Smart Health Choices
making sense of health advice
Published on 1. December 2013
256 pages
978-1-78161-053-4 (ISBN)
Description
Smart Health Choices provides the tools for assessing health advice, whether it comes from a specialist, a general practitioner, a naturopath, the media, the internet of a friend. It shows you how to take an active role in your own healthcare, and how to make the best decisions for you and your loved ones, based on your personal preferences and the best available evidence.
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09/2007
Hammersmith Press Limited
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Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- About the authors
- Before you read this book
- Acknowledgements
- Disclaimer
- I: Health advice can be harmful
- 1: This book could save your life
- 2: Be sceptical
- 3: Bad evidence
- 4: Don't always rely on the experts
- II: Your body, your choice
- 5: Smart health choice essentials
- 6: Choosing a practitioner or a hospital
- III: Stories and studies
- 7: An education in shopping
- 8: The weakness of one
- 9: The power of many
- IV: Evaluating the evidence
- 10: Judging which tests and treatments really work
- 11: What makes you sick?
- V: Improving your healthcare
- 12: Finding the best evidence
- 13: Doing your bit
- 14: How to apply the evidence to you and your situation
- VI: Testing your skill
- 15: Making sense of health advice
- 16: Is this a useful diagnostic test?
- 17: Decision thresholds
- 18: Relative risk, relative and absolute risk reduction, number needed to treat and confidence intervals
- Useful sources of health advice
- Glossary
- After you read this book
- A, B, C
- Index
- D, E, F
- G, H, I
- J, K, L
- M, N, O
- P, Q, R
- S, T, U
- V, W, X
- Y, Z
