Health systems and services

Social work deals with the heavy end of human difficulties such as cruelty, self-destructiveness, and severe and enduring mental health problems.

The idea behind editing this book is to present a contemporary reference that tells the story of how businesses and institutions in emerging economies are circumventing or can better circumvent institutional voids in order to create distinct value for consumers and develop resilient and sustainable economies.

The understanding of how to reduce risk factors for mental disorders has expanded remarkably as a result of recent scientific advances.

Painful diabetic polyneuropathy is the most common and disturbing of painful conditions experienced by people with diabetes.

In their desperate quest for conception, thousands of infertile couples from around the world travel to the global in vitro fertilization (IVF) hub of Dubai.

Provides new and updated questions to help readers prepare for ABPN exams and earn CME and MOC credits towards re-certification.

This handbook examines current mental health research, challenges in patient care, and advances in clinical psychiatry with the aim of improving approaches toward the screening of at-risk individuals, facilitating access to care, and supervising rehabilitation.

The New York Times Science Bestseller from Robert Wachter, Modern Healthcare's #1 Most Influential Physician-Executive in the USWhile modern medicine produces miracles, it also delivers care that is too often unsafe, unreliable, unsatisfying, and impossibly expensive.

Engaging and Working with African American Fathers: Strategies and Lessons Learned challenges traditional and historic practices and policies that have systematically excluded fathers and contributed to social and health disparities among this population.

Health Technologies and Informatics: Research and Developments provides a comprehensive overview of mobile health applications, biodata management and analytics, medical imaging, personalized and public health systems, and biosignal processing.

At the request of Congress, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) will evaluate U.

Culture by Design is about shifting focus from solely organisational outcomes and performance, towards organisational culture and wellbeing.

Take social work supervision into the new millennium!

The Oxford Handbook of Reproductive Medicine and Family Planning, second edition provides essential practical information in the care of the adolescent and reproductive age females and males.

Action research is a form of research closely linked to practice which can readily be undertaken by practitioners and service users.

Cognitive systems engineering has been widely and successfully applied in the design of safety critical systems such as nuclear power, aviation, and military command-and-control.

A multiplicity of factors converging together suggest the long term/post-acute care (LTPAC) provider community (e.

The healthcare industry is in a state of accelerated transition.

Technology is moving at an exponential pace in this era of computational intelligence.

From precision medicine to pandemics, from value-based healthcare to stakeholder engagement, European health systems are facing unprecedented change.

The diversity of methodologies and applications in the literature for the traffic engineering, performance modelling and analysis of convergent multiservice heterogeneous networks attests to the breath and richness of recent research and developments towards the design and dimensioning of the next and future generation Internets.

Palliative care is an essential element of our health care system and is becoming increasingly significant amidst an aging society and organizations struggling to provide both compassionate and cost-effective care.

The science of biomedical measurements is experiencing a period of rapid development.

You can afford the care you need.

According to the National Patient Safety Foundation, about 440,000 deaths from hospital mistakes are expected in 2018.

Who are NHS middle managers?

The Comprehensive Textbook of AIDS Psychiatry: A Paradigm for Integrated Care is the first book to provide insight into the interface between the psychiatric, medical, and social dimensions of HIV and AIDS and the need for a compassionate, integrated approach to the HIV pandemic with an emphasis on humanizing and destigmatizing HIV.

Spending a week doing nothing but exploring the possibilities of Lego, thereby risking yet another job; impulsively sinking all his savings into wildly impractical self-employment ventures; sleepless nights, gripped by the need to write - these are just some manifestations of the often damaging periods of manic, uninhibited energy Brian Adams has experienced since his mid-twenties.

A completely revised and expanded one-volume legal resource for tax-exempt healthcare organizations A complete and up-to-date legal resource for tax-exempt healthcare organizations and their advisors, this Fourth Edition, equips you with a comprehensive, one-volume source of detailed information on federal law covering tax-exempt healthcare organizations.

Managing Health at Work reviews recent developments in the field of workplace health from a practical point of view.

Foundations of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry: The Bumpy Road to Specialization documents the development of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry from its inception to the present.

Collaborative Consultation in Mental Health: Guidelines for the New Consultant offers a practical guide for professionals working 'indirectly' with clients through consultation with staff.

Breakthroughs in medical science and technology, combined with shifts in lifestyle and demographics, have resulted in a rapid rise in the number of individuals living with one or more chronic illnesses.

Whilst the body has recently assumed greater sociological significance, there has been less engagement in social work and social care on the bodily experience of health, illness and disease.

The direct-to-consumer business model has transformed how people seek out goods and services from music to mortgages.

Developing or existing breast cancer centres strive to provide the highest quality care possible within their current financial and personnel resources.

Colorectal Cancer Screening and Computerized Tomographic Colonography: A Comprehensive Overview is an authoritative volume on CT colonography.

Imagine a nation with the highest proportion of women legislators in the world.

The Quality and Outcomes Framework has deeply divided UK general practitioners.

In this original work, Tom Lawry takes readers on a journey of understanding what we learned from fighting a global pandemic and how to apply these learnings to solve healthcare's other big challenges.

The tools and answers you need to help your parents receive the care they deserve.

This book comprehensively reviews mindfulness-based interventions for specific areas of functioning in children and adolescents, with refreshing insights and perspectives.

This sixth edition of the Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine takes us now into the third decade for this definitive award-winning textbook.

Thousands of American service members are returning from their tours of duty with physical and/or psychological disabilities.

Mental Ills and Bodily Cures depicts a time when psychiatric medicine went to lengths we now find extreme and perhaps even brutal ways to heal the mind by treating the body.

Over the course of the last two decades, improved practices in child and adolescent mental healthcare have led to a decreased environment of stigma, which also led to an increased identification and treatment of mental health disorders in children and youth.

American health care has made great strides in the past hundred years.

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Initiative on the Future of Nursing, at the IOM, seeks to transform nursing as part of larger efforts to reform the health care system.

The coronavirus pandemic conferred enormous power on certain government officials.