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Smart Health Choices

Making Sense of Health Advice

Les Irwig, Judy Irwig, Lyndal Trevena, and Melissa Sweet.

London: Hammersmith Press; 2008.

ISBN-13: 978-1-905140-17-6

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This book aims to help consumers and practitioners develop the skills to assess health advice – and hopefully to make decisions that will improve the quality of their care. For some people, making better-informed decisions could be life saving. We hope that it will be useful if you are struggling to come to terms with an illness or injury, and the best ways of managing it. Or you may simply want to lead a healthier life, and may be wondering how to make sense of the often conflicting flood of health information that deluges us every day, through the media, and from our friends and health practitioners.

Cartoons by Ron Tandberg

Whilst the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of going to press, neither the author nor the publisher can accept any legal responsibility or liability for any errors or omissions that may be made.

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