Health systems and services Books
John Wiley & Sons Inc The Adult with Down Syndrome
Book SynopsisThe marked increase in life-expectancy in Down syndrome since the 1990s, although a very good sign in itself, raises important questions regarding the health issues, cognitive involution and social and professional inclusion of people with the condition. In this text, a large group of leading specialists have supplied a series of papers on many aspects of this issue, ranging from epidemiology, genetics, medical issues, Alzheimer's disease, cognition and language, to sexual behaviour and contraception, family issues, professional orientation and work experiences. This book should be of interest to physicians, psychologists, social workers and educators working in the field who wish to provide evidence-based interventions for persons with Down syndrome advancing in age.Table of ContentsEpidemiology, Genetic, Biological, Medical and Pharmacological issues. Cognition and Language Aspects. Psychosocial. Educational and professional Aspects.
£81.65
John Wiley & Sons Inc Qualitative Research in Health Care
Book SynopsisThis is a comprehensive book with theoretical and practical input for health care researchers exploring the humanistic and individual aspects of health and illness. It covers the main qualitative research methods and provides clear, concise and well-evidenced clinical information for researchers from all disciplines.Table of ContentsUsing Qualitative Research in Health Care. Using Focus Groups in qualitative Healthcare Research. Using Action Research in Qualitative healthcare Research. Using Grounded Theory in Qualitative Healthcare Research. Using Illuminative Case Studies in Qualitative Healthcare Research. Using ethnography Case Studies in Qualitative Healthcare Research. Using Phenomenolgy in Qualitative Healthcare Research. Using Historic Analysis in Qualitative healthcare Research. Index.
£43.65
John Wiley & Sons Inc Developmental Co-Ordination Disorder in Adults
Book SynopsisThis textbook provides readers with an insight into Developmental Co-ordination Disorder (DCD) in adulthood and the impact it has on everyday life. Potential areas of difficulty are outlined, together with potential solutions and strategies that can be utilized by individuals to improve their personal, social and working lives.Trade Review"This book is an excellent resource for anyone who offers a service to adults with DCD." (British Journal of Occupational Therapy, March 2008)Table of ContentsAcknowledgements. Preface. Introduction. Chapter 1. What is developmental co-ordination disorder (DCD)?. Chapter 2. The developmental course of DCD. Chapter 3. Assessment. Chapter 4. Intervention/remediation. Chapter 5. The adult learner. Chapter 6. The dault at work. Chapter 7. The adult at play. Chapter 8. The adult at home. Appendix I: The adult learner. Appendix II: Assistive technology & ICT. Appendix III: The adult at work. Appendix 1V: The adult at work. Appendix V: The adult at play. Appendix VI: Further reading. Appendix VII: Useful contacts. Appendix VIII: Glossary of terms. Appendix IX: Tests. References.
£37.00
John Wiley & Sons Inc Primary Care Trust Workforce: Planning and
Book SynopsisEven though primary and community care managers face the same challenges as their hospital counterparts they’ve never had an equivalent range of methods for evaluating workforce size and mix. So this book aims to set the record straight by explaining community demand and supply side workforce planning and development. Eight chapters set out the main variables, from dependency and workload, activity and performance, staff education, recruitment and retention, before the most recent data are synthesised into a set of software-supported algorithms that managers can easily adopt. The book and software enable readers to not only compare their organisations with those in the same socio-economic group but also against ‘best-practice’ staffing and performance. Both help managers determine if their stock of workers is equitable, efficient and effective. Finally, a large annotated bibliography helps users locate relevant publications, and readers should look out for workshops in 2006 designed take them through the book’s methods.Trade Review"...This is a thorough read for serious work on workforce planning and development..." (Health Service Journal, 9 June 2005) "...a useful resource for all primary care trust managers and students...excellent analysis and synthesis of subject matter..." (Nursing Standard, October 05) "...comprehensive...the author shows insight into the many disciplines working in the community..." (Community Practitioner, 1st November 2005) "...comprehensive...useful..." (Community Practitioner, Vol 78 (11), November 2005)Table of ContentsIntroduction, background and context. Community patient dependency and workload. Community staff activity. Staff mix. Efficiency and effectiveness. Education and training. Recruitment and retention. Determining team size and mix. Appendices. Annotated bibliography. Index
£43.65
Wits University Press Baragwanath Hospital, Soweto: A history of
Book SynopsisBaragwanath Hospital, Soweto illustrates how this rapidly growing, underfunded but surprisingly effective institution found the niche that allowed it to exist, to provide medical care to a massive patient body and at times even to flourish in the apartheid state. The book offers new ways of exploring the history of apartheid, apartheid medicine and health care. The long history of Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital (its full current name) or Bara, as it’s popularly known, has been shaped by a complex set of conditions. Established in the early 1940s, Bara stands on land purchased by the Cornish immigrant John Albert Baragwanath in the late nineteenth century. He set up a refreshment post, trading store and hotel on the site – in what is now Soweto – which was a one day journey by ox-wagon from Johannesburg. The hotel became affectionately known as ‘Baragwanath Place’ (the surname is Welsh, from ‘bara’ meaning ‘bread’ and ‘gwenith’ meaning’ wheat’). The land was then bought by Corner House Mining Group and later taken over by Crown Mines Ltd. but was never mined. The British government bought the land in the early 1940s to build a military hospital but by 1947, Baragwanath ceased to operate as a military hospital and under the auspices of the Transvaal Provincial Administration a civilian hospital was opened with 480 beds. Patients were transferred from the ‘non-European’ wing of the Johannesburg General Hospital in the ‘white’ area of Johannesburg. Links were immediately forged with the University of the Witwatersrand and Bara would over time become one of its largest teaching centres. This link brought medical students and their teachers into direct contact with apartheid in the medical sphere. This book will contribute to studies of the history of apartheid that have begun to provide a more nuanced account of its workings. The history of Baragwanath and of the doctors and nurses who worked there tells us much about apartheid ideology and practice, as well as resistance to it, in the realm of health care.Table of ContentsFrom Allied Military Hospital to Urban African Hospital; Apartheid and Administration: The Hospital, Provincial; Administration and the University of the Witwatersrand; Missionaries, Clinicians, Activists and Bara Boeties: The Doctors of Baragwanath Hospital; Black Nurses in White: The Nurses of Baragwanath Hospital; Chronic Contradictions: The Struggle of Baragwanath in the 1980s; Baragwanath's Transition and Legacy.
£23.75
American Nurses Association, Nursing Knowledge Center Nurse Executive: Review and Resource Manual
Book SynopsisAre you looking into how to advance your professional development through certification? Need a reliable and credible reference resource? No matter where you are in the process, make sure you have the most valuable review and resource tool at your disposal.Nursing Knowledge Center’s Nurse Executive Review and Resource Manual is a must-have tool for nurses planning to take the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s (ANCC’s) Nurse Executive certification exam.Based on the official ANCC certification exam test content outline, this review and resource manual will help you: Study and analyze comprehensive material and concepts written by nursing experts. Develop a recommended seven-step plan to equip you for the exam and map out what to do on the day of the exam. Prepare for and familiarize yourself with nurse executive standards of practice. And much more ... Make the Nurse Executive Review and Resource Manual a key resource in your certification preparation. Table of Contents CHAPTER 1. Taking the Certification Examination General Suggestions for Preparing for the Exam 1 CHAPTER 2. Leadership and Management Leadership Theories The Importance of Transparency Organization and Structure Planning Continuum Healthcare Environment Institutional Environment External Environment Physical Environment References CHAPTER 3. Innovation, Technology, And Legal Issues In Nursing Innovation and Healthcare Technology Client Safety Legal Issues in Professional Practice and Institutional Liabilities References CHAPTER 4. Healthcare Environment Organizational Culture and Environment Teambuilding Group Dynamics Conflict and Conflict Resolution Negotiation Sources of Power and Empowerment Adapting to Change Environmental Factors References CHAPTER 5. Program Evaluation And Research Program Evaluation Research Purpose of Study Background Information Question Guiding Inquiry (PICOT) Summary of Study Conclusions and Outcome Summary References CHAPTER 6. Legal And Regulatory Issues; Human Capital; Healthcare Policy And Politics; Ethics Legal and Regulatory Issues Human Capital Management–Labor Relationships: Collective Bargaining Healthcare Policy and Politics Ethics References CHAPTER 7. The Business Of Health Care Budget Reimbursement Cost Containment Marketing References APPENDIX A. Review Questions APPENDIX B. Answers to Review Questions INDEX
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Health Professions Press,U.S. Ethics in Health Services Management
Book SynopsisThe ethical dimensions of managing healthcare services are often daunting, but the sixth edition of this highly regarded text provides the principles to educate students and guide practitioners as they strive to make the “right” decisions.From historical to contemporary examples, readers learn essential steps to effectively identify and solve ethical problems. More than 75 case studies and vignettes allow opportunities to analyze and apply ethical decision making across a range of care delivery settings and topics, including patient autonomy, end-of-life decisions, consent for treatment, resource allocation, whistle-blowing, confidentiality, and more. An extensive index helps readers locate and explore specific topics.Building upon the core principles of respect for persons, beneficence, nonmaleficence, and justice, as supplemented by virtue ethics, readers learn:•how to understand and shape an organization’s value system•how to develop an apply personal and professional codes of ethics and address conflicts of interest•the manager’s duties to and relationships with patients, staff, community, and profession•means and methods for resolving administrative and biomedical ethical issues•considerations of emerging ethics issues influenced by managed care, resource allocation, and social responsibility•special challenges in end-of-life decisions, including advance medical directives (AMDs), physician-assisted suicide (PAS), euthanasia, and allow natural death (AND)The most comprehensive book on health services ethics, this text is indispensable for education in health services organization and management, strategic planning, finance, marketing, and nursing administration.NEW to the Sixth Edition:•More than a dozen new cases and vignettes reflecting contemporary ethical issues•Enhanced and updated tables, figures, and problem-solving model•Greater focus on health policy and issues of rationing, regulation, and unintended consequences of policy decisions•Instructive new examples of mission and vision statements and their connection to HRM•Enhanced attention to administrative and clinical conflicts of interest•Updated and expanded bibliography
£65.60
Health Professions Press,U.S. Managing Health Services Organizations and
Book SynopsisA trusted professional reference and a teaching text, the new edition of Managing Health Services Organizations and Systems continues to provide the most comprehensive coverage available of the leadership, financial understanding, and conceptual frameworks required to effectively manage the delivery of health services in the U.S. Emphasizing continuous quality and performance improvement throughout the organization, the authors explore essential knowledge and skills required for success in areas that include managerial problem solving, resource allocation and utilization, effective communication, organizational culture, human resources, facilitation of change, and ethical and legal responsibilities.This fully updated, reorganized, and revised 7th edition contains new content on information technology, artificial intelligence, and financial/quantitative analysis currently in widespread demand. Ninety case studies with discussion questions sharpen readers' problem-solving skills while inviting them further into the real world of hospital administration.Instructor materials are available with this text and include: PowerPoint presentations Test banks and answer keys Learning objectives Instructor manual Figures and tables PLUS a PDF of all acronyms used in the text Table of ContentsPART I. THE ENVIRONMENTChapter 1: Healthcare Services in the United States Health and System Goals Lack of Synchrony Processes That Produce Health Policy A Brief History of Health Services in the United States Other Western Systems Structure of the Health Services System Classification and Types of HSOs Local, State, and Federal Regulation of HSOs/HSs Other Regulators of HSOs/HSs Accreditation in Healthcare Regulation and Education of Selected Health Occupations Associations for Individuals and Organizations Paying for Health Services Government Payment Methodologies System Trends Case Study 1. Gourmand and Food—A Fable Case Study 2. Normal Saline and Hurricane MariaWhere’s My Organ? Case Study 3. Bipartisan Policy Group Proposes Cuts to Hospital Spending Chapter 2: Ethical and Legal Dimensions Society and the Law Relationship of Law to Ethics Ethics Framework Personal Ethic and Professional Codes Health Services Codes of Ethics Ethical Issues Affecting Governance and Management Biomedical Ethical Issues End-of-Life Decisions Organizational Responses to Ethical Problems Managers and the Law Torts and HSOs/HSs Reforms of the Medical Malpractice System Select Legal Areas Affecting HSOs/HSs Legal Process of a Civil Lawsuit Special Considerations for the Manager Case Study 1. Understanding Case Study 2. Viral Pandemic Case Study 3. Concerned Physicians; Unconcerned Managers Case Study 4. Which Hurts More: The Truth or the Lie? Chapter 3: Healthcare Economics Economic Growth in Healthcare Special Characteristics of the Healthcare Economy Healthcare Demand Healthcare Supply Economic Solutions for Healthcare Case Study 1. Price and Discount Transparency Case Study 2. Comparing Health Care in High-Income Countries Case Study 3. The Role of Health Insurance in Guaranteeing Health Case Study 4. Physician Consolidation Chapter 4: The Quality Imperative: The Theory Improving Quality and Performance Taking a CQI Approach CQI, PI, and Competitive Position Theory of CQI Strategic Quality Planning: Hoshin Planning Organizing for Improvement The Next Iteration of CQI: A Community Focus Case Study 1. Extent of Obligation Case Study 2. Surgical Safety—Retained Foreign Objects Case Study 3. Which Team’s Fastest? Chapter 5: Healthcare Technology Background Types of Technologies Effects of Technology on Health Status Forces Affecting Development and Diffusion of Technology Responses to Diffusion and Use of Technology Health Technology Assessment HSO/HS Technology Decision Making Managing Biomedical Equipment Health Information Technology Telemedicine Future Developments Technology and the Future of Medicine Case Study 1. Is Cleansing Your Hands in my Room a Problem, Doctor? Case Study 2. “Who Does What?” Case Study 3. “Let’s ‘Do’ a Joint Venture” PART II. THE TOOLSChapter 6: Managerial Problem Solving and Decision Making Problem Analysis and Decision Making Problem Solving Process and Model Influencing Problem Solving and Decision Making Unilateral and Group Problem Solving Problem-Solving and Decision-Making Styles Case Study 1. The Nursing Assistant Case Study 2. The New Charge Nurse Case Study 3. Chris’s New Baby Chapter 7: Financial Management Organization of Financial Management Healthcare Financial Accounting Cost Accounting Reimbursement Working Capital Resource Allocation Case Study 1. Calculating Net Patient Services Revenue Case Study 2. Calculating Bad Debt Expense Case Study 3. Analyzing Financial Statements Case Study 4. Break-even Analysis for a Capitated Contract Case Study 5. Your Organization’s Path to the Second Curve: Integration and Transformation Case Study 6. Economic Order Quantity and Total Cost Chapter 8: The Quality Imperative: Implementation Undertaking Process Improvement Other Improvement Methodologies Improvement and Problem Solving Statistical Process Control (SPC) Tools for Improvement Productivity and Productivity Improvement LIPs and CQI Patient and Staff Safety in Healthcare QI Methods Useful in Patient and Staff Safety Overlap of Patient and Staff Safety Sustainability Case Study 1. The Carbondale Clinic Case Study 2. Respiratory Pandemic and the Hospital Case Study 3. Infections—CLABSI Case Study 4. Sharps Injuries Case Study 5. Violence in the Workplace Chapter 9: Communicating Communicating Is Key to Effective Stakeholder Relations Communication Process Model Barriers to Effective Communication Flow of Intraorganizational Communication Communicating with External Stakeholders Special Situations of Communicating with External Stakeholders Special Situations of Communicating with Internal Stakeholders Case Study 1. How Much Should We Say? Case Study 2. Getting Help When Needed Case Study 3. Adding Verbal Orders to Written Orders PART III. THE APPLICATIONChapter 10: Planning Strategizing and Systems Theory Strategizing and Planning The Strategizing Process Situational Analysis Internal Environmental Analysis External Environmental Analysis Formulating Strategy Implementing Strategy Strategic Control Strategic Marketing Core Concepts in Marketing Examples of Marketing Strategies Strategic Issues Management Case Study 1. No Time for Strategizing Case Study 2. A Response to Change Case Study 3. HSO Strategic Assessment Chapter 11: Organizing Designing the Organization Culture and Values Theoretical Background Formal and Informal Organizations Designing Interorganizational Relationships The Triad of Key HSO Components Organization of Select HSOs Diversification in HSOs and HSs The HSO/HS Environment Case Study 1. The Clinical Staff Case Study 2. State Allocation Decisions—Centralize or Decentralize Case Study 3. Physicians’ Unprofessional Behavior Case Study 6. CEO Salary versus Patient Care Chapter 12: Staffing Background Staffing HRM Activities Labor Relations Law and Unionization Self-service HR Foreign Workers Teams Virtual Workforce Social Media in the Workplace and in HR Personality Testing Outsourcing Some HRM Case Study 1. Today’s Workforce Case Study 2. The Photographer Who Posed as a Gynecologist Case Study 3. Doctor of Death Case Study 4. Let the Punishment Fit the Crime Chapter 13: Directing Directing as Leading: Defined and Modeled Work of Managers Management Functions, Skills, Roles, and Competencies Managers and Leaders: Are They Different? Ethical Responsibilities of Leaders Power and Influence in Leading Motivation Defined and Modeled Conclusions About Power, Influence, and Motivation in Leading Approaches to Understanding Leadership Toward an Integrative Approach to Effective Leading Case Study 1. Healthcare Executives’ Responsibility to Their Communities Case Study 2. The Young Associate’s Dilemma Case Study 3. Ethical Aspects of Leadership Case Study 4. Reluctant Leader Chapter 14: Controlling Monitoring (Control) and Intervention Points Control Model Levels of Control Control Considerations Control and CQI Control and Problem Solving Control and Information Systems RM and Quality Improvement Healthcare and Public Health Emergency Preparedness Control Methods Project Management Case Study 1. Centralized Printers Case Study 2. Healthcare Emergency Preparedness Case Study 6. Placing Imaging Services to Support ED Operations
£147.20
Brookes Publishing Company The Best Friends Staff
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Business Expert Press Management Skills for Clinicians, Volume II: Advancing Your Skills
Book SynopsisIn this second volume for clinicians who have transitioned into administration, we continue the journey to advance management skills. Developing business skills in hiring, human resource management, and financial management will help garner and administer the resources that support a team’s important work.Readers will learn to embrace conflict and handle it constructively, as well as deepen skills for developing personal and team member strengths to enhance performance and sustain success as a health care manager.
£21.80
Business Expert Press The DNA of Physician Leadership: Creating Dynamic Executives
Book SynopsisPhysicians are increasingly moving into leadership roles and possess enormous potential to advance health care. However, clinical training and practice does not provide the necessary skills for a transition from clinician into physician-leader. In fact, the very skills that make for an outstanding physician often compete, or interfere, with the skills required to be successful in wider leadership roles.The authors provide the aspiring physician-leader with the understanding of what is required to be a successful physician-leader and the tools necessary for the transition including: Understanding the business of health care; Recognizing physician-leader psychology; Establishing influence, the bedrock of leadership; Creating a compelling strategy; Developing high-performing teams; Delegating to maximize leadership impact; Communicating for effectiveness; Negotiating for maximum benefit.This book is practical and realistic with case studies and recommendations on how to make the changes necessary to transform into a successful and fulfilled physician-leader.
£21.80
Business Expert Press Predictive Medicine: Artificial Intelligence and Its Impact on Healthcare Business Strategy
Book SynopsisArtificial intelligence, machine learning, natural language processing, robotics, big data and other new technologies are ready to revolutionize the way we look at healthcare. But if we want them to achieve their full potential, we’ll need leaders who understand these new tools and who have long-term strategies in place to take advantage of them.This book will help you to become one of those leaders. Predictive Medicine makes artificial intelligence more accessible for healthcare practitioners without shying away from complex topics and controversial subject matter. It’s a call-to-action for a new generation of health leaders and a roadmap to help them usher in a brighter future.
£26.96
Business Expert Press Behind the Scenes of Health Care: Motivation and Commitment of Health Care Employees
Book SynopsisBehind the Scenes of Health Care presents an extensive review of motivation and commitment among health care workers in support and bedside care roles.The publication includes two research studies: motivation and commitment of support services employees in a health care environment and the correlation between patient experience feedback and nursing motivation and engagement. Additionally, the publication includes two case studies: cultural disruption in a health care system and a service organization review of turnover.Lastly, and most significantly, the publication provides a framework and model, The Tri-Factor Model, to assess and measure workplace dynamics of motivation, commitment, and culture that is also applicable to turnover analyses. Readers of Behind the Scenes of Health Care are provided tools to understand motivation, commitment, and cultural components in the contemporary workplace that may be applied to any organization.
£23.70
Rutgers University Press Junctures in Women's Leadership: Health Care and
Book SynopsisJunctures in Women’s Leadership: Health Care and Public Health offers an eclectic compilation of case studies telling the stories of women leaders in public health and health care, from Katsi Cook, Mohawk midwife, to Virginia Apgar, Katharine Dexter McCormick and Florence Schorske Wald, to Marilyn Tavenner, Suerie Moon, and more. The impact of their work is extraordinarily relevant to the current public discourse including subjects such as the global COVID-19 pandemic, disparities in health outcomes, prevention of disease and the impact of the Affordable Care Act. The leadership lessons gleaned from these chapters can be applied to a broad array of disciplines within government, private business, media, philanthropy, pharmaceutical, environmental and health sectors. Each chapter is authored by a well versed and accomplished woman, demonstrating the book’s theme that there are many paths within health care and public health. The case study format provides an introductory section providing biographical and historical background, setting the stage for a juncture, or decision point, and the resolution. The women are compelling characters and worth knowing.Trade Review“Kudos to O’Dowd and Charbonneau for identifying outstanding women leaders to compile these case studies that both humble and inspire the reader. These lessons remind us it takes one person, using both the adversity of their lives and the talents they have acquired, to improve the health of both communities and the world. Never has there been a more important time in healthcare history to extend ourselves to apply both intellect and persistence to leave our mark.“ -- Amy B. Mansue * President and CEO, Inspira Health *“This is a motivating collection of stories about exceptional leaders. Women of diverse backgrounds, and bound by specific attributes: passion about the well-being of the people they serve and commitment to improving the social and structural forces that shape their health. An important reminder that one’s legacy can be defined by one major accomplishment, or by many smaller achievements over time.” -- Jewell Mullen * Associate Dean for Health Equity, Dell Medical School *"Mary O’Dowd examines the stress and mental health issues healthcare workers face and the impact of misinformation about COVID." * State of Affairs with Steve Adubato *“Kudos to O’Dowd and Charbonneau for identifying outstanding women leaders to compile these case studies that both humble and inspire the reader. These lessons remind us it takes one person, using both the adversity of their lives and the talents they have acquired, to improve the health of both communities and the world. Never has there been a more important time in healthcare history to extend ourselves to apply both intellect and persistence to leave our mark.“ -- Amy B. Mansue * President and CEO, Inspira Health *“This is a motivating collection of stories about exceptional leaders. Women of diverse backgrounds, and bound by specific attributes: passion about the well-being of the people they serve and commitment to improving the social and structural forces that shape their health. An important reminder that one’s legacy can be defined by one major accomplishment, or by many smaller achievements over time.” -- Jewell Mullen * Associate Dean for Health Equity, Dell Medical School *"Mary O’Dowd examines the stress and mental health issues healthcare workers face and the impact of misinformation about COVID." * State of Affairs with Steve Adubato *Table of ContentsForeword to the Series New Foreword to the Series Preface Katsi Cook: “Research and Ceremonies and Healing Are an Empowerment Process”—a Mohawk Midwife Brings the Needs of Women into Environmental Health Research Elizabeth Hoover Mona Hanna-Attisha: Using Her Voice to Advocate for Environmental Justice in the City of Flint Colleen Blake and Mary E. O’Dowd Katharine Dexter McCormick: Examining an Advocate’s Path—Advancing Women’s Reproductive Rights through Philanthropic Support for Oral Contraception Development Mary Wachter and Erica Reed Mary Engle Pennington: Transforming Food Safety with the Power of Persuasion and a Steadfast Commitment to Good Science and the Public’s Health Akanksha Arya and Christina Tan Florence Schorske Wald: Standing by Her Principles—Not by a Title—to Bring Hospice to the United States Patricia A. Findley, Suzanne Willard, and Jacqueline Hunterton-Anderson Virginia Apgar: Focusing on Prevention, She Structurally Transformed Maternal and Child Health for Generations Mary E. O’Dowd and Colleen Blake Marilyn Gaston: Changing the Face of Healthcare through Research, Public Service, and Community Health Denise V. Rodgers and Grace Ibitamuno Jane E. Brody: Using Journalism to Impact Personal Health, One Column at a Time Dawn Thomas and Christina Chesnakov Risa Lavizzo-Mourey: Leading the Nation to Adopt a Culture of Health Raquel Mazon Jeffers and Christina Chesnakov Marilyn Tavenner: From Crashing Patients to Crashing Websites Heather Howard and Carson Clay Ruth Williams-Brinkley: Facing Opportunities and Challenges at the Intersection of Community and Healthcare Elizabeth A. Ryan, Ruth Charbonneau, and Alexander M. Bartke Suerie Moon: Shaping the Governance of a Complex Global Health System to Achieve Equity Alexander M. Bartke and Ann Marie Hill Acknowledgments Contributors Index
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Rutgers University Press Forget Burial: HIV Kinship, Disability, and
Book SynopsisFinalist for the LGBTQ Nonfiction Award from Lambda Literary Queers and trans people in the 1980s and early ‘90s were dying of AIDS and the government failed to care. Lovers, strangers, artists, and community activists came together take care of each other in the face of state violence. In revisiting these histories alongside ongoing queer and trans movements, this book uncovers how early HIV care-giving narratives actually shape how we continue to understand our genders and our disabilities. The queer and trans care-giving kinships that formed in response to HIV continue to inspire how we have sex and build chosen families in the present. In unearthing HIV community newsletters, media, zines, porn, literature, and even vampires, Forget Burial bridges early HIV care-giving activisms with contemporary disability movements. In refusing to bury the legacies of long-term survivors and of those we have lost, this book brings early HIV kinships together with ongoing movements for queer and trans body self-determination. Trade Review"Forget Burial is well worth reading. The most successful parts of this book take the reader inside the kitchens, bedrooms, prisons, art galleries, and hospital waiting rooms where people laughed, fought, loved, and sometimes died together. Fink makes a strong case that the early years of the HIV epidemic provide models for living joyously and communally despite the myriad ways capitalist institutions leave individuals to fend for ourselves. In the process of “unburying” the stories of historically marginalized people, Fink rightly and eloquently depicts disability as a generative force."— H-Net “What histories inter as past, Forget Burial bears forth to account for our present. Extending caregiving as a method, the book examines how early HIV archival narrations of trans and disability activisms resurface in later novels, film/video, and online networks. Whether displaying and eroticizing disabilities, or inventing safer sex, these negotiated HIV interdependencies transform state violence and biomedical stigma into kinships for ‘body self-determination’ that brandish mutual care and institutional access through our unfolding crises.”— Jih-Fei Cheng, co-editor of AIDS and the Distribution of Crises "Marty Fink’s Forget Burial is a vital, much needed contribution to HIV/AIDS scholarship. A wondrous cornucopia of theory, cultural artifacts – fiction, ‘zines, video, memoirs, painting, blogs and oral histories – analysis and archival uncovering, Fink’s work here is stunning when it makes connections to movements today. Forget Burial is both an act of superb scholarship and of love."— Michael Bronski, author of A Queer History of the United States for Young People "[A] creative and original study...this book offers historians both useful theoretical frameworks for thinking about HIV/AIDS, disability, and the role of mutual care as well as an exciting collection of sources to learn from."— Social History of MedicineTable of ContentsIntroduction: Taking Care Chapter 1: Silence = Undead: Vampires, HIV Kinship, and Communities of Care Chapter 2: Caregiving Collations and Gender Trash from Hell: Trans Women’s HIV Archives Chapter 3: Chosen Families: Rejection, Desire, and Archives of Care Chapter 4: The Gift of Dykes: Naming Desire in Rebecca Brown’s Narratives of Care Chapter 5: Queering Customs: Unburying Care in My Brother and ACE Conclusion: Forget Burial Acknowledgements Works Cited About the Author
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Rutgers University Press Viral Frictions: Global Health and the
Book SynopsisViral Frictions takes the reader along a trail of intersecting narratives to uncover how and why it is that HIV-related stigma persists in the age of treatment. Pfeiffer convincingly argues that stigma is a socially constructed process co-produced at the nexus of local, national, and global relationships and storytelling about and practices associated with HIV. Based on a decade of fieldwork in one highway trading center in Kenya, Viral Frictions offers compelling stories of stigma and discrimination as a lens for understanding broader social processes, the complexities of globalization and health, and their profound impact on the everyday social lives and relationships of people living through the ongoing HIV epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa. This highly engaging book is ideal reading for those interested in teaching and learning about intersectionality, as Pfeiffer meticulously demonstrates how HIV stigma interacts with issues of treatment, race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, social change, and international aid systems.Trade Review"Through engaging storytelling and careful analysis, Viral Frictions examines the persistence of stigma surrounding AIDS in Kenya. Tracing the intersection of multiple axes of inequality and illuminating the complicity of global actors, Elizabeth Pfeiffer provides a new and insightful perspective on an enduring problem. Further, her rich ethnography takes a Rift Valley 'truck stop'—stereotypically reduced to a risk site—and reveals a vibrant community." -- Daniel Jordan Smith * author of AIDS Doesn’t Show Its Face: Inequality, Morality, and Social Change in Nigeria *“An exquisite ethnography of the complex social frictions arising from decades of HIV interventions, and more recent efforts to 'end AIDS,' in Kenya. Deftly interweaving history, theory, and ethnographic stories, Viral Frictions offers a humane and carefully wrought reminder that HIV stigma persists in social relations even as the virus becomes increasingly 'undetectable' in bodies due to biomedical treatment.” -- Nora Kenworthy * author of Mistreated: The Political Consequences of the Fight Against AIDS in Lesotho *"Through engaging storytelling and careful analysis, Viral Frictions examines the persistence of stigma surrounding AIDS in Kenya. Tracing the intersection of multiple axes of inequality and illuminating the complicity of global actors, Elizabeth Pfeiffer provides a new and insightful perspective on an enduring problem. Further, her rich ethnography takes a Rift Valley 'truck stop'—stereotypically reduced to a risk site—and reveals a vibrant community." -- Daniel Jordan Smith * author of AIDS Doesn’t Show Its Face: Inequality, Morality, and Social Change in Nigeria *“An exquisite ethnography of the complex social frictions arising from decades of HIV interventions, and more recent efforts to 'end AIDS,' in Kenya. Deftly interweaving history, theory, and ethnographic stories, Viral Frictions offers a humane and carefully wrought reminder that HIV stigma persists in social relations even as the virus becomes increasingly 'undetectable' in bodies due to biomedical treatment.” -- Nora Kenworthy * author of Mistreated: The Political Consequences of the Fight Against AIDS in Lesotho *Table of ContentsSeries Foreword by Lenore Manderson PrefaceAcronyms and Abbreviations Introduction 1 Uneven Anthropological and Epidemiological Stories in Historical HIV Context2 “The Postelection Violence Has Brought Shame on Us All”: HIV and Legacies of Racism, Political Violence, and Ethnic Conflict 3 Stigma and the Cultural Politics of Uncertainty 4 “We Call HIV a Sex Worker Disease”: Economic Inequalities, Social Change, and the Politics of Gender and Sexuality 5 (Re)Imagining Stigma at the Intersection of HIV and Mental Health Statuses6 “What Has Happened to You?” HIV and the (Re)Making of Moral Personhood Conclusion AcknowledgmentsNotes References Index
£30.60
Rutgers University Press Cancer Entangled: Anticipation, Acceleration, and
Book SynopsisCancer Entangled explores the shifts that took place in Denmark around the millennium, when health promoters set out to minimize delays in cancer diagnoses in hope of improving cancer survival. The authors suggest a temporal reframing of cancer control that emphasizes the importance of focusing on how people – potential patients as well as health care professionals – experience and anticipate cancer before a diagnosis or a prediction has been made. This argument compellingly challenges and augments anthropological work on cancer control that has privileged attention to the productive role of science and technology and to life with cancer or cancer risk. By offering rich ethnographic insights into the introduction of the first cancer vaccine, cancer signs and symptoms, public discourses on delays, social class and care seeking, cancer suspicion in the clinic, as well as the work on fast-track referral – the book convincingly situates cancer control in an ethical registrar involving attention to acceleration and time, showing how cancer waiting times become an index of the "state of the nation".Trade Review"Cancer Entangled is a remarkable edited collection that chronicles the social life and shaping of cancer in Denmark. Andersen and Tørring have crafted a vital contribution to the anthropology of cancer that innovatively weaves intimate experiences of surveillance, diagnosis, and treatment with historico-political analyses of the birth of 'fast-track cancer pathways' within the Danish healthcare system. Cancer Entangled is a must read for all anthropologists, sociologists, STS scholars, and political scientists interested in healthcare." -- Ayo Wahlberg * professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Copenhagen *"Cancer Entangled explores how the miasma of the potential of cancer infiltrates and weighs on people’s ordinary lives as well as clinical experiences. The impact of anticipatory cancer within a welfare state is at the core of each of the chapters, yet each individual chapter contributes a contextually different perspective, contributing to our understanding of the broader context. This is a conversation well worth joining!" -- M. Cameron Hay-Rollins * author of Remembering to Live: Illness at the Intersection of Anxiety and Knowledge in Rural Indones *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Crafting Cancer Anticipations Rikke Sand Andersen Chapter 1: The Waiting Time Paradox: Intensifying Public Discourses on the Vital Character of Cancer Waiting Times Marie Louise Tørring Chapter 2: Accelerated Diagnostics in Slow Motion: Ordinary Dramas of Life and Death in the Middle Class Sara Marie Hebsgaard Offersen Chapter 3: “What If It Is Just Hiding?”: Care Seeking in the Context of Symptom Expansion Rikke Sand Andersen Chapter 4: Cancer, Inequality, and Expectations of Sameness Camilla Hoffmann Merrild Chapter 5: The Ghost of Cancer in the Clinic Benedikte Møller Kristensen Chapter 6. Making Cancer Patient Pathways Work Rikke Aarhus Chapter 7: “Keeping an Eye on It”: Infrastructures of Lung Cancer Uncertainty and Certainty Michal Frumer Chapter 8: Silent Cancer Vaccine Encounters: Young Women’s Experiences with Suspected HPV Vaccine Adverse Reactions Stine Hauberg Nielsen Afterword: Urgency, Modernity, and Pace in Cancer Care Lenore Manderson Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors
£28.90
Rutgers University Press Global Health for All: Knowledge, Politics, and
Book SynopsisGlobal Health for All trains a critical lens on global health to share the stories that global health’s practices and logics tell about 20th and 21st century configurations of science and power. An ethnography on multiple scales, the book focuses on global health’s key epistemic and therapeutic practices like localization, measurement, triage, markets, technology, care, and regulation. Its roving approach traverses policy centers, sites of intervention, and innumerable spaces in between to consider what happens when globalized logics, circulations, and actors work to imagine, modify, and manage health. By resting in these in-between places, Global Health for All simultaneously examines global health as a coherent system and as a dynamic, unpredictable collection of modular parts.Trade Review"This fantastic book paints an ambitious and sophisticated historical and ethnographic tableau of the global health field and the globalization of health during the last forty years or so. Articulated around a series of innovative themes, from political/economic triage to persistent hospitals to provincializing the WHO, the book is a must-read for anyone curious about the transformation of international health and biomedicine at the turn of the twentieth century." -- David Reubi * co-editor of Global Health and Geographical Imaginaries *"Global Health for All challenges classic understandings of periodization of structures of international health versus a burgeoning global health movement to rethink the very foundations of what has emerged as practices aspiring toward 'health universalism' in the twenty-first century. The range of fascinating case studies, the scope of ideas, and the provocation for rethinking and new research is simply stunning. It is a book to be pondered, contested, and taught." -- Byron Good * co-editor of A Reader in Medical Anthropology: Theoretical Trajectories, Emergent Realities *"This is a deeply thoughtful and brilliantly argued book that cuts across stale debates to offer a new framework for conceptualizing health in a globalized world. Its compelling analysis is both important and urgent—as COVID-19 becomes a pivotal moment for rethinking approaches to health, it is crucial that new knowledge and interventions be guided by conceptual and methodological imperatives such as those offered in Global Health for All." -- Manjari Mahajan * Associate Professor of International Affairs & Starr Professor and Co-Director of the India China Institute, The New School *"This fantastic book paints an ambitious and sophisticated historical and ethnographic tableau of the global health field and the globalization of health during the last forty years or so. Articulated around a series of innovative themes, from political/economic triage to persistent hospitals to provincializing the WHO, the book is a must-read for anyone curious about the transformation of international health and biomedicine at the turn of the twentieth century." -- David Reubi * co-editor of Global Health and Geographical Imaginaries *"Global Health for All challenges classic understandings of periodization of structures of international health versus a burgeoning global health movement to rethink the very foundations of what has emerged as practices aspiring toward 'health universalism' in the twenty-first century. The range of fascinating case studies, the scope of ideas, and the provocation for rethinking and new research is simply stunning. It is a book to be pondered, contested, and taught." -- Byron Good * co-editor of A Reader in Medical Anthropology: Theoretical Trajectories, Emergent Realities *"This is a deeply thoughtful and brilliantly argued book that cuts across stale debates to offer a new framework for conceptualizing health in a globalized world. Its compelling analysis is both important and urgent—as COVID-19 becomes a pivotal moment for rethinking approaches to health, it is crucial that new knowledge and interventions be guided by conceptual and methodological imperatives such as those offered in Global Health for All." -- Manjari Mahajan * Associate Professor of International Affairs & Starr Professor and Co-Director of the India China In *Table of ContentsPrologue: A Story with Sixteen Tellers by Andrew McDowell, Claire Beaudevin, Claudia Lang, Jean-Paul Gaudillière Introduction: Health Universalism and the Health of Others by Jean-Paul Gaudillière, Andrew McDowell, Claire Beaudevin, Claudia Lang Periodization A Field and What Else? The Game of Scales Standardization What’s Neoliberal in Global Health? Multi-scalar methodologies Chapter 1: Localization in the Global by Andrew McDowell, Lucile Ruault, Olivia Fiorilli, Laurent Pordié Grounding localization The Local as Site of Innovation SkyCare and the Virtual Global Community: The Discursive Local The Local as Hub of Global Circulations Conclusion Chapter 2: Metrics for Development by Anne M. Lovell, Jean-Paul Gaudillière, Claudia Lang, Claire Beaudevin Introduction Global Burden of Disease Season 1: The World Bank’s Tool for Prioritizing Health Investments Putting GBD 1 to Use: The Real but Problematic “Economization” of National Investments in Health Global Burden of Disease, Season 2 (GBD 2): Limitations and Legitimation Challenging GBD 2 Crises of ownership and counting Conclusion Chapter 3: Triage Beyond the Clinic by Jean-Paul Gaudillière, Andrew McDowell, Claudia Lang, Claire Beaudevin Political Triage and its Economic Alternative: The Primary Health Care Strategy and its Eclipse Strategy in Practice—The Essential Drugs List and the Rise of the “Selective” Primary Health Care The 1990s and Its Aftermath: Performance-Based Triage and the World Bank Triage toward Disease Control: Tuberculosis and “Verticalization” in Global Health Comprehensive Primary Healthcare, Medical Genetics, and Task Shifting in Oman Distributed Political Triage in Kerala Conclusion Chapter 4: Markets, Medicines, and Health Globalization by Caroline Meier zu Biesen, Laurent Pordié, Jessica Pourraz, Jean-Paul Gaudillière Introduction Toward a Global Market: Branded Artemisinin Drugs Reaching Tanzania Rethinking Medicine Making: The Local Production of Generic Anti-Malarials in Ghana The Reformulation Regime: Industrial Ayurveda Goes Global Transactions at the Interstices: The Licit and Illicit Circulation of Drugs in Cambodia Conclusion Chapter 5: Tech for All by Andrew McDowell, Claudia Lang, Mandy Geise, Sameea Ahmed Hassim, Vegard Sture The Launching of a Depression Technopack A Sliding Scale: TB GeneXpert: Of Genes and Experts Technopacking Genomics, Mestizaje and Diabetes in Mexico Cuba’s Prenatal Screening Technopack Conclusion Chapter 6: Persistent Hospitals by Claire Beaudevin, Fanny Chabrol, Claudia Lang Introduction Crafting Medical Genetics in an Omani Hospital Providing Multidrug-resistant Treatment in a Tuberculosis Hospital in Tanzania The Mental Hospital and Community Mental Health in India Conclusion Chapter 7: Provincializing the WHO by Christoph Gradmann, Olivia Fiorilli, Jean-Paul Gaudillière, Caroline Meier zu Biesen, Lucile Ruault, Simeng Wang Tuberculosis, the Making of DOTS and the Decline of Primary Health Care The WHO and the World Bank: Revisiting the “Take-over” The WHO and the Missed Opportunity for a Global Agenda on Human Genetics, 1980s–2000s Transregional Health Encounters: Indian Ayurveda, African markets, and the WHO’s Guiding Principles A Road to Africa – China and Global Health Conclusion Epilogue: The Health of Others, Covid-19 and BeyondClaudia Lang, Andrew McDowell, Claire Beaudevin, Jean-Paul Gaudillière Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Bibliography Index
£30.60
Rutgers University Press Global Health for All: Knowledge, Politics, and
Book SynopsisGlobal Health for All trains a critical lens on global health to share the stories that global health’s practices and logics tell about 20th and 21st century configurations of science and power. An ethnography on multiple scales, the book focuses on global health’s key epistemic and therapeutic practices like localization, measurement, triage, markets, technology, care, and regulation. Its roving approach traverses policy centers, sites of intervention, and innumerable spaces in between to consider what happens when globalized logics, circulations, and actors work to imagine, modify, and manage health. By resting in these in-between places, Global Health for All simultaneously examines global health as a coherent system and as a dynamic, unpredictable collection of modular parts.Trade Review"This fantastic book paints an ambitious and sophisticated historical and ethnographic tableau of the global health field and the globalization of health during the last forty years or so. Articulated around a series of innovative themes, from political/economic triage to persistent hospitals to provincializing the WHO, the book is a must-read for anyone curious about the transformation of international health and biomedicine at the turn of the twentieth century." -- David Reubi * co-editor of Global Health and Geographical Imaginaries *"Global Health for All challenges classic understandings of periodization of structures of international health versus a burgeoning global health movement to rethink the very foundations of what has emerged as practices aspiring toward 'health universalism' in the twenty-first century. The range of fascinating case studies, the scope of ideas, and the provocation for rethinking and new research is simply stunning. It is a book to be pondered, contested, and taught." -- Byron Good * co-editor of A Reader in Medical Anthropology: Theoretical Trajectories, Emergent Realities *"This is a deeply thoughtful and brilliantly argued book that cuts across stale debates to offer a new framework for conceptualizing health in a globalized world. Its compelling analysis is both important and urgent—as COVID-19 becomes a pivotal moment for rethinking approaches to health, it is crucial that new knowledge and interventions be guided by conceptual and methodological imperatives such as those offered in Global Health for All." -- Manjari Mahajan * Associate Professor of International Affairs & Starr Professor and Co-Director of the India China Institute, The New School *"This fantastic book paints an ambitious and sophisticated historical and ethnographic tableau of the global health field and the globalization of health during the last forty years or so. Articulated around a series of innovative themes, from political/economic triage to persistent hospitals to provincializing the WHO, the book is a must-read for anyone curious about the transformation of international health and biomedicine at the turn of the twentieth century." -- David Reubi * co-editor of Global Health and Geographical Imaginaries *"Global Health for All challenges classic understandings of periodization of structures of international health versus a burgeoning global health movement to rethink the very foundations of what has emerged as practices aspiring toward 'health universalism' in the twenty-first century. The range of fascinating case studies, the scope of ideas, and the provocation for rethinking and new research is simply stunning. It is a book to be pondered, contested, and taught." -- Byron Good * co-editor of A Reader in Medical Anthropology: Theoretical Trajectories, Emergent Realities *"This is a deeply thoughtful and brilliantly argued book that cuts across stale debates to offer a new framework for conceptualizing health in a globalized world. Its compelling analysis is both important and urgent—as COVID-19 becomes a pivotal moment for rethinking approaches to health, it is crucial that new knowledge and interventions be guided by conceptual and methodological imperatives such as those offered in Global Health for All." -- Manjari Mahajan * Associate Professor of International Affairs & Starr Professor and Co-Director of the India China In *Table of ContentsPrologue: A Story with Sixteen Tellers by Andrew McDowell, Claire Beaudevin, Claudia Lang, Jean-Paul Gaudillière Introduction: Health Universalism and the Health of Others by Jean-Paul Gaudillière, Andrew McDowell, Claire Beaudevin, Claudia Lang Periodization A Field and What Else? The Game of Scales Standardization What’s Neoliberal in Global Health? Multi-scalar methodologies Chapter 1: Localization in the Global by Andrew McDowell, Lucile Ruault, Olivia Fiorilli, Laurent Pordié Grounding localization The Local as Site of Innovation SkyCare and the Virtual Global Community: The Discursive Local The Local as Hub of Global Circulations Conclusion Chapter 2: Metrics for Development by Anne M. Lovell, Jean-Paul Gaudillière, Claudia Lang, Claire Beaudevin Introduction Global Burden of Disease Season 1: The World Bank’s Tool for Prioritizing Health Investments Putting GBD 1 to Use: The Real but Problematic “Economization” of National Investments in Health Global Burden of Disease, Season 2 (GBD 2): Limitations and Legitimation Challenging GBD 2 Crises of ownership and counting Conclusion Chapter 3: Triage Beyond the Clinic by Jean-Paul Gaudillière, Andrew McDowell, Claudia Lang, Claire Beaudevin Political Triage and its Economic Alternative: The Primary Health Care Strategy and its Eclipse Strategy in Practice—The Essential Drugs List and the Rise of the “Selective” Primary Health Care The 1990s and Its Aftermath: Performance-Based Triage and the World Bank Triage toward Disease Control: Tuberculosis and “Verticalization” in Global Health Comprehensive Primary Healthcare, Medical Genetics, and Task Shifting in Oman Distributed Political Triage in Kerala Conclusion Chapter 4: Markets, Medicines, and Health Globalization by Caroline Meier zu Biesen, Laurent Pordié, Jessica Pourraz, Jean-Paul Gaudillière Introduction Toward a Global Market: Branded Artemisinin Drugs Reaching Tanzania Rethinking Medicine Making: The Local Production of Generic Anti-Malarials in Ghana The Reformulation Regime: Industrial Ayurveda Goes Global Transactions at the Interstices: The Licit and Illicit Circulation of Drugs in Cambodia Conclusion Chapter 5: Tech for All by Andrew McDowell, Claudia Lang, Mandy Geise, Sameea Ahmed Hassim, Vegard Sture The Launching of a Depression Technopack A Sliding Scale: TB GeneXpert: Of Genes and Experts Technopacking Genomics, Mestizaje and Diabetes in Mexico Cuba’s Prenatal Screening Technopack Conclusion Chapter 6: Persistent Hospitals by Claire Beaudevin, Fanny Chabrol, Claudia Lang Introduction Crafting Medical Genetics in an Omani Hospital Providing Multidrug-resistant Treatment in a Tuberculosis Hospital in Tanzania The Mental Hospital and Community Mental Health in India Conclusion Chapter 7: Provincializing the WHO by Christoph Gradmann, Olivia Fiorilli, Jean-Paul Gaudillière, Caroline Meier zu Biesen, Lucile Ruault, Simeng Wang Tuberculosis, the Making of DOTS and the Decline of Primary Health Care The WHO and the World Bank: Revisiting the “Take-over” The WHO and the Missed Opportunity for a Global Agenda on Human Genetics, 1980s–2000s Transregional Health Encounters: Indian Ayurveda, African markets, and the WHO’s Guiding Principles A Road to Africa – China and Global Health Conclusion Epilogue: The Health of Others, Covid-19 and BeyondClaudia Lang, Andrew McDowell, Claire Beaudevin, Jean-Paul Gaudillière Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Bibliography Index
£107.20
Rutgers University Press Migrants Who Care: West Africans Working and
Book SynopsisAs the U.S. population ages and as health care needs become more complex, demand for paid care workers in home and institutional settings has increased. This book draws attention to the reserve of immigrant labor that is called on to meet this need. Migrants Who Care tells the little-known story of a group of English-speaking West African immigrants who have become central to the U.S. health and long-term care systems. With high human capital and middle-class pre-migration backgrounds, these immigrants - hailing from countries as diverse as Cameroon, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Nigeria, and Liberia - encounter blocked opportunities in the U.S. labor market. They then work in the United States, as home health aides, certified nursing assistants, qualified disability support professionals, and licensed practical and registered nurses. This book reveals the global, political, social, and economic factors that have facilitated the entry of West African women and men into the health care labor force (home and institutional care for older adults and individuals with physical and intellectual disabilities; and skilled nursing). It highlights these immigrants’ role as labor brokers who tap into their local ethnic and immigrant communities to channel co-ethnics to meet this labor demand. It illustrates how West African care workers understand their work across various occupational settings and segments in the health care industry. This book reveals the transformative processes migrants undergo as they become produced, repackaged, and deployed as health care workers after migration. Ultimately, this book tells the very real and human story of an immigrant group surmounting tremendous obstacles to carve out a labor market niche in health care, providing some of the most essential and intimate aspects of care labor to the most vulnerable members of society.Trade Review“Showers illuminates an extremely important story that needs to be told about Black populations who are doing critical support work and yet remain invisible–Black West African immigrants. Migrants Who Care is the first study of its kind.” -- Mary J. Osirim * author of Enterprising Women: Gender, Microbusiness and Globalization in Urban Zimbabwe *“Migrants Who Care illustrates how West Africans created an ethnic niche in health care as both workers and entrepreneurs and forged a pathway to the American dream. This did not happen smoothly but arduously against structural barriers of racism, neoliberalism, and xenophobia. With deftness and nuance, Showers convincingly shows ethnicity to be both an advantage and disadvantage for migrants in pursuit of this pathway, offering jobs in ethnic-owned facilities but barriers in diverse health care settings. This book is a must-read for scholars of care, labor, migration and race.” -- Rhacel Salazar Parreñas * author of Unfree: Migrant Domestic Work in Arab States *Table of Contents List of Abbreviations Introduction 1 Moving to America 2 Pathways and Entryways into Care 3 The Business of Care: Ethnic Entrepreneurship in Care 4 Disability Support: The Transformation of Immigrants into Care Workers 5 Patient-Provider Interactions and Professional Identities in Nursing 6 Nursing a Pathway to the American Dream Conclusion Afterword: COVID-19 Appendix A: Methodological Appendix Appendix B: Types of Health Care Jobs Acknowledgments Notes References Index
£26.35
Rutgers University Press Migrants Who Care: West Africans Working and
Book SynopsisAs the U.S. population ages and as health care needs become more complex, demand for paid care workers in home and institutional settings has increased. This book draws attention to the reserve of immigrant labor that is called on to meet this need. Migrants Who Care tells the little-known story of a group of English-speaking West African immigrants who have become central to the U.S. health and long-term care systems. With high human capital and middle-class pre-migration backgrounds, these immigrants - hailing from countries as diverse as Cameroon, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Nigeria, and Liberia - encounter blocked opportunities in the U.S. labor market. They then work in the United States, as home health aides, certified nursing assistants, qualified disability support professionals, and licensed practical and registered nurses. This book reveals the global, political, social, and economic factors that have facilitated the entry of West African women and men into the health care labor force (home and institutional care for older adults and individuals with physical and intellectual disabilities; and skilled nursing). It highlights these immigrants’ role as labor brokers who tap into their local ethnic and immigrant communities to channel co-ethnics to meet this labor demand. It illustrates how West African care workers understand their work across various occupational settings and segments in the health care industry. This book reveals the transformative processes migrants undergo as they become produced, repackaged, and deployed as health care workers after migration. Ultimately, this book tells the very real and human story of an immigrant group surmounting tremendous obstacles to carve out a labor market niche in health care, providing some of the most essential and intimate aspects of care labor to the most vulnerable members of society.Trade Review“Showers illuminates an extremely important story that needs to be told about Black populations who are doing critical support work and yet remain invisible–Black West African immigrants. Migrants Who Care is the first study of its kind.” -- Mary J. Osirim * author of Enterprising Women: Gender, Microbusiness and Globalization in Urban Zimbabwe *“Migrants Who Care illustrates how West Africans created an ethnic niche in health care as both workers and entrepreneurs and forged a pathway to the American dream. This did not happen smoothly but arduously against structural barriers of racism, neoliberalism, and xenophobia. With deftness and nuance, Showers convincingly shows ethnicity to be both an advantage and disadvantage for migrants in pursuit of this pathway, offering jobs in ethnic-owned facilities but barriers in diverse health care settings. This book is a must-read for scholars of care, labor, migration and race.” -- Rhacel Salazar Parreñas * author of Unfree: Migrant Domestic Work in Arab States *Table of Contents List of Abbreviations Introduction 1 Moving to America 2 Pathways and Entryways into Care 3 The Business of Care: Ethnic Entrepreneurship in Care 4 Disability Support: The Transformation of Immigrants into Care Workers 5 Patient-Provider Interactions and Professional Identities in Nursing 6 Nursing a Pathway to the American Dream Conclusion Afterword: COVID-19 Appendix A: Methodological Appendix Appendix B: Types of Health Care Jobs Acknowledgments Notes References Index
£107.20
Rutgers University Press Dying Green: A Journey through End-of-Life
Book SynopsisThe slow violence being inflicted on our environment—through everything from carbon emissions to plastic pollution—also represents an impending public health catastrophe. Yet standard health care practices are more concerned with short-term outcomes than long-term sustainability. Every resource used to deliver medical care, from IV tubes to antibiotics to electricity, has a significant environmental impact. This raises an urgent ethical dilemma: in striving to improve the health outcomes of individual patients, are we damaging human health on a global scale? In Dying Green, award-winning educator Christine Vatovec offers an engaging study that asks us to consider the broader environmental sustainability of health care. Through a comparative analysis of the care provided to terminally ill patients in a conventional cancer ward, a palliative care unit, and an acute-care hospice facility, she shows how decisions made at a patient’s bedside govern the environmental footprint of the healthcare industry. Likewise, Dying Green offers insights on the many opportunities that exist for reducing the ecological impacts of medical practices in general, while also enhancing care for the dying in particular. By envisioning a more sustainable approach to care, this book offers a way forward that is better for both patients and the planet.Trade Review“This remarkable book covers a lot of ground, and does it with rigor, compassion, and humanity. Dying Green will get you to think not just about the greening of health care, but also about how you want to handle the eventual end of your own life–you will want to read this book.”— Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature “Dying Green has the potential to break through the superficial “greening of hospitals” mindset and to address deeper levels of the relationship between health and sustainability. Vatovec has a strong understanding of sustainability and resources.” — Tee L. Guidotti, author of Health and Sustainability: An IntroductionTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 Focal Point: End-of-Life Medical Care 2 Medical Waste 3 Medical Supplies 4 Pharmaceuticals 5 Patients 6 Conclusions and Practical Implications Acknowledgments Appendix A A Note on Methods Appendix B A Note on Theory Appendix C Institutional Data on Materials Used at Hopewell Hospital and Baluster Hospice Notes References Index
£23.39
Rutgers University Press Dying Green: A Journey through End-of-Life
Book SynopsisThe slow violence being inflicted on our environment—through everything from carbon emissions to plastic pollution—also represents an impending public health catastrophe. Yet standard health care practices are more concerned with short-term outcomes than long-term sustainability. Every resource used to deliver medical care, from IV tubes to antibiotics to electricity, has a significant environmental impact. This raises an urgent ethical dilemma: in striving to improve the health outcomes of individual patients, are we damaging human health on a global scale? In Dying Green, award-winning educator Christine Vatovec offers an engaging study that asks us to consider the broader environmental sustainability of health care. Through a comparative analysis of the care provided to terminally ill patients in a conventional cancer ward, a palliative care unit, and an acute-care hospice facility, she shows how decisions made at a patient’s bedside govern the environmental footprint of the healthcare industry. Likewise, Dying Green offers insights on the many opportunities that exist for reducing the ecological impacts of medical practices in general, while also enhancing care for the dying in particular. By envisioning a more sustainable approach to care, this book offers a way forward that is better for both patients and the planet.Trade Review“This remarkable book covers a lot of ground, and does it with rigor, compassion, and humanity. Dying Green will get you to think not just about the greening of health care, but also about how you want to handle the eventual end of your own life–you will want to read this book.” -- Bill McKibben * author of The End of Nature *“Dying Green has the potential to break through the superficial “greening of hospitals” mindset and to address deeper levels of the relationship between health and sustainability. Vatovec has a strong understanding of sustainability and resources.” -- Tee L. Guidotti * author of Health and Sustainability: An Introduction *Table of Contents Introduction 1 Focal Point: End-of-Life Medical Care 2 Medical Waste 3 Medical Supplies 4 Pharmaceuticals 5 Patients 6 Conclusions and Practical Implications Acknowledgments Appendix A A Note on Methods Appendix B A Note on Theory Appendix C Institutional Data on Materials Used at Hopewell Hospital and Baluster Hospice Notes References Index
£107.20
Springer Nature Switzerland AG Making Healthcare Safe: The Story of the Patient
Book SynopsisThis unique and engaging open access title provides a compelling and ground-breaking account of the patient safety movement in the United States, told from the perspective of one of its most prominent leaders, and arguably the movement’s founder, Lucian L. Leape, MD. Covering the growth of the field from the late 1980s to 2015, Dr. Leape details the developments, actors, organizations, research, and policy-making activities that marked the evolution and major advances of patient safety in this time span. In addition, and perhaps most importantly, this book not only comprehensively details how and why human and systems errors too often occur in the process of providing health care, it also promotes an in-depth understanding of the principles and practices of patient safety, including how they were influenced by today’s modern safety sciences and systems theory and design. Indeed, the book emphasizes how the growing awareness of systems-design thinking and the self-education and commitment to improving patient safety, by not only Dr. Leape but a wide range of other clinicians and health executives from both the private and public sectors, all converged to drive forward the patient safety movement in the US. Making Healthcare Safe is divided into four parts: I. In the Beginning describes the research and theory that defined patient safety and the early initiatives to enhance it. II. Institutional Responses tells the stories of the efforts of the major organizations that began to apply the new concepts and make patient safety a reality. Most of these stories have not been previously told, so this account becomes their histories as well. III. Getting to Work provides in-depth analyses of four key issues that cut across disciplinary lines impacting patient safety which required special attention. IV. Creating a Culture of Safety looks to the future, marshalling the best thinking about what it will take to achieve the safe care we all deserve. Captivatingly written with an “insider’s” tone and a major contribution to the clinical literature, this title will be of immense value to health care professionals, to students in a range of academic disciplines, to medical trainees, to health administrators, to policymakers and even to lay readers with an interest in patient safety and in the critical quest to create safe care.Table of ContentsPart I. IN THE BEGINNING 1. The Hidden Epidemic The Harvard Medical Practice Study 2. It’s Not Bad People Error in Medicine 3. Changing the System The Adverse Drug Events Study 4. Coming Together The Annenberg Conference 5. A Home of Our Own The National Patient Safety Foundation Part II. INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSES 6. We Can Do This The Institute for Healthcare Improvement Adverse Drug Events Collaborative 7. Who Will Lead? The Executive Session 8. A Community of Concern The Massachusetts Coalition for the Prevention of Medical Errors 9. When the IOM Speaks IOM Quality of Care Committee and Report 10. The Government Responds The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 11. Setting Standards The National Quality Forum 12. Enforcing Standards The Joint Commission 13. Partners in Progress Patient Safety in the United Kingdom 14. Going Global The World Health Organization 15. Just Do It The Surgical Checklist 16. Spreading the Word The Salzburg Seminar 17. Publish or Perish British Medical Journal Theme issue, New England Journal of Medicine Series Part III. GETTING TO WORK Key issues and how they were dealt with 18. Sleepy Doctors Work hours and the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education 19. A Conspiracy of Silence Disclosure, Apology, and Restitution 20. Who Can I Trust? Ensuring physician competence 21. Everyone Counts Building a culture of respect Part IV. CREATING A CULTURE OF SAFETY 22. Make No Little Plans The Lucian Leape Institute 23. Now the Hard Part Creating a culture of safety
£33.24
Springer Nature Switzerland AG Social Impact of Wine Marketing: The Challenge of
Book SynopsisThis book is inspired by the term “digiwine,” a neologism referring to the production and/or marketing of wine through the use of new technologies and robotics such as vineyard information systems, sensor units, weather stations, drones, robotic harvesters, social media videos, digital labels, and wine apps. The alcohol industry is using these technologies to develop digital strategies and online tools for more efficient sales of wine. This book analyzes the use of digital alcohol marketing, the reasons for it, the role of regulation, and its social impact. In particular, malignant forms of alcohol marketing to youth are precisely described through exact case descriptions from the global milieu. The author questions whether the loopholes in the legislation or inefficiency of self-regulation have negative consequences that can no longer be prevented by public health care programs. When and how did the alcohol industry become so deeply interwoven in our lives that we mindlessly advertise and parade in its shadow on social media and that we increasingly buy alcohol digitally for fun, in innovative packaging, and with strange ingredients combinations? Dr. Mojca Ramšak’s book peels back the layers of the alcohol industry’s most obvious yet overlooked marketing tactics. It also reveals the sluggishness of preventive and curative efforts, as well as legal or self-regulatory measures, at keeping up with the alcohol industry’s use of technology. - Nadja Furlan Štante, Principal Research Associate and Professor of Religious Studies, Science and Research Centre of Koper, Slovenia.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Wine and Technology Between Cultural Attitudes to Alcohol, Sales, Legislation, and Health.- 2. The Greatest Tricks of Digital Alcohol Marketing: The Consumer’s Voice and Alcohol e-Marketing.- 3. Wine Storytelling.- 4. Wearable Technology and Wine.- 5. Smart Packaging: The Labels Come to Life.- 6. Wearable Technology for Preventive or Curative Purposes.- 7. Children and Adolescents as a Marketing Target.- 8. Social Media, Alcohol, and Young People.- 9. Masculinity and Practices of Drinking.- 10. Drinking Games.- 11. Digital Marketing Strategies during a Coronavirus Pandemic.- 12. Femininity, Online Practices of Drinking and Women in Alcohol Industry.- 13. Brand Stretching and Popular Culture.- 14. Legislation between Norm and Practice.- 15. Conclusion: The Unplugged Path to Alcoholism.
£61.74
Springer International Publishing AG Diagnoses Without Names: Challenges for Medical
Book SynopsisDoctors, patients, investigators, administrators, and policymakers who assign diagnoses assume three elements: the name describes an entity with conceptual or evidentiary boundaries, the person setting the name has a high degree of certainty, and the name has a consensus definition. This book challenges this practice and offers an alternative to assigning diagnoses: quantitating diagnostic uncertainty in personal and public medical plans.This book offers the stakeholders' views participating in a workshop, sponsored by the Barbara Volcker Center/Hospital for Special Surgery, taking place in April 2020, about uncertain diagnoses. Chapters examine the circumstances in which diagnosis names are "unassignable", either because patients do not fit within diagnostic "boxes" or because health abnormalities evolve and change over time. In addition, the book deconstructs the processes of diagnosis and explores how different stakeholders used diagnosis names for various purposes. In examining pertinent questions, the book offers a roadmap to achieving consensus definitions or including measures of uncertainty in personal care, research, and policy.Diagnoses Without Names: Challenges for Medical Care, Research, and Policy is an essential resource for physicians and related professionals, residents, fellows, and graduate students in internal medicine, rheumatology, and clinical immunology as well as investigators, administrators, policymakers.Table of ContentsPrefacePART I. DEFINING DIAGNOSTIC UNCERTAINTY 1. Diagnosis: An Illustration of Uncertainty: SLE/Lupus Spectrum 2. Diagnosis: Syndrome, Genome, or Both?3. What Level of Detail Defines Uncertainty in Diagnosis?4. Frequency of Diagnostic Uncertainty: All Doctors, or Tertiary Care Specialty Clinics Only?5. Frequency: Rheumatologists or All Chronic Illness Specialties? PART II. DECONSTRUCTING THE CONCEPT OF ‘DIAGNOSIS’ 6. Patients’ Entry into the Medical World (Strengths and Weaknesses of History, Examination, Laboratory)7. Other Data Sources (Severity, Time, Sociological, Environmental, Cultural Factors)8. Deconstructing the Thought Process by Which Diagnoses are Made (Subjective and Objective Data; Quantitative and Qualitative Data; The Effect of Time) 9. Quantitating Uncertainty10. Methodological Pluralism (Syndrome, Genome, Externalities, and Other Factors; Diagnoses Change as Science Evolves) PART III. THE PUBLIC PURPOSES OF “DIAGNOSIS”11. Physicians, Patients12. Clinical Scientists, Basic Scientists13. Pharma14. Payers, Policy Makers, Public15. Fiscal Effects of Uncertain Diagnoses16. Is Diagnostic Certainty Required?PART IV. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS17. Conclusions
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Springer International Publishing AG Cultural Issues in Healthcare
Book SynopsisThis easy-to-read book is designed to prepare medical, biomedical and other health professionals in training to provide healthcare services to patients by utilizing the scholarship in the published chapters to better understand the evolving symbiotic relationship between attention to the needs of patient communities and achieving effective access, treatment, and quality of care. While studies have been done on health inequity and disparities, moving to solution-based strategies not only requires more knowledge but a pathway to praxis. The editors and chapter authors of this unique title are established practitioners in the areas they write about and provide refreshing ways to advance our work in healthcare. The market for this title is all medical, dental, nursing, physician assistant and other academic programs; they can use this book for active learning in classes as a supplemental text. Since this material can also be used as a reference forboard exam questions of various hea
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Springer International Publishing AG Foundations of Health Services Research:
Book SynopsisThis textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to health services research. Health services research uses empirical studies to address challenges in the delivery and organization of health care. The book focuses on healthcare delivery (micro-level), which is embedded in institutions such as hospitals (meso-level) and healthcare systems (macro-level). The quality of the research approach determines the value of health services research to a large extent. The book, therefore, puts emphasis on research principles and research methods. The book provides an evidence-informed perspective on principles, methods and topics of health services research and uses examples of studies throughout the text. The 24 chapters are organised in four sections: Introduction to Health Services Research Principles of Health Services Research Research Methods in Health Services Research Emerging Topics in Health Services Research Foundations of Health Services Research: Principles, Methods, and Topics gives an overview of tools and strategies for learning and teaching at master and doctoral levels. It also is a useful resource for health researchers in clinical science and public health. Policy-makers and healthcare managers might also find the book helpful for their work.Table of ContentsPart I. Introduction to Health Services Research 1. Description of Health Services Research (Michel Wensing, Charlotte Ullrich) 2. Fields of Health Services Research (Michel Wensing, Charlotte Ullrich) Part II. Principles of Health Services Research 3. Use of Theories in Health Services Research (Michel Wensing, Charlotte Ullrich) 4. Scientific Integrity in Health Services Research (Charlotte Ullrich, Michel Wensing) 5. Presentation of Quantitative Research Findings (Jan Koetsenruijter, Michel Wensing) 6. Dissemination and Utilisation of Research Findings (Michel Wensing, Charlotte Ullrich) Part III. Research Methods in Health Services Research 7. Qualitative Methods in Health Services Research (Charlotte Ullrich, Regina Poß-Doering) 8. Survey Methods in Health Services Research (Jan Koetsenruijter, Michel Wensing) 9. Use of Electronic Patient Records for Health Services Research (Gunter Laux) 10. Social Network Analyses in Health Services Research (Michel Wensing, Christine Arnold, Jan Koetsenruijter) 11. Development and Validation of Questionnaires in Health Services Research (Katja Krug, Michel Wensing) 12. Development of Interventions (Michel Wensing, Cornelia Straßner) 13. Process Evaluation in Health Services Research (Michel Wensing, Regina Poß-Doering) 14. Outcomes Evaluation in Health Services Research (Michel Wensing, Jeremy Grimshaw) 15. Economic Evaluation in Health Services Research (Stefan Listl, Michel Wensing) 16. Systematic Reviews of Healthcare Interventions (Manuela Bombana) Part IV. Emerging Topics in Health Services Research 17. Novel Interventions for Patient Empowerment (Michel Wensing, Katja Krug) 18. Mental Health Reform, Ecological Translation, and the Future of Public Mental Health Care (Ulrich Reininghaus, Inez Myin-Germeys) 19. Dynamic Landscape of the Health Professions (Charlotte Ullrich, Cornelia Mahler, Sandra Stengel, Michel Wensing) 20. Community Pharmacies as Healthcare Providers: New Developments in Medication Management and the Role of Information Technology (Hanna Seidling, Robert Moecker) 21. Continuity of Care: New Approaches to a Classic Topic of Health Services Research (Johanna Forstner, Christine Arnold) 22. Access to, Continuity and Coordination of Health Care for Refugees: Emerging Challenges and Topics for Health Services Research (Kayvan Bozorgmehr, Andreas Gold) 23. Digital Technology for Information and Communication in Health Care (Aline Weis, Sabrina Pohlmann) 24. Climate Change as a Topic of Health Services Research (Nicola Litke).
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Marke >Ich< - Selbstmarketing in
Book SynopsisViele, die in Gesundheitsberufen tätig sind, gehen davon aus, dass ihre Arbeit, ihre Qualitäten, Kompetenzen und Fertigkeiten ausreichend dokumentiert. Das ist sicher richtig – dennoch ist es von nicht zu unterschätzendem Wert, wenn Sie in der Lage sind, angemessen ins Gespräch zu bringen, was Sie gut machen. In diesem Buch lernen Sie professionell Öffentlichkeit in eigener Sache herzustellen, Ihre Sache am Gegenüber orientiert zu präsentieren und Ihre Persönlichkeit und Ihren Erfolg ins rechte Licht zu rücken.Ein Buch für alle, die sich als Marke entdecken und positionieren möchten.Trade ReviewAus den Rezensionen: “... Das Buch eignet sich als Einstieg ins Thema und enthält zahlreiche Praxistipps und Übungen ...“ (Monika Radecki, in: Altenheim, 2013, Vol. 52)Aus den Rezensionen: “... Klassische Marketingprinzipien an vielen konkreten Hinweisen erklärt machen diesen günstigen Ratgeber im Taschenformat zu einem praktischen Einsteiger in die Thematik.“ (Klaas Stechmann, in: Zeitschrift Für Physiotherapeuten, 2013, Vol. 65, Issue 2)Table of ContentsEinleitung.- Wie machen das andere?.- Ich bin eine Marke!.-Entwickeln Sie eine effiziente Strategie.- Professionell kommunizieren.- Ihre „Kunden“: Prioritäten setzen.- Selbstmarketing als Ressource in Konflikten und Verhandlungen.- Ihr Nutzen: - Zusammenfassung.
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Der Anti-Stress-Trainer für Mediziner: Seien Sie
Book SynopsisDas Buch aus der Anti-Stress-Trainer-Reihe befasst sich eingehend mit den typischen Stressfaktoren bei Ärzten. Der Autor - selbst Arzt - weiß, wovon er spricht und klärt Leserinnen und Leser über den Berufsalltag von Medizinern auf, welcher sich nicht nur durch eine hohe Arbeitsbelastung auszeichnet, sondern auch durch einen zunehmenden enormen sozialen Druck geprägt ist. Bewertungsportale in den Medien, Negativ-Journalismus gerade über sogenannte (Abzocker-)Ärzte sowie das zunehmende Prozessrisiko bei Kunstfehlern (meist unberechtigt) führen oft zu gesundheitlichen Problemen, Stress oder Burnout. Dem Buch gelingt es, Ärzten und allen, die mehr über einen gesunden und erfolgreichen Umgang mit Stress von einem etablierten Arzt erfahren wollen, eine informative Kurzanleitung an die Hand zu geben. Mit einem Augenzwinkern und vielen nützlichen Praxistipps plädiert der Autor für ein Mehr an Lebensfreude sowohl im beruflichen als auch im privaten Umfeld.Table of ContentsKleine Stresskunde- Das Adrenalinzeitalter.- Wer keinen Stress hat ist schon tot.- 10 Tipps gegen Frust und Stress.
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Springer Leitfaden für Intrahospitaltransporte: Zur
Book SynopsisDieses essential liefert alle Informationen, die für die sichere Vorbereitung und Durchführung von Intrahospitaltransporten erforderlich sind. Innerklinische Patiententransfers sind elementare Bestandteile der stationären Behandlung. Dennoch wird ihre Brisanz selten richtig und umfassend wahrgenommen. Moderne Kliniken bieten ein vielfältiges und differenziertes Spektrum an diagnostischen und therapeutischen Maßnahmen, die oft in spezialisierten Einrichtungen durchgeführt werden müssen. Hierzu müssen Patienten unter Fortführung der erforderlichen Überwachung und Behandlung innerhalb der Klinik transportiert werden. Insbesondere Intrahospitaltransporte von Intensivpatienten sind mit besonderen Gefahren verbunden, die über Morbidität und –mortalität im Rahmen des Klinikaufenthaltes entscheiden können. Sie bedürfen einer individuellen kritischen Risiko-Nutzen-Abwägung. Table of ContentsGrundlagen der Durchführung von innerklinischen Transporten.- Detaillierte Planung und systematische Vorbereitung.- Sichere Durchführung von Transfers, auch bei Risikopatienten.- Übergabe und Nachbereitung des Intrahospitaltransports
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Von der Prozess-Analyse zum Prozess-Controlling:
Book SynopsisIn diesem Buch wird eine Konzeption für das Prozesscontrolling entwickelt und analysiert, inwieweit eine solche Konzeption sinnvoll und gewinnbringend im Krankenhaus genutzt werden kann. Ziel ist es dabei, bereits bestehende Instrumente darzulegen und auszuweiten. Solch ein Instrument aus dem Controlling ist die Prozessgestaltung mit ihren bedeutenden Merkmalen von Zeit und Raum, Kosten und Leistungen, Qualität und Risiko und schließlich die Kundenzufriedenheit. Aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven werden die Problemfelder angegangen und zu Lösungsmöglichkeiten zusammengeführt. Die Konzeption soll dabei helfen, den Anforderungen des Marktes gerecht zu werden, um erfolgreich im Wettbewerb zu bestehen. Prozesse sollten nicht einfach unbeobachtet ablaufen, sondern aktiv gestaltet werden. Hierbei wird die Absicht verfolgt, dass Prozessabläufe kreativ weitergedacht und stetig hinterfragt werden können. Die Autoren der einzelnen Beiträge setzen Schwerpunkte der prozessorientierten Vorgehensweise. Table of ContentsDer Prozess der Patientenaufnahme.- Prozessanalyse des Entlassmanagements unter Beachtung des Lean Hospital Managements.- Entwicklung einer Konzeption für das Prozesscontrolling.
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Handbuch Strategisches Krankenhausmanagement
Book SynopsisDieser Sammelband beleuchtet vorrangig strategische, politische und normative Aspekte sowie Fragen aus dem Krankenhausalltag. Die Autoren – Ärzte, Hochschullehrer, Controller, Gesundheitscoaches, Psychologen, Marketing-Fachleute und Führungskräfte in Kliniken aus Österreich, Italien und Deutschland – sind erfahrende Praktiker mit gesundheitswissenschaftlichem Hintergrund. Ihre Beiträge liefern konkrete organisatorische, psychologische und betriebswirtschaftliche Methoden, um den Weg vom Ist zum Soll erfolgreich gestalten zu können. Damit bietet das Handbuch Führungssupport für alle aktiven und potenziellen Führungskräfte in Organisationen, die Gesundheitsdienstleistungen erbringen oder dafür verantwortlich sind: Ärzte, Pflege- und Verwaltungspersonal, medizinisch-technisches Personal, Psychotherapeuten, MitarbeiterInnen der Pharmabranche, Verwaltungen von Bund, Ländern und Kommunen.Table of ContentsTheoretische Grundlagen und Überblick.- Das Dienstleistungsunternehmen Krankenhaus.- Grundlagen bzw. Rahmenbedingungen.- Managementfeld 1: Soziale Unternehmensverantwortung, Stakeholder und Veränderung.- Managementfeld 2: Organisation.- Managementfeld 3: Beschaffung- und Logistik.- Managementfeld 4: Analyse, Prognose und Steuerung.- Managementfeld 5: Markt und Wettbewerb.- Managementfeld 6: Organisationskultur und Organisationsklima.- Managementfeld 7: Personal und Führung.- Managementfeld 8: Gesundheit.- Managementfeld 9: Finanzen.- Managementfeld 10: Internationalität – Beschaffung-Vertrieb-Kooperationen.- Gute Praxisbeispiele und Fallstudien.- Der innovative Weg nach 2020.- Glossar.
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Springer Patientenrecht Zweitmeinung: Einfach und verständlich erklärt
Book SynopsisIn diesem Patientenratgeber werden alle wesentlichen Aspekte der ärztlichen Zweitmeinung übersichtlich und informativ zusammengefasst. Mit dem Versorgungsstärkungsgesetz wurden wichtige Patientenrechte für zusätzliche Arztmeinungen ausdrücklich im Gesetz festgeschrieben. Patienten können sich auf dieses Gesetz berufen, wenn sie bei bevorstehenden Therapien oder Eingriffen eine Zweitmeinung einholen möchten.Das Buch erläutert die Vor- und Nachteile einer solchen ärztlichen Zweitmeinung: Wann ist es sinnvoll, sich als Patient eine zweite Meinung einzuholen und wie läuft dies überhaupt ab? Was muss man dabei beachten und wie ist in Situationen mit unterschiedlichen Meinungen zu handeln? Wer übernimmt die Kosten der ärztlichen Zweitmeinung? Abgerundet werden die Themenbereiche mit einem Vergleich der wichtigsten Zweitmeinungsportale. Des Weiteren werden Ansprechpartner und Beratungsstellen sowie auch die Möglichkeit zur Einholung einer Drittmeinung beschrieben. Diese anschaulichen Informationen und praktischen Hinweise ermöglichen es, sich aktiv und eigenverantwortlich an Entscheidungsprozessen des Gesundheitswesens zu beteiligen und auf diese Weise für sich selbst als Patient mehr Transparenz und Therapiequalität zu erreichen.Table of ContentsDie Hintergründe der ärztlichen Zweitmeinung.- Wann ist eine ärztliche Zweitmeinung sinnvoll?.- Von der Erstmeinung zur Zweitmeinung.- Online-Zweitmeinungsportale.- Zweitmeinung in anderen medizinischen Bereichen.- Die ärztliche Zweitmeinung in den größten gesetzlichen Krankenkassen.- Die ärztliche Zweitmeinung in der privaten Krankenversicherung.- Die ärztliche Drittmeinung.- Weiterführende Informationen.- Zum wissenschaftlichen und rechtlichen Hintergrund.- Exkurs: Das Arzt-Patienten-Verhältnis.- Die steigende Anzahl von Operationen – eine ökonomische Betrachtungsweise.- Vor- und Nachteile des Zweitmeinungsverfahrens.- Nutzung des Zweitmeinungsverfahrens.- Fazit und Ausblick.- Interview mit Prof. Dr. Jochen A. Werner.
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG E-Health: Datenschutz und Datensicherheit:
Book SynopsisWearables, Fitnesstracker, Medizin-Apps und ähnliche Analyse-Tools stehen im E-Health-Markt aktuell hoch im Kurs – sind sie aber im Hinblick auf den Datenschutz sicher? Dieses Buch bietet eine erste Orientierung im unübersichtlichen Feld der technischen und juristischen Anforderungen an Datenschutz und Datensicherheit im Bereich E-Health und unterstützt alle Branchenbeteiligten dabei, die Digitalisierung des Gesundheitswesens gut und sicher zu gestalten. Datensicherheit und Datenschutz gelten als die zentralen Herausforderungen, die bei der Umsetzung von E-Health zu gewährleisten sind. Die Autoren – Experten in Fragen der Datensicherheit und des Datenschutzes – skizzieren die aktuellen Entwicklungen datenverarbeitender Produkte im E-Health-Sektor, beleuchten die aktuellen Herausforderungen rund um Datenschutz und Datensicherheit und liefern erste Ergebnisse aus empirischen Studien zum aktuellen Sicherheits-Stand bei E-Health-Produkten. Zudem zeigen sie praxisnahe Lösungen auf. Dieses Fachbuch dient als Handreichung für Hersteller, Entwickler, medizinisches Fachpersonal und interessierte Patienten.Trade Review “... Was das Buch besonders auszeichnet, ist allerdings seine Praktikabilität. Die Publikation macht sich gut als Leitfaden, um die eigene Praxis auf die aktuell gültigen Anforderungen auszurichten. Das Buch fußt in seiner rechtlichen Perspektive nämlich schon auf dem neuen Datenschutzrecht (EU-Datenschutz-Grundverordnung), das ab Mai dieses Jahres direkte Gültigkeit in allen EU-Ländern hat ...” (ÄrzteZeitung, Heft 11, 31. Januar 2018)Table of ContentsTeil I Das Internet der Dinge.- Der vernetzte Alltag und Daten.- Marktentwicklung von E-Health.- Teil II E-Health - Gefahren und Lösungen im IoT-Zeitalter.- Grundprinzipien des Datenschutzes bei E-Health.- Der rechtliche Rahmen für Datenschutz bei E-Health.- Weitere internationale Anforderungen an Datenschutz bei E-Health.- IT-Sicherheit.- Teil III Empirische Studien und Resümee zu Datensicherheit und Datenschutz bei E-Health.-Studie: m-Health - Datenschutz und Datensicherheit.- Studie: Internet of Things - Datenschutz und Datensicherheit.- Zusammenfassung: Umsetzung von Datensicherheit und Datenschutz bei E-Health.
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Management von Gesundheitsregionen IV:
Book SynopsisDen Schwerpunkt des vierten Bandes zum Thema Gesundheitsregionen bildet der Bereich der ambulanten Versorgung. In den einzelnen Beiträgen wird ein Einblick in aktuelle Entwicklungen, Problemfelder, Standpunkte, Trends und Zukunftsperspektiven- und potenziale gegeben. Das Instrument der Bedarfs- und Verteilungsplanung wird vorgesellt und gezeigt, wie flächendeckende, wohnortnahe und vertragsärztliche ambulante Versorgung sichergestellt werden kann. Die Gesundheitsversorgung in Städten und ländlichen Regionen steht dabei vor großen Herausforderungen. Der demografische Wandel und gesellschaftliche Veränderungen erfordern neue Lösungskonzepte und neue Strategien. Regionale Initiativen und Netzwerke beteiligen sich mit an der Gestaltung der Gesundheitsversorgung und tragen maßgeblich zur Weiterentwicklung und Verbesserung der Versorgungsprozesse bei. Renommierte Autoren geben einen guten Überblick über den Stand der wissenschaftlichen Diskussion.Table of Contents
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Betriebshandbuch für Gesundheitseinrichtungen:
Book SynopsisKrankenhäuser und Pflegeeinrichtungen verfügen in der Regel über einfache Organisationshandbücher, um Aufbau und Abläufe ihres Betriebs zusammenzufassen. Diese fallen in Qualität, Vollständigkeit und Aktualität aber höchst unterschiedlich aus und bieten oft noch Raum für Verbesserungen. Zudem kommen stets neue Aufgabenbereiche hinzu, die gleichfalls dokumentiert und in das Gesamtkonzept integriert werden müssen. Dieses Fachbuch unterstützt bei der Erstellung und Optimierung von OHBs in Unternehmen des Gesundheitswesens.Da jedes Betriebshandbuch an die individuellen Gegebenheiten der jeweiligen Gesundheitseinrichtung angepasst werden muss, versucht der vorliegende Leitfaden das Regelwerk von Gesundheitsbetrieben inhaltlich allgemein zu beschreiben, Hinweise auf notwendige Informationsinhalte zu geben und damit die Fragen zu beantworten, was zu regeln ist bzw. wie es geregelt werden kann. Die BHB-Inhalte werden übersichtlich dargestellt und durch viele konkrete Beispiele zur Formulierung einzelner Regelungsvorschläge ergänzt.Table of ContentsAufbau und Bereitstellung des BHB.- Grundlagen der Gesundheitseinrichtung.- Organisation.- Personal.- Betriebsmittel.- Sicherheit.- Information und Kommunikation.- Compliance.- Controlling/Finanzierung.- Buchführung/Rechnungswesen.- Recht.- Marketing.- Umweltschutz.- Qualitätsmanagement.
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Consulting im Gesundheitswesen: Professional
Book SynopsisUnternehmensberatungen stellen mit ihrem Leistungsportfolio einen bedeutenden Wirtschaftsfaktor dar. Die digitale Transformation und die sehr spezifischen Marktstrukturen der Gesundheitswirtschaft verlangen nach differenzierten Beratungsansätzen, die zugleich ein großes Beratungsfeld eröffnen und so das Wachstum und die Attraktivität von Unternehmensberatungen in diesem Segment stärken. Das Buch zeigt Themenfelder und Erfolgsfaktoren bei Beratungsprojekten auf. Dabei wird der Ansatz der Komplementärberatung in den Mittelpunkt gestellt, um den vielfältigen Change-Anforderungen bei der digitalen Transformation im Gesundheitswesen ganzheitlich gerecht zu werden.Beratungsprojekte lassen sich in Meilensteine unterteilen, um Projektfortschritte zu dokumentieren. Durch Maßnahmen und den Einsatz von etablierten Methoden lassen sich festgelegte Ziele beim Beratungsgeschäft erreichen. Die Beiträge in diesem Buch präsentieren zahlreiche Umsetzungsbeispiele aus konkreten Beratungsprojekten in der Gesundheitsbranche, die Beratern, Geschäftsführern, Top-Managern und anderen Entscheidungsträgern praktische Hilfestellungen und Inspirationen bieten.Table of ContentsDashboard Consulting im Gesundheitswesen – Digitalisierungsoptionen und Anwendungsfelder.- Anforderungen an Führungskräfte im Krankenhaus – Wer ist ein guter CEO in Transformationszeiten?.- Gesundheitshandwerker und Homecare Unternehmen im Spannungsfeld zwischen Ausschreibungen und Social Media.- IT-Integrationsberatung für Medizinproduktehersteller.- Digitale Transformation als strategische Herausforderung.- Komplementärberatung in einem dynamischen Markt.- Digitalisierung ist Kulturumbruch - Medizin im Zentrum des Wandels.- Projektsteuerung, Due Diligence und Kaufpreisfindung – Unternehmensberatung bei Transaktionen im Gesundheitswesen.- IT-Strategieberatung für Krankenhäuser.- Maßnahmen zur Umsetzung der europäischen Medical Device Regulation bei klein- und mittelständigen Herstellern von Medizinprodukten.- Medizinische Strategieentwicklung und -implementierung in Krankenhäusern.- Der virtuelle Klinikverbund.- Instrumente der Evidenzgenerierung als Grundlage für Geschäftslösungen in der Health-Care-Industrie.- Bewirtschaftung im Wandel – Vom Säbelzahntiger zum digitalen Zeitalter.- Strategisches Marketing im Krankenhaus – Mitarbeiter motivieren, Einweiserpotenziale heben, Patienten begeistern.- Vertrauen schaffen und Lösungen anbieten.
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Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Das exemplarische Prinzip in der
Book SynopsisLehrende in der Pflegeausbildung sind spätestens seit der Einführung des Pflegeberufegesetzes im Jahr 2020 gefordert, das exemplarische Prinzip im Unterricht umzusetzen. Es gibt bislang weder pflegedidaktische Kriterien für Auswahlentscheidungen im Kontext des exemplarischen Prinzips noch pflegedidaktische Konzepte zu dessen curricularer und unterrichtlicher Umsetzung. In diesem Buch werden solche Kriterien systematisch hergeleitet und in Form eines auf der curricularen Ebene angesiedelten Handlungsleitfadens in einen pflegedidaktischen Zusammenhang gebracht.Table of ContentsEinleitung.- Charakteristika des exemplarischen Prinzips.- Transfer im Kontext des exemplarischen Prinzips.- Bestimmung von Kriterien im Kontext des exemplarischen Prinzips.- Anwendung der eruierten Kriterien im pflegedidaktischen Kontext.- Schlussfolgerungen für die Entwicklung des Handlungsleitfadens.- Handlungsleitfaden zur Umsetzung des exemplarischen Prinzips.- Fazit.
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Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Gesundheit – Teilhabechancen –
Book SynopsisDies ist ein Open-Access-Buch.Das Recht auf Gesundheit und Wohlergehen steht allen Menschen zu, unabhängig von Alter, Geschlecht, Beeinträchtigung oder anderen Vielfaltsmerkmalen. Auf die enge Verknüpfung von gesellschaftlicher Teilhabe und bestmöglicher Gesundheit macht das Gemeinschaftswerk aufmerksam. Es weist auf Exklusions- und Isolationsrisiken hin, zeigt Erfahrungen aus der Coronapandemie auf und öffnet Wege, um Benachteiligungen abzubauen, auch für den demografischen Wandel. Vielfache wissenschaftliche Expertise (aus dem Wissenschaftlichen Beirat der Bundesregierung zur Teilhabeberichterstattung) und zukunftsweisende fachliche Debatten werden unterlegt mit neuesten Daten und dem Blick auf die globalen Gesundheitsziele.Table of ContentsWegweisung zur Gesundheit.- Teilhabe als Gesundheitsfaktor.- Spezifische Teilhaberisiken und -chancen.- Inklusive Gesundheitssorge.
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Springer VS Gesundheitliche Ungleichheit im Lebensverlauf und
Book SynopsisEinleitung.- Gesundheit als mehrdimensionales Konstrukt im strukturell- individualistischen Forschungsparadigma.- Erklärung gesundheitlicher Ungleichheit.- Gesundheit im Kontext weiterer sozialstruktureller Merkmale.- Erklärungsmodell zur gesundheitlichen Ungleichheit im Lebensverlauf und im Kohortenvergleich.- Resümee zu Teil I: Ausgangspunkt einer empirischen Analyse zu Dynamiken in gesundheitlichen Ungleichheiten.- Latente Wachstumskurvenmodelle und multiple Gruppenanalyse.- Die dynamische Mikrosimulation.- Resümee zu Teil II: Zusammenfassung der methodischen Auseinan- dersetzung.- Deskriptive Analyse der verwendeten Datenbasis.- Analysestrategie.- Ergebnisse der latenten Wachstumskurvenmodellierungen.- Mikrosimulative Analyse der multivariaten Modellierung.- Fazit und Ausblick.
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Ausgeschlafen? – Gesund bleiben im Schichtdienst
Book SynopsisGesund und fit im Schichtdienst!Ein Buch für alle, die im Schichtdienst arbeiten und gesund leben wollen. Lernen Sie anhand vieler Beispiele aus dem Pflegealltag, wie Sie Ihre Ressourcen und Kräfte aktivieren können.Trade Review“... Das Buch gibt viele konkrete Tipps zu den Themenkomplexen Ernährung, Schlaf, Bewegung und Entspannung. Darüber hinaus enthält es eine praktische Anleitung für eine mitarbeiterorientierte Dienstplangestaltung ...” (in: Ärzte Zeitung, Heft 105, 2015)“... werden konkrete Tipps zu den Themen Ernährung, Schlaf, Bewegung und Entspannung gegeben. Praktische Anleitungen für eine mitarbeiterfreundliche Dienstplangestaltung runden das Buch ...” (in: Die Schwester der Pfleger, Jg. 511, Oktober 2015)“... Es werden konkrete Anregungen und Ratschläge gegeben ... Das Buch liest sich gut und flüssig ... ist es sinnvoll, es noch mal zu lesen und sich zu vergegenwärtigen ...” (Jochen Blaich, in: CNE Magazin, Heft 5, 2015)Table of ContentsSchichtdienst und Schichtdienstmodelle.- Ihr gutes Recht im Schichtdienst!.- Gesundheitliche Belastungen durch den Schichtdienst.- Lernen Sie sich im Angesicht des Schichtdienstes kennen.- Ernährung im Schichtdienst.- Schlafen und Ruhen trotz Schichtdienst.- Entspannung in den Schichtdienstalltag integrieren.- Bewegung und Sport im Schichtdienst.- Soziales Leben.- Nachtdienst.- Mitgestalten im Schichtdienst.
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Arzneiverordnungs-Report 2022
Book SynopsisDer Arzneiverordnungs-Report ist seit 1985 eine gemeinsame Publikation von Autoren aus Pharmakologie, Klinik, Praxis, Gesundheitsökonomie und Krankenversicherung. Basis sind die Verordnungsdaten von Arzneimitteln für ambulante Patienten der gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung (GKV). Table of ContentsI. Allgemeine Verordnungs- und Marktentwicklung.-1. Arzneiverordnungen 2021 im Überblick.-2. Neue Arzneimittel 2021.-3. Kosten-Nutzen-Analysen von Arzneimitteln.-4. Überblick über Maßnahmen zur Förderung des Einsatzes von Biosimilars in europäischen Ländern.-II. Maligne Erkrankungen.-5. Hämatologische Neoplasien und solide Tumore.-III. Herz-Kreislauf-Erkrankungen.-6. Arterielle Hypertonie.-7. Herzerkrankungen.-IV. Blut und Gerinnung.-8. Anämien.-9. Gerinnungsstörungen.-V. Erkrankungen des Stoffwechsels und des Gastrointestinaltraktes.-10. Diabetes.-11. Lipidstoffwechselstörungen.-12. Magen/Darm- und Lebererkrankungen.-13. Gicht.-14. Osteoporose und Calcium- und Phosphatregulation.-15. Vitamine und Mineralstoffpräparate.-IV. Infektionserkrankungen.-16. Bakterielle und virale Infektionserkrankungen und Mykosen.-VII. Schmerz, Entzündung und Immunsystem.-17. Symptomatische Behandlung von Schmerz, Fieber und Entzündung.-18. Migräne.-19. Krankheitsmodifizierende Arzneistoffe für Autoimmunerkrankungen.-20. Glukokortikoide.-21. Immunglobuline und Immunsuppressiva.-VIII. Erkrankungen des Nervensystems und der Augen.-22. Depression, Angststörungen, bipolare Störung, Schizophrenie, Aufmerksamkeitsdefizithyperaktivitätssyndrom.-23. Multiple Sklerose.-24. Epilepsien.-25. Morbus Parkinson.-26. Schlafstörungen.-27. Schwindel und Erbrechen.-28. Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen.-29. Augenerkrankungen.-IX. Erkrankungen der Lungen und der Luftwege.-30. Husten und Auswurf.-31. Chronisch-obstruktive Lungenerkrankung und Asthma.-32. Hals-, Nasen- und Ohrenerkrankungen.-X. Urologische Erkrankungen.-33. Nieren-, Harnwegs- und Prostataerkrankungen.-34. Diuretika.-XI. Hauterkrankungen und Allergien.-35. Hauterkrankungen.-36. Allergien.-XIII. Hormonsystem.-37. Schilddrüsenerkrankungen.- 38. Sexualhormone.-39. Hypophysen- und Hypothalamushormone.-XIII. Erkrankungen des Mundes und der Zähne.-40. Oral- und Dentalerkrankungen .
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Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Wydawnictwo Health and Resilience
Book SynopsisThis collection provides readers with an opportunity to consider the issue of mental health and resilience from various perspectives. It examines numerous concepts of resilience as they relate to patterns of adaptation in adverse contexts. Consequently, resilience can be conceived by readers as good adaptation, effective coping, or well-being attained despite adversity.Referring to a class of complex phenomena, resilience is not only a basic category for developmental psychopathology and positive psychology but also applies to developmental, educational, family, and health psychology, as well as to psychoneuroimmunology. The chapters in this book address the issue of resilience from either the nomothetic or the idiographic perspective. They discuss theoretical models of resilience, investigate mechanisms and processes connected with health and resilience, scrutinize various aspects of the latter (such as risk and protective factors or internal and external resources), and provide examples of support in difficult life circumstances.Trade Review"The monograph Health and Resilience adresses a very important and still neglected in Poland, issue of the relationship between psychological resilience and health. This issue is the subject of interest to a variety of scientific disciplines, including psychology. The very concept of resilience, however, is still variously understood and there is no common position in this regard. It is also in the context of this fact that the present monograph seems to be important." [...] "The monograph consists of three parts including 12 chapters written by various authors, both Polish and foreign. Part one – Social and methodological contexts of resilience (5 chapters), is an introduction to further considerations directed at the explanation of the conceptual clarification and the presentation of the monograph's main ideas, including the controversies associated." [...] "The second part of the monograph (3 chapters) - Resilience in development, investigates the phenomenon of resilience from the perspective of human development." [...] "The third part of the monograph titled Resilience and disease (4 chapters) is focused on the relationship between resilience on the one side and health and disease on the other." [...] "The monograph's chapters have written in the knowledgeable and interesting way. They certainly enrich Polish literature by bringing new information with regard to the relationship between health and human resilience." [...] "Health and resilience may be directed at a wide audience interested in health-related issues, primarily at psychologists, both researchers and practitioners. It can also provide a valuable source of information for pedagogues, sociologists, philosophers, physicians, and other medical professions' representatives." -- Professor Nina Oginska-Bulik, PhD, Institute of Psychology, University of Lódz
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IAEA Basics of Quality Management for Nuclear Medicine
Book SynopsisA quality health service, as defined by the World Health Organization, 'is one which organizes resources in the most effective way to meet the health needs of those most in need, for prevention and care, safely, without waste and within higher level requirements'. As health care standards improve globally, providing an optimal service that meets international standards and public expectations requires effective quality management. The process of quality improvement aims at defining, measuring and setting quality standards, and overcoming the associated challenges that include rising costs and skills shortages. The objective of this publication is to provide a framework for quality management systems (QMSs) to be implemented, managed and sustained holistically in nuclear medicine departments. It builds upon the IAEA's QUANUM programme, which has successfully been implemented in more than 80 countries worldwide.
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United Nations State of the world's midwifery 2021: building a
Book SynopsisSexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn and adolescent health (SRMNAH) is an essential component of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Despite a steady drop in maternal and newborn deaths since 1990, hundreds of thousands of women and newborns around the world continue to die each year during pregnancy and childbirth: an estimated 289,000 women and about 3 million newborn babies died in 2013 alone. The vast majority of loss of life is due to complications and illnesses that could be prevented with proper antenatal care and the presence of a skilled midwife during delivery. In recognition of the need to improve such realities and overall SRMNAH, this publication focuses on the availability, accessibility, acceptability and quality of midwifery services and the pivotal role midwifes play within the wider SRMNAH workforce
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City University of Hong Kong Press Ageing Care in the Community
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Healthcare
Book SynopsisThis book reviews the application of artificial intelligence and machine learning in healthcare. It discusses integrating the principles of computer science, life science, and statistics incorporated into statistical models using existing data, discovering patterns in data to extract the information, and predicting the changes and diseases based on this data and models. The initial chapters of the book cover the practical applications of artificial intelligence for disease prognosis & management. Further, the role of artificial intelligence and machine learning is discussed with reference to specific diseases like diabetes mellitus, cancer, mycobacterium tuberculosis, and Covid-19. The chapters provide working examples on how different types of healthcare data can be used to develop models and predict diseases using machine learning and artificial intelligence. The book also touches upon precision medicine, personalized medicine, and transfer learning, with the real examples. Further, it also discusses the use of machine learning and artificial intelligence for visualization, prediction, detection, and diagnosis of Covid -19. This book is a valuable source of information for programmers, healthcare professionals, and researchers interested in understanding the applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning in healthcare.Table of ContentsChapter 1_Big Data Analytics and AI for Healthcare.- Chapter 2_Genetics with Big Data and AI.- Chapter 3_AI and Big Data for next-generation sequencing.- Chapter 4_Artificial Intelligence for Computational Biology.- Chapter 5_Artificial intelligence and machine learning in clinical development.- Chapter 6_Big data analytics for personalized medicine.- Chapter 7_Generating and Managing Healthcare data with AI.- Chapter 8_Big Data and Artificial Intelligence for diseases.- Chapter 9_Artificial Intelligence and Big Data for Public Health.- Chapter 10_Biasness in Healthcare Big Data and Computational Algorithms.- Chapter 11_AI and ML in Healthcare: An Ethical perspective.
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