This 52-chapter resource helps health care providers and students develop knowledge and problem-solving skills to assess a patient's health status, medical problems, and current practice of self-treatment, including use of nonprescription and prescription medications, dietary supplements, and other self-care measures; determine whether self-care and self-testing and monitoring are necessary or appropriate; and recommend safe and effective self-care measures that take into account the patient's treatment preferences. Chapters address pain and fever disorders; reproductive, genital, respiratory, gastrointestinal, ophthalmic, otic, oral, dermatologic, and other medical disorders; nutrition and nutritional supplementation; home medical equipment; and complementary therapies. Each includes information on pathophysiology, clinical presentation, and treatment through pharmacologic, nonpharmacologic, and complementary therapies, as well as assessment, patient counseling, and evaluation of patient outcomes. The book includes discussion of cultural aspects of self-care and legal and regulatory issues in self-care pharmacy practice. This edition has a new chapter on prebiotics and probiotics, a rewritten chapter on self-care and nonprescription pharmacotherapy, and a rewritten chapter on patient assessment to make the content more practical for the self-care/nonprescription product environment and to describe the relationship between the Pharmacists' Patient Care Process and self-care patient assessment processes. It has updated information on nonprescription medications, two new comprehensive patient cases per chapter, removal of the pregnancy risk categories for all drugs and natural products and the removal of appendices on pregnancy risk information, incorporation of vaccine information into specific chapters, and removal of the chapter on self-care components of selected chronic diseases, as well as many other changes. Contributors are pharmacy specialists from the US. Annotation ©2018 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com) Read Less