Reviewer: Jennifer Hoffman, PT, DPT, OCS (Select Rehabilitation)
Description: This is an update of a book with evidence-based resources useful for all healthcare professionals to help prevent injury and illness while promoting wellness in their clients. It also provides links to a PowerPoint presentation which may be used by faculty to augment their lecture material. This feature, however, is not available to those who are not faculty members. The previous edition, published in 2007, was titled Prevention Practice: A Physical Therapist's Guide to Health, Fitness, and Wellness.
Purpose: The primary purpose is to provide evidence-based health screening material for use by healthcare professionals for the promotion of health and wellness. These health screens can assist healthcare workers in detecting and preventing health problems, as well as help in identifying risky behaviors that may lead to a lack of well-being and wellness. It also provides information on a range of health problems that may be useful for educating their clients in the prevention of illness or injury. In doing so, the book addresses wellness in all its components: mental, physical, spiritual, psychosocial, and environmental.
Audience: Healthcare professional students and clinicians involved in health and fitness may find this book useful in promoting client wellness and wellness programs. The intent of the book is admirable, with knowledgeable authors presenting the generalized concepts well. Because the information is somewhat generalized, however, the book is more useful to health and wellness practitioners, such as personal trainers, acupuncturists, and massage therapists, than it will be to those in professions which require an advanced medical degree, e.g., physical therapists, nurses, and physicians, for example.
Features: The book covers wellness and health related topics throughout the lifespan, including screening tools and health disease information from infancy into older adulthood as well as information on preventive practices for the cardiopulmonary, musculoskeletal, and neurological systems. The chapter on women's health issues is especially informative and includes information about fitness during pregnancy as well as changes in the body during pregnancy. Unusual yet informative chapters on preventive care advocacy, health and wellness marketing, and business management are also useful.
Assessment: This is a good resource for fitness and healthcare professionals needing basic screening tools for health promotion and prevention. It provides generalized information on health topics throughout the lifespan to facilitate client education and wellness. Of note, throughout the book the author references websites to allow for self-study of more in-depth information on health topics and screening tools.
Six months ago, Lucas Davenport tackled his first case as a statewide troubleshooter, and he thought that one was plenty strange enough. But that was before the Russian got killed. On the shore of Lake Superior, a man named Vladimir Oleshev is found shot dead, three holes in his head and heart, and though nobody knows why he was killed, everybody - the local cops, the FBI, and the Russians themselves - has a theory. And when it turns out he had very high government connections, that's when it hits the fan." A Russian cop flies in from Moscow, Davenport flies in from Minneapolis, law enforcement and press types swarm the crime scene - and, in the middle of it all, there is another murder. Is there a relationship between the two? What is the Russian cop hiding from Davenport? Is she - yes, it's a woman - a cop at all? Why was the man shot with ... fifty-year-old bullets? Before he can find the answers, Davenport will have to follow a trail back to another place, another time, and battle the shadows he discovers there - shadows that turn out to be both very real and very deadly.
Six months ago, Lucas Davenport tackled his first case as a statewide troubleshooter, and he thought that one was plenty strange enough. But that was before the Russian got killed. On the shore of Lake Superior, a man named Vladimir Oleshev is found shot dead, three holes in his head and heart, and though nobody knows why he was killed, everybody - the local cops, the FBI, and the Russians themselves - has a theory. And when it turns out he had very high government connections, that's when it hits the fan." A Russian cop flies in from Moscow, Davenport flies in from Minneapolis, law enforcement and press types swarm the crime scene - and, in the middle of it all, there is another murder. Is there a relationship between the two? What is the Russian cop hiding from Davenport? Is she - yes, it's a woman - a cop at all? Why was the man shot with ... fifty-year-old bullets? Before he can find the answers, Davenport will have to follow a trail back to another place, another time, and battle the shadows he discovers there - shadows that turn out to be both very real and very deadly.
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Product Details
| BN ID: | 2940169379877 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House |
| Publication date: | 04/21/2005 |
| Series: | Prey , #15 |
| Edition description: | Abridged |
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