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Searching the internet for health information or using health apps on mobile devices has become part of our daily routine, yet can be just as disempowering as empowering. This engaging overview crit……続きを見る

This innovative volume provides fresh perspectives on how medical students and patients construct identities in relation to each other, using stories of their clinical encounters. It explores how pa……続きを見る

'A wonderful book' - Dr. Rangan Chatterjee 'Highly convincing' - Daily Express 'Pioneering' **-**The Telegraph 'The strength of the book lies in its description of how community life can have a tran……続きを見る

“A powerful and extraordinarily important book.” ーJames P. Comer, MD “A marvelous personal journey that illuminates what it means to care for people of all races, religions, and cultures. The story……続きを見る

The individual and structural biases that affect the American healthcare system have serious emotional and physical consequences that all too often go unseen. These biases are often rooted in power,……続きを見る

This volume explores the ways in which structural changes in health care environments impact patient safety. It delves into the potential that design thinking can have when applied to organizational……続きを見る

Lean-Led Hospital Design explains how hospitals can be built to increase patient safety and reduce wait times while eliminating waste, lowering costs, and easing some of healthcare‘s most persistent……続きを見る

Appropriate for health administrators in departments of sociology, social policy and nursing. Students in pre-registration programmes and those meeting management theory for the first time. There ca……続きを見る

Although physicians and hospitals are receiving incentives to use electronic health records (EHRs), there is little emphasis on workflow and process improvement by providers or vendors. As a result,……続きを見る

A hospital can be a private or public sector building where patients are admitted for acute treatment. On the other hand, a clinic is a hub of healthcare activity and a place where care providers in……続きを見る

Project management dates back to the 19th century when Henry Gantt developed techniques for planning and controlling projects, including his widely used Gantt chart. The growth of modern project man……続きを見る

This groundbreaking work calls for the overhaul of traditional Ayurveda and its transformation into a progressive, evidence-based practice. This book begins by looking back at the research of the la……続きを見る

This comprehensive text provides the latest research on key concepts, principles and practices for promoting healthy and sustainable food systems. There are increasing concerns about the impact of f……続きを見る

When it comes to our health care, we all want the same thing: the care we need, when we need it from people we choose at a price we can afford. Americans are confused about how to achieve this. Why ……続きを見る

This fully revised and expanded second edition of the Routledge Handbook of Disability Studies takes a multidisciplinary approach to disability and provides an authoritative and up-to-date overview ……続きを見る

In 2006, Social Work Education produced the first special edition (vol. 25, no. 4) on service user and carer involvement in social work education, with all of the articles coming from the United Kin……続きを見る

De færreste debatbøger er værd at læse fire årtier efter de først udkom. Endnu færre er værd at genudgive. ’Den herskende klasse’ af Jørgen S. Dich (1901-1975) er en markant undtagelse. Dich var nat……続きを見る

From the top experts on healthcare workforce engagement comes a vital road map to reduce the alarmingly highーand fast-growingーrate of staff burnout and to transform care. More than half of U.S. ph……続きを見る

This work tracks the role of the states in US health care policy reform. It reviews the challenges faced by the states in dealing with rising costs and looks at their policy competence and role in m……続きを見る

There are more therapist today than ever before in history. And yet, the number of kids being diagnosed with mental health conditions has skyrocketed. Is the number of children with faulty brain che……続きを見る

There are so many factors involved that make healthcare far more complicated than it should be. Corporate greed, blind consumerism, politics: all play a role in making health care unaffordable, unma……続きを見る

Telecommunications bring the potential to improve both the quality of and access to health care in the remotest areas of the developing world. Telemedicine offers solutions for emergency medical ass……続きを見る

許多失能朋友或其家屬，錯估了個案的行動能力，沒有接受選用輔具的專業評估與建議，錯用不當輔具，不但増加個案往後復健的困難度，還可能波及照顧者，連帶受到傷害。 　　隨著高齡社會到來，輔具的選擇與使用，將……続きを見る

Behind Many Doors is a vivid and revealing portrait of an Edwardian psychiatric hospital in Cardiff, created by those who know it most intimately. Whitchurch Hospital, formerly Cardiff Asylum, will ……続きを見る

This practical guide summarizes the principles of working with dying patients and their families as influenced by the commoner world religions and secular philosophies. It also outlines the main leg……続きを見る

Design for Wellbeing charts the development and application of design research to improve the personal and societal wellbeing and happiness of people. It draws together contributions from internatio……続きを見る

The integration of robotic systems and artificial intelligence into healthcare settings is accelerating. As these technological developments interact socially with children, the elderly, or the disa……続きを見る

This book gives the reader an inside look at creating a new healthcare service using practical examples and scenarios one would face if doing it themselves. This workbook is a follow-up to the recen……続きを見る

Developing or existing breast cancer centres strive to provide the highest quality care possible within their current financial and personnel resources. Although the basics in diagnosis and treatmen……続きを見る

Chronic Failures: Kidneys, Regimes of Care and the Mexican State is about Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) and the relentless search for renal care lived out in the context of poverty, inequality and un……続きを見る