Health Care Delivery category: 1556 books
Occupational Health Services
A Practical Approach
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Workers and their families, employers, and society as a whole benefit when providers deliver the best quality of care to injured workers and when they know how to provide effective services for both prevention and fitness for duty and understand why, instead of just following regulations.
Designed...
Nursing Knowledge Development and Clinical Practice
Opportunities and Directions
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2006
How does nursing knowledge develop and how do we incorporate this knowledge into the practice of nursing?
Is it possible for nursing theory to address the needs of clinical practice?
These key questions in the field of nursing are explored in this groundbreaking work.
Based on...
Reinvent the Heal
A Philosophy for the Reform of Medical Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2012
Americas health care delivery system is in disarray. Politicians on both sides of the aisle believe that they have the answer. But, fixing this problem does not lend itself to a political solution. Ultimately a meaningful solution is one that only physicians can offer. This is as it should be, but...
by Raymond L. Goldsteen, DrPH, Karen Goldsteen
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
The eighth edition of this best-selling text, valued for its concise and balanced introduction to the U.S. health care system, is entirely updated to reflect alterations to health care services, delivery, and financing resulting from the Affordable Care Act. The text describes how our health care...
by Vivien Martin, Julie Charlesworth, Euan Henderson
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
Managing in Health and Social Care is about developing skills to manage and improve health and social care services. The focus throughout is on the role that a manager can play in ensuring effective delivery of high-quality services. Examples from social care and health settings are used to illustrate...
by Oommen P. Mathew
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
Health care in the US is facing a crisis, but there is polarization and disagreement among policy makers and the public about how to solve this crisis. The overall outcome is ranked much lower than most developed nations and nearly 50 million people are uninsured. Health care is big business and is 17...
Greening Health Care
How Hospitals Can Heal the Planet
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2014
The relationship between hospitals and the environment is defined by a glaring contradiction: as health care facilities deliver care at any cost, their environmental footprint -- pollution, waste production, unsustainable food services -- contributes to harming community health. Greening Health Care...
Community-Based Programs and Policies
Contributions to Social Policy Development in Health Care and Health Care-Related Services
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
This collection is focused on the provision of community-based programs and activities in health and related long-term care services that have contributed, or may in the future contribute, to social policy development.
Several of the articles in this collection deal with community-based health...
by Gary Rosenburg, Andrew Weissman
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Noted experts provide practical, effective strategies to meet global health challenges
International Social Health Care Policy, Program, and Studies presents a collection of papers drawn from the Ninth Doris Siegel Memorial Fund Colloquium that focuses on social work and international health...
The Doctor Crisis
How Physicians Can, and Must, Lead the Way to Better Health Care
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Calming fears, alleviating suffering, enhancing and saving lives-this is what motivates doctors virtually every single day. When the structure and culture in which physicians work are well aligned, being a doctor is a most rewarding job. But something has gone wrong in the physician world, and it...
Introduction to Public Health, Second Edition
Promises and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
The only public health text to incorporate new Affordable Care Act legislation
Praise for the first edition:
"More than just another preliminary textbook, this comprehensive introduction for those who are new to the field of public health weaves together its values, goals, and practices...
by Laura Cushing-Kidney, Thomas H. Lee, MD
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
Two leading physicians' prescription for solving our health care problems: organizing the fragmented system that delivers care.
One of the most daunting challenges facing the new U.S. administration is health care reform. The size of the system, the number of stakeholders, and ever-rising costs...
Better Now
Six Big Ideas to Improve Health Care for All Canadians
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
Longlisted for British Columbia's National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction 2018
Dr. Danielle Martin sees the challenges in our health care system every day. As a family doctor and a hospital vice president, she observes how those deficiencies adversely affect patients. And as a health policy...
Play in Healthcare for Adults
Using play to promote health and wellbeing across the adult lifespan
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2016
PLAY. We all do it: wordplay, love play, role-play; we play cards, play sport, play the fool, and play around. And that’s just the grown-ups! It features in every aspect of our lives, whether we call it by that or another name. We all do it, but why do we do it? What does it mean to play and what,...