Health Care Delivery category: 1556 books
Women's Mental Health Across the Lifespan
Challenges, Vulnerabilities, and Strengths
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Women’s Mental Health Across the Lifespan examines women’s mental health from a developmental perspective, looking at key stressors and strengths from adolescence to old age. Chapters focus in detail on specific stressors and challenges that can impact women’s mental health, such as trauma,...
Negotiating Ageing
Cultural Adaptation to the Prospect of a Long Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
The world is growing older and this is a historically unprecedented phenomenon. Negotiating such change, personally, socially and for governments and international organisations requires an act of cultural adaptation. Two key questions arise: What is the purpose of a long life? and How do we adapt...
Disaster Health Management
A Primer for Students and Practitioners
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Disaster health is an emerging field that focuses on developing prevention, preparation, response and recovery systems for dealing with health problems that result from a disaster. As disasters worldwide differ in their nature, scope and cultural context, a thorough understanding of the fundamental...
Mental Health and Social Problems
A Social Work Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Mental Health and Social Problems is a textbook for social work students and practitioners. It explores the complicated relationship between mental conditions and societal issues as well as examining risk and protective factors for the prevalence, course, adaptation to and recovery from mental illness.
The...
Comrades in Health
U.S. Health Internationalists, Abroad and at Home
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Since the early twentieth century, politically engaged and socially committed U.S. health professionals have worked in solidarity with progressive movements around the world. Often with roots in social medicine, political activism, and international socialism, these doctors, nurses, and other health...
Health Promotion in Midwifery
Principles and Practice, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
Health Promotion in Midwifery explores the principles of health promotion within the practical context of midwifery. It clearly outlines and discusses the midwife’s role in health promotion, linking theory and practice.
The third edition of this evidence-based text covers essential topics...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2002
Significant concerns about the poor health and prevalence of chronic illness amongst a number of ethnic minority populations have led to heightened debates about how best to improve the situation. For some the answer is to see their experiences as part of the general social class inequality in health,...
The Story of Modern Preventive Medicine (Routledge Revivals)
Being a Continuation of the Evolution of Preventive Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
First published in 1929, this book is a continuation of Arthur Newsholme’s Evolution of Preventive Medicine, published in 1927, which was concerned with the possibilities in progress of prevention of disease, up to the middle of the nineteenth century. The current volume focuses on the modern period...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
A clear analysis of the design, potential uses and limitations of questionnaires in measuring health from the perspective of the patient. Practical examples illustrate the methodological issues and guide the reader through good and bad practice. The book will appeal to academics, postgraduates and...
After The Error
Speaking Out About Patient Safety to Save Lives
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Medical errors kill 24,000 Canadians each year, adversely affect hundreds of thousands, and cost close to two billion dollars. Victims of medical errors and their families who speak out often do so at considerable emotional, psychological, and financial expense. But their willingness to share their...
Mental Illness and the Body
Beyond Diagnosis
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Using real life case studies of people experiencing mental illness, this book identifies how bodily presentation of patients may reflect certain aspects of their ‘lived experience’.
With reference to a range of theoretical perspectives including philosophy, psychoanalysis, feminism and...
Voices From the Field
Group Work Responds
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Voices From the Field is the book to challenge you from your cozy position of complacency! By simply opening its pages, you will learn about fascinating developments in group work sequences in group care, empowerment groups in action, and a whole spectrum of practice and education-oriented themes...
Transformed
How Oregon's Public Health University Won Independence and Healed Itself
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Oregon Health & Science University seemed stuck in the backwaters of the nation’s academic health centers when Dr. Peter Kohler became its president in 1988. Its hospital hemorrhaged money, served rusty water from its faucets, and sometimes forced women in its cramped maternity ward to deliver...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2010
Few people realize that prescription drugs have become a leading cause of death, disease, and disability. Adverse reactions to widely used drugs, such as psychotropics and birth control pills, as well as biologicals, result in FDA warnings against adverse reactions.
The Risks of Prescription...