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Qualitative Research in Health Careby Immy Holloway
McGraw-Hill Education 2007; US$ 47.98This book is a comprehensive guide to selecting approaches and carrying out qualitative research. Rather than being prescriptive, it provides information on various data collection procedures and how to make decisions about specific qualitative approaches. Its aim is to extend researchers? understanding of the participants in research, be they patients, peers or students, and to improve clinical practice on the basis of evidence from qualitative studies. Each chapter is illustrated with examples of research projects. Topics discussed include:. The nature of qualitative research. The selection of a specific qualitative research approach. The collection and analysis of qualitative data. Writing up qualitative research. Written by contributors... more...
Unequal Livesby Hilary Graham
McGraw-Hill Education 2007; US$ 45.98Focuses on the connections between people's unequal health and people's unequal lives, and between health and socioeconomic inequalities. This book investigates these connections to shed light on how, even in rich societies enjoying unparalleled levels of wealth and health, people's life chances and health remain so unequal. more...
Organization Designby Ronald Recardo
HRD Press 2008; US$ 39.95Leaders often struggle when faced with the challenge of restructuring or rightsizing their organizations or redesigning reporting relationships. Dont make the mistakes many make when they fail to do appropriate due diligence by addressing the symptoms of the perceived business problem rather than the root causes. Check out this practical and informative book first. As the title suggests, it is a real-world guide to organization design. It is written by a global corporate executive and management consultant with 25 years of experience advising senior executives on strategic change. And it is a rich resource of insight and hands-on templates and tools designed to ensure you succeed at one of the toughest jobs a leader will face. Organization... more...
The Healing of Americaby T.R. Reid
Penguin Group Inc. 2009; US$ 18.99Bestselling author T. R. Reid guides a whirlwind tour of successful health care systems worldwide, revealing possible paths toward U.S. reform. In The Healing of America, New York Times bestselling author T. R. Reid shows how all the other industrialized democracies have achieved something the United States can't seem to do: provide health care for everybody at a reasonable cost. In his global quest to find a possible prescription, Reid visits wealthy, free market, industrialized democracies like our own-including France, Germany, Japan, the U.K., and Canada-where he finds inspiration in example. Reid shares evidence from doctors, government officials, health care experts, and patients the world over, finding that foreign health care... more...
Nursing Home Administrationby James E. Allen
Springer Publishing Company 2011; US$ 95.00The sixth edition of Nursing Home Administration contains essential information to prepare an individual for licensure and employment as a nursing home administrator. This book addresses all regulatory pieces of information to provide readers with an overview of the entire process of managing a nursing facility. This edition has been updated to reflect the most accurate and up-to-date information to reflect new legislation and regulations passed since previous edition in 2008. This textbook serves as a roadmap for studying and understanding all the various requirements-management, human resources, finance and business, industry laws and regulations, and patient care. It demonstrates how all components fit together to form the coordinated activity... more...
Something Specialby Katherine West CC
Aboriginal Studies Press 2003; US$ 16.95Telling the story of a unique and successful experiment, this history traces the delivery of health services in the Katherine region in Northern Territory, Australia, being handed over to a group of grassroots-oriented Aboriginal people. more...
Organ Shortageby Anne-Maree Farrell; David Price; Muireann Quigley
Cambridge University Press 2011; US$ 76.00An ethically-principled and pragmatic approach offering solutions to the problem of organ shortage, which remains pervasive in many countries. more...
Welfare States and Public Opinionby Claus Wendt; Monika Mischke; Michaela Pfeifer
Edward Elgar Publishing 2011; US$ 40.00Welfare States and Public Opinion comprises an informed inquiry into three fields of social policy - health policy, family policy, and unemployment benefits and social assistance. Though the analyses stem from research spanning fifteen countries across Europe, the conclusions can be applied to social policy problems in nations worldwide. Combining a detailed analysis of the institutional structure of social policy with the study of public attitudes toward healthcare, family policy, and benefits for the unemployed and poor, this book represents a new stream in public opinion research. The authors demonstrate that the institutional designs of social policies have a great impact on inequalities among social groups, and provide best practices for... more...
Advances in Contemporary Indigenous Health Careby Kim Usher; Rhonda Marriott
eContent Management Pty Ltd 2010; US$ 126.50This title provides the latest scholarly work related to closing the gap and importantly highlights some of the outstanding work being done by nurses, midwives and others in the area. It focuses on the specific needs of Indigenous people, adds significantly to the current knowledge in the area. It demonstrates that nurses and midwives are indeed making a difference and contributing significantly to closing the gap. An important read. more...
Infections and Inequalitiesby Paul Farmer
University of California Press 2001; US$ 24.95Paul Farmer has battled AIDS in rural Haiti and deadly strains of drug-resistant tuberculosis in the slums of Peru. A physician-anthropologist with more than fifteen years in the field, Farmer writes from the front lines of the war against these modern plagues and shows why, even more than those of history, they target the poor. This "peculiarly modern inequality" that permeates AIDS, TB, malaria, and typhoid in the modern world, and that feeds emerging (or re-emerging) infectious diseases such as Ebola and cholera, is laid bare in Farmer's harrowing stories of sickness and suffering. Challenging the accepted methodologies of epidemiology and international health, he points out that most current explanatory strategies, from "cost-effectiveness"... more...









