Monitoring health system performance in Peru (OECD reviews of health systems)
Counselling in HIV Infection and AIDS
This practical handbook seeks to provide all the information that psychologists working in this difficult area require to counsel patients with AIDS or the HIV (AIDS virus) infection. Each chapter of the book is written by a recognised team of international experts and owing to the international nature of the authors, different approaches to the problem in different geographical areas may be analyzed and compared. The book aims to cover a sufficiently wide range of issues to enable readers to fi...
International Behavioural and Social Sciences Library
The Tavistock Institute holds a unique place in the development of the social and behavioural sciences. Established in 1947 the focus of the organization has always been on the study of human relations in the context of the family, the work group and the larger organization. Constantly innovative, the Institute has been a pioneer of such key methodologies as group dynamics, action-research and organizational development.Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Instit...
A. Anthropology
Anthropological observations on mankind have been instrumental in the development of the behavioural and social sciences. The Tavistock Press published many key works in this area and, reprinted here, is a selection of those titles which helped to inform further research into the study of human relations. Titles include the classic work Man in Africa, edited by Mary Douglas and Phyllis M. Kaberry, which provides challenges of far-reaching significance to the study of anthropology as a whole. Oth...
Health Care Labor - Management Relations
by Robert D Gray and John E Johnson
Working in Teams (Better Partnership Working)
by Kim Jelphs, Helen Dickinson, Robin Miller, and Lynn Markiewicz
Teamworking is represented as playing a central role in the improvement of health and social care. However, it is mentioned so often, with so many different promises, that there is danger of it being seen as misguided rhetoric rather than practical reality. Although, in theory, working in teams sounds easy, doing it in practice within the complex systems today's practitioners are faced with is incredibly difficult, complicated and often frustrating. This accessible text introduces a range of th...
Health and Mortality
You Bet Your Life! The Top 10 Reasons You Need a Professional Patient Advocate by Your Side (You Bet Your Life Books)
by Trisha Torrey
Medicare Matters (California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public, #14)
by Christine Cassel
Savvy, comprehensive, and authoritative, this book, written by a physician with more than thirty years' experience caring for elderly patients, assesses the current state and the future prospects of Medicare, perhaps the most influential health care program of our time. Christine K. Cassel draws upon the latest developments in science and medicine in a sweeping analysis of Medicare's social, demographic, institutional, political, and policy contexts. Writing in accessible language, using case st...
Migrant Health and Resilience
by Peter H Koehn, Phyllis Bo-Yuen Ngai, Diana M. Diaków, and Juha I Uitto
In an era of escalating conflict- and climate-induced migration and cross-border interaction, transnational-competency (TC) preparation for displaced persons, members of their host communities, humanitarian responders, and health-care professionals is increasingly critical. Building on insights from those engaged with a range of humanitarian crises and global-justice contexts along with multidisciplinary-research findings, this cutting-edge volume provides practical guidelines for preparing stak...
Social Work (Student Social Work)
What are the key ideas that underpin social work practice? This inspiring Reader brings together some of the most significant ideas which have informed social work practice over the last forty years. Exploring these fundamental ideas, the book includes commentaries that allow the reader to understand the texts on their own terms as well as to be aware of their relations to each other and to the wider social work context. An accessible introduction contextualises the reader, summarising the ma...
In the summer of 1964 medical professionals, mostly white and northern, organized the Medical Committee for Human Rights (MCHR) to provide care and support for civil rights activists organizing black voters in Mississippi. They left their lives and lucrative private practices to march beside and tend the wounds of demonstrators from Freedom Summer, the March on Selma, and the Chicago Democratic Convention of 1968. Galvanized and sometimes radicalized by their firsthand view of disenfranchised co...
Beginning in Tanzania in 1980, the story tells of carole Baker's triumph over Hodgkin's Disease. Originally form Leicester, Carole and her family lived in Dar-es-Salaam while her husband Nick completed an overseas contrat. An avid ornithologist, Nick fell in love with another woman who shared his interest and eventually confessed his affair to Carole who was naturally devastated. Carole had just discovered some lumps in her neck. The swollen lymph nodes were diagnosed to be the tumours of Hodgk...
This introductory textbook illustrates how political and social theory is applied to social policy. The theoretical material is related directly to examples to highlight its importance in practice.
The debate about health care reform has gone on for many years. The debate has generated often innovative ideas for reform that transcend national boundaries. For example, proposals have been made for an extension of health insurance with a framework of social protection; progressive development of funding methods; controls on expenditure; bringing benefits into line with what is actually needed; and the application of technological advances. The book concentrates on health insurance policy inn...