Health Care Delivery category: 1556 books
by John Burton
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2006
Managing Residential Care puts forward suggestions for improving the development of residential care through better management.
Extended examples and realistic case studies throughout demonstrate how managers can succeed and how sometimes the powerful forces of mismanagement can obstruct them.
by Liam Clarke
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2003
Challenging Practice in Mental Health Nursing questions theories and practices which have become central in mental health care today.
The book is inspired by the growing concerns of both the public and professionals about accepted methods of practice and their effects on patients and clients. Liam...
Worlds of Illness
Biographical and Cultural Perspectives on Health and Disease
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
In recent years the study of illness as experienced by patients has emerged as an approach to understanding sickness. Descriptions of the everyday situations of people with particular diseases, provide a commentary upon the nature of symptoms and upon the relation of the body to society. This approach...
Personalized Medicine
Empowered Patients in the 21st Century?
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Inside today's data-driven personalized medicine, and the time, effort, and information required from patients to make it a reality
Medicine has been personal long before the concept of “personalized medicine” became popular. Health professionals have always taken into consideration the...
Acute Nursing Care
Recognising and Responding to Medical Emergencies
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Delays in recognising deterioration or inappropriate management of people in acute care settings can result in late treatment, avoidable admissions to intensive care units and in some instances unnecessary deaths. As the role of the nurse in healthcare settings continues to change and evolve, todays...
Dangerous and Severe Personality Disorder
Reactions and Role of the Psychiatric Team
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2005
People with personality disorders are to be found in all branches of psychiatric services, from the outpatient and community care through to acute inpatient care. Their behaviour is difficult, manipulative, threatening and they are hard to manage in institutional settings. Dangerous and Severe Personality...
Rethinking Prostitution
Purchasing Sex in the 1990s
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
The growth of AIDS has focused renewed attention on the institution of prostitution. In contrast to the moral panic reaction of some sectors of society, very different initiatives are being displayed by other groups in relation to the need to scrutinize the social, moral and legal status of prostitution...
by Lorraine Fox Harding
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Child care law and policy issues generate very strong emotions and some crucial questions concerning the role of the state. For instance, under what circumstances should the state be able to intervene and use the force of the law to protect children? Do children have similar rights to adults? Such...
by Speedy Publishing
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2014
Being diagnosed with diabetes has to be one of the hardest things a person can go through in life. Their life is turned upside down and they find themselves sinking under pressure. A diabetes care guide can help modify a situation like this. These care guides will let these newly diagnosed patients...
Giving Blood
The Institutional Making of Altruism
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
Giving Blood represents a new agenda for blood donation research. It explores the diverse historical and contemporary undercurrents that influence how blood donation takes place, and the social meanings that people attribute to the act of giving blood. Drawing from empirical studies conducted in the...
by John R. Krismer
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
Few realize a New World Order (NWO) plans to replace our constitution with a Single World Government; nor that our Federal Reserve Bank is privately owned and is not subject to oversight by our Congress or the President. Peter Kershaw, in his book “Economic Solutions” exposes this NWOs controlling...
You Can Stop Humming Now
A Doctor's Stories of Life, Death, and in Between
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
"Gripping, soaring, inspiring."--Atul Gawande, author of Being Mortal
For readers of Atul Gawande and Jerome Groopman, a book of beautifully crafted stories about what life is like for patients kept alive by modern medical technology.
Modern medicine is a world that glimmers...
Health Insurance For Individuals
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Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
A comprehensive overview of health insurance, cheap health insurance, family health insurance, health insurance today, health insurance united states, health insurance main and more.
Paying For Welfare
Towards 2000
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
This is a third edition of a successful textbook that provides a contemporary account of how social services in the UK are paid for. The new edition brings the textbook up-to-date with its fast-moving subject area, explaining the finance of human services - health care, education, housing, social...