Health systems and services

Un grupo de estudiantes de medicina de la Universidad Católica, a inicios de los años noventa, con el retorno de la democracia en Chile, sueña con contribuir a una medicina de calidad que pueda servir a las comunidades más vulnerables, lejos de las tecnologías y los hospitales, en la humildad de la atención primaria de salud.

The physical effects of a stroke are often the most obvious, and hospitals can offer medication and therapy to help alleviate them.

A handy pocket guide to help mental health student nurses prepare for their practice placements.

In this second volume for clinicians who have transitioned into administration, we continue the journey to advance management skills.

The Pocket Guide to Diagnostic Cardiac Catheterization provides general cardiology fellows, nurses, and technicians entering the cardiac catheterization laboratory a practical guide addressing key aspects of left and right heart catheterization, selective coronary angiography, and the utilization of other invasive cardiology procedures for diagnostic purposes.

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Predictive Medicine makes artificial intelligence more accessible for healthcare practitioners without shying away from complex topics and controversial subject matter.

The world of healthcare is constantly evolving, ever increasing in complexity, costs, and stakeholders, and presenting huge challenges to policy making, decision making and system design.

Physicians are increasingly moving into leadership roles and possess enormous potential to advance health care.

Behind the Scenes of Health Care presents an extensive review of motivation and commitment among health care workers in support and bedside care roles.

Emerging and experienced health services managers can hone their skills with these challenges and in-depth case studies.

Lean Thinking for Emerging Healthcare Leaders: How to Develop Yourself and Implement Process Improvements aims to solve the issues in modern day healthcare by handing over the reins of the improvement process to healthcare professionals.

This volume describes the impact of headache disorders on public health, and their adverse consequences for society.

This comprehensive text is the definitive academic pain medicine resource for medical students, residents and fellows.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of oral signs of a broad spectrum of systemic diseases including gastrointestinal, hematologic, and endocrine, in addition to infectious, nutritional, autoimmune, genetic and connective tissue diseases.

This book provides the basis needed for a dialogue between intensivists and emergency surgeons regarding the management and monitoring of acute care surgery (ACS) patients who require Intensive Care Unit (ICU) admission.

This book offers a guide to common dermatologic conditions most often treated by primary care providers.

This book explores medical nonadherence to treatment and management of psychiatric disorders across the lifespan.

The book begins by covering the general and clinical challenges that are unique to Muslims, drawing from an internationally, ethnically, and intergenerationally diverse pool of experts.

This casebook tackles the common psychiatric illnesses that physicians experience during these early stages of their careers.

This guide brings thought leaders and master clinicians together to share their wisdom and expertise regarding clinical decisions surrounding unilateral and bilateral vocal fold paralysis.

Heart Failure: Strategies to Improve Outcomes, the first volume in the Cardiovascular Team Approach Series, presents the true integrated care approach to the common syndrome of heart failure.

Concussions are increasing in incidence each year, and each state has a law on management of concussions in children.

This book explores both the existence and prevalence of addiction in South and East Africa, departing from traditional assumptions about addiction in the region.

This book assembles many of the foremost writers and clinicians in the field of team-based primary care to share their own relational reflections.

The significantly expanded second edition of this important textbook provides a comprehensive overview of the basics of electrocardiography.

Patient-oriented approaches to healthcare management have been brought to the fore in recent years, yet this book underlines how even further change is needed in order to fully mobilise the experiential knowledge of patients, and ultimately improve our healthcare systems.

This brief explores the resurgence of the role of doulas in the child birthing process in Chinese clinical settings, as a lens to understand comparative pre- and post-natal care worldwide.

This book is devoted to hypertension in children and adolescents, a clinical issue that - thanks to the strides made in several areas of pathophysiological and clinical research - has received growing interest in cardiovascular medicine over the last several years.

This book introduces a new theory on the substantial comorbidity that exists between many illnesses and disorders and concurrent symptoms such as pain, impaired sleep and fatigue.

This book examines 23 case examples of the most common comorbid presentations of sleep and psychiatric disturbances from a reader-friendly, digestible approach.

Although transgender persons have been present in various societies throughout human history, it is only during the last several years that they have become widely acknowledged in our society and their right to quality medical care has been established.

This detailed volume illustrates the transformative nature of systems and complexity sciences for practice, research, education, and health system organization.

This book is for researchers and students looking for ways to engage communities and industry in research.

Obstetrical care in the family medicine setting is an ever-evolving discipline.

Diabetes has become a worldwide health problem, the global estimated prevalence approaches ten percent and the burden of this disease in terms of morbidity and mortality is unprecedented.

This book focuses on the interface between the patient and the healthcare system as the entryway to high-quality care and improved outcomes.

The recent rise of "e;Medicare for All"e; in American political discourse was many years in the making.

This groundbreaking book presents a unique and practical approach to the evolving field of exercise oncology - the study of physical activity in the context of cancer prevention and control.

This book presents a hands on approach to the digital health innovation and entrepreneurship roadmap for digital health entrepreneurs and medical professionals who are dissatisfied with the existing literature on or are contemplating getting involved in digital health entrepreneurship.

This book tackles the most common challenges that medical students experience that lead to burnout in medical school by carefully presenting guidelines for assessment, management, clinical pearls, and resources for further references.

This book serves to educate and train primary care clinicians to provide high quality care to patients across the cancer care continuum.

This book provides an evidence-based, practical approach to the diagnosis and treatment of the most frequent fungal infections in a general hospital.

This book offers valuable guidance to neurointensivists, other neurocritical care staff, and those desiring to develop a neurocritical care unit via a thorough discussion of neurological emergencies and neurocritical care unit organization.

For hundreds of years, psychology has looked into the dysfunctions and symptoms of the mind.

Performing Arts Medicine (PAM) is a growing area of specialization within the performing arts field, which addresses the multi-faceted health and wellness of performing artists.

This book presents detailed accounts of policymaking in contemporary risk communication.