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Why do we need health literacy? Through a health promotion and social justice lens, Laurie Hoffman-Goetz, Lorie Donelle, and Rukhsana Ahmed describe health literacy as an increasingly important determinant of health and highlight the necessity of health literacy skills for ensuring equitable access…
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For health care providers or educators interested in developing educational material in print or for the Internet, this book provides best practice - supported by knowledge from the emerging field of health literacy. In this 3rd edition new evidence is presented, including information from recent r…
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Although Outcome Measurement has become an important tool in the evaluation of health promotion, patient education and other health services interventions, there remain problems in locating reliable measurements and scales. This book provides a compilation of more than 50 self-administered scales f…
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Health care providers often overestimate their ability to communicate effectively in a way that ensures a patient's understanding. This puts compliance, safety, and outcomes at risk. This book aims to raise awareness, improve assessment, and help practitioners to adapt to patients' communication ne…
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With the help of families, informed and educated patients can participate in their own treatment, assist in identifying errors before they occur, and improve outcomes. This fact is the foundation of the revised edition of this book, which is designed to guide and support educators at all levels of …
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Teaching is one of the most valuable services nurses provide to patients and families. But whether in the hospital, clinic, home, or long-term care facility, other tasks and responsibilities often compete for nurses' time. This book offers nurses useful, everyday information to apply to real-life …
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This practical text/reference provides theory-based approaches to teaching patients of all ages and their families in a variety of healthcare settings.--Table of Contents: Principles of Contemporary Patient Education;; Patient Education in Nursing Practice;; Health Promotion: Models and Application…
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The Cultural Competency Challenge is a self-assessment and learning tool, showcasing 18 diverse patient cases, designed to help surgeons become more aware of cultural differences among their patients, including communication and clinical considerations.
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This health literacy textbook provides an overview of health literacy, discusses the magnitude of the issue, and explains implications of low health literacy. It details strategies to enhance effective communication between patients and nursing practitioners. Through case-based examples, this textb…
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A manual to provide health care professionals with information that will support them in their kowledge, and skill building in providing cuturally competent services to first generation immigrant and refugee women, including; Ante-partum with focus on pregnancy, intra-partum with focus on labour an…
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This guide provides a 'framework' for people who lead training programs in a plain language approach to communications. Based on a two-day course, this reference is divided into nine modules that can be customized in order to help participants to develop the skills necessary to use a plain languag…
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The I2I is a how-to guide for driving change using KT activities. It is built around the concept of innovation: products, actions, services or relationships that have the potential to enhance health outcomes. The guide illustrates how to move from innovation to implementation in a thoughtful manner…
A communication guidebook designed for nurses to help them educate the public about their important work and gain greater respect and public support for it.
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This book is for voluntary leaders of non-profit organizations and provides volunteer stories to illustrate and inspire leadership in any organization.
Deals with adolescent medicine. This guide is suitable for health care facilities that treat adolescents. Recommended by the American College of Physicians for their internal medicine library, it includes chapters that cover psychosomatic illness and complementary medicine. It can also be used for …
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Knowledge Translation in Health Care is a practical introduction to knowledge translation for everyone working and learning within health policy and funding agencies, and as researchers, clinicians and trainees. Using everyday examples, it explains how to use research findings to improve health car…
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Mixed Match is an important human story told from the perspective of mixed race blood cancer patients who are forced to reflect on their multiracial identities and complex genetics as they struggle with a seemingly impossible search to find bone marrow donors, all while exploring what role race pla…
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Wendy Laura Belcher's Writing Your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks: A Guide to Academic Publishing Success is a revolutionary approach to enabling academic authors to overcome their anxieties and produce the publications that are essential to succeeding in their fields. Each week, readers learn a p…
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With this new edition, Belcher expands her advice to reach beginning scholars in even more disciplines. She builds on feedback from professors and graduate students who have successfully used the workbook to complete their articles. A new chapter addresses scholars who are writing from scratch. Thi…
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These guidelines are designed to support healthcare clinicians with early detection and treatment of mental health disorders in pregnant and postpartum women.; The guidelines include:; • an overview of mental health disorders in the perinatal period;; • four common disorders: depression, …
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