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Doing Feminist Research

First Published in 1981. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Demenz

Während die Zahl an Demenzerkrankten stetig ansteigt, zeigen sich in der Versorgung erhebliche Mängel. So wird eine Demenz häufig zu spät oder gar nicht erkannt, die Ausgaben für Gesundheit und Pflege sind sehr hoch.

Innovation in Social Welfare and Human Services

Innovation is an oft-heard buzzword in both public and private sectors concerned with the organisation and delivery of services to vulnerable individuals.

Parenting in Global Perspective: Negotiating Ideologies of Kinship, Self and Politics

Drawing on both sociological and anthropological perspectives, this volume explores cross-national trends and everyday experiences of 'parenting'.

Optimizing Housing for the Elderly: Homes Not Houses

Discover the diverse range of housing options available to the elderly population with this excellent new book.

The Mythology of Modern Law

The Mythology of Modern Law is a radical reappraisal of the role of myth in modern society.

AIDS, Drugs and Prevention

AIDS, Drugs and Prevention brings together a range of international contributions on the research, theory and practice of developing community-based HIV prevention.

Hardship & Health Womens Lives

First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Social Group Work: Competence and Values in Practice

Here is an exciting and stimulating book featuring expert evaluations and descriptions of current social work group practice with an overall focus on competence and values.

Social Welfare with Indigenous Peoples

In many areas of the world, there has been an earlier indigenous population, which has been conquered by a more recent population group.

The Academic Health Center

The leadership and management of academic health centers present challenges as complex as any in the corporate environment. A consensus is emerging about their integrated mission of education, research and service, and this book, focusing on value-driven management, is the most up-to-date and comprehensive review of these issues available.

Texas Health Atlas

Working in Health: Financing and Managing the Public Sector Health Workforce

Working in Health focuses on two key human resources for health policy questions: What is the impact of government fiscal policy on health worker staffing levels, and how effectively do governments manage health wage bill resources in the public sector? Through in-depth country case studies in Kenya, Zambia, Rwanda, and the Dominican Republic this book demonstrates how an analysis of wage bill budget trends, budget execution rates, and other factors helps determine whether wage bill ceilings are an important constraint to hiring health workers in the public sector.

Just Health

In this new book by the award-winning author of Just Healthcare, Norman Daniels develops a comprehensive theory of justice for health that answers three key questions: What is the special moral importance of health? When are health inequalities unjust?

Like It Is

The Best Practice

In the late 1990s, treatment-related deaths or complications" were the fifth leading cause of death for Americans. Spurred by the crisis, a group of dedicated physicians like Paul Batalden and Don Berwick made it their goal to study the concepts of quality improvement" used at Toyota and NASA, and to apply them to the practice of medicine.

Practicing Rights: Human rights-based approaches to social work practice

Social work Codes of Ethics of professional organizations around the world appeal to the concept of people having 'rights' that social workers need to respect and advocate for.

Professionalism, Boundaries and the Workplace

Professionalism, Boundaries and the Workplace is a practical text that examines a range of sensitive issues concerned with managing and maintaining professional boundaries between worker and client.

Pharmageddon

This searing indictment, David Healy's most comprehensive and forceful argument against the pharmaceuticalization of medicine, tackles problems in health care that are leading to a growing number of deaths and disabilities.

Sick to Death and Not Going to Take It Anymore!: Reforming Health Care for the Last Years of Life

Just a few generations ago, serious illness, like hazardous weather, arrived with little warning, and people either lived through it or died. In this important, convincing, and long-overdue call for health care reform, Joanne Lynn demonstrates that our current health system, like our concepts of health and disease, developed at a time when life was mostly short, serious illnesses and disabilities were common at every age, and dying was quick.

Are You Being Served?: New Tools for Measuring Service Delivery

This publication presents tools and techniques for measuring service delivery in health and education and people's experiences from the field in deploying these methods. It begins by providing an introduction to the different methodological tools available for evaluating the performance of the health and education sectors.

The Fourth Trimester: Understanding, Protecting, and Nurturing an Infant through the First Three Months

The first three months of a baby's life is an outside-the-uterus period of intense development, a biological bridge from fetal life to preparation for the real world.

A Plan for a Single-Payer Health Care System

Approximately fifty million people in the United States have no health insurance. Dr.

Quality of Life: Perspectives and Policies

Concern about the quality of life and its measurement is probably greater now than ever before.

Prepare to Defend Yourself. How to Navigate the Healthcare System and Escape with Your Life

Do you really need to pay that outstanding balance with the hospital? Do you know the differences between a nurse practitioner, a physician's assistant, a physician, and a paramedic?

Inside Health Care: Neonatal Intensive Care - Who Decides? Who Pays? Who Can Afford It?

Health care in the US is facing a crisis, but there is polarization and disagreement among policy makers and the public about how to solve this crisis.

Distinguishing Clinical from Upper Level Management in Social Work

Over the past few decades, as administrative and technological complexity has increased, so has the role and importance of administrative practice in social work.

Prisons After Woolf: Reform through Riot

For the past few years prisons have attracted much media attention, due to substantial increases in the prison population and the deteriorating conditions in which prisoners are held.

The Ethical Foundations of Social Work

The Ethical Foundations of Social Work provides you with an engaging, theoretical and practice-based grounding in social work ethics.

The Remarkable Developments of Heart and Chest Surgery in the 20th Century

The author is a board-certified thoracic and heart surgeon who studied and learned the craft of thoracic surgery under one of the great pioneers in the development of heart surgery. The rapid multiplication of heart and lung operations as well as the diagnostic tools and the mechanical, electrical, and chemical means to support life during surgery is a story that needs to be told.

A Great and Growing Evil?: The Medical Effects of Alcohol

First published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Overcoming AIDS: Lessons Learned from Uganda

As a result of the AIDS epidemic, many nations around the world have faced the demands of caring for a particularly vulnerable population of children, the orphans of parents who have died of AIDS or whose caregivers are terminally ill from the disease. Overcoming AIDS: Lessons Learned from Uganda offers an in-depth exploration of this global issue and provides a broad focus on evolving a constructive response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

Doctors and Medicine in Early Renaissance Florence

Katharine Park has written a social, intellectual, and institutional history of medicine in Florence during the century after the Black Death of 1348.Originally published in 1985.

Reinvent The Heal

America's health care delivery system is in disarray. Politicians on both sides of the aisle believe that they have the answer.

Health Policy in a Globalising World

Increasing recognition of the impact that globalisation may be having on public health has led to widespread concern about the risks arising from emerging and re-emerging diseases, environmental degradation and demographic change. This book argues that health policy making is being affected by globalisation and that these effects are, in turn, contributing to the kind of global health issues being faced today.

AIDS Sexuality and Gender in Africa: Collective Strategies and Struggles in Tanzania and Zambia

While there is a growing list of publications devoted to the AIDS epidemic, Africa, with two-thirds of the world's cases, still receives scant attention.

Sex Surveyed, 1949-1994: From Mass-Observation's "Little Kinsey" To The National Survey And The Hite Reports

First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Establishing Private Health Care Facilities in Developing Countries: A Guide for Medical Entrepreneurs

This book is a practical guide for medical professionals with little or no business experience who are interested in establishing health care facilities in developing countries. It is an introduction to the kinds of basic research and planning required to identify viable solutions and reduce the risk of failure.

Suicides in Prison

First published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Critical To Care: The Invisible Women in Health Services

Who counts as a health care worker? The question of where we draw the line between health care workers and non-health care workers is not merely a matter of academic nicety or a debate without consequences for care.