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Medical Tourism
The Ethics, Regulation, and Marketing of Health Mobility
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Medical and health tourism is a significant area of growth in the export of medical, health and tourism services. Although spas and improved well-being have long been part of the tourist experience, health tourism now includes travel for medical purposes ranging from cosmetic and dental surgery through...
Emerging Health Technology
Relocation of Innovative Visual Knowledge and Expertise
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2012
This book reports cutting-edge cases of emerging health technologies. Some health care fields are experiencing paradigmatic shifts because of robotic technologies and the new relationships that they create in r-Health (r-Curing and r-Caring) activities. The book explores emerging health care technologies...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
Named a 2013 Doody's Core Title!
"This is a wonderful resource that fills a true gap in the literature. This is a topic that needs more exposure and more emphasis in the field of advanced practice nursing. The value of evaluation in healthcare quality will be seen in the outcomes of healthcare...
Psycho-Economics
Managed Care in Mental Health in the New Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Develop new ways to provide ethical, effective mental health services in a world of managed care!
Psycho-Economics gives psychologists and mental health care administrators suggestions for handling the changes that have come with the advent of managed care. Using empirical research and practitioner...
Telemedicine and E-Health Services, Policies, and Applications
Advancements and Developments
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
By combining electronic communication and information technology with healthcare practices, e-health promises access to health information, diagnosis, treatment, and care to patients who may "enter" and interact with the system in new ways. Telemedicine and E-Health Services, Policies, and Applications:...
by William Hersh
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2008
This series is directed to healthcare professionals who are leading the transfor- tion of health care by using information and knowledge to advance the quality of patient care. Launched in 1988 as Computers in Health Care, the series offers a broad range of titles: some are addressed to speci?c professions...
Medical Group Management in Turbulent Times
How Physician Leadership Can Optimize Health Plan, Hospital, and Medical Group Performance
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Medical Group Management in Turbulent Times: How Physician Leadership Can Optimize Health Plan, Hospital, and Medical Group Performance provides you with proven methods and new strategies on how to deliver more effective health care, health products, and related services to patients and other consumers....
Community Mental Health
Putting Policy Into Practice Globally
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2011
There are wide inconsistencies between, and even within, countries in how community-orientated care is defined and interpreted. The analysis presented in this book take as a starting point an evidence-based balanced care model in which services are provided in community settings close to the populations...
by Barry Sarvet, MD, John Torous
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
This issue of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics, edited by Drs. Barry Sarvet and John Torous, will cover the spectrum of Health Information Technology and its role in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Topics covered include, but are not limited to Transformational Impact of Health IT on Clinical...
Interprofessional Evidence-Based Practice
A Workbook for Health Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Interprofessional Evidence-Based Practice: A Workbook for Health Professionals promotes active, team learning of interprofessional evidence-based practice (EBP). This text is distinctive in that it departs from the tradition of EBP occurring from a single disciplinary perspective. Interprofessional...
by Susan Albers Mohrman, Christopher G. Worley, Abraham B. Rami Shani
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
Health care, as it is currently organized, is not sustainable. Health care systems in the developed world are encountering increased demand for high quality health care but facing societal resource limits. Health care managers, professionals and academics worldwide are debating how to redesign its...
by John A. Bishop, Juan Gabriel Rodriguez
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
Economists are increasingly turning their attention to the measurement and causes of health inequality. This is in response to widespread concern that health disparities reflect social injustices but is also part of the trend away from the narrow focus on inequality in income to the more encompassing...
Reducing Inequalities in Health
A European Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Socio-economic inequalities in health are present to a greater or lesser extent in all European countries and the available data suggests that the health gap is increasing. Many studies have been conducted to explain inequalities in health and from them much has been learnt about the different contributory...
Health Inequality
Morality and Measurement
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2007
In the last decade, there has been an explosion of academic interest in health inequality. Although it is seldom stated explicitly, research into this area is inexorably tied to questions of morality and ethics. In this study, Yukiko Asada seeks to acknowledge the role that morality and theories of...