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Understanding Health Inequalities
McGraw-Hill Education 2009; US$ 186.00Presents an exploration of why the opportunity to live a long and healthy life remains profoundly unequal. This book tackles such questions as: How health is influenced by circumstances across people's lives and by the areas in which they live? And how health is simultaneously shaped by inequalities of gender, ethnicity and socioeconomic position? more...
The Politics of European Union Health Policies
McGraw-Hill Education 2009; US$ 186.00Describes how EU health policy has been developed. This book discusses how EU policy is influenced by lobbies in Brussels and by four big member states: France, Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom. It is suitable for students of EU policy and politics, as well as health policy makers. more...
Hospital-Based Integrative Medicine
RAND Corporation 2008; US$ 9.95Current integrative medicine practices in hospital settings involve some form of partnership between complementary and alternative medicine and biomedicine. This five-year study adopted a longitudinal methodology to track the establishment of a single hospital-based Integrative Medicine Center. Using extensive qualitative interview data, the project... more...
Integrating Device Data into the Electronic Medical Record
Wiley 2008; US$ 65.00Future generations of vital signs and point-of-care medical devices must interoperate directly and seamlessly with information technology systems to facilitate effective patient care management within the healthcare enterprise. This is the first book addressing medical device integration with the computer-based patient record in a holistic way. Readers... more...
The Care of the Uninsured in America
Springer 2009; US$ 64.99The Care of the Uninsured in America Edited by Nancy J. Johnson, El Rio Community Health Center, Tuscon, AZ Lane P. Johnson, Arizona Health Science Center, Tucson, AZ They earn too much for Medicaid but not enough to afford a health plan. Or their employer rescinded their benefits. Or they're "not disabled enough" for disability. Some... more...
Web-Based Applications in Healthcare and Biomedicine
Springer 2009; US$ 169.99This proposed Special Issue in AoIS will present studies from leading researchers and practitioners focusing on current challenges, directions, trends, and opportunities associated with healthcare organizations and their strategic use of Web-enabled technologies. Healthcare and biomedical organizations are undergoing major transformations to meet the... more...
Geschichte der Berliner Universitäts-Frauenkliniken
De Gruyter 2009; US$ 168.00This book documents the history of the women's hospital of Berlin University. The focus is on the structures and the individuals whose work had an effect on gynecology throughout Germany and internationally. more...
Communication in Healthcare Settings
Wiley 2010; US$ 39.95This book presents an international snapshot of communication in healthcare settings and examines how policies, procedures and technological developments influence day to day practice. Brings together a series of papers describing features of healthcare interaction in settings in Australasia, the U.S.A, continental Europe and the UK Contains original... more...
Service User and Carer Involvement in Education for Health and Social Care
Wiley 2010; US$ 80.99This book is unique in that it will appeal to practitioners, policy makers, and commissioners in health and social care practice and education who buy in to the principles of service user engagement, but who find it hard to know how to progress the practicalities. Based on the set up and running of the unique and very successful Comensus project, this... more...
Measuring Up
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2002; US$ 126.00Proceedings of the Ottawa Conference, November 2001. How can we measure the performance of different health systems, and how can we use such information to support on-going health systems improvement? Those are the central questions addressed in this volume. Health policy makers have a growing interest in finding ways of encouraging health systems... more...









