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Automotive and transportation technology Baby care workshop Career options for women Complete career & techincal education library ; Volume 1 Creating all-around wellness Critical condition Critical condition, how will American healthcare manage Total health (Princeton, N.J.) Understanding electronics Working in health careSummary: Providing comprehensive public access to affordable, quality health care is a mammoth struggle-even for wealthy societies with the political will to do so. This CNBC program looks at technological solutions that could potentially slash medical costs, reduce inefficiencies, and create tailor-made treatments for the individual patient. The program begins by exploring issues in personalized...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Reflecting the diverse nature of today’s society, a health care worker must adapt his or her practices to the cultural, ethnic, and religious needs of patients. In fact, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations states that all industry workers must familiarize themselves with the significance of cultural differences. This program provides nurses and other health...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2004
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Summary: Each year, some 800 women in Mauritania die during childbirth. The country's mortality rate for children under age five is also alarmingly high-approximately 14,500 deaths annually. This program follows Mauritania's struggle to meet national objectives established with guidance from the United Nations-aiming at a 75-percent drop in maternal deaths and a 66-percent drop in child mortality by the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: The aging of the baby boomer generation will dramatically increase the need for home care, opening up opportunities in a frequently overlooked field. This program explores the challenging and deeply satisfying work of the home health aide and the personal care assistant—revealing the skills and special personality traits these jobs require and the personal rewards that come from helping people...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, about half of the 20 fastest-growing jobs in America are in the healthcare, medicine, and science areas of the health industry! This program spotlights a dialysis technician, an LPN, and a physical therapist-people who help fight illness and repair injury-and a dental hygienist and a dispensing optician-people who help improve the quality of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Also known as nosocomial infections, health care-associated infections usually develop after a patient's admission to a long-term care facility. This program describes the causes of and prevention strategies for health care-associated infections in hospitals and other medical facilities. Outlining a hypothetical chain of infection (pathogen, reservoir, portal of exit, mode of transmission,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: As anyone who runs a business or administers employee health plans knows, serious hazards in the workplace mean serious barriers to productivity. Focusing on the health care industry, this program shows the best ways for workers to avoid muscle pulls, bone fractures, and other injuries. It features demonstrations of a wide variety of safety measures designed to eliminate job-related accidents...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2003
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Summary: Compiling and retrieving up-to-date information on patients' illnesses, injuries, and medical history is more important than ever for effective medical care. This video focuses on opportunities in the field of healthcare information management and technology. Examples of HIM-related positions are covered-including medical billing specialist, diagnostic and procedural coder, and privacy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Nothing can replace the skills of good doctors and nurses, but without digital technology and advanced electronic systems, the field of medicine would soon collapse. X-Rays, ultrasounds, CT scans, and MRI and PET imaging all use electronics to map different aspects of the human body and convert the information into a visual format. This program visits one of the world's leading research centers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: In an increasingly dangerous age, nurses and other health care personnel are vital figures in defending against a terrorist attack, especially one involving biological weapons. Incorporating key protocols from the Centers for Disease Control, this program provides information on dealing with the immediate health impact of a bioterrorist act. Viewers learn about the origins, incubation times,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2004
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Summary: Wherever people need wellness services, acute care for an illness or injury, or medical support when bedridden or shut-in, nurses are standing by. This video introduces students to the rewarding career of nursing, the largest healthcare profession in America. Incorporating interviews with working nurses from a range of medical specialties, the program describes the challenges that nurses face...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Accepting the 2007 TED Prize, Bill Clinton asks for help in bringing health care to Rwanda - and to the rest of the world. Through his William J. Clinton Foundation, former U.S. President Bill Clinton has become a vital and innovative force for world change, working in four critical areas: health, economic empowerment, citizen service, and reconciliation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: The risks of secondary smoke are becoming more and more apparent, as each new study documents growing disease and death tolls of smoking-related illnesses among nonsmokers. This BBC Horizon program documents the growing international battle among those who make money out of tobacco, those who demand the right to smoke, and the rest of the population.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: This is an excellent program for anyone owning and operating a motor vehicle, in particular beginning auto mechanics courses and driver's education classes. It brings a basic owner's manual "to life" and summarizes the tasks that can and should be done without the use of specialized tools. The program covers checking and adding fluids, inspecting for obvious problems with belts and hoses,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Healthy living presents special challenges for members of minorities living in lower-income neighborhoods-particularly senior citizens. This program examines those challenges, and the health problems that can result, by focusing on African-Americans and Latinos. Host Dr. Kevin Soden speaks with Dr. Terrance Fullham about difficulties faced by older African-Americans, including obesity and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Good dentists-and smart dental patients-think of the mouth as the first line of defense against disease. This program details the importance of maintaining good dental health, not only for aesthetic reasons, but also to prevent diabetes, cardiovascular inflammation, and other serious health threats. Illustrating the ways that gingivitis and periodontal disease destroy gum and bone tissue, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Whether they are needed to ensure properly dispensed prescriptions, monitor a patient's recovery, or make an urgently needed diagnosis, accurate health records are crucial to a patient's safety. This program highlights the important work of health information technicians and shows how electronic health records can help make medical care both safer and more efficient. In-depth commentary on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: America's managed care system was designed to provide coordinated preventive and long-term healthcare better than individual doctors could in yesterday's fragmented fee-for-service system. Have HMOs lived up to that promise? In this program, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Hedrick Smith investigates Kaiser Permanente-the largest nonprofit HMO in the U.S.-and its social mission of lifetime...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: This program features profiles of three women who have developed successful careers in medicine and health care: Karine Fortin, a pharmaceutical plant manager overseeing production and factory expansion; Sandra Swanson, a biomedical technologist who maintains and repairs hospital equipment; and Ann Perreault, a prosthetics technician in charge of evaluating and measuring patients. Additional...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: This program will help new mothers understand what to expect during the postpartum period and how to avoid complications.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: This program will help new mothers understand what to expect during the postpartum period and how to avoid complications.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Sedentary jobs and pastimes. Foods high in sugar, fat, and cholesterol. A superabundance of labor-saving technologies. Is it any wonder that a recent study by the Mayo Clinic shows that more than sixty percent of all adult Americans are statistically overweight? This program describes the basic components of physical fitness and the numerous health benefits that derive from regular physical...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: America's healthcare system frequently leaves patients feeling shortchanged, while physicians are forced to overdose on paperwork and managed care companies are helpless to cap their soaring costs. What is the future of this system, as the tidal wave of Baby Boomers surges toward retirement? This program analyzes the symptoms of America's healthcare ills and suggests a prescription for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Currently, three-quarters of all U.S. healthcare dollars are spent on 100 million people with chronic illnesses and conditions. Will a cost-conscious healthcare system, increasingly driven by the market and oriented toward acute care, give them the proper care? This program examines how the chronically ill are faring today in seeking the high-quality, long-term care they need. Special reports...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005