Health Care Delivery category: 1556 books
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Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
In addition to social media’s prevalence for personal use, online networking tools are also gaining momentum in the healthcare field. Health information and patient discussion are embracing these technologies to create a more ubiquitous communication platform. Social Media and Mobile Technologies for...
Big Food
Critical perspectives on the global growth of the food and beverage industry
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Obesity is a global public health problem of crucial importance. Obesity rates remain high in high-income countries and are rapidly increasing in low- and middle- income countries. Concurrently, the global consumption of unhealthy products, such as soft drinks and processed foods, continues to rise....
Revolutionary Doctors
How Venezuela and Cuba Are Changing the Worlds Conception of Health Care
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Revolutionary Doctors gives readers a first-hand account of Venezuela’s innovative and inspiring program of community healthcare, designed to serve—and largely carried out by—the poor themselves. Drawing on long-term participant observations as well as in-depth research, Brouwer...
The Dying Process
Patients' Experiences of Palliative Care
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2002
Taking as its focus a highly emotive area of study, The Dying Process draws on the experiences of daycare and hospice patients to provide a forceful new analysis of the period of decline prior to death.
Placing the bodily realities of dying very firmly centre stage and questioning the ideology...
by Carter V. Multz
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2010
This book explains why American Medicine is an administrative monstrosity and tells how simple changes can provide coverage for all Americans add pharmacy and leave 200 Billion left over.
Litigating Health Rights
Can Courts Bring More Justice to Health?
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2011
This book examines the potential of litigation as a strategy to advance the right to health by holding governments accountable for these obligations. It asks who benefits both directly and indirectly—and what the overall impacts on health equity are. Included are case studies from Costa Rica, South Africa, India, Brazil, Argentina and Colombia.
Unhealthy Societies
The Afflictions of Inequality
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Among the developed countries it is not the richest societies which have the best health, but those which have the smallest income differences between rich and poor. Inequality and relative poverty have absolute effects: they increase death rates. But why? How can smaller income differences raise...
by Margaret Hunter, Ian Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2005
Motor Neurone Disease is one of the most difficult conditions to manage medically and socially. A disease which leads to the loss of control of most muscle systems of the body, it has no known cause and no cure. For this reason, clinicians have traditionally been reluctant to reveal the diagnosis...
How Institutions are Shaping the Future of Our Children
For Better or for Worse?
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Improve services for children and youth with new concepts, different perspectives, and up-to-date information!
How Institutions are Shaping the Future of Our Children: For Better or for Worse? explores the positive and negative impacts of social institutions on child and adolescent well-being....
Handbook of Psychosocial Interventions with Older Adults
Evidence-based approaches
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
In the past decade, evidence based practice (EBP) has emerged as one of the most important movements to improve the effectiveness of clinical care. As the number of older adults continues to grow, it is essential that practitioners have knowledge of effective strategies to improve both the medical...
Biosecurity Interventions
Global Health and Security in Question
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2008
In recent years, new disease threats-such as SARS, avian flu, mad cow disease, and drug-resistant strains of malaria and tuberculosis-have garnered media attention and galvanized political response. Proposals for new approaches to "securing health" against these threats have come not only...
Social Group Work Today and Tomorrow
Moving From Theory to Advanced Training and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
A comprehensive introduction to policy and planning approaches, methods, models, ways of thinking, and techniques, Social Group Work Today and Tomorrow is presented in a reader-friendly fashion for persons with no prior formal training in this area. The book teaches social workers, group counselors,...
Social Group Work
Competence and Values in Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Here is an exciting and stimulating book featuring expert evaluations and descriptions of current social work group practice with an overall focus on competence and values. The contributors give detailed information on group work theory, group structure, gender and race issues in group work, group...
Human Factors in Healthcare
Level One
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2014
The majority of errors, litigation, and complaints in the health service are due to 'human factors', yet the term is still not widely understood and is sometimes used interchangeably to refer to team training or communication skills. Although including these, the subject of 'human factors' goes far...