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Assessment: An Incredibly Easy! Pocket Guide (Incredibly Easy! Series)by Springhouse List Price: $30.95 Available from Amazon $30.95 On 7-18-2006 
See Item's Page Book Description Provides time-starved nurses with the essentials of assessment in a streamlined, bulleted, and highly visual format. The book fits into a pocket for quick reference anytime and anywhere and uses charts, illustrations, logos, and other Incredibly Easy! features. |
Handbook of Health Social Workby Sarah Gehlert, Teri Arthur Browne List Price: $75.00 Available from Amazon $75.00 On 7-18-2006
See Item's Page Book Description The Handbook of Health Social Work provides a comprehensive and evidence-based overview of contemporary social work practice in health care. Written from a wellness perspective, the chapters cover the spectrum of health social work settings with contributions from a wide range of experts. The resulting resource offers both a foundation for social work practice in health care and a guide for strategy, policy, and program development in proactive and actionable terms. Three sections present the material: The Foundations of Social Work in Health Care provides information that is basic and central to the operations of social workers in health care, including conceptual underpinnings; the development of the profession; the wide array of roles performed by social workers in health care settings; ethical issues and decision - making in a variety of arenas; public health and social work; health policy and social work; and the understanding of community factors in health social work. Health Social Work Practice: A Spectrum of Critical Considerations delves into critical practice issues such as theories of health behavior; assessment; effective communication with both clients and other members of health care teams; intersections between health and mental health; the effects of religion and spirituality on health care; family and health; sexuality in health care; and substance abuse. Health Social Work: Selected Areas of Practice presents a range of examples of social work practice, including settings that involve older adults; nephrology; oncology; chronic diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, and HIV/AIDS; genetics; end of life care; pain management and palliative care; and alternative treatments and traditional healers. The first book of its kind to unite the entire body of health social work knowledge, the Handbook of Health Social Work is a must-read for social work educators, administrators, students, and practitioners.
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Environmental Healthby Monroe T. Morgan List Price: $62.95 Available from Amazon $62.95 On 7-18-2006
See Item's Page Book Description ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH not only covers the environmental sciences but also the human population. This text emphasizes the environmental practices that support human life as well as the need to control factors that are harmful to human life. Chapters focus on the requisites of life, water, air, food, space, and shelter. Chapters also address proper management of wastewater treatment, solid waste management, insect and rodent control and agents that cause diseases. The top Environmentalist from around the world contribute a chapter in their area of expertise to form the most comprehensive text available. |
Social Injustice and Public Healthby Marian Wright Edelman (Foreword), et al List Price: $59.95 Available from Amazon $59.95 On 7-18-2006 
See Item's Page Book Description Two past presidents of the American Public Health Association edit this book, on the ways in which social injustice underlies public health problems. Their previous books, War and Public Health, and errorism and Public Health, both dealt with specific issues of social injustice as they relate to public health. The current book addresses a similar set of issues in a more comprehensive manner. This book defines social injustice as the active denial or violation based on the perception of the inferiority of specific groups. These groups are socially defined in terms of racial or ethnic status, language, country of origin, socioeconomic status, age, gender, sexual orientation or other perceived group characterisitics. Social injustice manifests in many ways ranging from various forms of overt discrimination to the wide gaps between the "haves" and the "have-nots" within a country or between richer and poorer countries. It increases the prevalence of risk factors and hazardous exposures, which in turn lead to higher rates of disease, injury, disability, and premature death. Public health professionals as well as students need to have a clear understanding of social injustice in order to address these problems, but relatively few books address the wide range of issues involved. This book will enable readers to understand social injustice and its underlying mechanisms, and as a result, will prepare them to recognize, document, investigate, and prevent social injustice and its effects on health. This book is organized so that health professionals, students in the health professions, and others will find it of practical value in public health and medical practice, research, education, policy development, and advocacy. |
Assessing and Managing Suicide Risk: Guidelines for Clinically Based Risk Managementby Robert I. Simon List Price: $54.00 Available from Amazon $54.00 On 7-18-2006
See Item's Page Book Description Georgetown Univ., Washington, D.C. Presents a thorough examination of the clinical practices designed to protect clinicians from malpractice suits resulting from patient suicide. Surveys numerous case examples highlighting key concepts involved in coping with risks associated with suicidal patients. Provides risk management guidelines. DNLM: Suicide--prevention and control. Book Info Georgetown Univ., Washington, D.C. Presents a thorough examination of the clinical practices designed to protect clinicians from malpractice suits resulting from patient suicide. Surveys numerous case examples highlighting key concepts involved in coping with risks associated with suicidal patients. Provides risk management guidelines. DNLM: Suicide--prevention & control. |
Toward a 21st Century Health System: The Contributions and Promise of Prepaid Group Practice (J-B Public Health Health Services Text)by William L. Roper (Foreword), et al List Price: $35.00 Available from Amazon $35.00 On 7-18-2006
See Item's Page From the New England journal of Medicine, December 2, 2004 Public recognition of Alain Enthoven transcends his field. The emeritus Marriner S. Eccles Professor of Public and Private management at Stanford University, Enthoven rose to fame as the architect of a health care strategy known as "managed competition." His watershed articles on consumer choice in health care, which appeared in 1978 in the Journal, along with the Shattuck Lecture that year, helped unleash unparalleled ferment in the financing and practice of health care and roiled the waters of national health policy for a generation. That debate reached a zenith with the rise -- and spectacular collapse -- of President Bill Clinton's national health-reform plan. At the same time, the vestiges of Enthoven's vision can be seen in the modern managed-care market, which relies on provider-network-style competing health plans to cover and arrange for health care for the vast majority of employed people, as well as for more than half of all Medicaid beneficiaries. Indeed, the principles of managed competition can be seen in the prescription-drug plans for Medicare that were established under the 2003 Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act. For reasons that have to do far less with underlying theory than with execution, managed care not only failed to tame health care costs but also proved sufficiently unpopular that sponsors and corporations abandoned the rigorous and exclusive integration on which the model depends for its power. Yet as purchasers move away from the Enthoven vision, they appear to be headed in a deeply troubling direction, under the banner of "consumer-driven" health care. Although its name conjures up the concept of consumer choice, consumer-driven health care is, beneath its market hype, nothing less than the systemic erosion of health care coverage itself through the removal of coverage for enrollees, rather than through structural reform (as Enthoven advocated) to tame health care costs and improve quality. How a gross starvation of the health care system can lead to constructive reform remains anyone's guess, but one thing is certain: what seemed so radical in 1978, at least from an organizational and operational perspective, looks positively sensible today. As trends in insurance design unfold -- and as the number of uninsured people continues to rise inexorably -- Enthoven and Tollen have produced a collection of essays on prepaid group practice. The individual essays, with a foreword by William Roper, are written by some of the best-known names in national health policy and practice today: Helen Darling, James Robinson, Jonathan Weiner, Stephen Shortell, Harold Luft, David Eddy, Jon Christianson, and Donald Berwick. Collectively, these essays serve as a reminder of the growing chasm between health care finance and health care organization and quality. Many of the essays are excellent, particularly for readers who seek a general overview of the subject. The essays address topics such as the history, structure, financing, and performance of groups; the marriage of prepaid groups and new-technology assessment and deployment; the relationship between group practice and the development of physician leadership; prepaid groups and medical-workforce policy; and the limits of the group model. Several issues could have received more attention. First, more should have been written about the use of integrated systems in Medicaid and within the health care safety net of health centers and public hospitals. The challenges are especially great within these institutions, where the mission is to focus on the nation's poorest, sickest, and most economically vulnerable patients. Furthermore, no attention has been paid to the dynamic interaction of law and the prepaid-group-practice model. Arguably, the largest impediment to the implementation of the model today is the extraordinary (and perhaps understandable) effort by group sponsors and insurers to distance themselves from the health care structure and process in order to avoid legal liability when the quality of care goes terribly awry. This abdication of legal accountability for the quality of health care culminated with the 2004 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Aetna v. Davila to disallow all efforts of health plan members sponsored by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act to hold health insurers and plan administrators accountable for the foreseeable consequences of negligent medical conduct in connection with coverage. With financing now completely divorced from health care quality as a matter of law, advocates of the prepayment model face a long uphill battle indeed. Finally, the book would have benefited from greater discussion regarding the question of whether the promise of group practice can ever be achieved in a nation in which financing itself is so uneven and unstable, and in which health care operations must endlessly struggle with the problem of a rolling loss of insurance that affects some 80 million persons every two years. How one builds a high-quality health care system -- however it is organized -- amid such chaos remains a mystery. Sara Rosenbaum, J.D. Copyright © 2004 Massachusetts medical Society. All rights reserved. The New England journal of medicine is a registered trademark of the MMS. Product Review "Several of the chapters are excellent analyses of how the PGP model is responsive to current policy and delivery concerns." (JAMA; 11/24/2004) "This book should be required reading for every physician in the United States." (Health Affairs, Vol 23, No 4; July/August 2004) “A brief Review cannot do justice to the range of issues explored in this volume… Toward a 21st Century Health System repays careful study.” (Health Service Journal, April 2004)
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Cross-Cultural Caring: A Handbook for Health Professionalsby Nancy Waxler-Morrison, et al List Price: $29.95 Available from Amazon $29.95 On 7-18-2006
See Item's Page Book Description Cross-Cultural Caring: A Handbook for Health Professionals, Second Edition describes Vietnamese, Cambodian, Laotian, Chinese, Japanese, Iranian, South Asian, and Central American ethno-cultural groups. It stresses the need to understand both the cultural beliefs and daily life issues facing immigrants, such as work, income, child-rearing, and aging, all of which impinge on health. Each chapter describes one ethno-cultural group, discussing such issues as childbirth, mental illness, dental care, hospitalization, and death, as well as home country culture, common reasons for emigrating, and challenges in adjusting to a new culture. With its wealth of practical information, this book will be particularly useful to those working directly with immigrants and refugees, such as health care providers and administrators, teachers and school administrators, and social workers, as well as medical students, sociologists, and anthropologists. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. About The Author Nancy Waxler-Morrison is associate professor, emerita, of social work and sociology at the University of British Columbia. Joan M. Anderson is a professor of nursing at the University of British Columbia. Elizabeth Richardson is a social worker with the Ministry of Social Services and Family Development, British Columbia. Natalie A. Chambers holds an M.A. in anthropology from Simon Fraser University. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. |
Understanding Risk: Informing Decisions in a Democratic Societyby National Research Council (Corporate Author), et al Available from Amazon $29.95 On 7-18-2006
See Item's Page Book Info Addresses a central dilemma of coping with risk in a democracy. Discusses informing decisions in a democratic society. DLC: Risk assessment. |
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