Health Care Delivery category: 1556 books
A History of AIDS Social Work in Hospitals
A Daring Response to an Epidemic
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Explore the in-hospital evolution of social work with HIV/AIDS patients!
A History of AIDS Social Work in Hospitals: A Daring Response to an Epidemic presents first-hand historical perspectives from frontline hospital social workers who cared for HIV/AIDS patients during the epidemic’s beginning...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Learn how gardens and parks can be beneficial to residents
Mounting evidence reveals that nature and outdoor environments provide individuals with dementia greater enjoyment in life, lower stress levels, and positive changes to physical well-being. Outdoor Environments for People with Dementia...
by Wendee Wechsberg
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013
Where are the fields of prevention and health promotion for women headed?
This valuable book illuminates the need for-and the gains that can be achieved by-targeting prevention/health promotion programs toward minority and low-income women in the communities where they live.
Reflecting...
by Vivien Coates
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Education for Patients and Clients sets out basic principles for providing patient education as an integral part of nursing care. It challenges the view that simply giving information is enough and investigates strategies for making education as effective as possible.
The author explores:
*the effect...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
A prevailing excitement can be discerned in the medical and public health literature and popular media concerning the apparent ‘disruptive’ or ‘revolutionary’ potential of digital health technologies. Most of the wider social implications are often ignored or glossed over in such accounts....
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Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
The use of alcohol, tobacco, pharmaceutical drugs, illicit drugs and other substances are widespread throughout the world and are amongst the leading causes of disability and death. Increasingly, medical approaches of treating these disorders have established themselves as effective interventions...
The $800 Million Pill
The Truth behind the Cost of New Drugs
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2004
Why do life-saving prescription drugs cost so much? Drug companies insist that prices reflect the millions they invest in research and development. In this gripping exposé, Merrill Goozner contends that American taxpayers are in fact footing the bill twice: once by supporting government-funded research...
Searching for the Best Medicine
The Life and Times of a Doctor and Patient
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2013
This book describes the life and times of a physician-scientist over the last half-century. Part One is about the author's struggle with colon cancer and the lessons he learnt from the experience; Part Two is about his life growing up, the pretzel bakery, his family, being educated at Bronx Science,...
Helping Children and Young People who Self-harm
An Introduction to Self-harming and Suicidal Behaviours for Health Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2010
Every year thousands of children and young people attend emergency departments with problems resulting from self-harm. More still come to the attention of CAMHS teams, school nurses and other community-based services. Helping Children and Young People who Self-harm provides clear and practical guidance...
Safer Hospital Care
Strategies for Continuous Quality Innovation, 2nd Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2019
According to the National Patient Safety Foundation, about 440,000 deaths from hospital mistakes are expected in 2018. These mistakes are preventable, but the number of deaths has been increasing for the last two decades instead of decreasing. This book describes how to prevent deaths at very low...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
'Building on the core competences for public health, this book focuses on the key areas of leadership and collaborative working to improve health and wellbeing. Aimed at those undertaking Masters courses in public health and health promotion, (as well as those seeking to gain public health registration...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Organizational cultures and subcultures have played vital roles in the quality care of the healthcare industry in both the public and private forms of medical practice and education, leaving opportunity for the integration of principles focused on cross-cultural teamwork. Cross-Cultural Training and...
The Social Transformation of American Medicine
The Rise of a Sovereign Profession and the Making of a Vast Industry
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Considered the definitive history of the American healthcare system, The Social Transformation of American Medicine examines how the roles of doctors, hospitals, health plans, and government programs have evolved over the last two and a half centuries. How did the financially insecure medical profession...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2005
This important sequel to Nordic Social Policy (Routledge 1999) compares welfare state development over the last twenty years in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden with that of Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and other Western European countries. Topics covered include:
* income distribution,...