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One focus of every hospital case management department or utilization management team is patient length of stay (LOS). H......more
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"This was avoidable. These are unnecessary deaths. It’s not a ’war’. This is a health crisis. This is systemic negligenc......more
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Traumatic brain injuries (TBI) affect millions of Americans each year, causing symptoms that can be debilitating and lon......more
The first book on m-health in developing countries, this volume is a comprehensive guide to the design and evaluation of......more
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The current available books and literature that shed light on health policies in many African countries are limited. Tra......more
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Proven solutions to transform a healthcare system in crisis Part biography and part clear-eyed examination of a healthca......more
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A National Academies committee was tasked with identifying essential health care services for women related to intimate ......more
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This comprehensive textbook provides occupational therapy and science students and practitioners with a complete overvie......more
This comprehensive textbook provides occupational therapy and science students and practitioners with a complete overvie......more
This book is a go-to guide for all families seeking trustworthy information about the science and safety of vaccines. Pa......more
Marking its 25th anniversary, this fascinating collection examines the pioneering work of the National Institute for Hea......more
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This comprehensive textbook provides students with an accessible overview of both the key concepts and practical skills ......more
Introducing Pharmacology provides an accessible and comprehensive introduction to pharmacology for nursing and healthcar......more
Introducing Pharmacology provides an accessible and comprehensive introduction to pharmacology for nursing and healthcar......more
This book examines the relationship between media and medicine. Drawing on insights from anthropology, linguistics, and ......more
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This book provides a detailed view of public nutrition and health. It discusses the various statistical tools and their ......more
What does it mean to become a sound mind in a healthy body and harmonious environment? This engaging introduction to the......more
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In highlighting how a WHO Public Health Approach (PHA) has been successfully used in developing countries to provide HIV......more
Supporting readers to perform effectively in urgent or emergency situations that can occur in a hospital, at a birth cen......more
Supporting readers to perform effectively in urgent or emergency situations that can occur in a hospital, at a birth cen......more
Available Open Access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. The proportion of employees with caring responsibilities is g......more
This important book draws together new research and theories about bereavement, on the one hand, and men and masculiniti......more
Federated Learning is currently an emerging technology in the field of machine learning. Federated Learning is a structu......more
This is an essential guide for all health and social work practitioners supporting an increasing number of learners, tra......more
This is an essential guide for all health and social work practitioners supporting an increasing number of learners, tra......more
Originally published in 1979, this book presents a coherent body of information on the inter-relation between nutrition,......more
Originally published in 1977, this book explored some of the major problems besetting the Health Service during the seco......more
Originally published in 1981, this comprehensive volume is intended for medical economists, clinical pharmacologists, ph......more
Digital methods in healthcare research have been steadily gaining ground but, until recently, were superseded by convent......more
Digital methods in healthcare research have been steadily gaining ground but, until recently, were superseded by convent......more
Originally published in 1980, this book explores how the NHS confronts perennial stresses and problems, considering in p......more
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Originally published in 1986, this book discusses issues such as social class differences in health; the effect of unemp......more
Originally published in 1981 and edited by a pioneer in psychogeriatric services, this book spans medicine, psychiatry, ......more
John A. Ryle has been described as a late Victorian intellectual, because he viewed medicine as an art as well as a scie......more
This book focuses on syndemics in the Global South and uses COVID-19 as a window to understand clusters of disparities a......more
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Stories from the ER: a doctor shows how empathy, creativity, and imagination are the cornerstones of clinical care. To b......more
Seeing Depression Through a Cultural Lens, the collaborative work of a clinical neuroscientist and a scholar of comparat......more
Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2023 The author of the bestselling Just Medicine reveals how racial inequality undermi......more
Based on extensive field research, the essays in this volume illuminate the experiences of migrants from their own point......more
Policy and Politics for Nurses and Other Health Professionals: Advocacy and Action, Fourth Edition reflects a well-honed......more
Project Management for Healthcare, Third Edition covers the significant changes in both the direction of healthcare and ......more
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Throughout the COVID-19 crisis, nation states found new ways to assert power under the guise of public health, from clos......more
Providing comparison between context in Europe and the US, this volume investigates the digital transformation of health......more
With over 30 years of experience in global health programming and teaching, the author offers practical and insightful g......more
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The Towards Outstanding series offers essential resources for health and social care services regulated by the Care Qual......more
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This book provides a comparative study of people’s mask-wearing behaviour in response to government policies between Eur......more
This anthropological study explores the beliefs and practices that emerged around masking in the U.S. during the COVID-1......more
Inflammation, once considered a physiological response to foreign pathogens, is now recognized as a crucial pathological......more
This book critically reflects on the responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) by ex......more
Using "risk" as a conceptual lens, this book analyzes how communities across East Asia responded to the disruption unlea......more
As nurses, we hear about mindfulness all the time, but what does that actually mean in practice? In this book readers ar......more
Presenting a wide range of international case studies, the contributors to this book study the impact of Covid-19 on the......more
Originating in the popular Sociología en Cuarantena blog, this volume provides a detailed and multifaceted analysis of t......more
Healthcare continues to be one of the defining political issues in the United States. Though many progressives argue for......more