Kategoria BISAC: Medical >> Administration

The facts are hard to ignore: rising rates of chronic disease, epidemic obesity and diabetes, a widening longevity gap between rich and poor, health care reforms at odds with patient interests. In response, Policy Innovations for Health argues that a nation s well-being mirrors the health of its citizens and calls not only for improvement in our health care systems but for a complete reconceptualization of health and social policy, starting with expanded, interrelated roles for health care providers, consumers, and policymakers.

The long-term strategies outlined in this...

Are you ready and willing to get to the root causes of problems? As Medicare, Medicaid, and major insurance companies increasingly deny payment for never events, it has become imperative that hospitals and doctors develop new ways to prevent these avoidable catastrophes from recurring. Proactive tools such as root cause analysis (RCA), basic failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA), and opportunity analysis (OA) are useful in preventing error, but in healthcare, such tools are often constrained by reticence to share information about mistakes and other problems inherent to the...

This book brings together insightful and thought-provoking essays on the crucial facets of leadership. It explores key principles of leadership, including both leadership failures as well as successes, making liberal use of case studies and practical examples.

Designed for easy reference, this concise manual provides hospital board members and executives with practical guidance on how to become actively engaged in the transformation of their organization. It focuses on how the healthcare industry as a whole is transforming and stresses the importance of having board members who are knowledgeable and skilled enough to provide leadership during this time of great opportunity.

This manual is ideal for orienting new board members and for providing more experienced members with insight on key issues. It supplies a list of questions to ask...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Medical Data Analysis, ISMDA 2003, held in Berlin, Germany in October 2003.

The 15 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The papers are organized in topical sections on medical models and learning, integration of intelligent analysis methods into medical databases, medical signal processing and image analysis, and applications of medical diagnostic support systems.

A growing body of research identifies strong links between children s health, social and educational outcomes; it also notes the reciprocal benefits of access to quality education on individual and family health status. In response to these findings, the World Health Organization developed the concept of the Health-Promoting School (HPS), a living catalyst for healthy lives, and for positive changes that students can take home and into the community. Case Studies in Global School Health Promotion provides readers with a theoretical and research base needed to understand the...