Health systems and services

With the United States and other developed nations spending as much as 14 percent of their GDP on medical care, economists and policy analysts are asking what these countries are getting in return.

This is an invaluable resource for counsellors and therapists looking to reinvigorate their practice and enhance their understanding of clients' needs.

Nursing informatics is the specialty that integrates nursing science with multiple information management and analytical sciences to identify, define, manage, and communicate data, information, knowledge, and wisdom in nursing practice.

Our ability to communicate is a key part of everyday life and is an essential skill, particularly when communicating with vulnerable people in a health and social care setting.

The ONLY guide specifically created to prepare for the Canadian Family Medicine Licensing ExaminationEverything you need to ace the SAMPs portion of the exam!

Cultural Competence in Health Education and Health Promotion, 2nd edition, examines the importance of ethnic and cultural factors for community health practice.

Addressing the challenges involved in achieving standard work in health care, Getting to Standard Work in Health Care, 2nd Edition describes how to incorporate the Training Within Industry (TWI) methods of Job Instruction (JI), Job Relations (JR) and Job Methods (JM) to facilitate performance excellence and boost employee morale in a health care organization.

In recent years, improving efficiency in healthcare facilities in general, and in hospitals specifically, has become increasingly important.

Medicare made simple Medicare brings valuable benefits to more than 58 million people and growing, but most of us don t even know the basics of how Medicare can work best for us.

Youth Comprehensive Risk Assessment: A Clinically Tested Approach for Helping Professionals presents a complete youth risk assessment and treatment program based on Dr.

The atlas is a comprehensive outline of neuromuscular diseases, written by experienced American and European authors.

Directed specifically at the practicing marketing executive, Cases and Select Readings in Health Care Marketing integrates understandable explanations of marketing concepts, articles selected for topical timeliness and pragmatic value, and case studies illustrating the detail and complexity of market decisions faced by today's health care and human services marketing professional.

Digitale Technik gewinnt in der Arbeitswelt Krankenhaus zunehmend an Bedeutung.

Medicines are vital in improving patient health outcomes and pharmaceutical policy is a fundamental component of any health system.

Man is entering a new era as a result of advances in human reproduction.

Despite the fact that most palliative care educators are involved in teaching, there is little literature devoted to education specifically within palliative care.

In 2003, Dr.

If you are reading this, it is likely that you have accepted, or may be considering responsibility for a relative or friend who has cancer.

This book is the product of a multi-year initiative, sponsored by the Division of Family Psychology (43) of the American Psychological Association, the Family Institute at Northwestern University, Oxford University Press, and Northwestern University, to bring together the leading researchers in family psychology in five major areas of great social and health relevance -- good marriage, depression, divorce and remarriage, partner violence, and families and physical health.

More than 400 full-color illustrations along with brief, memorable text help you understand gross anatomy in the context of healthcareNEW!

Nearly everyone agrees that the nation's health care system needs to be reformed.

Everyone has to be responsible for themselves.

Originally published in 1964, this book describes the hospital service as it is seen by patients.

Accountability in Social Services examines how - and why - social and human services programs can function even though they are monitored by written communication instead of face-to-face interaction.

Presse- und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit (PÖA) ist neben der Strategiefindung und einem professionellen Marketing ein zentraler Baustein im Kommunikationsportfolio eines jeden Krankenhauses.

Whilst the number of dementia patients is rising steadily, there are significant deficiencies in regards to the treatment.

Written directly to individuals who have experienced childhood trauma, this book provides essential information that allows victims to begin recovering from their immense pain and suffering, and empowers them to examine their specific issues in order to become a true survivor.

Make manners matter to special-education students in grades PK-5 using Remember Your Manners!

The accessibility of health information on the Internet has revolutionized access to clinical information for health practitioners and patients.

This book provides a fully updated in-depth overview of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), which is the most widely-disseminated evidence-based psychotherapy utilized today.

Families today often face a range of urgent problems, and practitioners need to intervene with the most effective methods possible, methods which have been tested and that have proven clinical utility.

This book deals with all aspects of severe trauma and stress recovery.

This edited book provides a first overview of how populist parties responded to the COVID-19 pandemic crisis in Europe.

The book Digital Health Transformation with Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence covers the global digital revolution in the field of healthcare sector.

The Invisible Brain Injury recounts, in her own words, the experience of Aurora Lassaletta, a clinical psychologist who suffered a traumatic brain injury (TBI) after a traffic accident.

Organizations increasingly need to deal with unstructured processes that traditional business process management (BPM) suites are not designed to deal with.

What does it mean to be a good doctor today?

This book is based on many years of research and practical pedagogical experiences around cross-cultural and multidisciplinary design for healthy ageing.

Drawing from his extensive clinical experience and many years of teaching, Dr.

This edited book provides a first overview of how populist parties responded to the COVID-19 pandemic crisis in Europe.

Gefährdungsbeurteilungen psychischer Belastungen (GpB) stellen eine wichtige Säule eines modernen betrieblichen Arbeitsschutzes und Gesundheitsmanagements dar, die seit Oktober 2013 auch im Arbeitsschutzgesetz fest verankert ist.

This idea-packed resource takes systems and complexity sciences out of blue-sky territory and into the concrete world of contemporary healthcare practice.

Counselling skills are very powerful.

Die zunehmende Internationalisierung und der demografische Wandel in der Bevölkerung verlangen die Entwicklung neuer Managementkonzepte zum Umgang mit Diversität in Krankenhäusern.