Category Archives: Health Care Delivery

Food and Western Disease: Health and nutrition from an evolutionary perspective

Posted on February 26, 2010 by singleton

Nutrition science is a highly fractionated, contentious field with rapidly changing viewpoints on both minor and major issues impacting on public health. With an evolutionary perspective as its basis, this exciting book provides a framework by which the discipline can … Continue reading →

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Supporting People with Dementia Using Pervasive Health Technologies (Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing)

Posted on February 26, 2010 by singleton

Information and communication technologies can provide new paradigms in healthcare provision. In particular, new Pervasive Healthcare technologies can revolutionise the dynamics of healthcare, enabling people to remain at home for longer with lower costs to health and welfare organisations. This … Continue reading →

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Statistical and Methodological Aspects of Oral Health Research (Statistics in Practice)

Posted on February 26, 2009 by singleton

Statistical and Methodological Aspects of Oral Health Research provides oral health researchers with an overview of the methodological aspects that are important in planning, conducting and analyzing their research projects whilst also providing biostatisticians with an idea of the statistical … Continue reading →

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Contagion and Chaos: Disease, Ecology, and National Security in the Era of Globalization

Posted on February 26, 2009 by singleton

Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2009. Historians from Thucydides to William McNeill have pointed to the connections between disease and civil society. Political scientists have investigated the relationship of public health to governance, introducing the concept of health security. In Contagion … Continue reading →

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Tissue and Cell Donation: An Essential Guide

Posted on February 26, 2009 by singleton

This is the guide to tissue and cell donation that you have been waiting for. Policies and practices reviewed using specific donor case histories as examples Multidisciplinary, multi-national team of editors and contributors, with expertise in ethics, consent, transplantation, microbiology … Continue reading →

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AIDS and Business (Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies)

Posted on February 25, 2009 by singleton

The spread of HIV/AIDS affects businesses in all sectors, all industries and all countries. For companies and organizations everywhere, the question is no longer whether to take action on HIV/AIDS but which actions to take.Complete with an impressive collection ofcomplex … Continue reading →

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AIDS, Sex, and Culture: Global Politics and Survival in Southern Africa

Posted on February 25, 2009 by singleton

AIDS, Sex, and Culture is a revealing examination of the impact the AIDS epidemic in Africa has had on women, based on the author’s own extensive ethnographic research. based on the author’s own story growing up in South Africa looks … Continue reading →

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Leprosy and Empire: A Medical and Cultural History (Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories)

Posted on February 25, 2009 by singleton

An innovative, interdisciplinary study of why leprosy, a disease with a very low level of infection, has repeatedly provoked revulsion and fear. Rod Edmond explores, in particular, how these reactions were refashioned in the modern colonial period. Beginning as a … Continue reading →

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High Performance Healthcare: Using the Power of Relationships to Achieve Quality, Efficiency and Resilience

Posted on February 25, 2009 by singleton

In her groundbreaking book The Southwest Airlines Way, Jody Hoffer Gittell revealed the management secrets of the company Fortune magazine called “the most successful airline in history.” Now, the bestselling business author explains how to apply those same principles in … Continue reading →

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Quantitative Methods in Health Care Management: Techniques and Applications (J-B Public Health/Health Services Text)

Posted on February 25, 2009 by singleton

Thoroughly revised and updated for Excel®, this second edition of Quantitative Methods in Health Care Management offers a comprehensive introduction to quantitative methods and techniques for the student or new administrator. Its broad range of practical methods and analysis spans … Continue reading →

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