Health systems and services

The saying "e;it takes a village to raise a child"e; is especially true for families with special needs children.

This comprehensive book provides practical guidance on the care of the critical patient in the emergency department.

Telemedicinethe use of information and telecommunications technologies to provide and support health care when distance separates the participantsis receiving increasing attention not only in remote areas where health care access is troublesome but also in urban and suburban locations.

The third book in the Healthcare Payment Systems series, Prospective Payment Systems examines the various types of prospective payment systems (PPS) used by healthcare providers and third-party payers.

This book provides an overview of the innovative concepts, methodologies and frameworks that will increase the feasibility of the existing telemedicine system.

This is a systematic review on how innovations in health service practice and organisation can be disseminated and implemented.

Aging is an irreversible natural process; we as humans develop many age-related disadvantages impacting many aspects of our life.

The increasing prevalence of morbid obesity has led the World Health Organization to coin the descriptive term "e;globesity"e; to reflect the worldwide nature of the problem.

This important book examines issues affecting the sustainability and spread of new working practices.

The Cloud is an advanced and fast-growing technology in the current era.

Reingard Lange beleuchtet vier Bereiche der sozialen Vernetzung bei Menschen mit beginnender Demenz: im engsten sozialen Umfeld, zusammen mit Profis bzw.

Becoming an Effective Counselor is a textbook for advanced clinical courses that guides counselors in training through the most challenging phases of their academic preparation.

With the vast majority of healthcare and social workers identifying as women, the vanguard of the COVID-19 response was distinctly gendered.

Health Insurance is a Family Matter is the third of a series of six reports on the problems of uninsurance in the United Sates and addresses the impact on the family of not having health insurance.

Building on the groundbreaking work Lifestyle Medicine (2016), this unique new book bridges the gap between theory and practice by providing detailed information on the real-world development and creation of a Lifestyle Medicine Center, whether independently or as part of an established medical program or department.

This book assembles many of the foremost writers and clinicians in the field of team-based primary care to share their own relational reflections.

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) also known as sexual and gender minority (SGM) populations have been the focus of global attention.

Despite the importance of supervision to the field of mental health -- it is a building block of learning and a fundamental stepping-stone to unsupervised practice -- most mental health supervisors receive little to no training in how to supervise.

Neuro-Psychopharmaka zählen zu den meistverordneten Medikamenten, dennoch fällt vielen Ärzten der Überblick schwer.

Clinical practice related to sleep problems and sleep disorders has been expanding rapidly in the last few years, but scientific research is not keeping pace.

Organizations are ethically, morally, and legally required to maintain safe workplaces that protects employees, visitors and anyone who frequents their establishments.

Praxisorientiertes Handbuch zur palliativen Pflege, das einfühlsam das "Leben in einem permanenten Augenblick" von Menschen mit einer Demenz beschreibt und zeigt, wie Pflegende sterbende demenzkranke Menschen pflegen, unterstützen und begleiten können.

This new account of the pathogenesis of essential hypertension (EH) represents a detailed analysis of the main components of the circulatory control system.

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

Fundamentals of Palliative Care for Student Nurses is a thorough yet accessible introduction and overview of a key area of the nursing programme.

This book brings together a cutting-edge selection of the most current applications of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT), giving clinicians as well as researchers a concise guide to current and future directions.

The gold standard in reengineering care deliveryWhen it comes to providing high-quality care in the most efficient, cost-effective way possible, ProvenCare has proven to be the gold standard in the industry.

Mental health professionals, more than any other clinicians, encounter legal issues on a regular basis.

In Remembrance of Patients Past, historian Geoffrey Reaume remembers previously forgotten psychiatric patients by examining in rich detail their daily life at the Toronto Hospital for the Insane (now called the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health - CAMH) from 1870-1940.

In this groundbreaking book, experts show what a difference support systems-family, friends, community and social programs-can make towards the recovery of the millions of people who suffer a traumatic brain injury each year.

Designing Public Spaces in Hospitals illustrates that in addition to their aesthetic function, public spaces in hospitals play a fundamental role concerning people's satisfaction and experience of health care.

40 Jahre beriet der Autor Menschen mit einer Krebserkrankung und gewann Einblick darin, wie sehr die Krankheit die energetische Struktur der Umgebung widerspiegelt.

Women suffer disproportionate rates of chronic disease and disability from some conditions, and often have high out-of-pocket health care costs.

We are surrounded by medical miracles: polio has been eradicated; childhood leukemia is now treatable; death by cardiovascular disease has declined by two-thirds in the last fifty years.

Data integrity is a critical aspect to the design, implementation, and usage of any system which stores, processes, or retrieves data.

HIV/AIDS is a catastrophe globally but nowhere more so than in sub-Saharan Africa, which in 2008 accounted for 67 percent of cases worldwide and 91 percent of new infections.

Lung cancer is the second most diagnosed cancer and remains the leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the United States.

Lean healthcare is not about being better, but rather becoming the best at getting better.

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This guide to the planning of health promotion programs uses the increasingly popular Intervention Mapping approach, a theory- and evidence-based interactive process that links needs assessment with program planning in a way that adds efficiency and improves outcomes.

Affective Health and Masculinities in South Africa explores how different masculinities modulate substance use, interpersonal violence, suicidality, and AIDS as well as recovery cross-culturally.