Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Overdiagnosed Overdiagnosed H. Gilbert Welch After the criteria used to define osteoporosis were altered, seven million American women were turned into patients-literally overnight. The proliferation of fetal monitoring in the 1970s was associa… OL15414401W
Diagnosis and Prediction Diagnosis and Prediction Seymour Geisser This volume contains refereed papers submitted by participants of the third week of a six week workshop on Statistics in the Health Sciences held by the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications … OL19841775W
Screening in disease prevention Screening in disease prevention Walter W. Holland,Susie Stewart "Screening in Disease Prevention is important reading for public health professionals, particularly those involved in screening programmes. Policy makers and shapers, medical researchers, pressure gr… OL20700558W
Health for all children Health for all children David M.b. Hall,David M. B. Hall The UK budget for preventive health care for children is probably well over two hundred million pounds per year. What does the nation get for its money? A Joint Working Party was set up in 1986 to tr… OL20828573W
Looking after my breasts Looking after my breasts Sheila Hollins,Wendy Perez This book is designed to support women who are invited for breast screening. The first story explins what happens to Beth, from receiving the invitation letter for breast screening to having a mammog… OL24840573W
The patient paradox The patient paradox McCartney, Margaret (Physician) "Welcome to the world of sexed-up medicine, where patients have been turned into customers, and clinics and waiting rooms are jammed with healthy people, lured in to have their blood pressure taken a… OL28166047W
Health measurement scales Health measurement scales David L. Streiner Clinicians and those in health sciences are frequently called upon to measure subjective states such as attitudes, feelings, quality of life, educational achievement and aptitude, and learning style … OL3241802W