Allied Health: Introduction

Addresses all major issues facing healthcare professionals today, including legal concerns, important ethical issues, and the emerging area of bioethics.

Outlines more than 75 careers and touches on every major facet of the field including training requirements, job responsibilities, and salaries. Provides a thorough review of the U.S. healthcare delivery system, managed care, health care financing, reimbursement, insurance coverage, Medicare, Medicaid, and the impact of new technology on healthcare services.

Completely updated with a new design, innovative features, plus the latest terminology, definitions, and teaching resources to facilitate mastery of medical terminology.

The approach Choucair pioneered in Chicago requires broadening our thinking about what constitutes public health. It is not simply about access to a doctor, but access to decent housing, jobs, parks, food, and social support. By focusing on those most in need, we create an agenda that is simultaneously more impactful and more achievable. The result is a wholesale change in the way public health is practiced and in the well-being of all our communities. 

This work provides a comprehensive overview of the scientific breakthrough known as vaccination and the controversy surrounding its opposition. A timeline of discoveries traces the medical and societal progression of vaccines from the early development of this medical preventive to the eradication of epidemics and the present-day discussion about its role in autism.

This book presents the history of vaccination; describes the administration, manufacturing, and regulation of vaccines in the United States; and explains the most recent scientific findings about vaccination while addressing concerns of those who oppose immunization. It explains the uses, dosage, adverse events, contraindications, and limitations of every vaccine and examines current controversies in vaccine usage and their scientific and social basis.

Ansell calls out the social and cultural arguments that have been raised as ways of explaining or excusing these [health] gaps, and he lays bare the structural violence—the racism, economic exploitation, and discrimination—that is really to blame.

This accessible introduction to the disorder helps educate both sufferers and caregivers alike to the symptoms, potential causes, treatments, and outcomes of fibromyalgia. Addressing both traditional and alternative approaches, Naheed Ali offers hope and guidance for those seeking both understanding and possible paths to recovery. He focuses not just on the science and medicine behind fibromyalgia, but also on living well with it after diagnosis.