Kim Hendrickson Leffler

Healthwise: Personal Medical Record & Diseae Prevention Guide Kim Hendrickson Leffler

"HealthWatch: Personal Medical Record And Disease Prevention Guide" is designed to help readers and their familes stay healthy from the moment of birth. This resource makes it easy to keep track of personal and family medical histories. It includes immunization charts, recommended schedules for health screenings and checkups, and comprehensive information on nutrients. There is a section for recording visits to doctors, dentists, ophthalmologists, and other healthcare professionals. It even identifies the tests recommended for everyone, as well as those specifically for men and women. Charts are provided for keeping track of the results.

"HealthWatch" also offers a disease prevention guide, which is devoted to various organs and other body parts. Each entry in this section includes information such as the organ's or other body part's location and function, what steps can be taken to keep it healthy, and what can go wrong. The focus of this section is on learning what must be done to keep the body healthy. Where specific diseases or conditions are mentioned, it is for the purpose of identifying factors that may put one at risk of developing that disease. The disease guide also lists hundreds of risky behaviors and their possible consequences. Making Lifestyle choices that minimize controllable risks is one of the the important steps that can be taken toward a more healthful life.

The more a person knows aboaut his or her own health, personal and family history, and risk factors for certain diseases, the more control that person can take of his or her life. "HealthWatch" is a comprehensive, trustworthy resource that readers and their families will turn to time and again.