Health Care Delivery category: 1556 books
by Lenard W Kaye, Sandra Butler
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Learn the skills you need to work with geriatric populations in rural areas!
Gerontological Social Work in Rural Towns and Communities provides a range of intervention and community skills aimed precisely at the needs of rural elders. This book fills a gap in the literature by focusing on the...
by Nigel Malin
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
Services for People with Learning Disabilities provides a broad review of available services for people with learning disabilities. It describes the present network of services and explains the NHS and Community Care Act (1990) in terminoloy accessible to health care professionals and others engaged...
Baragwanath Hospital, Soweto
A history of medical care 1941–1990
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Baragwanath Hospital, Soweto illustrates how this rapidly growing, underfunded but surprisingly effective institution found the niche that allowed it to exist, to provide medical care to a massive patient body and at times even to flourish in the apartheid state. The book offers new ways of exploring...
A New Look at Community-Based Respite Programs
Utilization, Satisfaction, and Development
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Explore new frontiers in Alzheimer's support systems!
When Congress authorized the Alzheimer's Disease Demonstration Grants to States program in 1990, no one knew how effective the program would prove to be. A New Look at Community-Based Respite Programs provides you with results of the first...
Prevention vs. Treatment
What's the Right Balance?
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2011
Everyone knows the old adage, "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure," but we seem not to live by it. In the Western world's health care it is commonly observed that prevention is underfunded while treatment attracts greater overall priority. This book explores this observation by examining...
Physicians and Hospitals
The Great Partnership at the Crossroads
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Physicians and Hospitals addresses an issue of concern and one of fundamental importance to the American health care system. While the ranks of physicians continue to swell and hospitals continue to expand their facilities, federal, state, and local governments remain determined to control health...
Talking to Your Doctor
A Patient's Guide to Communication in the Exam Room and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
The last time you went to your doctor, you might have emerged feeling dissatisfied and disoriented. Nothing was clear after you left the office, and you don’t know whether it’s your fault or the doctor’s. While patients need to take control of the visit and set their agenda, the latest research...
by Alison Pooler
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
The beginners guide to Evidence-based Practice for Nursing, Health and Social Care.
An Introduction to Evidence-based Practice in Nursing & Health aims to help students, educators, mentors and professionals to make sense of knowledge derived from research and how to use it as a basis...
Effective Staff Training in Social Care
From Theory to Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2005
Effective Staff Training in Social Care provides a theoretical framework for training and professional development, focusing on group learning in a social care context. It tackles the tensions and dilemmas of those engaged in training amidst a climate of change and a mixed economy of welfare and examines...
Residential Child Care Staff Selection
Choose with Care
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Here's vital information on making the right recruitment choices, getting the best staff, and avoiding potential abusers!
More than a set of procedures, good staff selection practice is about a set of principles that embody particular attitudes to the task. If we achieve these basic principles,...
by Audrey S. Weiner, Judah L Ronch
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2003
Change in the culture of long-term care and the care of our elders is urgently needed! This insightful book lights the way.
This book will inform you about the theoretical and practical applications of culture change within the institutional long-term care setting. It examines existing models of positive cultures, emphasizing
Research and Evaluation in Community, Health and Social Care Settings
Experiences from Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
How can we develop a comprehensive understanding of the research process in community, health and social care settings?
Covering all stages of the research process, from funding to dissemination, this book considers the views of funders, researchers, communities and policy makers. Drawing on...
Contemporary Mental Health
Theory, Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
The authors explore theoretical developments and policy and practice initiatives in the complex and changing area of mental health services. They examine the tensions, dilemmas and opportunities now operating, including those relating to gender and ethnicity and places the involvement of users/survivors...
Evaluating the "Keep Your Health Plan Fix"
Implications for the Affordable Care Act Compared to Legislative Alternatives
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
This report describes a comparative analysis of three proposals to allow Americans to keep their existing health plans under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The proposals are evaluated based on their potential impact on the ACA-compliant market and the cost and coverage of health insurance. The possibility...