Kategoria BISAC: Medical >> Administration

Solving intractable questions of evolution, medicine, and genetics is now easier due to computer assisted methods permiting the rapid analysis of molecular sequence data. These advances have exposed ethical and policy concerns. How would genomic information be used and by whom? Should individuals be able to make decisions regarding their own genomic data? How accurate are these genetic tests and how should they be regulated? These and other ethical conundrums are the subject this book. Bioethicists, biomedical, nursing and allied health students will find this book helpful and tersely...

This forward-looking volume challenges professionals and interested lay readers to reconsider our ways of looking at health and wellness, illness and disease, and the goals of health/healthcare systems. Reframing health systems as complex adaptive systems, the book identifies health care as a central aspect of social care and security for all people, particularly the most vulnerable. From there, the author outlines necessary organizational, design, medical, and community steps toward building health systems that view and practice health care as a human right and can produce optimum care in...

This book offers a comprehensive reference guide to operations research theory and applications in healthcare systems. It provides readers with all the necessary tools for solving healthcare problems. The respective chapters, written by prominent researchers, explain a wealth of both basic and advanced concepts of operations research for the management of operating rooms, intensive care units, supply chain, emergency medical service, human resources, lean healthcare, and procurement. To foster a better understanding, the chapters include relevant examples or case studies. Taken together,...

Animal-Assisted Interventions in Health Care Settings: A Best Practices Manual for Establishing New Programs succinctly outlines how best to develop, implement, run, and evaluate AAI programs. Drawing on extensive professional experiences and research from more than 15...