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: Kathleen O'Leary Morgan
Publication date: 2006-02-28
Dewey code: 031
List Price: $19.00
Price: $19.00
Review Virginia Health Care in Perspective 2006 (Virginia Health Care in Perspective) / Morgan Quitno Corporation:
Authors
- Tonya M. Cox
- David Troxel
- Robin Hamon
- Virginia Bell
Publication date: 2007-12-21
Dewey code: 616
List Price: $36.95
Price: $27.43
Review The Best Friends Book of Alzheimer's Activities, Volume Two / Health Professions Press:Expand and enrich your Best Friends activity programming with 149 all-new activities for individuals with dementia. Like the first book, this collection of fun and easy activities will add both meaning and enjoyment to the activities at your adult day center, home care setting, or residential care facility. Feedback and insights from individuals with early-stage dementia helped shape this new collection, as well as activity suggestions from national and international dementia programs. As a result, the activities include a new focus on diversity and multiculturalism. Also featured are topics of interest to participants in their 50s and 60s, such as the Internet, advocacy, and community service. Participants, staff, and family members will enjoy fresh ideas for creative art projects, interactive games, and evening activities. New themes to explore in Volume 2 include activities related to the kitchen and food, life story sharing and reminiscence, religious and spiritual traditions, and wellness. Adaptations for people in the early and late stages of Alzheimer s disease, preventive measures to avoid unwanted surprises, and conversation tips make these activities particularly versatile. Use this resource to extend the benefits you already enjoy from Best Friends programming or discover for the first time how this groundbreaking approach can transform activities and daily interactions.
Creator: Carolyn Hughes Tuohy
Publication date: 2008-04-30
Dewey code: 353
List Price: $34.95
Price: $28.50
Review Exploring Social Insurance: Can a Dose of Europe Cure Canadian Health Care Finance? (School of Policy Studies) / School of Policy Studies Queen's University:Sustainability, quality, and accessibility are vital questions in Canadian health care. All Canadian governments, concerned about the growing share of the public budget absorbed by health care, are questioning the sustainability of the present system. How can we maintain and improve access to health care services of appropriate quality while ensuring sustainability? If there is one consolation to Canadian governments as they wrestle with the future of Medicare, it is that sustainability concerns are not unique to Canada but affect all countries, regardless of the level of private financing in a system. Some countries, however - particularly social insurance countries in Northern Europe such as Germany and France - manage to achieve universal access without wrestling with waiting lists, while providing a wide range of services. This book examines whether the grail of sustainability, quality, and accessibility could be better achieved through a marriage of the traditional Canadian model with elements of a European system. Contributors include Sherry Glied (Columbia), Stefan Gress (Duisburg-Essen), Morley Gunderson and Doug Hyatt (Toronto), Tim Jost (Washington and Lee Universities), Ted Marmor (Yale), Jack Mintz (Toronto), Steve Morgan (UBC), Terry Sullivan (Cancer Care Ontario), Joe White (Case Western Reserve University), and Wynand Van de Ven (Erasmus).
Edition: 2 Sub
Publication date: 1999-03-01
Dewey code: 362.1092273
List Price: $23.95
Price: $22.13
Review Reconstructing Illness: Studies in Pathography / Purdue University Press:Serious illness and mortality, those most universal, unavoidable, and frightening of human experiences, are the focus of this pioneering study, which has been hailed as a telling and provocative commentary on our times. As modern medicine has become more scientific and dispassionate, a new literary genre as emerged: pathography, the personal narrative concerning illness, treatment and sometimes death. Hawkins's sensitive reading of numerous pathographies highlights the assumptions, attitudes, and myths that people bring to the medical encounter. One factor emerges again and again in these "case studies": the tendency in contemporary medical practice to focus primarily not on the needs of the individual who is sick but on the condition that we call disease. Recommended for medical practitioners, the clergy, caregivers, students of popular culture, and the general reader, Reconstructing Illness demonstrates that "only when we hear both the doctor's and the patient's voice will we have a medicine that is truly human. ".
Authors
- Peter T. Pons
- Vincent J. Markovchick
Publication date: 1998-01-15
Dewey code: 362.18076
List Price: $42.95
Price: $38.31
Review Prehospital Emergency Care Secrets / Hanley & Belfus:This textbook in question-and-answer format covers such a wide variety of topics that it will appeal to emergency medicine physicians, paramedics, and prehospital educators. Major sections include Medical Direction, System Design, Personnel Safety, Communications, Destination Issues, Legal Issues, Disasters, Mass Gatherings, Special Situations, Clinical Care, Prehospital Skills, Aeromedical Transport, and Vehicle Operation.
Edition: 5
Publication date: 2006-09-30
Dewey code: 610
List Price: $86.95
Price: $39.99
Review An Introduction to Community Health / Jones & Bartlett Publishers:
Edition: Original Ed
Publication date: 1992-07
Dewey code: 362.1
List Price: $36.25
Price: $36.25
Review Medicine, Media, and Morality: Pulitzer Prize-Winning Writings on Health-Related Topics / Krieger Publishing Company:
Authors
- Earl A. Simendinger
- Terence F. Moore
Dewey code: 362
List Price: $34.95
Price: $34.04
Review Hospital Turnarounds: Lessons in Leadership / Beard Books:A five-stage typology is presented to minimize the trauma and maximize the potential for the survival and improvement of hospitals.
Publication date: 1996-05-15
Dewey code: 362.10977595
List Price: $19.95
Price: $19.95
Review Healthiest City: Milwaukee And The Politics Of Health Reform / University of Wisconsin Press:Between 1850 and the turn of the century, the population of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, exploded from 20,000 to nearly 300,000. The city's quick growth brought with it all of the problems of nineteenth-century urbanization: high death rates, infectious diseases, crowded housing, filthy streets, inadequate water supplies, and incredible stench. The Healthiest City, now available in paperback, shows how a coalition of reform supporters-including business people, clergy, women's groups, professionals, trade-union Socialists, Populists, and reform Republicans-united to demand community education and public responsibility to achieve for Milwaukee the title of "the healthiest city" by the 1930s. In her new Preface, Judith Walzer Leavitt notes that the 1993 cryptosporidiosis outbreak revealed that Milwaukeeans-and Americans in general in recent years-have paid decreasing attention to the machinery that keeps our cities operating and our citizens healthy. The bill for disinvesting in public health is paid by the public in inconvenience, in illness, and even in death. Leavitt comments, "We are so easily upset by the high cost of building the well that we rarely stop to think that we all need to drink from it. ".
Edition: 2
Publication date: 1999-12-15
Dewey code: 362.1091724
List Price: $69.50
Price: $65.00
Review An Introduction to Health Planning in Developing Countries / Oxford University Press, USA:This book is the second edition of a successful and well-respected text aimed at planners and health policy makers involved in planning for health in developing countries. This book is also highly relevant for Central and Eastern Europe where many countries are now trying to develop new, more flexible and decentralized approaches to health care under clear resource constraints. This edition continues to be based on the premise that the State has a key role to play in the health sector and that planning is an important mechanism for carrying out this role. The book begins by explaining the importance of health planning, stressing the balanced combination of technique and judgements necessary for successful planning. It outlines the policy context internationally within which health planning operates including recent health sector reform policies and longer- standing policies of Primary Health Care. The book then looks at each of the key stages in the Planning Spiral from the Situational Analysis through to Evaluation. Each of these is dealt with in a chapter, which introduces key concepts and techniques. The book ends with an analysis of why planning has not always been successful and discusses how it can be strengthened. The book overall focuses on public sector planning, but stresses the need for an approach to planning that looks at all sectors and organisations involved in health. In addition to the main text, the book also contains a number of exercises to practice techniques and an extensive bibliography for each chapter. [+]The book also provides a list of key web-sites.
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.
Creator: Kathleen O'Leary Morgan
Publication date: 2006-02-28
Dewey code: 031
List Price: $19.00
Price: $19.00
Review Maryland Health Care in Perspective 2006 (Maryland Health Care in Perspective) / Morgan Quitno Corporation:
Authors
- National Research Council
- Panel on DHHS Collection of Race and Ethnicity Data
Publication date: 2003-10-15
Dewey code: 362.1089
List Price: $21.00
Price: $21.00
Review Improving Racial and Ethnic Data on Health: Report of a Workshop / National Academies Press:
Authors
- Daniel Callahan
- Angela A. Wasunna
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.
Creator: A. J. Culyer
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1983-12
Dewey code: 362.1072
Price: $55.00
Review Economic and Medical Evaluation of Health Care Technologies / Springer:
Publication date: 2003-07
Dewey code: 362
Price: $149.00
Review Increasing Patient Satisfaction With Statistical Correlation: A Step-by-step Guide to the Jcaho's Staffing Effectiveness Standards / Hcpro Inc.:
Authors
- Committee on the Immunization Finance Dissemination Workshops
Dewey code: 338.43614470973
List Price: $21.00
Price: $20.98
Review Setting the Course: A Strategic Vision for Immunization -- Part 3: Summary of the Los Angeles Workshop / National Academies Press:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2003-01-31
Dewey code: 362.1969792
List Price: $104.00
Price: $49.20
Review The New Era of AIDS: HIV and Medicine in Times of Transition (International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine) / Springer:In the mid-1990s new treatment options introduced a new era of AIDS. This book is a sophisticated study of the shaping of this new era. Well informed by ethnographic as well as statistical data, it reveals the complex and ambiguous processes of change in the field of HIV/AIDS and beyond. The investigation leads from the changing conceptions of disease and body to the re-defined roles of patients and physicians, and eventually treats the shifts in the production and diffusion of knowledge that the health care system underwent. In doing so, the book captures the new era of AIDS from multiple perspectives and through the voices of physicians as well as people with HIV. It offers an accessible and engaging account of the wide-ranging responses this illness caused. As an original and timely contribution to questions of considerable currency in medicine and the social sciences, the book meets the interests of specialists, professionals, researchers and students alike.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1994-08-16
Dewey code: 362.10941
List Price: $36.95
Price: $32.00
Review Medicine in the Making of Modern Britain: 1700-1920 (Historical Connections) / Routledge:Christopher Lawrence's critical overview of medicine's place in the development of modern Britain examines the significance of the clinical encounter in contemporary society. Medicine in the Making of Modern Britain, the first short synoptic study of its kind, breaks new ground by bringing together specialized scholarship into a broad argument. Lawrence shows how the medical profession created a very specific role for itself and relates this role to the general social policy of the times. Medicine in the Making of Modern Britain will be of interest to a broad audience in a variety of disciplines.
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Educating for Better Health: A Handbook for Healthcare Professionals, Virginia Health Care in Perspective 2006 (Virginia Health Care in Perspective), The Best Friends Book of Alzheimer's Activities, Volume Two, Exploring Social Insurance: Can a Dose of Europe Cure Canadian Health Care Finance? (School of Policy Studies), Reconstructing Illness: Studies in Pathography, Prehospital Emergency Care Secrets, An Introduction to Community Health, Medicine, Media, and Morality: Pulitzer Prize-Winning Writings on Health-Related Topics, Hospital Turnarounds: Lessons in Leadership, Healthiest City: Milwaukee And The Politics Of Health Reform, An Introduction to Health Planning in Developing Countries, To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System, Maryland Health Care in Perspective 2006 (Maryland Health Care in Perspective), Improving Racial and Ethnic Data on Health: Report of a Workshop, Medicine and the Market: Equity v. Choice, Economic and Medical Evaluation of Health Care Technologies, Increasing Patient Satisfaction With Statistical Correlation: A Step-by-step Guide to the Jcaho's Staffing Effectiveness Standards, Setting the Course: A Strategic Vision for Immunization -- Part 3: Summary of the Los Angeles Workshop, The New Era of AIDS: HIV and Medicine in Times of Transition (International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine), Medicine in the Making of Modern Britain: 1700-1920 (Historical Connections)Top headlines: Slide show: The week in celebrity sightings: Johnny Rotten bugs out in Holland, Posh pushes her perfume, Sam spins records with Lindsay and more ›15:45 2 Sep, Tue Technology Review: 2007 Ford Expedition: Ford's full-size SUV is big on conveniences and standard features. ›07:00 19 Oct, Fri Tracing your own family roots: Talk about icing on the cake. A slice of royal wedding history was sold for 1,000 pounds ($1,830) at an auction. 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