Health systems and services

Essential reading for health and mental health administrators, community agencies, and policy makers as well as students and general interest readers, this book details the state of the physical and mental health of many Latina/o American groups.

The quality of cancer and palliative care is going through unprecedented change and development as a result of policy initiatives.

Measurements of individual benefits of different health and medical interventions are fundamental for prioritizing among different alternative uses of resources in the healthcare sector.

Amid a welter of simultaneous policy initiatives, treatment centres were a top-down NHS innovation that became subverted into a multiplicity of solutions to different local problems.

Originally published in 1977, Health Care and Health Knowledge presents some of the best new work being done in the field of medical sociology.

The hospital buildings are one of the most complex buildings/projects to plan, design, build, and operate.

Health care professionals need to make rapid decisions under pressure to prevent and manage adverse outcomes during childbirth.

Das umfassende Standardwerk über Kopfschmerzen liegt nun in der aktualisierten Auflage vor!

Primarily intended for DNP and PhD students in nursing and health care who are expected to design research to identify health-related problems and solutions, this book focuses on the concepts, theories and processes of how social determinants affect the health of populations.

This book examines the landscape of sustained investment in research and innovation in Africa, which are critical for development.

This book is about four ways of using the consultation in primary health care.

The understanding of pain has undergone extraordinary development over the last 25 years.

Trotz der für Krankenhäuser gesetzlich vorgeschriebenen Einführung von internem Qualitätsmanagement (QM) bestehen in diesem Bereich große Unsicherheiten hinsichtlich der Entscheidung für ein QM-System und dessen Etablierung.

What happens when a person with dementia is hospitalized?

How to Succeed on Primary Care and Community Placements offers practical advice on how to get the most from your time on community visits, within patient consultations, and with the practice team.

Compassion takes as its starting point 'Cum scientia caritas', the motto of the Royal College of General Practitioners.

Dying at the Margins: Reflections on Justice and Healing for Inner-City Poor gives voice to the most vulnerable and disempowered population-the urban dying poor- and connects them to the voices of leaders in end-of-life-care.

Do you have clients who do not want to be helped?

This book comprehensively addresses all aspects of hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) in the ICU, emphasizing their control and management.

Alcohol and nicotine addiction mostly occur together.

The Psychological Resilience Treatment Manual (PRTM) provides mental health professionals with an evidence-based guide to psychological resilience treatment designed to equip clients with a toolbox of adaptive coping strategies.

Parental mental health problems and substance misuse affect a significant number of families.

The closest you can get to the Family Medicine clerkship shelf exam without actually taking itFamily Medicine: PreTest Self-Assessment & Review, Fourth Edition is the perfect way to assess your knowledge of Family Medicine for the USMLE Step 2 CK and clerkship shelf exam.

The Oxford Handbook of Epidemiology for Clinicians provides all the information required by students and junior doctors who need to understand and translate key epidemiological concepts into medical practice.

The mission of healthcare organizations has undergone a remarkable transformation from curing disease to caring for the well-being of populations.

Addiction is increasingly being recognized as a major global public health issue, and an ever-growing number of medical specialties, psychological and social science training programs, and professional associations are including addiction as part of their training and continuing education curricula.

The book examines an integrated approach for addressing decisions about the location of healthcare facilities.

This book focuses on clinical presentations that may be caused by inherited metabolic diseases.

The essential work in HIV for providers and pharmacists -- updated with everything they need to know in 2019!

How are people and communities able to prevail despite challenge?

Die Möglichkeit der freien Bestimmung der Lebensführung und damit auch des Wohnens für Menschen mit Behinderung wird durch den § 19 UN-Behindertenrechtskonvention festgelegt.

Integration is now a key expectation within the delivery of health and social care services in the UK and internationally.

With rapidly rising healthcare costs directly impacting the economy and quality of life, resolving improvement challenges in areas such as safety, effectiveness, patient-centeredness, timeliness, efficiency, and equity has become paramount.

PATIENTS FIRST CLOSING THE HEALTH CARE GAP IN CANADA "e;This book is a must read for those who are interested in our health care system and who want to make it better.

Many refugees and asylum seekers now in the United Kingdom have trained and worked as doctors nurses midwives and other professionals allied to medicine in the countries from which they have departed.

Now includes a "e;Year in Review"e; highlighting over 180 recent medical advances since the last edition!

Through 5 editions, Pediatric Nephrology has become the standard reference text for students, trainees, practicing physicians (Pediatricians, Nephrologists, Internists, and Urologists), sub-specialists, and allied health professionals seeking information about Children's Kidney Diseases.

All couples walk to the altar dreaming of happily-ever-after, but many forces in our society work against healthy lifelong commitment.

Postnatal PTSD, often referred to as birth trauma, is an underdiagnosed and misunderstood condition.

Based on the author's years of experience working with Toyota's master teachers and with companies in the midst of great change, this book follows the story established in the Shingo Prize-winning book, Andy & Me: Crisis & Transformation on the Lean Journey.

This book examines the practice of community engagement in museums through the notion of care.

Le nombre des personnes âgées va croître rapidement au cours des prochaines décennies en raison du vieillissement des générations à forte natalité de l'après-guerre.

Therapists' Guide to Overcoming Grief and Loss after Brain Injury is written as a neurobehavioral and cognitive intervention manual for clinicians who counsel persons with brain injury.

Cardiac Drug Therapy, 7th ed.

The first edition of Infection Prevention reviewed evolving areas in infection prevention on topics including contact precautions, technology implementation, specific infections, and care in various settings.