Health care associated infections affect between 5% and 30% of patients. The associated burden of disease is extremely high and is a significant drain on health-sector resources and households. Ensur...
This report on integrating mental health into primary care, which was developed jointly by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Organization of Family Doctors (Wonca), presents the justif...
This "Textbook of Integrative Mental Health Care" provides a comprehensive guide to integrative approaches used for the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of common mental and emotional symptoms in ...
The intended audience includes graduate and postgraduate students specializing in artificial intelligence and researchers interested in the application of new technologies.
People have always travelled within Europe for work and leisure, although never before with the current intensity. Now, however, they are travelling for many other reasons, including the quest for key...
Provides an introduction to the electronic health cards. This publication describes the state of work surrounding the introduction of health cards and of telematics infrastructures, and provides an in...
Folland is the best-selling Heath Care Economics text that teaches through core economic themes rather than concepts unique to the health care economy. Students who take the Health Care Economics cour...
Are patients `customersĹź? What does this mean for the patient-practitioner relationship?What should the relationship be between expert knowledge and our own experiences when dealing with health and i...
This book analyses health care interventions in terms of four key dimensions: effectiveness, efficiency, humanity and equity. This process can be used to compare one or more interventions in such a wa...
Becoming a manager of a health care organization requires a broad understanding of the field. This includes a strong grasp of the economics involved in the daily operation of the organization. Providi...
Our book, Johnson: Women's Health Care Handbook, publishing in a new 2nd Edition in October, 1999, is one of the better-selling books in the burgeoning area of women's health care. Veet is a case scen...
Students in this course have varying backgrounds in Economics–Folland’s text makes Economics concepts the backbone of the Heath Care coverage. Folland is the best-selling Heath Care Economics text tha...
Access to universal health care in Canada has become a symbol of national identity and, as such, has also become a highly-contentious and politically-charged question in the field of public policy. Th...
Based on original research and analysis by a group of health policy experts and economists from across the world, this book analyzes the causes and consequences of the expanding global and local comme...
Here is the first book to respond to the growing movement towards clinical simulations in health care education. It provides all of the guidance needed to make an informed decision about whether to be...
This book is written for people working in primary care, who want to understand more about how they contribute to improving the health and health care of the populations that they serve, and for peopl...
Decentralization has become a popular management strategy in many European health care systems. The term describes a wide variety of power transfer arrangements and accountability systems. The logic o...
Praise for the first edition: "Valerie Iles has such a sensitive no-nonsense style that she easily succeeds in seducing the reader to accept her arguments about what is going so badly wrong with manag...
A guide to evidence-based decision making for healthcare, medical and nurse managers.
This four volume collection covers the organisation, financing and regulation of health care systems.
Maintaining Health in Primary Care is the guide book for today's health practitioner. It is a comprehensive and easily accessible source of information to help primary care practitioners with the educ...
Regulation shapes all aspects of America's fragmented health care industry, from the flow of dollars to the communication between physicians and patients. It is the engine that translates public polic...
Edited by four leading members of the new generation of medical and healthcare ethicists working in the UK, respected worldwide for their work in medical ethics, Principles of Health Care Ethics, Seco...
A welcome addition to the literature. Unlike many books written on health care these days, this one provides concrete assistance to real consumers. Pat Rooney and Dan Perrin should be congratulated fo...
Health care is absorbing an increasing share of resources in all countries. It is the task of public policy to ensure that the nation secures good quality attention at an affordable price. This book, ...
Transforming Health Care Through Information, Second Edition, draws upon the experience of the foremost experts in medical informatics to address the complex challenges faced when healthcare organizat...
The Pocket Guide to Home Health Care offers guidance for nurses and therapists who are interested in transitioning or have just transitioned into the home health arena. It provides practical, in depth...
It is contributed by a strong author team with very broad experience of writing and teaching health economics.
The book offers a description and demonstration of a method for changing health behaviours based on brief negotiation with clients. It is written in a very stimulating style, engaging the reader from ...
Section One is organized by body system. Each chapter contains therapeutic applications or interventions related to the categories in Section Two. This section also includes a discussion of quality an...