Consumer Health: A Guide to Intelligent Decisions - Softcover

Cornacchia, Harold J.; Barrett, S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 080166747X ISBN 13: 9780801667473

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Inc.,US, 1993

Synopsis

This text provides extensive information about products and services in the health marketplace, enabling consumers to make informed decisions when choosing health care facilities. Specific identification of products and services should also provide practical information for students of health studies and health education to draw on when faced with health care decisions of their own. Issues such as living wills, euthanasia, organ and tissue donation and the funeral industry are discussed, and a new chapter on AIDS is included.

About this title

From the Publisher

Explores the influence of the Internet on today's health care in a new chapter.
Places icons throughout the text to refer the reader to the wealth of resources that can be found on Dr. Barrett's consumer health site Quackwatch.com.
Discusses over 80 potentially preventable diseases informing consumers of what interventions are science-based and cost-effective.
Includes updated and timely information on managed care, the need for health care reform, and the rapidly changing insurance marketplace in Chapter 24: Health Insurance.
Expands coverage of key topics such as the Internet, dietary supplements and herbs.
Features the latest information including the U.S. Preventative Task Force Guidelines in Chapter 5: Science-Based Health Care, a thorough discussion of the new food labels, and the latest U.S. Dietary Guidelines in Chapter 11: Basic Nutrition Concepts.Provides adopters of the text with a free weekly e-mail newsletter (Consumer Health Digest), which includes summaries of relevant news and links to source documents.
Encourages readers to make wise choices about personal health care with features such as "It's Your Decision" and "Personal Glimpse" boxes, and "Consumer Tips" boxes that provide quick, buffeted lists and suggestions to follow when making decisions.
Uses a list of common consumer health decisions, summaries of the vast amount of misleading information today, and a section on consumer protective forces and their functions and limitations to introduce the reader to consumer health in Chapter 1: Consumer Health Issues.
COMP GUIDELINES Course is generally found in health ed. It may not be offered every year. Stephen Barrett is very well known, and is quite opinionated about this issue. The competition is minimal.
Provides current, focused web-based information with exercises, by packaging a passcard providing access to PowerWeb, with the text.

About the Author

Board Chairman, Quackwatch, Inc. NCAHF Vice President and Director of Internet Operations.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Inc.,US
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 080166747X
• ISBN 13: 9780801667473
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 576