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Comrades in Health

U.S. Health Internationalists, Abroad and at Home

by Anne-Emanuelle Birn, Theodore M. Brown, Susan Gross Solomon, Walter J. Lear, Jane Pacht Brickman, H. Jack Geiger, Victor W. Sidel, Ruth Sidel, Bernard Lown0, Howard Waitzkin1, Paula Braveman2, Stephen Gloyd3, James Pfeiffer4, Wendy Johnson5, Mary Travis Bassett6, Michael Terry7, Laura Turiano8, Alicia Ely Yamin9, Seiji Yamada0, Lanny Smith1, Jennifer Kasper2, Timothy Holtz3, Razel Remen4, Brea Bondi-Boyd5, Vicente Navarro7 ...

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Since the early twentieth century, politically engaged and socially committed U.S. health professionals have worked in solidarity with progressive movements around the world. Often with roots in social medicine, political activism, and international socialism, these doctors, nurses, and other health workers became comrades who joined forces with people struggling for social justice, equity, and ... Read more

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Since the early twentieth century, politically engaged and socially committed U.S. health professionals have worked in solidarity with progressive movements around the world. Often with roots in social medicine, political activism, and international socialism, these doctors, nurses, and other health workers became comrades who joined forces with people struggling for social justice, equity, and
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Human Factors in Healthcare

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by Debbie Rosenorn-Lanng ...

The majority of errors, litigation, and complaints in the health service are due to 'human factors', yet the term is still not widely understood and is sometimes used interchangeably to refer to team training or communication skills. Although including these, the subject of 'human factors' goes far beyond this to look at systems, environmental influences, and interactions with equipment, in ... Read more

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The majority of errors, litigation, and complaints in the health service are due to 'human factors', yet the term is still not widely understood and is sometimes used interchangeably to refer to team training or communication skills. Although including these, the subject of 'human factors' goes far beyond this to look at systems, environmental influences, and interactions with equipment, in
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Arthritis Care

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Arthritis is a chronic illness that can be difficult to manage and treat. There are many factors that can affect arthritis symptoms, and care for these symptoms can vary by the type of arthritis and the patient. An Arthritis Care study guide breaks the tasks needed to care for arthritis down into easy-to-follow steps. It organizes the information in a way that is relevant and helpful for the ... Read more

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Arthritis is a chronic illness that can be difficult to manage and treat. There are many factors that can affect arthritis symptoms, and care for these symptoms can vary by the type of arthritis and the patient. An Arthritis Care study guide breaks the tasks needed to care for arthritis down into easy-to-follow steps. It organizes the information in a way that is relevant and helpful for the
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Using Patient Reported Outcomes to Improve Health Care

by John Appleby, Nancy Devlin, David Parkin ...

A practical, introductory guide to the best use of Patient Reported Outcomes (PROs) to improve the quality of health care and patient health.Only title to exclusively introduce, explain and show how PROs can be best used to improve healthcare and patient outcomesIncludes real life examples and case studies of PROs in practiceAssesses the growing evidence base for PROs in practiceEditor team from ... Read more

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A practical, introductory guide to the best use of Patient Reported Outcomes (PROs) to improve the quality of health care and patient health.Only title to exclusively introduce, explain and show how PROs can be best used to improve healthcare and patient outcomesIncludes real life examples and case studies of PROs in practiceAssesses the growing evidence base for PROs in practiceEditor team from
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The Fertility Handbook

Everything you need to know to maximise your chance of pregnancy

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Maximise your chance of getting pregnant with this up-to-date and authoritative book that provides a clear and holistic approach to fertility. Areas including: - Understanding your body and maximising your chances of conceiving naturally as well as through complex treatments such as IVF, IUI and egg freezing - A pre-conception plan with sections on lifestyle, nutrition and the role of stress - The ... Read more

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Maximise your chance of getting pregnant with this up-to-date and authoritative book that provides a clear and holistic approach to fertility. Areas including: - Understanding your body and maximising your chances of conceiving naturally as well as through complex treatments such as IVF, IUI and egg freezing - A pre-conception plan with sections on lifestyle, nutrition and the role of stress - The
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Obstetrics and Gynecology in Low-Resource Settings

A Practical Guide

by Andre B. Lalonde, Suellen Miller, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta, Jai K. Das, L. Lewis Wall, Khady Diouf, Christin Price, Sigal Yawetz, Blair Wylie, Johanna Daily, Maria I. Rodriguez, Rengaswamy Sankaranarayanan, Rose Leonard Molina, Jennifer Scott, Julianna Schantz-Dunn, Bhavani Shankar Kodali, Dinesh Kumar Jagannathan, Sadath Ali Sayeed ...

Responding to the growing need for tried-and-trusted solutions to the reproductive health care issues confronting millions of women worldwide, Obstetrics and Gynecology in Low-Resource Settings provides practical guidelines for ensuring the delivery of quality OB/GYN care to women in resource-poor countries. Including contributions from leading clinicians and researchers in the field, this welcome ... Read more

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Responding to the growing need for tried-and-trusted solutions to the reproductive health care issues confronting millions of women worldwide, Obstetrics and Gynecology in Low-Resource Settings provides practical guidelines for ensuring the delivery of quality OB/GYN care to women in resource-poor countries. Including contributions from leading clinicians and researchers in the field, this welcome
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Prevention is Better than Cure

Learning from Adverse Events in Healthcare

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Adverse events occur in healthcare with worrying and surprising frequency and, of these, a substantial portion are preventable. This highly-readable book, translated and update from the original Dutch edition, presents 15 model case studies which have been carefully designed to explore common themes in medical errors and offer learnings from those events that will guide practice to prevent similar ... Read more

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Adverse events occur in healthcare with worrying and surprising frequency and, of these, a substantial portion are preventable. This highly-readable book, translated and update from the original Dutch edition, presents 15 model case studies which have been carefully designed to explore common themes in medical errors and offer learnings from those events that will guide practice to prevent similar
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Unequal Health

The Scandal of Our Times

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Health inequalities are the most important inequalities of all. In the US and the UK these inequalities have now reached an extent not seen for over a century. Most people's health is much better now than then, but the gaps in life expectancy between regions, between cities, and between neighbourhoods within cities now surpass the worst measures over the last hundred years. In almost all other ... Read more

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Health inequalities are the most important inequalities of all. In the US and the UK these inequalities have now reached an extent not seen for over a century. Most people's health is much better now than then, but the gaps in life expectancy between regions, between cities, and between neighbourhoods within cities now surpass the worst measures over the last hundred years. In almost all other
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Bioscience - Lost in Translation?

How precision medicine closes the innovation gap

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Medical innovation as it stands today is fundamentally unsustainable. There is a widening gap between what biomedical research promises and the impact that it is currently achieving, in terms of patient benefit and health system improvement. This book highlights the global problem of the ineffective translation of bioscience innovation into health system improvements and its consequences, analyses ... Read more

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Medical innovation as it stands today is fundamentally unsustainable. There is a widening gap between what biomedical research promises and the impact that it is currently achieving, in terms of patient benefit and health system improvement. This book highlights the global problem of the ineffective translation of bioscience innovation into health system improvements and its consequences, analyses
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A Suitable Case for Treatment: The NHS and Reform

by Norman Warner ...

The NHS is a national icon that spends a lot of taxpayer's money, sometimes wastefully. This is an account of a Labour Health Minister's involvement in reforming a reluctant NHS. It assesses Labour's stewardship of the NHS, warts and all. Drawing on this experience, it examines the Coalition Government's plans for reform, as NHS funding moves from feast to famine. The book concludes with a ... Read more

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The NHS is a national icon that spends a lot of taxpayer's money, sometimes wastefully. This is an account of a Labour Health Minister's involvement in reforming a reluctant NHS. It assesses Labour's stewardship of the NHS, warts and all. Drawing on this experience, it examines the Coalition Government's plans for reform, as NHS funding moves from feast to famine. The book concludes with a
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Doctor

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Doctor is a chronicle of the many ordinary and the fewer extraordinary people encountered by one physician during his forty years of practice. It serves as a testament to the grace, poise, and spirit manifested by so many in the midst of tragedies and triumphs, agonies and joys, and dying and living. Conversely, Doctor exposes some of the worst in some reprehensible characters who regrettably made ... Read more

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Doctor is a chronicle of the many ordinary and the fewer extraordinary people encountered by one physician during his forty years of practice. It serves as a testament to the grace, poise, and spirit manifested by so many in the midst of tragedies and triumphs, agonies and joys, and dying and living. Conversely, Doctor exposes some of the worst in some reprehensible characters who regrettably made
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Health Secrets - Part 1

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The book describes the methods how to keep liver and kidneys in healthy condition. The first part describes liver: its functions, sources and signs of dysfunction of its work, the prevention and treatment recommendations. The second part is dedicated to kidneys: its correct functioning, the reasons of diseases, the ways of resumption of its correct work. The third part describes the myths about ... Read more

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The book describes the methods how to keep liver and kidneys in healthy condition. The first part describes liver: its functions, sources and signs of dysfunction of its work, the prevention and treatment recommendations. The second part is dedicated to kidneys: its correct functioning, the reasons of diseases, the ways of resumption of its correct work. The third part describes the myths about
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