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"In 1963, President John F. Kennedy described sweeping new programs to replace "the shabby treatment of the many millions of the mentally disabled in custodial institutions" with treatment in community mental health centers. This movement, later referred to as "deinstitutionalization," continues to impact mental health care. Fifty years after Kennedy's speech, the author provides an inside perspective on the birth of the federal mental health program....
42) The Released
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1 videodisc (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Examines what happens to the hundreds of thousands of mentally ill prisoners when they leave prison and why they return at such alarming rates. Includes the intimate stories of the released, interviews with parole officers, social workers, and psychiatrists.
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Cell biology has become more popular that last few years with various types of infections being in the news. Cells of almost any kind have a basic anatomy and if you know the parts of the cell, you will have a much better understanding of what the news is talking about. I go over DNA and RNA, and introduce to you the concept of epigenetics. That is the expression of this DNA. All of the cells with a nucleus in your body has the same DNA, yet they...
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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) remains vulnerable to repeal, largely because Congress and the Supreme Court have granted each state the power to veto major provisions of the law before they take effect in 2014. The PPACA itself empowers states to block the employer mandate, to exempt many of their low- and middle-income taxpayers from the individual mandate, and to reduce federal deficit spending, simply by not establishing...
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Ce livre essai traite de trois problèmes d'actualité sur la santé:
-Les déserts médicaux,
-la gouvernance de l'hpital et des territoires,
-les urgences.
En raison de son expérience et de sa connaissance sur ces trois sujets, l'auteure a pu illustrer et conforter ses propos par des témoignages, des articles, des statistiques et des comptes rendus de recherche.
Pour plus d'objectivité, les réflexions menées s'appuient sur les textes de...
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There is increasing recognition that efforts to improve global health cannot be achieved without stronger health systems.The myriad of opportunities and challenges that come with rapid technological innovations in the medical and health ecosystem, warrant an urgent need to apply systems engineering techniques and skills to solve issues pertaining to healthcare service quality, patient safety, and healthcare cost, as means to improve healthcare systems...
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Este libro presenta la trayectoria profesional y burocrática del médico vallecaucano Jorge Bejarano Martínez (1888-1966), primer ministro de Higiene en 1947. Con el fin de sustentar el carácter histórico de Bejarano en la política y el papel que desempeñó en el proceso de higienización de Colombia durante la primera mitad del siglo XX, se profundiza en los rasgos políticos de este intelectual a partir del análisis de su pensamiento y de...
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Americans today are dying for want of freedom. Despite being told over and
over again that they are free, the truth is that Americans have little freedom
left. This is due to the rise of an oligarchy of technocrats who now rule our
society in violation of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. These people
are totalitarian technocrats. They seek complete control over individuals
and therefore, society under the guise of "public health and safety."...
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Découlant de la tension entre l'accroissement de la demande pour les soins de santé et les contraintes financières des gouvernements, l'évaluation de la performance des organisations et des systèmes de santé est une condition essentielle à la survie de ceux-ci et constitue en soi un enjeu difficile. D'une part, ces systèmes complexes dépendent fortement de leur contexte: améliorer leur performance requiert la participation de nombreux acteurs...
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A timely, insider account of an important and controversial step in British Columbia's strategic effort to respond to the overdose crisis.
British Columbia is in the middle of an opioid crisis. Since the province of British Columbia declared a public health emergency in 2016 more than 9,400 people have died of drug poisoning in BC–an average of six people a day–with nearly 1,500 apparent opioid-related deaths in the first eight months of 2022.
In...
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Patients legally own their medical records that are stored either manually or on an assortment of computers, software, and operating systems in a variety of disorganized healthcare facilities, which are spiraling healthcare costs out of control. In 1910, the Flexner Report by the Carnegie and Rockefeller Foundations, established medical education standards and licensing of qualified physicians who took the moral and ethical Hippocratic Oath to Do...
52) Deepest Love Between an Indian Husband and American Wife: Ended on Medical Negligence and Conspiracy
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Everything changed for Pradeep K. Berry on February 28, 2015.
That was the day his wife of forty-one years, Constance A. "Connie" Berry, died. He's been mourning ever since, and he seeks to cope with his loss in this tribute to his beloved spouse.
In My Connie, he celebrates their love-a love that would have never happened if he hadn't left India to go to the United States. He only had seven dollars at the time, and he could not have dreamed that...
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For more than a century, Toronto's Health Department has served as a model of evolving municipal public health services in Canada and beyond. From horse manure to hippies and small pox to AIDS, the Department's staff have established and maintained standards of environmental cleanliness and communicable disease control procedures that have made the city a healthy place to live. This centennial history analyzes the complex interaction of politics,...
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"One of Library Journal's Best Sci-Tech Books, Health Sciences category for 2009" "Recommended Reading, 2011 James A. Hamilton Award, American College of Healthcare Executives" Daniel Callahan is senior researcher and president emeritus at the Hastings Center, which he cofounded, and an elected member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. His many books include Medicine and the Market.
Why health care reform must tackle...
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The Healthcare Conversation is an inspiring read about understanding how to navigate the health system in order to become a smarter, better-informed patient-consumer. The main goal of this book is to empower readers to take their physical and financial well-being into their own hands.
This book strives to answer questions that have puzzled Americans for years:
• Why is obtaining care so expensive in the United States?
• What are the main issues...
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The result of a collaboration between the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, this NAM Special Publication summarizes and builds upon a meeting series in which a multistakeholder group of experts discussed the potential of clinical decision support (CDS) to transform care delivery by ameliorating the burden that expanding clinical knowledge and care and choice complexity...
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Public health is a very multidisciplinary profession that everyone out there are very proud to be associated with especially in this era of vast development.
We have over thousands of graduates year in and year out who are well trained, equipped and culturally diverse individuals who put programs in place to promote healthy lifestyle among the people.
Over the years, public health professionals have complained about the difficulties in getting jobs...
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For women, health is the ultimate glass ceiling.
And for too many of us, the tools we have make it impossible to "win" at health.
The fact is, almost nothing in our global health marketplace is designed to serve and heal women. From external factors like the global male-centric medical model, the predatory wellness industry, and the commoditization of traditional health practices, to internal challenges like stacked societal and familial expectations...
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Un libro necesario, urgente, en medio del pandemónium de intereses y voces supuestamente expertas.
A propósito de la pandemia, el presente texto nos exhorta a reflexionar sobre las repercusiones de esta en la economía, la sociedad y la salud, sobre el papel de las teorías conspiranoicas y negacionistas, sobre cómo se están cuestionando nuestros sistemas sanitarios públicos, qué limitaciones tienen y cómo se ha reaccionado y se está reaccionando...
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What if there were a simple, low-cost way to bring medical care to the masses?
A method that did not involve the cost of setting up costly clinics?
In the United States, almost 50 percent of our population does not have adequate access to a mental health professional. Rural areas of the country are the most severely impacted. The shift to telemedicine is poised to provide a solution.
In this book, you'll learn about:
• Telemedicine...
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