The Handbook of Evaluation Methods for Health Informatics provides a complete compendium of methods for evaluation of IT-based systems and solutions within healthcare.
Lo sviluppo di nuove tecnologie nell’era digitale e di sistemi informativi di condivisione, gestione e archiviazione dei dati, ha contribuito alla nascita di un nuovo modo di intendere l’attività del medico: la telemedicina.
This book makes an original contribution in addressing contemporary critical discussions and reflections on international health policies, strategies, programmes, systems, diseases, disasters, and public health issues.
Zur Palliativmedizin gehört neben der sozialen, psychologischen und spirituellen Begleitung eine gute Schmerztherapie, die sich nach Art und Intensität der Schmerzen, sowie der unmittelbaren sozialen Umgebung der Patienten richtet.
The first edition of Preventing Hospital Infections led readers through a step-by-step description of a quality improvement intervention as it might unfold in a model hospital, pinpointing the likely obstacles and offering practical strategies for how to overcome them.
All the content of the most popular annual resource in internal medicine-in a skill-building flashcard formatCURRENT Medical Diagnosis and Treatment Flashcards contains 250 flashcards drawn from the pages of the core CMDT text that facilitate your analysis of test cases and enhances your recall of internal medicine topics.
Cognitive Analytic Therapy and the Politics of Mental Health provides an overview of the development of cognitive analytic therapy (CAT), and illuminates how the political context affects the way in which therapists consider their work and facilitates their practice.
This volume, focusing on breast cancer, is part of a survey of health care needs for specific conditions, published on behalf of the Department of Health.
"e;The Nation has lost sight of its public health goals and has allowed the system of public health to fall into 'disarray',"e; from The Future of Public Health.
This text uses a case-based approach to share knowledge and techniques on how to operationalize much of the theoretical underpinnings of hospital quality and safety.
This book presents a unique overview of significant disparities in health, which exist within complex and multifaceted contexts across different regions.
Since the onset of the HIV epidemic, the behaviour of men who have sex with men has been subject to intense scrutiny on the part of the behavioural and sociomedical sciences.
"Der Stux": Akupunktur - Lehrbuch und Atlas - hat sich seit der erfolgreichen Erstpublikation im Jahre 1985 über vier weitere Auflagen als das Standardlehrbuch der Akupunktur durchgesetzt.
Over the last twenty years integrated care has been touted as a solution to many issues in health services, such as insufficient coordination between services, cumbersome organizational boundaries, interrupted patient journeys, as well as spiraling health care costs.
The new edition of this best-selling text presents the tools and techniques for effectively managing every kind of development and change in health and community services, while also balancing the needs of a range of stakeholders.
In rural and sparsely populated countries, telemedicine can be a vital and life-saving link to health care, and in those regions where demands on hospitals are ever increasing, it can provide a safe and comfortable alternative to hospital-based therapy.
Sport, ein viel beachtetes Thema in den Medien und in der Freizeit, gehört zu den wichtigsten therapeutischen Maßnahmen, die Patienten selbst ergreifen können.
With over 450 million viewers worldwide and over $1 billion in revenue in 2019, competitive video gaming - known more popularly as esports - is not a fad, but rather a technological and cultural phenomenon.
This monograph focuses on the design, implementation and characterization of a concurrent dual band RF sensor for non-invasive detection of human vital signs.
Das Buch stellt die Möglichkeiten vor, allen Menschen den Zugang zu Kommunikation und Information im medizinischen Kontext ohne fremde Hilfe zugänglich zu machen.
The extensively updated and revised third edition of the bestselling Social Medicine Reader provides a survey of the challenging issues facing today's health care providers, patients, and caregivers by bringing together moving narratives of illness, commentaries by physicians, debates about complex medical cases, and conceptually and empirically based writings by scholars in medicine, the social sciences, and the humanities.
History has been a source of cultural fascination since ancient times, however little attention has been paid to its potential as a positive force for health and wellbeing, at least until now.
Kompaktes Kurzlehrbuch für eine professionell Heim- und Krankenhaushygiene Die aktuellen Vorfälle um den Tod von Frühchen und die zunehmenden Resistenzen gegen Antibiotika verdeutlichen, wie essenziell Hygiene gegenwärtig ist und zukünftig sein wird.
Since the passage in 1990 of the Americans with Disabilities Act, society has made considerable strides in improving the quality of life and the productivity of individuals with disabilities.
Mental health is a fundamental public health priority, and this stimulating and comprehensive book brings together all of the key issues to offer an overview for students and practitioners alike.
A growing body of evidence shows that physical activity can be a cost-effective and safe intervention for the prevention and treatment of a wide range of mental health problems.
