Strategic Information Management in Hospitals: An Introduction to Hospital Information Systems
ISBN: 9780387403564 / Angielski / Twarda / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Strategic Information Management In Hospitals: An Introduction To Hospital Information Systems is a definitive volume written by four authoritative voices in medical informatics. Illustrating the importance of hospital information management in delivering high quality health care at the lowest possible cost, this book provides the essential resources needed by the medical informatics specialist to understand and successfully manage the complex nature of hospital information systems. Author of the book's Foreword, Reed M. Gardner, PhD, Professor and Chair, Department of... Strategic Information Management In Hospitals: An Introduction To Hospital Information Systems is a definitive volume written by f... |
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384,63 zł |
Antibiotic Policies: Fighting Resistance
ISBN: 9780387708409 / Angielski / Twarda / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1971, I started a fellowship in infectious diseases and medical microbiology at the Channing Laboratory of the Harvard Medical Service at Boston City Hospital. My mentor, Dr. Maxwell Finland, had encouraged me to return there from the Center for Disease Control (as CDC was known then), where I had studied inf- tious diseases epidemiology and hospital-associated infection epidemiology, with the idea that we would review the demographic patterns of bacteremia and several other infections during Dr. Finland s long tenure at the hospital. We did so, but I was surprised to find that he also...
In 1971, I started a fellowship in infectious diseases and medical microbiology at the Channing Laboratory of the Harvard Medical Service at Boston Ci...
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576,96 zł |
Disease, Diagnoses, and Dollars: Facing the Ever-Expanding Market for Medical Care
ISBN: 9780387740447 / Angielski / Twarda / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Disease, Diagnoses, and Dollars is about the costs of health care and their impact on health. The U.S. health care system is the largest sector in the biggest economy, and the US spends significantly more per capita on health care than any other country, yet it ranks last among comparison nations on the major health indicators. Within the U.S., there is evidence that regions that spend more do not have better outcomes, and some evidence suggests that quality of care is lower in the regions that spend more, not less, on health care. Robert Kaplan takes the controversial position that... Disease, Diagnoses, and Dollars is about the costs of health care and their impact on health. The U.S. health care system is the largest sector in ... |
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96,13 zł |
Advancing Federal Sector Health Care: A Model for Technology Transfer
ISBN: 9780387951072 / Angielski / Twarda / 396 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As a result of severe wounds received in World War II, I have spent many months in military hospitals, including 20 months in an Army hospital immediately after the war. I continue to use the Military Health System, as do many of my colleagues in Congress, because I firmly believe the quality of health care delivered in military and veterans hospitals is second to none. The largest system of its type in the world, the U.S. military healthcare system is undergoing changes as dramatic as those experienced by the entire country. During Desert Storm, we saw new technologies, such as telemedicine,...
As a result of severe wounds received in World War II, I have spent many months in military hospitals, including 20 months in an Army hospital immedia...
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384,63 zł |
Doing Better and Feeling Worse: Health in the United States
ISBN: 9780393064230 / Angielski / Miękka / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a book that will generate debate, discussion, controversy, conflict, and perhaps some legislative reform when the impact of its arguments begins to be felt. Twenty doctors, economists, and political and social scientists were asked by the Rockefeller Foundation to write on health and medical care in the United States. A clue to their opinions about the state of the nation s health is the title of their volume. Doing Better and Feeling Worse."
This is a book that will generate debate, discussion, controversy, conflict, and perhaps some legislative reform when the impact of its arguments begi...
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104,36 zł |
In the Midst of Winter: Counseling Families, Couples, and Individuals with AIDS Infection (Revised)
ISBN: 9780393702040 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The title of this book is taken from Albert Camus, who wrote, "In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer." Indeed, the AIDS epidemic has hit like a cold blizzard in the gay community and in inner cities afflicted by high levels of drug abuse. In the Midst of Winter chronicles the brave struggles of families, couples, and individuals caught in that storm and speaks to their strengths, as well as to those of their therapists, even in the bleakest of circumstances. Powerful and practical, immediate and inspiring, it shows the way through the storm to the...
The title of this book is taken from Albert Camus, who wrote, "In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer." I...
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113,07 zł |
Health Care and Its Costs: Can The U.S. Afford Adequate Health Care?
ISBN: 9780393956719 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In recent years the portion of America's gross national product devoted to health care has more than doubled. Hospital costs have risen at twice the rate of any other good or service that the average citizen needs.
In recent years the portion of America's gross national product devoted to health care has more than doubled. Hospital costs have risen at twice the r...
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117,43 zł |
Preventing Coronary Heart Disease: Prospects, Policies, and Politics
ISBN: 9780415044905 / Angielski / Twarda / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Coronary heart disease is the major cause of death in the UK, being responsible for 31% of male deaths and for 24% of female deaths in 1987 in England and Wales. Preventing Coronary Heart Disease examines these statistics and focuses specifically on policies for its prevention by the Government, general practitioners, and concerned groups. Michael Calnan looks at the feasibility and effectiveness of these health policies and the obstacles in the way of their adoption. Drawing mainly on the discipline of politics, sociology, and epidemiology the author begins by examining the epidemiological...
Coronary heart disease is the major cause of death in the UK, being responsible for 31% of male deaths and for 24% of female deaths in 1987 in England...
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907,73 zł |
Structures of Control in Health Management
ISBN: 9780415048552 / Angielski / Twarda / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Using a variety of evidence the author documents the rise of general management, the application of new techniques to reduce medical costs and improve efficiency, and other methods to control use and evaluate clinical performance.
Using a variety of evidence the author documents the rise of general management, the application of new techniques to reduce medical costs and improve...
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752,12 zł |
In the Name of the Child
ISBN: 9780415057431 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Recent revelations of child abuse in Britain have highlighted the need for understanding the historical background to current attitudes towards child health and welfare. In the Name of the Child explores a variety of professional, social, political and cultural constructions of the child in the crucial decades around World War I when modern notions of the child were elaborated and widely institutionalized.
Recent revelations of child abuse in Britain have highlighted the need for understanding the historical background to current attitudes towards child ...
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700,25 zł |
Researching Health Care
ISBN: 9780415070775 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Health care delivery is undergoing intense scrutiny and pressure for change: people have high expectations and want value for money. Research can do much to evaluate the effectiveness of health care, but deeply rooted disciplinary preconceptions - about what should be done and how, and about what is scientific - have hampered relevant research. Researching Health Care brings together an international team of health researchers from the fields of clinical care, clinical epidemiology, bio-statistics, sociology, health economics and health policy. The problem of research method is central to the...
Health care delivery is undergoing intense scrutiny and pressure for change: people have high expectations and want value for money. Research can do m...
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933,66 zł |
Working with Women and AIDS: Medical, Counselling and Social Issues
ISBN: 9780415076586 / Angielski / Twarda / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Women now account for one third of the ten million people with HIV infection worldwide. Yet until very recently most services were geared towards men, and doctors and other professionals were often unprepared for the particular issues that women would raise. Working with Women and AIDS provides a unique and readable combination of up-to-date medical information, a discussion of social issues, personal accounts and practical advice about ways of working with women affected by HIV and AIDS. Written by people working in the field, the book explores issues such as contraception,...
Women now account for one third of the ten million people with HIV infection worldwide. Yet until very recently most services were geared towards men,...
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186,68 zł |
Healthy Cities: Research and Practice
ISBN: 9780415077927 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The growth of health promotion as a topic for discussion and a principle for practice is widespread, and affects all groups of health professionals. The Healthy Cities project, like Health for All, was inaugurated by the World Health Organization and has informed policy throughout the world.
Healthy Cities: Research and Practice examines the application of the project in a number of countries. The contributors explore problems in the relationship between policy makers, communities, and academic researchers, and discuss how the Healthy Cities program affects housing policy,... The growth of health promotion as a topic for discussion and a principle for practice is widespread, and affects all groups of health professionals. T...
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114,06 zł |
The Need for Health Care
ISBN: 9780415101110 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The rhetoric of 'needs' has been used to legitimate all major turns in UK health policy since 1936. This study identifies the ethical, policy and technical issues arising from the concept of needs. In the first part a theory of needs is developed, which takes into account both the philosophical traditions and the practical problems arising in daily health care. In a second part, health systems throughout the world are described and compared, addressing ethical as well as economical questions.
Its interdisciplinary approach will make The Need for Healthcare important reading not... The rhetoric of 'needs' has been used to legitimate all major turns in UK health policy since 1936. This study identifies the ethical, policy and tech...
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197,05 zł |
Researching Cultural Differences in Health
ISBN: 9780415111836 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Significant concerns about the poor health and prevalence of chronic illness amongst a number of ethnic minority populations have led to heightened debates about how best to improve the situation. For some the answer is to see their experiences as part of the general social class inequality in health, but recent evidence questions the extent to which social class can explain the variations in health which ethnic minorities experience. This work offers a range of accounts of how people in ethnic minority groups perceive and manage their illness. Some of the chapters focus on Bangladeshi, and...
Significant concerns about the poor health and prevalence of chronic illness amongst a number of ethnic minority populations have led to heightened de...
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254,11 zł |
Health Care Systems in Liberal Democracies
ISBN: 9780415118064 / Angielski / Twarda / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work looks at the way in which health care is organized and delivered in Australia, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, the UK and the US. It also examines the continuing quest for solutions to some of the seemingly intractable problems on the health care agenda. The organization of health care in each country is analyzed within a common framework.
This work looks at the way in which health care is organized and delivered in Australia, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, the UK and the US. It also ex...
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752,12 zł |
Health Care Systems in Liberal Democracies
ISBN: 9780415118071 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work looks at the way in which health care is organized and delivered in Australia, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, the UK and the US. It also examines the continuing quest for solutions to some of the seemingly intractable problems on the health care agenda. The organization of health care in each country is analyzed within a common framework.
This work looks at the way in which health care is organized and delivered in Australia, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, the UK and the US. It also ex...
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248,92 zł |
Health Care and Poor Relief in Protestant Europe 1500-1700
ISBN: 9780415121309 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The problem of the poor grew in the early modern period as populations rose dramatically and created many extra pressures on the state. In Northern Europe, cities were going through a period of rapid growth and central and local administrations saw considerable expansion. This volume provides an outline of the developments in health care and poor relief in the economically important regions of Northern Europe in this period when urban poverty became a generally recognized problem for both magistracies and governments. With contributions from international scholars in the field, including...
The problem of the poor grew in the early modern period as populations rose dramatically and created many extra pressures on the state. In Northern Eu...
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674,31 zł |
Working for Equality in Health
ISBN: 9780415124652 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Widening social inequalities in Britain are reflected in uneven patterns of health within and between populations. Among professional health workers there is a developing awareness of the significance of tackling inequality in order to procure better health. In Working for Equality in Health, the contributors, who include health activists, service users and carers, politicians and researchers as well as health and social care professionals, not only detail the interrelationships and processes by which health inequalities are maintained, but present analyses - refined through experience - of...
Widening social inequalities in Britain are reflected in uneven patterns of health within and between populations. Among professional health workers t...
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197,05 zł |
Working for Equality in Health
ISBN: 9780415124669 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Unequal social relations are reflected in uneven patterns of health within and between populations. In Working for Equality in Health, health workers and academics distil the results of their efforts to understand, oppose and change health inequalities.
Working for Equality in Health brings to bear the understanding of a unique combination of practitioners and activists on a key issue for health experience, policy and practice. Common themes and common obstacles become apparent: the need for ever better understandings of the interactive effects of social disadvantage;... Unequal social relations are reflected in uneven patterns of health within and between populations. In Working for Equality in Health, health...
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114,06 zł |