Health systems and services Books

Book SynopsisThis book contends that attempts to reform the NHS can only be understood by reference to both the wider social and political context, and to the organisational and ideational legacies present within the NHS itself. It aims to take students beyond a basic understanding of the historical development of health policy in the UK, to one that demonstrates an appreciation of the interactions between health policy, organisation and society. Continuity and change in the NHS: · acts as a crucial bridge between conventional textbooks on the NHS and contemporary health policy research; · provides a theoretically rigorous but accessible account of the development of policy and organisational change not found elsewhere; · presents new scholarship in the political economy of welfare in a clear format. The book is aimed at third year and post-graduate students of politics, public management and health studies. It provides a theoretically inspired account of the development of health policy and organisation in the UK which will also be of interest to academics and researchers in the field.Trade Review'...a very welcome addition to the range of thorough research that is now building around health care policy, organisation and management...This is the book I have been waiting for.' Sociology of Health and IllnessTable of ContentsContents: Theory, history and health policy, and organisation; The creation of the NHS; The 1950s: 'golden age' or the NHS under threat?; The 1960s and the changing balance of professional power; Reforming healthcare in the 1960s and the 1970s; The political economy and changing ideology of healthcare; policy in the 1970s; The internal market reforms of the 1980s and 1990s, Continuous revolution? Health policy under New Labour; Long-range explanations of health policy change; Future directions and conclusion.

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Book SynopsisThis book contends that attempts to reform the NHS can only be understood by reference to both the wider social and political context, and to the organisational and ideational legacies present within the NHS itself. It aims to take students beyond a basic understanding of the historical development of health policy in the UK, to one that demonstrates an appreciation of the interactions between health policy, organisation and society. Continuity and change in the NHS: · acts as a crucial bridge between conventional textbooks on the NHS and contemporary health policy research; · provides a theoretically rigorous but accessible account of the development of policy and organisational change not found elsewhere; · presents new scholarship in the political economy of welfare in a clear format. The book is aimed at third year and post-graduate students of politics, public management and health studies. It provides a theoretically inspired account of the development of health policy and organisation in the UK which will also be of interest to academics and researchers in the field.Trade Review'...a very welcome addition to the range of thorough research that is now building around health care policy, organisation and management...This is the book I have been waiting for.' Sociology of Health and IllnessTable of ContentsContents: Theory, history and health policy, and organisation; The creation of the NHS; The 1950s: 'golden age' or the NHS under threat?; The 1960s and the changing balance of professional power; Reforming healthcare in the 1960s and the 1970s; The political economy and changing ideology of healthcare; policy in the 1970s; The internal market reforms of the 1980s and 1990s, Continuous revolution? Health policy under New Labour; Long-range explanations of health policy change; Future directions and conclusion.

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Book SynopsisWhere people live matters to their health. Health improvement strategies often target where people live, but do they work? Placing health tackles this question through an examination of England's Neighbourhood Renewal Strategy and its health targets. It evaluates the evidence base for the strategy, compares experiences from the United States and elsewhere in Europe, and illustrates the relevance of complexity theory to area-based health improvement work. The book brings together these topical issues with a social science analysis of current programmes based on the methods and concepts of complexity thinking. It concludes by setting out how local action based on these ideas offers a new approach to area-based health improvement work. Placing health is aimed at researchers, academics and students in the social and health sciences with an interest in area-based health improvement work, as well as practitioners in health services, local government and voluntary agencies working on neighbourhood renewal and health projects.Trade Review"...written for an academic audience by highly respected academics, who also have extensive experience of applying theory to practice. ...it is the authors' experience in the field and the inclusion of examples that makes it a valuable resource to individuals working in social research." LariaNews"...you will enjoy this authoritative and incredibly well referenced book. ...wonderfully informative in its exploration of the complex manner in which place influences health and its description of recent interventions to reduce inequalities at the local level in England." Public Health"This is a thought provoking book to learn from and argue with." Journal of Social Policy, Vol 37: 2, 2008."In this innovative and stimulating book, Tim Blackman draws on extensive practical research experience to illuminate both the complexity of neighbourhood effects on health, and the practical relevance of complexity theory to public policy. Drawing on examples from unexpected quarters, this book will provoke fresh thinking about the objective of creating healthy neighbourhoods for all." John Mohan, Professor of Social Policy, School of Social Sciences, University of Southampton, UKTable of ContentsContents: Health improvement and health inequalities; Making connections; The emergent neighbourhood; Changing places; Complexity theory and understanding change; Neighbourhoods and public health challenges; Enabling health; Implementing health improvement programmes; The big picture; Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisWhile ethics has been addressed in the health care literature, relatively little attention has been paid to the subject in the field of social care. This book redresses the balance by examining theory, research, policy and practice in both fields. The analysis is set within the context of contemporary challenges facing health and social care, not only in Britain but internationally. Contributors from the UK, US and Australia consider ethical issues in health and social care research and governance; interprofessional and user perspectives; ethics in relation to human rights, the law, finance, management and provision; key issues of relevance to vulnerable groups such as children and young people, those with complex disabilities, older people and those with mental health problems and lifecourse issues - ethical perspectives on a range of challenging areas from new technologies of reproduction to euthanasia. This book is intended for academics, students and researchers in health and social care who need an up-to-date analysis of contemporary issues and debates. It will also be useful to practitioners in the public, private and voluntary sectors, including social workers, community workers, those working in the fields of disability and mental health and with older people.Trade Review"A compilation of essays written by a mix of academics and practitioners, the volume addresses the issue of ethics in both health and social care sectors. The editors argue that while debates on ethics have been addressed in healthcare publications, the field of social care has received scant attention. The aim of the book is to redress the balance. In this, it largely succeeds." Guardian Public"This book is an important contribution to the field of applied ethics ... The particular stength is its use of specialists to discuss particular areas of debate, offering useful guidlines to complex issues. It will undoubtedly be useful for students and workers across a range of professions related to health and social care." Health and Social Care in the Community Journal"This text is to be commended, with strong chapters relating to ethical dilemmas commonly addressed in the media and regularly confronted in health and social care. A stimulating read and one which will be of considerable use to students and practitioners." Susan Balloch, Professor of Health and Social Care, University of Brighton, UKTable of ContentsIntroduction: Introduction ~ Susan McLaren and Audrey Leathard (editors); Section one: Ethics: Research and provision in health and social care: Ethics and contemporary challenges in health and social care ~ Louise Terry; Ethical issues in health and social care research ~ Robert Stanley and Susan McLaren; Ethics: research governance for health and social care ~ Elaine Pierce; Ethics and primary health care ~ Charles Campion-Smith; Ethics and social care: political, organisational and inter-agency dimensions ~ Colin Whittington and Margaret Whittington; Ethics and interprofessional care ~ Audrey Leathard; Service users and ethics ~ Martin Stevens and Jill Manthorpe; Section two: Law, management and ethics in health and social care: Ethical and legal perspectives on human rights ~ Louise Terry; Multidisciplinary team practice in law and ethics: an Australian perspective ~ Robert Irvine and John McPhee; Ethics and the management of health and social care ~ Jeff Girling; Ethics and the social responsibility of institutions regarding resource allocation in health and social care: a US perspective ~ Mary Dombeck and Tobie Hittle Olsan; Ethics and charging for care ~ Bridget Penhale; Section three: Ethics: From the start of life to the end: Ethical challenges and the new technologies of reproduction ~ Brenda Almond: Ethics: caring for children and young people ~ David Hodgson; Ethical dilemmas in caring for people with complex disabilities ~ Keith Andrews; Mental health: safe, sound and supportive? ~ Jon Glasby, Helen Lester and Emily McKie; Ethics and older people ~ Anthea Tinker; Ethics and euthanasia ~ Clive Seale; Conclusion ~ Susan McLaren and Audrey Leathard.

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Book SynopsisImproving health in populations in which health is poor is a complex process. This book argues that the traditional government approach of exhorting individuals to live healthier lifestyles is not enough - action to promote public health needs to take place not just through public agencies, but also by engaging community assets and resources in their broadest sense. The book reports lessons from the experience of planning, establishing and delivering such action by the five-year Sustainable Health Action Research Programme (SHARP) in Wales. It critically examines the experience of SHARP in relation to current literature on policy; community health and health inequalities; and action research. The authors make clear how this regional development has produced opportunities for developing general concepts and theory about community-based policy developments that are relevant across national boundaries and show that complex and sustained community action, and effective local partnership, are fundamental components of the mix of factors required to address health inequalities successfully. The book concludes by indicating the connections between SHARP and earlier traditions of community-based action, and by arguing that we need to be bolder in our approaches to community-based health improvement and more flexible in our understanding of the ways in which knowledge and inform developments in health policy. The book will be of interest to practitioners and activists working in community-based projects; students in community development, health studies and medical sociology; professionals working in health promotion, community nursing and allied areas; and policy makers working at local, regional and national levels.Trade Review"We understand health inequalities pretty well. We're less clear what to do about them. This book shows what can be achieved by activists, researchers and policy makers working together. It takes us beyond description to action for health." Professor Graham Hart, University College LondonTable of ContentsHealth inequalities in their place ~ Gareth Williams; 'Policy experiments': policy making, implementation and learning ~ Steve Cropper and Mark Goodwin; Policy innovation to tackle health inequalities ~ Alison Porter, Chris Roberts and Angela Clements; Action research partnerships: contributing to evidence and intelligent change ~ Steve Cropper, Helen Snooks, Angela Evans, Janet Pinder and Kevin Shales; Engaging with communities ~ Bronwen Bermingham and Alison Porter; The role of the community-based action researcher ~ Martin O'Neill; Evaluation, evidence and learning in community-based action research ~ Sandra Carlisle, Helen Snooks, Angela Evans and David Cohen; Social theory, social policy and sustainable communities ~ Robert Moore; Beyond the experimenting society ~ Gareth Williams, Steve Cropper, Alison Porter and Helen Snooks.

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Book SynopsisModernising health care: Reinventing professions, the state and the public is a crucial contribution to debates about the rapid modernisation of health care systems and the dynamics of changing modes of governance and citizenship. Structured around the role of the professions as mediators between state and citizens, and set against a background of tighter resources and growing demands for citizenship rights, Ellen Kuhlmann's book offers a much-needed comparative analysis, using the German health care system as a case study. The German system, with its strongly self-regulatory medical profession, exemplifies both the capacity of professionalism to re-make itself, and the role of the state in response, highlighting the benefits and dangers of medical self-regulation, while demonstrating the potential for change beyond marketisation and managerialism. Kuhlmann critically reviews dominant models of provider control and user participation, and empirically investigates different sets of dynamics in health care, including tensions between global reform models and nation-specific conditions; interprofessional dynamics and changing gender arrangements; the role of the service-user as a new stakeholder in health care; and the rise of a new professionalism shaped by social inclusion. Modernising health care provides new approaches and a wealth of new empirical data for academics and students of health policy, medical sociology and sociology of professions, and for health policy makers and managers.Trade Review"This highly topical book is innovative in both conceptual and empirical terms, putting flesh to the bone of the notion of modern governance. The author has an excellent overview of the literature in the field, showing critical awareness not only of the central conceptual issues and debates, but also of a wide range of empirical studies across many countries. Most importantly, Modernising Health Care fills a gap in relation to the debate and the analysis of modern governance." Viola Burau, Department of Political Science, University of Aarhus, DenmarkTable of ContentsIntroduction; Towards 'citizen professonals': contextualising professions and the state; Part one: Mapping change in comparative perspective: Global models of restructuring health care: challenges of integration and coordination; Remodelling a corporatist health system: change and conservative forces; Drivers and enablers of change: exploring dynamics in Germany; Part two: Dynamics of new governance in the German health system: Hybrid regulation: the rise of networks and managerialsim; Transformations of professionalism: permeable boundaries in a contested terrain; New actors enter the stage: silent voices of consumers in the landscape of biomedicine; Part three: The rise of new professionalism in late modernity: Professions and trust: new technologies of building trust in medical services; The knowledge-power knot in professionalism: transforming the 'currency of competition'; Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisThis original and innovative book opens up new perspectives in health policy debate, examining the emerging international trends in the governance of health professions and the significance of national contexts for the changing health workforce. In bringing together research from a wide range of continental European countries as well as the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia, the contributors highlight different arenas of governance, as well as the various players involved in the policy process. They expand the public debate on professional governance - hitherto mainly limited to medical self-regulation - to encompass a broad span of health care providers, from nurses and midwives to alternative therapists and health support workers. The book provides new data and geopolitical perspectives in the debate over how to govern health care. It helps to better understand both the enabling conditions for, and the barriers to, making professionals more accountable to the interests of a changing public. This book will be a valuable resource for students at an undergraduate and postgraduate level, particularly for health programmes, sociology of professions and comparative health policy, but also for academics, researchers and managers working in health care. Trade Review"With a fresh approach to developments in the international context, Rethinking Professional Governance injects new energy into important debates. It will be of great interest to researchers, policy makers and health professionals." Dr Ellen Annandale, Department of Sociology, University of Leicester, and Editor-in-Chief of Social Science and MedicineTable of ContentsIntroduction: Changing patterns of health professional governance ~ Ellen Kuhlmann and Mike Saks; Part One: New directions in the governance of healthcare: Protecting patients: international trends in medical governance ~ Judith Allsop and Kathryn Jones; Global markets and national pathways of medical re-regulation ~ Viola Burau and Karsten Vrangbæk; Governing beyond markets and managerialism: professions as mediators ~ Ellen Kuhlmann; Trust relations and changing professional governance: theoretical challenges ~ Michael Calnan and Rosemary Rowe; Professionalism meets entrepreneurialism and managerialism ~ Rosalie A.Boyce; Part Two: Drivers and barriers to integration: health policies and professional development: Collaborative care and professional boundaries: maternity care in Canada ~ Ivy Lynn Bourgeault and Elizabeth Darling; Interprofessional relationships: nurses and doctors in Slovenia ~ Majda Pahor; Educating generalists: auxiliary nursing and professional identity in Finland ~ Sirpa Wrede; Culture matters: integration of folk medicine into healthcare in Russia ~ Elena Iarskaia-Smirnova and Pavel Romanov; Policy dynamics: marginal groups in the healthcare division of labour in the UK ~ Mike Saks; Part Three: Workforce dynamics: gender, migration and mobility: Free riders in a fluid system: gender traps in the nursing profession in Norway ~ Rannveig Dahle and Gry Skogheim; From health to tourism: being mobile in the wellness sector in Hungary ~ Katalin Formadi; Migration and occupational integration: foreign health professionals in Portugal ~ Joana Sousa Ribeiro; Professionals in transition: physicians' careers, migration and gender in Lithuania ~ Elianne Riska and Aurelija Novelskaite; Conclusion: Health policy and workforce dynamics: the future ~ Ellen Kuhlmann and Mike Saks.

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Book SynopsisThe fundamental aim of this book is to provide accessible, detailed, good practice guidelines that also address the political and ethical problems of conducting surveys within the health professions. A book to demystify, educate and provide the kind of practical tips that will make the process as straightforward as possible.Table of ContentsPart 1. Background principles. The basic rationale. Determining objectives and hypotheses. Under what circumstances should the survey be undertaken? Researching the problem. Part 2. The General Survey Design. An overview of the design. Choosing between postal and interview surveys. Obtaining the right size and type of sample. Part 3. Survey and questionnaire formats. Generating the items. Writing the survey. Part 4. Evaluating the items. The pilot study. Part 5. Analysing the results. Analysing data from surveys. Part 6. The report. Presenting the survey results. Evaluating reports. Evaluating reports together with introductory critiques.

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Book SynopsisResearch in Nursing Series The main objectives of this study were to present profiles of a hostel in Glasgow and a comparative hostel, to make assessments and referrals and to evaluate their effect. These objectives were successfully met along with secondary objectives to discover insights into the residents' experiences and lifestyles, and their interaction with health and nursing services. The objectives were addressed by gathering and analysing quantitative and qualitative data and the use of theoretical perspectives: Roy's nursing theory of adaptation (to study the men as individuals) and a sociological perspective, including Deviance Theory, to examine the men as a group. Although the study concentrated on District Nursing practise, it demonstrates universal methods of nursing practise relevant to all community nurses.Table of ContentsIntroduction. Literature Review. Research Design, Method and Pilot Study. Results: Part One. Results: Part Two. Results: Evaluation of the Health Professionals. Responses. Evaluation: The Expert Panel and Expert Witness. Analysis: The Men as Individuals. Analysis: The Residents as a Group. Discussion and Recommendations. Appendix I - Fieldwork Pack. Appendix II - Sample Letters.

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Book SynopsisThis book promotes a positive message for people with Down syndrome across the world. Living with Down Syndrome is a positive experience for the majority of children and adults with Down syndrome, and for their families. Of course there are difficulties to be faced, but quality of life, from infancy to old age, is determined more by the quality of healthcare, education and social inclusion offered to individuals, than by the developmental difficulties that are associated with Down syndrome. The aim of this book is to bring the latest information on research and good practice to families, practitioners and policy makers in order improve the services available to individuals with Down syndrome in all countries.Table of ContentsPart One: Setting the Scene. 1 - The aspirations of adults with Down syndrome. 2 - Beyond the myths - representing people with Down syndrome. 3 - Supporting families. 4 - Positive families - appreciating adult children with Down syndrome. 5 - Mum, Dad, and Kids- family life. Part Two: Perspectives for services. 6 - Early intervention and support. 7 - Healthcare. 8 - Genetic aspects. 9 - Creating positive lifestyles for people with Down syndrome in developing countries. Part Three: Development and Education. 10 - Learning in young children. 11 - Making inclusion work. 12 - Speech, language and memory development. 13 - Developing number and money skills. 14 - Developing literacy across all ages. 15 - Verbal-motor behaviour. 16 - Self-regulation in young adults. Part Four: Adolescence and adult life. 17 - Adolescence and inclusion. 18 - Health and ageing. 19 - Life after school. 20 - Adult lives, living and working in the community. 21 - Ageing with confidence and competence.

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Book SynopsisHow may nurses be enabled to contribute to, develop and advance their practice when working in bureaucratic and hierarchical health care settings? Corporate recognition and support for nurse-led change and development is gradually increasing. However, ?top down? change is still frequently imposed without due regard for the wisdom of practitioners. Nurses should explore the theory and practice of change, identify changes to enhance the quality of patient care, and systematically put these into practice. As a result, they will be better equipped to cope with the implementation of national and local policy initiatives, which include shared clinical governance and evidence based nursing practice, both of which are described in this text.This book documents how nurses attempt to undertake change and development in clinical practice through the use of the exploratory, creative, innovative and empowering process of critical action research. The text illustrates the evolution and outcome of the change process. The personal developmental process of engaging in collaborative change in clinical practice is clearly evident. Change is very difficult and complex and if it is to be accomplished successfully it needs to be clearly understood. Consequently, the book also explores the complexity of attempting change in clinical practice. This includes the identification of some of the disempowering processes (both actual and imagined) that currently exist in health care settings.Table of ContentsThe Context for Nurse-led Change and Development. Evolving Clinical change and Action Research. The Integration of Theory and Practice. Preparing for The First Study. The Evolving Critical Action Research Process. The Process and Outcomes of The First Study. The Evolving Critical Action Research Process. The Process and Outcomes of The First Study. Development of The Second Study. Advancing The Change Process. Descriptive Analysis of The Unfreezing Process.. A framework to Advance Change and Development in Clinical Practice. Moving forward.

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Book SynopsisIntermediate care has become a buzzword within health and social care over the last few years. Seen as the panacea for a number of woes, particularly for older people, intermediate care has been held up as a way forward within contemporary health and social care. This text explores in detail what is understood by the concept of intermediate care and, in particular, ways in which the needs of older people can be best met by this new range of services. Initial discussion centres on the concept of intermediate care and the motives for its development. This is followed by a summary of the range of intermediate care services that have been developed, with a discussion of some of the confusion that surrounds the concept. The debate then moves on to centre on older people, discussing first why older people have come to be perceived as one of the main client groups that may benefit from intermediate care, and then how intermediate care could be developed to better serve their needs. An overview of ageing and the uniqueness of older people is then provided, followed by an exploration of some of the challenges faced by older people within society - and how this has extended into the delivery of health and social care.Table of ContentsThe Concept and Context of Intermediate Care. Understanding Ageing and The Older Person in Society and in Health Care. Planning, Developing. Monitoring and Evaluating new Intermediate Care Services. Delivering intermediate Care. Preparing Staff for Delivery.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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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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

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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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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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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