Health systems and services

This timely and compelling volume explores the interdisciplinary perspectives on, and long-term consequences of, emotional neglect on children and adolescents, creating a theoretical model that considers the impact of emotional neglect in distinct phases of development.

A must read for all paramedics and pre-hospital clinicians"e; Gemma Howlett, Principal Lecturer in Paramedic Apprenticeships, University of Cumbria, UK"e;A unique and valuable book to enable paramedics to undertake the daily challenges of providing care and support for patients and service users experiencing mental health difficulties.

An estimated 17 million people are infected with HIV today, and it is estimated that in Africa alone there will be at least 70 million people infected in the next 25 years.

Revealing a tension between the medical model of depression and the very different language of theology, this book explores how religious people and communities understand severe sadness, their coping mechanisms and their help-seeking behaviours.

Surgery and pharmaceuticals are not the only effective procedures we have to improve our health.

Command the room--whether you're speaking to an audience of one or one hundred.

With healthcare making the transition from volume-based reimbursement programs to value-based approaches, understanding performance measurement is vital to optimize payment and quality outcomes.

This book teaches the theories and concepts behind surgical quality improvement and explains the skills and traits needed to become a high quality provider.

The main focus of this book is the examination of women's health issues and the role machine learning can play as a solution to these challenges.

In a work that spans the twentieth century, Nancy Tomes questions the popular--and largely unexamined--idea that in order to get good health care, people must learn to shop for it.

Healthcare transformation requires us to continually look at new and better ways to manage insights - both within and outside the organization today.

Meditation for Psychotherapists provides students and practitioners of psychotherapy with specific meditation techniques.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the two important issues relating to disease in elderly: the age-related changes and the pathophysiology of the diseases.

Adolescent rites of passage are ubiquitous sociocultural processes that feature across all manner of social activity.

This textbook explores issues central to the provision of recovery-orientated care based on ethical principles and human rights perspectives.

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This comprehensive book brings together research published during 2021 analysing the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the economy - on output and employment, on inequality, and on public policy responses.

With universal application, nidotherapy is a treatment and a set of principles both fully explained in this comprehensive guide.

Can YouLearn to BeHappy?

I Don't Know What It Is but I Don't Think It's Serious provides a broad analysis of the issues behind medical confidence and decision making.

Before You See Your First Client begins where courses, workshops, training seminars, and textbooks leave off, providing a candid, behind-the-scenes look at the fields of therapy, counseling, and human services.

Fifteen years ago the AIDS `epidemic' did not exist on the public agenda.

Children represent a special challenge for emergency care providers, because they have unique medical needs in comparison to adults.

Without new ways to think and manage itself strategically, academic healthcare faces terminal deterioration.

The essential work in HIV for providers and pharmacists, updated for 2021.

Provides health professionals with a single, accessible, and interesting source to prepare for the field of occupational and environmental medicine.

A growing reliance on market disciplines and incentives characterised health care reform strategies in many countries in the 1990s, yet the country which relies most heavily on private health care - the U.

Regulatory agencies within the United States and the United Kingdom, among several other countries, have reviewed extensively the safety and efficacy of Halcion (triazolam)a once commonly used hypnotic drug.

This volume demonstrates advanced strategies in biomedical sciences and healthcare focused on suboptimal health conditions in the framework of Predictive, Preventive and Personalised Medicine (3PM/PPPM).

The incidence of skin cancer has risen rapidly in recent decades, and patients often present initially to practitioners in many different specialties.

Motivational Interviewing in Clinical Mental Health Counseling is a cutting-edge guide to empowering counselors with the philosophical and actionable elements of motivational interviewing.

Including a peer-support workbook with exercises, this book demonstrates the therapeutic value of art practice, both inside and outside institutions, as a more humane approach for children and adolescents affected by mass incarceration.

This valuable handbook makes the U.

Staff burnout and work-related stress in mental health professionals cost the National Health Service not only millions of pounds each year, but also impact upon the welfare of those being cared for.

Occupational skin diseases are a field of increasing interest in today's dermatology.

Although often depicted as aggressive and unpredictable in movies, people with schizophrenia are actually far more likely to be the victims of violence than perpetrators of it.

The current healthcare system is under attack by market, government, and consumer forces.

This book aids clinicians in supporting and caring for transgender and gender-diverse children and adolescents - youth who are born into an incongruent body.

Although it is one of the most-widely studied viruses, many mysteries still remain about HIV.

This book provides a clear, broad, and provocative synthesis of the history of Latin American medicine.

Essential for anyone who uses computers in clinical practice and cares about the ethical issues that arise in their work.

Explores differences in beliefs of what constitutes reliable scientific evidence during public health emergencies, including COVID-19.