Patient Care category: 3822 books
by Lindsay Tighe
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2012
The Person-Centred Approach Made Easy!Learn how to enable your clients by using this simple-to-apply questioning technique that gets amazing results!Aged Care Professionals typically do too much TELLING and not enough ASKING! . . . . . . and this is widely recognised as being one of the biggest inhibitors...
A Plan for a Single-Payer Health Care System
The Best Health Care in the World
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2008
Approximately fifty million people in the United States have no health insurance. Dr. Charles Chen, an obstetrician and gynecologist for almost thirty years, agrees with many people in this country that health insurance should cover every citizen, not just those who can afford to pay the rates.
A...
The Public-private Health Care State
Essays on the History of American Health Care Policy
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
The distinctive mixing and continuous remixing of public and private roles is a defining feature of health care in the United States. The Public-Private Health Care State explores the interweaving of public and private enterprise in health care in the United States as a basis for thinking about health...
The Big Unlock
Harnessing Data and Growing Digital Health Businesses in a Value-Based Care Era
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
Along with a shift towards value-based care, a digital transformation is under way in health care. However, health care enterprises are having a hard time keeping up with advances in information technology.
Organizations that could once spend months or years developing a strategy to deliver...
by Jerome Beker
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
The Anthropology of Child and Youth Care Work presents and illustrates an anthropological model of child and youth care work and explores the associated benefits of such an approach. Author Rivka A. Eisikovits’model enhances workers’on-the-job effectiveness with clients and co-workers and improves...
by Ladislav Volicer, Ann C. Hurley
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
“At a time when there is considerable interest in the palliative care needs of people with advanced dementia, this ‘tour de force’ on the development/psycho-metric testing of 11 tools (all included) will be invaluable to both researchers and practitioners wanting to develop better care.”—Jo...
by Andrew Dickman
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2012
While palliative care has adopted a holistic approach to treatment, medication driven symptom management ostensibly forms the critical aspect of care. Pharmacological therapy can be extremely complex because these patients often have coexisting medical conditions in addition to symptoms caused by...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
Public health approaches to palliative care have been growing in policy importance and practice acceptance. This innovative volume explores the major concepts, practice examples, and practice guidelines for this new approach.
The goal of ‘comprehensive care’ – seamless support for patients...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2005
Care, welfare and community are three key concepts in contemporary social policy. This reader covers a wide range of topics associated with them and relevant to the delivery of care and support to adults. It includes a wide-ranging collection of articles by leading writers and researchers, some previously...
Care Work in Europe
Current Understandings and Future Directions
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2007
Care Work in Europe provides a cross-national and cross-sectoral study of care work in Europe today, covering policy, provision and practice, as well as exploring how care work is conceptualized and understood. Drawing on a study which looks at care work across the life course in a number of European...
Disability Politics and Care
The Challenge of Direct Funding
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
“We do not need care!” is a rallying cry for disability movements. It is informed by a recognition that a lack of choice over life decisions – from relationships and employment, to what to wear or eat – is a subtle yet pervasive form of violence endured by many people with disabilities as...
Accountability and Responsibility in Health Care
Issues in Addressing an Emerging Global Challenge
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2012
Serious scholarly analyses of the types and roles of accountability in health care first appeared in the late 1980s. That issue, along with the related issue of responsibility in health care, has continued to interest policymakers, analysts and scholars ever since. Indeed, there has been a renewed...
Doctors and the State
The Politics of Health Care in France and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 1991
All advanced health care systems face severe difficulties in financing the delivery of today’s sophisticated medical care. In this study David Wilsford compares the health systems in France and the United States to demonstrate that some political systems are considerably more effective at controlling...
Home Health Care Provider
A Guide to Essential Skills
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2008
This book is designed to foster quality care to home care recipients. It is written for companions, home health aides, and other care givers who deliver non-medical home care. Prieto provides information, tips, and techniques on personal care routines as well as additional responsibilities that are...