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“kathy gerwig”

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  • Greening Health Care

    How Hospitals Can Heal the Planet

    by Kathy Gerwig ...
    The relationship between hospitals and the environment is defined by a glaring contradiction: as health care facilities deliver care at any cost, their environmental footprint -- pollution, waste production, unsustainable food services -- contributes to harming community health. Greening Health Care examines the intersections of health care and environmental health, both in terms of traditional ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

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  • The Patient Will See You Now

    The Future of Medicine is in Your Hands

    by Eric Topol ...
    **The essential guide to how digital technology enables all of us to take charge of our health“Dr. Topol’s vision is compelling, combining an empowering view of technology with the recognition that medicine requires something more.”―Wall Street Journal**A trip to the doctor is almost a guarantee of misery: you make an appointment months in advance, wait for several hours when you arrive, talk to a ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Decision Modelling for Health Economic Evaluation

    by Andrew Briggs, Mark Sculpher, Karl Claxton ...
    Series series Handbooks in Health Economic Evaluation
    In financially constrained health systems across the world, increasing emphasis is being placed on the ability to demonstrate that health care interventions are not only effective, but also cost-effective. This book deals with decision modelling techniques that can be used to estimate the value for money of various interventions including medical devices, surgical procedures, diagnostic ... Read more

    $62.09 USD

  • Ultimate Health

    Finding It

    by Clarence A Guenter ...
    Western health related industries employ more people, consume more money, and have more dependent adherents than any other activity involving the entire population. Since the early 1900s, life expectancy at birth has increased from about 50 years to the low 80s. However, not all interventions have been effective, and many have caused harm. Trendy dogmas commonly drive health practices. We are ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Carpal Tunnel Helpbook

    by Scott Fried ...
    There are more than 500,000 carpal tunnel surgeries done annually in the United States but approximately 30 percent of these patients will be no better as a result. The truth is, most physicians are too quick to consider surgery as the first line of defense against carpal tunnel and other repetitive-strain injuries. In this comprehensive guide to recognizing and treating these debilitating ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Andy & Me and the Hospital

    Further Adventures on the Lean Journey

    by Pascal Dennis ...
    Based on the author's years of experience working with Toyota’s master teachers and with companies in the midst of great change, this book follows the story established in the Shingo Prize-winning book, Andy & Me: Crisis & Transformation on the Lean Journey.In a cool and readable style, Andy & Me and the Hospital: Further Adventures on the Lean Journey follows Tom Pappas's relationship with Andy ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

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  • Managing Health Services - E-Book

    Concepts and Practice

    Edited by Mary G. Harris, PhD, MPH, GradDipHlthAdmin, FCHSE ...
    Managing Health Service: Concepts and Practice 2nd edition E-book provides a valuable practice resource for the health service management students and managers. While new concepts and strategies of multidisciplinary health service management and leadership have been added, the focus remains on providing comprehensive coverage of management topics and issues faced by health services managers.The ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • The Good Doctor

    What Patients Want

    by Ron Paterson ...
    Drawing upon real accounts of negligence, incompetence, and distrust, this book seeks to identify the key competencies of a good doctor, the ways in which medical care fails, and the roadblocks to ensuring that every licensed doctor is capable. Arguing that it is possible to improve patient care—by lifting the veils of secrecy and better informing patients, by establishing more effective ways of ... Read more

    $23.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Policy and Strategy for Improving Health and Wellbeing

    Edited by Lesley Coles, Elizabeth Porter ...
    Series series Transforming Public Health Practice Series
    As health policy at a national level has ever increasing impact on local health services, it is essential that public health students understand how the development and implementation of policy and strategy provide the framework for improving quality, innovation, productivity and prevention in the delivery of healthcare.The book is divided into two sections, with section one covering a strategic ... Read more

    $70.19 USD

  • From This Moment On

    A Guide for Those Recently Diagnosed with Cancer

    by Arlene Cotter ...
    So, it's official. You've been diagnosed with cancer. And from this moment on your life will neverbe the same. No matter how much others may wish to help, you alone must initiate the journey. This is the first step.From This Moment On offers its hand to anyone dealing with cancer.Following a positive cancer diagnosis,you may feel overwhelmed and uncertain about the future. From This Moment On ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Values-Based Interprofessional Collaborative Practice

    Working Together in Health Care

    by Jill E. Thistlethwaite ...
    Series series Values-Based Practice
    The provision of care within the context of the modern health service environment involves a wide range of professionals. The health care team might include general practitioners, nurses, midwives, hospital doctors, physiotherapists, other allied health professionals, as well as receptionists and practice managers. To optimise delivery of care at both individual and population levels, team members ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Fads, Fallacies And Foolishness In Medical Care Management And Policy

    by Theodore R Marmor ...
    No one misses the onslaught of claims about reforming modern medical care. How doctors should be paid, how hospitals should be paid or governed, how much patients should pay when sick in co-payments, how the quality of care could be improved, and how governments and other buyers could better control the costs of care — all find expression in the explosion of medical care conference proceedings, op ... Read more

    $17.09 USD