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Unmasking Health Management: A Critical Text
ISBN: 9781590339794 / Angielski / Twarda / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Although governments believe that the key to efficient health services lies in organisations run by inspiring leaders who stimulate the most efficient forms of management, many people working in health services, including managers, and an increasing number of academics, are discomforted by such a belief system. This books aims to provide a language in which such discomfort may be articulated. Its objectives are to nurture scepticism about the benefits of management, to debunk the notion that management is merely a technical device to promote efficiency, and to reveal the oppressiveness of...
Although governments believe that the key to efficient health services lies in organisations run by inspiring leaders who stimulate the most efficient...
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544,85 |
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Asian Voices: Asian and Asian-American Health Educators Speak Out
ISBN: 9780763709228 / Angielski / Miękka / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. NLN Press proudly presents the newest publication in the Voices series . Here Asian and Asian American health educators discuss the implicati ons of cultural factors in providing health services to Asian and Asia n American communities. They also explore multiple issues concerning A sian American's health: health promotion and disease prevention in eld erly Chinese American women, the implications of Japanese health care, HIV/AIDS in Asian Americans, Buddhist ethics and implications for end -of-life issues, the dilemma in searching for health care, traditional Chinese medicines, Korean...
NLN Press proudly presents the newest publication in the Voices series . Here Asian and Asian American health educators discuss the implicati ons of c...
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309,35 |
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Negotiating Health : Intellectual Property and Access to Medicines
ISBN: 9781844072941 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An analysis on the post-2005 world, and a discussion on how action may be taken to ensure that access to medicines is not sacrificed to corporate attempts to protect business interests. This book comes at a time when access to affordable medicines, for the
An analysis on the post-2005 world, and a discussion on how action may be taken to ensure that access to medicines is not sacrificed to corporate atte...
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701,49 |
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The Political Economy of Health Care
ISBN: 9780333585795 / Angielski / Twarda / 267 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Some goods and services are normally left to the market mechanism. Health care is often described as an exception to the rule. Society wants care to be allocated equitably; it wants the financial burden to be kept within bounds; it wants treatments to be both medically effective and economically efficient. These shared concerns lead to a demand for State intervention which this book seeks impartially to appraise and evaluate.
Some goods and services are normally left to the market mechanism. Health care is often described as an exception to the rule. Society wants care to b...
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The Health Care Professional's Guide to Disease Management: Patient-Centered Care for the 21st Century: Patient-Centered Care for the 21st Century
ISBN: 9780834211667 / Angielski / Miękka / 345 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Health Care Professional's Guide to Disease Management is a useful reference for physicians, nurses, pharmacists, allied health professionals, and public health practitioners working in the area of disease management. In the health care market where pressure is on both providers and managed care organizations to deliver high quality care to defined populations efficiently, knowledge of disease management is crucial. The book includes discussions of evidence-based medicine, clinical practice guidelines, and outcomes management.
The Health Care Professional's Guide to Disease Management is a useful reference for physicians, nurses, pharmacists, allied health professionals, and...
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Dental Public Health: A Primer
ISBN: 9781857756470 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A guide designed for use by GPs, practice managers and practice staff, to help them understand the NHS pension scheme and take advantage of the benefits it offers to those in general practice.
A guide designed for use by GPs, practice managers and practice staff, to help them understand the NHS pension scheme and take advantage of the benefi...
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178,95 |
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Practical Budget Management in Health and Social Care
ISBN: 9781846191008 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Practical budget management is at the core of this book. As well as giving an insight into the way budgets behave in certain circumstances and what can be done about it, the book also deals with practical steps the budget and resource manager can take to eliminate waste and reduce opportunities for fraud and collusion. Better budget management means that the organisation can concentrate greater resources on matters that will significantly enhance patient and client care. The book identifies the day-to-day issues that affect managers in health and social services, and provides advice and a...
Practical budget management is at the core of this book. As well as giving an insight into the way budgets behave in certain circumstances and what ca...
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New Technologies in Health Care: Challenge, Change and Innovation
ISBN: 9781403991300 / Angielski / Twarda / 275 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first detailed and comprehensive analysis of the implications of new health technologies for society, the delivery of health care, and the very meaning of health itself. It is based on new, critical social science research integrated according to core themes, making it accessible and engaging to both students and researchers.
The first detailed and comprehensive analysis of the implications of new health technologies for society, the delivery of health care, and the very me...
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Bringing User Experience to Healthcare Improvement: The Concepts, Methods and Practices of Experience-Based Design
ISBN: 9781846191763 / Angielski / Miękka / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work includes a foreword by lynne Maher. Head of Innovation Practice, NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement, University Of Warwick, Coventry. "Experience Based Design" (EBD) is a new way of bringing about improvements in healthcare services by being user-focussed. Facilities, healthcare professionals, carers, family and friends are all involved in the patient experience and systems and policies need to adapt to take this into consideration. By exploring the underlying concepts, methods and practices of EBD, this exciting guide offers a unique approach to healthcare customer...
This work includes a foreword by lynne Maher. Head of Innovation Practice, NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement, University Of Warwick, Covent...
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Expanding Nursing and Health Care Practice - Public Health N
ISBN: 9780748783977 / Angielski / Miękka / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This enhances the knowledge and skills of health care students and registered practitioners in public health approaches to preventative health care. It embraces practices within both the hospital and community settings and examines the development of partn
This enhances the knowledge and skills of health care students and registered practitioners in public health approaches to preventative health care. I...
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How to Succeed as a Leader
ISBN: 9781846191602 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work includes Foreword by David Nicholson - Chief Executive, National Health Service of England. In the past, there has been too little emphasis and investment made in developing leaders in healthcare. People have become leaders without being prepared or trained or supported in the role. Individuals need to understand the context, the concept and models of good leadership, the practical steps to becoming a good leader, and how to sustain the various components of a well functioning and effective organisation, whether that is a large NHS trust or hospital department, a clinical group or...
This work includes Foreword by David Nicholson - Chief Executive, National Health Service of England. In the past, there has been too little emphasis ...
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159,60 |
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Israel and Its Army: From Cohesion to Confusion
ISBN: 9780415400497 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Israel Defense Force (IDF) plays a key role in Israeli society, and has traditionally been perceived not only as the guardian of national survival, but also as a 'people's army' responsible for the custody of national values. This volume analyses the circumstances currently undermining these perceptions, and explores both the changes occurring in Israel's military framework, and their potential implications. The book highlights the influence exerted by massive shifts in both Israel's external strategic landscape and in the country's domestic and cultural... The Israel Defense Force (IDF) plays a key role in Israeli society, and has traditionally been perceived not only as the guardian of national ... |
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Extending Primary Care: Polyclinics, Resource Centres, Hospital-At-Home
ISBN: 9781857750294 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'Fundamental changes in the Health Service demand a radical shift in approaches to patient core. The NHS is becoming increasingly led by the primary care sector. This has a greater meaning than simply more involvement of GPs in secondary care purchasing. It means that we start from where the patient is, in their own home and community. We provide care for them there and only move them into secondary services if and when it is appropriate to do so. 'Extending Primary Care shows that it is possible to experiment beyond traditional boundaries in these areas. It will provide encouragement to...
'Fundamental changes in the Health Service demand a radical shift in approaches to patient core. The NHS is becoming increasingly led by the primary c...
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203,14 |
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Reviving Primary Care: A US-UK Comparison
ISBN: 9781857750010 / Angielski / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The quality of health care in the US depends on the patient's ability to pay and his or her insurance cover, at an annual cost of $3600 per head of population. In the UK, the quality of care costs less at an annual cost of $1000 per head of population, although care is sometimes delayed through a lack of resources. This book compares the two systems from the viewpoint of primary care, identifying some models of excellence from which both can benefit. It draws on the experience of the NHS reforms in the UK and the political imperative to control costs and improve the service in the US.
The quality of health care in the US depends on the patient's ability to pay and his or her insurance cover, at an annual cost of $3600 per head of po...
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Oncogene Proteins: New Research
ISBN: 9781604562903 / Angielski / Twarda / 333 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Oncogene proteins are proteins coded by oncogenes. They include proteins resulting from the fusion of an oncogene and another gene (oncogene proteins, fusion). An oncogene is a modified gene, or a set of nucleotides that codes for a protein and is believed
Oncogene proteins are proteins coded by oncogenes. They include proteins resulting from the fusion of an oncogene and another gene (oncogene proteins,...
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Beyond the Edge: One Woman's Journey Out of Post-Natal Depression and Anxiety
ISBN: 9781844742165 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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AIDS in Africa: Help the Victims or Ignore Them?
ISBN: 9781590330500 / Angielski / Miękka / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Health Care in Transition, Volume 1
ISBN: 9781590332726 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Health Care in Transition, Volume 2
ISBN: 9781590336441 / Angielski / Twarda / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Health care is clearly in transition -- but to where? Managed or unmanaged care? HMO's or not? Are insurance companies and hospitals the enemy of health care for their own patients? What about the 40,000,000 uninsured in America? Don't ask the patients, for they have become the ping-pong balls in the health care game. This book examines important issues in this ever-growing maze.
Health care is clearly in transition -- but to where? Managed or unmanaged care? HMO's or not? Are insurance companies and hospitals the enemy of heal...
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Dietary Supplements: Current Issues
ISBN: 9781590337196 / Angielski / Miękka / 75 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The use of dietary supplements is often promoted as a solution to a number of nutrition problems, including general dietary patterns and nutrient intakes, malnutrition in the elderly, the nutritional needs in pregnant women, poor nutrient intakes in low-income children, the iron needs of infants after 6 months, and the prevention of diseases. Although there are situations where the use of vitamin and mineral supplements can improve the health of certain individuals, the consumption of conventional food continues to be the preferred method to improve nutritional and health status. This...
The use of dietary supplements is often promoted as a solution to a number of nutrition problems, including general dietary patterns and nutrient inta...
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