Download or read book The Future of the Public s Health in the 21st Century written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2003-02-01 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The anthrax incidents following the 9/11 terrorist attacks put the spotlight on the nation's public health agencies, placing it under an unprecedented scrutiny that added new dimensions to the complex issues considered in this report. The Future of the Public's Health in the 21st Century reaffirms the vision of Healthy People 2010, and outlines a systems approach to assuring the nation's health in practice, research, and policy. This approach focuses on joining the unique resources and perspectives of diverse sectors and entities and challenges these groups to work in a concerted, strategic way to promote and protect the public's health. Focusing on diverse partnerships as the framework for public health, the book discusses: The need for a shift from an individual to a population-based approach in practice, research, policy, and community engagement. The status of the governmental public health infrastructure and what needs to be improved, including its interface with the health care delivery system. The roles nongovernment actors, such as academia, business, local communities and the media can play in creating a healthy nation. Providing an accessible analysis, this book will be important to public health policy-makers and practitioners, business and community leaders, health advocates, educators and journalists.

Download or read book Community Care Practice and the Law written by Michael Mandelstam and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 1999 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition of Community Care Practice and the Lawhas been substantially rewritten and restructured to reflect the rapid change affecting community care in legislation, the law courts, policy and practice. The book bridges the gap between law and practice by juxtaposing fully and systematically legislation, legal judgments in the courts, local ombudsman and health service ombudsman findings, Parliamentary debates and answers, and numerous reports about practice from the Department of Health, voluntary organisations, professional associations and academics. Distinctive features of the book include: two large digests of cases containing well over three hundred legal judgments and local ombudsman investigations; a chapter consisting of a practical checklist of questions - for managers, practitioners and users of services and their advisors - to check the lawfulness of policies, eligibility criteria and individual decisions; two overview, stand-alone chapters, one summarising the system, the other highlighting underlying themes and mechanisms; an inclusive approach embracing not only a range of both residential and non-residential care services, but also equipment and home adaptations, carers, direct payments, NHS services generally and continuing care, moving and handling law, legislation and guidance (old and new) underlying joint working and joint finance; avoidance of jargon.

Download or read book Developing Good Practice in Community Care written by John Harris and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2001-08-17 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation Seven contributions from British social workers and related professionals discuss issues in community care in light of the changes brought about by the National Health Service and Community Care Act of 1990. A sampling of topics includes improving the quality of written assessments, empowerment as a participative process, guardianship of mentally ill patients, and developing services for minority communities. Distributed by Taylor and Francis. c. Book News Inc

Download or read book Improving the Quality of Long Term Care written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2001-02-27 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the issues confronting America is long-term care for frail, older persons and others with chronic conditions and functional limitations that limit their ability to care for themselves. Improving the Quality of Long-Term Care takes a comprehensive look at the quality of care and quality of life in long-term care, including nursing homes, home health agencies, residential care facilities, family members and a variety of others. This book describes the current state of long-term care, identifying problem areas and offering recommendations for federal and state policymakers. Who uses long-term care? How have the characteristics of this population changed over time? What paths do people follow in long term care? The committee provides the latest information on these and other key questions. This book explores strengths and limitations of available data and research literature especially for settings other than nursing homes, on methods to measure, oversee, and improve the quality of long-term care. The committee makes recommendations on setting and enforcing standards of care, strengthening the caregiving workforce, reimbursement issues, and expanding the knowledge base to guide organizational and individual caregivers in improving the quality of care.

Download or read book Care Without Coverage written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2002-06-20 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many Americans believe that people who lack health insurance somehow get the care they really need. Care Without Coverage examines the real consequences for adults who lack health insurance. The study presents findings in the areas of prevention and screening, cancer, chronic illness, hospital-based care, and general health status. The committee looked at the consequences of being uninsured for people suffering from cancer, diabetes, HIV infection and AIDS, heart and kidney disease, mental illness, traumatic injuries, and heart attacks. It focused on the roughly 30 million-one in seven-working-age Americans without health insurance. This group does not include the population over 65 that is covered by Medicare or the nearly 10 million children who are uninsured in this country. The main findings of the report are that working-age Americans without health insurance are more likely to receive too little medical care and receive it too late; be sicker and die sooner; and receive poorer care when they are in the hospital, even for acute situations like a motor vehicle crash.

Download or read book Equity and Efficiency Policy in Community Care written by Bleddyn Davies and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2000: Equity and Efficiency Policy provides a completely new perspective on post-reform community care, analyzes its fairness, effectiveness and efficiency in a new way and uses its powerful new techniques applied to a major national collection of evidence to suggest how to develop the Modernization Agenda. It - describes, for the first time, how differences in the levels of each of the main services alone and in combination affect a wide range of user and carer benefits; - uses this knowledge to analyze in a new way and make policy proposals about some of the pressing policy issues of the government’s Modernization Agenda.

Download or read book Essentials of Community Care written by Peter Sharkey and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-16 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of this guide to community care, aimed at both health and social care practitioners, offers a clear and structured introduction to present policy and practice. It is illustrated throughout by pertinent case material and has been updated with the latest policy developments and new literature.

Download or read book Commissioning and Purchasing written by Terry Bamford and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essential guide to commissioning and purchasing in social care provides case studies, guidelines, and checklists to help readers to assess need, develop care plans and select suppliers of care. It clearly explains: the reasons for the shift to commissioning and purchasing away from direct provision the distinction between commissioning and purchasing how to ensure that the commissioning and purchasing process fully reflects the views of users and carers contracts and tenders costs and prices in relation to providing quality care how safeguards can be built into the commissioning and purchasing process. This is an invaluable resource that focuses on the practical skills required to deliver effective care. It has been written for social care students, frontline staff and their managers to help them through the process.

Download or read book Community Care written by Robin Means and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2008-01-11 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition has been updated to reflect recent shifts in community and social care whilst still providing the authoritative account of its historical development. Particular attention is paid to partnerships between health and social care, the regulation of social care, direct payments and individual budgets and user/carer empowerment.

Download or read book Disability Politics and Community Care written by Mark Priestley and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1999 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Priestley encourages health and welfare professionals and policy makers to start working much more closely with disabled people themselves. He argues that this will break barriers between user and provider and result in the reality of integrated living.

Download or read book Tidy s Physiotherapy E Book written by Stuart Porter and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2008-04-01 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essential book to refer to, whether you’re just starting out or about to go on placement or need to look up something for an assessment, the 14th edition of Tidy’s Physiotherapy is up-to-date and ready to meet the needs of today’s physiotherapy student. Chapters are written by specialists who have come from a wide range of clinical and academic backgrounds. Each chapter encourages you to problem solve and provides case studies to give the opportunity to consolidate learning and to give you confidence when you need to apply what you have learned. For the first time, a DVD ROM is included which contains sections on musculoskeletal tests, massage and exercise, and graphics which can be used for revision, presentations and even teaching. New techniques include core stability and muscle imbalance techniques - keeping the student informed of current developments • Hot topics covered, including NHS structure, the role of research and clinical governance • Case studies included to help the student think about their reading in a real-life context • New text design with redrawn and updated illustrations means the book is easier to navigate • Totally updated for today's physiotherapist High quality annotated art illustrations Case studies which provide further insights into the physiotherapists clinical reasoning Web links DVD containing videoclips and downloadable photographs Additional chapters on Care of the Ventilated Patient; Caridac and Pulmonary Rehabilitation, Management of Tissue Healing and Repair, Massage, Electrotherapy, Pain and Changing Relationships for Promoting Health Part of the Physiotherapy Essentials series - core textbooks for both students and lecturers

Download or read book Index Medicus written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 1734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 1963- include as pt. 2 of the Jan. issue: Medical subject headings.

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Download or read book Mental Health Atlas 2005 written by World Health Organization. Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2005 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This atlas is aimed at collecting, compiling and desseminating information on mental health resources in the world. It presents updated and expanded information from 192 countries with analyses of global and regional trends as well as individual country profiles. Newly included in this volume is a section on epidemiology within the profiles of all low and middle income countries. It shows that mental health resources within most countries remain inadequate despite modest improvments since 2001. Availability of mental health resources across countries and between regions remains substantially uneven, with many countries having few resources. The atlas reinforces the urgent need to enhance mental health resources within countries.

Download or read book Interprofessional Collaboration written by Audrey Leathard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-03 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Interprofessional Collaboration the benefits of collaboration for patients and carers are confirmed through theoretical models illustrated with case studies of existing examples.

Download or read book Social Care and Social Exclusion written by T. Blackman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2001-01-19 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the diversity of social care provision for older people in six contrasting European countries. Using a common descriptive and analytical framework, the book examines how the organisation and delivery of care are shaped by the wider welfare regime. This is discussed at the level of both practice and policy, including detailed case studies illustrating key features of social care in each country. The authors conclude by showing how the concept of social exclusion can inform service development.

Download or read book Cumulated Index Medicus written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 1844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: