Health Care Delivery category: 1556 books
by Anna Metteri, Teppo Kroger, Anneli Pohjola
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Overcome the challenges facing social workers today with international guidance
Social Work Approaches in Health and Mental Health from Around the Globe is a valuable stepping stone toward an understanding of the diversity of methods utilized in social work for community health services. This...
Last Years of Long Lives
The Larvik Study
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
The Last Years of Long Lives is a unique account of that period of old age which precedes death. Based on 400 complete individual histories and covering a twenty-year period, it looks at the experiences of people over eighty years old in three important areas: disability, family life and health care....
How to Get Families More Involved in the Nursing Home
Four Programs That Work and Why
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
Health care providers and social workers at nursing homes may feel they have little time to design programs for the family members of their residents, yet you will learn in How to Get Families More Involved in the Nursing Home that the benefits of such programs are immense and the time investment...
Transitions From Care to Independence:
Supporting Young People Leaving State Care to Fulfil Their Potential
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
This important book focuses on the critical role of educational achievement for the wellbeing and success of vulnerable youth in adulthood. It is concerned with three interconnected issues: the support which is or should be afforded to youth ageing out of state care to enable them to fulfil their...
Globalization and Health
Pathways, Evidence and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2009
Contemporary globalization has had tremendous impact on health equity across the globe. However, no volume has systematically analyzed the relationship between globalization and global trends in health outcomes. This book consolidates and updates the findings of a global research project undertaken...
My Operation
A Health Insider Becomes a Patient
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
Sholom Glouberman is a widely published health care expert, greatly appreciated by clients worldwide. He was sure he could handle the system when he became a patient. How wrong he was! My Operation sharply contrasts Sholom's experience as a patient with his insights as an expert and his complete medical...
The Personalized Medicine Revolution
How Diagnosing and Treating Disease Are About to Change Forever
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2015
An incisive look at how personalized medicine is revolutionizing health care for everyone.
In this persuasive and compelling book, Pieter Cullis argues that personalized medicine, also known as precision medicine, is the biggest revolution of our time. By replacing the current one-size-fits-all...
Pure Madness
How Fear Drives the Mental Health System
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2005
Public alarm for random attacks by mentally ill people is at an all-time high. The brutal killing of Jill Dando, the TV personality, and the assault on George Harrison, the former Beatle, are among the cases which have undermined confidence in the mental health service. Community care is widely seen...
Josie's Story
A Mother's Inspiring Crusade to Make Medical Care Safe
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
The “wrenching but inspiring” true story of a tragic medical mistake that turned a grieving mother into a national advocate (The Wall Street Journal).
Sorrel King was a young mother of four when her eighteen-month-old daughter was badly burned by a faulty water heater in the family’s...
Doing Harm
The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
Editor of the award-winning site Feministing.com, Maya Dusenbery brings together scientific and sociological research, interviews with doctors and researchers, and personal stories from women across the country to provide the first comprehensive, accessible look at how sexism in medicine harms women...
by David Healy
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
This searing indictment, David Healy’s most comprehensive and forceful argument against the pharmaceuticalization of medicine, tackles problems in health care that are leading to a growing number of deaths and disabilities. Healy, who was the first to draw attention to the now well-publicized suicide-inducing...
by Kiaras Gharabaghi
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
This book provides an overview of the core professional issues in the field of child and youth care practice. The author explores themes ranging from relationships and the exploration of Self to career building and field-specific approaches to management. The book is written from a pragmatic perspective,...
by Francis G Caro, Robert Morris *Deceased*
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Explore significant-but often-overlooked-aspects of aging policy!
This unique addition to the literature on aging policy will help you understand devolution-the decentralizing of service provision-and the roles that state/local government and private organizations now play in addressing the...
Social Work
Voices from the inside
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
Social Work: Voices from the Inside offers unique insight into social work from the perspectives of those ‘on the inside’, that is, service users, carers and practitioners.
Drawing on a narrative tradition, fifty-nine people from across the UK tell their stories about how and why social...