Health Care Delivery category: 1556 books
by Suzette Kaye
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2007
My book is the personal experience my family faced when trying to get adequate appropriate healthcare for our son. His doctors refused to listen to our son´s school and make a requested orthopedic referral. When they were continued to be made aware of the need for appropriate intervention his doctors...
AIDS
Don't Die of Prejudice
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
Eighteen million people around the world live with HIV but do not know they are infected. Endangering both themselves and countless others, they represent a public health challenge that affects not only Africa but every part of the world, including Europe and the United States. We stand at a tipping...
Lessons in Leadership
Meeting the Challenges of Public Service Management
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Using international case study material, this book examines how ideas of visionary leadership have been developed and discusses their applicability to the public sector. The book covers:
the tensions that can arise between administrative/bureaucratic traditions and the leadership styles required...
How to Heal
A Guide for Caregivers
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
The ability to heal is not reserved for a gifted few. Anyone aching to ease the suffering of a sick friend or loved one can learn to become unconditionally present to the sick person rather than to the disease. Through stories filled with compassion, wisdom, and gentle humor, Dr. Jeff Kane shows readers...
In Their Own Words
12,000 Physicians Reveal Their Thoughts On Medical Practice in America
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
In Their Own Words invites you to become “doctor for a day” and see medical practice from the physicians’ perspective. Drawing on one of the largest physician surveys ever undertaken, “In Their Own Words” offers insights from hundreds of doctors, who reveal in candid comments exactly how...
Intervention Research
Design and Development for Human Service
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
This interdisciplinary book presents a comprehensive conceptual and methodological treatment of intervention research, a developing area of empirical inquiry that aims to make research more directly relevant and applicable to practice. Intervention Research contains original chapters by the most highly...
by Charlotte Lundgren, Carl Molander
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Good teamwork ensures the close collaboration and coordination between professional groups and across disciplinary boundaries. This is particularly important in healthcare centres and clinics admitting complicated patient cases, but contrary to what many healthcare organisations seem to believe, effective...
Biosocialities, Genetics and the Social Sciences
Making Biologies and Identities
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2007
Biosocialities, Genetics and the Social Sciences explores the social, cultural and economic transformations that result from innovations in genomic knowledge and technology.
This pioneering collection uses Paul Rabinow’s concept of biosociality to chart the shifts in social relations and ideas...
Youth And Social Policy
Youth Citizenship And Young Careers
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2005
This book is intended as a key text for advanced undergraduates in social policy, social work, and youth/community work. It can also be used as a supplementary text for sociology of education/work/stratification, criminology, education, and personal reference for researchers and practitioners.
Arguing about Disability
Philosophical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2008
Disability is a thorny and muddled concept - especially in the field of disability studies - and social accounts contest with more traditional biologically based approaches in highly politicized debates. Sustained theoretical scrutiny has sometimes been lost amongst the controversy and philosophical...
by William J Hutchison, Jan Wilson, John J Stretch
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Raising Our Children Out of Poverty shows what can be done at the national and local community levels to raise children out of poverty by strengthening families, communities, and social services.
br>Based on the April 1998 symposium “Raising Our Children Out of Poverty” at the Saint Louis University...
International Social Work Practice
Case Studies from a Global Context
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
International Social Work Practice compares and contrasts divergent social work approaches in countries around the world, providing students with a unique perspective on social work as it is actually practised. Using case studies from frontline practitioners from across the globe, this innovative...
by Ian Barns, Janice Dudley, Patricia Harris
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2005
Poststructuralism, Citizenship and Social Policy shows how poststructuralist ideas can be usefully applied in the areas of welfare, health, education and science and technology policy, making particular reference to the theme of citizenship.
The impact of poststructuralism on thinking in the social...
Cybercrime
Security and Surveillance in the Information Age
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Cybercrime focuses on the growing concern about the use of electronic communication for criminal activities and the appropriateness of the countermeasures that are being adopted by law enforcement agencies, security services and legislators to address such anxieties. Fuelled by sensational media headlines...