Health Care Delivery category: 1556 books
Healthcare Administration
Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2014
As information systems become ever more pervasive in an increasing number of fields and professions, workers in healthcare and medicine must take into consideration new advances in technologies and infrastructure that will better enable them to treat their patients and serve their communities. Healthcare...
Violence and Abuse Issues
Cross-Cultural Perspectives for Health and Social Services
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2009
After centuries of being considered a private matter in most societies, violence and its profound effect on the physical health, mental health, and social well-being of victims and their families, as well as on the assailants themselves, has started to take centre stage as a public issue of worldwide...
Overdiagnosed
Making People Sick in the Pursuit of Health
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2011
From a nationally recognized expert, an exposé of the worst excesses of our zeal for medical testing
Going against the conventional wisdom reinforced by the medical establishment and Big Pharma that more screening is the best preventative medicine, Dr. Gilbert Welch builds a compelling counterargument...
by Audrey L. Nelson, PhD, RN
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2007
Winner of an AJN Book of the Year Award!
Designated a Doody's Core Title!
"I have not seen a book that does a better job with synthesis or provision of good concise information to those in need." (3 Stars)--Doody's Book Review Service
Wandering behaviors are among the...
The Sociology and Politics of Health
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2005
Health care systems, the role of health professionals and the experience of health and illness are all undergoing change and development as we enter the twenty-first century. The Sociology and Politics of Health is a collection of key readings through which to explore the sociological and political...
Social Work in the Health Field
A Care Perspective, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
This book provides an introduction to social work practice in the field of health care. It addresses both physical and mental health, examines various settings such as primary care, home care, hospice, and nursing, and also provides histories of social work practice in traditional industry segments.
Catastrophic Diseases
Who Decides What?
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
An important contribution in the burgeoning literature relating to the delivery of medical care, and to the broader question of responsible decision-making in those social areas where tragic choices have to be made. The effort is an excellent example of research into, and therapy for, an important social process.
Understanding the Public Health Implications of Prisoner Reentry in California
State-of-the-State Report
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
Examines the health care needs of newly released California prisoners; the communities most affected by reentry and the health care safety net of those communities; the critical roles that health care providers, other social services, and family members play in successful reentry; and the effects of...
by Julia Twigg
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2002
Community care lies at the intersection of day-to-day life and the public world of service provision. Using the lens of one particular activity - bathing - this book explores what happens when the public world of professionals and service provision enters the lives of older and disabled people. In...
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...
A Sea of Broken Hearts
Patient Rights in a Dangerous, Profit-Driven Health Care System
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2007
This is a must-read for summer runners, baby-boomers, and anyone who suspects that they or a loved one has been harmed by medical errors in our health care system. Hundreds of thousands of Americans die each year from medical errors, but most mistakes are kept secret from patients.
After learning...
by Robert Newell
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Intended for health care professionals working with patients who have suffered a threat to body image, whether from trauma, injury, disease, or the developmental process, Body Image and Disfigurement Care:
*offers practical advice about care
*critically appraises the existing knowledge-base
*describes...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2003
The purpose of this book is to convince administrators and providers of health care that scientific research has produced numerous tools, techniques, and approaches for managing health services that are most effective and most efficient. Convincing the managers and administrators of this fact is accomplished...
by Jules C Weiss
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
The “Feeling Great!” Wellness Program is an inspirational book describing a successful health care program for older adults. Created for people who desire a richer life, “Feeling Great!” is a program of everyday miracles--the regaining of body strength and movement and the expanding of physical...