Health Care Delivery category: 1556 books
Clinical and Translational Science
Principles of Human Research
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2009
Clinical or translational science is the field of study devoted to investigating human health and disease, interventions and outcomes for the purposes of developing new treatment approaches, devices, and modalities to improve health. New molecular tools and diagnostic technologies based on clinical...
by Ann Richards
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
Understanding how drugs work is made simple in this easy to use pocket-sized guide. Drugs in common use are described under each body system and will form an aid to your confident administration of drugs to fit your patients' needs.
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Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Military Sexual Trauma: Current Knowledge and Future Directions showcases the work of several prominent military sexual trauma (MST) researchers, scholars, and clinicians from across the United States. A review of existing research and original empirical findings converge to indicate that MST contributes...
Impact of Substance Abuse on Children and Families
Research and Practice Implications
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Help children overcome the increasing dangers they face because of their parents’ addictions
Impact of Substance Abuse on Children and Families addresses the growing concern over children at risk of developing physical and mental health problems because of their parents’ addictions to alcohol...
Mental Health and Contemporary Thought
Volume two of a report of an international and interprofessional study group convened by the World Federation for Mental Health
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences.
This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have...
Culture, Health and Disease
Social and cultural influences on health programmes in developing countries
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences.
This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
By addressing the issue of food and eating in Britain today this collection considers the ways in which food habits are changing and shows how social and personal identities and perceptions of health risk influence people's food choices.
The articles explore, among other issues:
• the family...
Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Nursing and Midwifery
Towards a Critical Social Science
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
This book explores the historical, social, political and cultural facets of integration between complementary and alternative medicine and nursing/midwifery. It examines the ever-expanding integration in relation to:
the role and conceptualization of the patient
the role and responsibilities...
Nutrition in Pregnancy and Childbirth
Food for Thought
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
Making good nutritional choices can mean women optimise the outcomes of their birthing experience and offer their babies the best possible start in life. To support this, all health professionals who work with women during pregnancy, birth and the postnatal period need to have an appropriate knowledge...
Culture, Ethnicity and Chronic Conditions
A Global Synthesis
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
The global burden of chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs), such as hypertension, diabetes and cancers, and of common mental disorders such as depression and anxiety, has a disproportionate impact on the low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) of Africa, Asia and Latin America. The pattern persists...
Qualitative Research in Midwifery and Childbirth
Phenomenological Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
Qualitative research, particularly phenomenology, is increasingly popular as a method for midwifery and health-related research. These approaches enable rich and detailed explanations to be uncovered and bring experience to life. Important recommendations and practice- based implications may then...
Mental Health in a Changing World
Volume one of a report on an international and interprofessional study group convened by the World Federation for Mental Health
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences.
This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have...
by T. Natasha Posner
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2008
Though medically minor and very common, herpes simplex is a condition which is capable of causing considerable distress, for psychological and social as much as physical reasons. Herpes Simplex contrasts the image of the condition presented in the media with the medical and epidemiological evidence,...
Sexual Behaviour and HIV/AIDS in Europe
Comparisons of National Surveys
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Sexual Behaviour and HIV/AIDS in Europe is the first book to compare the major population surveys on sexual behaviour and HIV/AIDS carried out in Europe in recent years. Leading European researchers explore the differences and similarities between European countries in patterns of sexual behaviour...