Vital directions for health & health care: an initiative of the National Academy Of Medicine

Accelerating Medical Evidence Generation and Use: Summary of a Meeting Series

This National Academy of Medicine (NAM) Special Publication summarizes a series of meetings the NAM hosted in 2016, which was sponsored by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, with support from NAM's Executive Leadership Network.

Back to Balance: The Art, Science, and Business of Medicine

USA TODAY and Los Angeles Times Bestseller The science of medicine-how we treatThe business of medicine-how we payThe art of medicine-how we care In this irreverent, persuasive book, Dr.

Distracted: How Regulations Are Destroying the Practice of Medicine and Preventing True Health-Care Reform

Incurable Me: Why the Best Medical Research Does Not Make It into Clinical Practice

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): A Definitive Guide to the Benefits, Rights, Responsibilities, and Potential Pitfalls of the Affordable Care Act

""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.

Introduction to Statistics for Nurses

Take the fear out of statistics with this straightforward, practical and applied book on the how and why of using statistics.

How to Heal: A Guide for Caregivers

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.

Ab sofort Nichtraucher mit der MET-Klopftherapie

Endlich ein Programm, welches die Suchtprobleme an der Wurzel packt. Die MET-Klopftechnik ist so einfach und genial - und wirkt in Minutenschnelle.

Scorpion: The True Story of a Woman's Victimization by the Medical Industry

""Scorpion" follows the story of a woman who is badly injured when she is given three unnecessary surgeries by an ENT.

Emerging Perspectives in Health Communication: Meaning, Culture, and Power

This volume provides the theoretical, methodological, and praxis-driven issues in research on interpretive, critical, and cultural approaches to health communication.

Globalization and Health: Pathways, Evidence and Policy

Contemporary globalization has had tremendous impact on health equity across the globe. However, no volume has systematically analyzed the relationship between globalization and global trends in health outcomes.

Managing in Health and Social Care

Managing in Health and Social Care is about developing skills to manage and improve health and social care services. The focus throughout is on the role that a manager can play in ensuring effective delivery of high-quality services.

Dementia Care A Care Worker Handbook

Working with people with dementia? Training in adult or dementia care?

Relating Experience: Stories from Health and Social Care

This reader provides a diverse selection of accounts of interpersonal communication and relationships in the context of health and social care.

Perspectives on Care at Home for Older People

Demographic and epidemiological changes mean that frail older people have come to be seen as an expensive problem for health care systems.

The Prevention of Tuberculosis (Routledge Revivals)

First published in 1908, this book presents a study of tuberculosis. It looks first at its causes, before examining how the problem of mortality from illness had already been reduced.

Evolution of Preventive Medicine (Routledge Revivals)

First published in 1927, this book provides a complete study of the beginnings and early development of preventive medicine. It looks at the subject's underlying principles and discusses the prominent writers of the past.

The Story of Modern Preventive Medicine (Routledge Revivals): Being a Continuation of the Evolution of Preventive Medicine

The Ministry of Health (Routledge Revivals)

First published in 1925, this book explores public health and its administration. It looks at both local and central health administration and surveys the various departments including The Board of Education and The Home Office.

The Last Thirty Years in Public Health (Routledge Revivals)

First published in 1936, this book is a continuation of Sir Arthur Newsholme's Fifty Years in Public Health and covers a wide variety of topics in relation to the subject.

In Our Own Right: Black Australian Nurses' Stories

The intimate, private, and heart wrenching stories told in this book, the first of its kind in Australia, will penetrate the hearts and souls of even the most hardened reader.

Mura Solwata Kosker: We Saltwater Women

Throughout her lifetime, Ellie Gaffney has been a strong advocate both within Australia and internationally of the interests and welfare of Torres Strait Islanders.

Fifty Years in Public Health (Routledge Revivals): A Personal Narrative with Comments

First published in 1935, this book provides a valuable contribution to the history of Public Health and Preventive Medicine.

International Studies: Volume 2: Prevention and Treatment of Disease

First published in 1931, this book is the second of a three volume set which focuses on medical work, and in particular, public administration in relation to the prevention of disease.

International Studies: Volume 1: Prevention and Treatment of Disease

First published in 1931, this book is the first of three volumes that describe the circumstances of medical work in several European countries at that time.

International Studies: Volume 3: Prevention and Treatment of Disease

First published in 1931, this book is the third of a three volume set which focuses on medical work, and in particular, public administration in relation to the prevention of disease.

Assisted Living Administration: The Knowledge Base, Second Edition

Assisted living, the fastest growing residential option, burst upon the American landscape in the late 1980ís.

The Bedside Manifesto: Healing the Heart of Healthcare

""When I was in the hospital I was poked and probed and ultraviolated, but never touched," a patient told Dr. Jeff Kane.

Polycystic Kidney Disease Diet

Table of ContentsPolycystic Kidney Disease (PKD)Chapter # 1: OverviewChapter # 2: Autosomal Dominant PKDChapter # 3: Autosomal Recessive PKDPKD DietChapter # 1: IntroChapter # 2: What is it?

BTEC First Health and Social Care Level 2 Assessment Guide: Unit 6 The Impact of Nutrition on Health and Wellbeing

Take the guesswork out of BTEC assessment with sample student work and assessor feedback for all pass, merit and distinction criteria.

Gesundheitsmonitor 2010

""Bürgerorientierung im Gesundheitswesen" ist das Thema des Gesundheitsmonitors 2010.

Exposed How Politics Increased the Cost of Health Care In America

Government intervention favoring the pharmaceutical and insurance industries has reduced supply of health care providers and increased demand for services. The result is skyrocketing costs.

Gesundheitstipps für Frauen - Kalte FüBe, geschwollene Lymphknoten und Hautprobleme bekämpfen

Die eigene Gesundheit ist für viele Frauen eines der wichtigsten Themen im Leben. So wurde kürzlich im Zuge einer Untersuchung herausgefunden, dass Frauen dreimal so häufig einen Arzt aufsuchen, wie Männer.

Asthma: Relax You're Not Going to Die

This book explores how to breathe more easily with safe and effective natural therapies for asthma.

Improve Your Health With Spices

Nature has provided mankind with a gamut of fruits, vegetables, dairy products and other sources to maintain a healthy lifestyle. These natural sources of food are rich in vitamins, proteins, carbohydrates and other essential nutrients.

Auxiliaire de vie et handicap

Souffrant d'une maladie orpheline à sa naissance, Jean-Marc Brien connaît les opérations, les soins et les centres pour handicapés, ainsi que les remarques acerbes de bien-portants et la lourdeur de l'administration.

Lifting Your Depression

The author gives an exposition of his discovery and a five-step program for making use of it to reverse depression.

Plunkett's Health Care Industry Almanac 2014

Plunkett's Health Care Industry Almanac is the only complete reference to the American Health Care Industry and its leading corporations. No other source provides this massive book's easy-to-understand comparisons of national health expenditures, emerging technologies, patient populations, hospitals, clinics, corporations, research, Medicare, Medicaid, managed care and many other areas of vital importance.

Eight Questions You Should Ask About Our Health Care System: (Even if the Answers Make You Sick)

Charles E. Phelps provides a comprehensive look at our health care system, including how the current system evolved, how the health care sector behaves, and a detailed analysis of "the good, the bad, and the ugly" parts of the system-from technological advances (the "good") to variations in treatment patterns (the "bad") to hidden costs and perverse incentives (the "ugly").

Alzheimer's Early Stages

If someone you love has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's, you may not know where to turn. The early stages can be the most difficult time for relatives and friends because they often don't know much about the disease, or how they can be of help.