This book opens the black box of policymaking. It is the perfect textbook for undergraduates and master’s level students who envision themselves as future policymakers. It covers how policies get made, the difficult trade-offs and complexity involved, while including a global perspective throughout.

This book will provide a welcome critical analysis of Quality Improvement during a period of rapid growth in its usage. The author’s insights and experience will help shape how people apply QI tools and encourage deeper thinking about the ideologies and practices that need to be understood before effective change can happen.

Cutting edge guide to applying the latest advancements in digital methods to social research.

This significantly expanded and newest edition of the bestselling HIMSS Dictionary of Health Information Technology Terms, Acronyms, and Organizations has been developed and extensively reviewed by more than 50 industry experts.

This is an essential guide for all health and social work practitioners supporting an increasing number of learners, trainees, apprentices and pre-registration students engaging in practice-based and work-based learning. Applying educational learning, this accessible book presents strategies for practice learning and personal development.

This fascinating book offers a pathway for the NHS to adopt low-cost but effective innovations from areas of the world traditionally seen as beneficiaries rather than providers of help and support.

The Patient-Centered Clinical Method has been a core tenet of the practice and teaching of medicine since the first edition published in 1995. This fourth edition continues to define the principles underpinning the patient-centered clinical method using four major components, clarifying its evolution and consequent development.

This book focuses on arts-based approaches to psychosocial health among children, youth, and their caregivers living in conditions of adversity around the world.

Solutions to Fragmentation in Behavioral Health Services: Designing and Operating an Integrated System of Care proposes a pathway to combat the current fragmentation of mental health services.

As the number of patients receiving home care nutrition support increases, proper assessment and management of this therapy is crucial, and clinicians need to practice at an advanced level.