General Medicine

"Presents a comprehensive overview of the current state of health care and availability worldwide. Focuses on the appraoch to the provision of quality, cost-effective health care systems by ""established"" and developing member countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (..

Crossing geographical boundaries to outline the logical steps of health operations management, this original textbook focuses on the management of patient flows and resources, and features discussions of related fields...

Crossing geographical boundaries to outline the logical steps of health operations management, this original textbook focuses on the management of patient flows and resources, and features discussions of related fields...

Herpes is a condition capable of causing considerable distress, mostly for psychological and social reasons. This text contrasts the media image with medical and epidemiological evidence and discusses ways distress can be alleviated. It is aimed at sufferers, doctors and other health professionals...

This fourth edition of How Drugs Work equips readers with a set of clear concepts for matching the pharmacology to the diagnosis, and has been completely revised and updated to reflect the latest knowledge and terminology. Rather than providing overwhelmingly comprehensive information, it condenses ..

Recognizing the explosive growth in information on intravenous immunoglobulins (IVIGs), this exhaustive single-source volume surveys all available literature on the employment of IVIG preparations in clinical practice from pharmacoeconomics and pharmacokinetics to prophylaxis and management of infec..

Dietary factors have been implicated in at least four of the ten leading causes of death in the U.S. Nevertheless, physicians frequently receive inadequate training in nutrition to properly counsel their patients. Since the publication of the second edition of this book, new discoveries have revolut..

Service users are increasingly involved in health and social care research, this edited collection provides examples of research methods with service users along a continuum of involvement as participants through to service user-led research...

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The Last Years of Long Lives is a unique account of that period of old age which precedes death. Based on 400 complete individual histories and covering a twenty-year period, it looks at the experiences of people over eighty years old in three three important areas: disability, family life and healt..

The Last Years of Long Lives is a unique account of that period of old age which precedes death. Based on 400 complete individual histories and covering a twenty-year period, it looks at the experiences of people over eighty years old in three three important areas: disability, family life and healt..

It is increasingly necessary for health and social care professionals to take on a variety of leadership roles in interprofessional teams. In this book, the authors use detailed case studies to explore and analyze the skills needed to enable readers to develop into successful leaders in diverse sett..