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by Sheila Hardy, Richard Gray, Jacqueline White
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2015
This practical guide, written by experts in mental health nursing, is designed to support healthcare practitioners in checking the physical health of people with severe mental illness (SMI).As life expectancy is reduced by 12 to 19 years in people with SMI, this patient group should receive a physical...
Primary Child and Adolescent Mental Health
A Practical Guide, Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Rewritten with the new primary care environment in mind, this greatly expanded and updated edition of Child Mental Health in Primary Care extends the structured approach of the first edition to adoelscent mental health. As in the first edition, Primary Child and Adolescent Mental Health covers each...
The Fabric of Health
Pain, Cancer, & Personal Relations
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Seekers of all types, but especially those exploring spirituality as a way to cope with illness and pain, will find his book an inspiring tool. - BlueInk Review Severe health issues pushed Cardano to seek out and learn how alternative health systems offer approaches for improved health. In that journey,...
Mental Health Self-Help
Consumer and Family Initiatives
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2010
Building on earlier patient-empowerment movements, consumer- and advocate-driven mental health self-help (MHSH) initiatives currently outnumber traditional mental health organizations. At the same time, this apparent success raises significant questions about their short-term efficacy and their value...
What is Enough?
Sufficiency, Justice, and Health
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
What is a just way of spending public resources for health and health care? Several significant answers to this question are under debate. Public spending could aim to promote greater equality in health, for example, or maximize the health of the population, or provide the worst off with the best...
How to Enroll in Medicare Health Insurance
Choose a Medicare Part D Drug Plan and a Medicare Supplement Plan
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
How to Enroll in Medicare Health Insurance Pick a Medicare Part D Prescription Drug Plan and Choose a Medicare Supplement Plan >>>A User Friendly Guide to Enroll in Medicare Health Insurance This book is a user friendly guide to assist you when and how to enroll in Medicare. This guide provides useful...
by Lydell Lettsome
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Americans have been led to believe that uncontrolled costs and waste are destroying their healthcare system. This is not true. Costs and waste are merely smokescreens. Greed and profit margins drive the American healthcare system. Together they have been used to block Americans from having a more...
by Abbey Hyde, Orla McDonnell, Maria Lohan
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
Health research, education and provision have become increasingly interdisciplinary over the last few years, leading health professionals to broaden their knowledge beyond technical aspects of care. Practitioners now need a clear understanding of how society can affect health, and an appreciation...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Scientists, philosophers, and storytellers often question why human beings appear to remain constant while existing in a state of change at the same tune. Among those who explore and expose dramatic conflicts between human stability and flux, the number of behavioral scientists has remained relatively...
by Matthew J. Commers
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
For decades, health professionals have asserted the importance of public participation in interventions for health. Medicine has pursued patient participation in clinical decision-making. In the public health realm, target groups have been asked to assist in the design and implementation of initiatives...
by Gary Morris
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
The importance of recognising the knowledge and the needs of service users and engaging them more proactively within the care process is now widely acknowledged, but it is not always clear how this can come about. The Lived Experience of Mental Health highlights individuals’ own lived and felt mental...
Global Inequalities at Work
Work's Impact on the Health of Individuals, Families, and Societies
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2003
A map of the relationship between work and health that is truly global--both geographically and in its coverage of the impact of work on the health of individuals, families, and societies, has not previously been drawn. Global Inequalities at Work is the first book to fill in the map. Drawing from...
Reengineering Health Care
A Manifesto for Radically Rethinking Health Care Delivery
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2010
In their legendary book, Reengineering the Corporation, Jim Champy and Michael Hammer introduced businesspeople to the enormous power of a revolutionary methodology called reengineering. Using reengineering, businesses around the world have systematically retooled their processes--achieving dramatic...
Your Best Health Care Now
Get Doctor Discounts, Save With Better Health Insurance, Find Affordable Prescriptions
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
Inspired by his viral New York Times article, prize-winning investigative journalist Frank Lalli details how he mastered the ins and outs of health care—and how you, too, can get the best care for your money.
Frank Lalli, the former editor of Money and George magazines, has devoted his career...