Medical administration and management

The third edition of this textbook has been thoroughly revised to meet the needs of today's social work students, professionals and service managers.

In just the past decade, the emergence of digital health has finally become palpable.

This accessible text presents a comparative analysis of health and social care policy and practice from around the world, with learning points drawn out for the UK.

China's current social medical insurance system has nominally covered more than 95 per cent of 1.

Hospital-based physicians are privy to some of the most meaningful moments of people s lives, including life-changing diagnoses, pivotal medical procedures, complex medical decisions, and critical end-of-life decisions.

This book offers a new, practical approach to healthcare reform.

Guide to the duties, customs, organization, administration, resources, and benefits for medical officers in the U.

*; Outlines 10 steps for dying gracefully with the help of psychedelics, including how to navigate the complex legal landscape and find the right guide and therapy*; Looks at clinical studies of psychedelics from UCLA, Johns Hopkins, and NYU School of Medicine that show dramatic lessening of end-of-life anxiety in terminally ill patients*; Shares wisdom from experts on psychedelic research and palliative care, including Roland Griffiths, Katherine MacLean, Ira Byock, and Anthony BossisExamining the evolving landscape that is found around end-of-life psychedelic care, Dr.

As the United States faces increasingly difficult and trenchant public health problems, from the Zika virus to the obesity epidemic to the opioid crisis, population health is a growing area of concern for public health organizations, particularly how to care for populations effectively on a shoestring budget.

This book examines the landmark 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) from the perspective of health policy research as translational science.

Advancing Practice in Cancer and Palliative Care critically explores and analyses the themes and pragmatics of advancing nursing practice in relation to cancer and palliative care.

Healthcare systems across the globe are currently facing perhaps the greatest challenges and pressures to date as the need to improve outcomes, efficiency, productivity, quality, customer satisfaction and sustainability have significantly risen.

Studies confirm that the physical environment influences health outcomes, emotional state, preference, satisfaction and orientation, but very little research has focused on mental and behavioural health settings.

Innovations in Transportable Healthcare Architecture is the first book to examine the ways that healthcare architecture can provide better assistance in disaster-stricken communities.

In her groundbreaking book The Southwest Airlines Way, Jody Hoffer Gittell revealed the management secrets of the company Fortune magazine called "e;the most successful airline in history.

This book examines how healthcare organisations shape, adapt and resist developments in healthcare policy and practice.

This book provides an unique resource for registered nurses working in hospice palliative care at home and for the community, outside of acute care settings and also incorporates literature related to palliative care in acute health care settings, as part of the overall services and supports required.

In recent years, the role of religion in influencing international health policy and health services provision has been seen as increasingly important.

Healthcare continues to be one of the defining political issues in the United States.

The Modernization of the Nursing Workforce: Valuing the healthcare assistant is based on recently completed research exploring the role of healthcare assistants (HCA) in acute hospitals.

"e;[A] digestible yet comprehensive resource describing the many career opportunities in healthcare management.

Despite its high cost, the US healthcare system produces relatively short life spans, and is wasteful, inefficient and has serious safety and quality issues.

This book provides an overview of key issues with regards to implementing telemedicine services as well as an in depth overview of telemedicine in pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine.

The thoroughly revised and updated fourth edition of Foodservice Manual for Health Care Institutions offers a review of the management and operation of health care foodservice departments.

There is a renewed sense of urgency to alleviate human suffering and public attention has increased its focus on corporate philanthropy and social investing.

"e;As one who is involved in the culture change movement and is trying to review the huge volume of available resources, I find it refreshing to have a book that draws it all together.

This book will provide a guide for medical students to self-reflect, build a portfolio, and select a career path equipped with the knowledge to make an informed decision that is the best for them.

Patient-controlled personal health records are the key to successful interaction between physician and patient.

The ethical dimensions of managing healthcare services are often daunting, but the sixth edition of this highly regarded text provides the principles to educate students and guide practitioners as they strive to make the "e;right"e; decisions.

Patients today are more empowered and knowledgeable than they have ever been.

The growing geriatric population in the United States has created an increasing need for palliative medicine services across the range of medical and surgical specialties.

First published in 1931, this book is the first of three volumes that describe the circumstances of medical work in several European countries at that time.

One important reason for the multitude of research activities in this field is because physical inactivity and nutrition are significant risk factors for many common non-communicable diseases.

Teamwork is a complex but essential component of palliative care.

The book demonstrates how Resilient Health Care principles can enable those on the frontline to work more effectively towards interdisciplinary care by gaining a deeper understanding of the boundaries that exist in everyday clinical settings.

Care coordination has always been a primary duty of nursing.

This book is a thorough, balanced, and insightful study of what is happening and what should be happening in health care financing.

This manual is aimed to provide health care professionals, at the scene and at hospitals, as well as allied organizations, a practical and operational approach for planning the response to mass casualty incidents (MCI's), with emphasis to the types of events that are sudden in nature, resulting in a number of injured or contaminated patients that overwhelm the local health care system.

Risk Management Handbook for Health Care Organizations, Student Edition This comprehensive textbook provides a complete introduction to risk management in health care.

Developed under the direction of the International Council of Nurses (ICN), this book is part of a series exploring advanced practice globally.

The Textbook of Palliative Care Communication is the authoritative text on communication in palliative care, providing a compilation of international and interdisciplinary perspectives.

The Healthcare industry is one of the largest and rapidly developing industries.

Most general practices are businesses of quite significant size and yet many GPs are not clear on what the detail of their practice accounts really means.

Machine Learning and Deep Learning in Medical Data Analytics and Healthcare Applications introduces and explores a variety of schemes designed to empower, enhance, and represent multi-institutional and multi-disciplinary machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) research in healthcare paradigms.

The Clinical Pocket Guide to Advanced Practice Palliative Nursing is a companion guide to Advanced Practice Palliative Nursing, the first text devoted to advanced practice nursing care of the seriously ill and dying.

Currently and for centuries past, sickness has been understood to be primarily the physical result of bodily disease.

This comprehensive book focuses on better big-data security for healthcare organizations.

Practitioners, organisations and policy makers in health and social care settings are increasingly recognising the need for trauma-informed approaches in organisational settings, with morbidity and financial burdens being of growing concern.