Download or read book Decades of Disparity written by Human Rights Watch (Organization) and published by Human Rights Watch. This book was released on 2009 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using national drug arrest data from 1980 to 2007, this report illuminates the persistence and extent of racial disparities in the so-called?war on drugs? in the United States. Although blacks and whites engage in drug offenses at roughly comparable rates, blacks have been consistently arrested for drug offenses at rates that are from 2.8 to 5.5 times higher nationwide than white drug arrest rates. In addition, this report reveals that among individual states, black drug arrest rates in a single year, 2006, ranged from 2 to 11.3 times higher than white rates. Finally, the report shows that since 1980, the preponderance of drug arrests have been for possession, not sales. Millions of Americans have acquired a criminal record because they engaged in the minor non-violent offense of drug possession. Human Rights Watch calls on the United States to revise its drug control policies to reduce reliance on criminal prosecution and address these troubling racial disparities.
Download or read book Current Catalog written by National Library of Medicine (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
Download or read book Helping People at the End of Their Lives written by Reimer Gronemeyer and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2005 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive analysis of today's situation of palliative care in Europe is provided, including previously unidentified statistics and standardised profiles of 16 European countries. The analysis contains demographics, the history of hospice and palliative care, the number of current services, funding, education and training of professional staff and the role of volunteers, with an in-depth case portrayal of particular services.
Download or read book Fonds Pour L adaptation Des Services de Sant written by Peggy Leatt and published by Le Fonds. This book was released on 2002 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Health Transition Fund, a joint federal, provincial, & territorial effort to encourage & support evidence-based decision-making in health care reform, funded about 140 pilot projects and evaluation studies over 1997-2001 in nine theme areas. This report summarizes key learnings from 41 projects in the Fund's integrated service delivery (ISD) theme area. Introductory sections set the context for the projects (including a vision for ISD & ongoing ISD initiatives in Canada) and provide an overview of the Fund's ISD studies. The report then discusses significant & relevant findings of projects that examined clinical integration, information management & technology, and vertical integration in communities. Finally, implications of the findings for policy & practice are discussed. The appendix summarizes information on the Fund projects relevant to ISD.
Download or read book National Library of Medicine Current Catalog written by National Library of Medicine (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 1332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Textbook of Palliative Medicine written by Eduardo Bruera and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2009-01-30 with total page 1131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Textbook of Palliative Medicine provides an alternative, truly international approach to this rapidly growing specialty. This textbook fills a niche with its evidence-based, multi-professional approach and global perspective ensured by the international team of editors and contributing authors. In the absence of an international curriculum for the study of palliative medicine, this textbook provides essential guidance for those both embarking upon a career in palliative medicine or already established in the field, and the structure and content have been constructed very much with this in mind. With an emphasis on providing a service anywhere in the world, including the important issue of palliative care in the developing nations, Textbook of Palliative Medicine offers a genuine alternative to the narrative approach of its competitors, and is an ideal complement to them. It is essential reading for all palliative care physicians in training and in practice, as well as palliative care nurses and other health professionals in the palliative care team
Download or read book Highlights on Several Underestimated Topics in Palliative Care written by Marco Cascella and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2017-10-04 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on several underestimated topics in palliative care. Seven chapters have been divided into four sections: Ethical Issues, Volunteers in Palliative Care, Special Circumstances, and Prognostic Models in Palliative Care. The underestimated topics concern several ethical themes such as the Balance sheets of suffering, Good Death, Euthanasia, Assisted suicide, and the question of the 'Do not attempt resuscitation'. In addition, the role of volunteers, the approach to non-malignant diseases such as diabetes and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis are also addressed. Finally, the features and utility of different tools in order to facilitate optimal decision making for both physicians and patients, are given in details. This book will aid several figures facing the daily challenges of palliative care. Clinicians, nurses, volunteers, students and resident trainees, and other professionals can find this volume useful in their very difficult but extraordinarily fascinating mission.
Download or read book Lexique Fran ais Anglais Services aux personnes written by Céline Dudouet and published by Educagri Editions. This book was released on 2013-10-07 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Le secteur des services à la personne est en plein essor en France et en Europe. Il offre une grande diversité de métiers d'avenir et les offres d'emplois abondent. Ses acteurs travaillent aujourd'hui avec des publics de tous horizons, et peuvent aussi être amenés à se déplacer à l'étranger : c'est pourquoi l'anglais est devenu un atout certain et une compétence recherchée afin de répondre aux besoins de tous types de publics. Enseignantes dans la filière SAPAT (Services aux personnes et aux territoires), les auteures ont conçu ce livret pour accompagner leur pédagogie ainsi que les démarches professionnelles en anglais, de plus en plus fréquentes dans leurs formations. Ce lexique s'adresse à toutes les personnes en lien avec les différents secteurs des services : apprenants (du CAP au BTS, préparation aux concours et écoles de formation aux métiers des secteurs paramédicaux et sociaux), professionnels, et enseignants/formateurs pour un prolongement de leur pédagogie lorsqu'ils sont conduits à travailler sur du vocabulaire technique et professionnel et lors de la mise en place d'actions en collaboration avec des interlocuteurs anglophones. Il s'agit là d'un outil de formation - en aucun cas d'un manuel scolaire -, qui intervient en complément des cours dans le but d'aider à développer la communication en anglais dans le secteur des services. Le vocabulaire et les expressions les plus récurrents et les plus usités dans le domaine de spécialisation sont regroupés, selon les différents domaines d'intervention, en 10 chapitres : 1. Les publics ; 2. Organismes et professionnels ; 3. Les besoins ; 4. Le confort corporel de la personne ; 5. Le confort matériel ; 6. La nutrition ; 7. La santé ; 8. La vie quotidienne ; 9. Le cadre d'intervention ; 10. Milieu rural et territoire. Le contenu n'est pas exhaustif, tant ce secteur est vaste. Afin de faciliter la recherche de termes précis dans l'une ou l'autre langue, sont proposés en fin de lexique un index alphabétique français et un index alphabétique anglais. Ce lexique vous accompagnera dans vos études, dans votre formation professionnelle, dans vos déplacements à l'étranger (voyages, séjours, stages), et vous aidera à communiquer plus facilement en anglais dans votre secteur professionnel.
Download or read book The Taste for Knowledge written by Sylvie Fainzang and published by Aarhus Universitetsforlag. This book was released on 2010-12-15 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Taste for Knowledge: Medical Anthropology Facing Medical Realities demonstrates how medical anthropology is becoming increasingly important in the fields of medical research and public health. The authors examine some of the major issues in medical anthropology today. In this volume, a group of international researchers reflect, for example, on: the way anthropology faces and deals with interdisciplinarity in its encounter with medicine and doctors; the new medical realities and patient strategies that exist in changing medical systems; and the interactions between practice, power and science. The book will appeal to clinicians/practitioners, anthropologists in general, and all those engaged in the interface between medicine and anthropology, but will also be a valuable tool for students of medicine and anthropology who have a special interest in the social realities and interdisciplinarity of health and illness.
Download or read book Pricing long term care for older persons written by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2021-08-26 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of the book is to meet the WHO GPW output of 1.2.1 - Countries enabled to develop and implement equitable health financing strategies and reforms to sustain progress towards universal health coverage. It falls under the WKC research plan for sustainable financing under population ageing. The country studies and policy briefs will be continued in 2022-23, under the technical product of “sustainable financing in the context of population ageing.” The target audience is WHO member states and their supporting academic institutions and policymakers.
Download or read book Journal of Palliative Care written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Charte sociale europ enne revis e Roumanie Slov nie Su de written by Comité européen des Droits sociaux and published by Council of Europe. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Spirituality in the Biomedical World written by Guy Jobin and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-06-22 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The need to take the spiritual experience during illness into account is part of a broader trend in Western societies—a fascination with the practical uses of spirituality and its contribution to individual wellbeing, whether through a religious or a humanist tradition. This understanding of spirituality differs from traditional views embedded in religious traditions. This book takes a critical point of view at the biomedical representation of the function of spirituality in care. Medicine reorders notions such as life, death, health, sickness, and spirituality. This process is called here “sapientialization”, i.e. the spiritual experience is expressed and understood under the auspices of and in terms of wisdom. This view tends to identify spirituality and ethics. I propose an alternate understanding of spirituality, grounded on its subversive power. Inspired by the work of the theologian John D. Caputo, it is critical of some problems that are associated with the sapientialization of spirituality in biomedicine, such as the medicalization of spiritual experiences or the instrumentalization of spirituality. It provides an understanding of spirituality that honours both the medical interest in it and its capacity to resist to instrumentalization.
Download or read book Palliative Care Current Practice and Future Perspectives written by Georg Bollig and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-06-19 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The need for Palliative Care is increasing around the world due to demographic change, the extension of the lifespan in general and the advances of medical and oncological treatment. In Palliative Care quality of life and family-centred care are paramount. The book, entitled Palliative Care - Current Practice and Future Perspectives, offers an insightful introduction to different concepts and approaches, presenting a multidisciplinary perspective and diverse ways of insights provided by a team of authors from various disciplines and regions across Europe, Asia, and Africa. The different chapters divided into five sections provide an insight into current practices from different fields and countries. It highlights current knowledge and experiences and discusses ideas for the future development of Palliative Care.
Download or read book OECD Health Policy Studies Time for Better Care at the End of Life written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2023-02-07 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With more chronic conditions and an ageing population, a growing share of the population will need end-of-life care, reaching close to 10 million people by 2050. While end-of-life care services help improve quality of life through relieving pain and other symptoms, currently, there are substantial gaps in the provision of services.
