Author: U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilki
Keywords: preventive, services, clinical, guide, uspstf, force, recommendations, task
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2006-12-01
List price: $42.95
ISBN-10: 0781763991
ISBN-13: 9780781763998

This compact, portable quick-reference handbook from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force offers evidence-based recommendations on the use of clinical preventive services in adult and pediatric patient care. It provides specific guidelines for counseling, testing, and interventions based on age, gender, and risk factors for disease. A letter-grading system is used to indicate which preventive services are strongly recommended, recommended, not recommended, or not supported by sufficient evidence. Topics covered include cancer screening, heart and vascular diseases, infectious diseases, inju

Author: Task Force on Community Preventive ServicesStepha
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: services, preventive, community, task, force, health, works, guide, promote
Number of Pages: 544
Published: 2005-02-17
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0195151097
ISBN-13: 9780195151091

The gold standard for evidence-based public health, The Guide to Community Preventive Services is a primary resource to improve health and prevent disease in states, communities, independent, nonfederal Task Force on Community Preventive Services, The Guide uses comprehensive systemic review methods to evaluate population-oriented health interventions. The recommendations of the Task Force are explicitly linked to the scientific evidence developed during systematic reviews. This volume examines the effectiveness and efficiency of interventions to combat such risky behaviors as tobacco use, p

Author: The Urban Task Force
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: renaissance, urban, towards
Number of Pages: 300
Published: 1999-09-14
List price: $66.95
ISBN-10: 185112165X
ISBN-13: 9781851121656

The Urban Task Force, headed by Lord Rogers, was established by the Department of Environment, Transport and Regions, (DETR) to stimulate debate about our urban environment and to identify ways of creating urban areas in direct response to people’s needs and aspirations. Their findings, conclusions and recommendations are presented in a final report to Government Ministers in Summer 99 and form the basis of this important new illustrated book.

Author: The American Psychiatric Association Task Force to
Publisher: American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc.
Keywords: psychiatric, report, american, association, force, task, services, jails, prisons
Number of Pages: 104
Published: 2000-06
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0890422877
ISBN-13: 9780890422878

For the past decade, the first edition of this unique book has lighted the way for those seeking to navigate the perilous shoals of providing mental health services in jails and prisons. These guidelines have been used and cited extensively in many contexts: educational, planning, and legal. They also have been used by surveyors and monitors of correctional facilities. Since the publication of the first edition, American jails and prisons have seen many changes, including considerable litigation, the development of consumer groups, and the creation of some exemplary programs. However, there

Author: Task Force on Economies in TransitionNational Res
Publisher: National Academies Press
Keywords: economies, political, communist, post, transforming
Number of Pages: 528
Published: 1998-02-11
List price: $57.00
ISBN-10: 0309059291
ISBN-13: 9780309059299

This ground-breaking new volume focuses on the interaction between political, social, and economic change in Central and Eastern Europe and the New Independent States. It includes a wide selection of analytic papers, thought-provoking essays by leading scholars in diverse fields, and an agenda for future research. It integrates work on the micro and macro levels of the economy and provides a broad overview of the transition process. This volume broadens the current intellectual and policy debate concerning the historic transition now taking place from a narrow concern with purely economic fact

Author: Task Committee
Publisher: Amer Society of Civil Engineers
Keywords: reports, engineering, practice, manual, asce, planning, guide, urban
Number of Pages: 591
Published: 1989-12
List price: $49.00
ISBN-10: 087262546X
ISBN-13: 9780872625464

More than any other profession, civil engineers are concerned with infrastructure, the fabric of urban life. Planning for maintenance and expansion of the nation’s infrastructure is the subject of this book. The focus of this manual is the practical use of planning tools to solve real life problems. It provides the reader with a broad overview of the planning process and what factors or issues are of particular concern. The first three chapters deal with planning and the planning process in general, describing the process that any planning study must follow from data collection to implem

Author: IWA Task Group
Publisher: IWA Publishing
Keywords: amp, technical, reports, scientific, adm1, digestion, model, anaerobic
Number of Pages: 92
Published: 2008-06-10
List price: $123.00
ISBN-10: 1900222787
ISBN-13: 9781900222785

The IWA Task Group for Mathematical Modelling of Anaerobic Digestion Processes was created with the aim to produce a generic model and common platform for dynamic simulations of a variety of anaerobic processes. This book presents the outcome of this undertaking and is the result of four years collaborative work by a number of international experts from various fields of anaerobic process technology. The purpose of this approach is to provide a unified basis for anaerobic digestion modelling. It is hoped this will promote increased application of modelling and simulation as a tool for research