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Primary Health Care and Population Mortality

Primary Health Care and Population Mortality

Population health management is being increasingly adopted by health systems yet the importance of primary health care in influencing population mortality and the mechanisms that explain it are not well understood. Too often primary health care is regarded as a service for minor health problems and for managing access to secondary care. This limited view is no longer tenable and it is time to be much more ambitious about the place of primary health care in health systems worldwide. In delivering and planning health care and in re-building health systems after the pandemic practitioners and policymakers in low- middle- and high-income countries need evidence on how primary health care affects population mortality and practical advice to effect change. Primary Health Care and Population Mortality fulfils this need. Drawing on his long experience as both a practitioner and researcher the author Richard Baker describes how primary health is crucial to the effect of health systems on population mortality including its potential for reducing inequalities in mortality. This accessible new book will provide invaluable information to leaders in service development and delivery academics in primary health care and those working within international organisations that are promoting primary health care for improving population health. It will also be of practical value to general practitioners primary health care nurses and managers and public health staff.

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Mental Health and Offending Care Coercion and Control

Mental Health and Offending Care Coercion and Control

This book explores the controversial relationship between mental health and offending and looks at the ways in which offenders with mental health problems are cared for coerced and controlled by the criminal justice and mental health systems. It provides a much-needed criminological approach to the field of forensic mental health. Beginning with an exploration into why the relationship between mental health and offending is so complex readers will be introduced to a range of perspectives through which mental health and its relationship to offending behaviour can be understood. The book considers the politics surrounding mental health and offending focusing particularly on the changing policy response to mentally disordered offenders since the mid-1990s. With dedicated chapters concerning the police courts secure services and the community this book explores a range of issues including: • The tensions between the care coercion and control of mentally disordered offenders • The increasingly blurred boundaries between mental health and criminal justice • Rights responsibilities accountability and blame • Risk public protection and precaution • Challenges involved with treatment recovery and rehabilitation • Staffing challenges surrounding multi-agency working • Funding privatisation and challenges surrounding service commissioning • Methodological challenges in the field. Providing an accessible and concise overview of the field and its key perspectives this book is essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in mental health offered by criminology criminal justice sociology social work nursing and public policy departments. It will also be of interest to a wide range of mental health and criminal justice practitioners. | Mental Health and Offending Care Coercion and Control

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Spanish in Health Care Policy Practice and Pedagogy in Latino Health

Spanish in Health Care Policy Practice and Pedagogy in Latino Health

Spanish in Health Care fills an important gap by offering a panoramic overview of the research on Spanish in health settings that is emerging from a variety of disciplines. Synthesizing research from diverse disciplines such as sociolinguistics discourse analysis health services research behavioral health research health policy and administration and social epidemiology the volume offers a uniquely unified approach to the subject of Spanish in healthcare. This volume will be of interest to researchers in Spanish linguistics sociolinguistics health communication and languages for specific purposes. | Spanish in Health Care Policy Practice and Pedagogy in Latino Health

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Organisation Development in Health Care Strategic Issues in Health Care Management

Organisation Development in Health Care Strategic Issues in Health Care Management

This title was first published in 2002: Health systems across the globe face similar problems: controlling costs while maintaining or improving health care quality and access. Notwithstanding the unprecedented health system reforms of the past decades many outstanding problems remain in these areas. Drawing on experts from Europe and America this eclectic collection of leading edge research examines the impact of organizational development on improving quality and efficiency in health care. A series of chapters provide accounts of organizational reconfiguration in the UK and elsewhere. The contributors examine how structural and procedural changes must be matched by the development of human resource services if increases in efficiency and effectiveness are to be achieved. The book will be of interest to health care academics policy makers managers and practitioners who are interested in keeping abreast of the latest developments in health care research. | Organisation Development in Health Care Strategic Issues in Health Care Management

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Understanding Health Care in America Culture Capitalism and Communication

Understanding Health Care in America Culture Capitalism and Communication

This book examines the current state of American health care using a social science lens to focus on the interdependent intercultural economic and communication aspects of access and delivery. This text explores how the cultures of health care organizations health professions governments and capitalism as well as communication all contribute to a disease-focused economically driven technology-centered health care system. It seeks to understand 21st century health care from a macro-level view based on historical realizations and the current plethora of interdependent but self-serving realities that provide few if any incentives for organizational collaboration and change. The fact that the most expensive health care system in the world does not provide the healthiest outcomes is a driving force in this exploration. By reflecting on American values and beliefs regarding health care from philosophical clinical communication and cost perspectives this text is designed to encourage an organizational transformation at every level from government to providers to patients. This comprehensive survey is an important guide for those studying or working in health care professions as well as health care policy and administration. It should also be of interest to any reader who seeks to better understand U. S. health care policy from social science economic and/or health communication perspectives. | Understanding Health Care in America Culture Capitalism and Communication

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Systems Leadership in Health and Social Care

Systems Leadership in Health and Social Care

Most leadership development activity in health and social care has been intra-organisational or confined to a particular sector. However there is increasing recognition of the need to move beyond simple collaboration and partnership and work towards different models of care which involve addressing the whole health and social care system. This is particularly important when addressing complex and 'wicked' problems in a time of resource scarcity. This book provides a much-needed guide for individuals professionals and organisations making the shift towards working in radically different ways in this current climate. It provides a rationale for systems leadership describing the basic underlying principles behind it and their origins and explores the various aspects of it with particular emphasis on the development of systems leaders in health and social care. It also captures good practice which is illustrated by a number of case studies and suggests further reading on the topic. Combining theory with practice this book will be essential reading for those studying on courses in public service public policy health and social care as well as policymakers and professionals interested in honing best practice. | Systems Leadership in Health and Social Care

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Tackling Obesity and Overweight Matters in Health and Social Care

Tackling Obesity and Overweight Matters in Health and Social Care

This practical guide helps health or social care professionals across all settings to understand how important it is to prevent and manage their service users’ overweight and obesity and motivate them to achieve and maintain a healthy weight so reducing their risk of associated health conditions such as diabetes and now COVID-19. Obesity and associated health problems represent a growing health burden around the world with rates throughout Europe increasing sharply over the last forty years second only to the United States and closely followed by many nations in Asia. The book will be an invaluable manual for general practice primary care and community clinicians practice and community nurses and dietitians and a go-to reference for health professionals across all medical specialties and related support services as well as medical education public health and social care worker professionals. | Tackling Obesity and Overweight Matters in Health and Social Care

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Person-centred Health Care Balancing the Welfare of Clinicians and Patients

Person-centred Health Care Balancing the Welfare of Clinicians and Patients

Person-centred health care is increasingly endorsed as a key element of high-quality care yet in practice it often means patient-centred health care. This book scrutinizes the principle of primacy of patient welfare which although deeply embedded in health professionalism is long overdue for critical analysis and debate. It appears incontestable because patients have greater immediate health needs than clinicians and the patient-clinician encounter is often recognized as a moral enterprise as well as a service contract. However Buetow argues that the implication that clinician welfare is secondary can harm clinicians patients and health system performance. Revaluing participants in health care as moral equals this book advocates an ethic of virtue to respect the clinician as a whole person whose self-care and care from patients can benefit both parties because their moral interests intertwine and warrant equal consideration. It then considers how to move from values including moral equality in health care to practice for people in their particular situations. Developing a genuinely inclusive concept of person-centred care – accepting clinicians as moral equals – it also facilitates the coalescence of patient-centred care and evidence-based health care. This reflective and provocative work develops a constructive alternative to the taken-for-granted principle of primacy of patient welfare. It is of interest to students and academics in the health and caring sciences philosophy ethics medical humanities and health management. | Person-centred Health Care Balancing the Welfare of Clinicians and Patients

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Delivering Resilient Health Care

Delivering Resilient Health Care

Health care is under tremendous pressure regarding efficiency safety and economic viability. It has responded by adopting techniques that have been useful in other industries such as quality management lean production and high reliability – although with limited and all-too-often disappointing results. The Resilient Health Care Network (RHCN) has worked since 2011 to facilitate the interaction and collaboration among practitioners and researchers interested in applying concepts from resilience engineering to health care and patient safety. This has met with considerable success not least because the focus from the start was on developing concrete ways to complement a Safety-I perspective with a Safety-II perspective. Building on previous volumes Delivering Resilient Health Care presents documented experiences and practical guidance on how to bring Resilient Health Care into practice. It provides concrete advice on how to prepare a study how to choose the right data how to collect it how to analyse the data and how to interpret the results. This fourth book in the Resilient Healthcare series contains contributions from international experts in health care organisational studies and patient safety as well as resilience engineering. This book provides a practical guide for delivering resilient healthcare particularly for clinicians on the frontline of care unsure how to incorporate resilience into their everyday work managers coordinating care and for policymakers hoping to steer the system in the right direction. Other groups – patients the media and researchers – will also find much of interest here.

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Statistics and Health Care Fraud How to Save Billions

Statistics and Health Care Fraud How to Save Billions

Statistics and Health Care Fraud: How to Save Billions helps the public to become more informed citizens through discussions of real world health care examples and fraud assessment applications. The author presents statistical and analytical methods used in health care fraud audits without requiring any mathematical background. The public suffers from health care overpayments either directly as patients or indirectly as taxpayers and fraud analytics provides ways to handle the large size and complexity of these claims. The book starts with a brief overview of global healthcare systems such as U. S. Medicare. This is followed by a discussion of medical overpayments and assessment initiatives using a variety of real world examples. The book covers subjects as: • Description and visualization of medical claims data • Prediction of fraudulent transactions • Detection of excessive billings • Revealing new fraud patterns • Challenges and opportunities with health care fraud analytics Dr. Tahir Ekin is the Brandon Dee Roberts Associate Professor of Quantitative Methods in McCoy College of Business Texas State University. His previous work experience includes a working as a statistician on health care fraud detection. His scholarly work on health care fraud has been published in a variety of academic journals including International Statistical Review The American Statistician and Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry. He is a recipient of the Texas State University 2018 Presidential Distinction Award in Scholar Activities and the ASA/NISS y-Bis 2016 Best Paper Awards. He has developed and taught courses in the areas of business statistics optimization data mining and analytics. Dr. Ekin also serves as Vice President of the International Society for Business and Industrial Statistics. | Statistics and Health Care Fraud How to Save Billions

GBP 24.99
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Key Themes in Health and Social Care A Companion to Learning

Key Themes in Health and Social Care A Companion to Learning

This revised and expanded second edition of Key Themes in Health and Social Care is a learning resource for students in health and social care. It provides an overview of foundational issues and core themes in the field and introduces key areas of debate moving from an introductory level to in-depth discussion as the book progresses. Divided into three parts: the first part sets the scene addressing introductory psychology and sociology social policy equality and diversity skills for practice and working with people the second part considers key themes such as mental health and wellbeing; management of services; the relationship between place and wellbeing; research in health and social care; and person-centred interventions the third part looks at discrete areas of practice such as mental health; ageing leading and managing health and social care; working with vulnerable populations; and health promotion Each chapter begins with an outline of the content and learning outcomes and includes reflective exercises to allow students to reflect on what they have read review their learning and consolidate their understanding. Time-pressed readers wanting to ‘dip into’ the book for relevant areas can do so but read from cover to cover the book provides a comprehensive introduction to the key areas of contemporary health and social care practice. It will be particularly helpful for students undertaking health and social care undergraduate and foundation degrees. | Key Themes in Health and Social Care A Companion to Learning

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Who Knew? Inside the Complexity of American Health Care

Who Knew? Inside the Complexity of American Health Care

Despite all the writing and the research America’s health care industry continues to fail at providing health care that is accessible and affordable with measurable quality. The fundamental reason we have failed is that health care is not only a complex business but the most complex in our economy. Other industries are disrupted some readily adapt to new markets; some leverage information technology and innovative and cost-saving ways. But to date health care has resisted. The customary approaches tried in other industries seem not to apply to health care. Why? Why is the health care industry so politically divisive? Why is the quality of health care services so difficult to measure? Why do patients often fail to understand their own health care? Why are security and privacy such unique challenges in health care? Why is the payment process for health care services so complicated and challenging? This book seeks to answer these questions. This book written by a well know industry ‘insider’ with 35+ years working at senior levels in hospital operations and information technology discusses nine major factors that in combination contribute to health care’s complexity. The author concludes that until we understand why health is so complex we will continue to see books complaining about the poor state of health care in the U. S. and proposals for change that are generally unsuccessful and innovative technology products that fail to deliver expected results. | Who Knew? Inside the Complexity of American Health Care

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Developing Professional Practice in Health and Social Care

Developing Professional Practice in Health and Social Care

Addressing the changing world of professionalism this text combines theory research and practice using real case studies to investigate the process of becoming professional. Mapping the journey from allied or associate practitioner positions through qualifying and into advanced practitioner status it is a valuable companion for health and social care social work and allied health students from the beginning of their studies. Developing Professional Practice in Health and Social Care is an accessible text including case studies reflective exercises and activities chapter aims and summaries and further reading boxes throughout. It covers: the context for professional practice including historical perspectives policy and discussion of relevant competencies and frameworks the concept of professionalism exploring what it means to be a professional values and ethics underpinning professional practice professional identity development including formation and changes in identity professional practice in complex environments paying particular attention to working in organisations becoming a critical and globally aware practitioner the role of evidence and knowledge in professional practice working with supervision. Maintaining a strong focus on the ethical dimensions of professional practice this text emphasises how health and social care practitioners can contribute to social justice and challenge social exclusion.

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Military Veteran Psychological Health and Social Care Contemporary Issues

Military Veteran Psychological Health and Social Care Contemporary Issues

When servicewomen and men leave the armed forces their care transfers to the statutory and third sector where the quality and provision of services can vary enormously. This edited book encompassing a range of perspectives from service user to professional provides a comprehensive overview of services available. Each chapter in turn examines the policy underpinnings of systems and services covering the psychological health and social care of military veterans and then focuses on the needs of a discrete number of types of military veterans including early service leavers veterans in the criminal justice system older veterans and reservists together with the needs of the children of veterans’ families. This is the first UK book to examine the whole spectrum of contemporary approaches to the psychological health and social care of military veterans both in the United Kingdom and overseas. The book is edited by Professor Jamie Hacker Hughes a former head of healthcare psychology within the UK Ministry of Defence and all contributors are experts in policy service provision and academic research in this area. It will be of special interest to those designing and planning commissioning managing and delivering mental health and social care to military veterans and their families | Military Veteran Psychological Health and Social Care Contemporary Issues

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Narrative-Based Practice in Health and Social Care Conversations Inviting Change

Narrative-Based Practice in Health and Social Care Conversations Inviting Change

Narrative-Based Practice in Health and Social Care outlines a vision of how witnessing narratives paying attention to them and developing an ability to question them creatively can make the person’s emerging story the central focus of health and social care and of healing. This text gives an account of the practical application of ideas and skills from contemporary narrative studies to health and social care. Promoting narrative-based practice in everyday encounters with patients and clients and in supervision teaching teamwork and management it presents Conversations Inviting Change an established narrative-based model of interactional skills. Underpinned by an account of theory from narrative studies and related fields including communication theory and systems thinking it is written for students and practitioners across a broad range of professions in primary and secondary health care and social care. More information about Conversations Inviting Change is available at www. conversationsinvitingchange. com. This website includes podcasts presentations and further teaching material as well as details of forthcoming courses and is continually updated with information about the approach described in this book. | Narrative-Based Practice in Health and Social Care Conversations Inviting Change

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An Introduction to Language and Communication for Allied Health and Social Care Professions

An Introduction to Language and Communication for Allied Health and Social Care Professions

Bringing insights from linguistics to those without a background in this field An Introduction to Language and Communication for Allied Health and Social Care Professions enables readers to better appreciate the ways in which language functions simultaneously as an instrument to encode and communicate meaning build and sustain interpersonal relationships and express identity. Grounded in the understanding of language as a multifunctional interactional tool offered by sociolinguistics pragmatics and discourse analysis the book: Provides readers with well-grounded tools that they can use to inform their daily work as well as to reflect upon their own communicative practices and – where necessary – to improve them Features ‘discussion points’ in the form of questions suggestions for reflection and small analysis tasks throughout Contains end-of-chapter summaries and suggestions for further reading An Introduction to Language and Communication for Allied Health and Social Care Professions is ideal as a core or supplementary textbook for students on degrees in public health social work social care nursing and other allied health professions who are taking courses in communication. It is also an invaluable guide for qualified health and social care practitioners to support both their professional practice and their continuing professional development.

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Restrictive Practices in Health Care and Disability Settings Legal Policy and Practical Responses

Restrictive Practices in Health Care and Disability Settings Legal Policy and Practical Responses

This volume explores different models of regulating the use of restrictive practices in health care and disability settings. The authors examine the legislation policies inspection enforcement and accreditation of the use of practices such as physical mechanical and chemical restraint. They also explore the importance of factors such as organisational culture and staff training to the effective implementation of regulatory regimes. In doing so the collection provides a solid evidence base for both the development and implementation of effective approaches to restrictive practices that focus on their reduction and ultimately their elimination across health care sectors. Divided into five parts the volume covers new ground in multiple respects. First it addresses the use of restrictive practices across mental health disability and aged care settings creating opportunities for new insights and interdisciplinary conversations across traditionally siloed sectors. Second it includes contributions from research academics clinicians regulators and mental health consumers offering a rich and comprehensive picture of existing regulatory regimes and options for designing and implementing regulatory approaches that address the failings of current systems. Finally it incorporates comparative perspectives from Australia New Zealand the Netherlands Germany and England. The book is an invaluable resource for regulators policymakers lawyers clinicians consumer advocates and academics grappling with the use and regulation of restrictive practices in mental health disability and aged care contexts. | Restrictive Practices in Health Care and Disability Settings Legal Policy and Practical Responses

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Health and Social Care Research Methods in Context Applying Research to Practice

Health and Social Care Research Methods in Context Applying Research to Practice

This is the first textbook to show how research using a range of qualitative and quantitative methods relates to improving health and social care practice. The book shows how different research approaches are undertaken in practice and the challenges and strengths of different methodologies thus facilitating students to make informed decisions when choosing which to use in their own research projects. The eleven chapters are each structured around different research methods and include: A brief overview of the research and research question Identification and overview of the research approach and associated methods selected to answer this question The sample and recruitment including issues and challenges Ethical concerns Practical issues in undertaking the research approach Links between the research process and findings to health and social care values Links to the full research study Further reading The book will be a required reading for all students of social work; social care; nursing; public health and health studies and particularly suitable for those on widening participation courses. | Health and Social Care Research Methods in Context Applying Research to Practice

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Principles and Practice of Health Promotion and Public Health

Principles and Practice of Health Promotion and Public Health

Principles and Practice of Health Promotion and Public Health brings together the disciplines and fields of study that inform the work of promoting health into one book and provides many examples of practice. It starts with understanding ourselves and our health and continues with chapters on working in health promotion and public health; epidemiology; research methods and evidence-based practice; health psychology; communicating health; health education; health promotion; public health; health protection; arts and health; tackling tobacco alcohol and drugs; tackling overweight; promoting health in workplaces and promoting health within the National Health Service. Together these communicate the core principles of how to prevent disease and promote health when working with individuals communities and populations in any country across the world. The book focusses on adults’ health and includes international and UK examples. Principles and Practice of Health Promotion and Public Health complements Priorities for Health Promotion and Public Health published in 2021. Both are core texts for those studying health promotion or public health and supplementary texts for students of healthcare and social care. They are ideal for public health practitioners and members of the wider public health workforce.

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Religion Aging and Health A Global Perspective: Compiled by the World Health Organization

Religion Aging and Health A Global Perspective: Compiled by the World Health Organization

This book first published in 1989 attempts to identify from within religious cultures those elements of tradition behaviour and lifestyle that are health protective in that by adhering to them physical mental and social wellbeing will be maintained as people grow old. It examines how different faith traditions view aging and its impact on health. | Religion Aging and Health A Global Perspective: Compiled by the World Health Organization

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Constructions of Health and Illness European Perspectives

Constructions of Health and Illness European Perspectives

This volume provides a comparative European overview focusing upon the main areas of social construction as it relates to health and illness. This includes an emphasis upon lay beliefs and the different way understandings of health can impact upon health behaviour. The contributors also examine health knowledge and the interaction and comparison between lay and professional knowledge systems. The book will be of particular interest to those studying researching and working in the fields of health and the sociology of health and the body. | Constructions of Health and Illness European Perspectives

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