Health Care Delivery category: 1556 books
Healthcare at a Turning Point
A Roadmap for Change
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
If the furious debate around the state of healthcare in the US has led to any consensus, it’s that the system should be delivering better quality for less cost than it does. The truth is that our healthcare system is a sprawling mix of competing interests in which those of the patient are valued...
Society and Health
An Introduction to Social Science for Health Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2005
A concise introduction to the central issues concerning health and health care in contemporary society, Society and Health is written for all health professionals undergoing basic training. It explains social science concepts and theories and shows their relevance to work in health settings.
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Care Work in Europe
Current Understandings and Future Directions
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2007
Care Work in Europe provides a cross-national and cross-sectoral study of care work in Europe today, covering policy, provision and practice, as well as exploring how care work is conceptualized and understood. Drawing on a study which looks at care work across the life course in a number of European...
Introduction to the Anatomy and Physiology of Children
A Guide for Students of Nursing, Child Care and Health
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2008
Fully updated, this new edition provides an introduction to normal, healthy physical development for all professionals who specialise in working with children. The author, an experienced nurse teacher, guides the reader through the key changes in body systems and functions from embryo to birth through...
Mental Health Ethics
The Human Context
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2010
All human behaviour is, ultimately, a moral undertaking, in which each situation must be considered on its own merits. As a result ethical conduct is complex. Despite the proliferation of Codes of Conduct and other forms of professional guidance, there are no easy answers to most human problems. Mental...
Childhood and After
Some Essays and Clinical Studies
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
This volume… consists partly of a selection of technical psycho-analytical studies, partly of papers which either touch upon the bearing of psycho-analysis on the upbringing and education of young children, or link their social and emotional life with their intellectual and practical needs. Most...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Promoting Health in Aotearoa New Zealand is the first comprehensive text on health promotion in New Zealand. Primarily written for students, practitioners and policy makers in the health sector, it will be of interest also to those promoting health in Maori, Pacific Island and other NGOs and to those...
by Dr Gwilym Wyn Roberts, Dr Andrew Machon
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2015
Written by a leading healthcare academic and an accredited international business coach, this book takes a new approach to one of the most crucial issues in healthcare how to care for patients appreciatively, responsively and compassionately. In the light of the findings of the Francis Report (2013),...
The Administration of Health Systems
Comparative Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
In the late 1960s, American society entered a period of rapidly accelerating social change. Certainty that U.S. vast scientific and technical capability would be able to find solutions to all problems began to turn to concern, as organizational efforts were unable to keep pace with new developments...
Nurse-Led Clinics
Practical Issues
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
In recent years there has been a huge growth in nurse-led clinics within hospital outpatient departments, general practitioner surgeries and health centres. The government has endorsed the use of such clinics as a way for the public to access specialist health care and treatment more quickly and also...
by Katherine Hirschfeld
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Challenging many of the assumptions scholars have made about the Cuban Revolution's impact on healthcare, this volume recounts one anthropologist's quest to discover the truth behind the complicated relationship between Cuba's revolution, politics, and healthcare system. Katherine Hirschfeld became...
New and Expanded Neuropsychosocial Concepts Complementary to Llorens' Developmental Theory
Achieving Growth and Development through Occupation for Neonatal Infants and their Families
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
This book analyzes and suggests an expansion of Llorens’ developmental theory of occupational therapy, applying these concepts in a final schematic model for use by occupational therapists, occupational scientists, and others involved in occupational tasks, relationships, and activities. The book...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
What is the relationship between politics and health policy in the UK? How are the interests of the medical profession, civil society and the state weighed and balanced in the making of health policy? Health Policy and Politics offers a sophisticated critical analysis of policy-making in the National...
Evidence and Skills for Normal Labour and Birth
A Guide for Midwives
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2011
Evidence-based care is a well established principle in contemporary healthcare and a worldwide health care movement. However, despite the emphasis on promoting evidence-based or effective care without the unnecessary use of technologies and drugs, intervention rates in childbirth continue to rise...