Public Health category: 1911 books
Financial Management of Health Care Organizations
An Introduction to Fundamental Tools, Concepts and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
This new Fourth Edition of Financial Management of Health Care Organizations, offers an introduction to the most-used tools and techniques of health care financial management, including health care accounting and financial statements; managing cash, billings and collections; making major capital investments;...
A Healthcare Solution
A Patient-Centered, Resource Management Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
The evidence is undeniable. By any measure, the US spends more on healthcare than any other country in the world, yet its health outcomes as measure by longevity are in the bottom half among developed countries, and its health-related quality of life has remained constant or declined since 1998. In...
One World Health
An Overview of Global Health
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
This brand new textbook presents a new approach to the teaching and understanding of global health. It describes the shared opportunities but also the problems that we all face, wherever we live, and the particular needs of the poorest people in every society. Covering subjects from epidemics and...
Health Communication for Health Care Professionals
An Applied Approach
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2016
According to the Joint Commission, over 75% of all serious medical errors in this country result from miscommunication. Based on these adverse realities and the author's philosophy that communication is a clinical skill integral to effective health care delivery, this comprehensive text addresses...
by Jennifer Fang, Kelley Lee, Professor and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012
The WHO’s history spans a period of over six decades, with particular emphasis on the past twenty years. This has been a particularly busy period in WHO’s development, given the transition from international to global health cooperation, and thus the need to adapt to important changes in its operating...
Error Reduction in Health Care
A Systems Approach to Improving Patient Safety
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2011
Error Reduction in Health Care
Completely revised and updated, this second edition of Error Reduction in Health Care offers a step-by-step guide for implementing the recommendations of the Institute of Medicine to reduce the frequency of errors in health care services and to mitigate the impact...
Boundaryless Hospital
Rethink and Redefine Health Care Management
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
This book discusses current health care challenges and new strategies for innovative solutions in this area from an interdisciplinary perspective of health care management, business economics, and medicine. It presents the idea of a “boundaryless hospital”, a conceptual model of a patient-centric,...
Heavy
The Obesity Crisis in Cultural Context
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
The current "obesity epidemic" has been at the top of the national and, increasingly, global public agenda for the last decade, the subject of extensive and intensive concern, scrutiny, and corrective efforts from various quarters. In the United States, much of this attention is predicated...
No Accident
Eliminating Injury and Death on Canadian Roads
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Chapter 3
Neil Arason
Children, pedestrians, cyclists and those who use public transport have been forgotten in the design of our cities. This chapter makes a case to re-work urban order and shift it away from old style thinking and toward the road users of the new century.
by Tim Benson
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
The aims and scope of the second edition are unchanged from the first edition. The major market is in health informatics education. The three part format, which covers principles of health interoperability, HL7 and interchange formats, and SNOMED CT and clinical terminology, works well. In the US,...
by Tracey D. Matthews, Kimberly T. Kostelis
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
Designing and Conducting Research in Health and Human Performance shows students how to become effective producers and consumers of health and human performance research. The book provides comprehensive coverage of both quantitative and qualitative research methods and includes step-by-step guidance...
Confessions of a Methadone Nurse
The Ugly Truth of Methadone
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2013
Anonymous Nurse Nightingale is a licensed nurse currently working in methadone treatment center in the Unites States. She has written down, in this short piece, a review of the experiences and observations she has witnessed handing out methadone to hundreds of patients. This short read is more than that...
Promoting Worker Health
A New Approach to Employee Benefits in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018
In this extended essay, Nortin M. Hadler and Stephen P. Carter introduce a new approach to reforming the American health-care system--a plan they call the Universal Workers' Compensation Model (UWCM). Drawing on Hadler's expertise as a physician and Carter's as an attorney, the two have conceived...
Inequality and African-American health
How racial disparities create sickness
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2016
This book shows how living in a highly racialized society affects health through multiple social contexts, including neighborhoods, personal and family relationships, and the medical system. Black-white disparities in health, illness, and mortality have been widely documented, but most research has...