Public Health category: 1911 books

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Reverse Innovation in Health Care

How to Make Value-Based Delivery Work

by Vijay Govindarajan, Ravi Ramamurti
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018

Two experts in reverse innovation reveal four different pathways for providing value-based health care and show how these, and other revolutionary practices from India, are being adopted in areas across the United States. Reveals how some far-sighted US providers are practicing health care delivery...
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by Samuel Obura Afubwa
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016

This book is one of its kind and is divided into two parts: (i) Environmental Health (ii) Occupational Health and Safety. Environmental Health has been written to cover the pillars of Environmental Health with categories in history, solid waste management, sanitation, pollution, toxicology, ventilation...
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by Raymond L. Goldsteen, DrPH, Karen Goldsteen
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016

The eighth edition of this best-selling text, valued for its concise and balanced introduction to the U.S. health care system, is entirely updated to reflect alterations to health care services, delivery, and financing resulting from the Affordable Care Act. The text describes how our health care...
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Health Promotion for Nurses

Theory and Practice

by Stewart Piper
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2009

Health promotion is an increasingly high profile aspect of a nurse’s role – both in line with health policy and as nursing has shifted from a disease model to a health model. This textbook explores how and why health promotion works in nursing, developing a new framework for understanding the...
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Introduction to Health Care Quality

Theory, Methods, and Tools

by Yosef D. Dlugacz
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016

Introduction to Health Care Quality explores the issues of quality management in today's health care environment, and provides clear guidance on new and perennial challenges in the field. The idea of 'quality' is examined in the context of a variety of health care situations, with practical emphasis...
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Health-Care Reform

A Surgeon’S Perspective

by Ashraf A Hilmy
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012

In this study, Dr. Ashraf A. Hilmy, with a surgeons objective, no-nonsense precision and an unabashed lack of political correctness, dissects the current state of health-care delivery in America. In practice since 1979, he is board certified in surgery, anesthesiology, critical-care medicine, and...
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Justice, Luck & Responsibility in Health Care

Philosophical Background and Ethical Implications for End-of-Life Care

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Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2012

In this book, an international group of philosophers, economists and theologians focus on the relationship between justice, luck and responsibility in health care. Together, they offer a thorough reflection on questions such as: How should we understand justice in health care? Why are health care...
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Health Information Exchange

Navigating and Managing a Network of Health Information Systems

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Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016

Health Information Exchange (HIE): Navigating and Managing a Network of Health Information Systems allows health professionals to appropriately access, and securely share, patients’ vital medical information electronically, thus improving the speed, quality, safety, and cost of patient care. The...
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by Raffy R. Luquis, Miguel A. P¿rez
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013

Cultural Competence in Health Education and Health Promotion, 2nd edition, examines the importance of ethnic and cultural factors for community health practice. Edited and written by a stellar list of contributors who are experts in field, this book describes essential theories, models, and practices...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017

It is common for a doctor or healthcare professional to see an individual with a chronic health condition only a few times a year for a brief office appointment. Yet, the individual has to live with the health condition 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. So, who really is in charge of managing the health...
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by Colin McInnes, Kelley Lee
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013

The long separation of health and International Relations, as distinct academic fields and policy arenas, has now dramatically changed. Health, concerned with the body, mind and spirit, has traditionally focused on disease and infirmity, whilst International Relations has been dominated by concerns...
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Health in Asia and the Pacific

A Focused Approach to Address the Health Needs of ADB Developing Member Countries

by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015

The Operational Plan for Health, 2015-2020 articulates the focused and scaled-up response of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to the health sector needs of its developing member countries. As they strive to achieve universal health coverage and achieve better health outcomes, these countries need...
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Ethics and Information Technology

A Case-Based Approach to a Health Care System in Transition

by James G. Anderson, Kenneth Goodman
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2007

This series is directed to health care professionals who are leading the tra- formation of health care by using information and knowledge. Launched in 1988 as Computers in Health Care, the series offers a broad range of titles: some addressed to specific professions such as nursing, medicine, and...
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Breaking out of the Health Care Abyss

Transformational Tips for Agents of Change

by Royer-Maddox-Herron
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2017

It has become routine to see in various health care magazines, e-mails to leaders, and executive discussions on social media internet outlets, a listing of the ten top challenges that CEOs believe they are facing in the health care industry today. They often call this list the “what is keeping me...
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