Health Care Delivery category: 1556 books
by Baggott, Rob
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
In recent years the pace of reform in health policy and the NHS has been relentless. But how are policies formed and implemented? This fully updated edition of a bestselling book explores the processes and institutions that make health policy, examining what constitutes health policy, where power...
Intimate Violence
Contemporary Treatment Innovations
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Take an updated approach to treating partner violence!
Intimate Violence: Contemporary Treatment Innovations examines new and innovative approaches to treating domestic violence, de-emphasizing the unilateral, psychoeducational approach in favor of treatment modalities that focus on the offenders'...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
Advancements in technology regularly influence the healthcare field and developing aspects on medical patient safety. Implementing electronic health records, decision support systems, and computerized physician order entry systems reduces risk in the potential for e-health to make errors leading to adverse...
Humanising Healthcare
Patterns of Hope for a System Under Strain
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
A practical strategy for transforming the UK and other healthcare systems... offering an affordable, sustainable and compassionate alternative to the present mess.
Healthcare systems across the developed world are in trouble. Changing patterns of disease, an ageing population and advances...
by David Pearson, Sandra Nicholson
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
How to Succeed on Primary Care and Community Placements offers practical advice on how to get the most from your time on community visits, within patient consultations, and with the practice team. It highlights the unique opportunities and challenges you will face on placement, from using clinical...
Pregnancy Series I
All You Need to Know About Antenatal Care
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
The outmost goal of managing a pregnancy is to prevent complications and enhance safe labour, childbirth, and neonatal period. This goal is achieved in this book. The first chapter on prepregnancy care deals with what you have to do before trying for a baby; this was followed with human anatomy, early...
The Quality Playbook
A Step-by-Step Guide for Healthcare Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
The Quality Playbook and the companion Workbook (which you can purchase separately on the publisher's website www.SecondRiverHealthcare.com) are about creating great clinical outcomes and safer care for patients, families, and communities; creating healthcare organizations that rank at the top...
by Jean Conway
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
In this book, the author provides an analysis which spans the whole field from bricks and mortar to the impact of housing policy on health, care, crime, education and the economy as a whole. Practical insight into housing from a number of perspectives can be gained: economic, financial and political;...
Effective Writing for Health Professionals
A Practical Guide to Getting Published
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Health professionals are increasingly expected to conduct and publish their research, apply for grants, write newsletters, liaise with the media, present conference papers and contribute articles to professional journals.
Writing well is an essential professional skill and writing to publish...
Private Violence and Public Policy
The needs of battered women and the response of the public services
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
First published in 1985, this is the first published study of violence in the family to be aimed directly at people whose professions bring them into contact with domestic abuse victims, as well as those training for those professions. It documents the problems faced by women with violent husbands...
Assisted Living
Sobering Realities
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Learn how to make elder housing more homelike!
Taking an incisive look at assisted living for the elderly, Assisted Living: Sobering Realities is an important book for the professionals who work with aging Americans and their families. This vital book provides a multidisciplinary overview of...
by Lemiere Christophe; Herbst Christopher; Jahanshahi Negda; Smith Ellen; Souca Agnest
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2010
The human resources crisis in the health sector has been gathering attention on the global stage. To date however most of this attention has focused on shortages of health human resources (HRH) at the national level. At least as important are problems at the sub-national level. Massive geographic and...
Under the Medical Gaze
Facts and Fictions of Chronic Pain
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2001
This compelling account of the author's experience with a chronic pain disorder and subsequent interaction with the American health care system goes to the heart of the workings of power and culture in the biomedical domain. It is a medical whodunit full of mysterious misdiagnosis, subtle power plays,...
The Cutting Edge of Compassion
How Physicians, Health Professionals, and Patients Can Build Healing Relationships Based on Trust
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Our current healthcare system is sick, and the cure is simple: We need to bring compassion back to healthcare. In The Cutting Edge of Compassion, board-certified orthopedic surgeon Dr. Barry Rose reflects on how physicians and patients can create the best healing outcomes by appreciating personality...