Health Care Delivery category: 1556 books
by Phil Wiffen
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
The effective delivery of primary care now requires a much higher calibre of staff than was previously considered acceptable. Selection, assessment and management are skills that need to be properly understood to ensure that the best possible service is being provided; and inappropriate actions can...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Residential treatment for children and youth (RTCY) programs not only need to be explored for the efficacy of the programs, but also in the actual assessment of various aspects of those programs. Assessment in Residential Care for Children and Youth provides practical information on the placement...
Health informatics
Improving patient care
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2012
Health informatics (HI) and technology play a major role in health care including empowering patients, shortening waiting lists and improving treatment efficiency. This ebook contains a range of material by HI experts on the latest developments. It includes articles on robotic surgery, on how technology...
by Michael J Austin
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Addressing the multiple meanings of service integration, Human Services Integration analyzes how motivations and expectations for social service integration differ significantly among different players in the service system. In a period of major budget cutbacks and welfare reform, however, it is important...
Refugee Children
Towards the Next Horizon
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2007
The last twenty years have seen unprecedented numbers of refugee children entering Western countries. Many of these children will have experienced the atrocities of war and issues concerning their care and treatment are high on the agenda of research bodies, policy makers and service providers.
Refugee...
Advancing Social Work Practice in the Health Care Field
Emerging Issues and New Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Department of Social Work at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City, this innovative and exciting book traces the growth of the social work mission and the development of vanguard social work programs at Mount Sinai. Leading social work educators...
Purchasing Medical Innovation
The Right Technology, for the Right Patient, at the Right Price
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
Innovation in medical technology generates a remarkable supply of new drugs, devices, and diagnostics that improve health, reduce risks, and extend life. But these technologies are too often used on the wrong patient, in the wrong setting, or at an unaffordable price. The only way to moderate the...
Medicare and Medicaid at 50
America's Entitlement Programs in the Age of Affordable Care
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
For fifty years, Medicare and Medicaid have stood at the center of a contentious debate surrounding American government, citizenship, and health care entitlement. In Medicare and Medicaid at 50, leading scholars in politics, government, economics, health policy, and history offer a comprehensive assessment...
Care Work
Present and Future
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2005
Care Work considers the current situation of care work and care workers, from childcare to eldercare, and from family carers to paid carers. It examines the composition of the current workforce (more than a million in the UK alone), the knowledge and education needed for care work, and the significance...
Caring Science in Phc
A Guide for Nurses in Primary Health Care Clinics
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
This Caring Science in PHC, a guide for nurses in Primary Health Care, intends to lead the lecturers facilitating the Clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment and diagnosis(Primary Health Care) and the basic Community Nursing Sciences students on the assessment of the client in the Primary Health...
Immigrants and Social Work
Thinking Beyond the Borders of the United States
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
Explore an understudied but vital aspect of the immigration experience!
Until now, the American social work literature on immigration has emphasized one part of the migration process-the experiences of immigrants in this country. Country-of-origin experiences that lead to emigration have received...
Alcohol and Drug Misuse
A Guide for Health and Social Care Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Written by an experienced academic author, lecturer and practitioner, this comprehensive textbook provides an introduction to alcohol and drug misuse. It presents:
the context of alcohol and drug misuse, and the nature and theories of addiction, including a historical overview and policy initiatives...
Linking Housing and Services for Older Adults
Obstacles, Options, and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Packaging supportive services with housing-a pressing issue for older adults
The population of older adults is expected to explode in the coming years. Linking Housing and Services for Older Adults: Obstacles, Options, and Opportunities examines a crucial, complex, and often overlooked issue...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
Technology has become an integral part of our daily interactions, even within the hospitals and healthcare facilities we rely on in times of illness and injury. New technologies and systems are being developed every day, advancing the ways that we treat and maintain the health and wellbeing of diverse...