Medicolegal issues Books

Elder abuse has been increasingly recognised over the past ten years in many countries and progress has been made in both understanding and addressing the issue. This volume provides a much-needed international overview of the topic.Opening with an...

This report explores how financial technology or fintech can help improve health systems and outcomes.A "Fintech for Health" approach integrates digital financial services with health innovations to help solve health-care affordability, quality, and...

This publication presents a study on the availability and provision of long-term care (LTC) in Sri Lanka. It discusses findings from the analysis and offers recommendations for the development of LTC systems in the country.Contributing to the development...

Mit der Ausbreitung einer neuartigen Lungenerkrankung und der damit in Verbindung stehenden Pandemie kommt es zu einer grundlegenden Veränderung der Organisation des sozialen Zusammenlebens. Die Veränderungsprozesse betreffen viele Lebensbereiche und...

In the 1970s, most Western nations began to shift the emphasis of health care provision from treatment to prevention. While originally motivated by the rise of lifestyle diseases, the emergence of the new public health policy mainly involves a new way to...

The work examines the effect of antidepressants on the employment of HIV-positive persons receiving highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART). It uses U.S. panel data (1996-2004) from the Women’s Inter­agency HIV Study (WIHS) and the Multicenter AIDS...

The patient-clinician interface is the most sacrosanct space in healthcare.How well we inhabit that space informs how well we deliver care.A system is perfectly designed to deliver the results it does, so if those results include preventable errors -...

Awarded first place in the 2022 AJN Book of the Year Awards in both Child Health and History and Public Policy!When a patient or family refuses treatment-maybe even lifesaving treatment-because it is contrary to their social, religious, or cultural...

From employment laws and hiring practices to managing performance, enforcing discipline and ensuring patient satisfaction and safety, you need well-defined and painless-to-implement HR policies and procedures.In this updated edition of MGMA's popular HR...

Hospitals and the State: With an Account of the Nursing at London Hospitals and Statistical Tables (1881) by Henry Charles Burdett is a historical account of the state of hospitals in England during the late 19th century. The book provides an in-depth...

Medical Problems of Immigration is a book published in 1913 by the American Academy of Medicine. The book focuses on the health issues that arise from immigration and the challenges that healthcare professionals face in dealing with these issues. It...

L'Occhiale All'Occhio Dioptrica Pratica (1660) ����� un libro scritto da Carlo Antonio Manzini. Questo testo ����� incentrato sulla dioptrica, ovvero la scienza che studia la luce e la sua propagazione attraverso i mezzi ottici, come le lenti e gli...

Anasseril E. Daniel, MD, discusses suicide prevention in jails and prisons and provides tips, techniques, and guidance to save lives. The author examines the role of correctional officers and mental health professionals in identifying at-risk inmates,...

This book is a result of a ground breaking research conducted in Oromiya, Ethiopia to understand the socio-cultural underpinnings of the salient cultural practices feared to fuel the spread of HIV epidemic and affect sexual and reproductive health among...

Breast cancer continues to be one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality for women in the United States. It is estimated that every three minutes a woman is diagnosed with breast cancer and every twelve minutes a woman dies from this disease...

The World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control is a closed shop. It suffers strategic and resource weaknesses. The result is more harm to tobacco consumers than would otherwise be the case. As long as the sole strategy is supply...

In his travels, Dr. Hugues Fidele Batsielilit, has worked with health clinics and public health programs in professional capacities observing the intersectionality of the human condition, government, technology, politics, and disease. His observations...

In a world devastated by war, cyber-attacks, disease, and natural disasters, over half the global population cannot obtain essential health services. The most vulnerable among us are often pushed into poverty by out-of-pocket medical costs, or left to...

Homeopathy, Allopathy, And Young Physic is a book written by John Forbes in 1846. The book discusses the differences between homeopathy and allopathy, two medical systems that were popular at the time. Forbes, a physician himself, provides a critical...

Drawing on various disciplinary perspectives, this book re-focuses the debate on what makes a good health system, with a view to clarifying the uses of social science research in thinking about health care issues in Africa. The explosion of the HIV/AIDS...

This Learner Activities Workbook is designed to work with the textbook and follows a similar format. It includes reflective questions, narratives and discussion questions, activities, quizzes, and additional resources for the chapters. Learners can use...

""Management of the Organs of Digestion: In Health and in Disease"" is a comprehensive guide to understanding the digestive system and its various ailments, written by Herbert Mayo in 1837. The book explores the anatomy and physiology of the digestive...

Die lateinamerikanische Mamá Cultiva Bewegung setzt sich für den Selbstanbau von medizinischem Cannabis ein. Die Geschichte der seit tausenden Jahren dienenden Kulturpflanze Cannabis liefert ein Beispiel, wie sehr Machtstrukturen und ökonomische...

This book describes the present awful state of India's Public Health Care Delivery, its dismal planning and implementation. It argues that it can be remedied comprehensively and effectively, using its 'own already present' resources. A radical...

This book focuses on the public policy and political/ethical dimensions of ALS/MND across a wide selection of countries and argues for the need of a multidisciplinary and international approach. Policy issues addressed include adequacy of funding for...

[TERCERA EDICIÓN] Material de autoevaluación. Son 3.000 preguntas tipo test resueltas publicadas en exámenes de oposiciones al sistema nacional de Salud y a los respectivos sistemas autonómicos. Cuaderno de apoyo al estudio en...

In bioethische Kontroversen geht es zumeist um den Umgang des Menschen mit sich selbst, genauer: den Umgang mit den biologischen Grundlagen seiner - der menschlichen - Existenz. Bioethik verweist darum immer auch auf den Begriff des Menschen und...

While research teams are producing relevant and valid knowledge for health promotion, there is not yet a structured manual and distinct field of health promotion research. This timely "state-of-the-art" handbook contributes to structuring the field of...

This book analyzes how COVID-19 impacted politics and how politics shaped the response to the pandemic in Latin America, the region which has become the epicenter of the global health crisis started in China. The volume brings together studies carried...

Using an evidence-based, critical, population health approach, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of the key errors and most effective interventions to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. It also examines the root determinants of pandemic risk on a...

This book explores various practices and policies related to ageing issues in India. It addresses ageing concerns from a theoretical and empirical viewpoint with in-depth analyses of existential dimensions of ageing. It provides deep insights into ageing...

This book discusses gerontological issues and challenges impacting the quality of life of older people in India. The chapters provide different disciplinary insights ranging from sociology, anthropology, psychology, health sciences, social work,...

This book makes an original contribution in addressing contemporary critical discussions and reflections on international health policies, strategies, programmes, systems, diseases, disasters, and public health issues. It includes reflections on how...

This collection provides a broad coverage of recent changes in medical and vocational rehabilitation in Northern Europe. It presents analyses that cut across health sciences, medical sociology, disability studies and comparative welfare state research...

Pandemics such as Covid-19, Ebola, SARS, and influenza, as well as the necessary measures for their research, prevention, and treatment, raise a number of ethical issues that confront science, the medical profession, and health policy.This overview...

Pandemien wie Covid-19, Ebola, SARS und Influenza sowie die notwendigen Maßnahmen zu ihrer Erforschung, Prävention und Behandlung werfen eine Reihe von ethischen Fragestellungen auf, mit denen Wissenschaft, Ärzteschaft und Gesundheitspolitik konfrontiert...

This book provides a general overview of intelligence in health policy, health-care organizations and health services in the light of the current EU digital agenda, which aims to make health data and e-health tools publicly available. The first part...

Drawing from a wide array of disciplinary perspectives and geographical contexts, this volume offers new insights for critically engaging with the problem of vulnerability. The essays here contained take the move from the COVID-19 pandemic, in order to...

This book discusses the development of key issues in research ethics relevant for clinical sociologists, concerning client rights to confidentiality, privacy, and informed consent. It describes the US human research protection system used by clinical and...

This book examines how governments around the world responded to the health emergency created by the COVID-19 pandemic. Before vaccines became available, non-medical interventions were the main means to protect the public. Non-medical interventions were...

This book presents an important reflection on the concept and limits of the Fundamental Right to Health as opposed to a supposed "Right to Hope" in the context of the treatment of patients with advanced cancer. The central idea of the work is the...

In this book, the history of the Brazilian Psychiatric Reform is told by one of its main protagonists. In the early 1980s, there were about 80 thousand people admitted to psychiatric hospitals in Brazil, with average lengths of hospital stay of...

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) also known as sexual and gender minority (SGM) populations have been the focus of global attention. Most importantly, LGBT populations have been addressed in the context of human rights in multiple reports...

Applying a trans-disciplinary approach, this book provides a comprehensive, research-based guide to understanding, implementing, and strengthening sustainable community health in diverse international settings. By examining the interdependence of...