Health Care Delivery

In the United States today, the human body defines a lucrative site of reusable parts, ranging from whole organs to minuscule and even microscopic tissues. Although the medical practices that enable the transfer of parts from one body to another most...

As case management has replaced institutional care for mental health patients in recent decades, case management theory has grown in complexity and variety of models. But how are these models translated into real experience? How do caseworkers use both...

In this book, thirty-five young, recently diagnosed patients speak about schizophrenia and the process of recovery, while two specialists illuminate the medical science, psychoeducation, and therapeutic needs of those coping with the illness, as well as...

Dancing with Broken Bones gives voice and face to a vulnerable and disempowered population whose stories often remain untold: the urban dying poor. Drawing on complex issues surrounding poverty, class, and race, Moller illuminates the unique sufferings...

A quarter of a century since the first recognition of HIV/AIDS in 1981, this book reflects on the international impact of the disease. It has persistently remained a global issue, with more than 50 million people worldwide estimated to have been infected...

One of the most fundamental issues in health care delivery is who should decide which items of medical care are not worth their cost. This book is a fresh and comprehensive exploration of how health care rationing decisions are made. Unlike prior works,...

This book is unique in its broad approach to the care of the aged. It provides information on the health problems and care of the aged and a comprehensive, integrated approach to care which can be applied the the health care of any population. The...

Peer review is especially effective in inducing change and improvement in practice in the long term, and is particularly appropriate in the UK and Europe - it is relevant, locally based, simple and educational. The original Dutch book from which this...

The demand for quality control of medical care has increased dramatically in recent years. In response to higher public awareness and political trends, the implementation of audit has swept through general practice in the UK, fuelled by the appearance of...

For all the political branding and rebranding of healthcare in the United States, its fundamental unit of currency remains the doctor-patient relationship. This relationship has undergone seismic changes during the twenty-first century, including the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789062248773Author STGFoundation for Health ScenariosFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint International BooksPublisher International Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788190179966Author Sujata K. DassFormat HardbackPage Count 286Imprint Gyan Publishing HousePublisher Gyan Publishing House

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788189640811Author Philip StevensFormat HardbackPage Count 430Imprint Bookwell PublicationsPublisher Bookwell Publications

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788182742697Author Anthony R. KovnerFormat HardbackImprint Pentagon PressPublisher Pentagon Press

In recent years, new disease threats--such as SARS, avian flu, mad cow disease, and drug-resistant strains of malaria and tuberculosis--have garnered media attention and galvanized political response. Proposals for new approaches to "securing health"...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908931054Author Phil HanlonFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Argyll PublishingPublisher Centre for Confidence and Well-BeingDimensions(mm) 197mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780910529Author Georgina MoseleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint DB PublishingPublisher DB Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781642253825Author Zeev Neuwirth MDFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Advantage Media GroupPublisher Advantage Media GroupWeight(grams) 522g

USA TODAY and Los Angeles Times Bestseller A prescription to fix health care for everyone. In this highly engaging, thoroughly persuasive book, Dr. Halee Fischer-Wright presents a unique prescription for fixing America's health care woes, based on her...

Consumers may obtain health insurance from a variety of public and private sources, which can help protect them from the costs associated with obtaining medical care. Health insurance typically includes costs to consumers, which may vary for a number of...

The Indian Health Service (IHS) within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is the lead federal agency charged with improving the health of American Indians and Alaska Natives. It aims to do so by providing health services either directly or...

The provision of health care in the United States has been described as fragmented, with patients seeing multiple providers. Fragmented care has been found to be, among other things, both costly, since provider payments are not linked to performance or...

Electron microscopy made possible the observation of the cellular/subcellular behaviour of tumour cells in metastasis. The marked progress in molecular biology has enabled the identification of the molecules involved in metastasis. Cellular diversity of...

Cholera, which is caused by pathogenic strains of Vibrio cholerae, continues to threaten public health and socio-economic development in many developing countries, particularly those that lack access to potable water and adequate sanitation. The...

Recent outbreaks of a novel avian influenza A virus (H5N1) in Asia, Africa and Europe were a chilling reminder that another human pandemic may occur any time. Such a world-wide outbreak will cause intense human suffering, disruption of social systems,...

This book examines The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and the corresponding basic facts, U.S. contributions and issues for Congress. The Global Fund was established in January 2002 as a public-private partnership that could provide...

This book presents and discusses current research in the study of cancer prevention. Topics discussed include the etiological models of prostate cancer; in vitro evidence of Kaposi's sarcoma associated herpesvirus reactivation by corticosteroids; role of...

The reproductive system and all of its functions related to sex, conception, pregnancy and delivery, all actions aimed at keeping it functioning optimally and free from diseases and harmful traditional practices are explored in this book.Book...

The first decade of the HIV/AIDS epidemic was defined by young gay men dying and activism. The second decade saw people of colour and women account for the majority of those with HIV, as well as the development of effective drugs and the hope that HIV...

This is the third of sequential collections of the health care professions' creative and practical and theoretical based health care programs, observations and practices. The contents of the book reflect the hidden health care agenda in Chinese and...

Breast cancer is the most frequently diagnosed type of cancer and a second leading cause of cancer death in women after lung cancer. Despite their proven efficacy, classical therapies are, however, unable to cure metastatic breast cancer and are often...

Cancer has a complex aetiology, probably due to a sophisticated interaction between the genetic endowment of individuals and environmental risk factors. The continuing magnitude and severity of cancer as a major health problem renders cancer prevention...

This book is dedicated to the issues which drive and slow-down effective health care, i.e., regulation or the lack thereof, litigation and related legal issues, and product safety especially in the ever-expanding problems with Chinese imports (and the...

The purpose of this book is to provide evidence for physicians about the prevalence for a range of medical conditions by disability, from a primary care prospective. Each chapter focuses on a secondary condition for which adults with DD are at increased...

The liver is a large organ that sits in the right upper abdomen, just under the right lung. It is one of the body's most "intelligent" organs in that it performs so many different functions at the same time. The liver makes proteins, eliminates...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590330500Author V. LovellFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Nova BiomedicalPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 246g

Revolutionary Doctors gives readers a first-hand account of Venezuela's innovative and inspiring program of community healthcare, designed to serve--and largely carried out by--the poor themselves. Drawing on long-term participant observations as well as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781567938814Author Patrice SpathFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Health Administration PressPublisher Health Administration PressWeight(grams)...

National Health Care An Annotated Guide To The Current LiteratureBook InformationISBN 9781560721130Author N G ArashviliFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 485g