Controlling Your Asthma: Patient Education Guide.pdf

This pdf material will help you and your health-care provider (doctor, nurse practitioner, or physician assistant) plan ways to control your asthma. Why? Because with good treatment, almost all people with asthma can live normal, active lives.

Prevention is the key. With a few lifestyle changes and medicine, you can learn to prevent serious asthma problems. Together with your provider, you will learn how to reach this goal.

Contents:

* What Is Asthma?
* Why Does Asthma Happen?
* Work With Your Health-care Provider
* How To Use a Peak Flow Meter
* Asthma Action Plan
* Asthma Medicine
* How To Take Asthma Medicines

Download free Controlling Your Asthma: Patient Education Guide.pdf (32 pages pdf file, 1.3 MB).

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Tobacco Free Sport.pdf

This Tobacco-Free Sports Manual supports the Regional strategy. It has been produced to encourage support from health, education, sports and other organisations representing the government and non government sectors. I commend it to all those who are serious about addressing the tobacco epidemic and breaking the unhealthy connection between sports and tobacco.

Contents:

* 1. INTRODUCTION [ TOBACCO USE IN THE REGION ~ WHAT IS MEANT BY TOBACCO-FREE SPORTS ~ WHY TOBACCO-FREE SPORTS ~ TOBACCO-UNHEALTHY FOR SPORTS ~ SPORTING PERFORMANCE AND TOBACCO USE ~ TOBACCO-FREE SUCCESSES ~ SUMMARY ]
* 2. ACTION PLAN FOR TOBACCO-FREE SPORTS [ THE KEY PLAYERS ~ REMOVING TOBACCO SPONSORSHIP ~ TOBACCO-FREE POLICY ~ SUMMARY ]
* 3. EVALUATING TOBACCO-FREE INITIATIVES [ STEPS FOR SUCCESSFUL EVALUATION ~ EVALUATING PROBLEMS AND PITFALLS ~ SUMMARY ]
* 4. THE FUTURE
* 5. ANNEXES

Download free ebook to avoid smoking addiction: Tobacco Free Sport.pdf (25 pages pdf file, 1 MB).

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Understanding Microbes in Sickness and in Health

Microbes are tiny organisms too tiny to see without a microscope, yet they are abundant on Earth. They live everywhere in air, soil, rock, and water. Some live happily in searing heat, while others thrive in freezing cold. Some microbes need oxygen to live, but others do not.

These microscopic organisms are found in plants and animals as well as in the human body. Some microbes cause disease in humans, plants, and animals. Others are essential for a healthy life, and we could not exist without them. Indeed, the relationship between microbes and humans is delicate and complex.

In this booklet, we will learn that some microbes keep us healthy while others can make us sick. Most microbes belong to one of four major groups: bacteria, viruses, fungi, or protozoa. A common word for microbes that cause disease is “germs.” Some people refer to disease-causing microbes as “bugs.” “I’ve got the flu bug,” for example, is a phrase you may hear during the wintertime to describe an influenza virus infection.

Content:
What Are Microbes?
Microbes Have Bothered Us for Millennia
Microbes Can Make Us Sick
Microbes Can Infect Us
Some People Are Immune to Certain Diseases
Microbes Cause Different Kinds of Infections
You Can Prevent Catching or Passing on Germs
When You Should Go to the Doctor
Infectious Diseases Are Diagnosed in Many Ways
Infectious Diseases Are Treated in Many Ways
“New” and “Old” Microbes Emerge on the Scene
Research
Glossary

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