Stay healthy at every age : what your doctor wants you to know / Shantanu Nundy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nundy, Shantanu.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Self-care, Health--Popular works.

Self-care, Health.

Medicine, Preventive--Popular works.

Medicine, Preventive.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (393 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2010.

Summary:

Nundy's simple preventive health guidelines will keep your motor running longer and stronger.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

INTRODUCTION: About this Book

Why this Book Matters

Scope

Philosophy

Organization

How to Use this Book

The Source of the recommendations

What this Book Is Not

PART I. Introduction to Preventive services

Defining Preventive Services

Shifting from "Sick Care" to "Health Care"

Barriers to Preventive Health

Terms and Concepts

Special Section on Cardiovascular Disease

Special Section on Cancer

The Rationale behind These Recommendations

The Benefits and Harms of Preventive Health

Planning for Prevention

PART II. Healthy Checks Guidelines

How to Read the Checklists

Healthy Checks: Early Childhood

Healthy Checks: Adolescence to Age 19

Healthy Checks: Ages 20 to 29

Healthy Checks: Ages 30 to 39

Healthy Checks: Ages 40 to 49

Healthy Checks: Ages 50 to 64

Healthy Checks: Age 65 or Older

Healthy Checks: Pregnancy

PART III. Preventive Services Explained

Chapter 1. Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Screening 51

Chapter 2. Alcohol Misuse Counseling

Chapter 3. Aspirin to Prevent Cardiovascular Disease

Chapter 4. Blood Pressure Screening

Chapter 5. Breast Cancer Preventive Services

Chapter 6. Cervical Cancer Screening and HPV

Chapter 7. Chlamydia Screening

Chapter 8. Cholesterol Screening

Chapter 9. Colon Cancer Screening

Chapter 10. Depression Screening

Chapter 11. Diabetes Screening

Chapter 12. Early Childhood Preventive Health

Chapter 13. Gonorrhea Screening

Chapter 14. Healthy Eating Counseling

Chapter 15. Hepatitis B Vaccination and Screening

Chapter 16. HIV Screening

Chapter 17. Obesity Screening and Counseling

Chapter 18. Osteoporosis Screening

Chapter 19. Pregnancy Preventive Health

Chapter 20. Sexually Transmitted Infection Counseling

Chapter 21. Syphilis Screening.

Chapter 22. Tobacco Use Counseling

Chapter 23. Vaccines for Adults

APPENDIX: Immunization Schedules and Vaccine Information Sheets from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Notes

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Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8018-9828-5

OCLC:

647903005