A complete reference on infectious diseases with detailed, accurate, informative text for public health officials and professionals. Each listing includes identification, infectious agent, occurrence, mode of transmission, incubation period, susceptibility, and resistance.
Publication Date: November 2008
Format: Softcover, 746 pages with index 

A new edition for this book has been released. Please follow the included link to be directed to the latest edition. Thank you.

Conn's Current Therapy 2009

Annually updated, this valuable reference addresses the practical treatment of nearly 300 conditions. The 2008 edition allows on-line access to the complete contents of the 2006, 2007 and 2008 volumes, fully searchable.
Format: Hardcover, 1294 pages with index
Pub Date: 2008 

This new title is aimed at assisting in assessing causation. It is designed for health care providers, ancillary service providers, attornies, and legislative agencies to use as a tool in conjunction with individual clinical and exposures data, in making an evidence-based decision about whether a person's medical condition is work-related or attributable to a specific event or exposure.

Covers work-related and non-work-related concerns, and case examples are included as additional learning tools.

Format: Softcover, 456 pages with index
Published: 2008 

The Guides Casebook, third edition, is designed for use with the recently published Guides to Evaluation of Permanent Impairment, Sixth Edition. Published as a learning tool to correctly apply the principles of the Guides, 6th edition, the featured cases offer an opportunity for experienced evaluators to refine their skills and compare their approaches with those of the authors - all experts in the field of impairment evaluation.

Format: Softcover, 400 pages
Publication Date: December 2008 

Sold as a two volume set, "Fundamentals and Assessment Tools For Occupational Ergonomics" and "Interventions, Controls, and Applications in Occupational Ergonomics", this 2006 revision provides a comprehensive source for ergonomic knowledge.
Highlights include:
*Systematic applications of ergonomic theories and data in the design and management of many industries and businesses
*New information on management, ergonomic design for facility planning, ergonomics for processing and distribution industries, and product design for occupational ergonomics
*Provides state-of-the-art theory and up-to-date practical knowledge required for effective management of ergonomics safety issues in the workplace
*Includes discussions of cognitive factors, design of information devices and controls, multimodal information processing, and tolerances and variation in human performance
*Covers practical interventions in industry that utilize participatory approaches, surveillance, OSHA recordkeeping requirements, and psychological work factors
*Discusses ergonomics interventions in industries such as meat and poultry processing, agriculture, distribution centers, healthcare, and service systems
*Presents methods for pyschophysical assessment techniques, cognitive task analysis, application of subjective scales of effort and workload, and determination or rest allowances

The volume titled "Fundamental and Assessment Tools for Occupational Ergonomics" introduces basic principles of ergonomics in system design and evaluation, as well as comprehensive approach to work related musculoskeletal disorders. This volume is a comprehensive source of theoretical ergonomics knowledge relevant to product and process quality, management of health and safety, and productivity in a variety of industries and businesses.

"Interventions, Controls, and Applications in Occupational Ergonomics" includes descriptions of the elements of ergonomics processes, in addition to success factors for implementation of industrial ergonomics programs. It covers injury surveillance database systems and corporate health management for the design and evaluation of health in industrial organizations, ergonomics processes from the small and large industry perspectives, and human digital modeling, as well as facilities planning and organization design and macro-economics. Additional chapters cover methods and techniques for engineering control, including tried and true strategies and pitfalls to avoid. 

Written by clinicians for clinicians, this new edition offers the health professional a complete overview of how to help patients adopt health behaviors and to deliver recommended screening tests and immunizations.
Highlights of this new edition include:
*Completely updated to reflect current recommendations, including those of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
*Updated chapters on practice redesign, the use of electronic medical records, and reimbursement
*Updated patient resource materials and instructions

The second edition also offers a code inside the front cover allowing access to a companion website that features the fully searchable text online. 

This thoroughly revised third edition, published in 2006, compiles the research of 109 of the world's top thinkers and practitioners in one volume. Written for all human factors and ergonomics specialists, engineers, industrial hygienists, safety engineers, and human-computer interaction (HCI) specialists, all new chapters feature theoretically based and practically oriented material supported by numerous case studies, examples, figures, and tables. New topics included in the third edition are:
*Cultural ergonomics
*Virtual environments
*Human factors and information security
*Usability evaluation and testing
*Design of e-business Web sites
*Augmented cognition in HCI
Design for those with disabilities
*Design for children
*Human factors and ergonomics standards
*Human factors and ergonomics in transportation

Format: Hardcover, 1654 pages with index
Published: 2006 

JUST PUBLISHED MARCH 2008
This popular, practical, guide for health and safety program professionals is coming out in a new edition this spring. Known as the "pocket MBA" for health and safety program professionals, the book emphasizes practical management techniques and applications that have proven to be particularly helpful in practice. As in previous editions, the book's premise is that when the directors of health and safety programs acquire, polish, and use appropriate management techniques and skills, their programs are more effective and provide greater benefits to the groups they serve. Readers in all types of health and safety programs will find the current edition indispensable in enhancing their communication skills, time management capabilities, and abilities to gain support from decision makers and other senior managers in their organization. The material can be applied immediately to the reader's own job situation, a focus that has made the book uniquely valuable.

Each chapter of the new edition has been revised to include current information. In addition, new chapters have been added in the following areas: planning health care responses to natural disasters, terrorism, and other mass casualty situations, what works and what doesn't in leadership, implementing or expanding health and safety programs; productivity enhancement, and preparing for and providing legal health and safety testimony. In each of these cases one or more collaborators have added their expertise to the discussion.

Appendices include items for new health and safety managers to consider, examples of budget categories; audit instruments for occupational and environmental health and safety components; and a summary of parliamentary procedures to help managers expedite meetings and spot inappropriate attempts to block a program or prevent necessary discussion.

Publication Date: March 2008
Format: Paperback, 480 pages. 

This all-in-one overview of the biomedical and environmental aspects of toxicology has been thoroughly updated and revised in the seventh edition. Offers a skill-building review of the basic components of toxicology, including general principles, modes of action, and chemical-specific toxicity. Also offers an in-depth look at the systemic responses of toxic substances and a two-part environmental toxicology chapter that puts air pollution and ecotoxicology into perspective.

New features to seventh edition:
-Updated to reflect the new understanding of the mechanisms of cell death, as well as drug metabolism
-Enhanced explanations of the mechanisms of toxicity that effectively reinforce the book's solid overview of general toxicology principles
-Revised chapters on biotransformation, carcinogenesis, endocrine, and radiation that reflects the most current perspectives in the field
-Greater emphasis on drawing clearer links between science and application, supported by additional concept-clarifying examples
Publication Date: 2008
Format: Hardcover, 1309 pages 

SEE NEW EDITION (ITEM 59027) DUE OUT FEBRUARY 2009

Single volume covers those conditions that represent about 80% of total lost work days.

Publication Date: 2008
Format: Softcover