Health systems and services

This book is a comprehensive guide to the assessment and management of adults with thyroid disorders in daily clinical practice.

Never before in the healthcare industry has there been such intense emphasis and open debate on the issue of quality.

The book reports on the current state on HCI in biomedicine and health care, focusing on the role of human factors, patient safety well as methodological underpinnings of HCI theories and its application for biomedical informatics.

Care is a human ability we all need for growing and flourishing.

Childhood adversity that is severe enough to be harmful throughout life is one of the biggest public health issues of our time, yet health care systems struggle to even acknowledge the problem.

A town is in turmoil.

An EHR transformation touches virtually every aspect of a medical practice and brings about an entirely new way of thinking and managing a practice.

We rely on environmental health scientists to document the presence of chemicals where we live, work, and play and to provide an empirical basis for public policy.

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

This book assesses the main features of COVID-19 from a clinical point of view, based on observations made during the disease epidemic in Northern Italy, one of the most affected areas in the world (the region has been the epicenter of the global pandemic for more than a month), and the first region outside China facing overwhelming numbers of cases.

Coronary artery disease is the most commonly encountered problem in adult cardiology in the world.

This next volume in Research in the Sociology of Health Care covers a variety of important social factors and their relationship to health and health care inequities both in the United States and the rest of the world.

Medical practice and research are inconceivable today without electronic computing and communication tools.

Some 12 years into the epidemic, with an effective preventive vaccine or therapy against HIV disease still to be found, this book reflects on the contributions of social and behavioural research to the development of interventions for prevention.

The management of older people with diabetes requires careful attention to the specific needs of this age group.

Since adapting the principles of the Toyota Production System to health care in 2002, Virginia Mason Health System has made enormous leaps forward in quality, safety, patient experience of care, and affordability.

This contributed volume uniquely enhances our knowledge and understanding of social prescribing internationally.

The editor of Skin Cancer Management: A Practical Approach, Dr.

This clinical handbook is designed to aid with the fast and accurate diagnosis of cardiopulmonary disease.

Die Digitalisierung wird – auch im Gesundheitswesen – gern als revolutionäre Entwicklung propagiert.

The story of an innovative program of treatment for AIDS in Africa that succeeded in the face of international development agencies afro pessimismUntil this century, Western governments and foundations framing policies for AIDS relief in Africa maintained that prevention alone was a preferable alternative to prevention-plus-treatment, which would be costly and impractical in Africa, or would benefit only the prosperous and well-connected.

This volume provides an eloquent review of the anatomy and physiology of phonation, the work-up of patients with voice disorders, basic evaluation of wind instrument performance and dysfunction, and a full description of the most common skeletal and non-skeletal dentofacial anomalies, including their means of diagnosis and treatment.

This practical guide brings together approaches designed for simulation-based education for the care of older adults.

Deliberative democracy has become the central reference point for democracy theorists over the last decade or so, influencing normative frameworks and the ways we conceptualize the workings of democratic societies.

Health Economics: An International Perspective is the only textbook to provide a truly international, comparative treatment of health economics.

The first book to address the increasingly urgent need for information about psychiatric problems in people with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs), Mental Health Aspects of Autism and Asperger Syndrome systematically explains the emotional and psychological difficulties that are often encountered with ASDs.

Genomic applications are being integrated into a broad range of clinical and research activities at health care systems across the United States.

Uniquelydesigned for oncologists and general practitioners, this book offers clinicianscomprehensive guidelines when dealing with women at high risk for breastcancer.

A history of Toronto’s general hospital offers a window on a broader history of Upper Canada and Ontario over the last two centuries.

This book provides a practical guide for managing a variety of problems encountered by the clinician in managing patients with systemic sclerosis.

The novel coronavirus and the resultant COVID-19 pandemic have disproportionately affected older adults in terms of the number of lives lost, concerns about safety of institutional and home and community-based care, the impact of isolation and seclusion, and the ability to participate and engage in meaningful and contributory activities.

Broadly, a Public-Private Partnership (or PPP) is any collaboration between the public and private sector, but research in the UK has tended to focus on those that have been used for major infrastructure projects, such as roads, schools, and hospitals.

This practical guide provides essential knowledge and tools for nursing and healthcare students and practitioners to develop their leadership skills, from the very beginning of their practice and throughout their careers.

This book presents an invaluable symptoms-based approach to sports cardiology for sports medicine physicians, primary care physicians, and cardiologists.

A history of Britain's healthcare system, from the Victorian era to the post-World War II beginnings of the NHS to the Coronavirus pandemic.

Now revised and updated-the landmark patient safety primer written by the world's leading authorities Medical errors are the unfortunate byproduct of an increasingly complex healthcare system.

This eighth and final report of the Immunization Safety Review Committee examines the hypothesis that vaccines, specifically the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine and thimerosal-containing vaccines, are causally associated with autism.

The Culture of AIDS in Africa enters into the many worlds of expression brought forth across this vast continent by the ravaging presence of HIV/AIDS.

This book aims to analyse the legal tools that the legislatures of France, Germany and Italy adopted in order to regulate medical malpractice.

This textbook explores public health and individual health care through the prism of global human rights and ethical decision-making.

`With admirable clarity the authors-all highly regarded experts in their respective fields-present the clinician with a supremely readable and practical text.

The purpose of this indispensable and concise title is to provide a roadmap to a fulfilling and successful career in academic medicine.

Leading therapists and researchers have come to understand that many psychological disorders share common features and respond to common therapeutic treatments.

The Canadian health care system is so indisputably tied to our national identity that its founder, Tommy Douglas, was voted the greatest Canadian of all time in a CBC television contest.

A proven working model of healthcare IT as a transformative clinical and business engine-from one of the world's leading healthcare organizationsExciting new technology is revolutionizing healthcare in the twenty-first century.