Health Care Delivery category: 1556 books
by Judith Dwyer, Pauline Stanton, Valerie Thiessen
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
In the health and community service industries, projects are increasingly used for the development of new services, and to achieve change in existing services, work practices and delivery models.
Until now, project workers in these fields have had to rely on books designed for architects, builders...
The Affordable Care Act and Integrated Behavioural Health Care
Meeting the Health and Behavioral Health Needs of a Diverse Society
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
This book provides a scholarly discussion of arguably the most important advance in U.S. public health services since Medicare 50 years ago - how the Federal program known as the Patient Care and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA) or "Obamacare" became law. It addresses ACA in terms of its...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2002
Quality, Evidence and Effectiveness is unique in bringing together, for the first time, the critical concepts of quality assurance and effectiveness in relation to health promotion and research.
Contributions from leading health promotion specialists around the world discuss how best to push forward...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
This volume looks at the key links between social determinants, health disparities and health and health care. There is a particular focus on macro-level systems and micro-level issues, including the examination of issues for patients, carers and providers of care. Coverage includes papers on geographical...
The Safety-Net Health Care System
Health Care at the Margins
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2011
"This is the only book currently available that fully addresses all aspects of the safety net for healthcare." Score: 96, 4 Stars--Doody's Medical Reviews
"[T]his complex treatment of a complex topic represents a valuable contribution to the health services literature."--INQUIRY
"The...
by Vincent Morelli, MD, Roger Zoorob
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
This issue of Primary Care: Clinics in Office Practice, guest edited by Drs. Vincent Morelli, Roger Zoorob, and Joel J. Heidelbaugh, is devoted to Primary Care of the Medically Underserved. This outstanding issue includes the following articles: Primary Care Issues in Rural Populations; Primary Care...
Changing Welfare Services
Case Studies of Local Welfare Reform Programs
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Contains field-tested techniques to enhance the effectiveness of your local social services!
Changing Welfare Services: Case Studies of Local Welfare Reform Programs describes promising programs and practices that have emerged in the United States since the enactment of the Personal Responsibility...
Annual Review of Health Care Management
Revisiting the Evolution of Health Systems Organization
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2013
Dramatic changes to the structure of health systems since the 1980s has seen the development of large, integrated health organizations designed to provide scale and scope advantages, improve the quality of care and health outcomes, and provide greater bargaining power relative to payers and large...
Patient Safety
Perspectives on Evidence, Information and Knowledge Transfer
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Patient Safety: Perspectives on Evidence, Information and Knowledge Transfer provides background on the patient safety movement, systems safety, human error and other key philosophies that support change and innovation in the reduction of medical error. The book draws from multidisciplinary areas...
Caring and Well-being
A Lifeworld Approach
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Something is missing in contemporary health and social care. Health and illness is often measured in policy documents in economic terms, and clinical outcomes are enmeshed in statistical data, with the patient’s experience left to one side. This stimulating book is concerned with how to humanise...
Critical To Care
The Invisible Women in Health Services
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2008
Who counts as a health care worker? The question of where we draw the line between health care workers and non-health care workers is not merely a matter of academic nicety or a debate without consequences for care. It is a central issue for policy development because the definition often results...
Health Care in Rural China
Lessons from HeBei Province
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
This work examines health, defined in its broadest meaning, in rural China today. It explores the current social distribution of health status, health behaviour and health care and the processes by which these came about. By exploring universal questions in the social, historical and political context...
Key Themes in Health and Social Care
A Companion to Learning
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
Key Themes in Health and Social Care is a learning resource for students in health and social care. It provides an overview of foundational issues and core themes in the field and introduces key areas of debate, moving from an introductory level to in-depth discussion as the book progresses. Divided...
by Tom O'Connor
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2013
Integrated Care in Ireland in an International Context aims to bring the debate on the future of integrated care in Ireland to a wider audience than heretofore. It is intended to guide the thinking of policy-makers and the whole panoply of different health and social care professions that are stakeholders...