Creator: Suzanne Tyler
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 1996-01-15
Dewey code: 362.198200941
List Price: $34.95
Price: $34.95
Review Listen with Mother: Consulting Users of Maternity Services / Books for Midwives Press:The Maternity Services Group (MSG) is an informal coalition of organisations ranging from small special interest groups to those with a broad maternity remit including consumers and professionals, but all with a keen interest in increasing effective involvement of users in the development of maternity care. With help from the Changing Childbirth Implementation Team (CCIT), the MSG held a series of national conferences in November 1994 and July 1995 with the above title. They were prompted by numerous approaches to MSG members for help in finding out what women want from maternity services, a question which the organisation felt unable to answer definitively on behalf of pregnant women and new parents everywhere but which needed to be addressed in diverse ways locally. The conferences were methodological in content, therefore, and aimed at assisting anyone faced with the task of obtaining the views of users or involving them in planning or monitoring services. Over 20 contributions from the conferences are included in this book: from expert researchers, NHS and other policy staff and community development workers, covering issues of consultation generally, an introduction to specific methodologies and experiences of involving particular client groups. The proceedings begin with a paper by Kate Jackson, Director of the CCIT and conclude with a round-up by Karlene Davis.
Creator: Edith Mukudi
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 2008-04-04
List Price: $24.95
Price: $20.63
Review HIV/AIDS in Africa: Challenges & Impact / Africa World Press:
Creator: Edith Mukudi
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 2008-04-04
List Price: $24.95
Price: $20.63
Review HIV/AIDS in Africa: Challenges & Impact / Africa World Press:
Publication date: 2007-01
Review The Health of the Nation: The Irish Healthcare System 1957-2007 / Gill & MacMillan:
Creator: Robert B. Hudson
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1997-10-08
Dewey code: 362.63
Price: $61.00
Review The Future of Age-Based Public Policy / The Johns Hopkins University Press:The past thirty years have seen an extraordinary expansion of federal programming and expenditures on behalf of older Americans. Largely as a result of these efforts, poverty among the aged has fallen three-fold, their real income has jumped 69%, and their access to health care services has doubled. While appreciating what these initiatives have accomplished, however, critics contend that we can no longer afford to see expenditures inexorably rise, because they either preclude balancing the federal budget, imperil the well-being of future generations, or give too central a role to government in promoting individual welfare. The Future of Age-Based Public Policy is the first book to investigate systematically the arguments and issues surrounding these successful and popular programs. The authors examine alternative ideological perspectives on age-related policy; differing levels of need within subpopulations of old persons and between old and young persons; and the characteristics of our major age-based and age-related programs, such as Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and the Older Americans Act. Contributors are Robert B. Hudson, Martha Holstein, Neil Howe, John Myles, Robert H. Binstock, Judith G. Gonyea, Robert Morris, Francis G. Caro, Paul Adams, Gary L. [+]Dominick, Eric R. Kingson, Jill Quadagno, Sylvester J. Schieber, Marilyn Moon, Elizabeth A. Kutza, Diane E. Justice, Anna M. Rappaport, Robert Logan, Robert Applebaum, and Monika White.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2007-09-28
Dewey code: 306.461
List Price: $22.95
Price: $20.65
Review Introducing Medical Anthropology: A Discipline in Action / AltaMira Press:A new text in the growing field of medical anthropology.
Publication date: 2008-08
Dewey code: 362.18
List Price: $27.07
Price: $20.57
Review Emergency Care (Innovation in Medicine) / Cherry Lake Pub.:
Publication date: 2007-01
Review The Health of the Nation: The Irish Healthcare System 1957-2007 / Gill & MacMillan:
Authors
- John Hornecker
- Andreas Moritz
Dewey code: 362
List Price: $19.95
Price: $19.95
Review Simple Steps to Total Health / Ener-chi.com:By nature, your physical body is designed to be healthy and vital throughout life. Unhealthy eating habits and lifestyle choices, however, lead to numerous health conditions that prevent you from enjoying life to the fullest. In Simple Steps to Total Health, the authors bring to light the most common cause of disease, which is the build-up of toxins and residues from improperly digested foods that inhibit various organs and systems from performing their normal functions. This guidebook for total health provides you with simple but highly effective approaches for internal cleansing, hydration, nutrition and living habits. The book's three parts cover the essentials of total health - Good Internal Hygiene, Healthy Nutrition and Balanced Lifestyle. Learn about the most common disease-causing foods, dietary habits and influences responsible for the occurrence of chronic illnesses, including those affecting the blood vessels, heart, liver, intestinal organs, lungs, kidneys, joints, bones, nervous system and sense organs. To be able to live a healthy life, you must align your internal biological rhythms with the larger rhythms of nature. Find out more about this and many other important topics in Simple Steps to Total Health. This is a "must-have" book for anyone who is interested in using a natural, drug-free approach to restoring total health.
Publication date: 2008-08
Dewey code: 362.18
List Price: $27.07
Price: $20.57
Review Emergency Care (Innovation in Medicine) / Cherry Lake Pub.:
Creator: A. C. Williams
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1999-10-07
Dewey code: 616.8
List Price: $156.00
Price: $73.11
Review Patient Care in Neurology (Contemporary Neurology) / Oxford University Press, USA:This book addresses modern attitudes to, and management of, the common neurological conditions, reflecting the shift in clinical neurology from being a largely diagnostic service to becoming a specialty based on treatment, longterm education and support of patients. Throughout, the emphasis is on developing a close working relationship between neurologists, psychiatrists, rehabilitation staff and specialist nurses, and the importance of the team approach to patient care, including consideration of the patient's own experience of their situation and the role of community services such as lay societies and charities. This is the only text presenting this holistic approach to neurological care. The aim of this book is to stimulate debate about the best service provision for neurology, covering considerations relevant to the commissioning of services, running outpatient clinics, transcultural issues and the role of the nurse specialist. The book assesses the role of neurogenetics in preventive neurology and opportunities for the continued application of gene therapy techniques. Also covered are the psychosomatic conditions often faced by a neurologist and the management of the secondary psychological results of organic neurological disease.
Creator: Meredeth Turshen
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2000-02
Dewey code: 362.1082096
List Price: $21.95
Price: $21.95
Review African Women's Health / Africa World Press:
Authors
- Committee on Quality of Health Care in America
- Institute of Medicine
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2000-04-15
Dewey code: 362.1
List Price: $34.95
Price: $27.96
Review To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System / National Academies Press:Committee on Quality of Health Care in America. Reveals the truth of medical error and the disparity between the incidence of error and public perception. Examines how surrounding forces of legislation, regulation, and market activity influence the quality of care provided and handling medical mistakes. For policymakers, regulators, and clinicians. Experts estimate that as many as 98,000 people die in any given year from medical errors that occur in hospitals. That's more than die from motor vehicle accidents, breast cancer, or AIDS-three causes that receive far more public attention. Indeed, more people die annually from medication errors than from workplace injuries. Add the financial cost to the human tragedy, and medical error easily rises to the top ranks of urgent, widespread public problems. To Err Is Human breaks the silence that has surrounded medical errors and their consequence-but not by pointing fingers at caring health care professionals who make honest mistakes. After all, to err is human. [+]Instead, this book sets forth a national agenda-with state and local implications-for reducing medical errors and improving patient safety through the design of a safer health system. This volume reveals the often startling statistics of medical error and the disparity between the incidence of error and public perception of it, given many patients' expectations that the medical profession always performs perfectly. A careful examination is made of how the surrounding forces of legislation, regulation, and market activity influence the quality of care provided by health care organizations and then looks at their handling of medical mistakes. Using a detailed case study, the book reviews the current understanding of why these mistakes happen. A key theme is that legitimate liability concerns discourage reporting of errors-which begs the question, "How can we learn from our mistakes?"Balancing regulatory versus market-based initiatives and public versus private efforts, the Institute of Medicine presents wide-ranging recommendations for improving patient safety, in the areas of leadership, improved data collection and analysis, and development of effective systems at the level of direct patient care. To Err Is Human asserts that the problem is not bad people in health care-it is that good people are working in bad systems that need to be made safer. Comprehensive and straightforward, this book offers a clear prescription for raising the level of patient safety in American health care. It also explains how patients themselves can influence the quality of care that they receive once they check into the hospital. This book will be vitally important to federal, state, and local health policy makers and regulators, health professional licensing officials, hospital administrators, medical educators and students, health caregivers, health journalists, patient advocates-as well as patients themselves. First in a series of publications from the Quality of Health Care in America, a project initiated by the Institute of Medicine.
Edition: 5
Publication date: 2006-09-30
Dewey code: 610
List Price: $86.95
Price: $35.00
Review An Introduction to Community Health / Jones & Bartlett Publishers:
Authors
- Angela A. Wasunna
- Daniel Callahan
Publication date: 2006-04-20
Dewey code: 362.10688
List Price: $35.00
Price: $20.75
Review Medicine and the Market: Equity v. Choice / The Johns Hopkins University Press:Much has been written about medicine and the market in recent years. This book is the first to include an assessment of market influence in both developed and developing countries, and among the very few that have tried to evaluate the actual health and economic impact of market theory and practices in a wide range of national settings. Tracing the path that market practices have taken from Adam Smith in the eighteenth century into twenty-first-century health care, Daniel Callahan and Angela A. Wasunna add a fresh dimension: they compare the different approaches taken in the market debate by health care economists, conservative market advocates, and liberal supporters of single-payer or government-regulated systems. In addition to laying out the market-versus-government struggle around the world - from Canada and the United States to Western Europe, Latin America, and many African and Asian countries - they assess the leading market practices, such as competition, physician incentives, and co-payments, for their economic and health efficacy to determine whether they work as advertised. This timely and necessary book engages new dimensions of a development that has urgent consequences for the delivery of health care worldwide.
Publication date: 2004-03-01
Dewey code: 362.19683100222
List Price: $27.50
Price: $22.97
Review Alive with Alzheimer's / University Of Chicago Press:The confusion, losses, and devastation of Alzheimer's disease are familiar to the millions of Americans suffering from the disease and to their family members. Understandably, declining abilities and changing personal characteristics shape our picture of the disease, leading some to refer to the "double death" of Alzheimer's in which the sufferer drifts away long before his or her eventual physical end. This small, tender volume of 85 photographs and accompanying discussion powerfully shows the limitations of this view. Cathy Stein Greenblat, an internationally respected sociologist and photographer, demonstrates in Alive with Alzheimer's that, while the ravages of the disease are real, Alzheimer's sufferers can do more than survive, they can thrive. Her images, interviews, and observations attest to the possibility of their being "alive" with Alzheimer's far beyond the expectations of the general public and even of many physicians with long experience with the disease. Greenblat offers a new vision, taking us into a world of life-enhancing institutional care. Nursing homes and similar facilities don't have to be a last resort; as Greenblat shows, with a dedicated and experienced staff and an enriched environment (that includes respect, choices, pets, and music), extraordinary changes can be effected in Alzheimer's patients. Alive with Alzheimer's, the first photographic book on the disease, offers hope and inspiration. Moreover, its vivid, impressive evidence that ongoing stimulation in a good institutional setting can sustain Alzheimer's patients at a far higher level than is generally believed has significant implications for personal and policy decisions. The new standard of care chronicled in Alive with Alzheimer's will provide hope and inspiration to those touched by the disease. [+]As Dr. Enid Rockwell writes in her Afterword to Greenblat's moving book, "These photographs are extraordinary for practitioners, for family members, for everyone to see what's going on with these people. The stimulation pictured in this book is more powerful than any medication that we will have in our lifetime. They so vividly show us that there are people inside these bodies, people with personalities, who experience emotion, and they show that there is life after Alzheimer's. ".
Publication date: 2000-12-25
Dewey code: 362.10685
List Price: $25.00
Price: $20.54
Review Dying to Know: Public Release of Information about Quality of Health Care (Nuffield Trust Series, No. 12) / RAND Corporation:Public disclosure of the comparative performance of health care providers is seen as one mechanism for improving quality of care and controlling health care costs. This report, the result of collaboration between the Nuffield Trust in London and RAND, assesses the U. S. experience with publicly releasing health care performance data, and offers guidelines for establishing public disclosure policy in the United Kingdom. Because the United States leads the world in reporting clinical information by hospital and by physician name, this report will be of interest to any country considering public release of performance data.
Authors
- Andreas Moritz
- John Hornecker
Dewey code: 362
List Price: $19.95
Price: $19.95
Review Simple Steps to Total Health / Ener-chi.com:By nature, your physical body is designed to be healthy and vital throughout life. Unhealthy eating habits and lifestyle choices, however, lead to numerous health conditions that prevent you from enjoying life to the fullest. In Simple Steps to Total Health, the authors bring to light the most common cause of disease, which is the build-up of toxins and residues from improperly digested foods that inhibit various organs and systems from performing their normal functions. This guidebook for total health provides you with simple but highly effective approaches for internal cleansing, hydration, nutrition and living habits. The book's three parts cover the essentials of total health - Good Internal Hygiene, Healthy Nutrition and Balanced Lifestyle. Learn about the most common disease-causing foods, dietary habits and influences responsible for the occurrence of chronic illnesses, including those affecting the blood vessels, heart, liver, intestinal organs, lungs, kidneys, joints, bones, nervous system and sense organs. To be able to live a healthy life, you must align your internal biological rhythms with the larger rhythms of nature. Find out more about this and many other important topics in Simple Steps to Total Health. This is a "must-have" book for anyone who is interested in using a natural, drug-free approach to restoring total health.
Creator: Marlene Viljoen
Publication date: 2004-04-01
Dewey code: 362.10968
List Price: $20.95
Price: $20.72
Review Educating for Better Health: A Handbook for Healthcare Professionals / Juta Academic:Recently passed South African legislation that addresses the education and training of health-care professionals is explained in clear, detailed language in this guide. Health-care experts from various organizations, including governmental agencies, private health facilities, and the Health Professions Council of South Africa, address how this legislation affects nursing and medical universities, schools of public health, state hospitals, and libraries. The guide's outcomes-based approach helps health-care workers determine how to use and act on the new educational guidelines. A definitions section explains and summarizes complicated terminology.
Creator: Joan Pine
Publication date: 1992-04
Dewey code: 362.10685
List Price: $25.95
Price: $25.95
Review Increasing Physician Involvement in Quality Improvement Programs / American College of Physician Executives:
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Listen with Mother: Consulting Users of Maternity Services, HIV/AIDS in Africa: Challenges & Impact, HIV/AIDS in Africa: Challenges & Impact, The Health of the Nation: The Irish Healthcare System 1957-2007, The Future of Age-Based Public Policy, Introducing Medical Anthropology: A Discipline in Action, Emergency Care (Innovation in Medicine), The Health of the Nation: The Irish Healthcare System 1957-2007, Simple Steps to Total Health, Emergency Care (Innovation in Medicine), Patient Care in Neurology (Contemporary Neurology), African Women's Health, To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System, An Introduction to Community Health, Medicine and the Market: Equity v. 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