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Cover of Managing Long-term Conditions and Chronic Illness in Primary Care
by Judith Carrier
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015

Effective management of long-term conditions is an essential part of contemporary nursing policy and practice. Systematic and evidence-based care which takes account of the expert patient and reduces unnecessary hospital admissions is vital to support those with long-term conditions/chronic diseases...
Cover of Drug Misuse and Motherhood
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Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003

The growing use of illicit drugs among women has become a major concern for health professionals and social services. The reluctance of drug-using women to seek help from drug agencies and to disclose their use of drugs to ante-natal, midwifery and social services is now officially recognised by government...
Cover of Family and Aging Policy
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014

Learn how public policies can help families provide the care their elderly relatives need Family and Aging Policy examines how public initiatives to assist the elderly in the United States, Canada, Singapore, Denmark, and Sweden can impact families who provide them with long-term care. For...
Cover of Research Handbook for Health Care Professionals
by Mary Hickson
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013

The Research Handbook for Health Care Professionals is the essential guide to the entire research process for students and practitioners alike. From conceiving an idea for a project to writing up the findings for publication, the book offers an overview of each stage plus hints and tips, recommendations...
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Distributing Health Care

Principles, Practices and Politics

by Niall Maclean (editor)
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2011

How ought a society to distribute its publicly funded healthcare resources? Few questions are in more urgent need of an answer. This multidisciplinary investigation brings together the insights of philosophy, clinical science, health economics, operational research and public policy analysis.
Cover of Global Perspectives of Employee Assistance Programs
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Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017

Global Perspectives of Employee Assistance Programs is the first book of its kind to empirically address the Employee Assistance Program (EAP) concept and model in a diverse, global context. This book features a variety of studies which deal with the design, delivery, cultural adaptability, evaluation,...
Cover of Social Work with Lesbian Parent Families
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Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013

The traditional concept of family as being exclusively heterosexual has resulted in myth-generation about lesbian parents as well as fostering limitations in the programs and benefits that support more diverse nontraditional families. Social Work with Lesbian Parent Families: Ecological Perspectives...
Cover of The Last Thirty Years in Public Health (Routledge Revivals)
by Sir Arthur Newsholme
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015

First published in 1936, this book is a continuation of Sir Arthur Newsholme’s Fifty Years in Public Health and covers a wide variety of topics in relation to the subject. It is in part autobiographical as the author recollects and reflects upon his experiences of the system. The book is divided...
Cover of Working with Vulnerable Adults
by Bridget Penhale, Jonathan Parker
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2007

This text provides an understanding of current professional practice in social and health care, examining abuse of vulnerable adults and the ways in which social policy, welfare services and practitioners may compound or alleviate vulnerability. Working with Vulnerable Adults develops a sound...
Cover of When Partnering with Your Medical Doctor is Difficult

When Partnering with Your Medical Doctor is Difficult

The Present Day Dilemma in Getting Proper Medical Care

by James Lowrance
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012

The health care - medical professional’s field is among the most important callings on earth but doctors and medical workers have very difficult and very stressful jobs. There has also arisen an unmistakable doctor-shortage in many areas of America. This has increased the workload of medical staff...
Cover of Recreation, Leisure and Chronic Illness

Recreation, Leisure and Chronic Illness

Therapeutic Rehabilitation as Intervention in Health Care

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Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013

Issues of leisure and dying are not often discussed in depth by those in recreation or thanatology. However, Recreation, Leisure, and Chronic Illness bridges the gap between leisure and thanatology. Professionals know that when illness, disability, stress, or poverty threaten the quantity and quality...
Cover of Aging Families and Use of Proverbs for Values Enrichment
by Vera R Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014

Those providing services to older persons must develop intervention strategies that are relevant to their clients’life experiences. Aging Families and Use of Proverbs for Values Enrichment presents administrators, practitioners, educators, researchers, and students with intervention models that...
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Paediatric Neurosurgery for Nurses

Evidence-based care for children and their families

by Joanna Smith, Catherine Martin
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008

Paediatric Neurosurgery for Nurses: Evidence-based care for children and their families provides accessible and up-to-date information for nurses working in paediatric neurosurgery. Referring throughout to the evidence-base for care and interventions, this complex area is described and explained in...
Cover of Homelessness, Health Care and Welfare Provision
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Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2002

Homelessness, Health Care and Welfare Provision is the first known publication in which service providers examine the particular difficulties encountered by homeless people in gaining access to healthcare, both in Britain and the US. Specific chapters examine the complex issue of mental health and...
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