15 Health Studies – General
Anatomy and Physiology
OpenStax
2022
Licence: CC BY
Anatomy and Physiology is a dynamic textbook for the two-semester human anatomy and physiology course for life science and allied health majors. The book is organized by body system and covers standard scope and sequence requirements. Its lucid text, strategically constructed art, career features, and links to external learning tools address the critical teaching and learning challenges in the course. The web-based version of Anatomy and Physiology also features links to surgical videos, histology, and interactive diagrams.
Formats: Online, PDF
Suggested for: BIOL 235/HLST 200
Anatomy and Physiology (Boundless)
LibreTexts
2023
Licence: CC BY-SA
Available through LibreTexts, this is a comprehensive text covering topics ranging from the human body organ systems, immunology, human development, reproduction, nutrition, metabolism, disorders and aging of organ systems.
Formats: Online, PDF
Suggested for: BIOL 235/HLST 200
Anatomy and Physiology Laboratory Manual for Nursing and Allied Health
Marz, Kamatchi, D’Silva, Prabhakaran, Chandra, and Isekeije (Norfolk State University)
2020
Licence: CC BY
Adapted from OpenStax version.
Formats: Online, PDF
Suggested for: BIOL 235/HLST 200
Applied Human Anatomy
Contributors: Nolan and McNamara
2022
Licence: CC BY
Applied Human Anatomy was created to better integrate material that is more often than not treated separately in contemporary health care curricula. It is hoped that through this integration students will develop a deeper and more lasting knowledge and understanding of human anatomy as they are likely to need it in the evaluation and management of patients.
Formats: PDF, Word
Suggested for: BIOL 235/HLST 200
Building a Medical Terminology Foundation
Kimberlee Carter and Marie Rutherford
2020
Licence: CC BY
Targeted at health office administration and health services students in the first year of their college programs, this textbook focuses on breaking down medical terms into their word parts, pronouncing medical terms, and learning the meaning of medical terms within the context of introductory anatomy and physiology.
Formats: Online, PDF, EPUB, and more.
Suggested for: HLST 200
Cancer Concepts: A Guidebook for the Non-Oncologist
University of Massachusetts Medical School
2019
Topics in this guide include the biological basis of oncology, principles of therapy, and organ-specific cancers.
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA
Formats: PDF
Career Cornerstones: Establishing a Foundation for a Career in Healthcare
Andrea Nelson and Katherine Greene (University of West Florida)
2023
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA
This book was created for students entering their respective health profession’s program. This book is designed to help students be successful not only in their health profession’s educational program, but also as they start to intern or work in healthcare settings.
Formats: Online, PDF, eBook
Suggested for: NURS 250
A Clinical Educator’s Guide to Understanding and Facilitating the Clinical Reasoning Process
Heather Talberg, Fatemah Camroodien-Surve
2017
Licence: CC BY-NC
Developing Clinical Reasoning is an important part of the training of Undergraduate Health and Rehabilitation students. However, a lack of consensus amongst Educators on how to facilitate this, often hampers student progress. This booklet was designed to give Clinical Educators a brief overview on strategies to assist students in developing Clinical Reasoning. Based on the ‘Making thinking Visible’ approach, it guides Clinical Educators in how to make their own reasoning processes more explicit to students, so that they can learn from their more expert thinking practices.
Formats: PDF
Suggested for: HLST 320
The Complete Subjective Health Assessment
Jennifer Lapum, Oona St-Amant, Michelle Hughes, Paul Petrie, Sherry Morrell, and Sita Mistry
2019
Licence: CC BY-SA
This Canadian textbook deconstructs the categories of the complete subjective health assessment, providing learners with explanations and examples of what constitutes relevant subjective data. This textbook provides an opportunity to learn how to respond to normal, abnormal, and critical findings when completing a complete subjective health assessment.
Formats: Online, PDF, EPUB, and more.
Suggested for: HLST 200
Concepts of Fitness and Wellness
University System of Georgia
2018
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA
The textbook covers a broad area of fitness and wellness, and it includes physiological, behavioral, psychological, and biomechanical domains. The content covered is suitable for students being introduced to the field, such as those taking an introductory Kinesiology course.
Formats: PDF, Word
Disability, Health, and Human Development
Sophie Mitra
2017
Licence: CC BY
In low-income countries, there has been very little research on disability and its link to deprivations. Much of the research is recent, and research using traditional poverty indicators (e.g., consumption expenditures) paints an unclear picture on the association between disability and deprivations. This is important as the prevalence of health conditions and impairments is expected to rise with an increasing life expectancy and as more policies try to address deprivations in relation to disability. This book asks the following: How should disability be defined to analyze and inform policies related to wellbeing? What is the prevalence of functional difficulties? What inequalities are associated with functional difficulties? What are the economic consequences of functional difficulties? The empirical work is focused on Ethiopia, Malawi, Tanzania, and Uganda.
Formats: PDF
Suggested for: HLST 200
Handbook of Life Course Health Development
Springer Nature
2018
Licence: CC BY
Topics covered include Health development science; Developmental origins of chronic illnesses; Community; Diabetes; Autism; Obesity; Nutrition; Health disparities across the lifespan; Fetal programming.
Formats: PDF
Suggested for: HLST 200
Health Case Studies
Glynda Rees, Rob Kruger, and Janet Morrison
2017
Health Case Studies is composed of eight separate health case studies that align with the open textbooks Clinical Procedures for Safer Patient Care and Anatomy and Physiology: OpenStax. Each case study includes the patient narrative or story that models the best practice (at the time of publishing) in healthcare settings. This resource was produced in British Columbia.
Licence: CC BY-SA
Formats: Online, EPUB, PDF, and MOBI
Health Professions Education Research Primer
Edited by Teresa M. Chan (McMaster University)
2022
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA
Formats: Online and PDF
Introduction to Health
Kelly Falcone (Palomar College)
Licence: CC BY-SA
This book provides a broad overview of information pertaining to human health and opportunities for improving health and wellness throughout life. The intended goal of the book is to equip the learners with important information needed to better understand their own health and how their daily choices may impact both their quantity and quality of life. Although this is a “health” textbook, it could actually be called a “life” textbook. The textbook is structured into two parts: the first part contains text-heavy chapters, and the second part contains continued learning for each chapter, such as videos and reflection questions.
Formats: Online, PDF, EPUB
Suggested for: HLST 200
A Laboratory Guide to Clinical Hematology
Valentin Villatoro and Michelle To
Licence: CC BY-NC
The creation of this laboratory guide accompanied a project which digitized laboratory slides so students and the public could access these medical resources for study. The digitized slide images and descriptive text are included in this resource.
Formats: Online, PDF, EPUB
Lymphedema Management Workbook
Jodi Steele
2020
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA
This workbook outlines appropriate treatments and techniques for physical therapists treating lymphedema.
Formats: PDF, Word
Medical Terminology for Healthcare Professions
Andrea Nelson and Katherine Greene
2021
Licence: CC BY
This textbook focuses on breaking down, pronouncing, and learning the meaning of medical terms within the context of anatomy and physiology. This resource is targeted for Healthcare Administration, Health Sciences, and Pre-Professional students.
Formats: Online, PDF, EPUB
Suggested for: HLST 200/201
Non-Communicable Disease Prevention
Open Book Publisher
2019
Licence: CC BY
The book comprises ten chapters, which collectively explore the reasons behind, and strategies for, preventing and managing the NCD burden. It spans key themes such as political economy, the transferability of economic evidence, the role of cross-sectoral policies, the importance of deliberative processes, and health technology assessment. This book is written for the benefit of the global health community.
Formats: PDF
Northern and Indigenous Health and Healthcare
Heather Exner-Pirot, Bente Norbye, and Lorna Butler
2018
Licence: CC BY-NC
This resource has been created by the University of the Arctic Northern Nursing Education Network (NNEN) which includes twelve nursing schools in Canada, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, and Russia. It is meant to fill the gap of northern and Indigenous health care needs. It provides content on health and health care from a northern perspective for the growing number of health professionals being educated in northern communities. It focuses on community health, social Determinants and structural Impacts on northern and Indigenous health, culture and health, innovations in northern healthcare, and professional practice in northern and Indigenous communities.
Formats: Online, PDF, EPUB, and more.
Suggested for: INST 357
Rehab Techniques in Oncology Workbook
Jodi Steele
2020
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA
This workbook was created by physical therapist Jodi Steele to provide information on appropriate rehabilitation techniques for oncology patients.
Formats: PDF, Word
Undergraduate Diagnostic Imaging Fundamentals
Brent Burbridge
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA
This resource was created by the University of Saskatchewan. It focuses on the principles of viewing and analysing radiology based medical imaging. This textbook contains both normal images and images with different abnormalities or disease.
Formats: Online, PDF, EPUB
Vaccine Practice for Health Professionals: 1st Canadian Edition
Oona St-Amant, Jennifer Lapum, Vinita Dubey, Karen Beckermann, Che-Sheu Huang, Carly Weeks, Kate Leslie, and Kim English
Licence: CC BY-SA
This text was created by Ryerson University. It is intended to guide best practices in vaccine delivery in Canada. This textbook provides information related to clinical practice, including the administration of vaccines, and communication with clients.
Formats: Online
Vital Sign Measurement Across the Lifespan, 2nd Canadian Edition
Jennifer L. Lapum, Margaret Verkuyl, Wendy Garcia, Oona St-Amant, and Andy Tan
2021
Licence: CC BY
The purpose of this textbook is to help learners develop best practices in vital sign measurement. Using a multi-media approach, it will provide opportunities to read about, observe, practice, and test vital sign measurement.
Formats: Online, PDF, EPUB
