Health systems and services Books

Mental retardation in the United States is currently defined as " ... signif­ icantly subaverage general intellectual functioning existing concurrently with deficits in adaptive behavior, and manifested during the development...

Within the past two decades, there has been an increased interest in the study of culture and mental health relationships. This interest has extended across many academic and professional disciplines, including anthropology,...

The aging of society is a growing concern in all advanced nations, and at the forefront of concern is long-term care for frail older people. Enactment of a new public long-term care insurance program by the Japanese government...

In April of 1991, 425 partICIpants from 18 countries met in Hamamatsu in Japan for the 6th International Symposium on Computing in Anesthesia and Intensive Care (lSCAIC). The meeting was one of the most spectacular academic and...

Vascular diseases, particularly atherosclerosis, are the most frequent and critical underlying fatal disorders in the industrialized world. Cardiovascular deaths are the leading cause of death in the Western world. Although...

First of all, I would like to share the great pleasure of the successful five-day symposium with every participant in the 5th Iketani Conference which was held in Kagoshima from April1S (Tuesday) to 22 (Saturday), 1995...

The question facing anyone contemplating a book on low back pain is : Why write another book? It is certainly true that there are many books on this topic addressing a wide variety of audiences. Some books are all inclusive and...

Knapp und praxisorientiert beschreibt das Handbuch die wichtigsten Erkrankungen im Alter.o Morphologische und pathophysiologische Grundlagen der Erkrankungen, Symptome und adäquate Theorieno Besonders ausführlich:...

Ein Screening auf angeborene endokrine und metabole Störungen ermöglicht die Früherkennung von Krankheiten wie Hypothyreose, AGS (adrenogenitales Syndrom), Phenylketonurie, Galaktosämie, Biotinidasemangel, Cystische Fibrose...

Dieses Buch gibt praxistaugliche Antworten auf sämtliche Fragestellungen, die sich dem niedergelassenen Arzt im Rahmen seiner beruflichen Tätigkeit stellen. Diese Frage- und Problemstellungen wirken sich oftmals in erheblichem Maße aus - sei es...

Benign prostate syndrome (BPS) affects more than half of all men over the age of 50. It is often suppressed for a long time, especially because the corresponding examinations are shied away from. Therapy is varied, and many treatment options have been...

Einleitung.- Definition und Symptome.- Ursachen und Pathogenese.- Diagnose und Differentialdiagnose.- Therapie und Monitoring.- Verlauf und Prognose.- Medikamentenliste und Literatur

Nutrition and exercise are the cornerstones of our health. But why actually? What exactly do weight training and endurance sports do? And how do certain foods influence our metabolism? How does sore muscles actually develop?The author, a chemist and...

This book shows concrete techniques and exercises of psychological pain management, with which it is possible to reduce pain permanently. It is aimed at all pain patients who want to actively manage pain and at all therapists and doctors who want to...

Psychosomatic diagnostics and therapy are of increasing importance in the acute treatment, prevention and rehabilitation of cardiovascular diseases. The connection between heart disease and the psyche as well as the psychosocial...

Freundlich, aber bestimmt.- Die drei Rahmen gelungener Kommunikation.- Jeder Mensch tickt anders.- Beschwerde als Chance.- Dein Wunsch geht in Erfüllung.- Vorwürfe, Angriffe und Widerstände.- Was tu ich wenn ...?.- In aller Kürze.- Lösungen.

Das Werk kommentiert die Musterberufsordnung, also das Berufsrecht der Ärztinnen und Ärzte in Deutschland. Die Neuauflage arbeitet die Änderungen, die der 125. Deutsche Ärztetag beschlossen hat, ein.Die Berufsordnung für Ärztinnen und Ärzte bleibt auch...

Als Schmerzpatient müssen Sie ggf. regelmäßig Schmerzmedikamente einnehmen, um den Alltag bewältigen zu können. Dieser Ratgeber erklärt verständlich die Wirkungsweise und die möglichen Risiken der verschiedenen Substanzen, wie sie richtig eingesetzt...

This book discusses current health care challenges and new strategies for innovative solutions in this area from an interdisciplinary perspective of health care management, business economics, and medicine. It presents the idea of a "boundaryless...

Dieses Buch befasst sich in 24 Beiträgen mit aktuellen Fragen des Medizin- und Haftungsrechts. Der Gesundheitssektor ist geprägt von mitunter gegenläufigen Tendenzen eines schnellen wissenschaftlichen Fortschritts, einer strengen Bedarfsplanung und...

Einleitung.- Gesundheit, Gesundheitskompetenz und Gesundheitsförderung.- Betriebliches Gesundheitsmanagement und Betriebliche Gesundheitsförderung.- Das Gesunde Unternehmen im Zeitgeist.- Das Gesunde Unternehmen: Utopie oder Dystopie?.

Wearables, Fitnesstracker, Medizin-Apps und ähnliche Analyse-Tools stehen im E-Health-Markt aktuell hoch im Kurs - sind sie aber im Hinblick auf den Datenschutz sicher? Dieses Buch bietet eine erste Orientierung im unübersichtlichen Feld der technischen...

Die Gesundheitswirtschaft expandiert. Mit ihrem Wachstum ist die Versorgung jedoch noch nicht bedarfsgerecht und sozial wie wirtschaftlich angemessen gestaltet. Ihre Steuerung erfolgt in einem Rahmen, in dem neben den Gesundheitsunternehmen die...

Dieses Buch zeigt, wie Betriebliches Gesundheitsmanagement individuell und mithilfe auf die Belegschaft und das Unternehmen abgestimmter Kommunikationsstrategien eingeführt und umgesetzt werden kann. Generell wichtig ist, dass die Führungsebene ein...

Das Handbuch leistet einen Überblick zu zentralen Themen der Gesundheitssoziologie. Die Abschnitte berücksichtigen dabei die Ebene der handelnden Akteure (Mikroebene), die Mesoebene der Organisationen sowie die Makroebene der Gesundheitssysteme und...

Within the field of general medicine, the last two decades have seen the curative procedures increasingly supplemented by func­ tions that can be summed up under the heading of "preventive health care." There is a close link...

All too frequently, the largest effective barrier to interdisciplinary communication is jargon. The symposium whose proceedings appear in the following pages sought, of course, to eliminate unnecessary and obscurantist jargon;...

Implantable jOint prostheses which have been under development for more than 25 years, are today being used with success in the rehabilitation of many cases, including patients with extremely severe joint pathology. However,...

After more than a decade of successful application of cardiac pace­ makers in the therapy of cardiac rhythm disorders, technological and clinical experience has reached a level, at which a technical survey of this field should...

Biology education, like science education in general, is in the midst of a revolution that is worldwide in scope. The changes in the ways science education researchers think about learning and understanding represent a major...

Malnutrition and its related symptoms are both frequent and deleterious effects of cancer treatment. Despite the importance of targeted nutritional interventions in ameliorating these effects, however, publications providing...

Computational Intelligence is comparatively a new field but it has made a tremendous progress in virtually every discipline right from engineering, science, business, m- agement, aviation to healthcare. Computational ...

Arguably medicine is either an arts-based science or a science-based art. In medieval times, clinical decisions were based on simple measures, such as the temperature of the body, the rhythm of the pulse, the consistency of the...

Skin lesions are often the first sign for an endocrine disease. Their description is thus of relevance for early diagnosis and treatment of endocrine disease for specialists in endocrinology as well as in dermatology. Lavishly...

to Teleradiology.- The Future of Teleradiology in Medicine Is Here Today.- Compression of Medical Images for Teleradiology.- DICOM Image Secure Communication with Internet Protocols.- Radiological Tele-immersion.- Use of a Radiology Picture Archiving and...

eHealth 2008, the First International Conference on Electronic healthcare for the twenty-first century, was held in City University, London, during September 8-9, 2008. The conference was organized as a meeting point for...

The Workgroup Human-Computer Interaction & Usability Engineering (HCI&UE) of the Austrian Computer Society (OCG) serves as a platform for interdisciplinary - change, research and development. While human-computer interaction...

This book contains the written contributions to the 4th International Sym- sium on Biomedical Simulation (ISBMS), which was held at Imperial College in London, UK, July 7-8, 2008. The manuscripts areorganizedin four di?erent...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the First VLDB 2006 International Workshop on Data Mining and Bioinformatics, VDMB 2006, held in Seoul, Korea in September 2006 in conjunction with VLDB 2006...

Computers have had and will continue to have a tremendous impact on professional activity in almost all areas. This applies to radiological medicine and in particular to radiation therapy. This book compiles the most recent...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 22nd Annual German Conference on Artificial Intelligence, KI-98, held in Bremen, Germany, in September 1998.The 16 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and...

A representative cross section of the latest work in sleep research is presented in this book based on the international symposium "Sleep and Health Risk" held in Marburg in 1989. Clinical work, basic research and methodology...