Introduction to Health Services, 6E builds on a well established format written by nationally recognized authors with updated research and statistics. This revision reflects critical updates in health care finance, health care access, managed care, insurance, and home health.
As health care and medicine have become increasingly complex, so have the organisation and structure of the health care system. This third edition, is a straightforward, uncomplicated explanation of this system: how it is structured and, perhaps more importantly, how it functions.
Written for students of health-services administration and related fields who are seeking a detailed and comprehensive introduction to the subject, this work takes an analytical approach. It is divided into functional areas: a background and historical overview of the development of health services and ambulatory care in the United States, the ...
This book examines the latest developments in theory and research in post-traumatic stress disorder. Drawing on the literature exploring personality and social psychology, it presents an integrative model of psychosocial factors affecting adjustment following traumatic stressors. It serves as an innovative contribution to the area as well as an ...
Health care industry board members are called upon to make decisions that have an enormous effect on their organizations, medical staffs, employees, and their communities. To be effective, they must understand context; the health care industry's structure and dynamics The Health Care Industry offers board members a comprehensive resource that ...
Each year, over one million Americans become stepparents when they marry parents who are divorced or whose spouses have died. "The Stepparent Challenge" provides much-needed information for parents and potential stepparents about to join two existing families through remarriage. In addition to advice on stepparenting, this honest guidebook offers ...
The main aim of this guide is to show people how to make knowledgeable decisions in choosing their health care, such as insurance, doctor and hospital. It provides information about ambulatory and long-term care and mental health services and discusses the changing roles of physicians and dentists, insurance versus pre-paid plans, assuring quality ...
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William R. Williams, Henry Ward Beecher, Henry W. Bellows, Stephen H. Tyng, Charles S. Robinson, William Ives Budington, John McClintock, A. N. Littlejohn, Theodore L. Cuyler, Joseph Parrish Thompson, and...
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