Health Care for Single Homeless People
by Sandra Williams and Isobel Allen
The Community Health Worker
Social Work Practice in Healthcare
by Karen Marie-Neuman Allen and William J. Spitzer
This pragmatic and comprehensive book helps readers develop the knowledge, skills, and values necessary for effective health care social work practice, as well as an understanding of the technological, social, political, ethical, and financial factors affecting contemporary patient care. Packed with case studies and exercises, the book emphasizes the importance of being attentive to both patient and organizational needs, covers emerging trends in health care policy and delivery, provides extensi...
This full-colour textbook provideds comprehensive support for the new Vocational GCSE in Health and Social Care. Contents: Introduction / Health, social care and early years provision / Promoting health and well-being / Understanding personal development and relationships
All hands on deck (Africa development forum)
by Emmanuel Skoufias, Katja Vinha, and Ryoko Sato
In Sub-Saharan Africa, the scale of undernutrition is staggering; 58 million children under the age of five are too short for their age (stunted), and 14 million weigh too little for their height (wasted). Poor diets in terms of diversity, quality, and quantity, combined with illness and poor water and sanitation facilities, are linked with deficiencies of micronutrients - such as iodine, vitamin A, and iron - associated with growth, development, and immune function. In the short term, inequ...
"THIS BOOK WILL SAVE YOUR LIFE!" — NEWSMAX In WHAT YOUR DOCTOR WON'T TELL YOU: The Real Reasons You Don't Feel Good and What YOU Can Do About It, Dr. Sherer provides readers with verifiable information about current medicine, healthcare and relevant public policy so they can make their own best judgments as to whether a change in their behavior will, if they are inclined, effect a positive change in your life. He strips away the veneer of political correctness when it comes to health and provide...
Investing in Gold Mine Houses: How to Uncover a Fortune Fixing Small Ugly Houses and Apartments
by Jay P Decima
Social Work in Health Settings
by Judith L.M. McCoyd and Toba Schwaber Kerson
Social Work in Health Settings: Practice in Context maintains its use of the Practice in Context (PiC) decision-making framework to explore a wide range of social work services in health care settings. The PIC framework is used to cover a broad range of social work practice sites, settings and populations over 30 case chapters. Fully updated to reflect the landscape of health care provision in the US since the Affordable Care Act was passed, the cases are grounded by ‘primer’ chapters to illust...
Primary care is the new frontier for preventing suicide and Bryan and Rudd are its pioneers, offering wisdom and guidance based on their experience in bridging behavioral health care to the primary health care setting. This is a truly significant reference. Lanny Berman, PhD, ABPP Executive Director, American Association of Suicidology President, International Association for Suicide Prevention In their pragmatic and useful book titled Managing Suicide Risk in Primary Care, Bryan and Rudd provid...
Globalization and Health (International Studies in Sociology and Social Anthropology, #95)
This international collection of essays on globalization and health examines the global health issues associated with the economic, technological, political, social, cultural and environmental effects of globalization—the increasing movement of capital, people, technology, goods, information, environmental pollution, and disease around the globe. These essays analyze the complex linkages between globalization and health, the health effects of globalization at all levels (global, national, and lo...
Taking us to the cutting edge of the new field of scientific wellness, a visionary biotechnologist and pathbreaking researcher in systems-based personalized medicine show how we can optimize our health in ways that were previously unimaginable.We are on the cusp of a paradigm shift in health care. At the leading edge of this new frontier of medicine, major diseases are being challenged in fresh and unexpected ways. Using predictive technologies, applied immunotherapy, and genomically informed, t...
Risk Assessment and Management at Deseret Chemical Depot and the Tooele Chemical Agent Disposal Facility
South African Case-study on Social Exclusion
by Laetitia Rispel, Boitumelo Molomo, and Sellinah Dumela
Social exclusion is a dynamic, multi-dimensional phenomenon. Driven by unequal power relationships, it works to exclude groups of people in particular contexts from engaging fully in community or social life. Many of South Africa's post-apartheid policies and programmes have been directed at correcting historical injustices responsible for social exclusion, yet inequalities remain rampant.Based on a review of local and international literature on the social determinants of health and on intervie...
In the legendary book, Reengineering the Corporation, Jim Champy and Michael Hammer showed business people around the world the enormous power of a revolutionary methodology that they called reengineering. Reengineering was a method for retooling the processes that make up a business. Reengineering could lead, and did lead, many companies to change their business practices for dramatic cost savings and greater customer satisfaction and value. A reengineering wave ensued around the world, and las...