Refugee and Immigrant Health: A Handbook for Health Professionals
ISBN: 9780521535601 / Angielski / Miękka / 396 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on the authors' combined forty-plus years of work as clinicians and teachers in refugee and immigrant health, this handbook is practical, yet theory-based, so it can be used in the field and as a teaching text, wherever immigrants and refugees seek a safe haven from war. Bridging the factors that contribute to physical health by highlighting infectious disease risks, mental health, and spiritual issues, it also details the health beliefs and practices of 30 cultures from more than 40 countries in an age of constantly shifting populations.
Based on the authors' combined forty-plus years of work as clinicians and teachers in refugee and immigrant health, this handbook is practical, yet th...
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Am I at Risk?: The Patient's Guide to Health Risk Factors
ISBN: 9780595467396 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For your physician to give you quality medical care, you must be aware of your medical history and issues. Here's how you can help your medical provider:
Learn about your risk factors and current medical diagnoses Ask questions when you don't understand Obtain second, third, or more opinions Maintain copies of your medical records Review these records often Keep yourself educated The medical profession is depending on you to help them keep you healthy! For your physician to give you quality medical care, you must be aware of your medical history and issues. Here's how you can help your medical provid...
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53,84 zł |
Am I at Risk?: The Patient's Guide to Health Risk Factors
ISBN: 9780595704699 / Angielski / Twarda / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For your physician to give you quality medical care, you must be aware of your medical history and issues. Here's how you can help your medical provider:
Learn about your risk factors and current medical diagnoses Ask questions when you don't understand Obtain second, third, or more opinions Maintain copies of your medical records Review these records often Keep yourself educated The medical profession is depending on you to help them keep you healthy! For your physician to give you quality medical care, you must be aware of your medical history and issues. Here's how you can help your medical provid...
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95,42 zł |
Occupational Health Risk Assessment and Management
ISBN: 9780632041992 / Angielski / Twarda / 504 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first book to integrate all aspects of workplace risk assessment and management, now the overriding emphasis in occupational health.
Topics include: basic concepts and developments; toxic hazards; hazard characteristics and identification; setting standards; requirements of monitoring workplace exposure; contaminants; exposure modeling; risk perception and management; prevention and control; economics; emergency response; health surveillance; auditing; compliance; pesticides, chemicals, carcinogens, biological agents, and radiation; equipment screening; manual handling;... This is the first book to integrate all aspects of workplace risk assessment and management, now the overriding emphasis in occupational health. |
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1114,13 zł |
Risk-Benefit Analysis : Second Edition
ISBN: 9780674005297 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over the centuries, mankind has slowly reduced the risks and hazards that even as recently as a century ago kept life expectancy to a mere 45 years. Our average life span has improved to 77 years by remarkable progress in public health and safety. But with this improvement has come a demand for greater efforts to improve both life expectancy and the quality of life. The first edition of this book, published in 1982, was a pioneer in the development of logical, yet simple, analytic tools for discussion of the risks which we all face. This new edition, revised, expanded, and illustrated in...
Over the centuries, mankind has slowly reduced the risks and hazards that even as recently as a century ago kept life expectancy to a mere 45 years. O...
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110,65 zł |
China's Urban Health Care Reform: From State Protection to Individual Responsibility
ISBN: 9780739106600 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One way to describe the importance of social policy is to say it's about "what is and what might be." This ethos is the driving force behind Chack-Kie Wong, Vai Io Lo, and Kwong-leung Tang's China's Urban Health Care Reform. Based on a study of a mid-level city in China, these three scholars provide analysis and offer theory-based recommendations on health care development. Using a comparative policy framework, supported by a legal expert's knowledge of regulatory specifications, China's Urban Health Care Reform argues that a strategy with priority in economic growth, as in the case of China,...
One way to describe the importance of social policy is to say it's about "what is and what might be." This ethos is the driving force behind Chack-Kie...
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501,74 zł |
China's Urban Health Care Reform: From State Protection to Individual Responsibility
ISBN: 9780739113509 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One way to describe the importance of social policy is to say it's about 'what is and what might be.' This ethos is the driving force behind Chack-Kie Wong, Vai Io Lo, and Kwong-leung Tang's China's Urban Health Care Reform. Based on a study of a mid-level city in China, these three scholars provide analysis and offer theory-based recommendations on health care development. Using a comparative policy framework, supported by a legal expert's knowledge of regulatory specifications, China's Urban Health Care Reform argues that a strategy with priority in economic growth, as in the case of China,...
One way to describe the importance of social policy is to say it's about 'what is and what might be.' This ethos is the driving force behind Chack-Kie...
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211,26 zł |
Effective Health Risk Messages: A Step-By-Step Guide
ISBN: 9780761915089 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner of the Distinguished Book Award by the Applied Communication Division of the National Communication Association, 2001 Effective Health Risk Messages provides step-by-step instructions for developing theoretically based campaigns that work. Students and readers will learn about message development theories, formative and summative evaluation, and even basic research designs for evaluating your campaign. Worksheets are provided at the end of each chapter to provide readers with hands-on, practical experiences in developing effective health risk messages. This book is suitable for... Winner of the Distinguished Book Award by the Applied Communication Division of the National Communication Association, 2001 Effective Health Ris... |
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717,50 zł |
Effective Health Risk Messages: A Step-By-Step Guide
ISBN: 9780761915096 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner of the Distinguished Book Award by the Applied Communication Division of the National Communication Association, 2001, (USA) Effective Health Risk Messages provides step-by-step instructions for developing theoretically based campaigns that work. Students and readers will learn about message development theories, formative and summative evaluation, and even basic research designs for evaluating your campaign. Worksheets are provided at the end of each chapter to provide readers with hands-on, practical experiences in developing effective health risk messages. This book is suitable for...
Winner of the Distinguished Book Award by the Applied Communication Division of the National Communication Association, 2001, (USA) Effective Health R...
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516,80 zł |
The Quality Solution: The Stakeholder's Guide to Improving Health Care: The Stakeholder's Guide to Improving Health Care
ISBN: 9780763727482 / Angielski / Miękka / 321 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Poor healthcare quality is a public health emergency. Landmark reports by the Institute of Medicine and other leading groups exposed the continuing inadequacies that plague the United States healthcare system. Despite the "red flags" that these reports raised, there has been only marginal improvement in healthcare quality. Therefore, improving the quality of health care should be one of our highest public health priorities. The Institute of Medicine called the substantial gulf between the vision of ideal care and the reality of what most individuals receive a quality chasm. The Quality...
Poor healthcare quality is a public health emergency. Landmark reports by the Institute of Medicine and other leading groups exposed the continuing in...
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465,89 zł |
Cross-Cultural Caring: A Handbook for Health Professionals
ISBN: 9780774810258 / Angielski / Miękka / 365 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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... Cross-Cultural Caring A Handbook for Health Professionals, Second Edition describes Vietnamese, Cambodian, Laotian, Chinese, Japanese, Irani... |
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Fundamentals of Perinatal Social Work : A Guide for Clinical Practice with Women, Infants, and Families
ISBN: 9780789000439 / Angielski / Twarda / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fundamentals of Perinatal Social Work: A Guide for Clinical Practice provides perinatal social work students and beginning practitioners with an overview of the basics of perinatal social work theory and practice, allowing you to identify and promote a healthy social and emotional environment for pregnant women and/or infants. This book covers the knowledge bases of obstetric and neonatal medicine--and other specialized topics--as applied to social work practice that you?ll need to be familiar with in order to provide effective care for mother and child. As a guide for new workers, students,...
Fundamentals of Perinatal Social Work: A Guide for Clinical Practice provides perinatal social work students and beginning practitioners with an overv...
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677,36 zł |
Fundamentals of Perinatal Social Work : A Guide for Clinical Practice with Women, Infants, and Families
ISBN: 9780789000491 / Angielski / Miękka / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fundamentals of Perinatal Social Work provides a reference for new perinatal social workers as they face the challenge of overwhelming medical information and technology which they must understand in order to function in their positions. This accessible book illustrates the depth and breadth the field of perinatal social work encompasses and stresses the unchanging goal of perinatal social work--to maximize the potential of every infant and every family.
Fundamentals of Perinatal Social Work provides a reference for new perinatal social workers as they face the challenge of overwhelming medical informa...
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265,87 zł |
International Perspectives on Social Work in Health Care: Past, Present, and Future
ISBN: 9780789003256 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Academics and practitioners discuss what managed care, cost containment, corporatization, and pre-payment portend for the field of social work, in papers from a January 1995 conference. Papers are arranged in sections on health policy and social work, social work practice issues in health, developments in health social work research, and social wor
Academics and practitioners discuss what managed care, cost containment, corporatization, and pre-payment portend for the field of social work, in pap...
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652,27 zł |
Social Work Practice in Home Health Care
ISBN: 9780789004833 / Angielski / Twarda / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Through Social Work Practice in Home Health Care, social workers will discover a unique "how-to" approach to social work practice in home health care agencies. You will find a historical perspective on home health care and clinical interventions to help you improve home health care for your patients. A wide range of clients, such as the developmentally disabled, post-hospitalization patients, the physically disabled and chronically impaired of all ages, the mentally ill, the terminally ill, newborn infants and their mothers, abused older adults, and abused children are in need of appropriate...
Through Social Work Practice in Home Health Care, social workers will discover a unique "how-to" approach to social work practice in home health care ...
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903,14 zł |
Social Work Practice in Home Health Care
ISBN: 9780789004840 / Angielski / Miękka / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Through Social Work Practice in Home Health Care, social workers will discover a unique "how-to" approach to social work practice in home health care agencies. You will find a historical perspective on home health care and clinical interventions to help you improve home health care for your patients. A wide range of clients, such as the developmentally disabled, post-hospitalization patients, the physically disabled and chronically impaired of all ages, the mentally ill, the terminally ill, newborn infants and their mothers, abused older adults, and abused children are in need of appropriate...
Through Social Work Practice in Home Health Care, social workers will discover a unique "how-to" approach to social work practice in home health care ...
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336,12 zł |
Family Health Social Work Practice : A Knowledge and Skills Casebook
ISBN: 9780789007179 / Angielski / Twarda / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cases are used to introduce an emerging practice paradigm in social work in this book for social work students and professionals. Material is presented on the theory and skills of the practice, and a framework is described for developing a family health intervention plan, illustrated by case scenari
Cases are used to introduce an emerging practice paradigm in social work in this book for social work students and professionals. Material is presente...
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1053,66 zł |
Behavioral Social Work in Health Care Settings
ISBN: 9780789010261 / Angielski / Miękka / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An essential resource for social work professionals As the focus of the health care industry shifts from predominantly hospital-based care to out-patient managed care, social workers must adapt to a new environment. Owing to changes driven by major advances in medical care knowledge, technology, and skill, new issues in ethics, practice, and policy have arisen. Behavioral Social Work in Health Care Settings addresses the impact that changing patterns in health care delivery have had (and will continue to have) on social work professionals, presenting a thoughtful collection of...
An essential resource for social work professionals As the focus of the health care industry shifts from predominantly hospital-based care t...
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135,42 zł |
Family Health Social Work Practice: A Knowledge and Skills Casebook
ISBN: 9780789016485 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Edited by pioneers of the family health approach, this volume introduces the theoretical model and skills of the practice, including a framework for developing a family health intervention plan.
Edited by pioneers of the family health approach, this volume introduces the theoretical model and skills of the practice, including a framework for d...
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265,87 zł |
Clinical Data-Mining in Practice-Based Research : Social Work in Hospital Settings
ISBN: 9780789017086 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this collection of ten articles, 19 social workers most affiliated with Mount Sinai Hospital demonstrate how practitioner use of a single practice-based research strategy can inform social work practice and programs in health care settings. An introductory chapter discusses administrative strategies to promote reflective social work practice. Ch
In this collection of ten articles, 19 social workers most affiliated with Mount Sinai Hospital demonstrate how practitioner use of a single practice-...
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426,43 zł |