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“amy benson brown”

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  • Roads to Reconciliation: Conflict and Dialogue in the Twenty-first Century

    Conflict and Dialogue in the Twenty-first Century

    by Amy Benson Brown, Karen M. Poremski ...
    Unlike other books on conflict resolution that focus on particular places and moments in history, this original work attempts to understand the process from many different perspectives and in many different contexts - from international political conflicts, to racial and religious struggles within one culture, to the internal conflicts of individuals struggling with the desire for revenge in the ... Read more

    $345.99 CAD

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  • Better Now

    Six Big Ideas to Improve Health Care for All Canadians

    by Dr. Danielle Martin ...
    Longlisted for British Columbia's National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction 2018Dr. Danielle Martin sees the challenges in our health care system every day. As a family doctor and a hospital vice president, she observes how those deficiencies adversely affect patients. And as a health policy expert, she knows how to close those gaps. A passionate believer in the value of fairness that underpins the ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Josie's Story

    A Mother's Inspiring Crusade to Make Medical Care Safe

    by Sorrel King ...
    The "wrenching but inspiring" true story of a tragic medical mistake that turned a grieving mother into a national advocate ( The Wall Street Journal).Sorrel King was a young mother of four when her eighteen-month-old daughter was badly burned by a faulty water heater in the family's new home. Taken to the world-renowned Johns Hopkins Hospital, Josie made a remarkable recovery. But as she was ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Managing the Myths of Health Care

    Bridging the Separations between Care, Cure, Control, and Community

    by Henry Mintzberg ...
    “Health care is not failing but succeeding, expensively, and we don't want to pay for it. So the administrations, public and private alike, intervene to cut costs, and herein lies the failure.”In this sure-to-be-controversial book, leading management thinker Henry Mintzberg turns his attention to reframing the management and organization of health care.The problem is not management per se but a ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

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  • Ten Minutes for the Family

    Systemic Interventions in Primary Care

    by Eia Asen, Dave Tomson, Venetia Young, Peter Tomson ...
    The provision of suitable mental health care is one of the major tasks facing general practitioners and their teams. Family-oriented primary care has moved from doctor-controlled to patient-centred consultations, with a greater emphasis on collaboration. The systemic framework uniquely lends itself to this shift in emphasis, as it views the delivery of care in social rather than merely medical ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Rose's Strategy of Preventive Medicine

    by Geoffrey Rose ...
    The Strategy of Preventive Medicine, by Geoffrey Rose, first published in 1993 remains a key text for anyone involved in preventive medicine. Rose's insights into the inextricable relationship between ill health, or deviance, in individuals and populations they come from, have transformed our whole approach to strategies for improving health. His personal and unique book, based on many years ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

  • Values-Based Interprofessional Collaborative Practice

    Working Together in Health Care

    by Jill E. Thistlethwaite ...
    Series series Values-Based Practice
    The provision of care within the context of the modern health service environment involves a wide range of professionals. The health care team might include general practitioners, nurses, midwives, hospital doctors, physiotherapists, other allied health professionals, as well as receptionists and practice managers. To optimise delivery of care at both individual and population levels, team members ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

  • Retirement

    Reasons, Processes, and Results

    Edited by Gary A. Adams, PhD, Terry A. Beehr, PhD ...
    This book reviews, summarizes, and integrates a diverse literature on the topic of retirement and provides a coherent view to better inform researchers and practitioners. Organized around three phases of the retirement process--pre-retirement, retirement decision-making, and post-retirement--the chapters examine economic, sociological, gerontological, and psychological theory and research. Topics ... Read more

    $132.99 CAD

  • Analyzing Form, Function, and Financing of the U.S. Health Care System

    by Paula Stamps Duston ...
    Analyzing Form, Function, and Financing of the U.S. Health Care System tells the story of the U.S. health care system by using a narrative approach identifying function rather than the more common data-driven focus on structure. It presents policy decisions we have made about our health care system and analyzes some of their consequences to better ... Read more

    $70.99 CAD

  • Understanding Health Policy

    by Rob Baggott ...
    Series series Understanding Welfare: Social Issues, Policy and Practice
    In recent years the pace of reform in health policy and the NHS has been relentless. But how are policies formed and implemented? This fully updated edition of a bestselling book explores the processes and institutions that make health policy, examining what constitutes health policy, where power lies, and what changes could be made to improve the quality of health policy making. Drawing on ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Reducing Geographical Imbalances of Health Workers in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Labor Market Prospective on What Works What Does Not and Why

    by Lemiere Christophe; Herbst Christopher; Jahanshahi Negda; Smith Ellen; Souca Agnest ...
    The human resources crisis in the health sector has been gathering attention on the global stage. To date however most of this attention has focused on shortages of health human resources (HRH) at the national level. At least as important are problems at the sub-national level. Massive geographic and skill mix imbalances are reflected in the perilous undersupply of HRH in most rural areas. ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Performance Management in Healthcare

    Improving Patient Outcomes, An Integrated Approach

    Edited by Jan Walburg, Helen Bevan, John Wilderspin, Karin Lemmens ...
    Series series Health Management
    This important new text demonstrates a step-by-step approach to understanding and improving performance management in healthcare organizations. It discusses the relevance of performance management to disease management and the professional development of the discipline, debates topical issues inherent in healthcare performance management, and includes case histories to assist in improving ... Read more

    $150.99 CAD