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Biopolitical Surveillance and Public Health in International Politics
ISBN: 9780230619951 / Angielski / Twarda / 245 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Using historical and contemporary case studies, Youde traces the shifting balance between surveillance and global public good provision and suggests that a human rights-based strategy offers a stable compromise.
Using historical and contemporary case studies, Youde traces the shifting balance between surveillance and global public good provision and suggests t...
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201,24 |
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Value-Based Health Care: Linking Finance and Quality
ISBN: 9780470281673 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Value-Based Health Care Linking Finance and Quality Yosef D. Dlugacz Value-Based Health Care? Value-Based Health Care?concisely explains the mandate to successfully link health care quality and finance and describes the tools to implement strategies for organizational success. Yosef Dlugacz provides many illustrative real-world examples of process and outcomes of the value-based approach, taken from a wide range of health care settings. Perfect for students preparing to enter health care management or for practicing health care leaders and professionals, this... Value-Based Health Care Linking Finance and Quality Yosef D. Dlugacz Value-Based Health Care? Value-Based Health Care?c... |
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Practice Under Pressure: Primary Care Physicians and Their Medicine in the Twenty-first Century
ISBN: 9780813546766 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why a book on primary care? "Because," according to Timothy Hoff, "there is no other part of the health care system that is in greater trouble right now, and no other part that plays such an important role in people's lives. Primary care always receives less attention than sexier specialty counterparts like surgery and emergency medicine." Through ninety-five in-depth interviews with primary care physicians (PCPs) working in different settings, as well as medical students and residents, Practice Under Pressure provides rich insight into the everyday lives of generalist physicians in the early...
Why a book on primary care? "Because," according to Timothy Hoff, "there is no other part of the health care system that is in greater trouble right n...
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165,17 |
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Global Health and Human Rights: Legal and Philosophical Perspectives
ISBN: 9780415479387 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The right to health, having been previously neglected is now being deployed more and more often in litigation, activism and policy-making across the world. International bodies such as the WHO, UNAIDS, World Bank and WTO are increasingly using or being evaluated with reference to health rights, and international NGOs frequently use the language of rights in campaigning and in more concrete litigation. This book brings together an impressive array of internationally renowned scholars in the areas of law, philosophy and health policy to critically interrogate the development... The right to health, having been previously neglected is now being deployed more and more often in litigation, activism and policy-making across th... |
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728,68 |
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Expanding Access to Health Care: A Management Approach
ISBN: 9780765623331 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The U.S. health care system faces well-known problems: 47 million people without health insurance, rapidly rising costs that consume 16 percent of the country's economic output, and widely uneven quality of care. Even many people with coverage are experiencing serious problems paying for the rapidly rising costs of health care and insurance.This book - a joint product of the National Academy of Public Administration and the National Academy of Social Science - undertakes a sweeping analysis of the management and administrative issues that arise in expanding health care coverage. The book...
The U.S. health care system faces well-known problems: 47 million people without health insurance, rapidly rising costs that consume 16 percent of the...
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228,27 |
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Integrative Health Care for Artists in a Hospital Setting
ISBN: 9783639156836 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines an integrative health care (IHC) clinic set within a hospital located in large city in Canada. The enquiry began by exploring how biomedical and CAM practitioners, artists, hospital administrators, and the Artists' Health Centre Foundation (AHCF) members interacted, communicated, and collaborated with one another for integrative patient/client care at the Artists' Health Centre (AHC). Knowledge and attitudes toward IHC are explored, to understand how these affected the everyday interactions among stakeholders. The findings suggest that there was a lack of understanding...
This book examines an integrative health care (IHC) clinic set within a hospital located in large city in Canada. The enquiry began by exploring how b...
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Obesity Among Poor Americans: Is Public Assistance the Problem?
ISBN: 9780826516367 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Obesity costs our society billions of dollars a year in lost productivity and medical expenses, roughly half of which the federal government pays through Medicare and Medicaid. We know obesity plagues the poor more than the non-poor and poor women more than poor men. Poor women make up the majority of adult welfare recipients--coincidence or causal connection?
This book investigates the controversial claim by welfare critics that public assistance programs like Food Stamps and the National School Lunch programs contribute to obesity among the poor. The author synthesizes empirical evidence... Obesity costs our society billions of dollars a year in lost productivity and medical expenses, roughly half of which the federal government pays thro...
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218,89 |
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Obesity Among Poor Americans: Is Public Assistance the Problem?
ISBN: 9780826516350 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Obesity costs our society billions of dollars a year in lost productivity and medical expenses, roughly half of which the federal government pays through Medicare and Medicaid. We know obesity plagues the poor more than the non-poor and poor women more than poor men. Poor women make up the majority of adult welfare recipients--coincidence or causal connection?
This book investigates the controversial claim by welfare critics that public assistance programs like Food Stamps and the National School Lunch programs contribute to obesity among the poor. The author synthesizes empirical evidence... Obesity costs our society billions of dollars a year in lost productivity and medical expenses, roughly half of which the federal government pays thro...
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431,75 |
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Medicine Unbound: The Human Body and the Limits of Medical Intervention: Emerging Issues in Biomedical Policy
ISBN: 9780231081498 / Angielski / Miękka / 287 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume focuses on issues involving the inviolability of the human body and the decision to end life. The contributors explore the difficulties in framing a public policy that legalizes aid in dying, and return to the more general question of what is the most fair and effective relationship between private medical authority and public policy.
This volume focuses on issues involving the inviolability of the human body and the decision to end life. The contributors explore the difficulties in...
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219,16 |
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Cornish CASCs workbook
ISBN: 9783639161021 / Angielski / Miękka / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cornish CASCs is a workbook providing 29 pairs of mock consultations, similar to those used in the Clinical Assessment of Skills and Competencies (CASC) MRCPsych exit exam of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, UK. The scenarios address various aspects of psychiatry in the Royal College syllabus, that are common in day to day practice, and in the exams. The prime aim is to help psychiatry postgraduate trainees test their competences for the main exams. It is also a resource for other professionals, including GPs, to upgrade their understanding of common psychiatric practice. It enables...
Cornish CASCs is a workbook providing 29 pairs of mock consultations, similar to those used in the Clinical Assessment of Skills and Competencies (CAS...
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263,91 |
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Migraine Headaches
ISBN: 9783639162905 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Migraines
Migraine is a social illness, difficult to live through without involving others because it affects socially prescribed roles. The wider the circle of contacts and responsibilities, the more potential for impact on relationships and social roles. Looking in the opposite direction, the social narratives of culture, institutions, and families that surround the individual often dictate how illness is viewed and how migraine is viewed and treated. The womens stories in this book reveal the personal side of migraines, the moments of pain and despair rarely seen. These women experienced... Migraines
Migraine is a social illness, difficult to live through without involving others because it affects socially prescribed roles. T... |
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Multidisciplinary Coordinated Caregiving: Research - Practice - Policy
ISBN: 9781461489726 / Angielski / Twarda / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Effective, meaningful caregiving requires a well-coordinated and informed effort guided by various highly skilled specialists across several interrelated professions, including psychologists, social workers, and occupational therapists. Multidisciplinary Coordinated Caregiving addresses the information needs of these interrelated professionals, contributing to the direct care of individuals and serving as an essential resource for those who ultimately create collaborative approaches to contemporary caregiving plans. In addition, the volume provides a wealth of evidence-based... Effective, meaningful caregiving requires a well-coordinated and informed effort guided by various highly skilled specialists across several interr... |
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402,53 |
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Engaging & Influencing Consumers
ISBN: 9781607410546 / Angielski / Miękka / 69 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission recognises the importance of engaging consumers in the movement to promote greater quality and efficiency in the healthcare system. This title explores what can be learned from other public health campaigns in other arenas about strategies for engaging consumers and influencing their behaviour.
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission recognises the importance of engaging consumers in the movement to promote greater quality and efficiency in ...
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270,96 |
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Emerging Infectious Diseases in India
ISBN: 9781607411680 / Angielski / Twarda / 235 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The purpose of this book is to summarize and present the topics specifically relating to emerging and remerging infections in India, the well known subcontinent. Due to the globalization in the present day, the change in the epidemiology of diseases from one site to the others all around the world can be expected. Indian story is the focus of interest in medicine. The summative on the common infectious problems in the tropical countries can be and should be performed. This work can be a useful reference material for the practitioners who are not familiar to the unique problems of the...
The purpose of this book is to summarize and present the topics specifically relating to emerging and remerging infections in India, the well known su...
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Cancer Metastases Research
ISBN: 9781604561302 / Angielski / Twarda / 301 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Metastasis is the spread of a disease from one organ or part to another non-contiguous organ or part. Only malignant tumour cells and infections have the capacity to metastasise. This book presents the research in the field from around the world.
Metastasis is the spread of a disease from one organ or part to another non-contiguous organ or part. Only malignant tumour cells and infections have ...
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1022,65 |
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Research Methods Community Medicine 6e
ISBN: 9780470986615 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych.
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327,01 |
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Knowledge Management Strategy for Health Care Decision-Makers - A Sociological Perspective
ISBN: 9783639078015 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Regionalized health care decision-makers have access to a wealth of knowledge with which to inform their decisions. Little is known, however, about how the various types of knowledge are managed to optimize their use in decision-making. This study examines the knowledge management strategies of health care decision-makers working in the context of a regionalized health care system. The study is guided by a qualitative research design. It is concluded that Regional Health Authorities (RHAs) in Canada pursue a codification strategy more strongly than a personalization strategy of managing...
Regionalized health care decision-makers have access to a wealth of knowledge with which to inform their decisions. Little is known, however, about ho...
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312,65 |
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Knowledge Transfer and Retention in Health Care - The Implementation of Best Practices in an Acute Care Setting
ISBN: 9783639079913 / Angielski / Miękka / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over the last few decades advances in health care services have allowed for the effective treatment of many illnesses. The only problem is that proven, effective treatments are not consistently applied in most health care settings. The question is, if we know better, why are we not doing better? This book attempts to answer this question from multiple perspectives. Using a qualitative research design, clinicians from an acute care setting were interviewed about an integrated care pathway for congestive heart failure, two years post-implementation. What follows is an exploration into the...
Over the last few decades advances in health care services have allowed for the effective treatment of many illnesses. The only problem is that proven...
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Health-related Quality of Life in COPD and Asthma - Discriminative and Evaluative Aspects
ISBN: 9783639079715 / Angielski / Miękka / 76 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The effects of intervention can be evaluated in different ways, and objective measurements of changes in lung function are commonly used as the outcome measure. Patient-reported outcome (PRO) is an umbrella term used for all patient-based assessment. One important PRO is health-related quality of life (HRQL), which may be used an an evaluative or discriminative measure. The research showed that completion up to five PRO questionnaires was well accepted by subjects with COPD. HRQL questionnaires might be used for evaluative purposes. HRQL questionnaires appear to have a possibility to be used...
The effects of intervention can be evaluated in different ways, and objective measurements of changes in lung function are commonly used as the outcom...
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219,18 |
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Medicine and Nursing: Professions in a Changing Health Service
ISBN: 9780803987425 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Please update ISBN's on OBC and imprint pages: C 978-0-8039-8741-8 P 978-0-8039-8742-5
Please update ISBN's on OBC and imprint pages: C 978-0-8039-8741-8 P 978-0-8039-8742-5
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272,03 |