how each shaped decisions across diverse settings.
Pairing clear conceptual analysis with accessible evidence reviews, the authors probe where models misled, where uncertainty was overstated or understated, and where costs, context, and equity were neglected – especially in low-resource settings. Rather than relitigating the pandemic, they offer a practical framework for recognizing when science and policy converge too tightly, how to keep plurality alive under pressure, and how to design governance that preserves expertise without closing down legitimate choice. For readers in philosophy, public health, policy, and beyond, this is a concise, non-polemical account of what went wrong, what went right, and how to do better next time.
Contents page:
Introduction
Ch.1: Scientific Orthodoxy
Ch.2: The Politics of Method in Epidemiology
Ch.3: Methodological Rigidity
Ch.4: The Scientific Construction of Lockdown
Ch.5: Scientific Dogma and Lockdown
Ch.6: Scientific Dogma and Masks
Ch.7: Scientific Dogma and Covid-19 Vaccines
Ch.8: Suppression of Dissent and the Great Barrington Declaration
Ch.9: Indirect Political Authority
9.1: Following the Science
Ch.10: Scientific Injustice in the Covid-19 Pandemic
Conclusion
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Prehospital Emergency Care
: Pocket reference
Publisher: World Health Organization
Year of publication: 2026
FREE DOWNLOAD: https://www.who.int/publications/b/82620
WHO’s Prehospital emergency care: pocket reference is a concise, practical guide for prehospital providers. It offers clear guidance to support key clinical and system-level decisions in effective prehospital care.
Rights:
© World Health Organization 2026
Some rights reserved. This work is available under the CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO licence. You are free to copy, redistribute, translate and adapt the work for non-commercial purposes, provided the work is appropriately cited.
Translations and adaptations must be licensed under the same or similar licence terms. See Permissions and Licensing for further information.
Commercial use of the work is subject to permission from WHO.
Contents page:
WHO Emergency Care System Framework
Clinical algorithm: Standard approach to all patients
Clinical algorithm: Special considerations
Prehospital medications
General instructions for surface cleaning and disinfecting in patient care areas
How to handwash
How to handrub
Facility pre-arrival report form
Interfacility acute transfer checklist
SBAR handover tool - out of hospital
Further WHO resources for emergency care
Prehospital flow
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Preventing HIV Among Young People in Southern and Eastern Africa
: Emerging Evidence and Intervention Strategies
Publisher: Routledge
Year of publication: 2020
This book provides an overview of the current epidemiology of the HIV epidemic among young people in Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA) and examines the efforts to confront and reduce the high level of new HIV infections amongst young people.
Taking a multi-dimensional approach to prevention, the contributors discuss the many challenges facing these efforts, in view of the slow progress in curbing the incidence of HIV amongst young people, focusing particularly on the structural and social drivers of HIV. Through an examination of these issues, chapters in this book provide valuable insights on how to mitigate HIV risk among young people and what can be regarded as the catalysts to mounting credible policy and programmatic responses required to achieve epidemic control in the region. The contributors draw on examples from a range of primary and secondary data sources to illustrate promising practices and challenges in HIV prevention, demonstrating links between conceptual approaches to prevention and lessons learnt from implementation projects in the region.
Bringing together social scientists and public health experts who are actively engaged in finding effective solutions, the book discusses ‘which interventions works’, ‘why they work’, and the limitations and gaps in our knowledge to curb the pandemic amongst young people. As such it is an important read for researchers focusing on HIV/AIDS and public health.
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Radiation Oncology
Publisher: Wikibooks
Year of publication: [updated in 2021]
(website may have more recent online versions of this text)
FREE READING ONLINE: https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Radiation_Oncology&stable=1
Radiation Oncology is a rapidly changing field with new advances being made daily. As a consequence, any textbook becomes out-of-date almost immediately after it is published. Thus, the WikiBook format is ideal for a textbook of radiation oncology, as updates can be made constantly as new information becomes available.
This textbook is meant to be used by residents, medical students, and practicing physicians in radiation oncology.
At the creation of this textbook, the emphasis was placed on keeping the content up-to-date in terms of publishing the results of major trials. It is not meant to be an encyclopedic work. It is impossible to include the results of all trials relating to radiation oncology. Publishing every little detail of each and every trial would bog down this resource and make it difficult to use. Its main purpose is to be a useful reference for those wishing to gain knowledge about clinical radiation oncology.
As it is a WikiWork, its purpose may change.
This book is dedicated to the patients who are the inspiration to those of us involved in this field, as well as to the pioneers in radiation oncology, without whom this textbook could not exist.
DISCLAIMER: None of the individual contributors, system operators, developers, sponsors of Wikibooks nor anyone else connected to Wikibooks can take any responsibility for the results or consequences of any attempt to use or adopt any of the information presented on this web site.
Nothing on Wikibooks.org or included as part of any project of Wikimedia Foundation Inc., should be construed as an attempt to offer or render a medical opinion or otherwise engage in the practice of medicine.
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The Reflector
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer, University of Rochester Press
Year of publication: 2021
FREE DOWNLOAD (book Chapters): https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1q5731q
(Book as a whole): https://openaccess.boydellandbrewercms.com/?id=-250655
This book incorporates etymology, history, art, drawing, and reflective writing to support medical students in the integration of the science and humanity of anatomy.
A comprehensive and holistic understanding of human anatomy is foundational to the care of patients. The Reflector is an innovative and interdisciplinary approach to the learning of human anatomy; it incorporates etymology, history, art, drawing, and reflective writing to integrate the learning of anatomical structures with the nonanatomical curriculum of the anatomy lab, thus establishing the foundation for a biopsychosocial approach to medicine. To develop visual skills, this work features drawings that illustrate the original inspirations for anatomical terminology while also providing the space to artistically reimagine these structures. Together, these activities enhance the comprehension and retention of anatomical information for application in medical sciences.
The Reflector employs thought-provoking questions that emphasize humanity in anatomy, in order to prompt consideration of the anatomical structures beyond basic science. Reflecting on the experiences of anatomical dissections, specifically in relation to development of habits of mind necessary for patient- and family-centered care, the book continually connects students to the purpose of their studies - to become a knowledgeable, compassionate, self-aware, reflective, and skilled member of a healing profession.
Purpose:
The purpose of this book is to serve as a reminder that medicine is not only a science, but also an art of understanding how our own individuality interacts with the individuality of those around us. I see The Reflector as a humanities-based tool to help students learn anatomy, and to begin to establish the balance between emotional responses and objective responsibilities. In order to grow personally and professionally we, as students, need time and space to think about our values, beliefs, and experiences and recognize that these elements will mold us into the physicians that we will become.
— Jennifer Battaglia, MS. University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Class of 2021.
[From the Introduction:]
Some of the best ideas in medical education at this institution come from our medical students. The Reflector is a remarkable Medical Humanities project created by one of our medical students, Jen Battaglia. It began in response to Jen’s own experience of the anatomy lab and was intended for her classmates. This book is the product of three years of effort and dedication, energy and generosity.
Before medical school, Jen matriculated in our Master’s program in Medical Humanities. After completing a biochemistry degree and premed sciences, she wanted to better understand the broader humanistic and sociocultural contexts of healthcare. She understood that scientific knowledge and skills are critical in medicine, but that the practice of medicine is also deeply human and requires different knowledge and skills.
The care of patients takes place within the foundational human relationship between a patient, who is sick, and a physician, who uses the tools of science for diagnosis and treatment of the patient. These social, cultural, and relational interactions between patients, families, communities, and colleagues are the focus of medical humanities and arts education at our institution. Using materials and methods from humanities, arts, and social sciences we develop knowledge, skills, and tools that can be applied directly to the care of patients, in team-based clinical work.
At the University of Rochester, Medical Humanities is grounded in the Biopsychosocial (BPS) model of patient care. The BPS model was formulated and taught here by Rochester internist/scientist and teacher George Engel beginning in 1977 and has become part of our institutional culture. Although deeply committed to the biomedical sciences, Engel understood that “a medical model must also take into account the patient, the social, the psychological, and other contexts in which [the patient] lives. . . .” Engel’s original BPS model, based on systems theory, extended beyond the dynamic interactions between the biomedical, psychological, and social to include family community, culture, nation, and biosphere. Engel focused on the patient as person and their experience of illness in the doctor/patient relationship. In our educational work, Division faculty have recentered Engel’s model to include both patient and physician as persons in all of these contexts.
By looking at medicine from diverse disciplinary perspectives like history, literature, visual arts, ethics, religions, gender, race, disabilities, and cultural studies, our learning activities allow students to engage respectfully and reflectively with a diversity of perspectives, values, and identities—their own and those of others. We work collaboratively with our colleagues in clinical courses throughout the curriculum to integrate the sciences with human values and perspectives in healthcare.
The Reflector exemplifies what we do in Medical Humanities. This book is not decorative, or ancillary; it is directly relevant to the course, and fully integrated into the anatomy lab learning. Students are using this throughout the course, and they are grateful. It is an interactive educational tool that supports the learning goals of the anatomy course. It also provides a space for students to learn about anatomy through a different lens, and also to think, to feel, and to reflect on the anatomy experience personally and professionally at the beginning of their training as physicians. It has been helpful to our students, and I hope it will be helpful to other students at other institutions, too.
—Stephanie Brown Clark, MA, MD, PhD. Associate Professor, Medical Humanities
Director, Division of Medical Humanities & Bioethics Director,
MS Program in Medical Humanities
University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry
stephanie_brownclark@urmc.rochester.edu
https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/medical-humanities.aspx
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South African Health Review 2020
Publisher: Health Systems Trust
Year of publication: 2020
FREE DOWNLOAD: https://www.hst.org.za/publications/Pages/SAHR2020.aspx
(See also: https://www.hst.org.za/publications?pub=sahr )
Under the theme ‘Access to health care for persons with disabilities in South Africa’, this 23rd edition provides critical insight into barriers and facilitators, good practices, and successful service-delivery models for disability inclusion and rehabilitation.
Producing this edition of the SAHR was a collaboration between the Health Systems Trust and Inclusive Practices Africa, a research group in the Department of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences at the University of Cape Town, which focuses on eradicating barriers to inclusion for persons with disabilities.
Chapters in the Review provide information on the multitude of challenges associated with providing a seamless continuum of appropriate and adequate care for persons with disabilities in the public health sector. These challenges include human resource constraints, fragmented and under-resourced rehabilitation services, lack of appropriate assistive devices, and the adoption of an overwhelmingly medicalised approach to disability, all of which translate to poor availability, affordability and access to health services for persons living with disabilities. This results in many persons with disabilities being denied the opportunity to reach their full potential.
Collectively, the 2020 edition represents an evidence base that can be used to strengthen health services and inform future policy development in disability inclusion and rehabilitation in South Africa.
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South African Health Review 2021
: Health Sector Responses to COVID-19
Publisher: Health Systems Trust
Year of publication: 2021
FREE DOWNLOAD: https://www.hst.org.za/publications/Pages/SAHR2021.aspx
(See also: https://www.hst.org.za/publications?pub=sahr )
When it comes to service delivery and access in both the public and private health sectors, COVID-19 has put everything to the test. It has demonstrated how central public health security is to health and livelihoods, and how pandemic health emergencies expose the weaknesses and vulnerabilities of health systems, costing lives and causing immeasurable damage to economies. Few could have imagined the impact of COVID-19 when this pandemic reached our shores in March 2020.
But it has also created opportunities for rapid innovation, and out of sheer necessity, has increased and enabled cross-sectoral collaboration, and public−private partnership initiatives. It is against this backdrop that Health Systems Trust (HST) in collaboration with the Health Economics and AIDS Research Division (HEARD) − a research unit based at the University of KwaZulu-Natal − launches its special edition of the South African Health Review.
This edition considers the government’s and broader health sector’s response to COVID-19, explores the current challenges facing the health system at this unprecedented time, and reflects on lessons learnt for future for public health emergencies. The chapters offer information on, inter alia, the challenges of balancing lives with livelihoods, and the impact of COVID-19 on different cadres of healthcare workers, especially Community Health Workers who found themselves at the forefront of our COVID-19 response. Other areas covered include the impact of COVID-19 on vulnerable populations like children, persons with disabilities, farmworkers, migrants, and the poorest in our society.
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South African Health Review 2022
: Health systems recovery after COVID-19
Publisher: Health Systems Trust
Year of publication: 2022
FREE DOWNLOAD: https://www.hst.org.za/publications/Pages/SAHR2022.aspx
(See also: https://www.hst.org.za/publications?pub=sahr )
It brings me great pleasure to present the 25th edition of the South African Health Review (SAHR) on behalf of the Board of Trustees of the Health Systems Trust. As we recover from the devastating effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on society, it is critical that we reflect on the lessons learned, apply these insights to strengthen the country’s response to public health emergencies, and develop more resilient health systems.
The 2022 SAHR includes commentary from healthcare workers, researchers, government advisors, academics, activists, and members of the community. It encompasses reflections and lessons learned, ranging from the complexity of providing evidence-informed technical guidance at policy level during a rapidly evolving pandemic with devastating nation-wide health, social, and economic consequences on the one hand, to the responses and experiences of discrete parts of the health system on the other. These diverse perspectives provide essential information on various approaches to COVID-19, as well as salutary lessons for new and diverse ways of rebuilding and rethinking our health system.
The 2022 SAHR was curated as a supplement to the 2021 edition, which addressed the response of government and the broader health sector to COVID-19, investigated the challenges facing the health system, and focused on how to begin rebuilding a better system.
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South African Health Review 2023
: Strengthening Cancer Services
Publisher: Health Systems Trust
Year of publication: 2024
FREE DOWNLOAD: https://www.hst.org.za/publications/Pages/SAHR2023.aspx
(See also: https://www.hst.org.za/publications?pub=sahr )
Ground-breaking South African Health Review Highlights Cancer Care Crisis:
The Health Systems Trust is proud to announce the release of the South African Health Review (SAHR) 2023, a pioneering edition dedicated entirely to the pressing challenges, successes, and gaps in cancer care within the South African healthcare system. This landmark publication draws on the expertise of leading specialists and academics across the country, calling for urgent reforms and investment to improve cancer prevention, early diagnosis, treatment, and support in an integrated, patient-centred and innovative way.
This special edition marks a first for the SAHR, offering in-depth analysis and insights aimed at rethinking current policies and fostering a more integrated, holistic approach to cancer care.
Key areas of focus include:
Delays in cancer diagnosis and treatment
Fragmented services and inequitable access to care
Disparities between policy and practice
Low awareness and screening rates for cancer
Innovations in screening and patient management
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South African Health Review 2024
: Strengthening Mental Health Care
Publisher: Health Systems Trust
Year of publication: 2025
FREE DOWNLOAD: https://www.hst.org.za/publications/Pages/SAHR2024.aspx
(See also: https://www.hst.org.za/publications?pub=sahr )
Mental health has become one of the most pressing public health challenges in South Africa and around the world. Within our national context, entrenched socio-economic disparities, cultural dynamics, and systemic service delivery constraints continue to drive inequities in mental health — particularly among vulnerable and underserved populations.
Although South Africa has enacted progressive mental health legislation and developed strategic frameworks, the implementation of these policies remains inconsistent. The majority of health facilities lack adequate resources, and there is a critical shortage of trained mental health professionals, especially in rural and under-resourced areas. As a result, policy aspirations have yet to materialise into a comprehensive, community-based mental health system that is accessible to all.
This 27th edition of the South African Health Review, which is devoted entirely to the advancement of mental health services in South Africa, seeks to raise awareness, inspire action, and galvanise investment in a sector that urgently requires transformation.
It underscores a growing recognition that mental health recovery must be rooted in communities, not institutions, and centred on the lived experiences of those receiving care. It calls for a bold re-imagining of mental health care, one that places the dignity, rights, and lived experiences of individuals at its core.
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Unveiling the Neurotechnology landscape
: scientific advancements innovations and major trends
Publisher: Unesco
Year of publication: 2023
FREE DOWNLOAD: https://doi.org/10.54678/OCBM4164
SHORT SUMMARY:
Scanning neurotechnology: what is being developed, where and by whom?
Neurotechnology's developments hold profound implications for human identity, autonomy, privacy, behavior, and well-being, i.e. the very essence of what it means to be human.
Since 2013, government investments in this field have exceeded $6 billion. Private investment has also seen significant growth, with annual funding experiencing a 22-fold increase from 2010 to 2020, reaching $7.3 billion and totaling $33.2 billion.
This investment has translated into a 35-fold growth in neuroscience publications between 2000-2021 and 20-fold growth in innovations between 2000-2020, as proxied by patents. However, not all are poised to benefit from such developments, as big divides emerge.
Over 80% of high-impact neuroscience publications are produced by only 10 countries, while 70% of countries contributed fewer than 10 such papers over the period considered. Similarly, six countries only hold 87% of IP5 neurotech patents.
This report targets policy makers, researchers, patent analysists, scientists, technology enthusiasts, ethicists, and anyone interested in the intersection of neuroscience, technology, and society. This report sheds light on the neurotechnology ecosystem, that is, what is being developed, where and by whom, and informs about how neurotechnology interacts with other technological trajectories, especially Artificial Intelligence.
The report underscores the need for evidence in support of policy making and calls for the ethical governance of neurotechnology, to ensure that its development and deployment respects human rights, fundamental freedoms and human dignity, safeguarding individuals and societies.
[From the Executive Summary:]
Specific neurotechnology-related research trends between 2000 and 2021 include:
An increase in Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) research around 2010, maintaining a consistent presence ever since.
A significant surge in Epilepsy Detection research in 2017 and 2018, reflecting the increased use of AI and machine learning in healthcare.
Consistent interest in Neuroimaging Analysis, which peaks around 2004, likely because of its importance in brain activity and language comprehension studies.
While peaking in 2016 and 2017, Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) remains a persistent area of research, underlining its potential in treating conditions like Parkinson’s disease and essential tremor.
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Vital Sign Measurement Across the Lifespan
(1st Canadian edition)
Publisher: Ryerson University
Year of publication: ? [no date given]
This open access textbook was developed as an introductory resource to guide best practices in vital sign measurement. Its intended audience is students in health-related post-secondary programs as well as healthcare providers. The project was supported and funded by eCampusOntario. This book is best viewed via the online, pressbooks format so that you can view the videos. However, a pdf format is also made available.
Using a multi-media approach, this textbook provides opportunities to read about, observe, practice, and test vital sign measurement. Boxes with helpful tips are provided throughout the chapters:
Technique Tips provide helpful information about measurement techniques, and
Points to Consider highlight key points to consider about vital sign measurements and findings.
A Chapter Summary and Printable Flashcards highlighting techniques for each vital sign measurement are provided at the end of each chapter. These printable flashcards are all located together in the textbook’s conclusion chapter.
Learners can review the full textbook or advance to sections that they have identified as areas to work on. The textbook has a self-directed format and provides an interactive and engaging way for learners to develop competence in the measurement of vital signs while integrating knowledge about anatomy and physiology.
Learners will develop knowledge about various vital signs including temperature, pulse, respiration, blood pressure, and oxygen saturation. Measurement of vital signs is a foundational, psychomotor skill for healthcare providers and students in post-secondary health-related programs such as nursing, medicine, pharmacy, midwifery, paramedics, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, and massage therapy. These measurements provide information about a person’s overall state of health and more specifically about their cardiovascular and respiratory status. These measurements can also reveal changes in a client’s vital signs over time and changes in their overall state of health. Proficiency in vital sign measurement is essential to client safety, care, and management. Measurements can influence clinical decision-making related to therapeutic interventions.
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Where There Is No Doctor
: a village health care handbook
Publisher: Hesperian Health Guides
Year of publication: Revised edition 1992 (2022 printing)
SEE ALSO a Supplementary volume to this book, with the title "New Where There is No Doctor."
This handbook has been written primarily for those who live far from medical centers, in places where there is no doctor. But even where there are doctors, people can and should take the lead in their own health care. So this book is for everyone who cares. It has been written in the belief that:
1. Health care is not only everyone’s right, but everyone’s responsibility.
2. Informed self-care should be the main goal of any health program or activity.
3. Ordinary people provided with clear, simple information can prevent and treat most common health
problems in their own homes—earlier, cheaper, and often better than can doctors.
4. Medical knowledge should not be the guarded secret of a select few, but should be freely shared by
everyone.
5. People with little formal education can be trusted as much as those with a lot. And they are just as smart.
6. Basic health care should not be delivered, but encouraged.
Clearly, a part of informed self-care is knowing one’s own limits. Therefore guidelines are included not only for what to do, but for when to seek help. The book points out those cases when it is important to see or get advice from a health worker or doctor. But because doctors or health workers are not always nearby, the book also suggests what to do in the meantime—even for very serious problems.
This book has been written in fairly basic English, so that persons without much formal education (or whose first language is not English) can understand it. The language used is simple but, I hope, not childish. A few more difficult words have been used where they are appropriate or fit well. Usually they are used in ways that their meanings can be easily guessed. This way, those who read this book have a chance to increase their language skills as well as their medical skills.
Important words the reader may not understand are explained in a word list or vocabulary at the end of the book. The first time a word listed in the vocabulary is mentioned in a chapter it is usually written in italics.
Where There Is No Doctor was first written in Spanish for farm people in the mountains of Mexico where, years ago, the author helped form a health care network now run by the villagers themselves. Where There Is No Doctor has been translated into more than 80 languages and is used by village health workers in over 100 countries.
[...]
Note about the Revised edition:
In this revised edition of Where There is No Doctor, we have added new information and updated old information, based on the latest scientific knowledge.
Health care specialists from many parts of the world have generously given advice and suggestions.
When it would fit without having to change page numbers, we have added new information to the main part of the book. (This way, the numbering stays the same, so that page references in our other books, such as Helping Health Workers Learn, will still be correct.)
The Additional Information section at the end of the book (p. 401) has information about health problems of growing or special concern: HIV and AIDS, sores on the genitals, leishmaniasis, complications from abortion, guinea worm, and others.
Here also are topics such as measuring blood pressure, misuse of pesticides, drug addiction, and a method of caring for early and underweight babies.
New ideas and information can be found throughout the book—medical knowledge is always changing!
For example:
Nutrition advice has changed. Experts used to tell mothers to give children more foods rich in proteins. But it is now known that what most poorly nourished children need is more energy-rich foods, especially whole grains, which provide enough protein if the child eats enough of them. Finding ways to give enough healthy foods while avoiding “junk” and highly processed foods, is now emphasized. (See Chapter 11.)
Advice for treatment of stomach ulcer is different nowadays. For years doctors recommended drinking lots of milk. But according to recent studies, it is better to drink lots of water, not milk. (See p. 129.)
Knowledge about special drinks for diarrhea (oral rehydration therapy) has also changed. Not long ago experts thought that drinks made with sugar were best. But we now know that drinks made with cereals do more to prevent water loss, slow down diarrhea, and combat malnutrition than do sugar-based drinks or “ORS” packets. (See p. 152.)
A section has been added on sterilizing equipment. This is important to prevent the spread of certain diseases, such as HIV. (See p. 74.)
We have also added sections on mosquito-borne illnesses (p. 187), sickle cell disease (p. 321), contraceptive implants (p. 290), and using birth control pills for emergency contraception (p. 395).
Page 105 contains revised information about treatment of snakebite.
See page 139 for details on building the fly-killing VIP latrine.
Summary of Contents Page:
Front Matter: Cover, How to Use This Book, Acknowledgements, Table of Contents
Introduction and Brown Pages: Words to the village health worker
1 Home cures and popular beliefs
2 Sicknesses that are often confused
3 How to examine a sick person
4 How to take care of a sick person
5 Healing without medicines
6 Right and wrong uses of modern medicines
7 Antibiotics: what they are and how to use them
8 How to measure and give medicine
9 Instructions and precautions for injections
10 First aid
11 Nutrition: what to eat to be healthy
12 Prevention: how to avoid many sicknesses
13 Some very common sicknesses
14 Serious illnesses that need special medical attention
15 Skin problems
16 The eyes
17 The teeth, gums, and mouth
18 The urinary system and the genitals
19 Information for mothers and midwives
20 Family planning - having the number of children you want
21 Health and sicknesses of children
22 Health and sicknesses of older people
23 The medicine kit
The green pages: The uses, dosage, and precautions for medicines
Additional Information
Vocabulary
Addresses for teaching materials
Index
Other Books by Hesperian
Dosage Blanks and Patient Reports
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Nursing & Care of Patients
Clinical Procedures for Safer Patient Care
(author: Renée Anderson; Glynda Rees Doyle; Jodie Anita McCutcheon)
Publisher: Thompson Rivers University
Year of publication: 2018
FREE DOWNLOAD: https://pressbooks.bccampus.ca/clinicalproceduresforsaferpatientcaretrubscn/
This open educational resource (OER) was developed to ensure best practice and quality care based on the latest evidence, and to address inconsistencies in how clinical health care skills are taught and practised in the clinical setting. The checklist approach, used in this textbook, aims to provide standardized processes for clinical skills and to help nursing schools and clinical practice partners keep procedural practice current. Each skill/procedure is covered in a chapter that has learning objectives, a brief overview of the relevant theory, checklists of steps for procedures with the rationale behind each step of the process, and a summary of key takeaways. Key terms are set in bold throughout the book and laid out again in a Glossary in the appendix. All checklists, tables and videos are listed and hyperlinked in the appendices.
This book should be used in conjunction with existing courses in any health care program. This book is not intended to replace core resources in health care programs that provide comprehensive information concerning diseases and conditions. An understanding of medical terminology, human anatomy, physiology, and pathophysiology is a required asset to use this book effectively. The development of technical skills is based on the knowledge of, practice to achieve proficiency in, and attitudes related to the skill, and an awareness of how our roles affect our patients and other health care professionals. This book contributes to enhancing safer care for patients by outlining evidence-based practices, and looking beyond just the technical skill to understanding the types of expertise and knowledge required to decrease adverse events.
Summary of Contents page:
Ch.1: Infection Control
Ch. 2: Patient Assessment
Ch. 3: Safer Patient Handling, Positioning, Transfers and Ambulation
Ch. 4: Wound Care
Ch. 5: Oxygen Therapy
Ch. 6: Non-Parenteral Medication Administration
Ch. 7: Parenteral Medication Administration
Ch. 8: Intravenous Therapy
Ch. 9.: Blood Glucose Monitoring
Ch.10: Tubes and Devices
Ch.11: Ostomy care
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Foundations for Assisting in Home Care
Publisher: Open SUNY Textbooks (Milne Library Publishing)
Year of publication: 2018
FREE DOWNLOAD: https://milnepublishing.geneseo.edu/home-health-aide/
(Or https://milneopentextbooks.org/foundations-for-assisting-in-home-care/ )
Home health services are those which are provided within the comforts of the home setting to help people avoid hospitalization or skilled nursing facility placement, while they recover from illness, injury, or disability. Home health care may also be provided to people who suffer from chronic illnesses, those who have cognitive or physical disabilities or those who have been diagnosed with a terminal illness. This text provides the background necessary to begin working toward a career in the home care field as either a Home Health Aide or Personal Care Aide, which are two of the fastest growing occupations. This text is also suitable for those who are providing care to loved ones and who would like additional information to best provide that care, or for use within Home Health Aide and Personal Care Aide programs.
Consisting of 12 chapters, this text takes you from gaining an understanding of what home care is and the tasks involved, through better understanding the physical and psychological needs of people, along with the influence of culture on behaviors, values, and healthcare practices. This text provides an in-depth exploration of the physical and psychological changes which occur throughout the lifespan, with a special emphasis on understanding the unique needs of children, the elderly, and those with mental health issues, and developmental and physical disabilities. Chapters dedicated to the basics of nutrition, budgeting, and first aid provision are included. Specific methods for providing personal and homecare, along with videos to demonstrate tasks complete this text.
Contents Page:
Introduction
Chapter Contents
Acknowledgements
I. Main Body
1. What Is Home Health Care?
2. Working Effectively with Home Care Clients
3. Working with the Elderly
4. Working with Children
5. Working with People who are Mentally Ill
6. Working with People with Developmental Disabilities
7. Working with People with Physical Disabilities
8. Food, Nutrition, and Meal Preparation
9. Family Spending and Budgeting
10. Care of the Home and Personal Belongings
11. Safety and Injury Prevention
12. Personal Care
Connecting to Training and Career Resources
Glossary
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Health Assessment Guide for Nurses
(author: Ching-Chuen Feng and others)
Publisher: [Montgomery College]
Year of publication: ? [no date given]
FREE DOWNLOAD: https://oer.pressbooks.pub/healthassessment.montgomerycollege/
Contents Page:
About this Health Assessment Guide
Acknowledgment
I. Main Body
1. Health Assessment and Clinical Judgment
2. Health History
3. Vital Signs Measurement and Pain Assessment Across the Lifespan
4. Comprehensive Health Assessment
5. Documentation of Health Assessment Findings
6. Focused Assessment – Mental Health and Status
7. Focused Assessment: Sleep Assessment
8. Focused Assessment- HEENT
9. Focused Assessment- Neurological Examination
10. Focused Assessment – Cardiovascular System
11. Focused Assessment- Respiratory System
12. Focused Assessment- Gastrointestinal and Genitourinary
13. Focus Assessment: Nutritional Assessment
14. Focused Assessment- Musculoskeletal System/Mobility
15. Focused Assessment - Integumentary System (Hair, Skin and Nails)
16. Focused Assessment: Reproductive Assessment
17. Assessment of Special Populations
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Nursing Advanced Skills
Publisher: Open Resources for Nursing (Open RN); Chippewa Valley Technical College
Year of publication: 2023
FREE DOWNLOAD: https://wtcs.pressbooks.pub/nursingadvancedskills/
This textbook is an open educational resource with CC-BY licensing developed specifically for prelicensure nursing students. The e-book and downloadable versions are free. Affordable print versions are published in collaboration with XanEdu and available on Amazon and in college bookstores. Content is based on the Wisconsin Technical College System (WTCS) statewide nursing curriculum for the Nursing Advanced Skills course (543-112) and the NCLEX-RN Test Plan. 1 Content includes advanced skills for registered nurses, such as intravenous infusion, blood product administration, management of central lines and chest tube systems, basic electrocardiogram interpretation, and nasogastric/feeding tube insertion, and builds on basic nursing skills discussed in the Open RN Nursing Skills OER textbook.
Contents page [shortened]:
Part I. Chapter 1 Initiate IV Therapy
Part II. Chapter 2 Administer IV Push Medications
Part III. Chapter 3 Administer Blood Products
Part IV. Chapter 4 Manage Central Lines
Part V. Chapter 5 Insert Nasogastric and Feeding Tubes
Part VI. Chapter 6 Manage Chest Tube Drainage Systems
Part VII. Chapter 7 Interpret Basic ECG
Part VIII. Answer Keys
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Nursing Fundamentals
Publisher: Chippewa Valley Technical College
Year of publication: 2020
FREE DOWNLOAD:
https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/nursing-fundamentals
This book introduces the entry-level nursing student to the scope of nursing practice, various communication techniques, and caring for diverse patients. The nursing process is used as a framework for providing patient care based on the following nursing concepts: safety, oxygenation, comfort, spiritual well-being, grief and loss, sleep and rest, mobility, nutrition, fluid and electrolyte imbalance, and elimination. Care for patients with integumentary disorders and cognitive or sensory impairments is also discussed.
Learning activities have been incorporated into each chapter to encourage students to use critical thinking while applying content to patient care situations.
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Nursing Management and Professional Concepts
Publisher: Open Resources for Nursing (Open RN); Chippewa Valley Technical College
Year of publication: 2023
FREE DOWNLOAD: https://wtcs.pressbooks.pub/nursingmpc/
This book introduces concepts related to nursing leadership and management, prioritization strategies, delegation and supervision, legal implications of nursing practice, ethical nursing practice, collaboration within the interprofessional team, health care economics, quality and evidencebased practice, advocacy, preparation for the RN role, and the avoidance of burnout with self-care. Several online, interactive learning activities are included in each chapter that encourage application of content to patientcare situations. Additionally, the Appendix includes a “suite of patients” with suggested prompts for classroom discussion to assist students in applying concepts from the book to real patient-care situations.
Contents page [shortened]:
Part I. Ch. 1 - Overview of Management and Professional Issues
Part II. Ch. 2 - Prioritization
Part III. Ch. 3 - Delegation and Supervision
Part IV. Ch. 4 - Leadership and Management
Part V. Ch. 5 - Legal Implications
Part VI. Ch. 6 - Ethical Practice
Part VII. Ch. 7 - Collaboration Within the Interprofessional Team
Part VIII. Ch. 8 - Health Care Economics
Part IX. Ch. 9 - Quality and Evidence-Based Practice
Part X. Ch. 10 - Advocacy
Part XI. Ch. 11 - Preparation for the RN Role
Part XII. Ch. 12 - Burnout and Self-Care
Part XIII. Answer Keys
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Nursing Pharmacology
Publisher: Chippewa Valley Technical College
Year of publication: 2020
FREE DOWNLOAD: https://wtcs.pressbooks.pub/pharmacology/
This open access Nursing Pharmacology textbook is designed for entry-level undergraduate nursing students. It explains basic concepts of pharmacology and describes common medication classes. This book is not intended to be used as a drug reference book, but direct links are provided to DailyMed, which provides trustworthy information about marketed drugs in the United States.
This textbook is aligned with the Wisconsin Technical College System (WTCS) statewide nursing curriculum for the Nursing Pharmacology course (543-103). The project is supported by a $2.5 million Open Resources for Nursing (Open RN) grant from the [U.S.] Department of Education and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
This book is available for download in multiple formats, but the online version is required for interaction with the adaptive learning activities included in each chapter.
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Nursing Skills
Publisher: Chippewa Valley Technical College
Year of publication: 2021
FREE DOWNLOAD: https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/nursing-skills
This open access Nursing Skills textbook includes physical assessments routinely performed by entry-level registered nurses and basic nursing skills performed by licensed practical nurses.
It is based on the Wisconsin Technical College System (WTCS) statewide nursing curriculum for the Nursing Skills course (543-102), the 2019 NCLEX-RN Test Plan, the 2020 NCLEX-PN Test Plan, and the Wisconsin Nurse Practice Act [in the USA].
Learning activities are included to encourage the student to engage in critical thinking and apply the nursing process while analyzing assessment findings.
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Transitions to Professional Nursing Practice
Publisher: Open SUNY
Year of publication: 2020 (2nd edition)
FREE DOWNLOAD: https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/910
Transitions to Professional Nursing Practice provides a pivotal learning experience for students transitioning from an associate degree education to a baccalaureate degree. Content includes a broad overview of the nursing profession, the role of accrediting and professional organizations with a strong focus on the American Nurses Association’s foundational documents. The competencies of the Standards of Professional Practice and the Code of Ethics are weaved throughout the text.
Topics covered in this text include: professional nursing practice, baccalaureate education, healthcare in the 21st century, autonomy and accountability, nursing philosophy, professional development, communication, interprofessional collaboration, critical thinking, introduction to evidence-based practice, and nursing leadership and theory.
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Nutrition & Eating
A Conversation about Healthy Eating
Publisher: UCL Press
Year of publication: 2017
FREE DOWNLOAD: https://www.uclpress.co.uk/collections/open-access/products/88228
What constitutes a healthy diet? Mainstream media and advertisers would like you to think that the answer to this question is complicated and controversial. But science, fortunately, tells us otherwise.
A Conversation about Healthy Eating brings together all the relevant science about healthy eating in one place, and it’s exactly that – a conversation; an informal discussion between a scientist and a friend about their eating habits,keeping the science firmly rooted in everyday life. The conversation moves from topics such as metabolism and digestion to gut bacteria, hormones, neuroscience and the immune system. All of these concepts are explained in accessible terms to help you understand the roles they play in maintaining a healthy diet.
The conversation leads to the conclusion that staying lean and healthy simply requires avoiding the overconsumption of processed foods. While this is, of course, easier said than done, science also provides clear recommendations for how you can adapt your environment and lifestyle to make it possible.
Rather than simply presenting you with the principles of healthy eating, this book will help you to develop a comprehensive understanding of the science behind the principles, including the evolutionary facts that affect the way we eat today. This understanding will allow you to ignore the noise in the media and to move forward with a healthy lifestyle that work for you.
Contents page:
Introduction I
Introduction II
1. Metabolism
2. Inflammation
3. Calories in
4. Calories out
5. Gut bacteria
6. Processed foods
7. Interactions between the immune system and gut bacteria
8. Good and bad fats
9. Sugar and drinks
10. Diets
11. Daily rhythms and meal timing
12. Behavioral change Notes
Glossary
References
Index
Praise for A Conversation about Healthy Eating:
'I wish I'd read this book when I was young. I wish my parents had read it. And I wish it was on the national curriculum, so that every child about the age of 12 or so would read it. Because it is not just accessible, it is comprehensive, clear, and seems about as accurate as the current scientific consensus. In short, it is a perfect tool for us to understand this aspect of our own bodies.'
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Nutrition
: Science and Everyday Application
Publisher: Open Oregon and Lane Community College
Year of publication: 2022 (2nd edition)
[see web version for possibly more recent updates]
FREE DOWNLOAD: https://openoregon.pressbooks.pub/nutritionscience2e/
FREE DOWNLOAD: https://openoregon.pressbooks.pub/nutritionscience2e/
Food is a basic human need that permeates every day of our lives. The choices we make about food can affect something as small as the cells in our body and as large as the environment around us. We can’t cover every facet of food in this book, but what we can do is give you a foundation on which to understand the science of food and nutrition and how to apply it in your everyday life.
We originally developed this book for our students in FN 225, our course in human nutrition at Lane Community College in Eugene, Oregon. Our students come from all walks of life, and we know they each carry their own meaning of food and come into our class with different goals. Many have their sights on careers in the health professions, and others choose our class to be better-informed as they feed themselves and their families.
We’re glad to share this book as an open educational resource, or OER, with students beyond our college. In developing this OER, we leaned heavily on the previous work of other OER authors. In the spirit of open education, we’ve built on the foundation that they provided, updating it and tailoring the material to the needs of our students. In that same spirit, we’re sharing it so that others can benefit and to help reduce costs for students.
This OER is divided into units that roughly correspond to one week of learning in our 10-week course, with each unit comprising six to eight sections of information on the unit’s theme. When possible, we’ve embedded videos to expand upon and enrich the content of the text. Each section of the unit also includes self-check questions to test your comprehension as you read.
To students: We hope you enjoy reading and learning through this resource, and we wish you a lifetime of eating well!
[Note on the 2nd edition:] The second edition includes a fully revised Unit 7 (Body Weight and Health) and minor revisions to Unit 10 (Nutrition and Physical Activity). The remainder of the OER and the accompanying ancillary materials are the same as the first edition, originally published in December 2020.
Summary of Contents Page:
Unit 1 - Designing A Healthy Diet
Unit 2 - Nutrition Science and Information Literacy
Unit 3 - Molecules of Life: Photosynthesis, Digestion, and Metabolism
Unit 4- Carbohydrates
Unit 5- Lipids
Unit 6- Protein
Unit 7- Body Weight and Health
Unit 8 - Vitamins and Minerals Part 1
Unit 9 - Vitamins and Minerals Part 2
Unit 10 — Nutrition and Physical Activity
Unit 11 — Nutrition Throughout the Lifespan
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Research Guides for Medical researchers
(See Also: the Research section in the main List)
Literature Reviews for Education and Nursing Graduate Students
Publisher: [Washington State University Vancouver]
Year of publication: [2018]
FREE DOWNLOAD: https://press.rebus.community/literaturereviewsedunursing/
Literature Reviews for Education and Nursing Graduate Students introduces you to the components of the stand-alone literature review and prepares you to write one of your own. It is written for new graduate students and novice researchers just entering the work of their chosen discipline. It is meant to assist “students who can complete course assignments to scholars who can make a contribution to their respective fields.” [...] The book was written by two librarians with expertise guiding nursing and education graduate students through the literature review research and writing process.
We include in the book examples from the literature of nursing and education to facilitate a greater understanding of what it means to be a successful graduate student. Our intent is to promote the idea that the literature review is a dynamic and complex synthesis of research and writing that is quite different than an annotated bibliography.
Contents overview:
Chapter 1 provides an overview of literature reviews and their purpose. Chapters 2 and 3 relate to getting started with the review, including how to develop a research question or hypothesis.
Chapters 4 and 5 deal with the research process, that is, where to find relevant sources and how to evaluate their credibility.
Chapters 6 and 7 discuss how to document sources and, one of the most difficult tasks novice researchers face, how to synthesize information.
Chapter 8 is focused on writing your own literature review.
A short conclusion and an answer key to questions asked in previous chapters complete the text. Each chapter begins with a summary of learning objectives for that chapter and concludes with a set of questions to assess your understanding of the topics covered. Examples, tutorials, videos, additional resources, websites and/or activities are provided. Finally, at the end of each chapter you will find a list of works cited as well as image attributions.
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Multilevel Modelling for Public Health and Health Services Research
: Health in Context
Publisher: Springer
Year of publication: 2020
FREE DOWNLOAD: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34801-4
This open access book is a practical introduction to multilevel modelling or multilevel analysis (MLA) – a statistical technique being increasingly used in public health and health services research. The authors begin with a compelling argument for the importance of researchers in these fields having an understanding of MLA to be able to judge not only the growing body of research that uses it, but also to recognise the limitations of research that did not use it. The volume also guides the analysis of real-life data sets by introducing and discussing the use of the multilevel modelling software MLwiN, the statistical package that is used with the example data sets. Importantly, the book also makes the training material accessible for download – not only the datasets analysed within the book, but also a freeware version of MLwiN to allow readers to work with these datasets.
The book’s practical review of MLA comprises:
Theoretical, conceptual, and methodological background
Statistical background
The modelling process and presentation of research
Tutorials with example datasets
Multilevel Modelling for Public Health and Health Services Research: Health in Context is a practical and timely resource for public health and health services researchers, statisticians interested in the relationships between contexts and behaviour, graduate students across these disciplines, and anyone interested in utilising multilevel modelling or multilevel analysis.
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A Research Handbook for Patient and Public Involvement Researchers
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Year of publication: 2018
FREE DOWNLOAD: https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526136527
This handbook is written for patients and members of the public who want to understand more about the approaches, methods and language used by health-services researchers. Patient and public involvement (PPI) in research is now a requirement of most major health-research programmes, and this book is designed to equip these individuals with the knowledge and skills necessary for meaningful participation. Edited by award-winning mental-health researchers, the book has been produced in partnership with mental-health-service users and carers with experience of research involvement. It includes personal reflections from these individuals alongside detailed information on quantitative, qualitative and health-economics research methods, and comprehensively covers all the basics needed for large-scale health research projects:
systematic reviews; research design and analysis using both qualitative and quantitative approaches; health economics; research ethics; impact and dissemination.
This book was developed during a five-year research programme funded by the UK’s National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) called Enhancing the Quality of User Involved Care Planning in Mental Health Services (EQUIP). The handbook clearly outlines research practices, and gives an insight into how public and patient representatives can be involved in them and shape decisions. Each chapter ends with a reflective exercise, and there are also some suggested sources of additional reading.
People who get involved in health research as experts from experience now have a textbook to support their research involvement journey.
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Research Methods in Psychology
(author: Rajiv S. Jhangiani and others)
Publisher: [Kwantlen Polytechnic University]
Year of publication: 2019 [4th edition]
FREE DOWNLOAD: https://dx.doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/HF7DQ
[from the Preface:]
Psychology, like most other sciences, has its own set of tools to investigate the important research questions of its field. Unlike other sciences that are older and more mature, psychology is a relatively new field and, like an adolescent, is learning and changing rapidly. Psychology researchers are learning and changing along with the emerging science. This textbook introduces students to the fundamental principles of what it is like to think like a psychology researcher in the contemporary world of psychology research.
Historically, psychology developed practices and methods based on the established physical sciences. Unlike physical sciences, psychology had to grapple with the inherent variation among its subjects: people. To better account for this, we developed some practices and statistical methods that we (naïvely) considered to be foolproof. Over time we established a foundation of research findings that we considered solid.
In recent years, psychology’s conversation has shifted to an introspective one, looking inward and re-examining the knowledge that we considered foundational. We began to find that some of that unshakable foundation was not as strong as we thought; some of the bedrock findings in psychology were being questioned and failed to be upheld in fuller scrutiny. As many introspective conversations do, this one caused a crisis of faith.
Psychologists are now questioning if we really know what we thought we knew or if we simply got lucky. We are struggling to understand how what we choose to publish and not publish, what we choose to report and not report, and how we train our students as researchers is having an effect on what we call “knowledge” in psychology. We are beginning to question whether that knowledge represents real behaviour and mental processes in human beings, or simply represents the effects of our choice of methods. This has started a firestorm among psychology researchers, but it is one that needs to play out. For a book aimed at novice psychology undergraduates, it is tempting to gloss over these issues and proclaim that our “knowledge” is “truth.” That would be a disservice to our students though, who need to be critical questioners of research. Instead of shying away from this controversy, this textbook invites the reader to step right into the middle of it.
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Social Science Research
: Principles, Methods, and Practices
Publisher: University of Southern Queensland
Year of publication: 2019 (revised edition)
FREE DOWNLOAD: https://usq.pressbooks.pub/socialscienceresearch/
This book is designed to introduce doctoral and postgraduate students to the process of conducting scientific research in the social sciences, business, education, public health, and related disciplines. It is a one-stop, comprehensive, and compact source for foundational concepts in behavioural research, and can serve as a standalone text or as a supplement to research readings in any doctoral seminar or research methods class.
This book is currently being used as a research text at universities in 216 countries, across six continents and has been translated into seven different languages. To receive updates on this book, including the translated versions, please follow the author on Facebook or Twitter @Anol_B.
About the Author:
Anol Bhattacherjee is a professor of information systems and Citigroup/Hidden River Fellow at the University of South Florida, USA. He is one of the top ten information systems researchers in the world, ranked eighth based on research published in the top two journals in the discipline, MIS Quarterly and Information Systems Research, over the last decade (2001-2010). In a research career spanning 15 years, Dr. Bhattacherjee has published over 50 refereed journal papers and two books that have received over 4,000 citations on Google Scholar. He also served on the editorial board of MIS Quarterly for four years and is frequently invited to present his research or build new research programs at universities all over the world. More information about Dr. Bhattacherjee can be obtained from his webpage at http://ab2020.weebly.com.
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Spirituality in Health Care
Charting Spiritual Care
: The Emerging Role of Chaplaincy Records in Global Health Care
Publisher: Springer
Year of publication: 2020
FREE DOWNLOAD: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47070-8
This open access volume is the first academic book on the controversial issue of including spiritual care in integrated electronic medical records (EMR). Based on an international study group comprising researchers from Europe (The Netherlands, Belgium and Switzerland), the United States, Canada, and Australia, this edited collection provides an overview of different charting practices and experiences in various countries and healthcare contexts. Encompassing case studies and analyses of theological, ethical, legal, healthcare policy, and practical issues, the volume is a groundbreaking reference for future discussion, research, and strategic planning for inter- or multi-faith healthcare chaplains and other spiritual care providers involved in the new field of documenting spiritual care in EMR.
Topics explored among the chapters include:
· Spiritual Care Charting/Documenting/Recording/Assessment
· Charting Spiritual Care: Psychiatric and Psychotherapeutic Aspects
· Palliative Chaplain Spiritual Assessment Progress Notes
· Charting Spiritual Care: Ethical Perspectives
· Charting Spiritual Care in Digital Health: Analyses and Perspectives
Charting Spiritual Care: The Emerging Role of Chaplaincy Records in Global Health Care is an essential resource for researchers in interprofessional spiritual care and healthcare chaplaincy, healthcare chaplains and other spiritual caregivers (nurses, physicians, psychologists, etc.), practical theologians and health ethicists, and church and denominational representatives.
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Healthcare ethics
: for Healthcare Practitioners
(Editors: Laetus O.K. Lategan & Gert J. Van Zyl)
Publisher: Sunbonani Scholar
Year of publication: 2017
FREE DOWNLOAD: http://doi.org/10.18820/9781920382995
Healthcare ethics cannot be limited in scope to apply only to the patient but needs to apply to the healthcare practitioner as well. The relationship between the patient and the healthcare practitioner has shifted from a power relationship to a complementary relationship. Leadership, mentorship and coaching play important roles in facilitating this shift. Several themes informed this book on healthcare ethics: Vulnerability in healthcare ethics, Decisions between right and wrong, Quality of healthcare, Life-ending decisions, Community-based research, Ethical decision-making, Spritiuality in healthcare
Summary of Contents page:
1. An introduction to healthcare ethics
Laetus O.K. Lategan, Gert J. Van Zyl
2. Unpacking vulnerability in healthcare ethics
Laetus O.K. Lategan
3. The difference between right and wrong
Gert J. Van Zyl, Paulina M. Van Zyl
4. The quality of healthcare: A care ethics approach
Roger Burggraeve, Linus Vanlaere
5. The Influence of culture, values and faith on end-of-life decisions
Amber R. Comer, Joyce MacKinnon
6. Ethics and Human Rights in Healthcare
Andrè J. Moore
7. Euthanasia, do we dare?
Charné Viljoen
8. Community-based participatory research in healthcare: ethical issues and impact on healthcare practitioners
Pamela Campbell, Beth Cross, Moira S. Lewitt
9. Ethical decision making processes
Willem Kruger
10. Spirituality and healthcare
Marius J. Swart
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Integrating Religion and Spirituality into Clinical Practice
: Conference proceedings
Publisher: MDPI
Year of publication: 2018
This volume is a collection of scientific articles from the European Conferences of Religion, Spirituality and Health in 2014 (Malta) and 2016 (Gdansk). The overall theme is “Integrating Religion and Spirituality into Clinical Practice”.
Studies are grouped under four main topics:
Religion and Spirituality in Patient Care,
Spirituality in Physical and Mental Disease,
Health Care Professionals and Spirituality, and
Faith-Based Services and Programs in Health Care.
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Spirit and Healing in Africa
: A Reformed pneumatological perspective
Publisher: SunBonani Scholar
Year of publication: 2013
FREE DOWNLOAD: http://doi.org/10.18820/9781920382186
There is a great need for healing in Africa. This need is in itself no different elsewhere in the world, but it is greatly determined by the involvement of religious communities and traditions. Faith communities and religious institutions play a major role in assisting African believers to find health, healing and completeness in everyday life.
Contents page (summary):
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Ch. 1: The fabric of health in Africa
Ch. 2: African Traditional Healing Discourse
Ch. 3: Missionary Medicine Discourse
Ch. 4: Discourse On Hiv/Aids In Africa
Ch. 5: Church-Based Healing Discourse
Ch. 6: A Reformed Pneumatological Matrix
Ch. 7: The Spirit And Relationality
Ch. 8: The Spirit And Transformation
Ch. 9: The Spirit And Quality Of Life
Ch. 10: The Spirit And Power
Conclusion
Gathering Fragments
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