Health Care Resource Book
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means
Publisher :
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 47,58 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Rationing and Resource Allocation in Healthcare
Author : Ezekiel J. Emanuel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 569 pages
File Size : 41,55 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Law
ISBN : 0190200766
Book Description
Budgets of governments and private insurances are limited. Not all drugs and services that appear beneficial to patients or physicians can be covered. Is there a core set of benefits that everyone should be entitled to? If so, how should this set be determined? Are fair decisions just impossible, if we know from the outset than not all needs can be met? While early work in bioethics has focused on clinical issues and a narrow set of principles, in recent years there has been a marked shift towards addressing broader population-level issues, requiring consideration of more demanding theories in philosophy, political science, and economics. At the heart of bioethics' new orientation is the goal of clarity on a complex set of questions in rationing and resource allocation. Rationing and Resource Allocation in Healthcare: Essential Readings provides key excerpts from seminal and pertinent texts and case studies about these topics, contextualized by original introductions. The volume is divided into three broad sections: Conceptual Distinctions and Ethical Theory; Rationing; and Resource Allocation. Containing the most important and classic articles surrounding the theoretical and practical issues related to rationing and how to allocate scare medical resources, this collection aims to assist and inform those who wish to be a part of bioethics' 21st century shift including practitioners and policy-makers, and students and scholars in the health sciences, philosophy, law, and medical ethics.
Guidelines for Women's Health Care
Author : American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
Publisher : American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists Women's Health Care Physicians
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 16,49 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781932328356
Book Description
Helps readers understand the principles of health care and management for diverse types of delivery systems and the role of ob-gyns and other providers in hospital and office practice.
Supporting Students with Special Health Care Needs
Author : Stephanie Porter
Publisher : Brookes Publishing Company
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,64 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781598570632
Book Description
"This hands-on reference helps school nurses, teachers, parents, school administrators, and health aides provide crucial care and support. Education-specific chapters cover every aspect of planning for classrooms, including information on personnel roles, transitions from early childhood care to school and from school to adulthood, legal requirements, transportation issues, allergy and infection control considerations, and working with diverse families. Comprehensive daily care guidelines and emergency-response techniques are then included for specific health conditions and medical technologies, complete with extensive illustrations, as well as forms and checklists for organized record keeping, training, and program planning. All content has been reviewed by experts across the country. This groundbreaking book has been used as a reference tool in schools and school nurses' offices, and even as a curriculum for universities. It is a must for anyone who works with children with special health care needs"--Provided by publisher.
Health Care Off the Books
Author : Danielle T. Raudenbush
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,47 MB
Release : 2020-02-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0520305620
Book Description
Millions of low-income African Americans in the United States lack access to health care. How do they treat their health care problems? In Health Care Off the Books, Danielle T. Raudenbush provides an answer that challenges public perceptions and prior scholarly work. Informed by three and a half years of fieldwork in a public housing development, Raudenbush shows how residents who face obstacles to health care gain access to pharmaceutical drugs, medical equipment, physician reference manuals, and insurance cards by mobilizing social networks that include not only their neighbors but also local physicians. However, membership in these social networks is not universal, and some residents are forced to turn to a robust street market to obtain medicine. For others, health problems simply go untreated. Raudenbush reconceptualizes U.S. health care as a formal-informal hybrid system and explains why many residents who do have access to health services also turn to informal strategies to treat their health problems. While the practices described in the book may at times be beneficial to people’s health, they also have the potential to do serious harm. By understanding this hybrid system, we can evaluate its effects and gain new insight into the sources of social and racial disparities in health outcomes.
Cultural Issues in Health and Health Care
Author : Adele Tjale
Publisher : Juta and Company Ltd
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 43,28 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Africa, Southern
ISBN : 9780702163999
Book Description
Spirituality, economics, politics, and kinship are among the cultural factors considered in this guide to transcultural nursing, an area of healthcare that incorporates the values, beliefs, and lifestyle choices of a patient in order to provide culturally congruent, competent, and compassionate care.
Approach to Internal Medicine
Author : David Hui
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 34,66 MB
Release : 2011-01-15
Category : Medical
ISBN : 144196505X
Book Description
Feedback from users suggest this resource book is more comprehensive and more practical than many others in the market. One of its strengths is that it was written by trainees in internal medicine who understand the need for rapid access to accurate and concise clinical information, with a practical approach to clinical problem solving.
The Health Care Data Guide
Author : Lloyd P. Provost
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 47,17 MB
Release : 2011-12-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1118085884
Book Description
The Health Care Data Guide is designed to help students and professionals build a skill set specific to using data for improvement of health care processes and systems. Even experienced data users will find valuable resources among the tools and cases that enrich The Health Care Data Guide. Practical and step-by-step, this book spotlights statistical process control (SPC) and develops a philosophy, a strategy, and a set of methods for ongoing improvement to yield better outcomes. Provost and Murray reveal how to put SPC into practice for a wide range of applications including evaluating current process performance, searching for ideas for and determining evidence of improvement, and tracking and documenting sustainability of improvement. A comprehensive overview of graphical methods in SPC includes Shewhart charts, run charts, frequency plots, Pareto analysis, and scatter diagrams. Other topics include stratification and rational sub-grouping of data and methods to help predict performance of processes. Illustrative examples and case studies encourage users to evaluate their knowledge and skills interactively and provide opportunity to develop additional skills and confidence in displaying and interpreting data. Companion Web site: www.josseybass.com/go/provost
The Church Leader's Counseling Resource Book
Author : Cynthia Franklin Ph.D.
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 32,76 MB
Release : 2011-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 019983153X
Book Description
This all-in-one guide is designed to better equip clergy and the church leaders to meet their congregations' needs in a spiritually grounded and scientifically sound manner. Succinct, easy-to-read chapters summarize all a pastor needs to know about a given problem area, including its signs or symptoms, questions to ask, effective helping skills, and, most importantly, when to refer to a mental health professional. Synthesizing what research says about treatment approaches for mental health issues, this user-friendly reference is filled with guidelines, case scenarios, key points to remember, resources for further help, advice on integrating scripture and theology with the best available research, and tips on partnering with others to provide the best possible care for each church member. Each chapter is designed for quick lookup by problem area, empowering church leaders to understand and help meet the challenges facing the children, adults, families, and communities that they serve.
Tracking Resources For Primary Health Care: A Framework And Practices In Low- And Middle-income Countries
Author : Hong Wang
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 47,50 MB
Release : 2020-06-03
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9811212422
Book Description
The global health community is broadly in agreement that achievement of the health-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) hinges upon both an escalation of the financial resources dedicated to primary health care (PHC) and a more effective use of those resources: more money, better spent. This book introduces and explicates the end-to-end resource tracking and management (RTM) framework, which includes five components that determine effective and efficient financing for PHC: resource mobilization, allocation, utilization, productivity, and targeting.In addition, this book compiles detailed results from the most recent RTM-based resource tracking efforts for PHC in selected countries. This is to demonstrate how the RTM framework can be used to bring a set of separate resource tracking efforts at different stages of flow of funds into a comprehensive process with an end-to-end 'storyline'. In order to build a functional PHC system that addresses access, quality, and equity issues, this book highlights the key (public) financing issues that researchers, technical advisors, and policy makers would need to address in addition to more resources.
