Health Care Delivery category: 1556 books
Faith-Based Social Services
Measures, Assessments, and Effectiveness
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Read the latest studies on the effectiveness of religious-based services—and the problems revealed in the assessment
The Charitable Choice provision and the Bush Administration’s National Faith-Based Initiative have broadened the scope of social services delivered through faith-based organizations....
Self-Tracking, Health and Medicine
Sociological Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Self-tracking practices are part of many health and medical domains. The introduction of digital technologies such as smartphones, tablet computers, apps, social media platforms, dedicated patient support sites and wireless devices for medical monitoring has contributed to the expansion of opportunities...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights proclaims that "everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family." The guarantee of good health for its people is therefore every government's aspiration. Public–private partnerships...
by John Maltby, Glenn Williams, Julie Mcgarry
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Research Methods for Nursing and Healthcare is an essential introductory text for all nursing and healthcare students coming to research methods for the first time or those nurses and healthcare staff wishing to improve their skills in this area. The book includes comprehensive coverage of the main...
The Best Healthcare for Less
Save Money on Chronic Medical Conditions and Prescription Drugs
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2010
You can afford the care you need.
If you're one of the millions who suffer from medical conditions such as cancer, heart disease, or diabetes, you know that these illnesses can, over time, cause extreme financial hardship. In this timely, thorough resource, Dr. David Nganele helps you identify...
Assembling Health Rights in Global Context
Genealogies and Anthropologies
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
What do we mean when we talk about rights in relation to health? Where does the language of health rights come from, and what are the implications of using such a discourse?
During the last 20 years there have been an increasing number of initiatives and efforts – for instance in relation...
Augmented Health(care)™
"the end of the beginning".
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2018
Revised version with also a new chapter "closing the loop" as of November 2018
If you work in health(care), this is your update on the 'future'. This book is about the digital transformation that healthcare is facing. It's not a prediction, blueprint nor is it a manual. But it is...
by Bernard Moss
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
Our ability to communicate is a key part of everyday life and is an essential skill, particularly when communicating with vulnerable people in a health and social care setting.
Presented in a unique and easy-to-use dictionary format, this practical guide will help students and practitioners...
Summary & Analysis of Unconventional Medicine
Join the Revolution to Reinvent Healthcare, Reverse Chronic Disease, and Create a Practice You Love | A Guide to the Book by Chris Kresser
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
Unconventional Medicine is author and alternative medicine expert Chris Kresser’s call to action for revolutionizing a health care industry that is corrupt, dysfunctional, and unequipped to properly address the chronic disease epidemic.
Don't miss out on this ZIP Reads summary to change the...
Residential and Boarding Education and Care for Young People
A Model for Good Management and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
This innovative book identifies the key elements of good management and practice common to all residential child care settings - whether hospital unit, boarding school, children's home, special school or custodial care establishment - and important variations between the different settings. Using...
by Marcia Carteret
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
In cross-cultural health care interactions, there are many situations where communication is challenging because patients and their families exhibit different values, beliefs, and behaviors from those of their American physicians. Physicians educated in western medicine, who work in the health care...
Community Mental Health in Canada, Revised and Expanded Edition
Theory, Policy, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
When it was first published in 2006, Community Mental Health in Canada was hailed as a much-needed critical overview of the provision of public mental health services in Canada. Comprehensive in scope, its coverage included:
the prevalence and impact of mental illness in Canada
the complementary...
Fostering Social Work Gerontology Competence
A Collection of Papers from the First National Gerontological Social Work Conference
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Inspire the next generation of gerontological social workers
The growing number of people over the age of 65 in the United States has increased the demand for social workers who are trained to work with the elderly—a demand that’s in danger of not being met. Fostering Social Work Gerontology...
European Union Public Health Policy
Regional and global trends
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
Ranging from influence over world trade laws affecting health to population health issues such as obesity to the use of comparative data to affect policy, the EU’s public health policies are increasingly important, visible, expensive and effective. They also provide an invaluable case study for...