In the wake of an international pandemic, Healthy Decisions: Critical Thinking Skills for Healthcare Executives emerges as a crucial guide for leaders navigating the complex world of healthcare management.
While the investigations and reports which have followed recent health care scandals in the UK have highlighted the very important issue of addressing organizational culture and the need for more effective leadership at every level, patients and their families have struggled to comprehend how such things can occur in a health service that is suppos
Introduction to Global Health Promotion addresses a breadth and depth of public health topics that students and emerging professionals in the field must understand as the world's burden of disease changes with non-communicable diseases on the rise in low- and middle-income countries as their middle class populations grow.
Making a Place for Ourselves examines an important but not widely chronicled event at the intersection of African-American history and American medical history--the black hospital movement.
Worldwide regulatory agencies perform many inspections annually, and all too often investigation and CAPA system violations are at the top of the list of infractions.
The E-Medicine, E-Health, M-Health, Telemedicine, and Telehealth Handbook provides extensive coverage of modern telecommunication in the medical industry, from sensors on and within the body to electronic medical records and beyond.
"e;Nations Are Built of Babies"e; documents a national campaign by Ontario physicians to reduce infant and maternal mortality in the early twentieth century.
The role of Bioactive Dietary Factors and Plant Extracts in Preventive Dermatology provides current and concise scientific appraisal of the efficacy of foods, nutrients, herbs, and dietary supplements in preventing dermal damage and cancer as well as improving skin health.
This thoroughly revised and updated second edition of Methods for Community-Based Participatory Research for Health provides a step-by-step approach to the application of participatory approaches to quantitative and qualitative data collection and data analysis.
This book focuses on the problems in America's health care system that have developed over the past 30 years and that will be with us for the next 30 years.
The new edition of this pocket guide has been fully updated to cover the common manifestations of liver disease, how to treat them and when to refer patients on to specialist centers.
How a public-private partnership led to the largest emergency response system in the worldEmergency medical response systems are a critical component of any nation's healthcare system.
Stroke Essentials for Primary Care: A Practical Guide is a must-have resource, offering the essential, practical knowledge required to evaluate and treat stroke patients.
This extensively revised book is an essential hands-on resource for all involved in digital health innovation and presents an entrepreneurship roadmap for digital health entrepreneurs and medical professionals who are contemplating getting involved.
This analysis of the United States health care system reviews developments in organization and governance, health financing, health care provision, health reforms, and health system performance.
Das vorliegende Buch zeigt konkrete Techniken und Übungen der psychologischen Schmerzbewältigung, mit denen es gelingt, die Schmerzen dauerhaft zu reduzieren.
This text creates a framework for the integration of urological care into the long-term management of patients with progressive neurological conditions.
This book makes an original contribution in addressing contemporary critical discussions and reflections on international health policies, strategies, programmes, systems, diseases, disasters, and public health issues.
This important book draws together new research and theories about bereavement, on the one hand, and men and masculinities on the other, to increase our understanding of men's experience of loss and contribute towards improving support services for men following bereavement.
A lo largo de siete ediciones y más de treinta años, la obra Atención Primaria se ha consolidado como un referente para los profesionales de la medicina familiar y comunitaria cubriendo las necesidades de estos especialistas que prestan servicios en las diferentes áreas de la atención primaria y la salud comunitaria.
This fully updated and revised 12th edition of the highly acclaimed textbook on health care delivery provides graduate and undergraduate students with a comprehensive survey of health care in the United States ranging in topics from the organization of care, the politics surrounding healthcare in the United States, to population health and vulnerable populations, healthcare costs and value, health care financing, and health information technology.
Beyond Return on Investment: Expanding the Value of Healthcare Information Technology, 2nd Edition this updated and revised edition provides lessons learned from healthcare IT adoption and the opportunity to drive value realization.
Fully revised for its second edition, the Oxford Handbook of Mental Health Nursing is the indispensable resource for all those caring for patients with mental health problems.
The occurrence of failures and mistakes in health care, from primary care procedures to the complexities of the operating room, has become a hot-button issue with the general public and within the medical community.
In the time since the original edition of this book was published, the field has only continued to gain in popularity, and the science, concerns and practices have naturally evolved.
