Health & Fitness : Health Care Issues

What's the right thing to do for mom and dad as they get older?. Thanks to advances in science and medicine, more of our parents are living longer than ever before. And though we are rewarded with more time with the people we love, we are also faced with new sets of complications—more diseases, more disability, more need for support and careful judgments. Yet while our health care system may help people live to an older age, it doesn't perform so well when decline eventually sets in. We want to do the best thing but are overwhelmed with the staggering choices we face. Geriatrician Dennis McCullough has spent his life helping families to cope with their parents' aging and eventual final passage, experiences he faced with his own mother. In this comforting and much-needed book, he recommends a new approach, which he terms "Slow Medicine.". Shaped by common sense and kindness, grounded in traditional medicine yet receptive to alternative therapies, Slow Medicine advocates for careful anticipatory "attending" to an elder's changing needs rather than waiting for crises that force acute medical interventions—an approach that improves the quality of elders' extended late lives without bankrupting their families financially or emotionally. As Dr. McCullough argues, we need to learn that time and kindness are sometimes more important and humane at these late stages than state-of-the-art medical interventions. My Mother, Your Mother will help you learn how to:. —form an early and strong partnership with your parents and siblings;. —strategize on connecting with doctors and other care providers;. —navigate medical crises;. —create a committed Advocacy Team;. —reach out with greater empathy and awareness; and. —face the end-of-life time with confidence and skill. Although taking care of those who have always cared for us is not an easily navigated time of life, My Mother, Your Mother will he more...

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For nearly as long as women have been around, they have been going through menopause. It is a bodily process as old as human birth, death, and of course, menstruation. Like many normal biological events, menopause was gradually medicalized, and with the rise of pharmaceutical medicine, women and their doctors were convinced that it was an "estrogen deficiency disease" that could be treated by supplementing the body's declining estrogen levels with hormones. By 2002 hormone treatment had been on the market for more than fifty years when doctors and women alike were shocked by the results of a massive clinical trial, the Women's Health Initiative: women taking hormones had more heart attacks, breast cancer, strokes, pulmonary embolisms, and blood clots than women who did not, and patients were left scrambling to find new and sometimes difficult answers to their menopause and midlife health questions. more...

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This is an excellent book¿ The chapters are all of a very high standard ¿ a testament to the value of edited books by experienced and active research academics. Ask yourself how many other books have left you knowing more about what theory has contributed to your understanding of health behaviour and where the literature is going, and you will appreciate the book's distinctive contribution¿ The book is required reading. Buy it, and persuade your library to stock up too.¿. British Journal of Health Psychology. ¿The editors have done well to provide a clearly structured overview of these key social cognition models¿ helpful for health promoters and others working in the field of health behaviour.¿. Health Matters. ¿A really excellent volume which should be owned by all serious health psychologists and should be highly recommended for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in health psychology.¿. Psychology Teaching Review. This popular, established text has been expanded to include the most up-to-date research on social cognition models and health behaviours. more...

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La santé des populations - Rapport sur la santé dans la Région africaine est le premier rapport consacré à la santé des 738 millions de personnes vivant dans la Région africaine de l Organisation mondiale de la Santé. Ce rapport de 196 pages entièrement illustré contient une analyse approfondie de tous les domaines clés de la santé publique en Afrique, ainsi que l annexe la plus complète jamais publiée jusqu ici sur les statistiques sanitaires de la Région. Avec l aide des dernières données présentées dans les figures, les graphiques et les tableaux, le rapport envisage les maladies infectieuses, en particulier le VIH/SIDA, la tuberculose et le paludisme ; les affections de la grossesse qui entraînent des décès de la mère et de l enfant et les causes environnementales des problèmes de santé, notamment la pollution et les conflits armés. Il couvre aussi les problèmes de santé de l ensemble de la Région qu on associe le plus souvent aux pays développés, par exemple le diabète et l hypertension et d autres maladies non transmissibles comme les troubles mentaux et les traumatismes. Mais il ne s agit pas seulement de faire le point des aspects négatifs de la situation sanitaire ; le rapport informe sur les méthodes de traitement, de diagnostic et de prévention qui ont fait leurs preuves en Afrique et décrit certains des succès enregistrés par la santé publique en Afrique qui peuvent servir de modèles à d autres sur le continent. La santé publique en Afrique retient davantage l attention au niveau international ces dernières années. L énormité même de la charge de morbidité et les ripostes souvent inadéquates ont été à l origine de nombreuses initiatives régionales et internationales. Des contributions sans précédent ont été annoncées pour améliorer la santé en Afrique. Pourtant de nombreux problèmes subsistent. Ce rapport est essentiel pour quiconque souhaite comprendre la situation et examiner les moyens de l améliorer. more...

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