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Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Adolescence is a pivotal period of development with respect to health and illness. It is during adolescence that many positive health behaviors are consolidated and important health risk behaviors are first evident; thus, adolescence is a logical time period for primary prevention. In addition, the...
by Danielle Mazza, MD, MBBS
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2011
A clear, accessible guide to women’s health, providing evidence-based information relevant to the primary care setting Women’s Health in General Practice, 2nd Edition has been written for General Practitioners, family physicians and doctors undertaking general practice training programs. This...
Preventive Nutrition
The Comprehensive Guide for Health Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2009
Evidence-based nutritional interventions are now a critical component of preventive medicine, employed in a wide variety of medical scenarios. Preventive Nutrition: A Comprehensive Guide for Health Professionals, Fourth Edition gives health professionals up-to-date, comprehensive reviews that evaluate...
What's In, What's Out
Designing Benefits for Universal Health Coverage
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Vaccinate children against deadly pneumococcal disease, or pay for cardiac patients to undergo lifesaving surgery? Cover the costs of dialysis for kidney patients, or channel the money toward preventing the conditions that lead to renal failure in the first place? Policymakers dealing with the realities...
by Elsevier
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
Learn how to effectively manage both people and a practice as a health care administrator with Elsevier’s Introduction to Health Services Administration. This comprehensive and easy-to-understand text includes an overview of health care delivery in the United States along with an exploration of...
Health Care Systems Around the World
A Comparative Guide
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2013
This concise reference provides a one-stop point of research that examines major aspects of health care systems for over 190 countries worldwide. In a consistent format, ten major health care categories are systematically examined for each country: 1. Emergency Health Services; 2. Costs of Hospitalization;...
Marketing Health Care Into the Twenty-First Century
The Changing Dynamic
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Marketing Health Care Into the Twenty-First Century explores recent and anticipated changes and trends--legislative, economic, organizational, clinical, and operational--from a strategic marketing perspective. Author Alan K. Vitberg, a respected consultant in health care marketing, takes an unabashedly...
Home Health Nursing
Scope and Standards of Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2014
Home health is one of the fastest-growing industries, expected to add well over 1 million new jobs throughout the next decade. As a nurse practicing in this area, you are going to be called upon to coordinate and deliver care like never before. Americans ages 65 and older will be nearly 20 percent...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
Organizations, Communication, and Health focuses on theories and constructs of organizational communication and their relationship to health. The goal of the volume is to offer a current picture of organizational and organizing processes and practices related to health.
Research in the area...
Health Reform Policy to Practice
Oregon’s Path to a Sustainable Health System: A Study in Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
Health Reform Policy to Practice: Oregon as a Case Study for a Path to a Comprehensive and Sustainable Health Delivery Model offers a real world example of an innovative, successful and comprehensive program conducted by the U.S. State of Oregon.
In 1991, Oregon embarked on a journey to improve...
Telemental Health
Clinical, Technical, and Administrative Foundations for Evidence-Based Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
Acquiring access to mental health treatments can be difficult for those who are not near mental health facilities. The growing field of telemental health addresses this problem by using video and telephone conferencing to provide patients with access to psychiatric professionals. However, the process...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2015
Significant variations in the quality of health care management practices are present both within and across local, regional, and international health systems. With increasing globalization of health services, both quality and efficiency of care can benefit from shared learning on a regional and global...
Cognitive Informatics in Health and Biomedicine
Understanding and Modeling Health Behaviors
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
As health care is moving toward a team effort with patients as partners, this book provides guidance on the optimized use of health information and supporting technologies, and how people think and make decisions that affect their health and wellbeing. It focuses on investigations of how general public...
by Jacob Glazer, Thomas G McGuire
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
The book pulls together a series of articles by the authors that initiated the research areas of "optimal risk adjustment" and "optimal quality reporting." The papers present the basic theoretical models and link them to empirical application. Design of health insurance premiums...