Allied Health Books

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1. Designing Telehealth for an Aging Population: A Human Factors Perspective

   By Neil Charness, George Demiris, Elizabeth Krupinski

   Providing up-to-date, practical advice on how to design, select, and structure telemedicine interventions with older adults, this book discusses the age-related changes that can affect the efficacy of these systems. It defines best practices and general guidelines for telemedicine use with older...

   July 2011 | 978-1-4398252-9-7 | Paperback (CRC Press)

2. Sports Biomechanics: Reducing Injury and Improving Performance, 2nd Edition

   By Roger Bartlett

   When working with athletes and sports people the biomechanist is faced with two apparently incompatible goals: preventing injury and improving performance. Now in a fully updated and revised edition, Sports Biomechanics introduces the fundamental principles that underpin our understanding of the...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-55838-9 | Paperback (Routledge)

3. Global Health Governance

   By Sophie Harman

   In the light of scares about potential pandemics such as swine fever and avian flu, the issue of global health and its governance is of increasing concern to scholars and practitioners of medicine, public health, social work, and international politics alike. This concern has arisen from...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-56158-7 | Paperback (Routledge)

4. Primary Language Impairment in Children

   By Carolyn Letts, Cristina McKean, Helen Stringer

   Primary language impairments have major consequences for a child’s educational and social development, including literacy, and were a key focus in the Bercow review of services to children with speech, language and communication needs. This evidence-based text focuses on how best to help children –...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-58702-0 | Paperback (Routledge)

5. Neurobotics Handbook

   Edited by Yoky Matsuoka

   Neurobiotics is a fast emerging field that seeks to understand, rehabilitate, assist, and enhance sensory, motor, or cognitive disabilities by intimately coupling the robotic system with the nervous system. Providing an introduction and current perspective on neurobiotics, this timely work draws on...

   June 2011 | 978-1-4398117-3-3 | Hardback (CRC Press)

6. Clinical Skills for Exercise Science

   By Paul D. Bromley

   Clinical Skills for Exercise Science is an accessible and authoritative ‘how to’ guide to laboratory and clinical procedures in exercise physiology. Designed for students and practitioners working in health, medicine and exercise science, the book offers clear, practical advice on how to implement...

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-48159-5 | Paperback (Routledge)

7. Exploring Well-Being in Schools: A guide to making children's lives more fulfilling

   By John White

   Despite a dramatic rise in average income in the last 40 years, people are no happier. Since the millennium personal well-being has recently shot up the political and educational agendas, with schools in the UK even including ‘Personal Well-being’ as a curriculum topic in its own right. This...

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-60348-5 | Paperback (Routledge)

8. Racial Disparity in Mental Health Services: Why Race Still Matters

   Edited by Larry E. Davis

   Differences unfortunately still remain in the way many races are provided health and mental health services. This book comprehensively examines this tough issue across a wide spectrum of areas, including racial identity, intergroup relations, education, socioeconomic conditions, substance abuse,...

   March 2011 | 978-0-7890-3821-0 | Paperback (Routledge)

9. Child-Centred Pharmacology: An Introduction for Nurses and Allied Health Professionals

   By Barbara Novak

   The successful management of children’s health problems requires a sophisticated understanding of their health problems and needs, as well as knowledge about how best to respond to their situations. This holds particularly when prescribing for children. Discussing the best choice of therapeutic...

   February 2011 | 978-0-415-54900-4 | Paperback (Routledge)

10. Women, Children, and Addiction

    Edited by Loretta Finnegan, Stephen Kandall

    This proposed book draws on the expertise of 35 experts in the field of Addiction Medicine to provide the reader with a current and comprehensive view of addiction as related to women, pregnancy, newborns, infants and children. The volume begins by placing current attitudes towards addicted women...

    February 2011 | 978-0-415-60103-0 | Hardback (Routledge)