The Chief Public Health Officer's Report on the State of Public Health in Canada
| Author | : Chief Public Health Officer (Canada) |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 112 |
| Release | : 2013 |
| Genre | : Public health |
| ISBN | : |
The Chief Public Health Officers Report On The State Of Public Health In Canada
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Public Health and Preventive Health Care in Canada
| Author | : Bonnie Fournier |
| Publisher | : Elsevier Health Sciences |
| Total Pages | : 498 |
| Release | : 2020-02-26 |
| Genre | : Medical |
| ISBN | : 1771722169 |
Work more effectively with a complete understanding of Canadian public health! Shah's Public Health and Preventive Health Care in Canada, Sixth Edition examines health care policy in Canada and the issues and trends faced by today's health care professionals. It puts health promotion and prevention models into a historical perspective, with discussions including the evolution of national health insurance, determinants of health and disease, and approaches to achieving health for all. Written by educators Bonnie Fournier and Fareen Karachiwalla, and based on the work of noted author Dr. Chandrakant Shah, this text provides an excellent foundation in Canadian public health for nurses and other health care professionals. - Quintessentially Canadian content is designed especially for Canadian nursing and health care professionals. - Comprehensive coverage includes in-depth, current information on public health and preventive care topics. - End-of-chapter summaries reinforce your understanding of key health care concepts. - End-of-chapter references provide recommendations for further reading and research. - NEW! Full-colour design enhances illustrations and improves readability to better illustrate complex concepts. - NEW! Indigenous Health chapter. - NEW! Groups Experiencing Health Inequities chapter. - NEW! Pan-Canadian focus uses a community health perspective, discussing the social determinants of health, health equity, and health promotion in each chapter. - NEW! Learning tools include chapter outlines and learning objectives, key terms, practical exercises, critical thinking questions, and summary boxes such as Case Study, Research Perspective, In the News, Interprofessional Practice, Clinical Example, Real World Example, and Evidence-Informed Practice, plus key websites. - NEW! Evolve companion website. - NEW! Emerging infectious diseases (EID) and COVID-19 discussion and exercises on Evolve, offer insight into current and developing challenges facing public health.
The Future of the Public's Health in the 21st Century
| Author | : Institute of Medicine |
| Publisher | : National Academies Press |
| Total Pages | : 536 |
| Release | : 2003-02-01 |
| Genre | : Medical |
| ISBN | : 0309133181 |
The anthrax incidents following the 9/11 terrorist attacks put the spotlight on the nation's public health agencies, placing it under an unprecedented scrutiny that added new dimensions to the complex issues considered in this report. The Future of the Public's Health in the 21st Century reaffirms the vision of Healthy People 2010, and outlines a systems approach to assuring the nation's health in practice, research, and policy. This approach focuses on joining the unique resources and perspectives of diverse sectors and entities and challenges these groups to work in a concerted, strategic way to promote and protect the public's health. Focusing on diverse partnerships as the framework for public health, the book discusses: The need for a shift from an individual to a population-based approach in practice, research, policy, and community engagement. The status of the governmental public health infrastructure and what needs to be improved, including its interface with the health care delivery system. The roles nongovernment actors, such as academia, business, local communities and the media can play in creating a healthy nation. Providing an accessible analysis, this book will be important to public health policy-makers and practitioners, business and community leaders, health advocates, educators and journalists.
Physical Examination and Health Assessment - Canadian E-Book
| Author | : Carolyn Jarvis |
| Publisher | : Elsevier Health Sciences |
| Total Pages | : 983 |
| Release | : 2023-03-14 |
| Genre | : Medical |
| ISBN | : 0323875092 |
Learn how to take a clear, logical, and holistic approach to physical examination and health assessment across the lifespan! Using easy-to-follow language, detailed illustrations, summary checklists, and new learning resources, Physical Examination & Health Assessment, 4th Canadian Edition, is the gold-standard in physical examination textbooks. This new edition reflects today's nursing practice with a greater focus on diverse communities, evidence-informed content throughout, and new and enhanced case studies focusing on critical thinking and clinical judgement. It's easy to see why this text is #1 with Canadian nursing students! - Approximately 150 normal and abnormal examination photos for the nose, mouth, throat, thorax, and pediatric assessment give you a fresh perspective on these key system examinations, with cultural diversity and developmental variations. - Social determinants of health considerations cover the shifting landscape of Canada's populations with strategies for integrating social, economic, and ethnocultural diversity into students' health assessments. - Assessment strategies relevant to Indigenous populations, harm reduction, nutrition, and transgender persons inform practitioners on respectful, complete care. - Sectional colour bars segment body systems according to content — Structure and Function, Subjective Data, Objective Data, Documentation and Critical Thinking, Abnormal Findings. - Documentation and critical thinking sections provide real world clinical examples of specific patients and how to document assessment findings. - Abnormal findings tables help you recognize, sort, and describe abnormalities. - Separate chapter on pregnancy provides a thorough foundation for assessing the pregnant patient. - Developmental Considerations sections highlight content specific to infants, children, adolescents, pregnant individuals, and older adults. - Content covering the electronic health record, charting, and narrative recording provides examples of how to document assessment findings. - Two-column format distinguishes normal findings from abnormal findings and uses full-colour, step-by-step photos to clarify examination techniques and expected findings. - Promoting Health boxes focus on this key aspect of Canadian health care. - Summary checklists offer reviews of key examination steps.
Potter and Perry's Canadian Fundamentals of Nursing - E-Book
| Author | : Barbara J. Astle |
| Publisher | : Elsevier Health Sciences |
| Total Pages | : 1615 |
| Release | : 2023-02-15 |
| Genre | : Medical |
| ISBN | : 032387066X |
Get the solid foundation you need to practise nursing in Canada! Potter & Perry's Canadian Fundamentals of Nursing, 7th Edition covers the nursing concepts, knowledge, research, and skills that are essential to professional nursing practice in Canada. The text's full-colour, easy-to-use approach addresses the entire scope of nursing care, reflecting Canadian standards, culture, and the latest in evidence-informed care. New to this edition are real-life case studies and a new chapter on practical nursing in Canada. Based on Potter & Perry's respected Fundamentals text and adapted and edited by a team of Canadian nursing experts led by Barbara J. Astle and Wendy Duggleby, this book ensures that you understand Canada's health care system and health care issues as well as national nursing practice guidelines. - More than 50 nursing skills are presented in a clear, two-column format that includes steps and rationales to help you learn how and why each skill is performed. - The five-step nursing process provides a consistent framework for care, and is demonstrated in more than 20 care plans. - Nursing care plans help you understand the relationship between assessment findings and nursing diagnoses, the identification of goals and outcomes, the selection of interventions, and the process for evaluating care. - Planning sections help nurses plan and prioritize care by emphasizing Goals and Outcomes, Setting Priorities, and Teamwork and Collaboration. - More than 20 concept maps show care planning for clients with multiple nursing diagnoses. - UNIQUE! Critical Thinking Model in each clinical chapter shows you how to apply the nursing process and critical thinking to provide the best care for patients. - UNIQUE! Critical Thinking Exercises help you to apply essential content. - Coverage of interprofessional collaboration includes a focus on patient-centered care, Indigenous peoples' health referencing the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) Report, the CNA Code of Ethics, and Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) legislation. - Evidence-Informed Practice boxes provide examples of recent state-of-the-science guidelines for nursing practice. - Research Highlight boxes provide abstracts of current nursing research studies and explain the implications for daily practice. - Patient Teaching boxes highlight what and how to teach patients, and how to evaluate learning. - Learning objectives, key concepts, and key terms in each chapter summarize important content for more efficient review and study. - Online glossary provides quick access to definitions for all key terms.
Fundamentals of Sustainable Urban Design
| Author | : Avi Friedman |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 328 |
| Release | : 2020-12-10 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 3030608654 |
This book begins with an introduction describing current societal transformations that merit new urban designs, including depletion of non-renewable natural resources, elevated levels of greenhouse gas emissions, large numbers of aging “Baby Boomers,” and climate change. Dr. Friedman then examines these challenges through thirty chapters of interest to urban designers, architects, civil and construction engineers, and town planners. Each of these topics represents an aspect of urban design and describes an innovative solution and offers a detailed description of underlying principles. The highly illustrated text presents innovative urban design strategies based on sustainable principles. Integrated with each chapter are several international case studies illustrating design implementations.
Responding to the Oppression of Addiction, Fourth Edition
| Author | : Rick Csiernik |
| Publisher | : Canadian Scholars |
| Total Pages | : 516 |
| Release | : 2023-02-07 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1773383426 |
Responding to the Oppression of Addiction brings together the voices of over 40 academics and social work practitioners from across Canada to provide a diverse and multidimensional perspective to the study of addiction. This thoroughly updated edition features eight new chapters and streamlines the content of the previous editions, with chapters condensed and combined to create a more accessible text. The fourth edition features new content on themes such as residential schools, prevention initiatives, special needs of different populations, policy perspectives framed within an anti-oppression standpoint, cognitive behavioral therapy, and the emerging topic of problem gambling. Returning chapters have been updated, with contributors providing more in-depth examinations of trauma-informed approaches. The entire volume has a strengthened anti-oppressive framework, on both an overarching and by-chapter level. This celebrated and varied collection is an indispensable resource for upper-level students, graduate students, and practitioners working in the fields of social work, addictions studies, and the helping professions. FEATURES: - Thoroughly updated chapter-by-chapter content grounded in an anti-oppressive framework with deeper exploration of trauma-informed approaches - Provides an authoritative analysis of the practices and policies that contribute to the construction of the meaning of addiction through a Canadian lens
Canadian Maternity and Pediatric Nursing
| Author | : Jessica Webster |
| Publisher | : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins |
| Total Pages | : 3734 |
| Release | : 2019-08-14 |
| Genre | : Medical |
| ISBN | : 1975102061 |
Canadian Maternity and Pediatric Nursing prepares your students for safe and effective maternity and pediatric nursing practice. The content provides the student with essential information to care for women and their families, to assist them to make the right choices safely, intelligently, and with confidence.
Dangling in the Glimmer of Hope
| Author | : Garry Gottfriedson |
| Publisher | : University of Ottawa Press |
| Total Pages | : 280 |
| Release | : 2024-11-12 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 2760344789 |
Dangling in the Glimmer of Hope: Academic Action on Truth and Reconciliation demonstrates actions academics have taken in relation to some of the Calls to Action of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Poetry, short stories, and children’s stories sit alongside scholarly chapters, mixing personal and academic voices to challenge and engage both the head and the heart about what Truth and Reconciliation—and the Calls to Action—require of us all. Garry Gottfriedson, Victoria Handford, and their collaborators invite readers not only to explore the diverse facets of Indigenous identity, but also to embark on a transformative, collective journey towards mutual understanding and respect. Contributions by Dorothy Cucw-la7 Christian, Georgann Cope Watson, Garry Gottfriedson, Victoria (Tory) Handford, Sarah Ladd, Patricia Liu Baergen, Tina Matthew, Rod McCormick, Gloria Ramirez, Fred Schaub, and Bernita Wienhold-Leahy
Community Health Nursing in Canada - E-Book
| Author | : Sandra A. MacDonald |
| Publisher | : Elsevier Health Sciences |
| Total Pages | : 678 |
| Release | : 2016-08-17 |
| Genre | : Medical |
| ISBN | : 1771720743 |
NEW! CHN in Practice boxes provide unique case studies to help you develop your assessment and critical thinking skills. NEW! Cultural Considerations boxes present culturally diverse scenarios that offer questions for reflection and class discussion.
