Routledge - Homelessness and social work: an intersectional approach

Evidence-Based Healthcare in Context: Critical Social Science Perspectives

With new methods of treatment standardisation resulting in various benefits for patient outcomes, evidence-based medicine and evidence-based practice have emerged as defining features of western healthcare provision in recent years.

Infanticide And Parental Care

First published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Experience of Hearing Loss: Journey Through Aural Rehabilitation

Hearing loss is a common chronic condition which is often poorly recognized but can have multiple negative impacts, not just on the lives of those directly affected, but also those living with them.

Patient Engagement: Catalyzing Improvement and Innovation in Healthcare

CFHI's first book on patient engagement. Case studies from healthcare delivery organizations in three countries, catalyzing improvement and innovation in healthcare illustrates patient engagement strategies and their impacts.

Working with Ethnic Minorities and Across Cultures in Western Child Protection Systems

Multiculturalism in Western countries continues to grow, but responsiveness to it with culturally sensitive research, policy and practice has been slower to develop.

Heart Disease Prevention is Better Than a "Cure"

Written by a cardiologist with 40+ years of experience treating heart disease and finding that helping patients make healthy lifestyle changes was more effective than pills and procedures.

The Cure: How Capitalism Can Save American Health Care

We are surrounded by medical miracles: polio has been eradicated; childhood leukemia is now treatable; death by cardiovascular disease has declined by two-thirds in the last fifty years.

How to Heal

The ability to heal is not reserved for a gifted few. Anyone aching to ease the suffering of a sick friend or loved one can learn to become unconditionally present to the sick person rather than to the disease.

Incurable Me

In Incurable Me, a maverick physician brings transparency to some of medicine's most closely guarded secrets. As he establishes a link between commerce and medical research, K.

The Ultimate Obamacare Handbook (2015?2016 edition)

""The Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, makes health insurance available to the majority of Americans. In fact, failure to obtain coverage will result in penalties, but the process of obtaining insurance can be daunting.

Medicine e bugie

IL BUSINESS DELLA SALUTE. COME DIFENDERSI DA TRUFFE E CIARLATANIPiù medicine, più salute.

On the Go

This is the accumulation of many stories spanning nearly two decades of one person's career on an air medical helicopter based at a Northern California trauma center.

World Religions for Healthcare Professionals

Religious beliefs and customs can significantly shape patients' and professionals' attitudes toward, and expectations of, healthcare, as well as their wishes and personal boundaries regarding such daily matters as dress, diet, prayer and touch.

When Partnering with Your Medical Doctor is Difficult

The health care - medical professional's field is among the most important callings on earth but doctors and medical workers have very difficult and very stressful jobs.

Moving Mountains: A Socratic Challenge to the Theory and Practice of Population Medicine

Medicine has become increasingly depersonalized. Patients complain of being treated like numbers.

Human Factors in Healthcare: A Field Guide to Continuous Improvement

Have you ever experienced the burden of an adverse event or a near-miss in healthcare and wished there was a way to mitigate it? This book walks you through a classic adverse event as a case study and shows you how.

The Doctor Crisis: How Physicians Can, and Must, Lead the Way to Better Health Care

Calming fears, alleviating suffering, enhancing and saving lives - this is what motivates doctors virtually every single day. When the structure and culture in which physicians work are well aligned, being a doctor is a most rewarding job.

The Best Practice: How the New Quality Movement is Transforming Medicine

Americans have always thought their healthcare system was the best in the world. But starting in the late 1990s, shocking reports emerged that showed this was far from the truth.

Alcohol, Power and Public Health: A Comparative Study of Alcohol Policy

In recent years, the reduction of alcohol-related harm has emerged as a major policy issue across Europe.

Critical Resilience for Nurses: An Evidence-Based Guide to Survival and Change in the Modern NHS

The nursing profession is under pressure. Financial demands, student debt, the target culture, political scrutiny in the wake of major care scandals and increasing workloads are all taking their toll on professional morale and performance.

Medication A.R.E.A.S. Bundle: A Prescription for Value-Based Healthcare to Optimize Patient Health Outcomes, Reduce Total Costs, and Improve Quality and Organization Performance

Upstream Medicine: Doctors for a Healthy Society

When patients visit a clinic or hospital, they bring stories of the everyday life conditions that made them sick in the first place - stories about where they work, live, and play; stories about income, food security, and housing.

Best Practices for Environmental Health: Environmental Pollution, Protection, Quality and Sustainability

Social Work: A Reader

What are the key ideas that underpin social work practice?This inspiring Reader brings together some of the most significant ideas which have informed social work practice over the last forty years.

Webcam Savvy for Telemedicine

Telemedicine is a rapidly expanding technology to deliver exams and treatment to patients in remote areas of the world who have no other way to receive medical care.

Distracted

Big Pharma

Die Medizin will uns Menschen gesund erhalten und Krankheiten heilen?

Routledge Revivals: Varieties of Residential Experience (1975)

First published in 1975, this book compiles a number of studies concerning institutional care and children, which address the question of why institutions that serve apparently similar functions differ so much.

Fragen Sie Dr. Johannes

Woran erkenne ich einen guten Arzt? Was verraten meine Blutwerte?

'Hands on' Dyspraxia

This is a practical working guide for parents, teachers and allied professionals, offering an understanding of dyspraxia, its underlying causes, strategies and helpful advice.

Key Debates in Social Work and Philosophy

In order to practice effectively in today's complex and changing environment, social workers need to have an understanding of how contemporary cultural and philosophical concepts relate to the people they work with and the fields they practice in.

Medical Professionals and the Organization of Knowledge

""Medical Professionals and Their Work" conveys how medical people shape and organize the knowledge, perception, and experience of illness, as well as the substance of illness behavior, its management, and treatment.

Medical Practice in Modern England: The Impact of Specialization and State Medicine

Before World War II, the great majority of practicing doctors in England and Wales were general practitioners. They performed their own surgery, and were accustomed to treating a wide variety of illnesses and symptoms.

The Public-private Health Care State: Essays on the History of American Health Care Policy

The distinctive mixing and continuous remixing of public and private roles is a defining feature of health care in the United States.

Our Health Plan

Just when you thought there was no cure for an ailing healthcare system, Our Health Plan will change your mind entirely.

Disability: The Basics

Social Work Practice with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People

Although the vast majority of LGBT persons are healthy, resilient, and hardy individuals who do not seek social work intervention, some have been or will be clients in social work agencies.

Health, Politics, and Revolution in Cuba Since 1898

Women's Bodies: A Social History of Women's Encounter with Health, Ill-Health and Medicine

What has been the source of women's oppression by men? Shorter argues that women were victimized by their own bodies.

Professional Dominance: The Social Structure of Medical Care

In the United States today we are confronted by a number of serious social problems, not the least of which concern the character of our basic human services.