Health Care Delivery category: 1556 books
Social Work in Ambulatory Care
New Implications for Health and Social Services
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
The contributing authors of this volume--respected authorities on health care and social work--describe the shift from hospital based care to ambulatory patient and family focused community based services. Social Work in Ambulatory Care assists readers who need to develop, plan, and implement new...
Healthy Markets?
The New Competition in Medical Care
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
When federal and state policy makers’ efforts to enact sweeping health care reform in the mid-1990s ended in stalemate, the private sector unleashed initiatives that have affected virtually every aspect of health care. With updated essays first published in issues of the Journal of Health Politics,...
by Paul Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2017
Health care is increasingly under pressure. Budget crises are making collaboration and smart thinking essential, while increasing numbers of people with multiple long-term conditions make specialist models of health care increasingly inefficient – patients too often go from one specialist to another,...
by Kirsten Asmussen
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
The Evidence-based Parenting Practitioner’s Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the knowledge necessary to effectively deliver evidence-based parenting interventions within community and health settings. Using clear examples of how this knowledge can inform frontline work with parents,...
Learning Disabilities
Practice Issues in Health Settings
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 1994
Learning Disabilities raises issues which are of crucial importance to all health care professionals and students who work with people with a learning disability. The authors, senior nurse teachers and practitioners in the field, examine these issues, and the theoretical concepts underpinning them,...
Digital Healthcare
The Essential Guide
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Digital healthcare can dramatically revolutionise the delivery of healthcare in health and social care settings. Technology enabled care greatly improves health outcomes, enhances end users’ experiences and saves money. This practical book from frontline with case studies, checklists, FAQs etc.
Digital Medicine
Health Care in the Internet Era
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Information technology has dramatically changed our lives in areas ranging from commerce and entertainment to voting. Now, policy advocates and government officials hope to bring the benefits of enhanced information technology to health care. Already, consumers can access a tremendous amount of medical...
Vital Directions for Health & Health Care
An Initiative of the National Academy of Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
What can be more vital to each of us than our health? Yet, despite unprecedented health care spending, the U.S. health system is substantially underperforming, especially with respect to what should be possible, given current knowledge. Although the United States is currently devoting 18% of its Gross...
A Plan for a Single-Payer Health Care System
The Best Health Care in the World
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2008
Approximately fifty million people in the United States have no health insurance. Dr. Charles Chen, an obstetrician and gynecologist for almost thirty years, agrees with many people in this country that health insurance should cover every citizen, not just those who can afford to pay the rates.
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Distracted
How Regulations Are Destroying the Practice of Medicine and Preventing True Health-Care Reform
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
After the many bureaucratic changes that followed the passing of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) and other legislation, patient care has become secondary to satisfying the whims of government and giant insurance company administrators, who are in total control. The result is a web of complicated...
The Public-private Health Care State
Essays on the History of American Health Care Policy
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
The distinctive mixing and continuous remixing of public and private roles is a defining feature of health care in the United States. The Public-Private Health Care State explores the interweaving of public and private enterprise in health care in the United States as a basis for thinking about health...
Accountability in Social Services
The Culture of the Paper Program
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
Accountability in Social Services examines how - and why - social and human services programs can function even though they are monitored by written communication instead of face-to-face interaction. Author Jill Florence Lackey draws on her experience as a consultant for more than 50 social programs...
Managing the Myths of Health Care
Bridging the Separations between Care, Cure, Control, and Community
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
**“Health care is not failing but succeeding, expensively, and we don't want to pay for it. So the administrations, public and private alike, intervene to cut costs, and herein lies the failure.”
In this sure-to-be-controversial book, leading management thinker Henry Mintzberg turns his...
Redesigning Health Care for Children with Disabilities
Strengthening Inclusion, Contribution, and Health
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
One in five families has a child with special health care needs-but medical and human service professionals often don't get the training they need to provide long-term, integrated care for these children. Filling a critical gap in professional education, this groundbreaking textbook and training tool...