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The Wages of Sickness
The Politics of Health Insurance in Progressive America
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2003
The Clinton administration's failed health care reform was not the first attempt to establish government-sponsored medical coverage in the United States. From 1915 to 1920, Progressive reformers led a spirited but ultimately unsuccessful crusade for compulsory health insurance in New York State. Beatrix...
by Scott E. Fishman, Honorio Benzon, MD
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011
This third edition of Essentials of Pain Medicine offers an accessible and concise, yet complete, overview of today's theory and practice of pain medicine and regional anesthesia. From a review of basic considerations through local anesthetics and nerve block techniques, this book provides the reader...
by Intellectual Disabilities Curriculum Planning Committee
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2002
Based on the psychiatry residency curriculum at the University of Toronto, which includes teaching in and exposure to developmental disabilities (DD), Guidelines for Managing Patients with Intellectual Disability in the Emergency Room can contribute to a better outcome for ER clients and the ER staff...
Decision Assessment and Counseling in Abortion Care
Philosophy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2012
In today’s contentious political environment surrounding abortion, clinicians, counselors and social workers need a clear framework for providing skilled, compassionate decision counseling. They need help working with the hard stuff: “What do I do when my patient asks me if God will forgive her?”...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Arguing that contemporary maternity services provide a toxic environment both in which to practise and to give birth, this book looks at how we can change this. Its aim is promoting the best possible experiences of childbearing, and confident, strengthening and loving contexts for new parenthood.
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Caring for the Dying
The Doula Approach to a Meaningful Death
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Caring for the Dying describes a whole new way to approach death and dying. It explores how the dying and their families can bring deep meaning and great comfort to the care given at the end of a life. Created by Henry Fersko-Weiss, the end-of-life doula model is adapted from the work of birth doulas...
Health Policy
Choice, Equality and Cost
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
This lucid and comprehensive book explores the ways in which the State, the market and the citizen can collaborate to satisfy people’s health care needs. It argues that health care is not a commodity like any other. It asks if its unique properties mean that there is a role for social regulation and...
The Sociology and Politics of Health
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2005
Health care systems, the role of health professionals and the experience of health and illness are all undergoing change and development as we enter the twenty-first century. The Sociology and Politics of Health is a collection of key readings through which to explore the sociological and political...
Play in Healthcare for Adults
Using play to promote health and wellbeing across the adult lifespan
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2016
PLAY. We all do it: wordplay, love play, role-play; we play cards, play sport, play the fool, and play around. And that’s just the grown-ups! It features in every aspect of our lives, whether we call it by that or another name. We all do it, but why do we do it? What does it mean to play and what,...
by Joanna Mellor, Patricia Brownell
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Provide the most effective service possible to help victims of this growing social problem
Elder Abuse and Mistreatment is a comprehensive overview of current policy issues, new practice models, and up-to-date research on elder abuse and neglect. Experts in the field provide insight into elder...
Sick
The True Story of How American
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
America's health care system is unraveling, with millions of hard-working people unable to pay for prescription drugs and regular checkups, let alone hospital visits. Jonathan Cohn traveled across the United States—the only country in the developed world that does not guarantee its citizens access...
by V.T.
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Just have your first baby? And don't know what to do? Busy coping with your small cutey? The feeling must be very happy and exciting!
However, you must learn how to take care of your toddler. There are some necessary steps to take in order for your toddler to grow up healthily and strong....
Creative Centers and Homes
Infant Care, Planning and Developing Family Day Care, and Approaches to Designing and Creating the Child's Environment
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
Creative Centers and Homes views childcare as an integral, vital, and comprehensive service for all families; infant care, family homes and centers; focusing on specific required services including licensing, location, extent of services, design and environment for learning and playing for young children,...
Quality Assurance in Healthcare Service Delivery, Nursing and Personalized Medicine
Technologies and Processes
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
Quality of life is difficult to define and even more difficult to measure; as such, outcomes from nursing in continuing care are not easily articulated. Quality Assurance in Healthcare Service Delivery, Nursing and Personalized Medicine: Technologies and Processes offers a framework for measuring quality...