Health category: 185398 books
Nursing Informatics for the Advanced Practice Nurse
Patient Safety, Quality, Outcomes, and Interprofessionalism
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Designed specifically for graduate-level nursing informatics courses, this is the first text to focus on using technology with an interprofessional team to improve patient care and safety. It delivers an expansive and innovative approach to devising practical methods of optimizing technology to foster...
Telepsychiatry and Health Technologies
A Guide for Mental Health Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2018
The only current book on the topic, Telepsychiatry and Health Technologies: A Guide for Mental Health Professionals is a practical, comprehensive, and evidence-based guide to patient-centered clinical care delivered in whole or in part by technological devices and applications. Not a technology-centered...
Health Systems in Transition
Canada, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The health care system in Canada is much-discussed in the international sphere, but often overlooked when it comes to its highly decentralized administration and regulation. Health Systems in Transition: Canada provides an objective description and analysis of the public, private, and mixed components...
by Keya Sengupta
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
The book comprehensively discusses the various determinants shaping the health sector in India. Based on intensive research, it quantitatively identifies the determinants of health status in India within a macroeconomic framework, taking both the demand and the supply side into consideration. The...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
The linkages between a student’s health and a student’s ability to learn have been well established. Children who are sick stay home; and, children at home cannot learn if they are not in school leading to increased dropout rates among other educational outcomes. However, an understanding of this...
Better Now
Six Big Ideas to Improve Health Care for All Canadians
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
Longlisted for British Columbia's National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction 2018
Dr. Danielle Martin sees the challenges in our health care system every day. As a family doctor and a hospital vice president, she observes how those deficiencies adversely affect patients. And as a health policy...
Health and Poverty
Global Health Problems and Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
There is growing interest and concern about the unacceptable differentials in health between and within countries. This comes out of the realization that poor people will only be able to prosper, and emerge from poverty, if they enjoy better health. Healthy populations are a precondition for sustainable...
Aboriginal Health in Canada
Historical, Cultural, and Epidemiological Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2006
Numerous studies, inquiries, and statistics accumulated over the years have demonstrated the poor health status of Aboriginal peoples relative to the Canadian population in general. Aboriginal Health in Canada is about the complex web of physiological, psychological, spiritual, historical, sociological,...
Credit crunch health care
How economics can save our publicly funded health services
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
The credit crunch is a threat to publicly funded health care. World-leading health economist Cam Donaldson defends our systems on the same basis as those who seek to erode public services, namely, that of economic efficiency. However, protecting government funding of health care is not enough. Donaldson...
Millions Saved
New Cases of Proven Success in Global Health
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
Over the past fifteen years, people in low- and middle-income countries have experienced a health revolution-one that has created new opportunities and brought new challenges. It is a revolution that keeps mothers and babies alive, helps children grow, and enables adults to thrive.
Millions...
Reverse Innovation in Health Care
How to Make Value-Based Delivery Work
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
Two experts in reverse innovation reveal four different pathways for providing value-based health care and show how these, and other revolutionary practices from India, are being adopted in areas across the United States.
Reveals how some far-sighted US providers are practicing health care delivery...
Redefining Health Care
Creating Value-based Competition on Results
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2006
The U.S. health care system is in crisis. At stake are the quality of care for millions of Americans and the financial well-being of individuals and employers squeezed by skyrocketing premiums-not to mention the stability of state and federal government budgets.
In Redefining Health Care, internationally...
by Rokx, Claudia; Schieber, George; Harimurti
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2009
In 2004 the Indonesian government made a commitment to provide its entire population with health insurance coverage through a mandatory public health insurance scheme. It has moved boldly already provides coverage to an estimated 76.4 million poor and near poor funded through the public budget. Nevertheless...
by Les Funtleyder
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2008
Is your portfolio in peak health?
Ranking among the world's largest markets, the $2.5 trillion health care industry is growing at an unprecedented rate. According to Miller Tabak + Co.'s health care strategist Les Funtleyder, major structural renovations to the system are imminent. “Health...