Mcfarland - From the front lines of the appalachian addiction crisis: healthcare providers discuss opioids, meth and recovery

Health Planning: Australian perspectives

This book is destined to become a classic in its field.

Bisexualities and AIDS: International Perspectives

Since early-on in the epidemic, there has been much interest in the role that bisexual behaviour among men may play in HIV transmission.

Doing Health Policy in Australia

Paul Dugdale argues that Australia's health policy scene is in rude health, with regular debates about major reform and a steady stream of minor reforms. What motivates these debates and reforms?

Program Evaluation: Forms and approaches

Program Evaluation 3rd edition has the hallmarks of thoroughness, insight and fluency of other editions but brings us up to date with a map of the evaluation territory new travelers will find invaluable.

Patient Safety First: Responsive regulation in health care

Each year more people die in health care accidents than in road accidents. Increasingly complex medical treatments and overstretched health systems create more opportunities for things to go wrong, and they do.

Social Work: Seeking Relevancy in the Twenty-First Century

Discover why social work must be restructured if it is to remain viable!

HEALTH POLICY

The health care system in Britain at the beginning of the twenty-first century is being subjected to radical rethinking.

Marketing to Pharmacists: Understanding Their Role and Influence

Marketing to Pharmacists: Understanding Their Role and Influence will help pharmaceutical marketers better understand pharmaceutical practice in order to develop better relationships with pharmacists and effectively market products.

Youth, The `Underclass' and Social Exclusion

Health Promotion: Principles and practice in the Australian context

Health Policy in the Market State

At a time of increasing demands on budgets, governments around the world are seeking to reduce health expenditure and introduce market-oriented reforms to the health sector.

Introduction to Complementary Medicine

* What is complementary medicine? What evidence is there to support its use?

The Patient Experience: A Guide to Creating a Meaningful Patient Experience in Every Healing Encounter

Doctors, nurses, and other caregivers provide the most intimate of services: the health and healing of our bodies, minds, and spirits.

New Lenses on Intellectual Disabilities

This book gathers together recent international research in intellectual disability (ID), examining the diverse modes of existence that characterise living with intellectual disabilities in the 21st century.

Rethinking Social Work Practice with Multicultural Communities

Clinical Education in Geriatrics: Innovative and Trusted Approaches Leading Workforce Transformation in Making Health Care More Age-Friendly

This book highlights both recent innovations in professional health curricula and continuing education and interventions aimed at improving student attitudes towards geriatrics and aging.

Media Analysis and Public Health: Contemporary Issues in Critical Public Health

Social Work and the Visual Imagination: Seeing with the Mind's Eye

Images are inscribed in the memory more easily than words, and some remain with the viewer for a lifetime.

The United States Healthcare System: Overview, Driving Forces, and Outlook for the Future

The complexity of the United States healthcare system is well known, as are its challenges and shortcomings.

Contemporary Practices in Social Work Supervision: Time for New Paradigms?

This book is a timely review of scholarship in social work supervision; re-examining the state of knowledge, research and practice; and asking if it is time for a new paradigm for the field.

UnHealthcare: A Manifesto for Health Assurance

Imprisoned Fathers: Responding to a Growing Concern

This volume specifically examines current concerns about imprisoned fathers and highlights best practices with a group of children and parents who present significant vulnerabilities.

Professional Judgement and Decision Making in Social Work: Current Issues

Professional judgement and decision making are central to social work, both in everyday professional practice and in public perceptions of social work as a profession. This book examines key issues that are relevant today.

Where Things Touch: A Meditation on Beauty

To devote oneself to the study of beauty is to offer footnotes to the universe for all the places and all the moments that one observes beauty. I can no longer grab beauty by her wrists and demand articulation or meaning.

Risk in Social Work Practice: Current Issues

The study of 'risk' in social work involves complex interplay between human behaviour, emotion, evidence of fact, professional values and organisational systems.

Researching Health Care

First Published in 1992. Health care is currently under intense pressure both to be cost-effective and to deliver a service its users want.

Innovating for Wellness: Bridging the Gap between Health System and Patient

The healthcare system has failed to achieve its purpose: supporting patients in their pursuit of better and stable health.

Blockchain for Medical Research: Accelerating Trust in Healthcare

It takes 17 years on average to bring new medical treatments ideas into evidence-based clinical practice. The growing replicability crisis in science further delays these "new miracles.

The Healthcare Conversation: Navigating the U.S. Health System

The Healthcare Conversation is an inspiring read about understanding how to navigate the health system in order to become a smarter, better-informed patient-consumer.

What The U.S. Healthcare System Doesn't Want You To Know, Why, And How You Can Do Something About It

Consumers of healthcare are conditioned to be uninformed and misguided. Why?

Locums Life Lessons: Your Guide to Surviving and Thriving as a Locums Doc

Burnout among physicians is at an all-time high. Long hours, extended time away from family, decreasing reimbursements, and lack of professional support have many physicians looking at career alternatives.

The Wiley Handbook of Healthcare Treatment Engagement: Theory, Research, and Clinical Practice

Doc-for-Hire: A Blueprint for Living A Locums Life

Community Care Social Policy & Ideology

This book offers a comprehensive evaluation of community care strategies within the context of government social policy, and assesses the recent shifts of political power from Conservative to Labour towards the end of the century.

Markets and Health Care: A Comparative Analysis

A growing reliance on market disciplines and incentives characterised health care reform strategies in many countries in the 1990s, yet the country which relies most heavily on private health care - the U.S.

An Introduction To Health: Policy, Planning and Financing

This book concerns itself with the key question: how to improve health in a cost effective and politically acceptable way. What makes people healthy?

Social Work with Children: The Educational Perspective

The recent review of the Diploma in Social Work highlighted the fact that children and young people who are in care have less successsful records of educational achievement than their peers.

Health Policy and the NHS: Towards 2000

Health Policy and the NHS provides a thorough and up-to-date review of the changes in the structure and organisation of the health service.

Implementing the Grand Challenge of Reducing and Preventing Alcohol Misuse and its Consequences

'Reducing and Preventing Alcohol Misuse and Its Consequences' is one of the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare's Grand Challenges for Social Work, a programme launched in 2012.

Nursing Skills in Safety and Protection

People should be cared for in a safe environment that is protected from internal and external harm.