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.
See offerCFHI'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.
See offerMulticulturalism in Western countries continues to grow, but responsiveness to it with culturally sensitive research, policy and practice has been slower to develop.
See offerWritten 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.
See offerWe 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.
See offerThe 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.
See offerIn 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.
See offer""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.
See offerIL BUSINESS DELLA SALUTE. COME DIFENDERSI DA TRUFFE E CIARLATANIPiù medicine, più salute.
See offerThis 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.
See offerReligious 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.
See offerThe 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.
See offerMedicine has become increasingly depersonalized. Patients complain of being treated like numbers.
See offerHave 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.
See offerCalming 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.
See offerAmericans 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.
See offerIn recent years, the reduction of alcohol-related harm has emerged as a major policy issue across Europe.
See offerThe 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.
See offerWhen 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.
See offerWhat 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.
See offerTelemedicine 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.
See offerDie Medizin will uns Menschen gesund erhalten und Krankheiten heilen?
See offerFirst 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.
See offerWoran erkenne ich einen guten Arzt? Was verraten meine Blutwerte?
See offerThis is a practical working guide for parents, teachers and allied professionals, offering an understanding of dyspraxia, its underlying causes, strategies and helpful advice.
See offerIn 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.
See offer""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.
See offerBefore 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.
See offerThe distinctive mixing and continuous remixing of public and private roles is a defining feature of health care in the United States.
See offerJust when you thought there was no cure for an ailing healthcare system, Our Health Plan will change your mind entirely.
See offerAlthough 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.
See offerWhat has been the source of women's oppression by men? Shorter argues that women were victimized by their own bodies.
See offerIn 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.
See offerAs a discipline, social work needs an inclusive metatheory for both research and practice that goes beyond positivism and constructivism.
See offerSocial work deals with the heavy end of human difficulties such as cruelty, self-destructiveness, and severe and enduring mental health problems.
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