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Coronary Heart Disease Prevention: A Handbook for the Health-Care Team
Contributor(s): Lindsay, Grace (Author), Gaw, Allan (Author)
ISBN: 0443071179     ISBN-13: 9780443071171
Publisher: Churchill Livingstone
OUR PRICE:   $62.32  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: January 2004
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Annotation: Review quote "An excellent handbook which covers all aspects of coronary heart disease and will serve as a very useful reference for nurses working in primary and secondary health prevention."
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Medical | Nursing - Critical & Intensive Care
Dewey: 616.123
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 7.5" W x 9.66" (1.70 lbs) 344 pages
 
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Publisher Description:
Review quote An excellent handbook which covers all aspects of coronary heart disease and will serve as a very useful reference for nurses working in primary and secondary health prevention.
  • evidence-based content ensures a firm scientific basis for practice
  • the practical nature of the content can be immediately applied in the working environment e.g. smoking cessation strategies, dietary counseling and risk assessment
  • the multidisciplinary group of contributors ensures that the content reflects the multidisciplinary nature of CHD prevention work
  • case studies and practice exercises enable the application of theory to practice
  • summaries of key points facilitate understanding and retention
  • the implications from clinical governance legislation, the National Service Frameworks and Joint British Recommendations on prevention of CHD in clinical practice
  • recent research outcomes e.g. the HOT trial
  • diabetes and its links with CHD
  • material relating to ethnic minorities
  • more 'global' statistics where possible to make the text more appealing to international markets
  • the inequalities arising from socio-economic exclusion