Community Health Workers
by H. K. Heggenhougen, etc., Patrick Vaughan, Eustace P. Y. Muhondwa, and J. Rutabanzibwa-Ngaiza
The last twenty years have seen a great upsurge of interest in the role of community health workers (CHWs) as an essential element in the provision of primary health care throughout the developing world. Tanzania has supported a programme of primary care involving CHWs since 1969. This book, based upon extensive surveys and interviews carried out by the authors in the period 1980-83, details the successes and shortcomings of the programme, and the way the lessons learned will be applied in the f...
The Harvard Medical School Guide to Men's Health assembles into a single volume a quarter-century's worth of hard-won knowledge about men's health -- knowledge that men need to lead longer, healthier lives. More than twenty-five years ago, researchers at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health began what have become the largest aggregate studies ever of men's health. Tracking 96,000 American men over decades, these studies provide the ultimate resource on what keeps men...
Ideologies of Caring (Women in Society: A Feminist List)
by Gillian Dalley
What Risk?
Cross-cultural Caring
As western Canada's immigrant population increases, health care and social service workers are recognizing the importance of greater awareness of the particular needs of these patients in order to provide culturally sensitive and effective treatment programs. This handbook describes several recent immigrant groups in western Canada, among them Vietnamese, South and Southeast Asians, Chinese, Japanese, Central Americans, West Indians, and Iranians. It is unique in its approach as it provides info...
The updated third edition of the definitive text on health social work Thoroughly revised and updated, the third edition of Handbook of Health Social Work is an authoritative text that offers a comprehensive review of the diverse field of health social work. With contributions from a panel of international experts in the field, the book is theory driven and solidly grounded in evidence-based practice. The contributors explore both the foundation of social work practice and offer guidance on effe...
Health Counseling: A Microskills Approach for Counselors, Educators, and School Nurses
by Richard Blonna, Janice Loschiavo, and Dan Watter
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...
Work Stress Induced Chronic Diseases in Construction (Spon Research)
by Imriyas Kamardeen
This book aims to fill a gap in the current construction health and safety research and discover new knowledge about work stress induced chronic diseases among construction industry professionals. In achieving these aims, the book investigates: the nature and extent of psychosocial stressors experienced by construction professionals, stress management tactics applied and the impact on mental health the prevalence and occurrence patterns of serious chronic conditions such as insomnia, obesity, mu...
Improving Access and Efficiency in Public Health Services
by Nirupam Bajpai, Jeffrey D. Sachs, and Professor of Economics Ravindra H Dholakia
Interpersonal Issues in Health Care
Ausgehend von einigen historischen und theoretischen Ausfuhrungen zum systemischen Charakter des Gesundheitswesens werden die unterschiedlichen Reformbestrebungen in Krankenhausern dargestellt. Hierbei werden die durch OEkonomisierung bedingten Reformen, verbunden mit geanderten rechtlichen und gesellschaftlichen Bedingungen, ebenso betrachtet wie die strukturell und funktional orientierten Reformansatze im Innenverhaltnis der Krankenhauser. Die Reformen im Pflegeprozess sind Ausgangspunkt fur e...
Social Work Practice in Healthcare
by Dr Allen and Dr 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...
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...
In this provocative book, Sylvia Tesh shows how ""politics masquerades as science"" in the debates over the causes and prevention of disease.Tesh argues that ideas about the causes of disease which dominate policy at any given time or place are rarely determined by scientific criteria alone. The more critical factors are beliefs about how much government can control industry, who should take risks when scientists are uncertain, and whether the individual or society has the ultimate respon...