Stephen Goundrey-Smith 2008 The purpose of this book is to provide electronic prescribing (EP) systems implementers with an overview of the clinical and professional issues involved with the use of EP systems, and a discussion of the key systems design principles involved. The book does not assume any detailed clinical or IT knowledge on the part of the reader; […]
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Nicole Wolfram • Michael Rigby Michael Sjöström • Rosa Giuseppa Frazzica Wilhelm Kirch Editors 2008 Many Health Information Activities related to nutrition and physical activity have been initiated during the past years by several institutions at national and international level as well as by several European networks. A multitude of projects with different scopes and methodologies has arisen. […]
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Michael Boylan Editor 2008
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James A. Marcum 2008 An Introductory Philosophy of Medicine Today, traditional medical knowledge and practice in the United States are modeled after and depend upon the biomedical sciences and the technology derived from them. Although the biomedical model is responsible for the “miracles” of modern medicine, it often leaves many patients disenfranchised with the American healthcare system.
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Richard K. Thomas 2008 The formal recognition in the 1980s of marketing as an appropriate activity for health services providers represented an important milestone. It led to the establishment of marketing budgets and the creation of numerous new positions within healthcare organizations, culminating with the establishment of the position of vice president for marketing in many organizations.
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Stephen P. Glasser Editor 2008
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Edited by Yichen Lu M. Essex Bryan Roberts 2008 In the 1997 annual Harvard AIDS Institute think-tank meeting at the Endicott House in a suburb of Boston, Dr. Natth Bhamarapravati of Thailand reported an interesting observation: emerging infections in Asia seemed to have become a regular event. Not only had we seen new pathogens such as Nipah virus […]
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Carl Walker 2008 The Politics of Mental Health in the 21st Century When I sat down to write a book on how recent global political changes are contributing to our current prevalence and understanding of depression, a colleague and good friend asked ‘why now?’ The implication was that depression had been around for a great many years and […]
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Edited by S. William A. Gunn Michele Masellis 2008 Parallel with their spectacular and life-saving advances in biotechnology, the health sciences have been increasingly strengthening their responsibility and humanitarian action. Current inequalities, conflicts, and stresses, however, continue to disadvantage the health and well being of an unacceptably large proportion of the world’s population, whether in developing countries, in industrially […]
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William T. Choctaw 2008 A Physician’s Guide to the Law
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