Edited by Zili Sloboda 2005 The field of drug abuse epidemiology is emergent and its development has been influenced greatly by the stigma attached to the phenomenon of study. Affected populations are often “hidden” and studies of these groups warrant non-traditional epidemiological approaches.
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Richard K. Thomas 2006 During the last years of the 20th century health professionals developed a growing appreciation of the critical role that communication plays in healthcare. The communication of information among the various players in healthcare has always been taken as a given.
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Steven H. Zarit • Ronda C. Talley Editors 2013 Over the past 30 years, family caregiving has captured the public’s attention and that of the research community as well. The media frequently portrays the challenges and heartbreak of ordinary people and celebrities alike who are struggling with the care of a parent or spouse.
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Benjamin Gray 2012 This book, as the title suggests, draws from the everyday experiences as well as the harsh realities facing people on the frontline. The book recounts the stories and sometimes disturbing emotions of people whose lives have undergone sudden change or even drastic trauma and people whose feelings of comfort and safety have been shattered by exposure […]
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Malka Margalit 2010 Self-Perceptions, Social Exclusion, and Hope Loneliness is a painful and distressful experience. It signals the existence of a failure in the valued area of personal perceptions and interpersonal relationships. It affects children’s and adolescents’ quality of life and represents a developmental risk for future adjustment.
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Andrew Steptoe Editor 2010 Methods and Applications Behavioral medicine emerged in the 1970s as the interdisciplinary field concerned with the integration of behavioral, psychosocial, and biomedical science knowledge relevant to the understanding of health and illness, and the application of this knowledge to prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation. The Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research was founded in 1978 as a […]
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Louise Cummings 2010 A Study of Scientific Reasoning under Uncertainty Uncertainty is a well trodden area of intellectual inquiry.Whether we are concerned with the philosophical dimensions of this concept or the psychological strategies that human agents use to cope with uncertainty, this is not a notion that investigators can readily ignore.
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Tim Benson 2010 Health care has to cross the quality chasm, to become safer, more efficient and effective (Institute of Medicine 2001). The transformation of health care depends critically on interoperability, enabling computers to share information and deliver information from where it originates to where it is needed.
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Michael Christopher Gibbons • Rajeev Bali Nilmini Wickramasinghe Editors 2010 For the better part of the twentieth century, and now into the twenty-first century, the United States has been recognized as having one of the world’s best healthcare systems in terms of its use of leading edge techniques, technologies and application of the latest medical findings to healthcare […]
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Edited by Hajime Sato 2010 Policy and Politics of Health Risk Management in Five Countries — Asbestos and BSE The Alliance for Global Sustainability (AGS) is a unique, international partnership between four of the world’s leading science and technology universities: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The University of Tokyo, and Chalmers University of […]
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