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Books: Medical: Health Risk Assessment
The Harvard Medical School Guide to Men's Health: Lessons from the Harvard Men's Health Studies (Harvard Medical School Book)by Harvey B. Simon, Harriet Greenfield Available from Amazon $5.44 On 7-18-2006 
See Item's Page From Publishers Weekly While it may not be as hot as the latest issue of Maxim, this new health guide should be required reading for any man between the ages of 18 and 80. The book's success is rooted in the no-nonsense approach of author Simon, the founding editor of the wildly successful Harvard Men's Health Watch newsletter, who has long been urging men to get in shape and stay that way. Simon uses the results of three Harvard studies of more than 95,000 men over the last 25 years to provide five main "answers" (diet, exercise, aspirin and other supplements, moderate alcohol, and behavior modification and stress control) to five main "maladies of men" (disorders of the genital area, sexuality and reproduction, benign prostate disorders, prostate cancer, and kidney and bladder disorders). Along the way, he discusses other topics such as reproductive anatomy, vitamins, depression, Viagra and herbal medications. Though it's packed with provocative data (e.g., "every one of the ten leading causes of death in America is substantially more common in men than women"; "even committed teetotalers who Review the data will have to agree that light to moderate drinking appears to reduce a man's risk of angina, heart attack, sudden cardiac death, and ischemic stroke"), the book stays focused on Simon's main message: "Above all, men should concentrate on the basics, on the core issues that remain constant in a sea of change." (Sept.) Forecast: Neither overly serious nor laced with chirpy beer-and-babes humor, this tome should remain a steady seller after trendier books are gone. Copyright 2002 Reed business Information, Inc. From Library Journal While this excellent men's health guide stands on its own, its research is based on the Harvard Men's Health Watch newsletter and shares common goals with the Harvard Family Health Guide. Simon (medicine, Harvard medical Sch.; Staying Well), the newsletter's founding editor, aims to empower men to improve their health and to motivate them to change lifestyles for the better. Basing his advice on three long-term Harvard studies that have tracked more than 96,000 men for many years, Simon Reviews programs of diet, exercise, supplements, stress control, and medical care, and addresses frequently asked questions (e.g., should I take a daily aspirin?, is wine really good for me?, and should I have a PSA blood test?). Much like a very caring family doctor, Simon presents both sides of issues and lets the reader know what the evidence recommends as best practice. This comprehensive, informative, engagingly written guide is a standout among a slew of similar titles. Highly recommended for most consumer health collections. James Swanton, Harlem Hosp. Lib., New York Copyright 2002 Reed business Information, Inc. |
System Safety Engineering and Risk Assessment: A Practical Approach (Chemical Engineering)by Nicholas J. Bahr List Price: $89.95 Available from Amazon $89.95 On 7-18-2006
See Item's Page Book Description Here is a comprehensive, practical guide to how to build safety into products and industrial processes. It discusses how to implement a cost-effective safety management program, and the best system safety techniques from a range of different industries, with examples. It also demonstrates how to set up data management systems and how to set up an accident investigation board, and carry out risk assessment and risk evaluation. Numerous examples of real-life engineering are also included with practical tips and suggestions. Book Info Provides a practical guide for building safety into products and industrial processes. Explains fault free analysis, failure modes and effects analysis and software safety analysis and more. DLC: industrial safety. |
Social Work Practice and Psychopharmacology (Springer Series on Social Work)by Sophia F. Dziegielewski, Ana Leon List Price: $45.95 Available from Amazon $45.95 On 7-18-2006 
See Item's Page Book Description This book is an invaluable tool for social workers working with clients who are receiving any type of medication. Book Info Univ. of Central Florida, Orlando. Supplies social workers with a basic understanding and working knowledge of psychotropic drugs, including medication use and misuse. Teaches how to tailor treatment for clients taking certain medications, and how to identify side effects and adverse reactions to psychotropics. |
Setting Limits Fairly: Can We Learn to Share Medical Resources?by Norman Daniels, James Sabin List Price: $36.00 Available from Amazon $28.31 On 7-18-2006
See Item's Page From the New England journal of Medicine, September 19, 2002 In 1985, Norman Daniels published Just Health Care, which articulated the first useful, nonutilitarian ethical principle for distributing health care resources. Daniels claimed that health care was important because it helped to ensure "normal human functioning," which in turn enhances people's opportunities to pursue their life plans. In Daniels's view, a just health care system tries "to make sure that individuals maintain normal functioning, where possible" -- an ethically valuable way to ensure equality of opportunity. Although Daniels's fair-opportunity principle was an important advance, it became clear that it had problems. First, it appeared to justify the provision of almost all available health care services, since almost everything physicians can do is aimed at maintaining normal functioning and enhancing people's opportunities. In this sense, it hardly seemed to be a way to set priorities; rather, it seemed to be a way to justify doing nearly everything medically possible. To his credit, Daniels was among the most perceptive critics of his own principle and identified other limitations, such as its inadequacy for helping to determine whether priority should be given to lifesaving interventions for a few patients or to services that improve the quality of life for many. In this new book, Daniels and James E. Sabin offer another approach. They argue that in Western democracies, there is no agreement on substantive principles for the distribution of health care services. Consequently, the challenge is to define the conditions under which it is ethically acceptable for institutions to set limits on health care. They propose four conditions, collectively termed "accountability for reasonableness": first, publicity (decisions to limit health care and their rationales must be publicly accessible); second, relevance (the rationales invoked must be based on evidence, reasons, and principles that fair-minded persons would affirm); third, appeals (mechanisms for challenging allocation decisions must exist); and fourth, regulation (public procedures must ensure the fulfillment of these three conditions). Daniels and Sabin believe that requiring the use of public, explicit decisions "will improve the quality of decisions making" and will improve public confidence that decisions are made for ethical and not self-interested reasons. Daniels and Sabin devote the second half of their book to studies of how accountability for reasonableness works in the real world. They examine approaches to last-chance therapies, ways in which various managed-care organizations have confronted lung-volume-reduction surgery, and the problems of pharmacy benefit design. One conclusion of Setting Limits Fairly is that, because of limited resources and nonmedical priorities, justice does not entitle people to all effective medical services. Another is that justice does not entitle every person to the same set of medical services. Different health care plans might well come to different determinations, for example, about whether to cover the cost of an artificial heart or the latest migraine medication. Consequently, one person might be entitled to an artificial heart, but his or her neighbor might not be. Yet if the plans' procedures for determining these distributions fulfill the conditions of accountability for reasonableness, both determinations might be ethical. People are entitled not to the same set of services but, rather, to determinations made through fair procedures. Daniels and Sabin note that agreement on substantive principles for allocating medical resources is unlikely; defining fair procedures for priority setting should be the goal. What is at issue is whether accountability for reasonableness is the right approach. In my opinion, this approach is too passive. Powerful health care institutions make the decisions and provide the reasons, and persons subjected to the decisions merely have the right of appeal. There are, however, avenues for influencing the distribution of resources, such as participation in debates about funding priorities, communication with political representatives, and formation of political associations to lobby and advocate. Fair procedures require the empowerment of those who must live with the medical services that are covered. To augment Daniels and Sabin's four principles, we need at least three additional principles: first, fair consideration (there must be mechanisms to assess and incorporate every person's interests and preferences); second, empowerment (there must be mechanisms for persons to influence decision makers and to participate in the decision-making process); and third, impartiality (those formulating and implementing decisions about resource allocation should not have a conflict of interest). In the next decade, every country will face very hard choices about how to allocate scarce medical resources. There is no consensus about what substantive principles should be used to establish priorities for allocations. Instead, we will need fair procedures. Debate will focus on what those procedures should be. Daniels and Sabin's accountability for reasonableness and illuminating case studies will be invaluable in furthering that debate. Ezekiel J. Emanuel, M.D., Ph.D. Copyright © 2002 Massachusetts medical Society. All rights reserved. The New England journal of medicine is a registered trademark of the MMS. Book Description Central idea is that we lack consensus on principles for allocating resources and in the absence of such a consensus we must rely on a fair decision-making process for setting limits on health care. Characterizes key elements of this process and provides a cogent analysis of the current situation. |
Risk Management in Health Care Institutions, Second Edition: A Strategic Approachby Florence Kavaler List Price: $68.95 Available from Amazon $68.95 On 7-18-2006
See Item's Page Book Description State Univ. of New York, Brooklyn. Brandon/Hill medical List selection (#262). Text provides a step-by-step guide to implementing a successful risk management program. Case studies are included in highlighted boxes. Also the impact of HIPAA and the patient's bill of rights are covered. For governing boards and administrators. Previous edition: c1997. Softcover. Book Info State Univ. of New York, Brooklyn. Brandon/Hill medical List selection (#262). Text provides a step-by-step guide to implementing a successful risk management program. Case studies are included in highlighted boxes. Also the impact of HIPAA and the patient's bill of rights are covered. For governing boards and administrators. Previous edition: c1997. Softcover. |
Recent Advances in Quantitative Methods in Cancer and Human Health Risk Assessment (Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics)by Lutz Edler (Editor), Christos Kitsos (Editor) List Price: $130.00 Available from Amazon $130.00 On 7-18-2006
See Item's Page Product Review "the book can be highly recommended not only to all researchersbut also to lecturers" (Biometrics, Vol 61, December 2005) Book Description Human health risk assessment involves the measuring of risk of exposure to disease, with a view to improving disease prevention. Mathematical, biological, statistical, and computational methods play a key role in exposure assessment, hazard assessment and identification, and dose-response modelling. Recent Advances in Quantitative Methods in Cancer and Human Health Risk Assessment is a comprehensive text that accounts for the wealth of new biological data as well as new biological, toxicological, and medical approaches adopted in risk assessment. It provides an authoritative compendium of state-of-the-art methods proposed and used, featuring contributions from eminent authors with varied experience from academia, government, and industry.
Recent Advances in Quantitative Methods in Cancer and Human Health Risk Assessment will appeal to researchers and practitioners in public health & epidemiology, and postgraduate students alike. It will also be of interest to professionals working in risk assessment agencies.
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Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessmentby Charles N. Haas, et al List Price: $140.00 Available from Amazon $118.00 On 7-18-2006
See Item's Page Book Description The first complete guide to the quantitative assessment of risks to humans posed by infectious agents in all environmental media. Recent highly-publicized infectious disease outbreaks in the United States and abroad have engendered mounting political pressure to require the use of quantitative techniques in the assessment of the risks of human exposure to an array of microorganisms. While traditional indicator methods for pathogen assessment and control have always left much to be desired, it is only with the advent of modern microbial methods that it is now possible to establish rigorous testing protocols for infectious agents comparable to those in place for chemical agents and other contaminants. A book whose time has come, Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment equips environmental and public health professionals with the knowledge and skills they need to comply with the rapidly growing demand for quantitative risk testing of infectious agents. Authored by an interdisciplinary team of experts from the fields of environmental engineering, marine science, and soil and water science, this is the first comprehensive guide to state-of-the-art quantitative microbial risk assessment methods. It provides you with: * Exhaustive coverage of potential infectious agents and their modes of transmission. * Systematic presentations of quantitative risk, hazard, and exposure assessment techniques. * Numerous worked examples throughout the book. * Fascinating case studies illustrating the application of quantitative methods to various situations. Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment is an important working resource for professionals in the fields of environmental health, environmental engineering, public health, and microbiology. It is also an excellent graduate-level text for students of those disciplines. Back Cover Copy The first complete guide to the quantitative assessment of risks to humans posed by infectious agents in all environmental media. Recent highly-publicized infectious disease outbreaks in the United States and abroad have engendered mounting political pressure to require the use of quantitative techniques in the assessment of the risks of human exposure to an array of microorganisms. While traditional indicator methods for pathogen assessment and control have always left much to be desired, it is only with the advent of modern microbial methods that it is now possible to establish rigorous testing protocols for infectious agents comparable to those in place for chemical agents and other contaminants. A book whose time has come, Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment equips environmental and public health professionals with the knowledge and skills they need to comply with the rapidly growing demand for quantitative risk testing of infectious agents. Authored by an interdisciplinary team of experts from the fields of environmental engineering, marine science, and soil and water science, this is the first comprehensive guide to state-of-the-art quantitative microbial risk assessment methods. It provides you with:
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Occupational Health: Risk Assessment and Managementby Steven S. Sadhra, Krishna G. Rampal (Editor) Available from Amazon $119.99 On 7-18-2006
See Item's Page Book Description This book provides the theory and the practice of risk assessment and management in the context of hazardous substances in the workplace based on a rational conceptual framework. Exposure to chemicals in industry and commerce is particulary important given the volume of chemicals used, the different forms in which they may exist and their range of health effects. This book will address the historical perspectives; discuss the various models available, propose a more comprehensive model and discuss the various elements of risk assessment and the management process. Furthermore applications of risk assessment and management in various industrial sectors will be discussed based either on substance or the process involved. This book will link the theory with the practice of risk assessment and management. It will provide the individual responsible, as well as those involved in providing input into the process of risk assessment and management in the workplace a clear understanding of the issues and the activities involved. It will also provide examples of assessment and management in a range of selected industries and processes. Occupational Health provides health and safety managers, physicians, industrial hygienists, and occupational health nurses with both the theory and the practical information they need to practice risk assessment and management in the workplace. Readers will learn about the basic concepts and developments in health risk assessment and management and about strategies for organizing for risk assessment and management. Book Info Univ. of Birmingham, UK. textbook on the theory and practice of risk assessment and management in the context of workplace hazards. Based on a rational conceptual framework. For students and practitioners. DNLM: Occupational Diseases--prevention & control. |
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