Download or read book Surviving Healthcare written by Pamela Armstrong and published by . This book was released on 2005-03 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by an industry insider, Surviving Healthcare tells consumers how to get the best healthcare. Consumers trust their usual medical sources to give high quality care, but amazingly this happens only about 50% of the time, based on solid research. The book gives advice about how to work with your doctor, choose a doctor/hospital/health plan and how to avoid needing care.
Download or read book Health Care Off the Books written by Danielle T. Raudenbush and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2020-02-11 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Millions of low-income African Americans in the United States lack access to health care. How do they treat their health care problems? In Health Care Off the Books, Danielle T. Raudenbush provides an answer that challenges public perceptions and prior scholarly work. Informed by three and a half years of fieldwork in a public housing development, Raudenbush shows how residents who face obstacles to health care gain access to pharmaceutical drugs, medical equipment, physician reference manuals, and insurance cards by mobilizing social networks that include not only their neighbors but also local physicians. However, membership in these social networks is not universal, and some residents are forced to turn to a robust street market to obtain medicine. For others, health problems simply go untreated. Raudenbush reconceptualizes U.S. health care as a formal-informal hybrid system and explains why many residents who do have access to health services also turn to informal strategies to treat their health problems. While the practices described in the book may at times be beneficial to people’s health, they also have the potential to do serious harm. By understanding this hybrid system, we can evaluate its effects and gain new insight into the sources of social and racial disparities in health outcomes.
Download or read book Surviving the Business of Healthcare Knowledge is Power written by Barbara Galutia Regis, M.S., PA-C and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2018-11-21 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Healthcare has changed immensely over the past few generations—house calls from a local family doctor are a thing of the past, and the deeply personal relationships and bonds between provider and patient are eroding with the demands of for-profit insurance. As a family practitioner focused on cradle-to-grave care, author Barb Regis has a valuable perspective on how patients can experience better outcomes. Topics addressed in this information-packed book include how to choose a primary care physician, how to plan for catastrophic healthcare costs, how to comparison shop for medication, and how to be an effective advocate for yourself and loved ones. As the daughter of a busy family doctor, Barb also shares vivid anecdotes from her childhood which illuminate the heart of a doctor’s calling and demonstrate how insurance can dictate and interfere with quality of care. This book is a must-read for everyone who wants to make informed, effective decisions about healthcare—knowledge is power!
Download or read book Explaining Divergent Levels of Longevity in High Income Countries written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2011-06-27 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the last 25 years, life expectancy at age 50 in the United States has been rising, but at a slower pace than in many other high-income countries, such as Japan and Australia. This difference is particularly notable given that the United States spends more on health care than any other nation. Concerned about this divergence, the National Institute on Aging asked the National Research Council to examine evidence on its possible causes. According to Explaining Divergent Levels of Longevity in High-Income Countries, the nation's history of heavy smoking is a major reason why lifespans in the United States fall short of those in many other high-income nations. Evidence suggests that current obesity levels play a substantial part as well. The book reports that lack of universal access to health care in the U.S. also has increased mortality and reduced life expectancy, though this is a less significant factor for those over age 65 because of Medicare access. For the main causes of death at older ages-cancer and cardiovascular disease-available indicators do not suggest that the U.S. health care system is failing to prevent deaths that would be averted elsewhere. In fact, cancer detection and survival appear to be better in the U.S. than in most other high-income nations, and survival rates following a heart attack also are favorable. Explaining Divergent Levels of Longevity in High-Income Countries identifies many gaps in research. For instance, while lung cancer deaths are a reliable marker of the damage from smoking, no clear-cut marker exists for obesity, physical inactivity, social integration, or other risks considered in this book. Moreover, evaluation of these risk factors is based on observational studies, which-unlike randomized controlled trials-are subject to many biases.
Download or read book Surviving Health Care written by Thomasine Kimbrough Kushner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-03-29 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Letter to patients : on becoming the "good" patient and finding the "right" doctor / Leonard C. Groopman -- Becoming an active member of your health care team / William A. Norcross -- Information that will help you with advance planning for your health care / Mark R. Wicclair -- Responding to medical emergencies / Kenneth V. Iserson -- What you need to know about medical errors / Erica S. Friedman and Rosamond Rhodes -- Being informed when you give consent to medical care / Ben A. Rich -- Beware of scorecards / James J. Strain and Rosamond Rhodes -- Transplantation 101 : negotiating the system / Aaron Spital and Steven Smith -- When the illness is psychiatric / Leonard C. Groopman -- On the horizon : genetic testing / Robyn S. Shapiro -- To be or not to be, a research subject / Eric M. Meslin and Peter H. Schwartz -- Information that will help you make health care decisions for adult family members / Mark R. Wicclair -- Caring for individuals with Alzheimer's : ethical issues along the way / Robyn S. Shapiro -- When the patient is a child / Timothy S. Yeh -- Care of elders / Claudia Landau and Guy Micco -- Being and thinking / Ilina Singh [und weitere] -- A patient's guide to pain management / Ben A. Rich -- The hardest decisions : when treatment stops working / Timothy E. Quill and Mindy Shah -- What you need to know about disasters / Griffin Trotter -- Making the internet work for you : researching your health questions / Bette Anton.
Download or read book Fatal Care written by Sanjaya Kumar and published by Interface Publications. This book was released on 2008 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Surviving Your Doctors written by Richard S. Klein and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2010-01-16 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surviving Your Doctors, with its in-depth explanations, guidance, and direction will be the basic training manual patients need to work their way through the health care maze. It serves as a map of the medical minefield, told from the perspective of a doctor yet designed to reveal the faults in the system and the things that can and do go wrong during the course of both routine and special procedures and office visits. Filled with real stories of medical mishaps, anecdotes, and checklists, this book will walk readers through major areas of the medical world - from the doctor's office to the pharmacy, from the laboratory to the ER - giving them a clearer picture of how things really work, what health care workers really think, and how to take back control of their health and the care they receive.
Download or read book The Cost of Being Sick written by Nicholas J. Webb and published by . This book was released on 2003-06 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lousy nutritional habits, a ?treatment vs. prevention? medical industry mindset, and the high cost of paying for prescription drugs are all merging to create a health care ?perfect storm? that will, if left unattended, swallow the health care industry whole and take a lot of Americans down with it.Healthcare futurist and medical product inventor Nicholas J. Webb, explores seven key predictions regarding the future?and the reality?of America?s current health care system. Based on current studies, The Cost of Being Sick follows today?s trends to their logical finales.Avoiding this imminent crash, however, can be done. With health benefits slipping while the cost of treatments continues to escalate all in the face of poor health routines that feed the disease process, there is only one possible course of action. Each of us must accept the responsibility for our own health?not only for ourselves, but for our children as well.And here?s the silver-lining: Not only does The Cost of Being Sick expose the cause of our failing health care system, but it also presents the cure. And the cure promises more than just relief from the problems we are facing. This cure also promises a better lifestyle and a strengthened financial position.So what exactly is ?the cost of being sick?? The price is more than you will want to pay?but it is a bill you can avoid.
Download or read book Self Care for Allied Health Professionals written by Alison Battye and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Self-Care for Allied Health Professionals brings together a collection of self-care strategies into one easy-to-read volume, supporting Allied Health Professionals to do the best for their patients by caring for themselves. The book offers information and practical strategies to look after your physical and emotional wellbeing at home and in the workplace, exploring topics such as sleep and food, resilience and meditation, stress, conflict and adversity. Written to be a flexible tool that can be read cover to cover or dipped in and out of as needed, it offers rapid response self-care strategies alongside more lasting changes, supporting practitioners to make small steps to build healthy habits for the future. Key features of this book include: –– A combination of quick response strategies, like a five-minute breathing exercise you can use before a difficult meeting, and opportunities for deeper work, examining your purpose and aligning your role with your values. –– Combines ancient practices of meditation and mindfulness with the latest research on nutrition, exercise, sleep and wellbeing. –– Consideration of the challenges professionals face in the context of pandemics and a changing health and social care landscape, helping you to thrive in a challenging world. Self-care has never been more important. This is a book that every Allied Health Professional and trainee should have on their desk, to improve productivity, enhance job satisfaction and build resilience for whatever the future brings.
Download or read book Surviving Work in Healthcare written by Elizabeth Cotton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-08 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book takes as its starting point the crisis of healthcare in the UK: impossible health targets managed through command and control management and a stomach-churning rise in racism, whistleblowing and victimisation in the NHS. The use of nationally set productivity targets combined with austerity cuts have increasingly put clinical best-practice into direct conflict with funding. Health targets have become politically controlled, and performance has become a cynical exercise in ticking boxes, cascaded within trusts and bulldozed through frontline services. This has led directly to a precarious system of employment relations, subject to the continual restructuring of services rather than the goal of creating functioning interdisciplinary teams that stand a chance of capturing clinical excellence. This book is written for workers and managers who are on the frontline of the battle for decent healthcare. The content of this book is based on the ‘ordinary’ expertise of the people who are actually surviving it and helpful ideas about making the best out of a bad lot. Surviving Work in Healthcare will be of interest to healthcare professionals and anyone working on the frontline of healthcare as well as students of management, human resources and psychology.
Download or read book Surviving in Health Care written by Dieter R. Enzmann and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A physician's guide to the trends that are changing medical practice. Written by a clinical physician who understands both medicine and business, this book can help physicians understand the changes in health care, and reasons for them. It will guide in formulation of a plan to survive and practice in today's environment, and in the future. 34 illus.
Download or read book The Public Health Crisis Survival Guide written by Joshua M. Sharfstein and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-09-27 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Firefighters are taught to battle flames. Police learn to respond quickly to 911 calls. So why are so few health officials prepared for public health crises? Updated to consider the COVID-19 pandemic, The Public Health Crisis Survival Guide is here to help. Whether it's an infectious disease outbreak, a scathing news report, or a sudden budget calamity, this book gives public health readers an honest and practical overview of what to do when things go wrong -- not just to survive, but to lead and thrive in the most difficult circumstances. With examples drawn from history, recent headlines, and the author's own experience at the local, state, and federal levels, this book covers: · how to recognize, manage, and communicate in a crisis · how to pivot from managing a crisis to advocating for long-term policy change that can prevent the crisis from happening again · how to awaken a sense of crisis on a longstanding problem to generate momentum for change · taboo topics, including whether and how to apologize for mistakes Written by a voice of experience, practicality, good humor, and an eye toward the recent COVID-19 pandemic, The Public Health Crisis Survival Guide will be a source of enrichment and reassurance for the next generation of public health students and practitioners.
Download or read book The Healthcare Survival Guide written by Martin B. Rosen and published by Health Advocate Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a full range of resources and solutions to help consumers and employers find government and private healthcare coverage, affordable healthcare services, and wellness strategies.
Download or read book Strategies to Improve Cardiac Arrest Survival written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cardiac arrest can strike a seemingly healthy individual of any age, race, ethnicity, or gender at any time in any location, often without warning. Cardiac arrest is the third leading cause of death in the United States, following cancer and heart disease. Four out of five cardiac arrests occur in the home, and more than 90 percent of individuals with cardiac arrest die before reaching the hospital. First and foremost, cardiac arrest treatment is a community issue - local resources and personnel must provide appropriate, high-quality care to save the life of a community member. Time between onset of arrest and provision of care is fundamental, and shortening this time is one of the best ways to reduce the risk of death and disability from cardiac arrest. Specific actions can be implemented now to decrease this time, and recent advances in science could lead to new discoveries in the causes of, and treatments for, cardiac arrest. However, specific barriers must first be addressed. Strategies to Improve Cardiac Arrest Survival examines the complete system of response to cardiac arrest in the United States and identifies opportunities within existing and new treatments, strategies, and research that promise to improve the survival and recovery of patients. The recommendations of Strategies to Improve Cardiac Arrest Survival provide high-priority actions to advance the field as a whole. This report will help citizens, government agencies, and private industry to improve health outcomes from sudden cardiac arrest across the United States.
Download or read book Surviving Health Care written by Thomasine Kushner and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a tool to help patients and families deal rationally with the perplexing and often irrational world of healthcare.
Download or read book Surviving and Thriving with an Invisible Chronic Illness written by Ilana Jacqueline and published by New Harbinger Publications. This book was released on 2018-03-01 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An important antidote to the dogmatic ‘kale and vitamins’ tone of most ‘self-help’ literature.” —Alexa Tsoulis-Reay, senior writer, New York magazine Popular blogger Ilana Jacqueline offers smart and savvy advice, humor, and practical tips for living with an invisible chronic illness. Do you live with a chronic, debilitating, yet invisible condition? You may feel isolated, out of step, judged, lonely, or misunderstood—and that’s on top of dealing with the symptoms of your actual illness. Take heart. You are not alone, although sometimes it can feel that way. Written by a blogger who suffers from an invisible chronic illness, Surviving and Thriving with an Invisible Chronic Illness offers peer-to-peer support to help you stay sane, be your own advocate, and get back to living your life. This compelling guide is written for anyone suffering with an illness no one can see—such as postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS), chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), fibromyalgia, multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS), Lyme disease, lupus, dysautonomia, or even multiple sclerosis (MP). This book will tell you everything you need to know about living with a complicated, invisible condition—from how to balance sex, dating, and relationships to handling work and school with unavoidable absences. You’ll also learn to navigate judg-y or skeptical relatives and strangers and—most importantly—manage your medical care. Suffering from a chronic illness doesn’t mean you can’t live an active, engaged life. This book will show you how.
Download or read book Surviving Healthcare written by Cristy Kessler and published by . This book was released on 2016-03-07 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published originally under the title 5 S.T.E.P.S. to Being Your Own Patient Advocate, this second edition sports a new title, a new cover, and a new focus. In an increasingly complex U.S. healthcare system, patients suffering from chronic illness are not always well served. Surviving Healthcare: 5 STEPS to Cutting Through the BS, Getting the Treatment You Need, and Saving Your Life does exactly what the title promises. Dr. Cristy Kessler shares her five-step protocol for navigating a difficult medical journey, providing strategies that patients and their caregivers can easily put into practice as they strive with their doctors for a positive outcome. The author describes each step, illustrating them from her own experience in surviving three deadly autoimmune diseases. At a time when the medical community had given up on her, Kessler doubled down and took charge of her healthcare needs. Working with a powerful team of doctors, she cut through the BS that is oh-so-familiar to patients with chronic illnesses, and not only found her diagnoses, she identified the most effective treatment, and ultimately got that treatment-a treatment that saved her life. The five steps are really very simple: Sensibility (knowing what your body is telling you and successfully communicating that to doctors), Teamwork (working proactively with your doctors and your network of supportive family and friends), Education (searching and researching issues related to your illnesses and helping your busy doctors find the treatment you need), Perseverance and Patience (knowing when to push for answers from the medical community and knowing when to slow down and give your doctors time to work with you), and, finally, Sustainability (maintaining a positive attitude, taking care of your physical and spiritual needs both before and after treatment). The life preserver image on the cover is more than a metaphor; the five steps described in this book offer patients with chronic illnesses and their loved ones real hope for the future. Through this book, Kessler tosses you a lifeline, that is, a series of strategies designed to keep you afloat in what might be a sea of despair and to bring you safely to the shore.
