Author

Purtilo, Ruth B

Edition

4th ed.

Place of Publication

Philadelphia, PA

Publisher

Elsevier Saunders

Publication Date

2005

Subjects

Ethics, Medical

ISBN

0721602436

Language

English

Material Type

Book

Audience

Professional

Location

Vancouver Library

Victoria Library

Kelowna Library

Call Number

W50 P986 2005

Copies

Corporate Author

Canadian Institute for Health Information

Place of Publication

[Ottawa, ON]

Publisher

Canadian Institute for Health Information

Publication Date

2007

Subjects

Health Status Indicators

Hospice Care

Terminal Care

Statistics

Terminally Ill

Cause of Death

Mortality

Health Services - utilization

Delivery of Health Care

Alberta

British Columbia

Manitoba

Saskatchewan

Canada

ISBN

9781554650729

Language

English

Material Type

Book

Online

Audience

Professional

Location

Internet

Website Notes

PDF available to download from this site

Editor

Gebhard, Amanda

Mclean, Sheelah

St. Denis, Verna

Place of Publication

Winnipeg, MB

Publisher

Fernwood Publishing

Publication Date

2022

Physical Description

280 p. : ill ; 23 cm

Subjects

Attitude of Health Personnel

Racism

Minority Health - history

Health Disparity, Minority and Vulnerable Populations

Indigenous Canadians - history

Social Welfare - history

First Nations

Canada

ISBN

9781773635224

Language

English

Material Type

Book

Audience

Professional

Location

Vancouver Library

Victoria Library

Kelowna Library

Call Number

WA300 W582g 2022

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Alternate Title

Health literate practices

Corporate Author

Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Roundtable on Health Literacy.

Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice.

Institute of Medicine of the National Academies

Editor

Hewitt, Maria

Place of Publication

Washington, DC

Publisher

National Academies Press

Publication Date

2012

Physical Description

xiv, 101 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subjects

Health Care Reform

Community Participation

Health Literacy

Insurance, Health

State Government

United States

Congress

Abstract

Contents:

Introduction -- State health insurance exchanges: overview -- State insurance exchanges' impact on consumers -- Health literacy relevance to health insurance exchanges -- Current best practices in developing materials and communicating with consumers -- Reflections on lessons learned.

ISBN

9780309220293

Language

English

Material Type

Book

Online

Audience

Professional

Location

Victoria Library

Internet

Call Number

WA590 F141 2012

Website Notes

Available in PDF format at link

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Author

Martinuk, Susan D.

Place of Publication

[Vancouver, BC?]

Publisher

Advanced Applied Physics Solutions, AAPS, Inc.

TRIUMF

Publication Date

2011

Subjects

Positron-Emission Tomography - utilization

Positron-Emission Tomography - economics

Neoplasms - diagnostic imaging

Technology Assessment, Biomedical

Costs and Cost Analysis

Questionnaires

Canada

Language

English

Material Type

Book

Online

Audience

Professional

Location

Vancouver Library

Internet

Call Number

WN206 M386 2011

Copies

Author

Fiore, Michael

Editor

Fiore, Michael

Place of Publication

Rockville, MD

Publisher

U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services. Public Health Service

Publication Date

2000

Series

Clinical practice guideline

Subjects

Tobacco Use Disorder - therapy

Smoking cessation - methods

Smoking - prevention & control

Tobacco - adverse effects

Practice Guideline

ISBN

9781587630071

1587630079

Language

English

Material Type

Book

Audience

Professional

Location

Kelowna Library

Call Number

WM290 T784 2000

Copies

Author

Fiore, Michael

Jaén CR

Baker TB

et al.

Corporate Author

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Place of Publication

Rockville, MD

Publisher

U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services. Public Health Service

Publication Date

2008

Series

Clinical practice guideline

Subjects

Tobacco Use Disorder - therapy

Smoking cessation - methods

Smoking - prevention & control

Tobacco - adverse effects

Practice Guideline

Notes

This Guideline is an updated version of the 2000 Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence: Clinical Practice Guideline that was sponsored by the U.S.

Public Health Service, U. S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Language

English

Material Type

Book

Online

Audience

Professional

Location

Internet

Author

National Cancer Institute (U.S.)

Corporate Author

National Cancer Institute (U.S.)

Editor

Davis, Ronald M

Place of Publication

[Bethesda, MD]

Publisher

National Cancer Institute, U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health

Publication Date

2008

Physical Description

xxviii, 655 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Series

NCI tobacco control monograph series 19

Subjects

Tobacco Use Disorder - prevention & control

Advertising as Topic

Tobacco Products

Communications Media

Health Promotion

Mass Media

Language

English

Material Type

Book

Online

Audience

Professional

Location

Kelowna Library

Internet

Call Number

WM290 R745 2008

Copies

Corporate Author

American Association of Physicists in Medicine

Place of Publication

Madison, WI

Publisher

American Association of Physicists in Medicine

Publication Date

1999

Series

AAPM report 64

Subjects

Nuclear Medicine

Education, Medical

Radiology

Radiotherapy

Radiography

ISBN

094483809X

ISSN

02717344

Language

English

Material Type

Book

Audience

Professional

Location

Kelowna Library

Call Number

WN440 A512 1999 v.64

Copies

Editor

Blumenthal, Mark

Place of Publication

Austin, Tx.

Publisher

American Botanical Council

Publication Date

1998

Subjects

Medicine, Herbal

Plants, Medicinal

ISBN

096555550X

Language

English

Material Type

Book

Online

Audience

Professional

Location

Vancouver Library

Internet

Call Number

QV767 C737 1998

Website Notes

Open access

Copies

Corporate Author

International Agency for Research on Cancer

World Health Organization

Place of Publication

Geneva

Publisher

WHO Press

Publication Date

2010

Physical Description

vii, 424 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Series

IARC monographs on the evaluation of carcinogenic risks to humans 95

Subjects

Carcinogens, Environmental

Air Pollution, Indoor - adverse effects

Fossil Fuels - adverse effects

Neoplasms - etiology

Hot Temperature - adverse effects

ISBN

9789283212959

9283212959

ISSN

1017-1606

Language

English

Material Type

Book

Online

Audience

Professional

Location

Vancouver Library

Internet

Call Number

QZ202 I585 2010 v. 95

Copies

Author

Band, Pierre R

Place of Publication

Oak Park, IL

Publisher

Bentham Science Publishers

Publication Date

2014

Subjects

Medical Oncology - history

Internal Medicine - history

ISSN

9781608058143

Language

English

Material Type

Book

Online

Audience

Professional

Location

Internet

Author

Rostom, Alaa

Corporate Author

United States. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Place of Publication

Rockville, MD

Publisher

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Publication Date

2007

Subjects

Colorectal Neoplasms - prevention & control

Anti-Inflammatory Agents, Non-Steroidal

Aspirin - therapeutic use

Language

English

Material Type

Book

Online

Audience

Professional

Location

Internet

Author

Jirasek, Andrew

Place of Publication

[Vancouver, BC?]

Publisher

University of British Columbia

Publication Date

2002

Subjects

Radiation Dosage

Radiotherapy - instrumentation

Thesis

Language

English

Material Type

Book

Thesis

Online

Audience

Professional

Location

Internet

Call Number

LE3 J61 2002

Author

Kuhnlein, Harriet V.

Turner, Nancy J.

Place of Publication

[Canada]

Publisher

Gordon and Breach Science Publishers

Publication Date

2009

Series

Food and nutrition in history and anthropology v. 8

Subjects

First Nations

Canada

Ethnobotany

Plants, Edible

Nutrition

Nutritive Value

Food

Notes

Book originally published by OPA, Amsterdam. 1991.

ISBN

2881244653

Language

English

Material Type

Book

Online

Audience

Patient or Public

Professional

Location

Internet

Corporate Author

International Commission on Radiation Units and Measurements

Place of Publication

[Bethesda, MD]

Publisher

International Commission on Radiation Units and Measurements

Publication Date

1987

Series

ICRU report 42

Subjects

Radiotherapy, Computer-Assisted

Computers

Radiotherapy, High Energy

ISBN

091339436X

Language

English

Material Type

Book

Audience

Professional

Location

Kelowna Library

Call Number

WN650 I61 1987 v.42

Copies

Corporate Author

National Cancer Policy Forum (U.S.)

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Editor

Balogh, Erin P.

Maxfield, Kimberly

Patlak, Margie

Place of Publication

Washington, DC

Publisher

National Academies Press

Publication Date

2016

Physical Description

xxi, 112 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subjects

Neoplasms - immunology

Neoplasms - therapy

Immunotherapy

Immunotherapy - adverse effects

Congress

Notes

Conference workshop summary: Policy Issues in the Clinical Development and Use of Immunotherapy for Cancer Treatment (Workshop) (2016 : Washington, D.C.)

ISBN

9780309442329

Language

English

Material Type

Book

Online

Audience

Professional

Location

Victoria Library

Internet

Call Number

QZ266 P766 2016

Website Notes

Available in HTML and PDF formats at link

Copies

Corporate Author

Royal College of Radiologists. Faculty of Clinical Oncology.

Place of Publication

London, UK

Publisher

Royal College of Radiologists

Publication Date

2015

Physical Description

123 p. ; 30 cm.

Subjects

Neoplasms - radiotherapy

Radiotherapy - methods

Evidence-Based Practice

Practice Guideline

Neoplasms, Radiation-Induced

Treatment Outcome

ISBN

9781905034666

Language

English

Material Type

Book

Online

Audience

Professional

Location

Vancouver Library

Internet

Call Number

QZ269 R454 2015

Copies

Author

Knight, Richard Thomas

Place of Publication

London, UK

Sutton, Surrey, UK

Publisher

University of London

Joint Department of Physics, The Institute of Cancer Research and The Royal Marsden NHS Trust

Publication Date

1996

Series

Internal report ICR-PHYS-1/96

Subjects

Radiation Dosage

Radiotherapy Dosage

Monte Carlo Method

Physics - statistical & numerical data

Radiotherapy - statistics & numerical data

X-Rays

Language

English

Material Type

Book

Thesis

Audience

Professional

Location

Kelowna Library

Call Number

WN110 K71 1996

Copies

Author

Smith, Gregory L.

Smith, Kevin F.

Place of Publication

New York, NY

Publisher

Springer Publishing Company

Publication Date

2020

Physical Description

xiv, 238 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Series

R2 Library

Fast facts series

Subjects

Chronic Pain - drug therapy

Pain management

Cannabinoids - therapeutic use

Medical Marijuana - therapeutic use

Analgesics, Opioid - adverse effects

Opioid-Related Disorders - prevention & control

Nurses Instruction

Abstract

Contents:

Chronic Pain and Opioids -- Current Cost of the Opioid Epidemic -- Opioid Use Disorder -- History and Legality of Cannabis -- Overview of the Endocannabinoid System (ECS) -- Cannabinoids and Terpenes -- Synthetic Cannabinoid Pharmaceuticals -- Isolate Cannabinoid Pharmaceuticals -- Medical Marijuana and Bioavailability -- Side Effects of Cannabis Use -- Causes of Chronic Pain -- Treating Chronic Pain with Opioids -- Treating Chronic Pain with Cannabinoids -- Cannabinoid and Opioid Interactions -- Cannabis as an Adjunct to Opioids -- Opioid Sparing with Cannabinoids.

ISBN

0826142990

9780826142993

9780826143129

Language

English

Material Type

Book

Ebook

Audience

Professional

Location

Abbotsford Library

Vancouver Library

Victoria Library

Internet

Call Number

WL704.6 S642 2020

Website Notes

This R2 title is licensed for one BC Cancer staff user at a time only. Authentication via HealthBC sign in required. Use your BC Cancer staff username and ID when prompted.

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