Health Care Issues category: 1336 books
by Vivien Martin, Julie Charlesworth, Euan Henderson
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
Managing in Health and Social Care is about developing skills to manage and improve health and social care services. The focus throughout is on the role that a manager can play in ensuring effective delivery of high-quality services. Examples from social care and health settings are used to illustrate...
Burn Out Self Care for Behavioral Health Clinicians
1st Edition, #1
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2018
This is the FIRST Edition "Burn Out - Self Care for Behavioral Health Clinicians" contains practical life hacks to help you retool and rethink your entire life.
Behavioral Health Clinicians have plenty of day to day challenges. "Burn Out - Self Care for Behavioral Health Clinicians"...
Caring for the World
A Guidebook to Global Health Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2008
As disparities in health care continue to widen between wealthy and impoverished nations, an increasing number of medical professionals are committing themselves to the growing field of global health. Caring for the World assembles the stories, experience, and advice of prominent global health practitioners...
A Death Retold
Jesica Santillan, the Bungled Transplant, and Paradoxes of Medical Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
In February 2003, an undocumented immigrant teen from Mexico lay dying in a prominent American hospital due to a stunning medical oversight--she had received a heart-lung transplantation of the wrong blood type. In the following weeks, Jesica Santillan's tragedy became a portal into the complexities...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
This book addresses the global need for more comparative studies on health policy and health care systems, given the rise in recent decades of societal aging, modern mass diseases, economic globalization, and resulting permanent fiscal austerity of governments which have fundamentally altered the...
by Brian Casull
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
As a physician and Physician Executive with 40 years in service supporting the patient, I share a passion and concern about the fate of health care in this country. Per a United States Congressman: ‘Nobody dies because they don’t have access to healthcare.’ The data proves otherwise: there is...
Federalism and Decentralization in Health Care
A Decision Space Approach
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
While health system decentralization is often associated with federations, there has been limited study on the connection between federalism and the organization of publicly financed or mandated health services. Federalism and Decentralization in Health Care examines eight federations that differ...
by Stephen Simac
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2014
"Stephen Simac puts his finger on the pulse of American medicine and on its wallet and finds huge destruction in the mismatch. Save Trillions is a rational fix for a troubled system."
Dr. Walter Bortz, author of Next Medicine: the Science and Civics of Health
former Professor of Medicine...
The Treatment Trap
How the Overuse of Medical Care is Wrecking Your Health and What You Can Do to Prevent It
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
With health reform enacted by the Congress and signed by the President, the subject matter of The Treatment Trap is a compelling component in the national debate. Taking advantage of Rosemary Gibson's knowledge gleaned from extended experience in the field of medical care and Janardan Singh's similar...
Critical Condition
How Health Care in America Became Big Business--and Bad Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2004
Exposing the most controversial, little-known practices of America’s most flawed system, Time magazine’s Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative team pulls back the curtain on the health care industry to explain exactly how things grew so out of control.
Dirty examination and operating rooms...
by Brent, R.J.
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Costbenefit analysis is the only method of economic evaluation that can effectively indicate whether a health care treatment or intervention is worthwhile. In this thoroughly updated and revised second edition, Robert Brent expands the scope of the field by including the latest concepts and applications...
Comprehensive Care for HIV/AIDS
Community-Based Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
A comprehensive health care system consists of services that are coordinated and integrated along the full continuum of care. For HIV patients, this includes physical health care, infectious disease management, crisis care, mental health care, substance abuse counseling, and social support services...
The Truth About Big Medicine
Righting the Wrongs for Better Health Care
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Many Americans believe that their healthcare is second to none. Most patients, therefore, fail to appreciate the flaws and dangers present while receiving medical care. In fact, the American health care industry is one of the great tragedies of this country, which is now being brought to its knees...
by Melanie Sears, RN
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
The tenets of Nonviolent Communication are applied to a variety of settings, including the workplace, the classroom, and the home, in these booklets on how to resolve conflict peacefully. Illustrative exercises, sample stories, and role-playing activities offer the opportunity for self-evaluation,...