Health Care Issues

Touted as a potential breakthrough cancer therapy in the 1980s by the scientific community and publications such as TIME and Newsweek magazine, the reputation of interferon has not lived up to its early promise. Interferons are small proteins with...

Hearing loss doesn't come with an operating manual-until now. If you have hearing loss, you already know that the conventional approach to treatment is focused on hearing-aid technology. What's missing from this hearing care model is the big...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781719106184Author Emma D JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909446380Author Tony HallFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Bristol Books CICPublisher Bristol Books CICDimensions(mm) 215mm * 140mm * 11mm

The Elgar Companion to Health Economics is a comprehensive and accessible look at the field, as seen by its leading figures.'- Joseph Newhouse, Harvard Medical School, USThis comprehensive collection brings together more than 50 contributions from some...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061344763Author John AbramsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

In Readings in Social Welfare: Theory and Policy, Robert E. Kuenne packages postwar classics with contemporary discussions to examine the impact of social welfare theory on policy development. The book introduces students to frameworks developed by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062345998Author Alanna CollenFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Harper PaperbacksPublisher Harper PaperbacksWeight(grams) 272g

Americans have always been the world's most anxiously enthusiastic consumers of "enhancement technologies." Prozac, Viagra, and Botox injections are only the latest manifestations of a familiar pattern: enthusiastic adoption, public hand-wringing, an...

Managing Projects in Health and Social Care is designed for anyone who is asked to manage a public services project but who lacks the experience or training to feel confident in this role. The book shows how to use project management techniques to ensure...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635574111Author untitled makary Marty Makary, MDFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing...

Medicine on the Periphery examines the history of the public health of Yucatan, Mexico, from the 1870s through 1960. This book includes chapters on institutions, healers, changing patterns of disease, the biomedicalization of Yucatan, and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936303595Author Ginger VieiraFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Demos Medical PublishingPublisher Demos Medical Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781491016442Author Judith a Levy Edm OtrFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312565503Author Peter R BregginFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm) 226mm *...

Health care regulatory agencies demand that patients receive efficient, competent, compassionate care; however, because of caregivers' own unhealed issues along with other factors, care often falls short of those goals. Melanie Sears, RN, MBA, PhD,...

Carers and caring are contemporary global issues of growing political and societal significance. Changing demographics in the UK and beyond, as well as policy drivers promoting community-based living, mean that the family is increasingly the site of care...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735239777Author Timothy CaulfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Prentice Hall PressPublisher Prentice Hall Press

The modern hospital represents a complex community in which life and death decisions are made on the front lines of patient care, and difficult operational and strategic initiatives are developed in the offices of institutional leaders. Effective Medical...

This comprehensive resource provides a one-stop information repository, exploring all psychological aspects of Covid-19. Divided into three sections, the book covers the psycho-social impact on society and individuals and our collective cooperative...

Since the late 1960s, health care in the United States has been described as a system in crisis. No matter their position, those seeking to improve the system have relied on the rhetoric of crisis to build support for their preferred remedies, to the...

A controversial skewering of how doctors and the medical industry turn healthy people into patients.A controversial skewering of how doctors and the medical industry turn healthy people into patients.About the AuthorNortin M. Hadler is professor of...

The public is bombarded daily with reports about risk factors, many conflicting with each other, other accepted as "scientific truth" for awhile, then scientifically disproved, yet others questionable that later prove to be true. Physicians...

The essential problem is the failure to recognize that controversies over risks are "normal events" in modern society and as such will be with us for the foreseeable future. Three key propositions define these events: risk management decisions are...

Accounting for almost two thirds of the country's land-mass, Northern Canada is a vast region, host to rich natural resources and a diverse cultural heritage shared across Indigenous and non-indigenous residents. In this book, Rebecca Schiff and Helle...

Theoretically informed and empirically grounded, Rethinking Obesity invites readers to reconsider the medical and public health framing of population weight (gain) as a massive global problem, epidemic or crisis. Attentive to social values, scientific...

This is the harrowing story about a father, a family, a daughter. Fifteen year-old Vanessa began taking Prepulsid after her doctor prescribed the drug to alleviate a stomach disorder. Suddenly, unexpectedly, she collapses and dies in her family home...

Beyond These Walls is an invaluable collection of foundational and cutting-edge readings from top scholars in the rapidly growing area of health communication. This innovative anthology demonstrates that health care and communication about health often...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789290213369Author Who Regional Office for the Eastern MediterraneanFormat PaperbackPage Count 43Imprint WHO Regional Office for the Eastern...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593190005Author Marshall AllenFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint PortfolioPublisher PortfolioWeight(grams) 140g

Inside intelligence you will need to make informed decisions, financially and compassionately, when caring for aging loved ones-whether they are living at home, in a care facility, or in the hospital or hospice care.Do you have a parent or aging loved...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771621540Author Andre PicardFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Douglas & McIntyrePublisher Douglas & McIntyreDimensions(mm) 228mm * 152mm * 25mm

We need a vision of how medicine might serve the good of the whole human person: the body’s health, but also the health of that “piece of divinity in us.” Medicine, so long as you don’t need it, is a tangential part of life, just one more profession...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781786126344Author Kay RyanFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780968417812Author V B BlakeFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Taylor Day PublishingPublisher Taylor Day Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781640480155Author Ace McCloudFormat PaperbackPage Count 26Imprint Pro Mastery PublishingPublisher Pro Mastery PublishingWeight(grams) 73gDimensions(mm)...

A practical understanding of the law is essential for all those involved in the manual handling of adults and children (as patients, clients or pupils), whether in 'hands-on', managing, commissioning or advisory roles. To this end, Manual Handling in...

Communication Skills for the Health Care Professional, Third Edition is a comprehensive guide to improving patient outcomes through relationship building and the use of information technology to foster communication between patients, families, and health...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781946633491Author Michael J. DowlingFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint ForbesbooksPublisher ForbesbooksDimensions(mm) 229mm * 157mm * 20mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781571741172Author Hal A. HugginsFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Hampton Roads Publishing CoPublisher Hampton Roads Publishing CoDimensions(mm) 215mm...