Authors
- R Dennis Shelby
- Desiree Ciambrone
Publication date: 2003-03-04
Dewey code: 362.19697920082
List Price: $140.00
Price: $41.49
Review Women's Experiences With HIV/Aids: Mending Fractured Selves (Haworth Psychosocial Issues of HIV/AIDS) (Haworth Psychosocial Issues of HIV/AIDS) / Routledge:Meet the women behind the statistics!Women's Experiences with HIV/AIDS: Mending Fractured Selves examines the impact of HIV/AIDS on women, the fastest-growing subgroup of the HIV-infected population of the United States. Based on interviews with HIV-infected women, the book gives voice to their experiences. This powerful text offers a firsthand view of what it is like to live day-to-day as a woman with the added burden of HIV/AIDS. Women's Experiences with HIV/AIDS is a powerful and compelling look at the day-to-day struggles of 37 women infected with HIV. Their stories detail their ongoing efforts—with varying degrees of success—to come to grips with the disease as they try to rebuild their lives. Through qualitative analysis, the book demonstrates the importance of relational resources, such as AIDS activism, support groups, and social support. It also addresses potential problems for women associated with caregiving and presents ethnographic research findings on the complex factors that affect women with HIV (socioeconomic status, sexual preference, lifestyle differences). Women's Experiences with HIV/AIDS also addresses research topics such as: how HIV infection affects a woman's sense of self how women repair disruption and restore identities the limits to women's coping strategies and whether those strategies still work if women become functionally impaired or develop AIDS how women's structural and social environments facilitate or impede repair the role of women's informal networks in biological disruption and repairA rare look at the experience of women infected with HIV (most studies focus on male samples), Women's Experiences with HIV/AIDS is an invaluable academic resource as a course supplement in the fields of medical sociology, women's studies, public health, and community health, and is an enlightening read for everyone interested in HIV/AIDS research.
Publication date: 1992-10-06
Dewey code: 362.1095694
List Price: $73.00
Price: $41.75
Review Resisting Reform / University Press of America:Many commissions have been formed to recommend changes in the health care system, and many reports and recommendations have been issued, but with little impact. This study seeks to understand the sources of this resistance to change and recommends measures based on this analysis. Contents: The Structure of Medical Care in Israel; The Ministry of Health; The KHC and the Histadrut; Structural Causes of the Crisis in the KHC; The History of Reform Efforts in the KHC; Reducing Surgical Queues; A Case Study; Alternatives to Public Medicine: The Private Sector; Conclusions and Recommendations. Co-published with the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2003-08
Dewey code: 362.1
List Price: $94.00
Price: $47.24
Review Society and Health: Sociology for Health Professionals / Springer:For the first time, a guide to the sociology of health and healthcare that addresses the needs of both sociologists and health professionals. Written by a career health professional with a medical sociology background, Thomas applies sociological concepts to current healthcare issues, incorporates the latest findings from health services research, and provides clear examples of the uses of sociology in understanding the U. S. healthcare system. Each chapter contains illustrative boxed material, exhibits highlighting key information, suggested readings, and useful websites for more information. With over 30 years of experience, the author provides valuable insights into the social aspects of health behavior and reveals an in-depth understanding of the social dimensions of the health delivery system. The book is a textbook for students of sociology and health, as well as a reference book for instructors and practitioners in the healthcare and sociology fields.
Edition: 3
Publication date: 2005-03-24
Dewey code: 362.10973
List Price: $89.95
Price: $59.00
Review Essentials of Health Services (Delmar Series in Health Services Administration) / Delmar Cengage Learning:Our national health care system is one of the nation's most important components. What we spend and invest in health care resources and services ultimately improves how long and how well we live. As costs and structure continue to increase in complexity, it is now more important than ever to understand how the system functions - whether you are a consumer or employed by the system. Now in its third successful edition, Essentials of Health Services gives you the most straightforward, uncomplicated explanation of how our health care system is structured and how it functions so you can better understand, use, and enhance the services that directly affect your life.
Creator: Carol Baxter
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2001-10-15
Dewey code: 353
List Price: $47.95
Price: $41.82
Review Managing Diversity and Inequality in Health Care / Bailliere Tindall:To deliver care effectively, and to be able to influence health strategy, practice, and policy, nurses must be able to access a tool-kit of management skills and knowledge. In the context of today's health services, these will guide practitioners to be able to be proactive in their influence on business and policy decisions which directly affect their work. Soft management roles such as case management or people management are often accepted as a part of the job: other skills such as budget management and business planning are much more threatening yet equally vital to the effective and equitable delivery of care.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2002-01-03
Dewey code: 610.73
List Price: $51.99
Price: $49.39
Review The Challenge of Sexuality in Health Care / Wiley-Blackwell:This book provides a comprehensive overview of the range of issues and concerns related to sexuality and health care. It describes the normal processes and issues which arise at different stages in a person's life connected with sexuality, and goes on to describe the particular issues and concerns that arise when there is illness, disfigurement, physical or mental disability. The Challenge of Sexuality in Health Care will provide qualified nurses, students, and health care professionals with the confidence to encourage patients to raise any concerns they might have.
Authors
- Committee on the Assessment of the US Drug Safety System
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2007-02-27
Dewey code: 362.1782
List Price: $49.00
Price: $43.86
Review The Future of Drug Safety: Promoting and Protecting the Health of the Public / National Academies Press:In the wake of publicity and congressional attention to drug safety issues, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requested the Institute of Medicine assess the drug safety system. The committee reported that a lack of clear regulatory authority, chronic underfunding, organizational problems, and a scarcity of post-approval data about drugs' risks and benefits have hampered the FDA's ability to evaluate and address the safety of prescription drugs after they reach the market. Noting that after approval, The Future of Drug Safety offers a broad set of recommendations to ensure that consideration of safety extends from before product approval through the entire time the product is marketed and used. In the wake of publicity and congressional attention to drug safety issues, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requested the Institute of Medicine assess the drug safety system. The committee reported that a lack of clear regulatory authority, chronic underfunding, organizational problems, and a scarcity of post-approval data about drugs' risks and benefits have hampered the FDA's ability to evaluate and address the safety of prescription drugs after they have reached the market. Noting that resources and therefore efforts to monitor medications' risk–benefit profiles taper off after approval, The Future of Drug Safety offers a broad set of recommendations to ensure that consideration of safety extends from before product approval through the entire time the product is marketed and used.
Publication date: 1995-01-01
Dewey code: 362.10683
List Price: $47.75
Price: $44.63
Review MAKING SENSE OF PENSIONS AND RETIREMENT (Business Side of General Practice) / Radcliffe Publishing Ltd:
Authors
- Robert W. Sandstrom
- Helene Lohman
- James D. Bramble
Publication date: 2002-06-01
Dewey code: 362.10973
List Price: $58.20
Price: $52.38
Review Health Services: Policy and Systems for Therapists / Prentice Hall:
Authors
- Alison Vaspe
- Marilyn Pietroni
Dewey code: 362
Review Inside Counselling in Primary Care (Centre for Community Care & Primary Health Series) / Churchill Livingstone:
Publication date: 1993-03
List Price: $18.95
Price: $41.36
Review It Shouldn't Happen to a Patient: A Survivor's Guide to Fighting Life-Threatening Illness / Whiting & Birch Ltd:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2007-12-01
Dewey code: 344.730412
List Price: $89.95
Price: $50.00
Review PHYSICIANS AS EMPLOYEES (Aspen Health Law Center Current Issues) / Aspen:Handbook showing how to comply with the range of laws affecting current health care operations. Topics include: new business agreements, new organizational structures, and federal and state regulations. Modified-outline format. Softcover.
Authors
- Christina Victor
- Peter Littlejohns
Dewey code: 362.10941
List Price: $47.75
Price: $43.67
Review MAKING SENSE OF A PRIMARY CARE-LED HEALTH SERVICE / Radcliffe Publishing Ltd:
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 2000-02-15
Dewey code: 362.10681
List Price: $101.95
Price: $90.94
Review Physician Empowerment Through Capitation / Aspen:
Authors
- Charles D. Hale
- Frank D. P. A. Arnold
- Marvin T. Travis
Publication date: 1994-01
Dewey code: 362.10684
List Price: $117.95
Price: $117.95
Review Planning and Evaluating Health Programs: A Primer / Delmar Thomson Learning:
Authors
- Alice, PhD Greenwood
- Andrea, RN, MPA Restifo
- Yosef, PhD Dlugacz
Publication date: 2004-04-02
Dewey code: 362.110685
List Price: $55.00
Price: $41.74
Review The Quality Handbook for Health Care Organizations: A Manager's Guide to Tools and Programs (J-B AHA Press) / Jossey-Bass:This important book is a practical, theory-based resource on the topic of health care quality management written for health care administrators and practitioners. It offers the tools needed to help managers make decisions, prioritize resources (financial and human), and analyze and improve the care they deliver. The Handbook offers a hands-on approach to specific topics such as the implementation of managerial goals, instructions for developing accurate measurements for evaluating care, the utilization of data as a basis for process improvement, exploration of quality management tools and techniques, guidelines for the complex integration of collaborative services in health care, and methods for effective communication and improving accountability.
Authors
- William B. Schwartz
- Henry J. Aaron
- Melissa Cox
Dewey code: 362.10425
List Price: $46.95
Price: $42.05
Review Can We Say No?: The Challenge of Rationing Health Care / Brookings Institution Press:Over the past four decades, the share of income devoted to health care in the United States has nearly tripled. If current policy remains unchanged, this worrisome trend is likely to continue. Should Americans decide to rein in the growth of health care spending, on the other hand, they will be forced to consider whether to ration care for the well insured-a prospect that is odious and unthinkable to many. In Can We Say No?, Henry Aaron and William B. Schwartz argue that sensible health care rationing not only can save money, but that it can improve general welfare and public health, as well. The book reviews Great Britain’s experience with health care rationing. The choices the British have made point up the nature of the options Americans will face if they wish to prevent public health care budgets from driving taxes even higher and private health care spending from crowding out increases in other forms of worker compensation and consumption. Aaron and Schwartz, along with Melissa Cox, explain why serious consideration of health care rationing is advisable, even inescapable. Can We Say No? provides the information policymakers and concerned citizens need to think clearly about these difficult issues, engage in an informed debate, and formulate responsible, sustainable health care policies.
Edition: 3
Publication date: 2007-04-05
Dewey code: 362.1
List Price: $64.95
Price: $43.16
Review Living with the Earth, Third Edition: Concepts in Environmental Health Science / CRC:With an emphasis on biological, chemical, and physical sources of pollution, this book incorporates traditional concepts of environmental health with new controversies regarding environmental threats to human health, such as the link between air pollutants and asthma as well as the role of pollution in cancer risk. This edition also features new chapters on emerging diseases and emergency preparedness, including the significant reasons for the emergence of these diseases and the main etiological agents related to them. The text balances its presentation by offering opposing views of major issues, ranging from the Greenhouse Effect to reproductive problems associated with endocrine disruptors.
Creator: James G. Kelly
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2001-10
Dewey code: 362.1982
List Price: $41.50
Price: $41.50
Review Collaborative Research: University and Community Partnership / American Public Health Association:Collaborative Research is a compilation of essays and case studies reg arding research initiatives undertaken by public health researchers an d social scientists based at two Chicago universities in partnership w ith community-based organizations, neighborhood activists, service pro viders and residents. This volume highlights major components of coll aborative research and evaluation processes, identifying key decision points and areas for discussion between partners. The book seeks to c ontinue the dialogue regarding collaborative research issues by presen ting essays and case studies that address experiences and lessons lear ned across diverse situations. It integrates the perspectives of commu nity and university partners representing a diversity of academic disc iplines, backgrounds and experiences.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2005-10-21
Dewey code: 362.10941
List Price: $47.95
Price: $41.43
Review Health Action Zones Partnerships for Health Equity / Routledge:Health Action Zones (HAZ) were one of the earliest and most prominent area-based initiatives launched by the New Labour government in England soon after it came to power in 1997. Health Action Zones, written by members of the team undertaking the national evaluation of HAZ, examines their development and impact from a variety of perspectives. It outlines important features of the social, policy and evaluative environment within which Health Action Zones were established and which greatly contributed to learning about health policy and practice development in the early part of the twenty-first century. As importantly, the book discusses enduring themes on topics such as building capacity for collaboration amongst diverse and unequal partners and developing the capacity to learn within complex policy systems. It assesses the successes of specific strategies aimed at improving health and reducing health inequalities. Health Action Zones provides in-depth analysis of a key policy initiative that will be of great value to those concerned with building the evidence-base for future action. It also offers guidance on how best to design, implement and evaluate future initiatives intended to deal with fundamental social problems. The multidisciplinary nature of this text makes it suitable for a wide range of postgraduate courses including those covering issues in public health, community care, urban studies, social policy, health and social care research, local governance and public services.
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Women's Experiences With HIV/Aids: Mending Fractured Selves (Haworth Psychosocial Issues of HIV/AIDS) (Haworth Psychosocial Issues of HIV/AIDS), Resisting Reform, Society and Health: Sociology for Health Professionals, Essentials of Health Services (Delmar Series in Health Services Administration), Managing Diversity and Inequality in Health Care, The Challenge of Sexuality in Health Care, The Future of Drug Safety: Promoting and Protecting the Health of the Public, MAKING SENSE OF PENSIONS AND RETIREMENT (Business Side of General Practice), Health Services: Policy and Systems for Therapists, Inside Counselling in Primary Care (Centre for Community Care & Primary Health Series), It Shouldn't Happen to a Patient: A Survivor's Guide to Fighting Life-Threatening Illness, PHYSICIANS AS EMPLOYEES (Aspen Health Law Center Current Issues), MAKING SENSE OF A PRIMARY CARE-LED HEALTH SERVICE, Physician Empowerment Through Capitation, Planning and Evaluating Health Programs: A Primer, The Quality Handbook for Health Care Organizations: A Manager's Guide to Tools and Programs (J-B AHA Press), Can We Say No?: The Challenge of Rationing Health Care, Living with the Earth, Third Edition: Concepts in Environmental Health Science, Collaborative Research: University and Community Partnership, Health Action Zones Partnerships for Health EquityTop headlines: DW: Fair call: ›17:54 Cat survives being walled in for 7 weeks: A four-year-old cat in Germany called Bonny has survived after being walled in beneath a bathtub for seven weeks, its owner said Tuesday. 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