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Health Care Delivery:A Bolt from the BlueISBN: 9781843103134 Based on work within the Finnish organized crisis care network, A Bolt from the Blue shows how crisis care can be an integral part of health care services, covering all traumatic incidents from a death in the family to major accidents and disasters.This book is an essential text for any professional who comes into contact with people affected by a traumatic experience, including psychologists, counsellors, medical doctors, social workers, nurses, pastoral carers/clergy, and students in these fields. It i... Read more at Amazon
A Practical Guide to Primary Care Groups and TrustsISBN: 9781857754919 A description of the work of primary care groups (PCGs) in their first months, from clinical governance to HimPs, and the varied roles of individuals within the organizations. It covers everything from the initial aims of PCGs through to primary care trusts and the future.... Read more at Amazon
Access to Health CareISBN: 9780415275460 Access to Health Care provides both health care researchers as well as health professionals, managers and policy analysts, with a clear and wide-ranging overview of topical and controversial questions in health policy and health services... Read more at Amazon
Action Research in Health CareISBN: 9780632040919 Action Research in Health Care is a practical and concise guide to the use of action research methods in health care practice.This book seeks to provide a broader understanding of the ethos and principles of action research. It will assist practitioners and research students to participate and/or plan, carry out and evaluate their own action research studies in ways which are appropriate for them personally and professionally. Practical suggestions gained from experience are also offered on how to best c... Read more at Amazon
Action, Ability and HealthISBN: 9780792362067 This book is a contribution to the general philosophy of action and the philosophy of welfare. The author makes separate analyses of concepts such as action, ability, interaction, action-explanation, happiness, health, illness and disability. At the same time he explores and substantiates the idea of a strong interdependence between the concept of action and some of the central concepts of welfare, in particular health and illness and related concepts. As a result he shows how the conceptual network of huma... Read more at Amazon
AgingISBN: 9781573565479 Vierck has published previous works on health-related issues; Hodges has worked in market research for some 20 years. Drawing from 1,500-plus documents, they have compiled facts and figures into a single source of vital statistics about people aged 65 years and older. The book is organized into 16 chapters on such topics as the meaning of aging, de... Read more at Amazon
Agricultural Medicine: Occupational and Environmental Health for the Health ProfessionsISBN: 9780813818030 Provides information on occupational and environmental illnesses, injuries, and prevention associated with productive agriculture. This book includes chapters on special high risk populations, environmental hazards, and prevention.... Read more at Amazon
AIDSISBN: 9780748402281 Examines the extent to which sound foundations for the future of HIV/AIDS have been laid in public, private and voluntary sector action and offers an agenda for future activism and research.... Read more at Amazon
AIDS, South Africa and the Politics of KnowledgeISBN: 9780754670032 Through an in-depth examination of the interactions between the South African government and the international AIDS control regime, Youde examines not only the emergence of an epistemic community but also the development of a counter-epistemic community offering fundamentally different understandings of AIDS and radically different policy prescriptions. In addition, individuals have become influential in the crafting of the South African government's AIDS policies, despite universal condemnation from the in... Read more at Amazon
AIDS: Science and SocietyISBN: 9780763742638
An Introduction to HealthISBN: 9780582238657 Examines the question governments everywhere are asking: how to improve health in a cost effective and politically acceptable way.... Read more at Amazon
An Introduction to Health Planning for Developing Health SystemsISBN: 9780198571346 Explains the importance of health planning in both developing regions such as Africa, and those in transition, such as Central and Eastern Europe. This book stresses the importance of understanding the national and international context in which planning occurs, and provides an analysis of the major policy issues, including health reforms.... Read more at Amazon
An Introduction to Quality Assurance in Health CareISBN: 9780195158090 Avedis Donabedian's name is synonymous with quality of medical care. He unraveled the mystery behind the concept by defining it in clear operational terms and provided detailed blueprints for both its measurement (known as quality assessment) and its improvement (known as quality assurance).In this book Donabedian tells the full story of quality assessment and assurance in simple, clear terms. He defines the meaning of quality, explicates its components, and provides clear and systematic guides to its as... Read more at Amazon
Analysing Health PolicyISBN: 9780582298019 This text places empirical research findings within the context of both contemporary policy debates and general approaches to policy analysis. Using illustrative material from research in health care, it examines key issues in health policy and the sociological debates that surround them.... Read more at Amazon
AQA AS Health and Social CareISBN: 9781844894086 A textbook for students studying AQA AS Health and Social Care.... Read more at Amazon
Aspen's Health Care Quality ReviewISBN: 9780834216075 Aspen's Health Care Quality Review (1999) compiles current, real-world examples of hospitals, health plans, physician practices and other organizations applying quality improvement theory and reaping reduced costs, improved patient satisfaction and improved health outcomes as a result. Each section (organizational quality, quality theory and practice, quality tools and measurement, quality in care) profiles top health care providers around the country and tracks not only clinical improvements but also the o... Read more at Amazon
Assessing Behaviors Regarded as Problematic in People with DevelopmentalISBN: 9781853029981 People with developmental disabilities sometimes behave in ways that others, or they themselves, regard as problematic. This work covers what practitioners can do to make sense of those behaviours so that individuals can be more effectively supported.... Read more at Amazon
Auditing Age DiscriminationISBN: 9781857174724 For those involved in auditing age discrimination within the NHS and social services, this book offers guidance on how to gather and assess evidence of age discrimination, who to involve in the process, what kinds of evidence to look for and where to look.... Read more at Amazon
Berlin ElectropolisISBN: 9780520243620 Berlin Electropolis ties the German discourse on nervousness in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to Berlin's transformation into a capital of the second industrial revolution. Focusing on three key groups - railway personnel, soldiers, and telephone operators - Andreas Killen traces the emergence of the belief that modernity caused nervous illness from its origins in the 1880s to its later decline.... Read more at Amazon
Best PracticesISBN: 9781582555324 Best Practices: Evidence-Based Nursing Procedures, Second Edition, gives you the evidence at every step to improve patient outcomes. The evidence that supports your actions: at-a-glance graphic symbols underscoring the research weight behind more than 200 procedures; support for thousands of nursing actions from research studies, the judgment of experts, and medical and nursing guidelines from AHRQ, AHA, INS, JCAHO, NIH, and many others; clinical impact of key recommendations; alerts to crucial nursing cons... Read more at Amazon
Betraying the Nhs: Health AbandonedISBN: 9781843104827 Based on his experiences of helping to fight cuts and closures in Suffolk, Michael Mandelstam delivers a damning verdict on the mismanagement of the NHS at national, regional and local level. He charts the widespread cutbacks and closures, both rural and urban, to clinics, A&E services, beds, wards and scores of community hospitals. He outlines how humane care, particularly for older people, is compromised by the ruthless determination of NHS management to increase patient throughput and meet government-set... Read more at Amazon
Born in the USAISBN: 9780520245969 In this rare, behind-the-scenes look at what goes on in hospitals across the country, a longtime medical insider and international authority on childbirth assesses the flawed American maternity care system, demonstrating how it fails to deliver safe, effective care for both mothers and babies. Written for mothers and fathers, obstetricians, nurses, midwives, scientists, insurance professionals, and anyone contemplating having a child, this book documents how, in the most expensive maternity care system in t... Read more at Amazon
Bringing User Experience to Healthcare ImprovementISBN: 9781846191763 By exploring the underlying concepts, methods and practices of EBD, this guide offers a unique approach to healthcare customer satisfaction. It offers recommendations for the future and many interesting points for discussion.It will be of great interest to health and social care management, particularly directors of service improvement in hospitals and directors of nursing, health and social care policy makers, and shapers. Quality improvement, and organisational development specialists in healthcare, pa... Read more at Amazon
Cancer Control Opportunities in Low- and Middle-Income CountriesISBN: 9780309103848 Identifies various steps for LMCs and their partners to begin to reduce the cancer burden. This book helps in developing and increasing capacity for cancer screening and treatment of highly curable cancers (including childhood malignancies). It discusses ways to make inexpensive oral morphine available to those who die from cancer.... Read more at Amazon
Cancer, Culture and CommunicationISBN: 9780306478857 This book is for physicians, nurses, hospice and palliative care professionals, and public health professionals who would like to understand the ways we can improve clinician-patient communication in culturally diverse medical settings. It is also suitable for graduate-level courses in medical education, oncology, and health care.... Read more at Amazon
Caring for Health (Bk. 6)ISBN: 9780335208401 This book considers the historical development of Western models of health care from 1500 to the present day. The authors take an interdisciplinary approach, drawing on recent research in medical and social history, to describe the growth of state involvement in health care culminating in the British welfare state model of the twentieth century. While focusing primarily on the United Kingdom, they also trace the impact of European systems of health care on colonial territories in the past, and note its echo... Read more at Amazon
Caring for Muslim PatientsISBN: 9781857758122 Muslim patients customarily have particular ways of approaching health and healthcare. This book addresses common misunderstandings and bridges cultural gaps. It includes a profile of the Islamic worldview, taking an 'insiders perspective' and explores the concept of health and disease within this paradigm.... Read more at Amazon
Caring for the Dying at HomeISBN: 9781857759464 This book is essential reading for general practitioners; practice, district and Macmillan nurses; social workers and all others involved in terminal care in the community.... Read more at Amazon
Challenging MedicineISBN: 9780415389549 Modern medicine is a powerful institution. With the help of highly developed drugs and surgical techniques, it promises to relieve suffering, improve the quality of life and extend the life-span. This book presents a re-appraisal of the changes to the health service and analyzes their effects on the status and practice of health professionals.... Read more at Amazon
Change-promoting Research for Health ServicesISBN: 9780335202201 This book has been written for people who make decisions and bring about change, at all sorts of levels, and in a wide range of disciplines. They include clinicians in many specialities, as well as administrative staff, and general managers of healthcare organizations. It is also for people doing, or wanting to do, research and development in this fascinating area.... Read more at Amazon
Children and FamiliesISBN: 9780823607907
Clinical Effectiveness and Clinical Governance Made EasyISBN: 9781846191466 Reflects the emphasis on evaluation and audit of clinical care and services provided by individual practitioners, practice teams and Trusts. This work addresses the evolution of systems for monitoring performance in Trusts with the establishment of the Healthcare Commission and the coordination of regulation bodies through Healthcare Concordat.... Read more at Amazon
Clinical GovernanceISBN: 9780443071263 Clinical governance has changed the approach for ensuring that patients receive the best possible health care. It recognizes the importance of teams, organizations and systems, rather than just individuals working in isolation. It provides a framework for tying together the different strands of quality - audit and feedback, clinical effectiveness, error reduction and risk management, evidence-based practice, patient involvement and lifelong learning.... Read more at Amazon
Clinical Governance in Healthcare PracticeISBN: 9780750656818 Clinical Governance in Health Care Practice, Second Edition, explains the concept of clinical governance and its application to the UK health care system. It takes a practical approach to clinical governance, using examples from different health care settings, and has a toolkit for readers to use to help with its implementation.... Read more at Amazon
Clinical Risk Management in Primary CareISBN: 9781857758696 Clinical Risk Management in Primary Care... Read more at Amazon
Clinical Risk Modification: A Route to Clinical Governance?ISBN: 9780750629393 Risk Management and Clinical Governance embrace systems and processes that help healthcare professionals to monitor, control and have clear accountability and responsibility for their actions. There is a statutory obligation (subject to legislation) to incorporate these into all aspects of clinical work.This book explains clearly how, by taking positive action to modify risk rather than merely to manage it, practical solutions which lead to improved patient outcomes can be demonstrated. It shows how Clin... Read more at Amazon
Committee of Inquiry Independent Investigation into How the NHS HandledISBN: 9780101629829 Committee of Inquiry Independent Investigation into How the NHS Handled... Read more at Amazon
Committee of Inquiry to Investigate How the NHS Handled Allegations AboutISBN: 9780101631525 Committee of Inquiry to Investigate How the NHS Handled Allegations About... Read more at Amazon
Communicating HealthISBN: 9780745634920
Communication and Clinical Effectiveness in RehabilitationISBN: 9780750656658 Specially written for therapy students working with patients who have chronic physical conditions, this book will be invaluable in helping occupational therapy and physiotherapy students develop insights, knowledge and skills that will enhance the education and support that they provide to patients, while increasing their understanding of collaborative working within interprofessional teams. Students and qualified practitioners in other health disciplines, such as nursing, will also find much of the materia... Read more at Amazon
Communication And The Care Of People With DementiaISBN: 9780335207749 This book argues that communication is at the heart of all approaches to dementia care, and is an in-depth exploration of ways of establishing and developing communication with people with dementia. It examines both the nature of dementia as a condition and the subjective experience of those affected. The authors consider in detail how communication between people with dementia and those who care for them changes, and how it can be maintained and enhanced. They include a significant amount of material quote... Read more at Amazon
Communication for DoctorsISBN: 9781857758955 This book provides practical tips to arm doctors with the knowledge to sharpen their communication skills thus improving their relationships with patients - and avoiding errors and litigation.It is stimulating and easy-to-read and is written with a 'how to' approach in a straightforward journalistic style by noted experts in the field. The book's contributors offer valuable and usable advice on everything from documentation to listening skills to avoiding jargon and 'medispeak'.All doctors at every le... Read more at Amazon
Community CareISBN: 9780333983263 This textbook on care in the community assesses its impact on users and carers and the changing role of social services, health care and other professionals. It provides a balanced assessment of the achievements and failures to date of New Labour's modernization agenda.... Read more at Amazon
Community Health AdvocacyISBN: 9780306473906 This valuable text will be of interest to public and urban health workers, social workers, community organizers, and legislators who represent communities in need.... Read more at Amazon
Community PaediatricsISBN: 9780443063480 Provides an introduction to child health in the community for those with some experience of clinical paediatrics. This title is useful for self-directed learning and examination preparation. It emphasises on the social and educational significance of paediatric problems, bringing together the research and guidelines in the UK and other countries.... Read more at Amazon
Community Pharmacy: Symptoms, Diagnosis and TreatmentISBN: 9780443073625 Written in a user-friendly style, and presented in a colourful and attractive page design, this new book is destined to become the first-choice text for pharmacy students and pre-registration pharmacists. It will also be a valuable reference book for all practicing community pharmacists as well as practice nurses and nurse prescribers.... Read more at Amazon
Community Treatment of Eating DisordersISBN: 9780470016763 Community Treatment of Eating Disorders describes how to put together a team that will deliver community-based treatment to a range of people with eating disorders. Rooted in clinical experience, it is based on a model service established in London and provides professionals with a detailed guide to the provision of care from the initial stages of the eating disorder through to long-term Severe and Enduring Eating Disorder (SEED) reached by a proportion of sufferers.Flexible in its approach, Community Tr... Read more at Amazon
Comparative Health PolicyISBN: 9780230001404 Assesses the extent to which policy problems and responses in different countries have common causes or spring from specific national circumstances systematically comparing Australia, Germany, Japan, New Zealand, and others. This book includes a chapter on the politics of health and a focus on the individual patient in different systems.... Read more at Amazon
Complexity and the Experience of Managing in Public Sector OrganizationsISBN: 9780415367325 Providing a natural successor to the editors' earlier series Complexity and Emergence in Organizations, this series, Complexity as the Experience of Organizing, aims to develop this work further by taking very seriously the experience of organizational practitioners, and showing how adopting the perspective of complex responsive processes yields deeper insight into practice and so develops that practice.... Read more at Amazon
Complexity in Healthcare and the Language of ConsultationISBN: 9781857758542 Steinberg (formerly Senior Clinical Tutor, Priory Ticehurst House Hospital, Sussex) integrates new ideas from chaos and complexity theories, clinical work and aspects of group and psychodynamic theory to create a new consultative approach. He argues that specialists need to use three forms of consultation: traditional clinical consultation; systems... Read more at Amazon
Concepts of Rehabilitation for the Management of Common Health ProblemsISBN: 9780117033948 Concepts of Rehabilitation for the Management of Common Health Problems... Read more at Amazon
Conflict and Catastrophe MedicineISBN: 9781852333485 A 'how-to' book for medical aid workers working in hostile environments. This manual provides information on what is going on, how to get involved, how to get ready, guidance on what to do out there, and how to get home bridging the fields of medicine, nursing international relations, politics, economics and history.... Read more at Amazon
Consent in Clinical PracticeISBN: 9781857758047 This concise, practical guide provides doctors and nurses with the appropriate information needed to ensure that the patients have the knowledge to give informed consent. It identifies ways in which accusations of negligence can be minimised and includes explanations of the new NHS consent procedures that have recently been implemented. All healthcare professionals will find this book valuable reading.... Read more at Amazon
Constructing AutismISBN: 9780415321815 In Constructing Autism, Majia Holmer Nadesan, herself the mother of an autistic child, argues that although there is without doubt a biogenetic component to the condition we call autism, it is the social factors involved in its identification, interpretation and remediation that determine what it means to be autistic. This book explores the social practices and institutions that reflect and shape the way we think about autism and what effects these have on autistic people and their families. She unravels wh... Read more at Amazon
Consumer Health Care ResearchISBN: 9781403905130 The UK National Health Service (NHS) continues to undergo a series of reforms with an increasing emphasis upon consumer 'choice' and 'empowerment'. These reforms imply a requirement that all aspects of health care operate from an 'evidence' or 'knowledge' base. This timely text offers a critical and systematic overview of the current state of consumer health research in the NHS, providing an outline of the key contemporary research methodologies used for eliciting consumers' views, with specific reference t... Read more at Amazon
Consumer Satisfaction in Medical PracticeISBN: 9780789007131 Consumer Satisfaction in Medical Practice was written to help turn the delivery of health care toward the patient. This book contains effective steps that you can institute in order to offer excellent care to your customers.Exposing common myths about medical practice, this book offers you a patients' perspective on the services they need and request to help you offer your customers the appropriate services. From Consumer Satisfaction in Medical Practice, you will be able to give customers the medical se... Read more at Amazon
Consumer-driven Health CareISBN: 9780787952587 Consumer driven health care (CDHC) plans are fast becoming a central pillar of health insurers business strategies. This title describes the implications of CDHC for providers, payers and policy makers.... Read more at Amazon
Contemporary Primary CareISBN: 9780335200092 Beginning with a think piece on the nature of primary care and what an emerging vision for it might look like, the book continues with contributions on the changing form, organization and delivery of primary health care, before going on to examine specific areas of provision and some significant research issues. The book will be of interest to all those involved in the study or development of primary health care services.... Read more at Amazon
Core Themes in Health and Social CareISBN: 9780435464257 Core Themes in Health and Social Care... Read more at Amazon
Cost Effectiveness Analysis in HealthISBN: 9780787995560 Reviews methods of assessing health care technologies and related programs. This book focuses on methods to perform economic evaluations, such as cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit analysis; methods to assess efficacy, effectiveness, and safety of health care technologies; effectiveness research; and applications to clinical and public policy.... Read more at Amazon
Critical Perspectives on HealthISBN: 9781403994523 Explores the nature of health, and how understandings of the concept relate to professional backgrounds and academic experience. The author maintains a dialogue with the reader, encouraging them to challenge arguments and extend their thinking.... Read more at Amazon
Critical Practice in Health and Social CareISBN: 9780761964933 This major new textbook will take a fresh look at professions and professionalism - what these terms mean and what they need to mean in the future in the health and social care field. Written by experienced teachers, the textbook: reviews the evidence on team and inter-professional working, teasing... Read more at Amazon
Crossing the Quality ChasmISBN: 9780309072809 Recommends a sweeping redesign of the American health care system. This work provides principles for specific direction for policymakers, health care leaders, clinicians, regulators, and purchasers. It offers a set of performance expectations for the 21st century health care system and 10 rules to guide patient-clinician relationships.... Read more at Amazon
Culture and Health: A Critical Perspective Towards Global HealthISBN: 9780470847374 Most Western health professionals practice in multicultural societies. The influence of culture on illness, health and rehabilitation is therefore very important. Despite this, most lower level health psychology texts skim over these differences and assume our traditional biomedical approach will be appropriate for all.... Read more at Amazon
Culture, Religion and ChildbearingISBN: 9780750620505 Enables health care professionals, particularly midwives, to understand the spectrum of cultural and religious issues that affect the quality of care that they can give to women and their families during child bearing. This book presents practical ways of enhancing practice in all areas of women's health care.... Read more at Amazon
Delivering Excellence in Health and Social CareISBN: 9780335208883 Many organizations in health and social care are striving to implement the ideas of organizational excellence, performance measurement and process improvement, in the context of a large number of government initiatives including the NHS Plan, Best Value, Clinical Governance and Quality Protects. This book provides a clear explanation of the whole area and includes a wide variety of case studies and examples within health and social care, including the Voluntary Sector.The book gives extensive guidance on... Read more at Amazon
Delivering Quality in the NHSISBN: 9781857756180 Part One: The James Lind Legacy; The James Lind legacy: the past - James Lind; The James Lind legacy: the present - the relevance of his work today; Part Two: Filling the evidence gap; Filling the evidence gap - how big is it? Part Three: Raising standards - national policy and practice; Social care and joint working with the NHS: how the.... Read more at Amazon
DementiaISBN: 9781861560810 The emphasis of this book is on a positive examination of the care of older people with a dementing illness, and of the key aspects of this care. Each subject is discussed from a practical knowledge-based perspective.... Read more at Amazon
Department of HealthISBN: 9780215026842 Following on from an NAO report, this report examines the findings of a national survey of patient views about the quality of NHS cancer treatment services in England. It offers recommendations in relation to: access to specialist care and diagnosis; the support offered during and after treatment; and differences in patients' experiences.... Read more at Amazon
Develop Your Interpersonal and Self-management SkillsISBN: 9781846191077 A large part of what you do involves communicating with other people: colleagues, patients, relatives, carers and the general public. Given the complexities, vulnerabilities and demanding behaviour of other people, this may at times be an arduous task. This book provides information and practical suggestions to help you in your role.... Read more at Amazon
Developing Care PathwaysISBN: 9781857754995 This handbook and reflects best practice in the development and implementation of care pathways. The resource has links with National Service Frameworks and NICE guidelines, and contributions from the National Pathways Association.... Read more at Amazon
Developing the Allied Health ProfessionalISBN: 9781857757071 Guides readers in the art of making the most of appraisals and how to recognise and utilise personality type indicators. This title also covers topics such as e-learning, work-based learning, student placement and clinical supervision. It provides information for Allied Health Professions (AHP) managers, senior clinicians, staff and students.... Read more at Amazon
Dilemmas in UK Health Care (Bk. 7)ISBN: 9780335208418 Examines the dilemmas inherent in providing care that is simultaneously effective in alleviating disease and in promoting health, cost-effective in its use of financial and human resources, delivered equitably to those who need it, and humane in its treatment of service-users and health workers.... Read more at Amazon
Directory of Community Health ServicesISBN: 9781898789451 Directory of Community Health Services... Read more at Amazon
Directory of Hospitals and TrustsISBN: 9781843112259 Fully updated, this directory contains structural and organizational changes to the NHS and can be used to locate key decision makers and budget holders within healthcare organizations in the NHS and the independent sector.... Read more at Amazon
Distributing Healthcare: Principles, Practices and PoliticsISBN: 9781845400514 How should a society distribute its publicly funded healthcare resources? This multidisciplinary investigation brings together the insights of philosophy, clinical science, health economics, operational research, and public policy analysis.... Read more at Amazon
E-Health, Telehealth and Telemedicine: a Guide to Start-up and SuccessISBN: 9780787944209 E-Health, Telehealth, and Telemedicine is a hands-on resource that shows how communication technologies can be designed, implemented, and managed to help health care professionals expand and transform their organizations. Step by step, the authors reveal how to introduce innovative communication tools to a wide range of health care settings. This indispensable book contains a wealth of information, suggestions, and advice about program development, ethical, legal and regulatory issues, and technical options... Read more at Amazon
Eating Spring RiceISBN: 9780520247154 Presents an ethnographic study of HIV/AIDS in China. Drawing on more than a decade of research (1995-2005), primarily in Yunnan Province, this book chronicles the rise of the HIV epidemic from the years prior to the Chinese government's acknowledgment of this public health crisis to post-reform thinking about infectious-disease management.... Read more at Amazon
Effective Communication Skills for Health ProfessionalsISBN: 9780748733125 This book deals with four distinct areas of work inwhich good communication skills are essential, covering educational, therapeutic, organisational and personal interactions.... Read more at Amazon
Effective Healthcare LeadershipISBN: 9781405121828 Effective Healthcare Leadership integrates theory and practice to distil the reality of healthcare leadership today. It addresses the context and explores strategies for leadership and examines the leadership skills required to implement and sustain developments in healthcare.Section one examines the contemporary context and challenges of healthcare leadership. Section two offers opportunities through the CLINLAP/LEADLAP model to see how modern management ideas, tools and techniques are used effectively... Read more at Amazon
Effective Practice in Health and Social CareISBN: 9780335214372 Intended for managers, practitioners and students from various human service agencies, this book examines the nature and impact of collaboration between different professional and voluntary groups working together to deliver services.... Read more at Amazon
Empathy and the Practice of MedicineISBN: 9780300066708 Seeking to restore empathy to medical practice, this book aims to demonstrate how important it is for doctors to listen to their patients, to experience and to understand what their patients are feeling. The book is a collection of essays by physicians, philosophers and a nurse.... Read more at Amazon
Endangered BodiesISBN: 9781592215010
Enhancing Health Services ManagementISBN: 9780335196340 Talking about decision support systems in NHS management, this volume focuses on a critical area for management - enhancing the decision making process. It introduces computer-based decision support systems - frameworks, methods and techniques, and what information is needed and how it can be most usefully analysed to support decision making.... Read more at Amazon
Epidemic of CareISBN: 9780787968885 In Epidemic of Care, two of the country's leaders in health care offer a primer on health care cost drivers - and what can be done to curtail them and save the system. This hard-hitting look at a failing system reveals : why the cost of health care will cause deep cuts in the take-home pay of American workers - a 12 percent premium increase wipes out a 4 percent salary increase; how voter demands for changes in the system will bring about a political nightmare; why many smaller companies will drop health ca... Read more at Amazon
Esentials of Public HealthISBN: 9780763745257
Essentials of Economic Evaluation in HealthcareISBN: 9780853695745 Essentials of Economic Evaluation in Healthcare... Read more at Amazon
Essentials of Global HealthISBN: 9780763734213 Essentials of Global Health is a clear, concise, and user-friendly introduction to the most critical issues in global health. It illustrates key themes with an extensive set of case studies, examples, and the latest evidence. While the book offers a global perspective, particular attention is given to the health-development link: the relationship between developing countries, and the health needs of poor and disadvantaged people.... Read more at Amazon
Ethnicity, Disability and Chronic IllnessISBN: 9780335199822 This book brings together emerging work on ethnicity, disability, chronic illness and caring by leading researchers in the field. They explore the experience of minority ethnic people, and examine the conceptualization of disability and chronic illness and the implications of particular definitions; everyday living with a disability or chronic ill health; and the role of services in providing support to disabled people and carers.In terms of policy and practice, this volume highlights the continued probl... Read more at Amazon
Evidence into Action: Changing Practice in D.C.ISBN: 9780850842845 Evidence into Action: Changing Practice in D.C.... Read more at Amazon
Evidence-based Health CareISBN: 9780443062889 Explains how evidence based decision making can be applied to health policy and management decisions about groups of patients and populations, rather than decisions about the treatment of individuals. This is a textbook on evidence based decision making for healthcare, medical, and nurse managers.... Read more at Amazon
Evidence-based Health CommunicationISBN: 9780335219957 Provides a review of the field of health communication and the kinds of evidence that have been collected concerning effective communication. This book also critically evaluates the kinds of training health professionals receive in communication skills and examines its relatively limited role in the curriculum.... Read more at Amazon
Evidence-Based MedicineISBN: 9780415283212 Evidence based medicine is defined as the conscientious explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients. This collection takes a critical view of this concept and examines the economic implications of its imposition.... Read more at Amazon
Evidence-Based Practice in Primary CareISBN: 9780443058899 Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is now a familiar concept in health care, but to date most books on EBM have related to the hospital setting. The book aims to provide a manual or guide to applying the principles of EBM in general practice. It covers a range of topics, including qualitative research, guidelines, audit, diagnosis, and therapy.... Read more at Amazon
Evidence-Based Practice: A Critical AppraisalISBN: 9780632050581 Evidence-Based Practice: A Critical Appraisal features: critically appraises the strengths and limitations of evidence-based practice; covers evidence-based practice in primary care, mental health, public health, nursing, social work and probation, education and human resource management; considers what evidence-based practice is and why it has developed; and includes a team of internationally renowned contributors, including John Muir-Gray and Martyn Hammersley.The book is for a wide range of health car... Read more at Amazon
Facing a PandemicISBN: 9781932792829 Traces the history and spread of the HIV/AIDS virus in Africa.... Read more at Amazon
From Cancer Patient to Cancer SurvivorISBN: 9780309095952 This book focuses on survivors of adult cancer during the phase of care that follows primary treatment. The book raises awareness of the medical, functional, and psychosocial consequences of cancer and its treatment. It defines quality health cancer for cancer survivors and identifies strategies to achieve it. The book also recommends improvements in the quality of life of cancer survivors through policies that ensure their access to psychosocial services, fair employment practices, and health insurance.... Read more at Amazon
From Managment to LeadershipISBN: 9780787979294 A practical and comprehensive presentation of leadership interpersonal competencies for established and aspiring health care leaders. This work addresses the key principles with which an effective leader establishes and works within a productive relationship with followers.... Read more at Amazon
Fundamentals of Primary Care PrescribingISBN: 9780850843057 Fundamentals of Primary Care Prescribing... Read more at Amazon
GNVQ Health and Social CareISBN: 9780435456009 This text covers the compulsory units and four option units for Edexcel GNVQ Health and Social Care Intermediate. It covers investigating common hazards and emergencies, planning diets, exploring recreational activities and exploring physical care.... Read more at Amazon
Handbook of TelemedicineISBN: 9789051994131 The main purpose of this volume is to structure the basic knowledge linked to teaching to provide or practising telemedicine (providing medicine at a distance), as well as an overview of the technology developments linked to this discipline.... Read more at Amazon
Harnessing Information for Health Economics AnalysisISBN: 9781857759853 This completely up-to-date resource equips readers with practical tools to understand and apply health economic methods. It introduces the key economic tools and the data available that can assist an economic decision and covers a range of areas from primary care and national data to global indicators of health. The information presented is applicable to all economic issues - at individual practice or nationwide policy level.Harnessing Information for Health Economics Analysis is a vital handbook for all... Read more at Amazon
Health and Behavior Among Immigrant YouthISBN: 9781593320973 Though it is counterintuitive, research shows that newly-arrived immigrant children appear to be healthier than their American-born peers, and their health worsens the longer they live in the United States. Hamilton (Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Canada) looks at factors related to family process and social support to see why. She offers... Read more at Amazon
Health and DiseaseISBN: 9780335209675 Health and disease have become major subjects for investigation, comment and debate. This work is an interdisciplinary collection of articles which reflect the varied and sometimes controversial perspectives within these debates and address various aspects of health and disease.... Read more at Amazon
Health and Health Care in BritainISBN: 9780333961599 Baggott covers all major aspects of contemporary health care in Britain, including recent trends in health services, the main problems and challenges facing the health care system today, and the responses of policy makers to these problems and challenges.... Read more at Amazon
Health and Social Care for Advanced GNVQISBN: 9780340775479 This title combines many different topics from equal opportunities to community health,to physical aspects of health, and health, social care and the early years to meet the needs of GNVQ students studying for health and social care certification.... Read more at Amazon
Health Care and Public PolicyISBN: 9781845429249 Health Care and Public Policy is a comprehensive and intelligible cross-disciplinary account of the objectives of health care policy (medical, social, economic) and of the policy-tools that government can employ (cost-benefit analysis, entry barriers, competition) in order to ensure that scarce resources are not wasted nor needy social groups deprived of basic health care.... Read more at Amazon
Health Care for an Ageing PopulationISBN: 9780443103278 Focuses on the conditions and health challenges likely to be encountered in persons of 45 and older. This work provides a comprehensive management approach that draws on conventional and complementary medicine and offers patient information sheets that can be distributed to the patient by busy practitioners.... Read more at Amazon
Health Care IssuesISBN: 9781594545047 Health care is clearly in transition - but to where? Managed or unmanaged care? HMO's or not? Are insurance companies and hospitals the enemy of health care for their own patients? What about the 40,000,000 uninsured in America? This book examines important issues in this maze.... Read more at Amazon
Health Care Policy and RegulationISBN: 9780792395409 Deals in an useful way with some of the issues involved in the debate over health care reform. This book brings together some of the researchers to discuss alternative ways of restructuring the health care industries, and alternative methods for regulating these industries to achieve the objectives of increased access and constraining costs.... Read more at Amazon
Health Care ProvisionISBN: 9780748733545 Suitable for all branches of the health care profession, the second edition of this important text examines health care provision in England and Wales from 1900 to the year 2000 together with a twentieth century vision of the twenty-first century. Scotland and Northern Ireland are reviewed separately, in particular because of recent devolution. A social policy context is provided throughout which allows health and welfare developments to be set alongside wider socio-economic issues. The author presents a re... Read more at Amazon
Health Care Regulation in AmericaISBN: 9780195159684 Regulation shapes all aspects of America's fragmented health care industry, from the flow of dollars to the communication between physicians and patients. This book recaps the past and present conflicts that have guided the oversight of each industry segment over the years and explains the structure of regulation.... Read more at Amazon
Health EconomicsISBN: 9780324363463 Focuses on the costs and benefits associated with various health care choices. This book covers the changes that have taken place in the field of health care in both the public and private sectors allowing students to gain a practical knowledge of health care systems. It takes a contemporary approach to health economics.... Read more at Amazon
Health Economics and FinancingISBN: 9780471772590
Health Economics: A Critical and Global AnalysisISBN: 9781403940834 Applies the tools of economic analysis to the problems of health care finance and delivery. This book assumes no previous knowledge of the subject and uses non-technical language to explain the available economic tools, and critically examines their strengths and weaknesses in relation to health policy and management issues.... Read more at Amazon
Health Inequalities and Welfare ResourcesISBN: 9781861347572 How welfare states influence population health and health inequalities has long been debated, but less well-tested by empirical research. This book presents an empirical evidence of the effects of Swedish welfare state structures and policies on the lives of Swedish citizens. It is useful for researchers, students and practitioners in the field.... Read more at Amazon
Health InequalityISBN: 9780745627809 Health Inequality will be essential reading for students taking courses in the sociology of health and illness, social policy and welfare, health sciences, public health and epidemiology and all those interested in understanding the consequences of social inequality for health.... Read more at Amazon
Health InformaticsISBN: 9780850842678
Health Information ManagementISBN: 9780415315197 In almost all Western countries, concerted efforts are undertaken to stimulate the use of information and communication technology in healthcare. Yet the number of success stories are few. This textbook introduces readers to the challenges, the lessons learned and the new insights of health information management at the start of the 21st century.... Read more at Amazon
Health Management Information SystemsISBN: 9780335205653 This comprehensive text is aimed at both practitioners and students; it relates systems and management theories to applications found in health settings and compares the best of international practice. It sets out the basic principles of health management information systems and illustrates them with examples and case studies from a wide range of health care applications and from a number of different countries, including the USA, the UK, Germany and Australia.Ideal for practitioners, health care manager... Read more at Amazon
Health Measurement ScalesISBN: 9780198528470 Gives details on cognitive requirements in answering questions, and how the influences scale development. This book synthesizes the theory of scale construction with practical advice, culled from the literature and the authors' experience, about how to develop and validate measurement scales to be used in the health sciences.... Read more at Amazon
Health PolicyISBN: 9780415275569 Health Policy examines how the NHS has developed to the point it has reached today as well as placing it in the wider context of the kinds of health care which are available to people in Britain.... Read more at Amazon
Health Policy and PoliticsISBN: 9780754670643 What is the relationship between politics and health policy in the UK? How are the interests of the medical profession, civil society and the state weighed and balanced in the making of health policy? This book offers a critical analysis of policy making in the National Health Service.... Read more at Amazon
Health Policy: An Introduction to Process and PowerISBN: 9781856492645 Providing an introduction to the way health policies are made and who influences them, this book combines a comparative analytical framework for understanding health policy with a wide range of examples of actual policy choices from North and South.... Read more at Amazon
Health PromotionISBN: 9780333948347 Thoroughly revised and updated to take account of changes in health policy, this second edition offers an extensive insight into a wide variety of professional perspectives on health promotion.... Read more at Amazon
Health PromotionISBN: 9780192625915 This revised text reflects the developments that have taken place in health promotion policies and practices since the beginning of the 1990s. A new health promotion framework is outlined which pays more attention to the roles played by the media and bodies such as the World Health Organization.... Read more at Amazon
Health Promotion PracticeISBN: 9780335220571 People experience empowerment in many different ways and this book explains an approach that has been used by health promoters to intentionally build and evaluate empowerment. The book provides a special focus on communities and is illustrated throughout with useful field experiences in the United Kingdom, Asia, North America, the Pacific region and Africa.... Read more at Amazon
Health Services Restructuring in CanadaISBN: 9781553390763 Offers an analysis of access and wait-times, alternative modes of health care delivery, and funding methods from the perspective of evidence-based policy making. This book includes such topics as the demand for private health insurance, the impact of regional reforms, the effectiveness of drug programs, and alternative human resource strategies.... Read more at Amazon
Health: The Foundations for AchievementISBN: 9780471490111 Provides the philosophical backbone to countless courses for health professionals. This book poses two fundamental questions - What is health? and How can more health be achieved? - and answers them. It shows that these questions lie at the heart of health practice, and explains why all health workers should ponder them deeply.... Read more at Amazon
Healthcare Information Management SystemsISBN: 9780387408057 Addresses the challenges faced by healthcare professionals and offers solutions in the selection, implementation, and management of healthcare information systems. Coupled with case studies, this book is useful for physicians, nurses, healthcare administrators, and medical informaticians.... Read more at Amazon
Hearing the Voice of People with DementiaISBN: 9781853024061 Based on research into ten key areas relevant to dementia, this book offers practical advice and suggestions. It explores the idea that communication is not only possible, but also vital to the understanding and the development of services.... Read more at Amazon
HIV PandemicISBN: 9780198528432 Offers a multi-country comparative study that examines how the response to the common, global threat of HIV is shaped by the history, culture, institutions and health systems of the individual countries affected. This book shows that all parts of the health system must be involved: policy makers, healthcare professionals and users of the services.... Read more at Amazon
Homelessness: a Primary Care ResponseISBN: 9780850842777 Homelessness: a Primary Care Response... Read more at Amazon
Hospital Administration and Human Resource ManagementISBN: 9788120328747 Hospital Administration and Human Resource Management... Read more at Amazon
Hospital ManagementISBN: 9788171693900
Hospitals in a Changing EuropeISBN: 9780335209286 Explores the competing pressures facing policymakers across Europe as they struggle to respond to the complex challenges. This title argues that hospitals, as part of a larger health system, should focus on enhancing health outcomes. It is suitable for practitioners, policy-makers, academics and students concerned with health reform.... Read more at Amazon
How Ireland CaresISBN: 9781905494231 Beyond the Irish Health Care Crisis is the work of non-fiction.... Read more at Amazon
How to Succeed as a LeaderISBN: 9781846191602 Designed for independent learning, with answers to frequently asked questions, self-assessment exercises and tips, this work is suitable for healthcare professionals in leadership roles. It also provides inspiration for academics and workplace educators, managers and leaders in government, strategic health authorities and workforce deaneries.... Read more at Amazon
Illness and Culture in Contemporary JapanISBN: 9780521277860 The cultural practices and cultural meaning of health care in urban Japan.... Read more at Amazon
Imperial HygieneISBN: 9781403904881 This book is a cultural history of borders, hygiene and race. It is about foreign bodies: from Victorian vaccines to the pathologised interwar immigrant; from smallpox quarantine to the leper colony; from sexual hygiene to national hygiene to imperial hygiene. Taking British colonialism and White Australia as case-studies, the book examines the enclosures, boundaries and borders which were the objects and means of public health, as well as of colonial, national and racial administration between 1850 and 195... Read more at Amazon
Improving Maternity ServicesISBN: 9781846190957 Birth centres are suitable for every woman whose birth is straightforward, which accounts for around 75 per cent of all women. This guide shows how small scale maternity provision has a profound clinical and organisational advantage over large scale hospital provision, including saving of time and money by reducing intervention rates.... Read more at Amazon
In a Strange Land.....ISBN: 9780953049462
Infection Control in Ambulatory CareISBN: 9780763731908
Information Management in Health ServicesISBN: 9780335191161 Health services spend millions of pounds on information technology. This book aims to clarify the nature of the problems surrounding information and IT, and points the way to practical solutions. It is divided into three sections: policy overview; views from within the health service; and the views of academic researchers.... Read more at Amazon
Integrated Care PathwaysISBN: 9780750640879 An effective way of implementing NHS initiatives into clinical practice, Integrated Care Pathways (ICPs) concentrates on patient-centred multidisciplinary care. This work explains how to use ICPs to deliver patient care in a team environment without compromising clinical freedom, and describes the relationship between ICPs and clinical governance.... Read more at Amazon
Integrating Complementary Therapies in Primary CareISBN: 9780443063459 Offers clinicians, therapists, and other healthcare professionals, a realistic routemap of the key issues, as well as practical ways in which to ensure close working, appropriate referrals, advice and treatment decisions.... Read more at Amazon
Integrating Spirituality in Health and Social CareISBN: 9781857756463 Considers the concept of spiritual care as an explicit component of holistic health and social care. This practical guide focuses on integrating spirituality in healthcare as a whole, rather than limiting it to any particular care environment. It is useful for health and social care professionals, including nursing and medical staff.... Read more at Amazon
Internet Discourse and Health DebatesISBN: 9781403914835 Applying multimodal textual analysis to the languages and images of online communication forms, Kay Richardson shows, from an applied linguistic perspective, how the Internet is being used for global interactive communication about public health risks. Detailed case studies of the possible risks posed by SARS, by mobile phones and by the vaccination of babies against childhood diseases are presented in depth. The author also explores the way in which, through their talk on line, people appear to judge the m... Read more at Amazon
Interprofessional CollaborationISBN: 9781583911761 In Interprofessional Collaboration the benefits of collaboration for patients and carers are confirmed through theoretical models illustrated with case studies of existing examples.... Read more at Amazon
Interprofessional EducationISBN: 9781856422383 The development of interprofessional education (IPE) is high on the current educational healthcare policy agenda. This book provides a straightforward and topical critique of IPE from the perspective of a range of healthcare professionals, and presents some useful examples of the ways in which IPE is implemented in both educational and clinical settings.The structure of the book enables the reader not only to develop their understanding of IPE, but, by providing examples of IPE in action, to plan IPE mor... Read more at Amazon
Introduction to Health ServicesISBN: 9780766836112 Introduction to Health Services, 6E builds on a well established format written by nationally recognized authors with updated research and statistics. This revision reflects critical updates in health care finance, health care access, managed care, insurance, and home health.... Read more at Amazon
Introduction to Project Management in Health ResearchISBN: 9780335197071 Aims to offer practical advice on the application to research of a range of project management processes, including those of: time and activity management; budgetary control; management of stakeholder relationships; and product marketing. This book is suitable for newcomers to health research.... Read more at Amazon
Inventing Disease and Pushing Pills: Pharmaceutical Companies and the Medicalisation of Normal LifeISBN: 9780415390712 Presents an account of how the pharmaceutical industry redefines health. This book reveals how the invention of diseases by pharmaceutical companies turns us all into patients, and how we can protect ourselves against this; how the medical profession has been bullied and co-opted into endorsing profitable cures for people who aren't ill; and more.... Read more at Amazon
Involving People in Healthcare Policy and PracticeISBN: 9781857757736 Explores the link between the 'corridors of power' where healthcare policy is made and the hospital, health centre or clinic where it is carried out. This work empowers readers to make changes in the public's involvement at a local level and explains how this impacts positively on organisational culture.... Read more at Amazon
Involving Service Users in Health and Social Care ResearchISBN: 9780415346474 This book argues that service user involvement in research can range from the extremes of being the subject to being the initiator or investigator of a research study. The activity of the professional researcher can also range from being the person undertaking the research, to being a partner with or mentor to service users. This broad scope of levels of involvement is reflected in the contributions in this book, both in the research experiences reported and in the writing of the chapters themselves. The co... Read more at Amazon
Issues in Primary CareISBN: 9780850842661
Leadership and Management in NursingISBN: 9780130617774 Offers an approach to leadership and management principles through case studies and student exercises. This edition covers trends such as gender and cultural issues, work place violence, informatics, and the impact of legislation on the nursing profession. It is useful for undergraduate courses in Nursing Leadership and Management.... Read more at Amazon
Leadership in NursingISBN: 9780443060069 Looks at leadership, using a conversational style and enhanced with the use of cartoons. This book shows that leadership for nurses is not a distant academic concept, but something everyone has within them. It is grounded in theory and makes use of learning aids.... Read more at Amazon
Leading Change in Health and Social CareISBN: 9780415305464 This book breaks new ground in exploring the need for individuals to engage in personal change through learning as an essential part of achieving significant change in organisations. It explains how to engage with people's energy, enthusiasm and... Read more at Amazon
Letting Them DieISBN: 9780852558683 South Africa has the worst AIDS epidemic in the world. In this one mining community in South Africa, AIDS will kill six out of ten young women and four out of ten young men. This work highlights the barriers and constraints to controlling this national crisis.... Read more at Amazon
Life in a HospiceISBN: 9781846192432 This book is about hospices, seen through the eyes of the people who work in them. Their individual voices, perspectives and stories invite readers into the day-to-day complexities of hospice life. There is growing public and professional attention to end of life care and the way dying patients and their families are treated. How can hospices make the process as peaceful and dignified as possible? What sort of people dedicate their careers to helping the dying? What difficulties are they up against in provi... Read more at Amazon
Limits to MedicineISBN: 9781842300077
Local Women, Global ScienceISBN: 9780253216403 Karen Booth looks closely at the operation of two clinics in Nairobi, and explores how internationally funded & nationally sanctioned interventions to stop the spread of HIV are focused on the working class and poor - those least able to challenge traditional patterns of behaviour.... Read more at Amazon
Low Income, Social Growth, and Good HealthISBN: 9780520252868 This book explores how twelve countries - China, Costa Rica, Cuba, Jamaica, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Oman, Panama, the former Soviet Union, Sri Lanka, and Venezuela - broke through the limits that low income so often imposes on human survival. Most made impressive gains in the life expectancy in the decades after 1920 and by 1960 nearly matched the rich countries in survival. James C. Riley finds that each of these countries enjoyed significant social growth, each invested in public health, and each gained its... Read more at Amazon
Making a Medical LivingISBN: 9780521524513 A socio-economic history of medical practice from the first voluntary hospital to national health insurance.... Read more at Amazon
Making an Effective BidISBN: 9781846190308 Making an Effective Bid outlines everything you nned to know for writing successful bids and tenders. It is full of tips and advice and introduces ideas for building up contacts, setting up networks, organising potential collaborators and avoiding pitfalls. Examples of successful and not-so-successful bids are included to fully illustrate the concepts.... Read more at Amazon
Making it RealISBN: 9781846190223 Healthcare educators with an interest in communication skills training and personal and professional development will find this guide invaluable, as will undergraduate and postgraduate teachers in university and workplace settings.... Read more at Amazon
Making the Cut in South AfricaISBN: 9781853157554 More than just an autobiography, Making the Cut in South Africa: A Medico-Political Journey is the story of one surgeon's professional and personal experiences within the divisive world of South African medicine, politics and society.The author, a renowned urologist and transplant surgeon, takes the reader on a journey of medical discovery, from his development of pioneering surgical procedures and success in revolutionizing urological practice in Mozambique, to his involvement in medical politics and wi... Read more at Amazon
Management Mistakes in Healthcare: Identification, Correction, and PreventionISBN: 9780521829007 This book defines management mistakes and offers a variety of models to classify and interpret them. It describes the evolution of management mistakes, techniques for identifying and disclosing mistakes, the relationship between management and medical mistakes, and steps to prevent and correct mistakes. Six case studies, drawn from a real set of events in healthcare organizations, describe management mistakes and are followed by commentaries by experts in the field of healthcare management. They indicate st... Read more at Amazon
Managing and Leading in the Allied Health ProfessionsISBN: 9781857757064 Part of a series that provides advice on management, leadership and development for those in the Allied Health Professions (AHP), this companion guides readers through key management challenges, the structure of the NHS, legal matters, professional regulation, research and cultural issues.... Read more at Amazon
Managing Diversity and Inequality in Health CareISBN: 9780702025204 Focuses specifically on the importance of managing diversity in health services. This volume examines what is meant by managing diversity, and outlines the nature of inequalities in the UK and their implications for health care professionals. It explores the interface between management skills and knowledge and quality, fit-for-purpose practice.... Read more at Amazon
Managing for HealthISBN: 9780415363457 Through examples and case studies drawn from across Europe the text explores the management challenge in public health policy and offers pointers to equip students of health management and public health managers with the necessary perspectives and skills to function effectively in the twenty-first century. Combining the very best of theory and practice Managing for Health will be essential reading for all those studying or working in this complex area.... Read more at Amazon
Managing in Health CareISBN: 9780582382350 Managing in health care is a complex discipline in today's environment. This book starts with the important element of self-awareness and demonstrates how the individual interacts with the health service and grows in confidence with self-management. It develops into concepts of team working.... Read more at Amazon
Managing Pharmaceuticals in International HealthISBN: 9783764366018 This book aims to provide the student of international health with an introduction to the international pharmaceutical scene: Who are the key players and what are their roles? What has been achieved so far, and what remains to be done? What are the prospects for the future?The book should be of interest to all those who wish to learn more about an important area of international health. It will be of particular interest to those involved with the management of medicines at any level, and to those with an... Read more at Amazon
Managing ScarcityISBN: 9780335194469 Drawing on research-based evidence about what is happening in Britain in contemporary times, this book also looks at the experience of the NHS since 1948, and puts the case of health care in the context of publicly funded services and programmes. It is useful for students and researchers of health policy, as well as health professionals.... Read more at Amazon
Managing with Plans and Budgets in Health and Social CareISBN: 9781844451340 Provides a guide for managers engaged in planning and budgeting within health and social care organisations. Taking a practical approach, this book focuses on planning processes and tools that can be used in many managerial situations, and budget preparation and control as practiced by managers rather than accountants.... Read more at Amazon
Marketing Planning for the Pharmaceutical IndustryISBN: 9780566081125 Marketing Planning for the Pharmaceutical Industry is based on real life experience built up over many years. Each chapter takes the reader through the sequential stages of planning so that by the end they will be able to produce a practical plan ready for implementation. It is the only book of this type which tailors marketing to those working in the sector.... Read more at Amazon
Measuring DiseaseISBN: 9780335206414 Reviews disease specific measures of quality of life and, where relevant, popularly used symptom and single dimension scales. This work is intended as a source book for researchers, medical and health care practitioners who are involved in the measurement of the outcome of health services.... Read more at Amazon
Measuring HealthISBN: 9780195165678 Measuring Health provides in-depth reviews of over 100 of the leading health measurement tools and serves as a guide for choosing among them. Now in its third edition, this book provides a critical overview of the field of health measurement, with a technical introduction and discussion of the history and future directions for the field. This latest edition updates the information on each of the measures previously reviewed and includes a complete new chapter on anxiety measurement to accompany the one on d... Read more at Amazon
Medical Error and Patient SafetyISBN: 9781420064780 Understanding the situation specific nature of medical errors, this volume presents more than 500 ideas, concepts, and techniques that can be applied and tailored to your unique circumstances. It examines vulnerabilities in medical services, including emergency services, healthcare facilities, and infection control.... Read more at Amazon
Medical IdentitiesISBN: 9781845450380 Looks at how a variety of health providers are perceived - from traditional healers to physicians, from diviners to nursing home providers. This title aims to demonstrate how class, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, or state policy may all play formative roles in shaping the definition of health and wellbeing and how they are delivered.... Read more at Amazon
Medical Practice Management in the 21st CenturyISBN: 9781846190230 Addresses multiple aspects of medical practice management. Presented in the workbook format, supported by web-based tools, this book allows busy physicians to gain a basic understanding of many topics, determine strategies for their practices, and seek additional information when they want it.... Read more at Amazon
Medical Services and the Hospital in Britain, 1860-1939ISBN: 9780521577847 An introduction to the development of medical and hospital services in Britain before 1939.... Read more at Amazon
Medicine and the MarketISBN: 9780801883392 Tracing the path that market practices have taken from Adam Smith in the eighteenth century into twenty-first century health care, Daniel Callahan and Angela A. Wasunns add a fresh dimension: they compare the different approaches taken in the market debate by health care economists, conservative market advocates, and liberal supporters of single-payer or government-regulated systems.In addition to laying out the market-versus-government struggle around the world they assess the leading market practices,... Read more at Amazon
Medicine in the Making of Modern Britain, 1700-1920ISBN: 9780415091688 Christopher Lawrence's critical overview of medicine's place in the development of modern Britain examines the significance of the clinical encounter in contemporary society. In the first short synoptic study of its kind, Lawrence breaks new ground by bringing together specialized scholarship into a broad argument, showing how the medical profession created a very specific role for itself and how a vast amount of important social policy decisions flowed from that.... Read more at Amazon
Men's Health - How to Do ItISBN: 9781846191923 Offers a practical approach to the development and implementation of men's health programmes. Suitable for healthcare professionals, and nursing students undertaking specialist men's health and health promotion courses, this book demonstrates what can be achieved with adequate resources, a flexible approach and an understanding of men's needs.... Read more at Amazon
Monitoring the Quality of Health CareISBN: 9781402071003 Reviews a variety of quality monitoring approaches and identifies critical issues pertaining to assessment, measurement, implementation, and evaluation of quality initiatives. This book suggests scientific approaches to put in place a core set of performance measures that identify the value-added clinical and managerial behaviors in health care.... Read more at Amazon
My Right to PlayISBN: 9780335211708 This book provides a take on life from the perspective of a child who has no sight, no speech and uses a wheelchair because of physical disabilities.Working from the perspective of a child with such needs and drawing on his own experience, Richard Orr provides access to the thoughts of such a child, recognizing that family and support workers can get things both right and wrong; suggests explanations for the puzzling behaviour often encountered when working with children who are dependent on others for t... Read more at Amazon
Myotonic DystrophyISBN: 9780198525868 Myotonic dystrophy is part of the group of muscular dystrophies. It is the commonest inherited adult muscular dystrophy and can have a profound effect on individuals who are diagnosed with the disease and their families. It is present for many decades of a patient's life and has many attendant implications. Unlike the other dystrophies, it can also affect other organs in the body, making this a very distinctive disorder, and a very troubling one for those close to it.This is the first book to be written... Read more at Amazon
National Health Insurance and Health ResourcesISBN: 9781583481271 National Health Insurance and Health Resources... Read more at Amazon
Needs Assessment in Public HealthISBN: 9780306465307 The assessment function of public health is essential in the development of appropriate policy and programmatic solutions to persistent and emergent public health concerns. This text follows the typical sequence of an actual needs assessment process, illustrated with case studies.... Read more at Amazon
Negotiating HealthISBN: 9781844072958 An analysis on the post-2005 world, and a discussion on how action may be taken to ensure that access to medicines is not sacrificed to corporate attempts to protect business interests. This book comes at a time when access to affordable medicines, for the treatment of diseases such as AIDS and malaria, is threatened by WTO regulations.... Read more at Amazon
New Perspectives in Public HealthISBN: 9781857757910 Drawing together the viewpoints of a variety of leading practitioners, this book provides diverse perspectives on a range of key issues facing public health. It includes material for health professionals involved in public health at every level, and for those with an interest in the field, including those in government and special interest groups.... Read more at Amazon
Nurse-LED ClinicsISBN: 9780415283120 This text allows the reader to explore key practice issues which directly affect the quality of service provided. It will be an invaluable handbook for nurses directly involved in running clinics, for those responsible for the provision of nurse-led services and for nurse educators.... Read more at Amazon
Nursing Issues in Leading and Managing ChangeISBN: 9780323002509 Nursing Issues in Leading and Managing Change is a current, cutting-edge text designed to guide nurses who are responsible for managing change in our health care delivery system. The text covers the changes in the systems of health care, role theory, decision processes, social and cultural settings, ethical and legal issues, credentialing, management skills, managed care, and nursing informatics. The book's strengths include its focus to help nurses thoroughly understand the current health care system, the... Read more at Amazon
Nursing, Medicine and Primary CareISBN: 9780335201679 This book provides a broadly sociological analysis of shifting boundaries between and within the professions of medicine and nursing in the context of primary care. The analysis highlights ideas that are current within the contemporary health services - ideas about enterprise as well as meeting need and empowering patients. The ways in which ideas are used to justify role change, and to establish and maintain professional identities are discussed.Nursing, Medicine and Primary Care has also been written w... Read more at Amazon
Observing OrganisationsISBN: 9780415196307 Provides a psychonanalytically informed examination of the cultures that arise within health care organisations, and shows how findings can be used to overcome difficulties that arise,... Read more at Amazon
OCR National Level 2 Health and Social CareISBN: 9780435452957 OCR National Level 2 Health and Social Care... Read more at Amazon
Older People and Community CareISBN: 9780335191567 Sets social and health care practice with older people firmly in the context of the new community care arrangements and the consequent organizational trends towards a market culture. This book questions the relative lack of attention given by professionals to issues of structural inequality in old age, compared for example to race and gender.... Read more at Amazon
Organizing for QualityISBN: 9781846191510 Draws on the findings from an international study designed to help practitioners and researchers understand the factors and processes that enable healthcare organisations in the United States and Europe to achieve - and sustain - high quality services for their users.... Read more at Amazon
Overcoming AIDSISBN: 9781593114718
Participatory Action Research in HealthcareISBN: 9781405124164 A guide to participatory action research in the community health setting. It positions participatory action research as an approach that can be engaged by practitioners and health service providers. It explores the issues surrounding participatory action research, and examines its benefits for community development and health promotion.... Read more at Amazon
Patient Self ReferralISBN: 9781846191657 Provides advice on management, leadership and development for those in the Allied Health Professions (AHP). This practical and comprehensive guide contains information you need to set up a self referral service successfully, including answers to frequently asked questions, sample referral forms, a sample poster, datasets, and more.... Read more at Amazon
Patient-centered MedicineISBN: 9781857759815 Divided into four parts, this volume comprehensively covers the evolution of the patient-centered clinical method, the six interactive components, teaching and learning the method and research including research findings and reviews. It explains the basis of the method and how it has developed.... Read more at Amazon
Philosophy for MedicineISBN: 9781857759433 This text offers a concise explanation of how philosophical concepts underpin much medical activity, and how being aware of this can improve everyday practice. It is not a basic introduction to philosophy, but restricts itself to those aspects that have a direct impact on medical professionals.... Read more at Amazon
Placing HealthISBN: 9781861346100 Health improvement strategies often target where people live, but do they work? This book aims to tackle this question by exploring several perspectives. It uses complexity theory to understand the inter-relationships between neighbourhood change, the emergence of states of health, and policy interventions managed using performance indicators.... Read more at Amazon
Policy Futures for UK HealthISBN: 9781846190032 Helps policy makers and stakeholders think about the future of health in the United Kingdom by summarising the context within which, health policy is developed. This title identifies key issues, pointing out the factors that feed into decision-making. It also considers trends in the societal environment including ethical and legal contexts.... Read more at Amazon
Practising Reflexivity in Health and WelfareISBN: 9780335205189 In recent years, professional practice in health and welfare has come under increasing scrutiny. The dominant response to this has been technical and procedural, as epitomized by the evidence based practice movement. This book offers an alternative, and equally rigorous approach to helping trainers and professionals to understand and analyse their practice. Drawing on a hitherto under-utilized literature about argument and persuasion (originating in qualitative research, ethnomethodology, conversation analy... Read more at Amazon
Primary Care: A Collaborative PracticeISBN: 9780323047425 Includes a unit concerning the business and practical aspects of nurse practitioner practice. This book presents disorders alphabetically and covers various adult disorders and related issues. It discusses each disorder in a primary care perspective with the information and approach useful for primary care health professionals.... Read more at Amazon
Primary Care: Core ValuesISBN: 9780727912688 Since the recent changes in the organization of primary care, the management of a GP's practice has become more complex, more controversial, and more time consuming. Contributors to this text discuss the way ahead for these issues, including funding, commissioning and patient priorities.... Read more at Amazon
Primary Health Care: Theory and PracticeISBN: 9780727917850 Explores the role of general practitioners and other primary care professionals in contemporary health care. This work provides insights into primary health care, focussing on: its intellectual roots; its impact on the individual, the family and the community; the role of the multidisciplinary team; and contemporary topics such as homelessness.... Read more at Amazon
Problem-based Learning for Health ImprovementISBN: 9781857755015 Providing an insight into public health for a wide range of professionals, this book takes a problem-based approach and incorporates practical advice for daily practice. Chapters aim to explore each of the ten areas of public health competence outlined by the Faculty of Public Health Medicine.... Read more at Amazon
Problems and Cases in Healthcare MarketingISBN: 9780072887761 Offers a collection of Harvard cases that concentrate on marketing within the health care sector. This book, divided into seven sections, explores topics that include: Developing a Marketing Strategy, Developing New Products, Launching of New Products, Managing Distribution, Managing Communications, Managing the Brand, and International Marketing.... Read more at Amazon
Promoting Evidence-Based Practice in Early Childhood Education: Research and Its ImplicationsISBN: 9780762307531 Promoting Evidence-Based Practice in Early Childhood Education: Research and Its Implications... Read more at Amazon
Providing Integrated Health and Social Services for Older PersonsISBN: 9780754641964 The book gives a general overview on European approaches towards integrated social and health care services and policies that are to be developed to face the growing need of care in ageing societies; furthermore, it provides indicators for successful approaches and models of good practice to overcome the social-health-divide and a better understanding of the meaning of integrated services and coordination of social and health systems in the different countries. Finally, facts and figures about coordinatio... Read more at Amazon
Psychosocial Aspects of the Health Care ProcessISBN: 9780582357242 This work focuses on the patient perspective of psychosocial healthcare, and covers topical areas such as screening and other preventative healthcare measures.... Read more at Amazon
Public Health and AgingISBN: 9780801855597 Examining the role of public health in system planning and co-ordination, this text evaluates the delivery of health promotion and disease prevention services to older people living outside of institutional settings. The epidemiology of age-related chronic illness is discussed.... Read more at Amazon
Public Health at the Crossroads: Achievements and ProspectsISBN: 9780521540476 This book is an introduction to public health as a discipline, and a critique of its recent development. Identifying poverty as the greatest continuing threat to health worldwide, the authors review epidemiological, demographic and public-health trends internationally, and argue that the prospects for public health will improve only if health in a broad sense becomes a central concern of the policy-making process.This extensively revised edition reviews major health trends, the current state of the world... Read more at Amazon
Putting Patients First: Designing and Practicing Patient-Centered CareISBN: 9780787964122 Acts as a guide to patient centered care, a technique championed and refined by the Planetree Institute. This book explains the origins and uses of patient centered care and provides a practical approach to implementing it in the health care organizations.... Read more at Amazon
Qualitative Research in Health CareISBN: 9781405135122 Offers an introduction to conducting and interpreting qualitative research, incorporating several examples, references and chapters relevant for an introductory level text. This practical guide shows how qualitative research can be employed appropriately to answer some of the questions confronting health researchers.... Read more at Amazon
Quality by DesignISBN: 9780787978983 Reflects the research and applied training conducted at Dartmouth Medical School under the leadership of Gene Nelson, Paul Batalden, and Marjorie Godfrey. This book includes the research results of high-performing clinical microsystems, case studies that highlight individual clinical programs, principles that are easily applied, and other methods.... Read more at Amazon
Quality Improvement in HealthcareISBN: 9780748733552 The delivery of high quality care is central to any modern healthcare system, and the growing importance of evidence-based practice has far-reaching implications for all managers and practitioners in healthcare. In this new edition of Quality Improvement in Healthcare, two highly experienced authors deliver a thorough and deeply practical multidisciplinary approach to the improvement of the quality of clinical practice.... Read more at Amazon
Quite Like Heaven?ISBN: 9781903386637
Raising Standards in American Health CareISBN: 9780787946210 Raising Standards in American Health Care translates proven Fortune 500 business strategies into pathways toward operational excellence for health care organizations. The book offers a review of the important lessons learned from corporate business giants - who have forged their paths to performance excellence by mastering the art of strategic standardization.... Read more at Amazon
Reasonable RationingISBN: 9780335211852 Priority setting in health care is an issue of increasing importance. Choices about the use of health care budgets are inescapable and difficult. A number of countries have sought to strengthen their approach to priority setting by drawing on research-based evidence on the cost and effectiveness of different treatments. This book brings together leading experts in the field to summarize and analyse the experience of priority setting in five countries: Canada, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, and the UK... Read more at Amazon
Rebuilding Trust in HealthcareISBN: 9781857759389 This timely book examines recent case studies involving every aspect of healthcare provision, including the Shipman and Alder Hey cases. It shows how positive lessons can be learnt from these experiences to improve health and healthcare. The contributors offer practical advice, based on their extensive and broad experience, on how to regain trust between patient and practitioner following these difficulties. They demonstrate how doctors and other healthcare professionals can introduce ways to reduce error a... Read more at Amazon
Reducing Inequalities in HealthISBN: 9780415259842 Reducing Inequalities in Health provides a comprehensive source of reference for the reader interested in what really works in the field of health promotion and in what sort of polices reduce the health gap... Read more at Amazon
Reforming the Health Care MarketISBN: 9780878405688
Regulating Healthcare QualityISBN: 9780750687843 Whom to treat? Whom not to treat? When to treat? How to treat? All healthcare professionals deal with these questions daily. The dilemmas they face are often personally agonising and politically explosive. Guidance comes from many sources: government, conscience, NHS accountants, clinical guidelines, the law and the codes of various disciplinary organisations. The guidance often conflicts, compounding the dilemmas.Regulating Healthcare Quality: Legal and Professional Issues sets out the various sources o... Read more at Amazon
Religions, Culture and HealthcareISBN: 9781857757552 All health professionals provide care to patients of differing religions. This book provides information for day to day care of patients in a multicultural society. It is useful for healthcare professionals, including doctors, nurses, midwives, healthcare assistants, physiotherapists, psychologists, hospital chaplains, and administrative staff.... Read more at Amazon
Research Methods in HealthISBN: 9780335206438 A guide to the range of methods used to study and evaluate health and health services. With material on topics such as cluster randomization, utility analyses, patients' preferences, and perception of risk, it is aimed at students and researchers of health and health services.... Read more at Amazon
Responsive HealthcareISBN: 9780335199662 Covers aspects of marketing and describes how conventional marketing methods can be adapted for use in healthcare and publicly-funded systems responsible for health promotion and health service planning. It focuses mainly on the British health system and its reforms. It is written for busy health service managers and clinical professionals.... Read more at Amazon
Scotland's Health 1919-1948ISBN: 9780820456225
Scotland's Health and Health ServicesISBN: 9780117032415 Scotland's Health and Health Services... Read more at Amazon
Second OpinionISBN: 9781586484811 In A Second Opinion, Dr. Arnold S. Relman, a long-standing leader in the medical community and former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, outlines a thoughtful and measured approach to how we can effectively rescue American health care. To develop a universal health care system that provides quality care at a cost we can afford to live with, we must change not only our system of insuring and paying for health care, but also the way we organize and deliver that care. A public single-payer system w... Read more at Amazon
Setting Up New Services in the NHS: Just Add Water!ISBN: 9781843101628 This guide for setting up a clinical service in the National Health Service is based on the author's experience of leading a nationally funded project to develop two new specialist services in different parts of the country and involving three separate NHS Trusts.The project successfully delivered two services for personality disordered patients based on the template of Henderson Hospital, a democratic therapeutic community (TC). Kingsley Norton takes the reader, step-by-step, through the entire process... Read more at Amazon
Sex,Sexuality and the Autism SpectrumISBN: 9781843102847 Sex, Sexuality and the Autism Spectrum is about how the differing cognitive style and sensory profiles experienced in ASD impact upon communication and relating.... Read more at Amazon
Sheer BuffooneryISBN: 9781589398948
Social Health Insurance Systems in Western EuropeISBN: 9780335213634 What are the characteristics that define a Social Health Insurance system? How is success measured in SHI systems? How are SHI systems developing in response to external pressures? Using seven Social Health Insurance countries in western Europe, this book reviews core structural and organizational dimensions, as well as reforms and innovations.... Read more at Amazon
Society and HealthISBN: 9780306477461 For the first time, a guide to the sociology of health and healthcare that addresses the needs of both sociologist and healthcare professionals is available. Written by a career health professional with a medical sociology background, Society and Health: Sociology for Health Professionals applies sociological concepts to current healthcare issues, incorporates the latest findings from health services research, and provides clear examples of the uses of sociology in understanding the U.S. healthcare system.... Read more at Amazon
Spirituality in Health Care ContextsISBN: 9781853029691 These essays explore the provision of spiritual care in health-care contexts. Christian, Jewish, Muslim and multi-faith scenarios are each covered separately, to reflect the different social-cultural systems in which care can be provided.... Read more at Amazon
Strategic Information Management in HospitalsISBN: 9780387403564 Illustrating the importance of hospital information management in delivering high quality healthcare at the lowest possible cost, this book provides the tools and resources that medical informatics specialist need to manage the complexities of hospital information systems.... Read more at Amazon
Strategies for Healthcare EducationISBN: 9781846190063 A practical guide that promotes evidence-based teaching. It provides a critical analysis of various healthcare teaching strategies, and an integrative approach promoting blended learning, self-directed study, simulation, and the use of medical humanities and story-telling.... Read more at Amazon
Studying the Organization and the Delivery of the Health ServicesISBN: 9780415257633 This book, written by experienced teachers for students, pulls together research methods from a range of social science disciplines and applies them to health service research.... Read more at Amazon
Succeeding as a Practice Management TeamISBN: 9781903734773 Management is about getting things done. This is a hands-on book written by people who do the job and have learned the lessons 'at the coalface'. It is a ready reference, a source of ideas, and an aid to good management.... Read more at Amazon
Supervision and Support in Primary CareISBN: 9781857759518 This book provides an introduction to clinical supervision and support in Primary Care. It explains the need for clinical supervision and support alongside other current processes of appraisal and revalidation and looks at how clinical supervision can be integrated into GP vocational training.... Read more at Amazon
Systematic Reviews: Synthesis of Best Evidence for Health Care DecisionsISBN: 9780943126661 Systematic reviews are a vital link in the chain of evidence that stretches from the laboratory bench to the bedside. This book aims to increase understanding of the role that systematic reviews play in advancing knowledge and motivate more practitioners to conduct their own reviews.... Read more at Amazon
Team Performance in Health CareISBN: 9780306467073 Collaboration and interdependence in health care is necessary for health professionals to provide quality treatment and care to patients with complex, chronic problems. This text discusses proven multidimensional instruments that measure team performance along with the needs for measuring team performance.... Read more at Amazon
Terrorism and Public HealthISBN: 9780195325256 In a wide-ranging, timely discussion of urgent issues, this volume examines the health consequences of the recent terrorist attacks in the United States and systematically reviews information on explosives, incendiaries, and small arms, as well as biologic, chemical, nuclear, radiologic andother radioactive weapons that may be used by terrorists. In a constructive approach, the authors discuss what needs to be done to improve the public health and medical care systems in preparation for possible future... Read more at Amazon
The 21st Century Health Care Leader (The Center for Healthcare Leadership, EmoryISBN: 9780787941574 With a foreword by James C. Collins. The 21st Century Health Care Leader is a collection of new thought from many of the country's leading practitioners and scholars in health and human services. In thirty-seven chapters, these contributors describe the skills and competencies that will be required of tomorrow's health care executives and caregivers. With insight and candor, the authors show what it will take to prevail as a health care leader of tomorrow. They demonstrate how to combine creativity and know... Read more at Amazon
The Aids Crisis is RidiculousISBN: 9780262025706 A first compilation of essays and writings by a leading artist and activist reflects diverse aspects of the AIDS epidemic, in a collection that captures the sense of fear engendered by the early days of the AIDS crisis, the experience of having a disease, AIDS as a global problem, and more.... Read more at Amazon
The Economics of Infectious DiseaseISBN: 9780198516224 The threat of infection, both new and re-emerging strains that have developed drug resistance, is a major public health issue. This book shows the contribution economists can make to the management and control of these diseases, using a range of economic analysis studies. It also discusses regulations and governance of infection control.... Read more at Amazon
The Ethics of Managed CareISBN: 9781402010453 Provides a philosophical and historical analysis of the development and situation of managed care. This book discusses the relationship between physician professionalism and patient rights to affordable, high quality care. It analyses the development of the philosophical, social, and economic issues of managed care.... Read more at Amazon
The European Union and Health PolicyISBN: 9780333754269 The book covers health and safety at work, professional mobility, health information systems and the relationship between European economic and social policies and health. It is the first major book devoted to such a wide range of European Union Health issues.... Read more at Amazon
The Future of Primary CareISBN: 9780787972431 Primary care, the fundamental practice of medicine, is at a crossroads. Changes in population demographics and in the financing and organization of the health care system are forcing changes in the role of physicians. This book presents fills a gap in the literature and offers a view that is at once authoritative, innovative and controversial.... Read more at Amazon
The Future of the NHSISBN: 9781858113692
The Global Challenge Health Care RationingISBN: 9780335204632 Explains about priority setting. This work, a useful read for general readers as well as specialists, is written by people involved in priority setting, either as decision makers or researchers. It shows how different countries and disciplines are approach the allocation of resources between competing claims.... Read more at Amazon
The Global Human Right to HealthISBN: 9781846192012 General readers will find a refreshing, up-to-date account of why these issues are so crucial, while professionals will find the cogent epidemiological analyses needed to inform research efforts. The book argues that the major causes of ill-health are not bacteria and viruses, or even war and natural disasters, but poverty. If we could solve the immensely complex problems of global inequities in wealth, the health inequities would largely vanish.The issue is not a simple one. This book sets out, among ot... Read more at Amazon
The Health Care Mess: How We Got Into It and What It Will Take to Get OutISBN: 9780674024151 If we can decode the human genome and fashion working machines out of atoms, why can't we navigate the quagmire that is our health care system? This book recounts the fraught history of health care in America since the 1960s.... Read more at Amazon
The Health Care Value ChainISBN: 9780787960216 Analyzes the United States' health care supply chain. This book offers an examination of how the health care supply chain helps create value and competitive advantage. It presents an examination of the trading relationships among the manufacturers of health care products, the distributors, the hospital customers and end users of those products.... Read more at Amazon
The Health of PopulationsISBN: 9780195308075 Describes how ideas about the costs and benefits of industrialisation, and causes of disease, have been used from different ideological persuasions to explain the health of populations. This book focuses on ideas that have been influential in debates: factors such as standard of living, community and its loss, inequality, and globalisation.... Read more at Amazon
The HIV PandemicISBN: 9780199237401
The Imperative of HealthISBN: 9780803979369 A reappraisal of public health and health promotion in contemporary societies which attempts to show that health represents a moral imperative embedded in social and cultural norms and expressed in public policies.... Read more at Amazon
The Importance of Food and Mealtimes in Dementia CareISBN: 9781843104353 Mealtimes are about much more than just re-fuelling, and the importance of mealtimes in the care of people with dementia cannot be overestimated. Using her extensive experience of working with older people with dementia, Grethe Berg explains how mealtimes can be used as natural opportunities for meaningful interaction, socialising and reminiscing, and useful forums for taking part in familiar tasks. The book considers the social significance of mealtimes and their role in maintaining patients' feelings of s... Read more at Amazon
The Incompetent DoctorISBN: 9780335191093 Based on ethnographic research carried out in England and Sweden, this book examines a neglected area of professional self-regulation. It explores the range of informal and quasi-formal mechanisms used by doctor colleagues, health care managers and professional organizations in attempts to cope with the 'problem' of the 'incompetent' doctor.... Read more at Amazon
The Insider's Guide to the NhsISBN: 9781857758740 This guide provides straightforward facts with opinion, commentary and an insider's view of the organizations that make up the NHS. It is designed to give readers a feel for topical issues in the NHS and covers contemporary controversies and issues. Numerous weblinks provide further information.... Read more at Amazon
The International Politics of HIV/AIDSISBN: 9780415413848 This book examines the global governance of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, interrogating the role of this international system and global discourse on HIV/AIDS interventions. The geographical focus is Sub-Saharan Africa since the region has been at the forefront of these interventions. There is a need to understand the relationship between the international political environment and the impact of resulting policies on HIV/AIDS in the context of people's lives. The book points out a certain disjuncture between the g... Read more at Amazon
The Management Handbook for Primary CareISBN: 9780850842883 The Management Handbook for Primary Care... Read more at Amazon
The Medical DirectoryISBN: 9781843112228 A medical directory offering information on practitioners and hospitals in the UK. It includes: contact details and background information on over 130,000 registered doctors; a listing for NHS and private hospitals, universities and medical schools; and indexes by post town and organization name.... Read more at Amazon
The National Health Service: A Political HistoryISBN: 9780199251100 This is the history of the NHS from the heroic age of Beveridge and Bevan to the impact of the reformist missions of Thatcher and Blair. From its inception the NHS has rarely been free from political controversy and in recent times it has consistently occupied the front line of UK politics. In this revised and extended edition Charles Webster has included an entirely new and extensive chapter on New Labour reaching to the first year of Tony Blair's second term of office.Charles Webster focuses on key iss... Read more at Amazon
The New ConsultationISBN: 9780192632883 The New Consultation will be an essential aid for all doctors and their educators to increase the effectiveness of their consultations and help to make their practice more patient-centred. It includes theoretical background as well as practical help for both consulters and teachers.... Read more at Amazon
The New NHSISBN: 9780415328418 Offering an account of the NHS, this book describes: the structures and functions of the organisations in each of the devolved countries; the funding of NHS services, education, training and research and resource allocation; the regulation of the NHS systems and workforce; and more. It is of interest to those working in healthcare.... Read more at Amazon
The New Politics of the NHSISBN: 9781846190667 This new edition makes sense of the confusing and often conflicting NHS debates. It provides vital background and tells the story of the evolution of the NHS over the past 60 years, and the way successive-governments tried to deal with the problems they faced. It explores how lessons from the past can inform current debate and demonstrates how channels of power and influence function today.Assuming no prior knowledge of NHS politics and systems, The New Politics of the NHS is completely up-to-date, impar... Read more at Amazon
The Pocket Guide to Critical AppraisalISBN: 9780727910998 This concise guide to the assessment of medical research is designed to accompany every library visit. The first section of the book introduces the rationale behind critical appraisal, discusses the questions to be asked of each section of a paper and identifies the common pitfalls in published research.The second section tackles the five main genres of medical research in detail: surveys, clinical trials, cohort studies, case control studies, and review papers.Each method is given a comprehensive one... Read more at Amazon
The Political Economy of AIDS in AfricaISBN: 9780754638988 Through a critical and detailed exploration of specific case studies, this volume brings together an array of international contributors to redefine the political and economic contours of this calamitous epidemic. It examines the impact of the shortfalls in the 'Global Fund' allocation, the slow pace of administrative processing of aid and the weaknesses of institutional responses to the crisis from African countries and their partners in the global health community. It is essential reading for all concerne... Read more at Amazon
The Political Economy of Health CareISBN: 9781861348081 Offers an analysis of the historical development, this book explores how the National Health Service (NHS) might be reconstituted as a humane service for all, and a civilising influence on society as a whole. It is useful for students, academics, health professionals, and NHS users.... Read more at Amazon
The Professional Qualifying ExaminationsISBN: 9780750688451 The Professional Qualifying Examinations can be a daunting prospect for any optometry student. This survival guide provides down to earth practical help for all those about to sit the PQEs. Brimming with sound advice and lots of useful hints and tips, it covers everything from applying for a pre-registration position, the pre-registration year diary, exams, venues, accommodation and achieving examination success, as well as over 500 past examination questions on the various PQE topics from binocular vision... Read more at Amazon
The Role of General Practice in Maternity CareISBN: 9780850842180 The Role of General Practice in Maternity Care... Read more at Amazon
The Secret History of a Woman PatientISBN: 9781846191503 When Janet Rhys Dent is diagnosed with a life-threatening illness, she decides to try to be a good patient. This title reveals her secret dilemmas and discoveries both inside and outside the hospital. It records her successes and failures as she becomes involved in the quest to find out what makes a good patient.... Read more at Amazon
The Sociology and Politics of HealthISBN: 9780415233194 The Sociology and Politics of Health is a collection of key readings through which to explore the sociological and political dimensions of health, illness and health care.... Read more at Amazon
The Sociology of HealthcareISBN: 9780582369542 Explores the sociology of healthcare, providing an introduction to issues within the healthcare system, ranging from the changes in policy and practice since the new Labour government came into power and the issues of rationing, consumerism and disability within healthcare.... Read more at Amazon
The Strategic Application of Information Technology in Health Care OrganizationsISBN: 9780787959876 Information technology is a critical factor in the success of strategic planning for health care organizations. If health care organizations are to thrive in the highly competitive health care marketplace, they must invest in and develop their information technology (IT) capabilities.This thoroughly revised and updated second edition of The Strategic Application of Information Technology in Health Care Organizations offers health care executives and managers a balanced analysis of health care information... Read more at Amazon
The Tony Copperfield's Primary Care ScreamISBN: 9780750687935 Dr Tony Copperfield's writing, well known to readers of Doctor Magazine, gives vent to the anger and frustration which bubbles just beneath the surface of so many family doctors. This title collects the popular Tony Copperfield articles, each around 500 words and published in the Doctor Magazine.... Read more at Amazon
Therapy and Learning DifficultiesISBN: 9780750639620 Takes a view of people with a learning disability, and also focuses on the practicalities of the therapist's work. This book tackles issues such as, sexuality, normalisation and challenging behaviour and is written by well known authors. It will be of interest to student and practitioner physiotherapists and occupational therapists.... Read more at Amazon
Therapy ServicesISBN: 9783718652464
Towards Managed Primary CareISBN: 9780754642275 In Towards Managed Primary Care, the authors examine the background and development of Primary Care Groups and Primary Care Trusts (PCG/Ts) in the English NHS. The book focuses on the practical experience of developing and managing PCG/Ts and on the lessons that can be drawn from this for future policy relating to the management and evaluation of such organizations in the UK and elsewhere.With chapter conclusions setting out evidence-based lessons for developing and researching primary care organizations... Read more at Amazon
Trading Women's Health and Rights?: Trade Liberalization and Reproductive Health in Developing EconomiesISBN: 9781842777756 Presents a study of the relationship between trade and reproductive rights. This book reviews the direct and indirect linkages between the two, and then focuses in on how the linkages are mediated through women's employment. It takes up the issue of how trade liberalization affects government capacity to deliver reproductive health services.... Read more at Amazon
Traditional, Complementary and Alternative Medicine and Cancer Care: An International Analysis of Grassroots IntegrationISBN: 9780415359948 Traditional, Complementary and Alternative Medicine and Cancer Care provides the first in-depth exploration of the role patient support groups play in the provision of CAM in the UK and Australia. It also looks at the utilisation of non-biomedical treatments in Pakistan focusing on the role of informal social networks.... Read more at Amazon
Transformational Nursing LeadershipISBN: 9780887375514
Transforming Health Promotion PracticeISBN: 9780803608146 This text presents a new paradigm for nursing's health promotion role that is most suited to the way health care is now being viewed and delivered. It focuses on client-centred health promotion practice rather than imposing the health care provider's interpretations of the client's needs.... Read more at Amazon
Understanding Clinical Governance and Quality AssuranceISBN: 9780333985106 This highly practical book is about making the principles, philosophies and methodologies of quality assurance a reality. It covers the key techniques, skills and approaches required to make it happen. Covering the latest NHS changes and government initiatives, such as the Healthcare Commission (formerly CHI) and the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE), and supported throughout with examples of how the theory works in practice, this will be a valuable resource for all healthcare students and p... Read more at Amazon
Understanding Health and Social CareISBN: 9780761956860 Cutting across the division between health care and social care, the book links policy to practice, juxtaposing the voices of a range of careers and service users wih insights from academic debate and research. Published as a set book for the Open University course: Health and Social Care (K100).... Read more at Amazon
User Participation Research in Health and Social CareISBN: 9780335222056 User participation in research is in its relative infancy with many practical, ethical, moral, methodological and philosophical questions unanswered. This text includes contributions on the use and application of narrative approaches, intervention and evaluation research, methodological development and quality thresholds.... Read more at Amazon
Using Cost-Effectiveness Analysis to Improve Health CareISBN: 9780195171860 This book traces the roots of CEA in health and medicine, describes its promise for rational resource allocation, and discusses the nature of the opposition to it, using Medicare and the Oregon health plan as examples. The book also offers advice for policy makers and politicians, including lessons from Europe, Canada, and Australia, and underlines the need for leadership to establish the conditions for change.... Read more at Amazon
Using Medicines InformationISBN: 9781857756906 Features basic information on the distribution and supply of medicines, including information of the policy changes. This book explains specific topics such as pharmacoepidemiology, health economics and pharmacovigilance.... Read more at Amazon
Using Research for Effective Health PromotionISBN: 9780335208708 Bridging the gap between research and practice in health promotion, this book advances evidence-based health promotion by illustrating how service providers and researchers can change their working practices to benefit the public. It addresses the need for health promotion services to be grounded in empirical research, and for research to focus on issues important to those delivering as well as those receiving the services. It advances the debate about the relative values of qualitative and experimental res... Read more at Amazon
Valuing DiversityISBN: 9780850842937
Violence and Aggression in the WorkplaceISBN: 9781857757842 This book provides a much needed general introduction to one of the major challenges of modern healthcare service. It is the only book solely devoted to the ever-growing concern of violence and aggression in the healthcare environment.Violence and Aggression in the Workplace has been designed specifically for healthcare staff and is based on the national guidelines and current thinking around the management of violence and aggression within healthcare.Practical and easy to read, the book offers ways t... Read more at Amazon
Whiplash and Other Useful IllnessesISBN: 9780773523333 This title is by the author of two books in the UK in the 1970's ('Need Your Doctor Be So Useless' and 'The Medical Runaround').... Read more at Amazon
Working for HealthISBN: 9780761969983 No single area of study, or any individual, can claim to have the answers to even the basic questions which surround human health. Trying to understand the nature of health requires insights from many different perspectives. Working for Health is a unique reader which draws together contributions fr... Read more at Amazon
Working with Communities in Health and Human ServicesISBN: 9780195558357 Embeds community participation in well-established social science theory about community and participation, and provides students with the concepts and practical tools essential for increasing community participation in health and human services.... Read more at Amazon
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