Health & Fitness : Health Care Issues

The 'modernization' of the NHS is at the heart of the UK government's policies for public sector services. This modernization programme represents the most radical and ambitious restructuring of the NHS since its inception in 1948. The new Primary Care Groups and Trusts (PCG/Ts) are the main organizational mechanism for delivering the modernization agenda and are therefore key to the success or otherwise of these reforms. To date there has been no comprehensive evaluation of how PCG/Ts have been performing in implementing the modernization programme; this book fills that important gap in knowledge. It provides a strong text of first evidence about the performance of PCG/Ts to date; this forms the basis for discussions about future success and a benchmark for future research. The New Primary Care will be an essential resource for all advanced students of health care as well as academics, researchers and policy makers. more...

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Care for the uninsured is a county responsibility in Florida. This report examines the approaches used by three south Florida counties – Broward, Miami-Dade and Palm Beach – to fund care for the indigent and compares their financing mechanisms, types of services provided, patient travel patterns and costs and productivity across hospital ownership and insurance type. more...

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La santé des populations - Rapport sur la santé dans la Région africaine est le premier rapport consacré à la santé des 738 millions de personnes vivant dans la Région africaine de l Organisation mondiale de la Santé. Ce rapport de 196 pages entièrement illustré contient une analyse approfondie de tous les domaines clés de la santé publique en Afrique, ainsi que l annexe la plus complète jamais publiée jusqu ici sur les statistiques sanitaires de la Région. Avec l aide des dernières données présentées dans les figures, les graphiques et les tableaux, le rapport envisage les maladies infectieuses, en particulier le VIH/SIDA, la tuberculose et le paludisme ; les affections de la grossesse qui entraînent des décès de la mère et de l enfant et les causes environnementales des problèmes de santé, notamment la pollution et les conflits armés. Il couvre aussi les problèmes de santé de l ensemble de la Région qu on associe le plus souvent aux pays développés, par exemple le diabète et l hypertension et d autres maladies non transmissibles comme les troubles mentaux et les traumatismes. Mais il ne s agit pas seulement de faire le point des aspects négatifs de la situation sanitaire ; le rapport informe sur les méthodes de traitement, de diagnostic et de prévention qui ont fait leurs preuves en Afrique et décrit certains des succès enregistrés par la santé publique en Afrique qui peuvent servir de modèles à d autres sur le continent. La santé publique en Afrique retient davantage l attention au niveau international ces dernières années. L énormité même de la charge de morbidité et les ripostes souvent inadéquates ont été à l origine de nombreuses initiatives régionales et internationales. Des contributions sans précédent ont été annoncées pour améliorer la santé en Afrique. Pourtant de nombreux problèmes subsistent. Ce rapport est essentiel pour quiconque souhaite comprendre la situation et examiner les moyens de l améliorer. more...

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Praise for the first edition:. ''Valerie Iles has such a sensitive no-nonsense style that she easily succeeds in seducing the reader to accept her arguments about what is going so badly wrong with management in health care ... The case studies can only be described as 'gems'... But perhaps the greatest message this book can give to the NHS, and health care managers in particular, is that change is unstoppable. All organisms must adapt with their environment or die.''- Health Service Journal. ''Yes! This is a book that draws heavily on real-life observations with an appropriate balance of theory and pragmatism. It tackles the challenges we all face in our everday work - managing people, change, money, ourselves and organisations.''- Nursing Times. ''... anyone who has a part to play in managing health services would benefit from reading it.''- British Medical Journal. Much has been made of the distinction between management and leadership, but in health care this separation is unhelpful. Like the first edition, this completely revised edition of Really Managing Health Care describes a model, real management that brings the two elements together and demonstrates its application in health care settings. Drawing on theory across a wide range of management disciplines and illustrating these with practical examples, Valerie Iles succinctly answers three crucial questions:. How can I manage clinical professionals?. How can I increase the influence of my service?. What changes do I need to introduce to improve the quality of care my service is offering?. Written specifically for people suspicious of management jargon, Really Managing Health Care is designed for service leaders from across health and social care, and introduces ways of approaching the management task which recognize the particular dynamics of this field. more...

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