Leadership in Health and Social Care: An Introduction for Emerging Leaders
The aim of <i>Leadership in Health and Social Care</i> is to raise awareness, knowledge and understanding of leadership issues. Suitable for all those studying or working in the health and...
View ArticleDiabetes Care Guide (Speedy Study Guide)
Being diagnosed with diabetes has to be one of the hardest things a person can go through in life. Their life is turned upside down and they find themselves sinking under pressure. A diabetes care...
View ArticleHow to Get Sick and Stay Sick
This book describes how bad habits contribute to ill health. The habits the author refers to that so negatively impact patients by leading to significant illness and mortality, include the...
View ArticleThe Personalized Medicine Revolution: How Diagnosing and Treating Disease Are...
Every one of us is unique. With recent advances in technology, we now know that that statement is more true that ever: we are each individuals, right down to a molecular level — a...
View ArticleThe History and Practice of College Health
This volume is the first definitive reference and textbook in the one-hundred-fifty year history of college health. Written for professionals and for those working in student services and higher...
View ArticleHealthcare Reform, Quality and Safety: Perspectives, Participants,...
The first of its kind, here is a compendium of the current 'state of the art' in global healthcare reform. It looks at the ways reforms have developed in 30 countries, and specifically the impact...
View ArticleCritical Social Theory in Public Administration
The essential premise of critical social theory is that contemporary society is neither democratic nor free, but that modern global capitalism creates a citizenry satiated with consumer goods, unaware...
View ArticleAdvertising, Promotion, and New Media
Today, new media enter our lives faster than ever before. This volume provides a complete, state-of-the-art overview of the newest media technologies and how they can be used in marketing...
View ArticleThe Transformation of Academic Health Centers: Meeting the Challenges of...
<p><i>The Transformation of Academic Health Centers: The Institutional Challenge to Improve Health and Well-Being in Healthcare's Changing Landscape</i> presents the direct knowledge...
View ArticleHealthcare Delivery Reform and New Technologies: Organizational Initiatives
Healthcare delivery reform initiatives focus on improving the quality of patient care while also increasing the efficiency of existing healthcare programs. Healthcare Delivery Reform and New...
View ArticleManaging Information in Complex Organizations: Semiotics and Signals,...
This seminal work presents an effective design for processing information through five stages from data to actionable knowledge in order to influence behavior within organizations. The authors...
View ArticleThe Encyclopedia of Civil Liberties in America
Driven by the growing reality of international terrorism, the threats to civil liberties and individual rights in America are greater today than at any time since the McCarthy era in the 1950s. At this...
View ArticleRyan House: In the Heart of Phoenix
In the Heart of Phoenix was written to share the possibility of your community being able to create a sustainable model of world-class caregiving that provides respite, palliative and hospice care for...
View ArticleInside Canada's secret world of medical error
<p>Misdiagnosed illnesses. Botched medical procedures. Medical instruments forgotten inside surgical patients. All of this is happening, every day, in healthcare institutions across...
View ArticleA Death Retold: Jesica Santillan, the Bungled Transplant, and Paradoxes of...
In February 2003, an undocumented immigrant teen from Mexico lay dying in a prominent American hospital due to a stunning medical oversight--she had received a heart-lung transplantation of the wrong...
View ArticleWorried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America
Nortin Hadler's clearly reasoned argument surmounts the cacophony of the health care debate. Hadler urges everyone to ask health care providers how likely it is that proposed treatments will afford...
View ArticleModern Food, Moral Food: Self-Control, Science, and the Rise of Modern...
American eating changed dramatically in the early twentieth century. As food production became more industrialized, nutritionists, home economists, and so-called racial scientists were all pointing...
View ArticleThe Privacy Papers: Managing Technology, Consumer, Employee and Legislative...
Today, more than ever, organizations have to cope with increased concerns regarding privacy issues. These concerns are not limited to consumer fears about how information collected by Web sites will be...
View ArticleHealthcare Information Systems, Second Edition
The move to manage medicine from a financial perspective, i.e. managed care, has added huge layers of bureaucratic and administrative functions to healthcare. The need to have the ability to track...
View ArticleBusiness Principles for Legal Nurse Consultants
Being a Legal Nurse Consultant is your calling. You love what you do. You are ready to go into practice for yourself. You have the education, the drive, and the ability - but is that really enough to...
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