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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.

GBP 34.99
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The Economics of Health and Health Care

The Economics of Health and Health Care

Folland Goodman and Stano’s bestselling The Economics of Health and Health Care text offers the market-leading overview of all aspects of Health Economics teaching through core economic themes rather than concepts unique to the health care economy. The Eighth Edition of this key textbook has been revised and updated throughout and reflects changes since the implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). In addition to its revised treatment of health insurance the text also introduces the key literature on social capital as it applies to individual and public health as well as looking at public health initiatives relating to population health and economic equity and comparing numerous policies across Western countries China and the developing world. It provides up-to-date discussions on current issues as well as a comprehensive bibliography with over 1 100 references. Extra material and teaching resources are now also available through the brand new companion website which provides full sets of discussion questions exercises presentation slides and a test bank. This book demonstrates the multiplicity of ways in which economists analyze the health care system and is suitable for courses in Health Economics Health Policy/Systems or Public Health taken by health services students or practitioners.

GBP 170.00
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Ethical Health Care

Ethical Health Care

Offering a format that is significantly different than that offered by other books Ethical Health Care beings by asking what is meant by health and how it is achieved. The book then proceeds to explore with care and context the nature of the relationship between patients and clinicians health care providers and the societies in which they inhabit and finally the relationship between the health care enterprise and the international community. By emphasizing the ethical issues that arise in the broad quest to foster human health and appreciating that health is not primarily a function of medical interventions Ethical Health Care introduces students to problems such as the international distribution of pharmaceuticals and the dangers of reemerging infections. To a far greater extent than is done traditionally Ethical Health Care provides an interdisciplinary perspective to bioethics relying heavily upon the teachings of economics law and public health.

GBP 175.00
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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

GBP 35.99
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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

GBP 38.99
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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

GBP 29.99
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Health Care Policy and Practice A Biopsychosocial Perspective

Health Care Policy and Practice A Biopsychosocial Perspective

In Health Care Policy and Practice: A Biopsychosocial Perspective Moniz and Gorin guide students through the development of the American health care system: what it is what the policies are and how students can influence them. Part I focuses on recent history and reforms; Part II examines the system’s structure and policies; and Part III explores policy analysis and advocacy and disparities in health based on demographics and inequities in access to care. The book concludes with a discussion of the impact of social factors on health and health status. This new fifth edition has been fully updated to include the Trump administration’s efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and to integrate content throughout the text on the impact of the ACA in recent years. In addition new content on health disparities for the LGBTQ community has been added. | Health Care Policy and Practice A Biopsychosocial Perspective

GBP 68.99
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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

GBP 36.99
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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

GBP 36.99
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Quality and Regulation in Health Care International Experiences

Quality and Regulation in Health Care International Experiences

First published in 1992 Quality and Regulation in Health Care employs socio-legal ideas concerning regulation to examine the methods used to influence the quality of health care in the US UK and Western Europe. Throughout the Western world health care systems both public and private are grappling with the problems of assuring quality while containing costs. On the one hand governments and insurers argue that there must be some limit to the apparently endless growth of health care expenditures. On the other patient groups and consumer advocates already dissatisfied by the problems in holding doctors accountable for their actions protest that such limits must not result in sick people getting inferior treatment. This book examines in detail the debate surrounding the question: How can the professional expertise of the clinicians be reconciled with the preferences of their patients and the economic concerns of taxpayers or insurers? It will be essential reading for graduate and undergraduate courses in health policy medical sociology and health law. | Quality and Regulation in Health Care International Experiences

GBP 85.00
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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

GBP 31.99
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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

GBP 39.99
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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.

GBP 35.99
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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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Cultural Awareness in Nursing and Health Care An Introductory Text

Cultural Awareness in Nursing and Health Care An Introductory Text

This introductory textbook relates theory to practice and enhances students' learning and understanding of cultural issues that impact on patient care and their own practice as nurses while considering wider social and political issues. Now in its third edition Cultural Awareness in Nursing and Health Care has been updated to include new research evidence and a completely new chapter focusing on the health care workforce itself and the issues it’s facing. Other topics include: Health illness and religious beliefs; Mental health and culture; Women’s and men’s health in a multicultural society; Caring for the elderly; Death and bereavement. Key features: Includes international perspectives and issues relating to overseas nurses studying and working in the UK; Case studies reflective exercises summary boxes and website links designed to stimulate discussion and shared practice; Fully updated with guidelines for practice and education. | Cultural Awareness in Nursing and Health Care An Introductory Text

GBP 44.99
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Behavioral and Mental Health Care Policy and Practice A Biopsychosocial Perspective

Behavioral and Mental Health Care Policy and Practice A Biopsychosocial Perspective

Cynthia Moniz and Stephen Gorin’s Behavioral and Mental Health Care Policy and Practice: A Biopyschosocial Perspective is a new mental health policy textbook that offers students a model for understanding policy in a framework that addresses policy practice. Edited to read like a textbook each chapter is written by experts on an aspect of mental health policy. The book contains two parts: Part I chronicles and analyzes the evolution of mental health policy; Part II analyzes current policy and teaches students to engage in policy practice issues in different settings and with diverse populations. | Behavioral and Mental Health Care Policy and Practice A Biopsychosocial Perspective

GBP 77.99
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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

GBP 32.99
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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

GBP 24.99
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Personal Safety for Health Care Workers

Personal Safety for Health Care Workers

This book is aimed at employers managers and professional and administrative staff in the health care services. GP practices home visits and the hospital are all covered. Despite growing evidence of violence against health care workers some employers have been slow to acknowledge the risks faced in both primary and secondary health care settings. Personal Safety for Health Care Workers provides the tools to investigate the risks involved and to develop policy and practice to ensure staff safety. It also deals with the vexed question of under-reporting. Part I deals with the respective roles and responsibilities of employers and employees and offers guidance on developing a workplace personal safety policy. Workplace design and management are addressed and guidelines provided for health care workers when away from their normal work base. Part 2 gives detailed guidelines for use by individual workers in a variety of work situations. Part 3 considers training issues and contains a number of sample training programmes with handouts. The message of this book is that prevention is better than cure - proper attention to risk can reduce both the incidence of aggression and its development into violent acts. The aim is to achieve the dual effect of protecting health care workers and also of providing services in a more sensitive way. Good practice implies a responsibility to ensure that health care can be delivered in conditions of safety for staff and patients alike.

GBP 175.00
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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.

GBP 38.99
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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

GBP 39.99
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Palliative Care within Mental Health Ethical Practice

Palliative Care within Mental Health Ethical Practice

Palliative Care Within Mental Health: Ethical Practice explores the comprehensive concerns and dilemmas that occur surrounding people experiencing mental health problems and disorders. Working beyond narrow stereotypical definitions of palliative care as restricted to terminal cancer patients this balanced and thought-provoking volume examines the many interrelated issues that face the individual families and caregivers setting the groundwork for improved ethical relationships and interventions. Chapters by experts and experienced practitioners detail the challenges concerns and best practices for ethical care and responses in a variety of individual and treatment contexts. This is an essential and thoughtful new resource for all those involved in the fast-developing field of palliative mental health. | Palliative Care within Mental Health Ethical Practice

GBP 46.99
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