The Economics of Health and Medical Care
This newly updated and expanded edition strikes the necessary balance of population-based health economics and the more traditional. market-oriented approach to health care economics.
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The Economics of Health and Medical Care
This newly updated and expanded edition strikes the necessary balance of population-based health economics and the more traditional. market-oriented approach to health care economics.
The Placebo Effect and Health: Combining Science and Compassionate Care
Since the days when doctors routinely made house calls and sat by the bedside offering comforting words along with medical care, the doctor-patient relationship has become increasingly impersonal and superficial. As medical technology and …
Developing mental health team effectiveness requires that we explore both how people work together and the context of the team itself. This text examines the historical, social policy, political and organizational context alongside the design and …
Medical Transcription Guide: Do's and Dont's
quick reference for the medical transcriptionist, this book provides basic rules of grammar as well as current trends in the field. It's especially useful in searching for help with an obscure rule or in reinforcing a common practice. Examples …
From Chaos to Care: The Promise of Team-Based Medicine
Kaiser Permanente is the largest nonprofit healthcare system in the world and is a leader in integrated medical care. A team-based approach that draws on the strengths of the healthcare organization as well as on community resources, integrated …
Caring for the Parkinson Patient: A Practical Guide
Sixteen information-packed essays by noted contributors address diagnosis and treatment, new research, physical and occupational therapy, nursing care, and much more.
Medical Transcriptionist's Desk Reference
This highly useful reference provides essential information that makes the task of transcribing medical reports easier and more efficient. Organized by the type of problem or issue transcriptionists are likely to encounter on the job - and …
This text discusses action amongst users/survivors of mental health services, and initiatives from within the mental health system to involve users. Drawing on international research and writings of activists, the authors explore how gender and …
Psychosocial Interventions for People with Schizophrenia
This title provides an overview and practical guidelines for helping people with schizophrenia using psychosocial interventions. It explains these interventions within the context of current theoretical understanding of the aetiology, …
Quality Assurance - a Pathway to Excellence
In the 1997 White Paper The New NHS, Modern, Dependable the Government set out its plans for a new National Health Service with quality at its heart (a vision shared by many health professionals).;This study explores the application of the …
Essentials of Health Care Marketing
In this text your students will receive a complete curriculum of marketing management tools and techniques. Filled with examples from a wide array of health care providers, health systems, HMOs, physician-hospital organizations, and more, …
This text examines the relationship between the knowledge base of mental health professionals, the evidence about inequalities and the utilization of the mental health services.
Taking a policy perspective, this text explores the development and context of primary care in the UK. It analyses the management and organization of primary care and contemporary debates such as incorporation and fragmentation, inter-…
What's Your Life Worth?: Health Care Rationing...Who Lives? Who Dies? Who Decides?
Healthcare rationing is coming — with a vengeance. "What's Your Life Worth?" previews tomorrow's healthcare system, showing what it'll feel like to be at the mercy of a system that might choose not to cure you. Right now, experts are calculating …
This innovative and challenging book provides a theoretical and practical framework for understanding and helping people face the challenge of living with serious physical illness. Sensitive attention is paid to the way in which gendered and …