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Healthcare Management and Economics

Perspectives on Public and Private Administration

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Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013

The long-standing debate on public vs. private healthcare systems has forced an examination of these organizations, in particular whether these approaches play corresponding or conflicting roles in service to global citizens. Healthcare Management and Economics: Perspectives on Public and Private Administration...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2005

After the landslide election of a new Labour government in May 1997, what are the key social policy issues and problems which the new government needs to address? Social Issues and Party Politics looks at the manifestos of the main parties and the way social issues figured in the 1997 election campaign...
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by Bonita Veysey, Colleen Clark
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

Learn from the experiences of these program sites to develop better services for women with co-occurring disorders and histories of violence This book explores the efforts of the Women, Co-Occurring Disorders and Violence Study to address the significant lack of appropriate services for women...
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by Sheldon Cohen M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2013

The healthcare Genie is out of the bottle. Obamacare, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will impact every one of you. These changes will come slowly and inexorably, but regardless of who is in power, you need to be prepared. It will be more important than ever to take control of your health....
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Prescription for a Healthy Nation

A New Approach to Improving Our Lives by Fixing Our Everyday World

by Deb Cohen, Tom Farley, M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2005

America spends more than twice as much for health care as any other nation. So why are Americans among the sickest people in the industrialized world? Public health experts Tom Farley and Deborah A. Cohen show that the answer does not lie in our medical care system but rather in the world around...
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All In

Using Healthcare Collaboratives to Save Lives and Improve Care

by Donald M Berwick
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015

In the face of ever-accelerating rates of health reform, the ability to quickly learn and adapt is an increasingly essential survival skill. Collaborative learning, as this book illustrates, is a powerful method to rapidly spread knowledge. Yet knowledge comes in two flavors – “knowledge that”...
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Patient Engagement

Catalyzing Improvement and Innovation in Healthcare

by G. Ross Baker, Alain Biron, Jim Conway
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016

CFHI's first book on patient engagement. Case studies from healthcare delivery organizations in three countries, catalyzing improvement and innovation in healthcare illustrates patient engagement strategies and their impacts.
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by Lester Parrott
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2003

Social Work and Social Care has been revised and updated to take into account the profound changes that have occurred in social work over the past two years, in particular the extensive legislative changes to childrens and community care services. A new chapter examines the relevance of social exclusion...
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Our Health Plan

Community Governed Healthcare That Works

by Jim Rickards, MD, MB
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017

Just when you thought there was no cure for an ailing healthcare system, Our Health Plan will change your mind entirely. Chronicling the journey of a single community through the labyrinth of local healthcare in its efforts to effect change, proponents focus on the most economically disadvantaged and...
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A Social History of Maternity and Childbirth

Key Themes in Maternity Care

by Tania McIntosh
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013

People are fascinated by stories of childbirth, and the sources to document maternity in Britain in the twentieth century are rich and varied. This book puts the history of maternity in England into its wider social context, highlighting areas of change and continuity, and charting the development...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014

Learn how to help children cope with domestic violence! The Effects of Intimate Partner Violence on Children examines the short- and long-term developmental issues facing children exposed to violence in their own homes. The book addresses the growing concern for children at risk of suffering...
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by Melanie Adair, Joe B. Adair
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012

Helps seniors and their caregivers successfully navigate the challenges of aging, make informed decisions, and focus on individualized goals of care to promote resiliency and maximum functional potential. A team of physicians, nurses, social workers, psychologists, therapists, chaplains, business and...
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by David Oliver, Sally Tureman
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013

In an attempt to challenge the prevailing attitudes and images of nursing homes in America, the authors have written a touching book about the people and the relationships that are a part of nursing home care. Their extensive study of and experience with nursing home residents and caregivers reveal...
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by Kristy Gonzalez Morganti, Sebastian Bauhoff, Janice C. Blanchard
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013

This report explores the evolving role that hospital emergency departments play in the U.S. health care system. EDs evaluate and manage complex and high-acuity patients, are the major point of entry to inpatient care, and serve as "the safety net of the safety net" for patients who cannot get care elsewhere....
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