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Health Topics A-Z

The CDC A-Z Index is a navigational and informational tool that makes the CDC.gov Website easier to use. It helps you quickly find and retrieve specific information. The A-Z index is structured so that synonyms, acronyms, and cross-referencing provide multiple ways for you to access the topics and features on CDC.gov. The index includes common and scientific terms to meet the needs of consumers as well as health professionals.

Subjects:: Health Sciences
Keywords:: Public health Medicine Preventive Centers for Disease Control Prevention (U.S.)
Resource Type:: Others

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Response To Intervention – RTI Resources

Intervention Central provides K-12 teachers and schools with free resources to help struggling learners and implement Response to Intervention, and attain the Common Core State Standards (of USA). See more about CCSS at http://www.corestandards.org/.

Subjects:: Psychology
Keywords:: Response to intervention (Learning disabled children)
Resource Type:: Others

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Heart Sounds and Cardiac Arrhythmias Tutorial

This website allows visitors to see and hear extensive digital recordings of actual patients, with high-resolution animations, ECGs and explanatory text. The Heart Sounds Tutorial focuses on the four common valvar lesions in the left heart including aortic regurgitation, aortic stenosis, mitral regurgitation, and mitral stenosis.

Subjects:: Nursing
Keywords:: Heart -- Diseases Arrhythmia Heart -- Sounds
Resource Type:: Video

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Psych Pharm

A self-learning site for student nurses. It encourages the learning of psych pharmaceuticals through various online interactive activities provided by the Quizlet platform. Activity includes flash cards, multiple choice, Q&A, spelling, and games. Note that not all online activities are free.

Subjects:: Nursing
Keywords:: Psychotropic drugs Psychopharmacology Nursing -- Study teaching
Resource Type:: Others

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ABG Online Learning Activity

An interactive online learning activity (tutorial) for nurses and healthcare personnel. ** Skip registration and click on the 'Start here' link (below the registration section), if you are not interested in the credits.

Subjects:: Nursing
Keywords:: Nursing -- Study teaching Allied health personnel -- Study teaching
Resource Type:: Others

Video

2-Minute Neuroscience: Optic Nerve (Cranial Nerve II)

A 2-minute video (with transcript) discusses the anatomy and function of the optic nerve, as well as describe what can happen when the nerve is damaged. Additional notes are available at https://www.neuroscientificallychallenged.com/optic-nerve-deficits .

Subjects:: Optometry
Keywords:: Optic nerve Optic nerve -- Diseases Nerves Cranial
Resource Type:: Video

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Visionary: A Dictionary for the Study of Vision

A dictionary for terminology used in the study of human and animal vision. It includes terms from the areas of biological and machine vision, visual psychophysics, visual neuroscience and other related fields.

Subjects:: Optometry
Keywords:: Vision
Resource Type:: Others

Video

Medical Laboratory Techniques

Medical Laboratory Techniques are demonstrated in a video interactive format. Approximately 20 skills are available in 4-12 minute video segments.

Subjects:: Medical Laboratory Science
Keywords:: Diagnosis Laboratory Medical laboratories
Resource Type:: Video

Video

Physics of Ultrasound

An hour-long lecture explaining the physics of ultrasound, shared via the Easy Radiology youtube channel.

Subjects:: Medical Imaging
Keywords:: Diagnostic ultrasonic imaging Medical physics
Resource Type:: Video

Video

Ultrasound Podcast - Physics Basics

A video explaining the physics of ultrasound and enhancing students' ultrasound knowledge. There are other more specific ultrasound training podcasts on the UltrasoundPod channel.

Subjects:: Medical Imaging
Keywords:: Diagnostic ultrasonic imaging Medical physics
Resource Type:: Video

Video

2-Minute Neuroscience: Neuroimaging

This video discusses neuroimaging, covering four of the most common types of neuroimaging: computerized axial tomography (CAT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), positron emission tomography (PET), and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Transcript included.

Subjects:: Medical Imaging
Keywords:: Brain -- Imaging
Resource Type:: Video

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2-Minute Neuroscience: Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI)

The video discusses how fMRI works, what is represented in a typical fMRI image, and some of the methodological problems associated with the use of fMRI. Transcript included.

Subjects:: Medical Imaging
Keywords:: Cognitive neuroscience Magnetic resonance imaging Brain -- Magnetic resonance imaging
Resource Type:: Video

Video

The Endocrine System

The video explains the major elements in the endocrine system and describes the hormones and actions of 10 glands: pineal, anterior pituitary, posterior pituitary, thyroid, parathyroid, pancreas, adrenal cortex, adrenal medulla, testes and ovaries.

Subjects:: Health Sciences
Keywords:: Endocrine gls
Resource Type:: Video

e-book

Anatomy and Physiology

An openly accessible textbook for a two-semester human anatomy and physiology course for life science and allied health majors. Instructor resources including instructors guide and Powerpoint slides are downloadable from the site. Download options in various formats: Openstax Apps, PDF, Kindle, ibooks, Chegg, and read online are available.

Subjects:: Health Sciences
Keywords:: Human physiology Human anatomy
Resource Type:: e-book

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RxTN CCMA Videos

A playlist of 13 videos demonstrates common professional skills performed by nurses at work. Videos are funded by the RX TN Grant for CCMA (Certified Clinical Medical Assistant). Watch the video "RX TN Orientation to CCMA" first in the playlist. Related online course materials are found at Skills Commons: https://www.skillscommons.org/handle/taaccct/8840

Subjects:: Nursing
Keywords:: Allied health personnel -- Vocational guidance Medical assistants -- Vocational guidance
Resource Type:: Video

Courseware

Skills Commons: Health Care and Social Assistance > Nursing and Residential Care Facilities

Skills Common is a FREE and OPEN digital library of Workforce Training Materials covering for a wide range of professions. All educational contents are ready for download and reuse. This is a sub-section for "Health Care and Social Assistance > Nursing and Residential Care Facilities", which included coursewares for nurse training from the level of certificate, diploma, associate degree, and bachelors degree.

Subjects:: Nursing
Keywords:: Health facilities Nursing
Resource Type:: Courseware

Courseware

Medical Law and Ethics

A full package of course contents with syllabus, course contents and review. There are 6 modules with lecture presentations (PPT), student handouts, quizzes, facilitator guides, and more. Designed for all healthcare professionals in America.

Subjects:: Medical and Professional Ethics
Keywords:: Medical laws legislation Medical care -- Law legislation Medical ethics
Resource Type:: Courseware

Courseware

Anxiety

A set of 5 videos (with transcripts) guided by lecture notes.

Subjects:: Health Sciences and Nursing
Keywords:: Panic disorders Post-traumatic stress disorder Anxiety disorders Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Resource Type:: Courseware

Courseware

Neurodevelopmental disorders

A course introducing various forms of neurodevelopemental disorders

Subjects:: Nursing
Keywords:: Nervous system -- Diseases Neurology
Resource Type:: Courseware

Courseware

Muscular system introduction

A course consisted of 12 Video & 2 Quizzes introducing how the muscular system works in the human body. Transcripts included.

Subjects:: Health Sciences and Rehabilitation Sciences
Keywords:: Muscle contraction -- Regulation Muscle proteins Troponin I
Resource Type:: Courseware

Courseware

Endocrine system introduction

A set of 6 video lessons to help the understanding of the endocrine system and how hormones work for the human body. Transcripts included.

Subjects:: Health Sciences
Keywords:: Endocrinology Endocrine gls
Resource Type:: Courseware

Courseware

Arthritis and rheumatoid arthritis

A series of videos explaining how joints work and what can go wrong. It covers common muscular-skeletal diseases especially symptoms, causes and treatments on topics related to arthritis & gait. Study materials designed to go with the videos are found at https://www.khanacademy.org/science/health-and-medicine/muscular-skeletal-diseases/arthritis/a/arthritis-and-rheumatoid-arthritis

Subjects:: Rehabilitation Sciences
Keywords:: Rheumatoid arthritis Arthritis
Resource Type:: Courseware

Video

Nonpharmacological Interventions: Chronic Pain and Fatigue Research Center

alterative pain control

Subjects:: Nursing and Rehabilitation Sciences
Keywords:: Pain -- Treatment
Resource Type:: Video

Courseware

Masculinity, Sexual Behavior and Health

This course focuses on men's health with particular attention to sexual and reproductive health and healthcare use among adolescents, extending throughout the lifespan.

Subjects:: Health Sciences
Keywords:: Men -- Health hygiene Sexual health Masculinity
Resource Type:: Courseware

Courseware

Principles and Practice of Assistive Technology

This is an interdisciplinary, project-based course, centered around a design project in which small teams of students work closely with a person with a disability in the Cambridge area to design a device, piece of equipment, app, or other solution that helps them live more independently.

Subjects:: Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Rehabilitation Sciences, Computing, and Electrical Engineering
Keywords:: Self-help devices for people with disabilities
Resource Type:: Courseware

Courseware

Biomedical Signal and Image Processing

This course presents the fundamentals of digital signal processing with particular emphasis on problems in biomedical research and clinical medicine. It covers principles and algorithms for processing both deterministic and random signals. Topics include data acquisition, imaging, filtering, coding, feature extraction, and modeling. The focus of the course is a series of labs that provide practical experience in processing physiological data, with examples from cardiology, speech processing, and medical imaging. The labs are done in MATLAB® during weekly lab sessions that take place in an electronic classroom. Lectures cover signal processing topics relevant to the lab exercises, as well as background on the biological signals processed in the labs.

Subjects:: Biomedical Engineering and Medical Imaging
Keywords:: Biomedical engineering Signal processing Image processing
Resource Type:: Courseware

e-book

Modern Information Systems

The development of modern information systems is a demanding task. New technologies and tools are designed, implemented and presented in the market on a daily bases. User needs change dramatically fast and the IT industry copes to reach the level of efficiency and adaptability for its systems in order to be competitive and up-to-date. Thus, the realization of modern information systems with great characteristics and functionalities implemented for specific areas of interest is a fact of our modern and demanding digital society and this is the main scope of this book. Therefore, this book aims to present a number of innovative and recently developed information systems. It is titled "Modern Information Systems" and includes 8 chapters. This book may assist researchers on studying the innovative functions of modern systems in various areas like health, telematics, knowledge management, etc. It can also assist young students in capturing the new research tendencies of the information systems' development.

Subjects:: Environmental Sciences and Computing
Keywords:: Medical informatics Knowledge management Management information systems
Resource Type:: e-book

Video

Welcome to ANA101x: What is this course about?

An overview of the MOOC course: Human Anatomy ANA 101x, which featured on a real-life stroke case scenario.

Subjects:: Health Sciences
Keywords:: Human anatomy
Resource Type:: Video

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Clinical Neurology: Guest Lecture by Dr. Richard Li

Clinical Neurologist, Dr Richard Li, explains the importance of human anatomy knowledge when handling acute stroke cases in the hospital setting.

Subjects:: Health Sciences
Keywords:: Human anatomy Cerebrovascular disease Cerebrovascular disease -- Treatment
Resource Type:: Video

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Overview of the spinal cord

An overview of the spinal cord offering an illustration of how it works in controlling body locomotion and mediate reflexes.

Subjects:: Health Sciences
Keywords:: Human physiology Human anatomy Spinal cord Spinal cord -- Anatomy
Resource Type:: Video

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Neuron structure

You will learn the basic structure of neuron.

Subjects:: Health Sciences
Keywords:: Human physiology Human anatomy Nervous system Neurons
Resource Type:: Video

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Location of the heart (affiliated readings)

This session presents the position and orientation of the heart in the thorax.

Subjects:: Health Sciences
Keywords:: Human physiology Human anatomy Heart -- Anatomy Heart
Resource Type:: Others

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Location of the heart

The video illustrates the position and orientation of the heart in the thorax.

Subjects:: Health Sciences
Keywords:: Human physiology Human anatomy Heart -- Anatomy Heart
Resource Type:: Video

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Physician's Case Summary

A summary of a stroke patient case provided by the attending physician, which described the case situation during the hospital stay, including assessments and interventions, and follow-ups with various healthcare professionals for rehabilitation.

Subjects:: Health Sciences
Keywords:: Cerebrovascular disease Cerebrovascular disease -- Rehabilitation
Resource Type:: Others

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Organization of human body (affiliated readings)

A summary of a stroke patient case provided by the attending physician, which described the case situation during the hospital stay, including assessments and interventions, and follow-ups with various healthcare professionals for rehabilitation.

Subjects:: Health Sciences
Keywords:: Human physiology Human anatomy
Resource Type:: Others

Video

Organization of human body

In this video, you can see how our human body is built from the tiny atom to the human being.

Subjects:: Health Sciences
Keywords:: Human physiology Human anatomy
Resource Type:: Video

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Major muscles of the upper limbs (affiliated readings)

It introduces the characteristics, locations and actions of major muscles of the upper limbs, particularly the Biceps brachii and the Deltoid.

Subjects:: Health Sciences
Keywords:: Arm Human anatomy Muscles
Resource Type:: Others

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Major muscles of the upper limbs

In this video, we use the biceps brachii and the deltoid muscles as an example to illustrate the important structures of a skeletal muscle.

Subjects:: Health Sciences
Keywords:: Human physiology Human anatomy Muscles Musculoskeletal system
Resource Type:: Video

Open (Access) Journal-Article

Using Six Sigma DMAIC Methodology and Discrete Event Simulation to Reduce Patient Discharge Time in King Hussein Cancer Center

Short discharge time from hospitals increases both bed availability and patients and families satisfaction. In this study, the Six Sigma process improvement methodology was applied to reduce patients discharge time in a cancer treatment hospital. Data on the duration of all activities, from the physician signing the discharge form to the patient leaving the treatment room, were collected through patient shadowing. These data were analyzed using detailed process maps and cause-and-effect diagrams. Fragmented and unstandardized processes and procedures and a lack of communication among the stakeholders were among the leading causes of long discharge times. Categorizing patients by their needs enabled better design of the discharge processes. Discrete event simulation was utilized as a decision support tool to test the effect of the improvements under different scenarios. Simplified and standardized processes, improved communications, and system-wide management are among the proposed improvements, which reduced patient discharge time by 54 from 216 minutes. Cultivating the necessary ownership through stakeholder analysis is an essential ingredient of sustainable improvement efforts.

Subjects:: Health Sciences and Management
Keywords:: Hospitals -- Administration Process control Six sigma (Quality control stard)
Resource Type:: Open (Access) Journal-Article

Presentation

Express path to interoperable solutions – Case of the Oncology Institute of Vojvodina, Serbia

This video was recorded at CeGD eGovernance Academy Seminar Series (SEeHealth): The Roadmap from Concept to Practice, Ljubljana 2010. The key of mutual integration of health care institutions lies in their interoperability, gathering and common utilization of data by different applications. Seemingly, imperceptible and smooth applications' integration enables an efficient mutual linkage of all departments within a single health care institution as well as horizontal and vertical linkage of more health care institutions, all with the aim of improvement of health and quality of patient's life. Health care system quality improvement needs a continuous rationalization of resources funds, which leads towards optimization of business processes and availability of all necessary information in the shortest possible period. All necessary information and data on patients must be available independently on location or time of such a necessity. The greatest obstacles for interoperability represent heterogeneous applications. Such heterogeneity can be presented by the fact that they were written in various program languages, that they are intended for utilization at different types of computers or the fact that they use various communication networks and data transfer methods. IT managers in hospitals must decide how to contribute to cross‐organizational integration and what strategy and means to choose for achieving interoperability. If a system is poor in its interoperability, any increasing functions or little changes could stop its working properly. Interoperability must be ensured at technical, semantic and process levels but also in a legislative level, where all recommendations for legal and lawful solutions are given, which remove the most frequent obstacles – human and bureaucratic factors. The Oncology Institute of Vojvodina as a referent center for oncology and a center for medical informatics signed its own Integrated hospital and business information system. The information system at the IOV consists of the following modules: 1. hospital‐clinical IS 2. laboratory IS 3. pharmaceutical IS 4. radiological IS 5. invoicing (accounting) IS 6. business IS 7. managerial IS All of these modules are mutually optimally integrated, and their interoperability at the level of communicational protocols (HL7, DICOM, internal interface), semantics (the same code‐records, rules) and legislative level (the same accounting calculations) enables the user to see all these complex modules as one system. Thus, we created necessary preconditions for our integration into information society, which is a 21st century strategy at the state level.

Subjects:: Health Sciences, Management, and Computing
Keywords:: Health services administration -- Data processing Management information systems Health services administration -- Computer networks
Resource Type:: Presentation

e-book

Bloomsbury Open Access

Open access ebooks from Bloomsbury Collections

Keywords:: Social sciences Management Design Geography Business Linguistics Humanities Economics
Resource Type:: e-book

Courseware

HMP 607 - Corporate Finance for Health Care Administrators

HMP 607 is the third in a three-course sequence intended to impart to generalist administrators the knowledge of finance and accounting necessary to manage health care organizations. The first course, HMP 608, covers financial accounting. The second course, HMP 606, focuses on managerial accounting topics. This third course concentrates on corporate finance topics. It aims to impart an understanding of how finance theory and practice can inform the decision-making of the health care firm. As such, HMP 607 is most appropriately considered a corporate finance course, as opposed to a course in financial markets. In addition, it will integrate corporate finance and accounting theories, institutional knowledge of health care finance, and applications to specific problems.

Subjects:: Management of Health Care Services
Keywords:: Health facilities Finance Corporations -- Finance
Resource Type:: Courseware

Courseware

EPID 757 - Introduction to Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses

Systematic reviews and meta-analyses are useful for evidence-based clinical and public health practice. The widespread and growing application of systematic review methods for the synthesis of evidence on important or pressing research and clinical questions underscore the need for health-care professionals to understand and critique this research design. This course will provide a detailed description of the systematic review process, discuss the strengths and limitations of the method, and provide step-by-step guidance on how to actually perform a systematic review and meta-analysis. Specific topics to be covered include: formulation of the review question, searching of literature, quality assessment of studies, data extraction, meta-analytic methods, assessment of heterogeneity and report writing. The course will also cover statistical issues such as selection of statistical models for meta-analysis, practical examples of fixed and random effects models, best evidence syntheses (qualitative systematic reviews) as well as examples of methods to evaluate heterogeneity and publication bias. STATA statistical software will be used to perform meta-analysis during the computer lab, along with tutorials on how to effectively use tools such as PubMed for conducting reviews.

Subjects:: Statistics and Research Methods
Keywords:: Meta-analysis Research -- Methodology Systematic reviews (Medical research)
Resource Type:: Courseware

Courseware

N 536 - Utilization of Nursing Research in Advanced Practice

The primary goal of this course is to promote an evidence-based approach to advanced nursing practice. Evidenced-based research findings for nursing practice will be evaluated in terms of racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic relevance. An understanding of the research process, applicable theories, organizational dynamics, and leadership functions are applied to design and process of implementing research in health care settings.

Subjects:: Statistics and Research Methods and Nursing
Keywords:: Nursing -- Research -- Methodology Evidence-based nursing
Resource Type:: Courseware

Courseware

N 420 - Perspectives in Global Health

This course introduces the student to global health concepts and the network of organizations working to advance health care internationally. Emphasis for this course is on the global burden of disease and determinates of health. It will provide the student with a broad introduction to programs, systems and policies affecting global health. Students will explore facets of the global health care delivery system, health care economics and the political process and its impact on the health of individuals and populations.

Subjects:: Public Health
Keywords:: Medical economics Public health administration World health Children -- Health hygiene
Resource Type:: Courseware

Courseware

Gender, Health, and Society

This course draws on different disciplines, conceptual frameworks, and methodological approaches to examine gender in relation to health, including public health practice, epidemiologic research, health policy, and clinical application. It discusses a variety of health-related issues that illustrate global, international, domestic, and historical perspectives, while considering other social determinants of health as well, including social class and race.

Subjects:: Sociology
Keywords:: Public health Gender identity Equality -- Health aspects
Resource Type:: Courseware

Courseware

Globalization: The Good, the Bad and the In-Between

This subject examines the paradoxes of contemporary globalization. Through lectures, discussions and student presentations, we will study the cultural, linguistic, social and political impact of globalization across broad international borders. We will pay attention to the subtle interplay of history, geography, language and cultural norms that gave rise to specific ways of life. The materials for the course include fiction, nonfiction, audio pieces, maps and visual materials.

Subjects:: Sociology
Keywords:: Globalization
Resource Type:: Courseware

Courseware

Gender & Media: Collaborations in Feminism and Technology

This course examines representations of race, class, gender, and sexual identity in the media, with a particular focus on new media and how digital technologies are transforming popular culture. We will be considering issues of authorship, spectatorship, (audience) and the ways in which various media content (film, television, print journalism, blogs, video, advertising) enables, facilitates, and challenges these social constructions in society.

Subjects:: Sociology
Keywords:: Social classes Mass media sex United States Mass media race relations Mass media -- Social aspects
Resource Type:: Courseware

Courseware

Sexual and Gender Identities

This course offers an introduction to the history of gender, sex, and sexuality in the modern United States, from the end of the nineteenth century to the beginning of the twenty-first. It begins with an overview of historical approaches to the field, emphasizing the changing nature of sexual and gender identities over time. The remainder of the course flows chronologically, tracing the expanding and contracting nature of attempts to control, construct, and contain sexual and gender identities, as well as the efforts of those who worked to resist, reject, and reform institutionalized heterosexuality and mainstream configurations of gendered power.

Subjects:: Sociology
Keywords:: Sex United States Social conditions Gender identity
Resource Type:: Courseware

Courseware

HMP 668/SI 542 - Introduction to Health Informatics

The conceptual structure for the course derives from the statement below that expresses the purpose of health informatics. Health informatics applies to a wide range of health-related application domains a set of methods (drawn from the informational and behavioral sciences) to create and study informational resources that support the health-related activities of people (individuals and groups) in these domains. The methods employed in health informatics derive from both the computational/informational sciences and the behavioral/social sciences. This course, as an initial immersion into the field of health informatics, will examine the domains, methods, and classes of information resources that, together, create the scaffolding of the field.

Subjects:: Health Technology and Informatics
Keywords:: Medical informatics
Resource Type:: Courseware

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