Health systems and services

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.

This book provides an update on recent clinical practice and an in-depth view of selected topics relevant to hospital medicine.

In Improvising Medicine, Julie Livingston tells the story of Botswana's only dedicated cancer ward, located in its capital city of Gaborone.

This is the first book to show the capabilities of Microsoft Excel to teach health services management statistics effectively.

In The Patient Revolution, author Krisa Tailor a noted expert in health care innovation and management explores, through the lens of design thinking, how information technology will take health care into the experience economy.

The HCISPP certification is a globally-recognized, vendor-neutral exam for healthcare information security and privacy professionals, created and administered by ISC2.

"e;David Jones has written a compelling book about the complex issues entailed in being family members of sufferers from mental illness.

Like the Internet itself, interest in computing (both local and distant) has grown exponentially.

The adult patient diagnosed with or at risk for a neurogenetic disease has many questions and concerns for the genetic counselor, the neurologist, and other practitioners.

How can a smartwatch help patients with diabetes manage their disease?

This book provides a comprehensive review of mental health topics for pre- and postsurgical patients.

During the first decade of this millennium, many thousands of people in Uganda who otherwise would have died from AIDS got second chances at life.

Based on research that was awarded the Governor General’s Academic Gold Medal, Healing Home is an exploration of the lives and health of young women experiencing homelessness.

The Dark Side of Emotional Labour explores the work that the rest of society would rather not think about, the often unseen work that is emotionally disturbing, exhausting, upsetting, and stigmatising.

Despite children making up around a quarter of the population, the first edition of this book was the first to focus on a public health approach to the health and sickness of children and young people.

The rise of suicide and burnout among physicians has brought a new disease to the healthcare provider, which we previously thought only affected the soldier: moral distress syndrome, second only to moral injury.

This fourth edition brings together a diverse range of experts in nutrition-related areas to discuss recent thinking and discoveries in nutrition, especially in relation to topics that have the greatest capacity to improve human health and nutritional implementation.

"e;Dental Practice Health Check"e; helps dental practice owners improve their business.

Progrès médicaux, crises sanitaires, déserts médicaux, inégalités de santé, réglementations de santé publique, financement de l’assurance-maladie, défis de la bioéthique : les questions de santé constituent des enjeux politiques majeurs.

The book is intended to serve as a practical guide to effective ear examination.

The best strategies in healthcare begin with empathyRevolutionary advances in medical knowledge have caused doctors to become so focused on their narrow fields of expertise that they often overlook the simplest fact of all: their patients are suffering.

What information and decision-making processes determine how and whether an experimental medical technology becomes accepted and used?

The Oxford Handbook of Clinical Haematology provides core and concise information on the entire spectrum of blood disorders affecting both adults and children.

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

A comprehensive guide to creating, implementing, and evaluating culturally competent HIV prevention programs.

Dies ist die zehnte Ausgabe des Fehlzeiten-Reports.

This text aims to provide a comprehensive review of general emergency surgery, the branch of medicine that treats patients presenting to the hospital with a wide variety of emergency conditions.

How does a medical practice thrive in a business environment where the margin of management error has all but disappeared?

This book provides an introduction to the field of human factors for individuals who are involved in the delivery and/or improvement of prehospital emergency care and describes opportunities to advance the practical application of human factors research in this critical domain.

In this book, we invited 146 authors with expertise in health policy, systems design, management, research, or practice, from each of the countries included, to consider health reforms or systems improvements in their country or region.

Experiential Therapies for Treating Trauma offers 17 chapters, with 15 of them focusing on a different experiential psychotherapy for treating trauma, written by clinicians with expertise in that modality.

Interdependency and Care over the Lifecourse draws upon theories of time and space to consider how informal care is woven into the fabric of everyday lives and is shaped by social and economic inequalities and opportunities.

This edited collection covers the role of the process observer - a position that enhances the effectiveness of group functioning by observing the process, summarizing the behavior of the group so that the group can learn and, if needed, improve its functioning.

Originally published in 1973, The Receiving End looks at the British welfare services for deprived children.

The 340B Drug Pricing Program (340B Program) and the Medicaid Drug Rebate Program require manufacturers to provide discounts on outpatient drugs in order to have their drugs covered by Medicaid.

Letting Go of Self-Destructive Behaviors offers inspiring, hopeful, creative resources for the millions of male and female adolescents and adults who struggle with eating disorders, addictions, any form of self-mutilation.

Interprofessionelle Zusammenarbeit prägt das Gesundheitswesen der Zukunft.

Um sowohl eine qualitativ hochwertige Versorgung anbieten zu können als auch aus wirtschaftlicher Sicht dauerhaft die eigene Existenz zu sichern, hat die Kosten- und Leistungsrechnung als Grundlage des Controllings eine herausragende Relevanz für die Krankenhäuser.

Kompaktes Kurzlehrbuch für eine professionell Heim- und Krankenhaushygiene Die aktuellen Vorfälle um den Tod von Frühchen und die zunehmenden Resistenzen gegen Antibiotika verdeutlichen, wie essenziell Hygiene gegenwärtig ist und zukünftig sein wird.

This engaging and highly practical title is designed to support healthcare professionals in providing the best possible care for their patients with migraine.

This book presents the latest in decision-making tools, techniques, and solutions for policy makers to utilize in overcoming the challenges faced by healthcare systems.

This book brings together a blend of different areas of machine learning and recent advances in the area.

The book is intended to enable the healthcare professional to have a broader scope of clinical practice in treating sports injuries of the hip.

Written by experts from around the globe (USA, Europe, Australia and Asia) this book explains technical issues, digital information processing and collective experiences from practitioners in different parts of the world practicing a wide range of telenursing applications including telenursing research by professionals in the field.