Quality Health Care

Quality Health Care
By:"Robert C. Lloyd"
Published on 2004 by Jones & Bartlett Learning

Written By An Internationally-Recognized Expert In The Field Of Quality Management, This Book Will Serve As Your Guide For Planning And Implementing A Successful Quality Measurement Program In Your Healthcare Facility. It Begins By Presenting An Overview Of The Context For Quality Measurement, The Forces Influencing The Demand For Quality Reform, How To Listen To The Voice Of The Customer, And The Characteristics Of Quality That Customers Value Most. You’Ll Also Learn How To Select And Define Indicators To Collect Data And How To Organize Data Into A Dashboard That Can Provide Feedback On Your Progress Toward Quality Measurement. Finally, This Book Shows You How To Analyze Your Data By Detailing How Variation Lives In Your Data, And Whether This Variation Is Acceptable. Case Studies Are Provided To Demonstrate How Quality Measurement Can Be Applied To Clinical As Well As Operational Aspects Of Healthcare Delivery.

This Book was ranked 37 by Google Books for keyword health.

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HEALTH ANXIETY - Health and Health Care as Social Problems

Health and Health Care as Social Problems
By:"Peter Conrad","Valerie Leiter"
Published on 2003-01-01 by Rowman & Littlefield
This engaging and accessible reader takes a social problems approach to health and medicine, providing a broad and critical lens on contemporary health problems. Designed for courses on social problems and on medical sociology, the volume embraces two fundamental principles: that health and illness are at least partly socially produced, and that health care is not an unfettered good and often brings with it serious social problems. The volume is organized into six sections, addressing the medicalization of human problems; the social construction of health problems; social movements; gender; race and class and the provision of health care; and medical accountability. Taken together, the essays demonstrate the depth and richness of a social problems approach to health and medicine, and the critical perspective it brings to our understanding of health and illness in U.S. society.
This Book was ranked 11 by Google Books for keyword health.

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