Smart Health Choices

Great new eBook for healthy living is now available for FREE download!

Smart Health Choices will provide you with the tools for assessing health advice of any type. It shows you how to make the best decisions for you and your loved ones. With the information in this book, we help you regain control and show you how to take an active role in your health care.

“I wish all of my patients would read this book. It encourages a sceptical but positive attitude to medical care, and encourages patients to be wise consumers. Read it, find a doctor you can work with, and together make the best of your healthcare.” Dr Paul Glasziou, Professor of Evidence Based Medicine, University of Oxford

The book is available to purchase at the publisher or on amazon – however, at sensiblehealthadvice.org you can download it for free – and you don’t even need to leave your name or email.

Contents

Part I: Health advice can be harmful

1. This book could save your life
2. Be sceptical
3. Bad evidence
4. Dont’ always rely on experts

Part II: Your body, your choice

1. Smart health choice eessentials
2. Choosing a practitioner or hospital

Part III: Stories and studies

1. An education in shopping
2. The weakness of one
3. The power of many

Part IV: Evaluating the evidence

1. Judging which tests and treatments really work
2. What makes you sick?

Part V: Improving your healthcare

1. Find the best evidence
2. Doing your bit
3. How to apply the evidence to you and your situation

Part VI: Testing your skill

1. Making sense of health advice
2. Is this a useful diagnostic test?
3. Decision thresholds
4. Relative risk, relative and absolute risk reduction, number needed to treat and confidence intervals