Consumer Health A Guide To Intelligent Decisions Harold J Cor Nacchia Stephen Barrett

This text provides extensive information about products and services in the health marketplace, enabling consumers to make informed decisions when choosing health care facilities. Specific identification of products and services should also provide practical information for students of health studies and health education to draw on when faced with health care decisions of their own. Issues such as living wills, euthanasia, organ and tissue donation and the funeral industry are discussed, and a new chapter on AIDS is included.

The most comprehensive consumer health text available, Consumer Health: A Guide to Intelligent Decisions offers a panoramic view of the health marketplace. You’ll learn how to sharpen your critical consumer skills so you can distinguish valid health claims from those that are fraudulent or misleading. By offering science-based facts and guidelines, Consumer Health provides the tools you need to make smart decisions about health-care products and services for yourself and your family.

A consumer health textbook that provides information necessary to make informed choices about health products and services.

"The most comprehensive text in Consumer Health,this edition continues to provide a vast amount of information to enable consumers to choose health products and services intelligently. New texts now come packaged with Health and Human Performance PowerWeb!" -- Publisher.

First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.