In concierge medicine, physicians develop amenities-rich membership programs and collect a monthly or annual membership fee to pay for the amenities in addition to the medical services rendered.
Exploring the key issues around anti-discriminatory practice for professionals working in mental health services, this book looks at ways to improve the health and social care of older people from minority and excluded communities.
This volume provides a unique sociological focus on education, social factors and health beliefs in health and health care, including a review of the literature to date.
Psychology: An Introduction for Health Professionals will appeal to the undergraduate nursing and health science student seeking to understand patient responses and behaviours to various diagnoses, interventions and health outcomes.
The rapid changes in health care including novel technologies as well as the changing economic, political, and social landscapes are all forcing physicians as well as most types of health care practitioners to re-think their role in leadership.
A clear yet wide-ranging introduction to the state of health worldwide, exploring the ways in which health provision is often determined by ethnicity, class, and gender.
Helps seniors and their caregivers successfully navigate the challenges of aging, make informed decisions, and focus on individualized goals of care to promote resiliency and maximum functional potential.
Most general practices are businesses of quite significant size and yet many GPs are not clear on what the detail of their practice accounts really means.
Mental Health is an accessible introductory textbook aimed primarily at nursing and health care students who are not in the mental health field of practice but are seeking to understand mental health and become rounded practitioners.
The principles of mistake proofing, long used to eliminate errors and defects across a range of industries, are now being applied in healthcare organizations around the world to help ensure patient safety, improve services, and eliminate waste.
Complete risk factor analysis, a critically important part of a complete medical examination, is often a neglected aspect of an initial doctor-patient interaction.
El desarrollo de los conocimientos relacionados con los procesos morbosos de la mente ha evolucionado de tal forma en los últimos años que muchos de los planteamientos sobre la psicopatología que habían sido directrices para muchas escuelas se han vuelto obsoletos y, por lo tanto, pertenecen más al terreno de la filosofía y la especulación que a la ciencia de los trastornos mentales que se estudian en la psicología y la psiquiatría contemporáneas.
An expert guide to contemporary research in the field of emergency services management, this short-form book will help academics, scholars, and practitioners to appreciate the important role and contribution of these services.
En la actualidad, los sistemas de salud se encuentran en continuos cambios readaptándose, rediseñándose y reinventándose desde diferentes paradigmas, siendo necesario, cada vez más, el desarrollo de habilidades de gestión.
This book presents valuable insights into the realities faced by security personnel as they deal with life-threatening situations in a high-stress security environment.
Mit Einführung der Magnetresonanztomographie (MRT) als bildgebende Methode für die klinische Routine in den 80er Jahren kann erstmals das Knochenmarködem (KMÖ) eindeutig diagnostiziert werden.
Das Arbeitsfeld des „Spiritual Care“ entwickelt sich interdisziplinär an den Schnittstellen von Medizin, Pflege, Sozialer Arbeit, Psychotherapie, Seelsorge und anderen relevanten Bereichen.
Sexueller Missbrauch von Kindern und Jugendlichen ist ein sehr emotionales und nach wie vor hochaktuelles Thema, wie der „Missbrauchsskandal“ des Jahres 2010 um massive sexuelle Übergriffe in Institutionen zeigte.
Das bewährte Fachbuch zum Kinderschutz in der Medizin bietet Strategien für den Umgang mit Verdachtsfällen von Kindesmisshandlung und -vernachlässigung, fundierte fachliche Grundlagen für die Diagnose, Sicherheit in Rechtsfragen und erprobte Konzepte für die Intervention.
This practical handbook, written by a mental health nurse and an expert by experience, provides a shared understanding of bipolar disorder and recovery.
This book provides frameworks, use cases, and examples that illustrate the role of big data and analytics in modern health care, including how public health information can inform health delivery.
Dieses Buch stellt eine neue Theorie über die erhebliche Komorbidität vor, die zwischen vielen Krankheiten und Störungen und gleichzeitigen Symptomen wie Schmerzen, Schlafstörungen und Müdigkeit besteht.
Now completely revised and expanded, this second edition not only includes updated chapters detailing treatment of the most common and troublesome sites for stress fractures, but also more recent research regarding risk factors for the development of stress fractures.
Following World War II and the exposure of the concentration camps, psychiatry turned its attention to a vast range of cultural concerns with results that seemed to indicate a decline of stigma over time.
This textbook aims to educate students across all mental health disciplines on the importance of using strengths-based resilience as a tool when working with military families.
