Health Care Delivery category: 1556 books
Mental Health and Later Life
Delivering an Holistic Model for Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
The mental health needs of older people are all too often overlooked or put down to the inevitable consequences of ageing. This textbook will make it much easier for health, social care and third sector workers to identify, treat and support the needs of this population.
The book takes an interdisciplinary...
Health and Exclusion
Policy and Practice in Health Provision
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2005
Health and Exclusion is a pioneering examination of those policies and practices of exclusion currently experienced by health 'customers' in the UK.
Chapters document examples of exclusion in a number of controversial areas, including:
*the impact of poverty on the health of children
*exclusion in...
by Vicki Coppock, John Hopton
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2002
Over the last forty years, there have been numerous attempts to critique the theory and practice of mental health care. Taking its lead from anti-psychiatry, Critical Perspectives on Mental Health seeks to explore and evaluate the claims of mainstream mental health ideologies and to establish what...
Remaking the American Patient
How Madison Avenue and Modern Medicine Turned Patients into Consumers
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2016
In a work that spans the twentieth century, Nancy Tomes questions the popular--and largely unexamined--idea that in order to get good health care, people must learn to shop for it. Remaking the American Patient explores the consequences of the consumer economy and American medicine having come of...
Continuing Care Retirement Communities
Political, Social, and Financial Issues
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Here is the first detailed study of the economic, social, and administrative implications for the establishment of continuing care retirement communities (CCRCs). Leaders in the field of optional living arrangements for the elderly examine models of continuing care retirement communities throughout...
Health Disparities Among Under-served Populations
Implications for Research, Policy and Praxis
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2012
"Health Disparities Among Under-served Populations: Implications for Research, Policy and Praxis", focuses on a topic of national concern. Both disparities in health status and in health care reflect the continuing power of race, social class, and gender as forces that define the social...
by John Mohan
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Improving access to hospital services has been a goal of public policy in Britain for over seventy years, but the means by which this goal is to be attained have changed significantly over time. Drawing substantially on original research,
lanning, Markets and Hospitals represents a systematic attempt...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
The contribution of the German sociologist and philosopher Jurgen Habermas has proved seminal for attempts to understand the nature of social change in the context of global capitalism. This book provides an accessible introduction to his work and shows how his theories can be fruitfully applied to...
Secure Accommodation in Child Care
'Between Hospital and Prison or Thereabouts?'
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
For some children secure accommodation seems to be the only way to control their disparate number of "problems". But why is this so, and from what criteria do social work professionals decide that a child should be put into secure accommodation? In Secure Accommodation in Child Care the...
by Sheldon Cohen M.D., FACP
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2013
Complete risk factor analysis, a critically important part of a complete medical examination, is often a neglected aspect of an initial doctor-patient interaction. It may worsen with the impending healthcare changes to come—where doctors will face increasing patient loads. This book will introduce...
by Craig Lecroy, Jerome Beker
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
One of the most complete sources of information on the development of social skills training with youth, this useful volume integrates current research and practice. Practitioners interested in establishing or revising current social service delivery programs for children and adolescents will discover valuable conceptual and programmatic ideas.
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Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Lasting healthcare for the entire population, specifically the elderly, has become a main priority in society. It is imperative to find ways to boost the longevity of healthcare services for all users. Sustainable Health and Long-Term Care Solutions for an Aging Population is a pivotal reference source...
Medical Devices
European Union Policymaking and the Implementation of Health and Patient Safety in France
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Medical devices are the bread and butter from which health care and clinical research are derived. Such devices are used for patient care, genetic testing, clinical trials, and experimental clinical investigations. Without medical devices, there is no clinical research or patient care. Without life-adjusting...
by Angela Grainger
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2016
This book is specifically aimed at healthcare assistants, and is a comprehensive text covering all aspects of care of the patient.It is written by healthcare assistants and cover the a wide range of topics:* Safety issues* Basic patient and residential care* Special care* Mental health* Learning disabilities*...