Health systems and services

Ce livre repose sur la volonté des auteurs de diffuser les outils et les modèles de transformations du système de santé basés sur la théorie « Zero Marginal Cost » de Jeremy Rifkin.

Practicing for Practice is a handbook created for resident physicians who are on the threshold of entering practice and in the process of analyzing potential practice sites.

Bioethics Mediation offers stories about patients, families, and health care providers enmeshed in conflict as they wrestle with decisions about life and death.

For mental health practitioners, it's very important to understand that human beings have various ways of thinking and behaving.

Although adopting global norms often improves domestic systems of governance, domestic obstacles to norm diffusion are frequent.

Telling the story of a clinical trial testing an innovative gel designed to prevent women from contracting HIV, Negotiating Pharmaceutical Uncertainty provides new insight into the complex and contradictory relationship between medical researchers and their subjects.

Remember how simple school lunches used to be?

Public Hostage, Public Ransom starts with the autobiographical story of William Bronston, the activist physician whose early professional California training steels him with a deep moral, professional and cultural bond to the huge 6000 person disabled population he encounters incarcerated in Willowbrook State School in Staten Island, NY, on whose behalf he daily battles to humanize and ultimately catalyze a Federal Class Action Lawsuit against the state to close the deathmaking institution.

The philosopher George Santayana once said, "e;Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Seven years ago, John McManamy was diagnosed with bipolar disorder.

Imagine losing a child because of lack of health insurance.

Recognizing and Correcting Developing Malocclusions: A Problem-Oriented Approach to Orthodontics provides an evidence-based approach to early treatment, an often-controversial topic.

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This book is a must-read for everyone who wants to understand how to live healthy in our day and age.

In 2003 the Bush Administration's New Freedom Commission asked mental health service providers to begin promoting "e;recovery"e; rather than churning out long-term, "e;chronic"e; mental health service users.

To think of not washing the hands often throughout the day can lead to profound consequences.

In any given year, one in four Americans suffers from a diagnosable mental illnessand yet there is still a significant stigma attached to being labeled as mentally ill.

Anyone who has spent time in a hospital as a patient or family member of a patient hopes that those who attend to us or our loved ones are at their professional best and that they care for us in ways that console us and preserve our dignity.

Over a two-year period, author Sana Loue and her research team followed the lives of fifty-three Puerto Rican women living with severe mental illness as they coped with daily challenges in the areas of family, romantic relationships, employment, social services, substance use, and health care.

A traves del libro, inicialmente, usted puede conocer que es el estres, evaluar diferentes tipos de estresores segun su fuente de origen, ya sean biologicos, psicologicos o sociales, y segun el tiempo, conocer de donde surgio el termino estres, que ocurre en nuestro cuerpo cuando estamos estresados, ademas, en este, podra encontrar los diferentes factores que nos hacen mas o menos vulnerables al estres, darse cuenta, como se relacionan el estres y la personalidad, asi como, nuestros modos de actuacion nos pueden conducir a estresarnos en determinado momento.

Drawing on ten years of ethnographic research, two hundred fifty interviews, and over three hundred youth love letters, author Shanti Parikh uses lively vignettes to provide a rare window into young people's heterosexual desires and practices in Uganda.

In your hands you hold what could very well change the future not only for you but your family, community, and beyond.

Based on extensive field research, the essays in this volume illuminate the experiences of migrants from their own point of view, providing a critical understanding of the complex social reality in which each experience is grounded.