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Description:Every day we make decisions about our health - some big and some small. What we eat, how we live and even where we live can affect our health. But how can we be sure that the advice we are given about these important matters is right forus? Many treatments and tests - both mainstream and alternative - are not supported by good evidence and some widely used treatments are actually harmful.Whether you are considering having surgery or taking vitamin supplements, you need to know the effectiveness of the options and their side-effects.This fully revised and updated new edition of Smart Health Choices will provide you with the tools for assessing health advice, whether it comes from a specialist, general practitioner, naturopath, the media, the Internet, or a friend. It shows you how to take an active role in your health care, and to make the best decisions for you and your loved ones based on personal preferences and the best available evidence. Part 1: Health advice can be harmful gives an introduction to the reasons why health advice may be misleading. It discusses some of the common pitfalls for consumers and health professionals, how to identify meaningful health claims and research, and why it can be unwise to rely on the opinions of the experts.Part 2: Your body, your choice is for you if you feel you have an understanding of the pitfalls in health advice, but need to know how to make better decisions by asking the right questions. It discusses the five key questions (see next page) to help make the best possible health decisions and what to look for when choosing a practitioner.Parts 3–6 are for you if you’re satisfied with your decisionmaking skills but need help in assessing whether your sources of information are reliable.Part 3: Stories and studies introduces the concepts of what features combine to make a good study.Part 4: Evaluating the evidence deals with which study designs best answer questions such as whether a treatment works or what causes a disease.Part 5: Improving your healthcare explains where and how to find reliable evidence and how to use it, and suggests ways in which consumers can get involved in improving their health and healthcare services.Part 6: Testing your skill starts with an opportunity to practise your skills on a range of articles from the media, internet and papersThe five key questions at the heart of this book are:1.What will happen if I wait and watch?2.What are my test or treatment options?3.What are the benefits and harms of these options?4.How do the benefits and harms weigh up for me?5.Do I have enough information to make a choice?We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Smart Health Choices: Making sense of health advice. To get started finding Smart Health Choices: Making sense of health advice, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Every day we make decisions about our health - some big and some small. What we eat, how we live and even where we live can affect our health. But how can we be sure that the advice we are given about these important matters is right forus? Many treatments and tests - both mainstream and alternative - are not supported by good evidence and some widely used treatments are actually harmful.Whether you are considering having surgery or taking vitamin supplements, you need to know the effectiveness of the options and their side-effects.This fully revised and updated new edition of Smart Health Choices will provide you with the tools for assessing health advice, whether it comes from a specialist, general practitioner, naturopath, the media, the Internet, or a friend. It shows you how to take an active role in your health care, and to make the best decisions for you and your loved ones based on personal preferences and the best available evidence. Part 1: Health advice can be harmful gives an introduction to the reasons why health advice may be misleading. It discusses some of the common pitfalls for consumers and health professionals, how to identify meaningful health claims and research, and why it can be unwise to rely on the opinions of the experts.Part 2: Your body, your choice is for you if you feel you have an understanding of the pitfalls in health advice, but need to know how to make better decisions by asking the right questions. It discusses the five key questions (see next page) to help make the best possible health decisions and what to look for when choosing a practitioner.Parts 3–6 are for you if you’re satisfied with your decisionmaking skills but need help in assessing whether your sources of information are reliable.Part 3: Stories and studies introduces the concepts of what features combine to make a good study.Part 4: Evaluating the evidence deals with which study designs best answer questions such as whether a treatment works or what causes a disease.Part 5: Improving your healthcare explains where and how to find reliable evidence and how to use it, and suggests ways in which consumers can get involved in improving their health and healthcare services.Part 6: Testing your skill starts with an opportunity to practise your skills on a range of articles from the media, internet and papersThe five key questions at the heart of this book are:1.What will happen if I wait and watch?2.What are my test or treatment options?3.What are the benefits and harms of these options?4.How do the benefits and harms weigh up for me?5.Do I have enough information to make a choice?We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Smart Health Choices: Making sense of health advice. To get started finding Smart Health Choices: Making sense of health advice, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

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