Health Care Issues category: 1336 books
Health Systems in Transition
Canada, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The health care system in Canada is much-discussed in the international sphere, but often overlooked when it comes to its highly decentralized administration and regulation. Health Systems in Transition: Canada provides an objective description and analysis of the public, private, and mixed components...
by Wendy Leebov, Ed.D.
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2012
Are you looking for effective ways to improve service excellence with your team?
Achieving Impressive Customer Service helps healthcare managers inspire and mobilize their teams to extend effective service and caring to the people they serve. This book describes a rich array of simple, doable...
Talking About Death Won’t Kill You
The Essential Guide to End-of-Life Conversations
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
This practical handbook will equip readers with the tools to have meaningful conversations about death and dying
Death is a part of life. We used to understand this, and in the past, loved ones generally died at home with family around them. But in just a few generations, death has become a...
Eight Questions You Should Ask About Our Health Care System
(Even if the Answers Make You Sick)
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Charles E. Phelps provides a comprehensive look at our health care system, including how the current system evolved, how the health care sector behaves, and a detailed analysis of "the good, the bad, and the ugly" parts of the system—from technological advances (the "good") to...
The Transformation of Contemporary Health Care
The Market, the Laboratory, and the Forum
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
The past three decades have seen enormous changes in the organisation of health care. This book explores the role of knowledge production and technology on these transformations, focusing on the market (attempts to embed principles of economic rationality and efficient use of resources in the shaping...
You Can't Afford to Get Sick
Your Guide to Optimum Health and Health Care
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2010
With a two-week plan for optimum wellness, “America’s best-known doctor” (The New York Times) shows you what you need to know to be in the best health and have the best care.
The crisis in American health has hit home in very personal ways. Every thirty seconds someone in this country...
The Gift of Caring
Saving Our Parents from the Perils of Modern Healthcare
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
The desire to help our elders navigate health issues is clear and universal—how to assure proper care and a good ending is not. Combining adroit storytelling skills with expert advice, The Gift of Caring: Saving Our Parents from the Perils of Modern Healthcare brings the reader into all-too-familiar...
by Lorry Schoenly
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
Possibly more than any other nursing specialty, correctional nursing practice is lawsuit-prone. Our patient population, already in the criminal justice system, frequently seeks legal action when they feel they have not received rightful healthcare. Nurses working in the correctional setting have all...
by Owen Jones
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
I hope that you will find the information on hair care helpful, useful and profitable.
The information in this ebook on various aspects of taking care of your hair, hair loss remedies and related issues organized into 15 chapters of about 500-600 words each.
I hope that it will interest...
Alive with Vigor
Surviving Your Adventurous Lifestyle
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
Alive With Vigor! compiles stories of surviving—and thriving—from a wide spectrum of contributors. Deeply personal essays recount matters of preventative health care, the hard decisions we each have to make, Do It Yourself health care, and how to deal with extracting health care from government/corporate...
Decision Assessment and Counseling in Abortion Care
Philosophy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2012
In today’s contentious political environment surrounding abortion, clinicians, counselors and social workers need a clear framework for providing skilled, compassionate decision counseling. They need help working with the hard stuff: “What do I do when my patient asks me if God will forgive her?”...
Providing Compassionate Healthcare
Challenges in Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
Despite the scope and sophistication of contemporary health care, there is increasing international concern about the perceived lack of compassion in its delivery. Citing evidence that when the basic needs of patients are attended to with kindness and understanding, recovery often takes place at a...
The Impact of Autonomy and Consumerism in Healthcare
The Effects of Healthcare Consumerism and Patient Autonomy in the Digital Age on Physicians, Patients, Pharmacies, and Others in the Healthcare Industry
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2016
From the origins of consumerism to the evolution or revolution associated with consumerism in healthcare, this book is a reflective depiction of the past, present, and future of healthcare as it empowers the consumer (patient).The Impact of Autonomy and Consumerism in Healthcare navigates the changing...
What Telehealth Can Do for You
Electronic and Mobile Health Care in the Connected Age
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2015
What Telehealth Can Do for You shows the impact telehealth is having on patients, caregivers and health care professionals worldwide through numerous case studies, examples and stories. From emergency rescues at sea to virtual nursing care after heart surgery, from genetic counselling via videoconference...