Health Care Delivery category: 1556 books
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Find out how group care for children has changed in the last 20 years
Group Care Practice with Children and Young People Revisited focuses on the core issues that shape the quality of care that’s provided in institutional and residential care settings, as well as day care services that rely...
by Marcia Egan
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
Social work practice in health care requires that practitioners be prepared to meet the interdisciplinary and managed care demands for best practices in efficacious, time-limited, and culturally competent interventions, with populations across the lifespan. This text is designed to meet that demand...
Understanding Healthcare
a historical perspective
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
Freedom in Health Care, by Kenneth A. Fisher, MD. Feb. 2016, 154 pages. With tables, reading list, and footnotes. (ISBN: 9780997151107)
Dr. Fisher provides the reader an in-depth understanding of how we got into this controversial, overly expensive, exceedingly complex and bureaucratic healthcare...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Groundbreaking information for caregivers—and those receiving care
It is more common now than ever before for partners, family members, and friends to provide informal care, yet caregiving in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) communities has received little attention. Caregiving...
The Ultimate Obamacare Handbook (2015?2016 edition)
A Definitive Guide to the Benefits, Rights, Responsibilities, and Potential Pitfalls of the Affordable Care Act
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
"The Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, makes health insurance available to the majority of Americans.
In fact, failure to obtain coverage will result in penalties, but the process of obtaining insurance can be daunting. This brief handbook explains the law and its history and tells readers how to...
Making Medicare
The Politics of Universal Health Care in Australia
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Since the 1980s, Australians have had a system of universal health care that is often taken for granted. But the road there wasn’t easy. Making Medicare is a comprehensive account of Australia’s long, tortuous, and unconventional path toward universal health care—as it was established, abolished,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
Health care organizations have made investments in health information technologies such as electronic health records, health information exchanges, and many more, which have increased the importance of Health Information Technology studies. Cases on Healthcare Information Technology for Patient Care...
Along the Continuum of Care
What Every Case Manager Must Know...
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
Along the Continuum of Care creates a mind shift for the case manager in the new paradigm to be effective agents of change and resource connectors. The urgent need to improve health outcomes is resulting in moment-to-moment changes in the world of case management. Along the Continuum of Care focus...
Malpractice
A Neurosurgeon Reveals How Our Health Care System Harms Patients and Protects Dangerous Doctors
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
An insider’s devastating critique of modern medical practices and “an honest view of what our broken health-care system looks like” (Patricia J. Skolnik, president, Citizens for Patient Safety, LLC).
In 1991, the Institute of Medicine released a landmark report revealing that as many...
The Occupational Experience of Residential Child and Youth Care Workers
Caring and Its Discontents
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
From open and straightforward accounts of residential care workers, The Occupational Experience of Residential Child and Youth Care Workers shows you how care is handled, not how it should be handled. This book introduces you to a social reality, a sometimes very difficult and challenging social reality,...
by Carol Munn-Giddings, Richard Winter
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Action research is a form of research closely linked to practice which can readily be undertaken by practitioners and service users. This handbook offers a comprehensive guide to action research as a strategy for inquiry and development in health and social care. It can be used by individuals or groups...
Women and Cardiovascular Disease
Addressing Disparities in Care
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2014
Cardiovascular disease is the number one killer of both men and women in the US and Europe today. Over the last 20 years, many innovations in technology have allowed for improved therapies for heart attack and stroke and overall outcomes have significantly improved. Death rates from cardiovascular...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
Turbulent changes in worldwide economies and decreases in overall quality of life have led to a re-evaluation of the current state of health services. Improvements in this sector will allow for more efficient healthcare delivery to the public, as well as increased patient satisfaction. Effective Methods...
by Alan Clarke
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
The Sociology of Healthcare, Second Edition explores the impact of current social changes on health, illness and healthcare, and provides an overview of the fundamental concerns in these areas. This new edition features a brand new chapter entitled End of Life which will help health and social...