Health Care Delivery category: 1556 books
MMR and Autism
What Parents Need to Know
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
The MMR controversy has been characterized by two one-sided discourses. In the medical world, the weight of opinion is overwhelmingly in favour of MMR. In the public world, the anti-MMR campaign has a much greater influence, centred on the fears of parents that the triple vaccine may cause autism...
Munchausen by Proxy
Identification, Intervention, and Case Management
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
This step-by-step guide will help you identify and manage cases of this unique form of child maltreatment!
Munchausen by proxy (MBP) is a dangerous kind of maltreatment in which a caretaker deliberately and repeatedly exaggerates, fabricates, and/or induces a health problem or problems in someone...
Welfare Medicine in America
A Case Study of Medicaid
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
The present study was undertaken for three reasons: Medicaid is a vital program-in the early 1970s it provided care for over one tenth of the American population. It is a huge program-in the same period it consumed over nine billion dollars of public funds. And Medicaid is, in many ways, the most...
The Good Doctor
What Patients Want
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Drawing upon real accounts of negligence, incompetence, and distrust, this book seeks to identify the key competencies of a good doctor, the ways in which medical care fails, and the roadblocks to ensuring that every licensed doctor is capable. Arguing that it is possible to improve patient care—by...
The NHS Experience
The 'Snakes and Ladders' Guide for Patients and Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
The NHS Experience is an accessible and engaging guide for all those journeying through the NHS, whether as patients, carers or professionals. It draws on the experience of staff and families at Great Ormond Street Hospital to provide good practice guidance for both users and providers of health care.
Based...
Dismantling the NHS?
Evaluating the impact of health reforms
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
This book provides an in-depth analysis of the NHS reforms ushered in by UK Coalition Government under the 2012 Health and Social Care Act, arguably the most extensive reforms ever introduced in the NHS. Contributions from leading researchers from the UK, the US and New Zealand examine the reforms...
Choice Matters
How Healthcare Consumers Make Decisions (and Why Clinicians and Managers Should Care)
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
The direct-to-consumer business model has transformed how people seek out goods and services from music to mortgages. So what happens now that the revolution has come for healthcare? While consumers have begun to insist on healthcare that is as convenient and personalized as nearly every other good...
Intellectual Disability and Being Human
A Care Ethics Model
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
Intellectual disability is often overlooked within mainstream disability studies, and theories developed about disability and physical impairment may not always be appropriate when thinking about intellectual (or learning) disability.
This pioneering book, in considering intellectually disabled...
Healing After Dark
Pioneering Compassionate Medicine at the Boston Evening Clinic
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2011
In 1927 in the field of health care an unusual event occurred. Morris Aaron Cohen, M.D. founded the Boston Evening Clinic, an unique and never before conceived facility for the treatment of the indigent and low-wage earners who could not afford to lose a day’s pay. It was an endeavor that achieved...
Prescribing Mental Health Medication
The Practitioner's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
Prescribing Mental Health Medication is a text for practitioners who treat mental disorders with medication. It explains the entire process of medication assessment, management and follow up for general medical practitioners, mental health practitioners, students, residents, prescribing nurses and...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
Obstetrics and Gynecology in Low-Resource Settings provides practical guidelines for ensuring quality care to women in locations where facilities are inadequate, equipment and medications are in short supply, and medical staff are few. This reference will be an essential companion to health care providers throughout the world.
The Trauma of Terrorism
Sharing Knowledge and Shared Care, An International Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2005
Learn intervention strategies to counter the effects of terrorism
In the twenty-first century, terrorism has become an international scourge whose effect devastates individuals, weakens societies, and cripples nations. The Trauma of Terrorism: Sharing Knowledge and Shared Care, An International Handbook and Shared Care provides a compreh
Somebody's Knocking at Your Door
AIDS and the African-American Church
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Examining the black church’s response to AIDS, Somebody’s Knocking at Your Door: AIDS and the African-American Church analyzes sexual ethics and homophobia in the black church to provide pastors, social workers, and health professionals with intervention strategies for parishioners or members...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
Environmental awareness and sustainability are vitally important concepts in the twenty first century and, as a low environmental impact healthcare profession, midwifery has the potential to stand as a model of excellence.
This innovative volume promotes a sustainable approach to midwifery...