Allied Health Services category: 2328 books
by Gareth Hagger-Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
Whilst the ‘health sciences’ are a broad and diverse area, and includes public health, primary care, health psychology, psychiatry and epidemiology, the research methods and data analysis skills required to analyse them are very similar. Moreover, the ability to appraise and conduct research is...
by Ruth B. Purtilo, PhD, FAPTA
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2014
Covering strategies for effective communication, Health Professional and Patient Interaction, 8th Edition provides the tools to help you establish positive patient relationships built on respect. Practical examples and scenarios show how to apply respect and professionalism to patients of various...
Zero desease
The birth of the collaborative model (Commons) of health. The birth of Health Smart Grid Digital.
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
The book stems from the desire of the authors to disseminate tools and transformation of models in healthcare, inspired by Jeremy Rifkin’s theory `Zero Marginal Cost`.
The ambitious attempt to make an accessible and usable participative model of health, illness and treatment, meets the need of...
by Stephen Polgar, BSc(Hons), MSc
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
Like the previous versions, the fifth edition of An Introduction to Research in the Health Sciences has two overall aims. 1) To introduce the fundamental principles of research methodology and explain how these principles are applied for conducting research in the health sciences. 2) To demonstrate...
Health and Social Organization
Towards a Health Policy for the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
There is widespread recognition that the most powerful determinants of health today are to be found in social, economic and cultural circumstances. These include: ecnomic growth, income distribution, consumption, work oganisation, unemployment and job insecurity, social and family structure, education...
Alcohol, Tobacco and Obesity
Morality, mortality and the new public health
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
Although drinking, smoking and obesity have attracted social and moral condemnation to varying degrees for more than two hundred years, over the past few decades they have come under intense attack from the field of public health as an 'unholy trinity' of lifestyle behaviours with apparently devastating...
Interprofessional Evidence-Based Practice
A Workbook for Health Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Interprofessional Evidence-Based Practice: A Workbook for Health Professionals promotes active, team learning of interprofessional evidence-based practice (EBP). This text is distinctive in that it departs from the tradition of EBP occurring from a single disciplinary perspective. Interprofessional...
by Jules C Weiss
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
The “Feeling Great!” Wellness Program is an inspirational book describing a successful health care program for older adults. Created for people who desire a richer life, “Feeling Great!” is a program of everyday miracles--the regaining of body strength and movement and the expanding of physical...
Reducing Inequalities in Health
A European Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Socio-economic inequalities in health are present to a greater or lesser extent in all European countries and the available data suggests that the health gap is increasing. Many studies have been conducted to explain inequalities in health and from them much has been learnt about the different contributory...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Social work educators can play an important part in ensuring that the promotion of health and well-being is firmly on the social work agenda for service users, as well as for students and educators. Nevertheless, this has not been a priority within social work education and presents a challenge which...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
Digital Advances in Medicine, E-Health, and Communication Technologies explores the developments and trends in medical informatics and its approaches toward telemedicine and e-health applications. This comprehensive collection of research brings together academia and industry by highlighting recent...
Accelerating Medical Evidence Generation and Use
Summary of a Meeting Series
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
This National Academy of Medicine (NAM) Special Publication summarizes a series of meetings the NAM hosted in 2016, which was sponsored by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, with support from NAM’s Executive Leadership Network. The series underscored the importance of partnerships...
Relationship Power in Health Care
Science of Behavior Change, Decision Making, and Clinician Self-Care
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
The personal interface between clinician and patient is a misunderstood subject which can impact all areas of health care. Without adequate training in relationship science clinicians inadvertently contribute to empathic failure, poor medical decision process, difficulty changing health-related behavior,...
Faith, Medicine, and Science
A Festschrift in Honor of Dr. David B. Larson
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
A perfect introduction to the connection between religious faith and physical and mental health!
Faith, Medicine, and Science: A Festschrift in Honor of Dr. David B. Larson is a comprehensive collection of groundbreaking work from one of the principal figures in the establishment, expansion,...