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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.

Critical Realism for Welfare Professions

As a discipline, social work needs an inclusive metatheory for both research and practice that goes beyond positivism and constructivism.

What Social Workers Need to Know: A Psychoanalytic Approach

Social work deals with the heavy end of human difficulties such as cruelty, self-destructiveness, and severe and enduring mental health problems.

Raisin' Momma

Caring for an aging parent can be a traumatic experience or a beautiful event depending on how one looks at the situation. Learning how to provide the care can be one of the biggest projects that you will ever pursue.

A Theory of Cancer Care in Healthcare Settings

This book provides healthcare professionals with a practice theory for the care and management of patients who have been diagnosed with cancer.

Eliminating Gender-Based Violence

Medical Devices: European Union Policymaking and the Implementation of Health and Patient Safety in France

Medical devices are the bread and butter from which health care and clinical research are derived. Such devices are used for patient care, genetic testing, clinical trials, and experimental clinical investigations.

The Intersection of Food and Public Health: Current Policy Challenges and Solutions

Presently, ideas about food are in flux from a variety of sources.

Grwth Hyperplasia Card Muscle

First Published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Transitions From Care to Independence:: Supporting Young People Leaving State Care to Fulfil Their Potential

This important book focuses on the critical role of educational achievement for the wellbeing and success of vulnerable youth in adulthood.

Welfare Medicine in America: A Case Study of Medicaid

The present study was undertaken for three reasons: Medicaid is a vital program-in the early 1970s it provided care for over one tenth of the American population.

Time for Dying

This book has been written for those who must work with and give care to the dying. Our discussion is not simple narrative or description; it is a "rendition of reality," informed by a rather densely woven and fairly abstract theoretical scheme.

Social Work Doctoral Education: Past, Present and Future

The rapid expansion of doctoral education in social work is changing academia, and expanding the expectations of education for professional practice.

Examining the Relationship between Trauma and Addiction

Trauma, trauma-related disorders, substance use, and addictive disorders often co-occur, and frequently play a role in the problems and issues that social workers contend with in their practice with individuals, families, and communities.

Substance Use in Social Work Education and Training: Preparing for and supporting practice

Substance use has become an increasingly common concern for all aspects of social work practice, and especially when working with mental health and vulnerable families.

The Affordable Care Act and Integrated Behavioural Health Care: Meeting the Health and Behavioral Health Needs of a Diverse Society

This book provides a scholarly discussion of arguably the most important advance in U.S.

The Education of Children and Young People in State Care

Young people who leave care with few or no educational qualifications are at very high risk of social exclusion in adulthood. Yet in the past their education has attracted little attention from researchers or professionals.

Big Food: Critical perspectives on the global growth of the food and beverage industry

Obesity is a global public health problem of crucial importance. Obesity rates remain high in high-income countries and are rapidly increasing in low- and middle- income countries.