Black & Blue is the first systematic description of how American doctors think about racial differences and how this kind of thinking affects the treatment of their black patients.
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.
"e;[This book is] the most authoritative assessment of the advantages and disadvantages of recent trends toward the commercialization of health care,"e; says Robert Pear of The New York Times.
The most thorough text available on providing patients and families with quality end-of-life care"e;The study/learning questions at the end of each chapter make this book an excellent resource for both faculty who wish to test knowledge, and individual learners who wish to assess their own learning.
Einheitlicher Bewertungsmaßstab mit aktuellen Punktangaben, Eurobeträgen mit dem erhöhten neuen Orientierungswert, Hinweisen auf entsprechende Leistungen in der GOÄ.
This book is written through the lens of patients, caregivers, healthcare representatives and families, highlighting new models of interaction between providers and patients and what people would like in their healthcae experience.
The Comprehensive Textbook of AIDS Psychiatry: A Paradigm for Integrated Care is the first book to provide insight into the interface between the psychiatric, medical, and social dimensions of HIV and AIDS and the need for a compassionate, integrated approach to the HIV pandemic with an emphasis on humanizing and destigmatizing HIV.
Using international case study material, this book examines how ideas of visionary leadership have been developed and discusses their applicability to the public sector.
Dieses inzwischen in dritter Auflage vorliegende Buch gilt weiterhin als Standardwerk für Qualitätssicherung und Qualitätskontrolle in der allgemeinmedizinischen Diagnostik.
In a health care environment undergoing major restructuring, health services researchers have an important contribution to make in evaluating the impact of change and in guiding policymakers, clinicians, corporate purchasers, and patients.
Digital disruption in healthcare is generating new technologies, applications, and large data sets, and these are all precipitating significant changes in healthcare processes.
The book is one of the outcomes of the SPARC (Scheme for Promotion of Academic and Research Collaboration) project titled "e;Fine particulates matters in the air environment and their cancer risks in human beings,"e; sponsored by MHRD (now MoE), Govt.
Designed for professionals and aspiring professionals in public policy, public health, and related programs, Public Health Leadership illustrates the complexity of contemporary issues at the intersection of public health and healthcare and the compelling need to engage numerous public and private stakeholders to effectively advance population health.
Validation of computer systems is the process that assures the formal assessment and report of quality and performance measures for all the life-cycle stages of software and system development, its implementation, qualification and acceptance, operation, modification, requalification, maintenance and retirement (PICS CSV PI 011-3).
Long-Term Care: Planning for Finance, Medical, and Living Expenses We re living exciting bonus years decades that our parents and grandparents didn t have.
Hospital-based physicians are privy to some of the most meaningful moments of people s lives, including life-changing diagnoses, pivotal medical procedures, complex medical decisions, and critical end-of-life decisions.
Meeting the Needs of Older Adults with Serious Illness: Challenges and Opportunities in the Age of Health Care Reform provides an introduction to the principles of palliative care; describes current models of delivering palliative care across care settings, and examines opportunities in the setting of healthcare policy reform for palliative care to improve outcomes for patients, families and healthcare institutions.
As the number of people affected by dementia continues to rise, this is the first in-depth examination of related services dedicated to the unique demands of remote and rural settings.
Focusing on texts from the late 1970s to the 1990s which document both changing attitudes to terminations of pregnancy and dramatic environmental, medical, and socio-political developments during southern Africa's liberation struggles, this book examines how four writers from Botswana, South Africa, and Zimbabwe address the ethics of abortion and reproductive choice.
With rapid economic progress and increasing life expectancy in East Asian societies, more attention is being paid by their governments, the media and the academy to mental illness and dementia.
Occupational Safety and Hygiene VI collects recent papers of selected authors from 21 countries in the domain of occupational safety and hygiene (OSH).
This book is part of a series of titles that are a spin-off of the Shingo Prize-winning book Leveraging Lean in Healthcare: Transforming Your Enterprise into a High Quality Patient Care Delivery System.
This first extensive study of the practice of blood transfusion in Africa traces the history of one of the most important therapies in modern medicine from the period of colonial rule to independence and the AIDS epidemic.
