Health Care Delivery category: 1556 books
Children and Young People's Nursing
Principles for Practice, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
Underpinned by a rights-based approach, this essential text critically analyses the theory and practice of children and young people’s nursing from several perspectives - public health, acute and community based care, education and research. Chapters address the clinical, legal, ethical, political...
Ryan House
In the Heart of Phoenix
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
In the Heart of Phoenix was written to share the possibility of your community being able to create a sustainable model of world-class caregiving that provides respite, palliative and hospice care for children and their families who are navigating life-limiting or end-of-life journeys. Award winning...
New Drugs on the Street
Changing Inner City Patterns of Illicit Consumption
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Learn the public health implications of shifting drug-related risks among the inner city poor
Inner city drug use behavior shifts and changes, leaving past drug treatment programs, drug prevention efforts, health care provisions for drug users, and social service practice unprepared to effectively...
by Suzanne Everett
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Offering a comprehensive guide to contraception and sexual health, the new edition of this practical handbook has been fully updated. It takes an integrated approach to sexual health, and now includes additional content on sexually transmitted infections as well as assessment skills.
Giving...
Making Healthcare Care
Managing via Simple Guiding Principles
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
In this volume, Hugo Letiche tackles the allimportant question, is there “care” in healthcare? If, as Klaus Krippendorff(2006) argues, “meaning is a structured space, a network of expected senses, a set of possibilities…[that] emerges in the use of language,” then within the healthcare systems...
by Sylvia C. McKean, John J. Ross, Daniel D. Dressler
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2016
The leading textbook of hospital medicine – completely updated to reflect today’s challenges
A Doody’s Core Title for 2019!
Since its publication in 2012, Principles and Practice of Hospital Medicine, Second Edition has become the field’s premier resource. Comprehensive, authoritative,...
Serious Games for Healthcare
Applications and Implications
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
With advances in technologies and revolutions in patient, trainee, and public expectations, the global healthcare sector is increasingly turning to serious games to solve problems. Serious games are applications with serious purposes, developed using computer game technologies more often associated with...
Introduction to the Anatomy and Physiology of Children
A Guide for Students of Nursing, Child Care and Health
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2002
Published in 2002, 'Introduction to the Anatomy and Physiology of Children' is a valuable addtion to Allied Health.
Arthritis Care
Speedy Study Guides
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
Arthritis is a chronic illness that can be difficult to manage and treat. There are many factors that can affect arthritis symptoms, and care for these symptoms can vary by the type of arthritis and the patient. An Arthritis Care study guide breaks the tasks needed to care for arthritis down into...
The Age of the Inquiry
Learning and Blaming in Health and Social Care
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
The plethora of inquiry reports published in the fields of health and welfare in the 1990s covered the full range of user groups, individuals and institutions. What similarities or differences were there between these inquiries? How effective were they in bringing about change? Whose interest did...
So You Think Medicine is Modern
Revolutionising Health Care for the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
Disappointed by the lack of uptake in the utilisation of Health Outcomes into routine day-to-day medical practice, Dr Price was confronted by the objection that as these measures were patients’ responses to questions they were “subjective” and therefore not good science. Medicine, said the doctors,...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Aging Men, Masculinities and Modern Medicine explores the multiple socio-historical contexts surrounding men’s aging bodies in modern medicine from a global perspective. The first of its kind, it investigates the interrelated aspects of aging, masculinities and biomedicine, allowing for a timely...
by Ray Fitzpatrick, Stanton Newman, Tracey Revenson
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2005
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a major cause of disability affecting about 1% of the population. Although much effort has been expended on research into the causes and cures of RA, little progress has been made. The focus of treatment in RA is on reducing the disabling consequences of the disease and...
by John Burton
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Designed as a practical guide, The Handbook of Residential Care presents a unique combination of real examples and case studies, analysis, guidance and reflective discussion. It brings together all areas of residential work and all levels of involvement in it, with an emphasis of direct personal work...