Health Care Delivery category: 1556 books
The Future of Healthcare
Humans and Machines Partnering for Better Outcomes
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2018
We live in a world where data can help us make more informed decisions about how to navigate traffic, who to date, what to buy, who to network with and how to better manage our finances.
But when it comes to our personal health and wellness, we have no roadmap. We need something to show us...
21st Century Sexualities
Contemporary Issues in Health, Education, and Rights
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2007
Exploring sexuality in the twenty-first century, this unique book collects together more than fifty timely and accessible contributions to create a wide-ranging and compelling picture of contemporary American sexuality.
Incorporating the latest cutting-edge controversies, theory and methodological...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Suicide remains one of the most pressing public health concerns across the world. Expensive in terms of the human cost and associated suffering, the economic costs, the social costs and the spiritual costs, it affects millions of people every year.
This important reference work collects together...
by Noreen Ryan, Tim McDougall
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2009
ADHD is one of the most commonly diagnosed behavioural disorders in children and young people. It is a complex and contested condition, with potential causes and treatments in biological, psychological and social domains. This is the first comprehensive text for nurses and other health professionals...
HIV in South Africa
Talking about the big thing
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2007
Winner of the Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize 2008
Of approximately 37 million HIV positive people in the world, 24.7 million live in sub-Saharan Africa and about 5..5 million in South Africa. Despite its relatively powerful economy and infrastructure, South Africa has been dramatically...
Contesting Psychiatry
Social Movements in Mental Health
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2006
Resistance and social movements in mental health have been important in shaping current practice in both mental health and psychiatry. Contesting Psychiatry, focusing largely on the UK, examines the history of resistance to psychiatry between 1950 and 2000. Building on the author’s extensive research,...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
Technology is changing the practice of healthcare by the ways medical information is stored, shared, and accessed. With mobile innovations, new strategies are unfolding to further advance processes and procedures in medical settings. Next-Generation Mobile and Pervasive Healthcare Solutions is an advanced...
Young People and Sexual Exploitation
'It's Not Hidden, You Just Aren't Looking'
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Work with sexually exploited young people can be rewarding yet difficult. They can be hard to access, often presenting challenging behaviour. Sometimes it is painful to hear their life stories, whether these include abuse through the Internet or exploitation experienced through having been trafficked...
The Queen of Fats
Why Omega-3s Were Removed from the Western Diet and What We Can Do to Replace Them
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2006
A nutritional whodunit that takes readers from Greenland to Africa to Israel, The Queen of Fats gives a fascinating account of how we have become deficient in a nutrient that is essential for good health: the fatty acids known as omega-3s. Writing with intelligence and passion, Susan Allport tells...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2002
Social Policy, the Media and Misrepresentation examines aspects of news media reporting of social policy and how such coverage can influence processes of policy-making and implementation. It offers an appraisal of the complex inter-relationships between news media, news sources, the content of media...
by Robin Stott, June Crown
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
In this Briefing, Robin Stott proposes solutions to the key problems that beset our present health system. He argues that if we are to develop a true public health service rather than a 'disease service', we must make radical changes to the decision-making processes.
Assisted Reproductive Technologies in the Global South and North
Issues, Challenges and the Future
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Assisted Reproductive Technologies in the Global South and North critically analyses the political and social frameworks of Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART), and its impact in different countries. In the context of a worldwide social pressure to conceive – particularly for women – this collection...
Adolescent Substance Abuse
New Frontiers in Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Stay up-to-date in the continuing fight to assess and treat adolescent drug and alcohol abuse
Adolescent Substance Abuse: New Frontiers in Assessment presents up-to-date research on the assessment, intervention, and treatment of alcohol and drug use behaviors in adolescents, using screening...
by Sydney Chellen
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.