How a physician understands, interacts, and communicates with a patient with musculoskeletal low back pain will have a powerful impact on the course of care and outcome, regardless of the diagnosis. The authors of the new second edition of Low Back Pain provide a unique and valuable perspective on the non-surgical management of this potentially disabling condition.

Pub. Date: November 2007
ISBN: 978-1-883595-34-0
Format: Paperback, 360 pages. 

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.
Pub Date: 2006
Format: Hardcover, 2-Volumes 

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 

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 

Thoroughly revised and updated, the third edition of Dr. Rothman's acclaimed title reflects the conceptual development of this evolving science and the engagement of epidemiologists with an increasing range of current public health concerns. The book covers a broad range of concepts and methods, such as basic measures, study types, and field methods, as well as advanced topics in data analysis such as hierarchical regression. Chapters examine specific areas of research such as disease surveillance, ecologic studies, social epidemiology, infectious disease epidemiology, genetic and molecular epidemiology, nutritional epidemiology, environmental epidemiology, reproductive epidemiology, and clinical epidemiology.

Pub. Date: February 2008
Format: Hardcover, 851 pages 

Published in 2008, this book provides a current manual on the field of color vision for occupational and environmental medicine. Current color vision tests are reviewed to assist with screening and ultimate diagnostic evaluation of employees. Includes over 24 color photos and illustrations.

Pub Date: 2008
Format: Paperback, 84 pages 

As demands for a safe and drug-free workplace grow, federal requirements and a burgeoning work load require that many medical review functions be carried out by medical review officer assistants (MROAs) and others on the medical review officer (MRO) team. This useful, up-to-the-minute manual has been created to help prepare MROAs for certification and to keep the entire MRO team operating at a peak level of professionalism and efficiency.

Offering a complete view of the medical review process, the Medical Review Officer Team Manual covers business, scientific, legal, ethical and logistical issues. It is an ideal practical manual for MROs and MROAs and those who work with them and use their services, including employers and others interested in workplace drug testing. The guide can also be used as a companion to Swotinsky and Smith's previously published Medical Review Officer's Manual, providing "how to" specifics to help the entire MRO team apply the science and art of medical review.

 

Occupational and Environmental Infectious Diseases, edited by William E. Wright, MD, MPH, provides a comprehensive overview of the recognition, management, and prevention of infectious diseases in the workplace.

The Second Edition of this popular reference has been entirely updated and revised throughout. The addition of new material includes a completely new chapter on general travel medicine and prevention of illness, and includes expanded coverage of employee education issues and listings of Web resources. Rather than emphasizing theory, all chapters have been fully updated and enhanced to provide well-organized, practical, and relevant information. The emphasis has also been expanded to include more recognition that many infectious diseases are international or global problems.

An ideal resource for occupational health practitioners, the primary care physician, and the generalist, this new edition is a valuable tool in the ongoing effort to provide a safe and healthy workplace.

Pub. Date: 2009
ISBN: 978-1-883595-45-6
Format: Hardcover, 810 pages with index