Health systems and services Books
WHO Regional Office for Europe Cross-border Health Care in the European Union
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£55.00
WHO Regional Office for Europe Health Professional Mobility and Health Systems:
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£135.00
WHO Regional Office for Europe Governing public hospitals: reform strategies and
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£45.00
WHO Regional Office for Europe Evaluation in Health Promotion: Principles and Perspectives
Book SynopsisThis text comprises an extensive compilation and discussion of the theory, methodologies and practice of evaluating health promotion initiatives in Europe and the Americas.
£71.25
WHO Regional Office for Europe European Health Report: Health and Health
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£41.81
WHO Regional Office for Europe 10 Health Questions About the Caucasus and
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£40.95
WHO Regional Office for Europe Health in the European Union: Trends and Analysis
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£51.05
WHO Regional Office for Europe The Solid Facts: Home Care in Europe
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£12.91
WHO Regional Office for Europe Health Targets in Europe: Learning from
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£41.51
WHO Regional Office for Europe Managing Chronic Conditions: Experience in Eight
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£41.71
WHO Regional Office for Europe Health system efficiency: how to make measurement
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£54.00
WHO Regional Office for Europe Assuring the Quality of Health Care in the
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£51.35
WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean Health Laboratory Facilities in Emergency and
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£19.44
WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean Quality Improvement in Primary Health Care: A
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£31.81
WHO Regional Office for Europe Strengthening National and Subnational
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£17.42
WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean Monitoring, Supervisory and Evaluation Tools for
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£21.00
WHO Regional Office for South East Asia Health Care Quality: An International Perspective
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£19.40
WHO Regional Office for South East Asia Implications of the Agreement on South Asian Free
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£13.06
WHO Regional Office for South East Asia Health in Asia and the Pacific
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£36.62
WHO Regional Office for South East Asia Health Situation in the South-East Asia Region
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£14.88
WHO Regional Office for South East Asia Achieving the health-related Millennium
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£15.29
WHO Regional Office for South East Asia Regional strategy for protecting health from
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£22.54
WHO Regional Office for South East Asia Health in all policies: report on perspectives
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£17.82
WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific Practical Guidelines on Pharmaceutical
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£12.91
WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific Responding to Questions About the 100 Per Cent
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£12.62
World Health Organization Regional Strategy for Improving Access to
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£12.91
World Health Organization Integrating Poverty and Gender into Health
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£13.32
WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific Integrating Poverty and Gender into Health
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£14.01
WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific Hospital and Health Facility Emergency Exercises:
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£26.00
WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific Health Financing Country Profiles 1995-2008
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£14.19
WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific Public health laboratories for alert and
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£12.62
WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific Securing regional health through APSED: building
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£18.27
WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific Health systems in transition template for
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£18.41
KIT Publishers Capacity-Building for Knowledge Generation:
Book SynopsisCapacity-building is key to sustainable development efforts and over the past decades has also enjoyed considerable attention in the field of health and development. However, perspectives on what capacity-building (or capacity development) means, what it intends to achieve and which strategies are most effective differ, depending on the context and the perspectives of a variety of stakeholders. This book aims to contribute to conceptual reflection and to share experiences regarding a range of capacity development approaches in different contexts that have in common that they are situated outside formal lecture hall settings and intend to contribute to knowledge generation. In Capacity-building for knowledge generation: Experiences in the context of health and development, professionals and scholars reflect on different strategies for capacity-building, ranging from empowerment, writeshops and strengthening of research capacity to stakeholder analysis, knowledge management and mind mapping. Prior to this, capacity-building related concepts and definitions and a framework for interpreting the various experiences are presented. The book contains seven chapters, each of which presents one of more cases of action learning or capacity development. These cases have engaged the research and non-governmental communities in diverse settings in -- mostly -- Africa. All aimed to strengthen intellectual engagement and the culture of enquiry, as part of a knowledge translation process. This means that not only knowledge institutes and researchers participated but also problem owners, policymakers, practitioners, advocates and other end-users of research. This book intends to cater to the demand for knowledge and ideas among these same groups.
£20.99
City University of Hong Kong Press Ageing Care in the Community
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£24.76
Springer Verlag, Singapore Health Professions in Nigeria: An
Book SynopsisThis book provides a unique assessment of the Nigerian healthcare system's different professions. It begins by examining the fundamentals of health professions to contextualize the issues explored in the book in more detail. It goes on to present the hierarchy of occupations, professionalization, and the evolutionary path and socialization milestones that occupations attempting to attain true professions' status and power transcend. It also analyses the differences between professional autonomy, direct access, and independent practice. The latter parts identify Nigeria's primary healthcare professions and vocational careers and discuss their central roles, each discipline's specialty; including the biography of 35 notable pioneer Nigerian healthcare professionals during the 19th and early 20th centuries. The book concludes by analyzing the causes and adverse impacts of interprofessional conflict and industrial action within the Nigerian healthcare system and proposes the interdisciplinary team concept as a panacea for both conundrums.Table of ContentsChapter 1: The Fundamentals of Health Professions Chapter 2: The Healthcare Professionals in Nigeria (the original title of the book)Chapter 3: Health Occupations (Vocational Careers) in NigeriaChapter 4: Notable Pioneer Nigerian Healthcare ProfessionalsChapter 5: Status of Interdisciplinary Healthcare Team in Nigeria
£52.24
Springer Verlag, Singapore Healthcare and Economic Restructuring: Nigeria in
Book SynopsisThis book explores the intersection between healthcare delivery and national economic health, using Nigeria as case study and window into the world. Specifically, the issue this book tackles revolves around how to repair Nigeria’s dysfunctional healthcare system through the medium of a healthier economy that provides sufficient revenue to meet the healthcare needs of citizens.Table of Contents1. Introduction.2. Primer on Nigeria, “Giant of Africa”.3. Features of Nigeria’s Healthcare System.4. Restructuring the Nigerian Economy to Generate Revenue for Healthcare Funding.5. Influence of Politics on Healthcare in Nigeria.6. Conclusion.
£37.99
Springer Verlag, Singapore Healthcare System Management: Methods and Techniques
Book SynopsisThe book discusses concepts and theories of general management and their specific applications related to public health and health care. Each chapter highlights the ideas and usefulness of different approaches in the context of health management. It addresses problems in different areas of healthcare systems management. It offers solutions in improving the performance, efficiency, and effectiveness of health programs and systems. Some of the topics covered in the book include health systems and policy, epidemiology, biostatistics, population dynamics, health economics and finance, logistics and supply chain, health research, health communication, quality management in health, and legal and ethical issues in health. The book serves as an indispensable resource for the faculties and students of health management or public health globally as well as healthcare professionals and researchers.Table of Contents1. Health Management: An Introduction 2. Health Policy and Health Systems 3. Principles of Epidemiology 4. Basics of Biostatistics5. Population dynamics and Population Management6. Health Management Research7. Managing Human Resources for Health8 Health Economics and Financing 9. Finance Management and Accounting10. Health Care Marketing11. Managing Logistics and Supplies12. Health Communication and Behavior Change13. Health Management Information System14. Managing Quality in Health Services15. Strategic Management for Health.16. NGO Management17. Organizational Behaviour
£85.49
Springer Verlag, Singapore Care Staff Mobilisation in the Hospital: Fight or
Book SynopsisThis book offers a novel examination of the relations, actions, and practices of healthcare workers, analysed in terms of collective mobilisation. Based on successive surveys conducted over a twenty-year period in public and private hospitals, it brings a rich new conceptualisation of both social movements and care work. We’ve all witnessed the collective mobilisation at play in hospitals during the Covid-19 pandemic. In such a structured, hierarchical environment, the parallel with social movements highlights the ethical and collective dimensions of care work, as well as the bonds of solidarity and identification with the collective. Yet, healthcare workers are often caught in a dilemma between fighting against underfunding and deteriorating working conditions on the one hand, and cooperating to keep the system standing and provide the best care possible for patients on the other. The author's approach in terms of consensual and conflictual mobilisations brings a fresh theoretical and empirical contribution to the literature on social movements, medical sociology, public health, and the sociology of labour, whilst in-depth case studies bring to light the experiences of healthcare workers and enrich the narrative throughout.Table of ContentsIntroduction.- Structural limits and consensual mobilisation.- The roots of healthcare.- Institutional trade unionism.- Alternative models of caring and hesitant practices.- Spontaneous protest.- What if the hospitals were co-managed?.
£33.24
Springer Verlag, Singapore Tutorial for Outline of the Healthy China 2030
Book Synopsis“Healthy China 2030” is a national strategy for improving the health of the population and coordinating health and socio-economic development, and a major means for the country to participate in global health governance and meet targets set in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. This outline of the plan will be a blueprint and an action plan for facilitating the development of Healthy China.This tutorial book is a guide for “Outline of the Healthy China 2030 Plan” released on October 25, 2016. This book is organized by 29 chapters. It uses data, background description and figures to facilitate readers to know the plan.The book Editor-in-Chief Bin Li is the Former Minister of National Health Commission of PRC, and is the Vice Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. The book Associate Editor-in-Chief Xiaowei Ma is the Minister of National Health Commission of PRC.Table of ContentsPrinciples.- Strategic themes.- Strategic targets.- Strengthening health education.- Encouraging healthy habits in individuals.- Improving physical fitness for all.- Promoting universal access to public health services.- Delivery of high quality and efficient medical care.- Letting traditional Chinese medicine play its unique role.- Improving healthcare services for priority groups.- Strengthening the medical insurance system.- Improving the drug supply security system.- Deepening patriotic public health campaigns.- Strengthening management of environmental problems affecting health.- Ensuring food and drug safety.- Improving public safety systems.- Optimizing pluralistic structure of medical care services.- Developing new types of health services.- Promoting fitness, leisure and sports industry.- Promoting development of medical industry.- Deepening reforms in institutional arrangements.- Developing human resources for health care.- Promoting science and technology innovation in health care.- Developing digital health information services.- Strengthening health legislation.- Intensifying international exchanges and cooperation.- Strengthening organization and leadership.- Creating favorable social conditions.- Conducting implementation monitoring.
£80.99
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Negotiating And Navigating Global Health: Case
Book SynopsisDiplomacy is undergoing profound changes in the 21st century, and global health is one of the areas where this is most apparent. The negotiation processes that shape and manage the global policy environment for health are increasingly conducted not only between public health experts representing health ministries of nation states but include many other major players at the national level and in the global arena. These include philanthropists and public-private players. As health moves beyond its purely technical realm to become an ever more critical element in foreign policy, security policy, and trade agreements, new skills are needed to negotiate global regimes, international agreements and treaties, and to maintain relations with a wide range of actors.The intent of this book is to provide learning tools for today's broad group of “new health diplomats” in the landscape of this ever-shifting, complex technical and political arena. The case studies are told as the negotiations were experienced by individuals who participated in the various debates, dialogues, negotiations, or by experts who have studied them. This collection fills an important gap in both knowledge and practice providing insight on how negotiations on global health issues have transpired, the successes, challenges, failures, tools and frameworks for negotiation, mechanisms of policy coherence, ways to achieve global health objectives internationally, and how global health diplomacy used as a foreign policy tool can improve relations between nations.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Art and Practice of Conducting Global Health Negotiations in the 21st Century; Navigating the Negotiating Space Between Geneva and New York: A Case Study in Foreign Policy and Global Health; Public Health Diplomacy in the WTO: Experience from Developing Countries in Negotiations on Health and Related Services in GATS and Issues Related to Public Health in TRIPS; Negotiating the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control: Public Health Joins the Arcane World of Multilateral Diplomacy; Negotiating the International Health Regulations (IHR); Transformative Diplomacy: Negotiation of the WHO Global Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel; Negotiating Issues Related to Pandemic Influenza Preparedness: The Sharing of Influenza Viruses and Access to Vaccines and Other Benefits; Negotiating Equitable Access to Influenza Vaccines: Global Health Diplomacy and the Controversies Surrounding Avian Influenza H5N1 and Pandemic Influenza H1N1; Preparing for Health Diplomacy Negotiations - Global Governance and the Case of Taiwan, WHO, and SARS; China's Engagement with Global Health Diplomacy: Was SARS a Watershed?; Destruction of the Smallpox Virus Stocks: Negotiating for Consensus in the World Health Organization; Negotiating in the World Health Organization: The Intergovernmental Working Group on Intellectual Property, Innovation, and Public Health; Taking the Fight Beyond Official Negotiations: Stakeholders Mobilise Against Counterfeit Drugs; Global Health Workforce Alliance: Negotiating for Access to Health Workers for All; The US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief: Negotiating a Recreation in Global Health and Development; Negotiating ARV Prices with Pharmaceutical Companies and the South African Government: A Civil Society/Legal Approach; Negotiating Health Reform in Kyrgyzstan: Government Management of Donors and Stakeholders; Yellow Fever and Health Diplomacy: International Efforts to Stop the Urban Yellow Fever Outbreak in Paraguay; Diplomacy and the Polio Immunization Boycott in Northern Nigeria.
£46.55
NUS Press Uncertainty, Anxiety, Frugality: Dealing With
Book SynopsisThe story of leprosy in the Dutch East Indies from the beginning of the 19th century to the middle of the 20th reveals important themes in the colonial enterprise across the territory that is today’s Indonesia. Operating in a territory with only a few hundred Western-trained doctors and a population in the tens of millions, Dutch colonial officials approached leprosy with uncertainty and anxiety. In the early 19th century, the Dutch administrationsimply removed sufferers from public view: campaigns targetted anyone “looking ugly”. Towards the end of the century, colonial science considered leprosy a hereditary disease of tropical subjects, and therefore undeserving of the colonial government’s limited resources. The leprosariums were emptied. At the start of the 20th century, a growing understanding that leprosy was spread by a bacillus caused a panic that leprosy might spread from the tropics to the colonial metropole. The mixed emotions of pity, fear and revulsion associated with management of the disease intensified, and fed into broader debates on colonial policy. The experts were unsure, and resources were never forthcoming, and despite a view that “bacteria are the same everywhere”, Dutch leprosy treatment in the East Indies mobilized traditional healing practices and relied on home care. Leo van Bergen’s detailed, attentive study to changing policies for treatment and prevention of leprosy (now often called Hansen’s disease) is fascinating medical history, and provides a useful lens for understanding colonialism in Indonesia.
£35.86
Springer Verlag, Singapore The Unequal Hour
Book SynopsisThis book is about the urgent need to have time for health. It explains why it's not laziness, ignorance or lack of motivation that's the problem for unhealthy lifestyles, and why so many people lack time for their health.
£33.74
Springer Verlag, Singapore Autistic People in Dental and Medical Clinics:
Book SynopsisWith 1 in 44 people now being diagnosed as autistic, there is a view that clinical environments should be “autistic friendly”. However, despite this expectation, medical and dental students are rarely taught how they can make their future clinical workplaces comfortable for autistic patients. Similarly, allied health professional, such as occupational therapists and psychologists, are also not taught this information. Due to this lack of knowledge, each day countless autistics and their families are exposed to potentially stressful clinical situations that can jeopardise the delivery of effective treatment. To help mitigate this situation, this book will give university students as well as established healthcare professionals an understanding of how they can assist autistic patients in clinical settings.This book is more than just providing strategies that aspiring and established healthcare professionals can use to make their clinical workplaces more accommodating for autistics and their families. It will also present a synopsis of the literature about the challenges and experiences that autistic patients have had in dental and medical settings. Such information can provide the reader with a greater understanding about what it is like to be autistic and receive medical and/or dental treatment. This synopsis will also illustrate the current gaps in our knowledge about this topic.Table of Contents
£37.99
Springer Verlag, Singapore Reproductive Health and Assisted Reproductive
Book SynopsisThis book focuses on reproductive health rights and assisted reproductive technologies (ART) in sub-Saharan Africa. Each chapter is connected to the other by focusing on different aspects of ART as a means of achieving conception.Topics such as regulation of ART practices, surrogacy and specific aspects of ART, which are gradually becoming acceptable but largely unregulated in Africa, promises to be of interest to scholars, researchers and fertility practitioners. Research in the book take a rights based approach and ethical analysis of ART practice in sub-Saharan Africa by authors from diverse backgrounds bringing together law and society perspectives.Readers stand to gain new knowledge on the societal, legal, medical and psychological requirements, effects and challenges of reproductive health rights and ART in the African context. The book is also relevant to UN Sustainable Development Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being, given that it promotes and advocates for access to reproductive healthcare for persons who have difficulty or are unable to conceive without medical assistance.Table of Contents- Introduction to Reproductive Health Rights, Reproductive Tourism and Reproductive Technologies in Africa- Oncofertility care as a reproductive health right in developing countries- Investigating the Awareness and Perception of Reproductive Rights among Women of Child Bearing age in Adamawa, Nigeria- Gender relations and reproductive rights in emergencies: Are these indulgences or rights in North East Nigeria?- A Human Rights-Based Perspective to Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights of African Senior Citizens- Persons with Disabilities’ Knowledge, Accessibility and Barriers to Reproductive Health Facilities in Nigeria- Reproductive Health Rights of Persons with Disability in Nigeria: A legal or cultural deficiency- Religious and Cultural Barriers to Sexual Reproductive Health Rights of Young People in South Africa and Nigeria- Yoruba Culture, Rights and Morality as Panacea for Infertility Problematic- Women’s Right to Reproductive Autonomy: An Examination of Abortion Regulatory Laws in Nigeria- Pluralism of Reproductive Health Norms in West Africa: The Covid-19 Experience and a Path for the Future- Addressing the 3M’s - Morbidity, Mortality and Mental Health of Women in Africa- Reproductive Health Rights, Tourism and Assisted Reproductive Technologies in Africa- Reproductive Health Rights and the Regulation of Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART) Services in Nigeria- Assisted Reproductive Technology Practice and Regulation in South Africa- Informed Consent and Ethical Considerations in Assisted Reproductive Technology in Nigeria: Options and Challenges- Contract for Gestational Services: Examining the Legal Status and Enforceability of Surrogacy Arrangements in Nigeria- The ethics, legal and social concerns of surrogacy in Nigeria and Ghana- The Role of Data Collection in Developing Adequate Legal Mechanisms for the Practice of Assisted Reproductive Technologies in Sub-Saharan Africa- The Ethical Implication of Cytoplasmic Transfer (Three-Parent Baby) in the UK and Nigeria
£125.99
Sub-Saharan Publishers Curing our Ills: The psychology of chronic
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£23.76
Independently Published Healthy Sleep Matters: Ways To Control
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£8.62
Joelan AB Desarrollar la musculatura en la tercera edad:
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£19.79
