Patient Care category: 3822 books
by Dr. Deane Waldman
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2018
The entire eBook series, “Restoring Care to American Healthcare,” has led up to this one book: “The Cure for U.S. Healthcare–StatesCare and the Texas Model.” It starts with the root cause of why healthcare is failing and logically says: if federal control is the problem, the obvious and...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
The British National Health Service celebrated its thirtieth birthday in 1978. A Royal Commission was set up to consider the role of the National Health Service, and it is the debates that surrounded this Royal Commission that form the basis for the twelve topics covered by this book.
The economic...
Everyday Ethics
Voices from the Front Line of Community Psychiatry
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
This book explores the moral lives of mental health clinicians serving the most marginalized individuals in the US healthcare system. Drawing on years of fieldwork in a community psychiatry outreach team, Brodwin traces the ethical dilemmas and everyday struggles of front line providers. On the street,...
Violence
A Guide for the Caring Professions
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
First published in 1985, this book is designed to help professionals in caring professions understand and deal with the problem of violent behaviour. It explains how theoretical ideas may be translated into practical strategies for the reduction or elimination of violence. It also highlights the issues...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
The American Society of Addiction Medicine Handbook on Pain and Addiction provides clinical considerations and guidelines for the clinician treating patients with pain and addiction. Produced by the largest medical society dedicated to the improvement of addiction care, the book takes an evidence-based...
Changing Welfare Services
Case Studies of Local Welfare Reform Programs
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Contains field-tested techniques to enhance the effectiveness of your local social services!
Changing Welfare Services: Case Studies of Local Welfare Reform Programs describes promising programs and practices that have emerged in the United States since the enactment of the Personal Responsibility...
Aging, Fatigue and Brain Injury
Living with Head (Brain) Injury
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2019
TBI is a much more manageable injury today than it has been in the past, but it remains a major health problem. As people with TBI continue to live longer and face the challenges of aging with TBI, it will be our duty to provide better education and long-term programs and services. We all have brains;...
Disease, Health Care and Government in Late Imperial Russia
Life and Death on the Volga, 1823-1914
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2010
This book addresses fundamental issues about the last decades of Tsarist Russia, contributing significantly to current debates about how far and how successfully modernisation was being implemented by the Tsarist regime. It focuses on successive outbreaks of cholera in the city of Saratov on the Volga,...
by Sir Arthur Newsholme
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015
First published in 1925, this book explores public health and its administration. It looks at both local and central health administration and surveys the various departments including The Board of Education and The Home Office. The book discusses motives, principles, and results of reform in the...
Organization Development in Healthcare
A Guide for Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
In a world saturated with the “how tos” of OD, there is a void of evidencebased resources for both organizational leaders and OD scholarpractitioners to use as a guide while navigating the complex and chaotic environment of healthcare. This handbook has been created to fill this space and provide...
Telemedicine and E-Health Services, Policies, and Applications
Advancements and Developments
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
By combining electronic communication and information technology with healthcare practices, e-health promises access to health information, diagnosis, treatment, and care to patients who may "enter" and interact with the system in new ways. Telemedicine and E-Health Services, Policies, and Applications:...
International Studies: Volume 2
Prevention and Treatment of Disease
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
First published in 1931, this book is the second of a three volume set which focuses on medical work, and in particular, public administration in relation to the prevention of disease. This volume focuses on the medical circumstances of Belgium, France, Italy, Jugo-Slavia, Hungary, Poland and Czecho-Slovakia....
Rediscovering the Other America
The Continuing Crisis of Poverty and Inequality in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Learn why it is imperative to bring a progressive focus back to social welfare policy!
This vital book explores recent research on poverty and inequality, identifies strategies for ensuring adequate services, and challenges many of the inaccurate beliefs that were used to justify welfare reform...
A Journey Called Aging
Challenges and Opportunities in Older Adulthood
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
A Journey Called Aging presents an insightful exploration of the years between the entry into older adulthood and death. This text examines the significant changes and major landmarks of older persons between 60 and 90. Grounded by a developmental framework based on empirical research, this book presents...