Care category: 6811 books
by Lorena Tonarelli
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
Looking after someone ill, elderly or disabled can be physically and emotionally challenging, especially if you are new to caring. However, you are not alone.
Offering practical advice and drawing on the latest research in the field of caring, this book helps you begin your journey as a...
Choice Matters
How Healthcare Consumers Make Decisions (and Why Clinicians and Managers Should Care)
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
The direct-to-consumer business model has transformed how people seek out goods and services from music to mortgages. So what happens now that the revolution has come for healthcare? While consumers have begun to insist on healthcare that is as convenient and personalized as nearly every other good...
Occupational Health Services
A Practical Approach
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Workers and their families, employers, and society as a whole benefit when providers deliver the best quality of care to injured workers and when they know how to provide effective services for both prevention and fitness for duty and understand why, instead of just following regulations.
Designed...
Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise
5 Steps to a Better Health Care System, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
In this second edition of their 2005 work, the authors offer market-based alternatives to recent health care reforms that center on tax changes, insurance market changes, and the redesign of Medicare and Medicaid. They show that, by promoting cost- conscious behavior and competition in both private...
by Micha Shalev
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Dear Caregiver, I set out to write a comprehensive book with a fresh approach for caregivers and family members who are dealing and assisting individuals diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. I gathered as much information as I could from over 25 years as an administrator of residential care and rest home...
by Margaret Jones
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
There has been an extensive historiographical debate on the role of Western or allopathic medicine in the colonial context. However, most of the literature concentrates on the implementation and significance of public health measures, mental health institutions and the control of epidemic diseases;...
Healing After Dark
Pioneering Compassionate Medicine at the Boston Evening Clinic
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2011
In 1927 in the field of health care an unusual event occurred. Morris Aaron Cohen, M.D. founded the Boston Evening Clinic, an unique and never before conceived facility for the treatment of the indigent and low-wage earners who could not afford to lose a day’s pay. It was an endeavor that achieved...
Vital Conversations
Improving Communication Between Doctors and Patients
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
The health-care system in the United States is by far the most expensive in the world, yet its outcomes are decidedly mediocre in comparison with those of other countries. Poor communication between doctors and patients, Dennis Rosen argues, is at the heart of this disparity, a pervasive problem that...
by John Mohan
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Improving access to hospital services has been a goal of public policy in Britain for over seventy years, but the means by which this goal is to be attained have changed significantly over time. Drawing substantially on original research,
lanning, Markets and Hospitals represents a systematic attempt...
Military Mental Health Care
A Guide for Service Members, Veterans, Families, and Community
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
Too often American veterans return from combat and spiral into depression, anger and loneliness they can neither share nor tackle on their own. Military Mental Health Care: A Guide for Service Members, Veterans, Families, and Community seeks to aid our troubled, returning forces by dissecting the...
Heroes Need Not Apply
How to Build a Patient-Accountable Culture without Putting More on Your Plate
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Everyone in healthcare knows that the lack of accountability negatively impacts care, and when accountability improves throughout your organization, care improves. What healthcare leaders don’t know, is how to improve accountability and why it so critically linked to improving patient care.
Excellent Dementia Care in Hospitals
A Guide to Supporting People with Dementia and their Carers
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Hospital workers are increasingly expected to have the knowledge and skills to care for people with dementia. This best-practice guide presents key information and strategies for working with people with dementia in hospitals to manage common issues. With a focus on person-centred care, this is an essential resource for healthcare staff.
by Stephanie Lind, Susan Chase
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2014
Today we are in a healthcare crisis. All around the industrialized world people are struggling with declining health. From childhood obesity to the multiple health-related needs and concerns of an aging population, millions need help understanding, managing, or even reversing their maladies. Hospitals...
by My Ebook Publishing House
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
A Woman's Guide to Intimate Health Care answers those difficult and embarrassing questions women often are unable to ask their own doctor.
Know instantly what's safe to use, what's not, when it's okay to self-treat, and when it's time to seek professional care. Also included is the latest information...