A comprehensive guide to careers in health administration, ranging from entry-level management positions to the most senior executive opportunities. This second edition has been updated throughout and includes three new chapters that will assist students and healthcare managers alike. The book includes over 40 new interviews spanning those in ......
Provides an extensive overview of the numerous career options in public health and the many different roads to get there. This book will help you plan your education so you can get the job you want. And if you decide, now or later, that you want to change careers, it will help you see where you can apply the skills you already have.
From the authors of the award-winning Meeting the Leadership Challenge in Long-Term Care, this book provides a blueprint for success in today's performance-based healthcare system. It presents a tested approach to delivering optimal care to each resident using a proven, coordinated bundle of key practices.
Stereo EEG has revolutionized the way invasive EEG explorations are performed, facilitating the assessment of more complex cases with increased precision, a lower surgical risk, and better patient outcomes. This is the first dedicated reference on stereoelectroencephalography written for trainees, physicians, and technologists.
Focuses on five general issues of health care for elderly population: the meaning of old age, the goals of medicine and health care for the elderly, the balance between the needs of the young and old, the pressures of other social priorities, and the role of families, especially the burden on women, in long-term care.
Transnational Travel and Access to Abortion Services
Safe, legal, and affordable abortion is widely recognized as an essential medical service for women across the world. When access to that service is denied or restricted, women are compelled to carry unwanted pregnancies to term, seek backstreet abortionists, attempt self-induced abortions, or even travel to less restrictive states, provinces, ......
According to a Institute of Medicine report, as many as 98,000 Americans die each year as a result of medical error - a figure higher than deaths from automobile accidents, or breast cancer. This book examines how conventional structures of accountability in law and medical structure should be replaced by ethically informed institutional policies.
