Health Care Delivery category: 1556 books
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
The editors of Stress, Trauma, and Substance Use have gathered a collection of innovative chapters written by cutting edge researchers that depict both the breadth of the relationships between stress, trauma, and substance use, as well as how closely these phenomena are all too often linked.
Individually,...
The Fourth Trimester
Understanding, Protecting, and Nurturing an Infant through the First Three Months
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
The first three months of a baby’s life is an outside-the-uterus period of intense development, a biological bridge from fetal life to preparation for the real world. The fourth trimester has more in common with the nine months that came before than with the lifetime that follows. This comprehensive,...
Fundamentals of Pharmacology
An Applied Approach for Nursing and Health
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2015
Your comprehensive and current introduction to the fascinating field of Pharmacology, applied to Nursing and Health! Now fully updated in line with changes in clinical practice, new drugs and research developments.
This clear and readable text will guide you through how drugs act within the...
by Tom Carnwath, Ian Smith
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Heroin is a drug that myths are made of. Whether smuggled in the stomach of a camel or used as the ultimate symbol of lifestyle chic, no drug has been more argued over and legislated against, no drug has been more subject to misinformation and moral panic.
Heroin Century sets the record straight....
Maltreatment of Patients in Nursing Homes
There Is No Safe Place
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Abuse, although often not detected or reported, existed in every facility we surveyed. It is a serious problem.
Old, weak, and often cognitively impaired, nursing home patients can be easy targets for physical, psychological, material, and financial mistreatment at the hands of those entrusted...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2006
A critical milestone in the evolution of evidence-based medicine
Evidence-Based Interventions for Community Dwelling Older Adults presents an overview of significant evidence-based programs that can improve the health of seniors living in community-based settings. The book examines research conducted on a variety of health-related issues
by Brian Watermeyer
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
In recent years, disability studies has been driven by a model of disability which focuses on the social and economic oppression of disabled people. Although an important counterbalance to a pathologising medical model, the social model risks presenting an impoverished and disembodied view of disability,...
Fracture
Adventures of a broken body
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2007
The starting point of Ann Oakley's fascinating book is the fracture of her right arm in the grounds of a hotel in the USA. What begins as an accident becomes a journey into some critical themes of modern Western culture: the crisis of embodiment and the perfect self; the confusion between body and...
by Brian Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Responding to Men in Crisis is based on new research looking at gendered assumptions about rationality and men's mental health. It looks at postmodern theory in relation to masculinities and madness, and discusses key contemporary debates in political uses of risk, dangerousness and so on. The author...
Bad Advice
Or Why Celebrities, Politicians, and Activists Aren't Your Best Source of Health Information
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
Science doesn’t speak for itself. Neck-deep in work that can be messy and confounding, and naïve in the ways of public communication, scientists are often unable to package their insights into the neat narratives that the public requires. Enter the celebrities, the advocates, the lobbyists, and...
by Gerald P Mallon
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Focusing on the pragmatic aspects of social work with gay and lesbian persons, this book offers a knowledge base of practice that will better prepare students and practitioners for working more competently and effectively with lesbians and gay men. Written by scholars and practitioners in the social...
Human Behavior in the Social Environment
Interweaving the Inner and Outer Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Human Behavior in the Social Environment: Interweaving the Inner and Outer Worlds is an essential human behavior textbook for social work students. The third edition emphasizes the biopsychosocial framework within a psychodynamic, developmental and life-course perspective and includes a brand new...
Miscarriage
Women's Experiences and Needs
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
Approximately one in four pregnancies ends in miscarriage but for each woman the experience is unique. This sympathetic and helpful book explores the many different ways in which women physically experience miscarriage and emotionally react to it. Drawing on the experiences of over 350 women, it will...
Women's Stories of Divorce at Childbirth
When the Baby Rocks the Cradle
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Explore the reasons that new families break up!
This landmark book examines the causes and consequences of divorce occurring during pregnancy or within a year of childbirth. Women’s Stories of Divorce at Childbirth: When the Baby Rocks the Cradle draws from the experiences of seventeen women...