Nurse as educator

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Ana Consuelo Matiella

This book provides health professionals with a "how to" approach to developing culturally sensitive and effective Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (aids) education materials. It is a collection of chapters written by community aids educators who have specialized knowledge and skill in developing educational materials in multi-ethnic communities. Included are: (1) "Laying the Groundwork" (Stephen B. Thomas); (2) "Using Evaluation to Develop Responsive Materials" (Aisha Gilliam and Roberta Hollander); (3) "Using Focus Group Interviews to Design Materials" (Joyce V. Fetro); (4) "Creating Culturally Sensitive Materials" (Sara Olivia Garcia); (5) "Developing Low-Literacy Materials" (Jane H. Root); (6) "Adapting and Translating Materials" (Ana Consuelo Matiella); (7) "Singing Your Own Song" (Terry Tafoya and Douglas A. Wirth); (8) "Telling a Tale" (Andrea Green Rush and Dominic Cappello); (9) "Producing Comic Books and Photonovels" (Susan Leibtag and Hugh Rigby); (10) "Developing Relevant Materials on a Low Budget" (Sala Udin); (11) "Understanding the Production Process" (Lianne B. Chong); (12) "Planning Outreach and Dissemination Strategies" (Ruth Lopez); and (13) "Evaluating aids Education Materials" (Shelley Mann and Marna Copeland Taylor). Appended are three case studies: "Assessing the aids Education Needs of Black Gay and Bisexual Men" (Stephen B. Thomas); "Stopping aids Is My Mission (samm)" (Aisha Gilliam); and "Conducting Outreach to Combat aids Among Injection Drug Users" (Robert S. Broadhead and Kathryn J. Fox). (Nb).

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Randall Harris

Epidemiology of Chronic Disease: Global Perspectives is the most current and authoritative resource on the epidemiology, etiology, pathogenesis, risk factors and preventive factors of forty common chronic diseases. This comprehensive text provides readers with an excellent basis for examining current hypotheses regarding chronic disease epidemiology. Organized into eight sections, the text begins with an introductory chapter examines the new public health environment in which chronic diseases have replaced acute infectious conditions concurrent with improved health care and increasing longevity in many populations of the world. Subsequent sections cover cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, major forms of cancer, diseases of the respiratory tract, metabolic and digestive diseases, musculoskeletal diseases, neurodegenerative diseases, and finally, three infectious diseases that often manifest as chronic conditions. Special sections in each chapter focus on controversial topics that can serve as a launching point for classroom discussion of molecular mechanisms of disease pathogenesis and the relevant epidemiologic issues pertaining to the prevention and control of chronic diseases.

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Daniel Sorensen, Daniel Gianola

Over the last ten years the introduction of computer intensive statistical methods has opened new horizons concerning the probability models that can be fitted to genetic data, the scale of the problems that can be tackled and the nature of the questions that can be posed. In particular, the application of Bayesian and likelihood methods to statistical genetics has been facilitated enormously by these methods. Techniques generally referred to as Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) have played a major role in this process, stimulating synergies among scientists in different fields, such as mathematicians, probabilists, statisticians, computer scientists and statistical geneticists. Specifically, the MCMC "revolution" has made a deep impact in quantitative genetics. This can be seen, for example, in the vast number of papers dealing with complex hierarchical models and models for detection of genes affecting quantitative or meristic traits in plants, animals and humans that have been published recently. This book, suitable for numerate biologists and for applied statisticians, provides the foundations of likelihood, Bayesian and MCMC methods in the context of genetic analysis of quantitative traits. Most students in biology and agriculture lack the formal background needed to learn these modern biometrical techniques. Although a number of excellent texts in these areas have become available in recent years, the basic ideas and tools are typically described in a technically demanding style, and have been written by and addressed to professional statisticians. For this reason, considerable more detail is offered than what may be warranted for a more mathematically apt audience. The book is divided into four parts. Part I gives a review of probability and distribution theory. Parts II and III present methods of inference and MCMC methods. Part IV discusses several models that can be applied in quantitative genetics, primarily from a bayesian perspective. An effort has been made to relate biological to statistical parameters throughout, and examples are used profusely to motivate the developments.

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Katharine R. Curry, Amy Jaffe

"Nutrition Counseling and Communication Skills teaches you how to help clients develop healthy diets and solve their nutrition problems. You'll explore the latest psychological concepts and gain important insights into the emotional issues that affect your clients' relationships to food. Then, you'll see how to use this knowledge to facilitate significant and lasting changes in their nutritional behavior!"--BOOK JACKET.