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Caring for the World
A Guidebook to Global Health Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2008
As disparities in health care continue to widen between wealthy and impoverished nations, an increasing number of medical professionals are committing themselves to the growing field of global health. Caring for the World assembles the stories, experience, and advice of prominent global health practitioners...
Health Disparities Among Under-served Populations
Implications for Research, Policy and Praxis
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2012
"Health Disparities Among Under-served Populations: Implications for Research, Policy and Praxis", focuses on a topic of national concern. Both disparities in health status and in health care reflect the continuing power of race, social class, and gender as forces that define the social...
Best Care, Best Future:
A Guide for Healthcare Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
**ACHE’s 2015 JAMES A. HAMILTON BOOK OF THE YEAR.** Finally there is a book for healthcare leaders that only comes along once in a generation. Dr. David Lawrence shares with the readers his vast experience in leading the largest non-profit health system in the country. He describes what a...
The Impact of Autonomy and Consumerism in Healthcare
The Effects of Healthcare Consumerism and Patient Autonomy in the Digital Age on Physicians, Patients, Pharmacies, and Others in the Healthcare Industry
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2016
From the origins of consumerism to the evolution or revolution associated with consumerism in healthcare, this book is a reflective depiction of the past, present, and future of healthcare as it empowers the consumer (patient).The Impact of Autonomy and Consumerism in Healthcare navigates the changing...
Financing Medicine
The British Experience Since 1750
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2006
Financing Medicine brings together a collection of essays dealing with the financing of medical care in Britain since the mid-eighteenth century, with a view to addressing two major issues:
Why did the funding of the British health system develop in the way it did?
What were the ramifications...
by Diana M. Hassel, DVM, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
Drs. Diana Hassel and Vanessa Cook have put together an expert team of authors focused on emergency and critical care topics. Articles include: Field Triage of the Neonatal Foal, CPR in the neonatal foal: has RECOVER changed our approach?, Update on the management of neonatal sepsis, SIRS or endotoxemia?,...
The Family Squeeze
Surviving the Sandwich Generation
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1998
The Sandwich Generation refers to the growing numbers of middle-aged people who must care for both children and elderly parents while trying to manage the stress of full-time jobs. Advances in technology and medicine are helping us to live longer – but not without extended care from our families....
by Bob Baker
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
"The Performance of Medicine is a witty, funny, folksy, intimate, yet serious, and detailed discussion about issues surrounding 'patient satisfaction' in today's world of health care.
--Samuel Harrington, MD, author of At Peace: Choosing a Good Death After A Long Life
This book is a much-needed...
by Nina Iovenko
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2012
Good relational skills, exceptional reasoning abilities, and a desire to help people are all necessary to be a success as a physician's assistant. The physician's assistant is an indispensable addition to the practices of internists, primary care physicians and emergency care facilities. Their work...
MALO CLINIC Dental Care
World Leader in Implatology
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
Find out about MALO CLINIC Dental Care, world leader in Implantology and Dental Aesthetics. Learn more about oral rehabilitation solutions with implants, namely about the All-on-4TM concept, which allows the rehabilitation of totally edentulous patients with only 4 implants and without the need of...
Queen of the Professions
The Rise and Decline of Medical Prestige and Power in America
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
American medicine is under serious attack. The health care system is falling short of its major goal, improving the health of the population. The United States ranks only 35th in world life expectancy. But where American medicine arguably remains at a pinnacle in the world – in the status, wealth...
Yatdjuligin
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nursing and Midwifery Care
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Yatdjuligin: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nursing and Midwifery Care introduces students to the fundamentals of the health care of Indigenous Australians from the perspectives of both the patient and the professional. Designed for both non-Indigenous and Indigenous nurses and midwives who...
by Frederick L Ahearn Jr
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Gain a new perspective on the international implications of our aging population!
This comprehensive book examines a broad array of international concerns in gerontology. Issues in Global Aging addresses the implications of the rapid growth in elderly populations in both the Third World and...
Nutrient-Based Psychiatry
A Nutritional Prescription for ADHD
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
NUTRIENT-BASED PSYCHIATRY® provides detailed information on the integration of nutritional approaches into the treatment of psychiatric conditions, with a focus on ADHD.This is the first in a truly unique book series written for patients and health care professionals alike.It has...