Health Care Delivery category: 1556 books
Find the Black Box
Prevent Needless Hospital Deaths
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2013
200,000 preventable deaths each year in the US healthcare system is like having 20
Boeing 747 airliners crashing each week. Things are bad in our nations healthcare
delivery system; people are dying needlessly in hospitals every single day. In Find
the Black Box, author Dr. Ira Williams provides a...
by Joanna Mellor, Patricia Brownell
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Provide the most effective service possible to help victims of this growing social problem
Elder Abuse and Mistreatment is a comprehensive overview of current policy issues, new practice models, and up-to-date research on elder abuse and neglect. Experts in the field provide insight into elder...
Health Economics and Healthcare Reform
Breakthroughs in Research and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
The effective delivery of healthcare services is vital to the general welfare and well-being of a country’s citizens. Financial infrastructure and policy reform can play a significant role in optimizing existing healthcare programs. Health Economics and Healthcare Reform: Breakthroughs in Research...
Studying the Organisation and Delivery of Health Services
Research Methods
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2004
First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
by Paul Iganski, David Mason
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
This title was first published in 2002: Numerous reports have identified the serious problems of under-representation of, and discrimination against, minority ethnic groups in the British NHS. It is widely argued that this both raises issues of social justice and undermines the quality of service...
Singapore's Health Care System
What 50 Years Have Achieved
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2015
How did Singapore's health care system transform itself into one of the best in the world? It not only provides easy access, but its standards of health care, not only in curative medicine but also in prevention, are exemplary. Fifty years ago, the infant mortality rate (IMR) was 26 per thousand live...
Reinventing American Health Care
How the Affordable Care Act will Improve our Terribly Complex, Blatantly Unjust, Outrageously Expensive, Grossly Inefficient, Error Prone System
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
The definitive story of American health care today-its causes, consequences, and confusions
In March 2010, the Affordable Care Act was signed into law. It was the most extensive reform of America's health care system since at least the creation of Medicare in 1965, and maybe ever. The ACA was...
Health Care in the Black Community
Empowerment, Knowledge, Skills, and Collectivism
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Empower patients with culture-specific strategies for promoting health, treating disease, and preventing violence!
Current reports show that Black Americans have the highest death rate of all racial and ethnic groups. They suffer disproportionately from a number of fatal diseases, including...
Medicine, Mobility, and Power in Global Africa
Transnational Health and Healing
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2012
Recent political, social, and economic changes in Africa have provoked radical shifts in the landscape of health and healthcare. Medicine, Mobility, and Power in Global Africa captures the multiple dynamics of a globalized world and its impact on medicine, health, and the delivery of healthcare in...
Aging and Spirituality
Spiritual Dimensions of Aging Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Explore the spiritual dimensions of aging through science, theory, and practice!
During the later years of life, many people devote energy to a process of spiritual awakening and self-discovery. Yet their family, friends, clergy, and the helping professionals who work with them are not always...
by Ruth Ann Goode-Chresos
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Through Social Work Practice in Home Health Care, social workers will discover a unique “how-to” approach to social work practice in home health care agencies. You will find a historical perspective on home health care and clinical interventions to help you improve home health care for your patients....
Breaking out of the Health Care Abyss
Transformational Tips for Agents of Change
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2017
It has become routine to see in various health care magazines, e-mails to leaders, and executive discussions on social media internet outlets, a listing of the ten top challenges that CEOs believe they are facing in the health care industry today. They often call this list the “what is keeping me...
The Impact of Autonomy and Consumerism in Healthcare
The Effects of Healthcare Consumerism and Patient Autonomy in the Digital Age on Physicians, Patients, Pharmacies, and Others in the Healthcare Industry
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2016
From the origins of consumerism to the evolution or revolution associated with consumerism in healthcare, this book is a reflective depiction of the past, present, and future of healthcare as it empowers the consumer (patient).The Impact of Autonomy and Consumerism in Healthcare navigates the changing...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2012
A updated overview of Australia’s health care system, addressing its core features, concepts and issues
Understanding the Australian Health Care System, 2nd edition is an excellent university book for undergraduate and postgraduate students alike.
Published four years after the original,...