Health Care Delivery category: 1556 books
Sleep and Society
Sociological Ventures into the Un(known)
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Exploring the sociological aspects of sleep and their links to current health debates, this unique text discusses why sleep has been so neglected in sociological literature and examines significant modern issues such as:
the 24-hour society
sleep and work
homelessness
dream analysis
the medicalization...
by Rona Moss-Morris, Keith Petrie
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2002
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is one of the most enigmatic medical disorders of our time, striking adults most often in their most productive years. With the controversial debate over cause and treatment of the illness in mind, the authors seek to unravel many of the questions surrounding the disorder...
Essential Values-Based Practice
Clinical Stories Linking Science with People
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
This book will help clinicians acquire and develop the processes and skills of values-based practice. The aim of most patient-clinician consultations is to improve health outcomes. Often they succeed, and patients are satisfied and empowered. However, some consultations are unsatisfactory and result...
by Reji K. Joseph
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
This book examines the impact of economic reforms in India on the pharmaceutical industry and access to medicines. It traces the changing production and trade pattern of the industry, research and development (R&D) preferences and strategies of Indian pharmaceutical firms, patent system alongside...
Youth Drinking Cultures in a Digital World
Alcohol, Social Media and Cultures of Intoxication
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
Social media has helped boost the culture of intoxication, a central aspect of young people’s social lives in many Western countries. Initial research suggests that these technologies enable highly-nuanced, targeted marketing and innovations – creating new virtual spaces that alter the dynamics...
Elder Abuse
Selected Papers from the Prague World Congress on Family Violence
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Get up-to-date information and research on elder abuse-from international authorities!
Elder Abuse: Selected Papers from the Prague World Congress on Family Violence is an invaluable collection of the most important presentation papers from the Prague World Congress on Family Violence. This...
Interoperability in Healthcare Information Systems
Standards, Management, and Technology
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
Although the standards in electronic health records and general healthcare services continue to evolve, many organizations push to connect interoperability with public service and basic citizenship rights. This poses significant technical and organizational challenges that are the focus of many research...
Contemporary Clinical Practice with Asian Immigrants
A Relational Framework with Culturally Responsive Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Many first and second generation Asian immigrants experience acculturation challenges to varying extents. These challenges, such as language barriers, racial discrimination, underemployment, the loss of support networks and changes in family role and structure, may exacerbate a myriad of mental health...
Mental Health and The Built Environment
More Than Bricks And Mortar?
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
This text explores the relationship between the planned or built environment and the occurrence of mental ill-health. It begins by providing a broad overview of what is known about the causes of psychopathic behaviour. It then goes on to discuss the issues that arise when attempting to identify: the...
by William C. Cockerham
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2002
For the first time, life expectancy is declining in an industrialized society. In this pioneering work, William C. Cockerham examines the social causes of the decline in life expectancy beginning in the 1960s including:
*Russia
*Poland
*Hungary
*Romania
*Bulgaria
*the Czech Republic
*and East Germany.
Health...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
From the start of the AIDS epidemic there have been calls for greater solidarity between affected groups and communities, and public health services. This can be seen both in the move towards healthy alliances in health service work, and in the demands of AIDS activists worldwide. This text brings...
Moving Mountains
A Socratic Challenge to the Theory and Practice of Population Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
Medicine has become increasingly depersonalized. Patients complain of being treated like numbers. Doctors resent being cogs in a complex healthcare system. Yet enthusiasm remains within the high towers of academia, the halls of government, and the corporate boardrooms of insurance companies, for a...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2002
AIDS, Drugs and Prevention brings together a range of international contributions on the research, theory and practice of developing community-based HIV prevention. It aims to understand how individual actions to prevent HIV transmission are constrained and encouraged by situational and social context....
Biopolitics and the 'Obesity Epidemic'
Governing Bodies
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Biopolitics and the ‘Obesity Epidemic’ is the first edited collection of critical perspectives on the 'obesity epidemic.' The volume provides a comprehensive discussion of current issues in the critical analysis of health, obesity and society, and the impact of obesity discourses on different...