Health Care Issues category: 1336 books
Focus On Your Best Health
Smart Guide to the Health Care You Deserve
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2013
Focus On YOUR BEST HEALTH provides those making health care decisions with a roadmap for successful outcomes. Strategies contained in this book demystify medical care by translating the obscure language of medicine, guiding savvy navigation of the heath care system, and promoting appropriate advocacy...
Financing Medicine
The British Experience Since 1750
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2006
Financing Medicine brings together a collection of essays dealing with the financing of medical care in Britain since the mid-eighteenth century, with a view to addressing two major issues:
Why did the funding of the British health system develop in the way it did?
What were the ramifications...
Nova Scotia
A Health System Profile
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Despite notable variation in health care policy from province to province, most scholarship published on the health care system in Canada uses a broad national perspective. Focusing on the health care systems of individual Canadian provinces and territories, our new series, Health System Profiles,examines...
Relating Experience
Stories from Health and Social Care
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2004
This reader provides a diverse selection of accounts of interpersonal communication and relationships in the context of health and social care. Most of the contributions are personal narratives by people using or working in care services; the majority are contemporary and many have been written especially...
Evolving Medicine
How to Make the Art of Healing Healthy Again
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
Doctors used to have personal relationships with their patients, but now they must contend with the government, third-party payers and the massive health care industry.
Magda Montasira medical doctorlooks back four generations and outlines how medicine has changedand not always for the better....
by Dueep Jyot Singh, John Davidson
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
How to Be a Good Home Nurse Tips on your family’s healthTable of ContentsIntroductionFailure to Follow a Doctor’s InstructionsRest and Quiet for Your PatientTake Your Prescribed Medicine RegularlySeeking Medical Help Too LateWhen to See a DoctorOveruse or misuse Of MedicationsLaxativesNatural...
Health Communication in Practice
A Case Study Approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2005
Health Communication in Practice: A Case Study Approach offers a comprehensive examination of the complex nature of health-related communication. This text contains detailed case studies that demonstrate in-depth applications of communication theory in real-life situations.
With chapters written...
Healthcare Elsewhere
What You Can Learn From These 21 People Who Got Their Medical Care Abroad
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Healthcare Elsewhere is a medical tourism show that shares the success stories of medical tourism patients. Host John Cote interviews Doctors, healthcare experts and patients worldwide to help educate people about the affordable and cutting edge options available globally. Many patients find that the...
Collaboration in Private Practice
Psychotherapy in the Midst of Health Care Reform
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2014
The practice of psychology, psychiatry, social work, counseling, and psychotherapy is changing under the increasing impact of market forces, corporate insurance companies, and government reforms. Collaboration in Private Practice: Psychotherapy in the Midst of Health Care Reform is a guide to establishing...
E-Patients Live Longer
The Complete Guide to Managing Health Care Using Technology
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
e-Patients Live Longer, The Complete Guide to Managing Health Care Using Technology is a comprehensive guidebook on using e-tools to facilitate the complexities of our health care system. The book illustrates how the communication tools that consumers use every day: digital records, email, the Internet,...
Matters of Life and Death
Public Health Issues in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2017
Health issues have long occupied top headlines in Canadian media, and no journalist has written on public health with more authority or for as many years as André Picard. Matters of Life and Death collects Picard's most compelling columns, covering a broad range of topics including Canada's right-to-die...
The Empowered Patient
How to Get the Right Diagnosis, Buy the Cheapest Drugs, Beat Your Insurance Company, and Get the Best Medical Care Every Time
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
The facts are alarming: Medical errors kill more people each year than AIDS, breast cancer, or car accidents. A doctor’s relationship with pharmaceutical companies may influence his choice of drugs for you. The wrong key word on an insurance claim can deny you coverage. Through real life stories,...
Cries of Crisis
Rethinking the Health Care Debate
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
Since the late 1960s, health care in the United States has been described as a system in crisis. No matter their position, those seeking to improve the system have relied on the rhetoric of crisis to build support for their preferred remedies, to the point where the language and imagery of a health...
The Access Health Plan
The "We Can Story"
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2016
The Access Health Plan: The "We Can Story" The Access Health Plan was developed to meet a need in our local community. There were those in Muskegon County working for small businesses who were uninsured. Small businesses identified they needed health coverage to compete and keep employees. The...