Looking at the current turmoil facing contemporary healthcare systems worldwide, resulting from relentless imposition of financially-based performance indicators, the author argues that a return to a values-based approach to healthcare will create positive transformation.
Looking at the current turmoil facing contemporary healthcare systems worldwide, resulting from relentless imposition of financially-based performance indicators, the author argues that a return to a values-based approach to healthcare will create positive transformation.
As Americans struggle with the dual problems of exploding health care costs and ensuring access to health care for the uninsured, health care rationing has moved to the center of the public policy debate.
This accessibly written book explains universal healthcare; the many forms it can take; and the issues, debates, and historical context underpinning the continued struggle for its implementation in the United States.
A Different Perspective on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act provides a brief history of health insurance within the United States, offering an accessible perspective on the highly contentious Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA).
A Patient-Centered Approach to the Chronically-Ill addresses the unique needs of chronically-ill patients and the challenges they present for medical doctors.
This accessibly written book explains universal healthcare; the many forms it can take; and the issues, debates, and historical context underpinning the continued struggle for its implementation in the United States.
Supporting Children and Families gathers together the lessons learned from perhaps the largest scale social experiment ever undertaken in England - Sure Start, the programme designed to improve the emotional development, health and education of children.
A Different Perspective on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act provides a brief history of health insurance within the United States, offering an accessible perspective on the highly contentious Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA).
A Patient-Centered Approach to the Chronically-Ill addresses the unique needs of chronically-ill patients and the challenges they present for medical doctors.
Supporting Children and Families gathers together the lessons learned from perhaps the largest scale social experiment ever undertaken in England - Sure Start, the programme designed to improve the emotional development, health and education of children.
As Americans struggle with the dual problems of exploding health care costs and ensuring access to health care for the uninsured, health care rationing has moved to the center of the public policy debate.
Uno de los grandes remas emergentes en el ámbito de las disciplinas para la salud es el de la responsabilidad jurídica; en los últimos la sociedad se ha mostrado cada vez más preocupada por los aspectos sociales del proceso salud-enfermedad, y entre ellos el tema de la justicia no ha sido ajeno.
Esta obra esta dedicada especialmente a los estudiantes de medicina, a manera de introduccion a la etica medica y el derecho sanitario mexicano, su relacion y sus bases, la regulacion del ejercicio profesional, los derechos y las obligaciones del personal de salud, la elaboracion de documentos y la manera de abordar los problemas medico-forenses que se enfrentan en la practica medica diaria.
Para la mejor comprensión del acto médico en psiquiatría, este libro hace un planteamiento sistemático a título no solamente de antecedente y juicio crítico general, sino de eje de análisis.
Life Lines is an ethnographic exploration of elder care as a creative and relational process, centred on the author's journey caring for his aging father.
Life Lines is an ethnographic exploration of elder care as a creative and relational process, centred on the author's journey caring for his aging father.
The Long Arc of Training: Six Stories of Aspiring Doctors follows six medical trainees over twelve years, offering a view into the personal and professional transformations involved in becoming a doctor.
The Long Arc of Training: Six Stories of Aspiring Doctors follows six medical trainees over twelve years, offering a view into the personal and professional transformations involved in becoming a doctor.
Health-Harming Legal Needs equips primary health care professionals with the tools to recognize and respond to legal issues that are injurious to health, particularly among low-income patients.
Washington, DC, has the nations largest racial life expectancy gap, and it has experienced many of the nations worst epidemics, including maternal and infant mortality, homicide, heroin overdoses, and HIV/AIDS.
Washington, DC, has the nations largest racial life expectancy gap, and it has experienced many of the nations worst epidemics, including maternal and infant mortality, homicide, heroin overdoses, and HIV/AIDS.
With contributions from more than 100 renowned authorities in the field, this reference compiles treatment recommendations and tips for a myriad of complications associated with nonoperative and operative management of various spinal pathologies in children and adults-providing expert guidance on complication identification, recognition, management
As the development of medicines has become more globalized, the geographic variations in the efficacy and safety of pharmaceutical products need to be addressed.
Seit dem Inkrafttreten im Jahre 1997 unterliegt das deutsche Transplantationsgesetz gesetzgeberischen Maßnahmen zur Steigerung des Organaufkommens, die ohne den erhofften Erfolg blieben.
Die Kryokonservierung menschlichen Keimmaterials hat in der Fortpflanzungsmedizin in der Vergangenheit erheblich zugenommen, zugleich blieb das Recht weit hinter diesem medizinischen Fortschritt zurück.