Medical : Health Care Delivery

This book is the first comprehensive study of French medicine in nineteenth-century Algeria. It argues that the medicalization was a priority for colonial regimes, but this goal was thwarted by ineffectual French medicine, institutional rivalries, and the manner in which medicine became a focus for the resistance of French domination and rule. more...

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The Advanced Handbook of Methods in Evidence Based Healthcare provides a review of the available methods of health care evaluation It is the product of the British Health Technology Assessment Research Programme. more...

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Escalating rates of chronic conditions, health inequities and workforce shortages challenge health care systems globally (World Health Organization [WHO] 2003). Nurses work in both autonomous and collaborative care practice settings (International Council of Nursing nd). Across the life span and a range of conditions nurses intervene to improve health outcomes for individuals, families and communities. Since the World Health Organization's Declaration of Alma-Ata in 1978 (WHO 1978), health care systems have looked to the primary care setting for driving health care reforms. Primary care refers to health care, based on the best available evidence and culturally appropriate methods, which is readily accessible to people in their communities (WHO 2003). Promoting community development; health promotion; illness prevention; and care of people who are unwell are key initiatives of nurses internationally and are increasing in importance. In developed societies, the general practice setting is a focus of primary care nursing interventions. In general practice, nurses play a critical role in working with health professionals and community health workers to improve the health outcomes of individuals, families and communities. Advances in General Practice Nursing provides a thought provoking comment on nurses working in an evolving sphere of nursing practice. Although nurses have worked in the primary care setting for many years, the role and scope of practice is not as well described as other areas of nursing practice, primarily due to the limited research and scholarship compared with their acute and critical care colleagues. In Meeting a Primary Care Challenge in the United States: Chronic Illness Care, Saxe, a nurse practitioner, describes how advance practice nursing can improve outcomes for chronic illness in the community. Somchit Hanucharurnkul provides an insight into the nurse practitioner model in Thailand and how this model is culturally acceptable and ap more...

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Nurses, locally and globally, are facing new and complex challenges on account of living in a culturally diverse and dynamic world. This special issue of Contemporary Nurse (the first Australian-based nursing journal to carry a special feature dedicated to transcultural nursing) provides a timely opportunity to reflect on some of these challenges and on the various ways in which nurses might respond effectively to them. This special issue also provides a timely reminder of the importance and moral imperatives of the theory and practice of transcultural nursing and its emphasis on care as a universal, but diverse culturally constructed phenomenon, that lies at – and must remain at – the heart of nursing research, education, and practice. more...

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Das Buch untersucht den Krankenhausaufnahmevertrag mit seinen Allgemeinen Geschftsbedingungen(AGB) gegenber Krankenhauspatienten. Grundlage fr die Verwendung von AGB ist der privatrechtliche Aufnahmevertrag, den Patienten mit den jeweiligen Krankenhaustrgern schlieen. Dieser Vertrag wird im ersten Teil des Buches eigens dargestellt.  Im Hauptteil setzt sich das Buch mit unterschiedlichsten AGB-Gestaltungen in den deutschen Krankenhusern auseinander. Dabei werden nicht nur die von der Deutschen Krankenhausgesellschaft e. V. (DKG) empfohlenen Vertragskonditionen untersucht, sondern auch solche, die in der Praxis weniger gngig sind. Das Spektrum reicht von Wahlleistungsklauseln, Honorarvereinbarungen und Belegarztklauseln bis hin zu Klauseln ber die wissenschaftliche Weiterverwendung von Krpersubstanzen der Patienten, welche whrend der stationren Behandlung angefallen waren. Durch die Vielzahl der untersuchten AGB-Gestaltungen entsteht sowohl fr Einsteiger," als auch fr den sachkundigen Leser ein sehr guter Einblick in alle Rechtsfragen, die bei einem stationren Krankenhausaufenthalt auftreten knnen. Das Buch liefert neue Anstze fr verschiedene Problemstellungen des Krankenhausaufnahmevertrages, die entweder streitig sind oder von der Rechtsprechung noch nicht entschieden worden sind. more...

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