Category Archives: Health Risk Assessment

Assessing Performance: Designing, Scoring, and Validating Performance Tasks

Posted on February 26, 2008 by singleton

A comprehensive resource for assessment practitioners, this book provides step-by-step guidance for developing, administering, scoring, and validating a range of performance tasks, including literacy and other types of proficiency assessments. The authors explore how to establish the purpose of the … Continue reading →

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Doubt is Their Product: How Industry’s Assault on Science Threatens Your Health

Posted on February 25, 2008 by singleton

“Doubt is our product,” a cigarette executive once observed, “since it is the best means of competing with the ‘body of fact’ that exists in the minds of the general public. It is also the means of establishing a controversy.” … Continue reading →

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Hospital Politics in Seventeenth-Century France (The History of Medicine in Context)

Posted on February 26, 2007 by singleton

The seventeenth century witnessed profound reforms in the way French cities administered poor relief and charitable health care. New hospitals were built to confine the able bodied and existing hospitals sheltering the sick poor contracted new medical staff and shifted … Continue reading →

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Motivational Interviewing in Health Care: Helping Patients Change Behavior (Applications of Motivational Interviewin)

Posted on February 25, 2007 by singleton

Much of health care today involves helping patients manage conditions whose outcomes can be greatly influenced by lifestyle or behavior change. Written specifically for health care professionals, this concise book presents powerful tools to enhance communication with patients and guide … Continue reading →

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Calculated Risks: The Toxicity and Human Health Risks of Chemicals in our Environment

Posted on February 25, 2006 by singleton

Safeguarding economic prosperity, whilst protecting human health and the environment, is at the forefront of scientific and public interest. This book provides a practical and balanced view on toxicology, control, risk assessment and risk management, addressing the interplay between science … Continue reading →

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Public Health Risks of Disasters: Communication, Infrastructure, and Preparedness — Workshop Summary

Posted on February 26, 2005 by singleton
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Social Injustice and Public Health

Posted on February 26, 2005 by singleton

Two past presidents of the American Public Health Association edit this book, on the ways in which social injustice underlies public health problems. Their previous books, War and Public Health, and errorism and Public Health, both dealt with specific issues … Continue reading →

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Hope or Hype: The Obsession with Medical Advances and the High Cost of False Promises

Posted on February 26, 2005 by singleton

Medical science has always promised — and often delivered — a longer, better life. But as the pace of science accelerates, do our expectations become unreasonable, fueled by an industry bent on profits and a media desperate for big news?Hope … Continue reading →

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The Handbook of Patient Safety Compliance: A Practical Guide for Health Care Organizations

Posted on February 25, 2005 by singleton

Written for virtually every professional and leader in the health care field, as well as students who are preparing for careers in health services delivery, this book presents a framework for developing a patient safety program, shows how best to … Continue reading →

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Endocrine Disruption: Biological Bases for Health Effects in Wildlife and Humans

Posted on February 25, 2005 by singleton

This book addresses the biological effects of the reasonably large number of classes of compounds that have been recognized as endocrine disrupters. These compounds have been found to persist as pollutants in the environment, and have been blamed for causing … Continue reading →

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