This 3rd edition is a comprehensive and evidence-based introduction to this essential area of practice. Fully updated to take into account the wide range of nursing roles in the community, it provides an integrated approach to care, with a focus on physical and mental wellbeing.

Primary Health Care and Population Mortality describes how primary health is crucial to the effect of health systems on population mortality, including its potential for reducing inequalities in mortality.

This unique work represents the recording and analysis of oral history interviews conducted by the pioneering general practitioner Dr Hetty Ockrim with over seventy patients, as well as office staff and members of the nursing team, between 1989 and 1992 in her former practice in the Ibrox/Govan areas of Glasgow.

This book offers novel, potent ways to get patients to use their medications and improve treatment outcomes – tools healthcare providers can use day in and day out. A medical education is not complete without a thorough understanding of the hurdles that contribute to poor adherence and what health professionals can and should do about it.

Exploring how practitioners make use of play’s developmental benefits and therapeutic healing properties to aid the child’s health care journey, this reflective book expands and enhances the knowledge base underlying the practice of play in hospitals.

This third edition of a popular text introduces healthcare students and professionals to an insider’s view on the religion’s historical development, key beliefs and practices, including ideas of health, sickness, death, and dying. The chapters include case studies, advice on what to do and what to avoid when caring for patients.

This practical, thought-provoking guide provides the unemotional, clear, and accurate advice necessary for communicating with patients in a palliative care setting - a pivotal aspect of being a palliative care expert that is so difficult to quantify and teach.

Provides the information and skills needed to write effective research proposals and theses; read, assess, interpret, and apply published research; and, understand how to conduct basic studies in health, physical education, exercise science, athletic training, and recreation.

HOFFBRAND’S ESSENTIAL HAEMATOLOGY The Essentials is an international, best-selling series of textbooks, all of which are designed to support lecture series or themes on core topics within the health sciences. See www.wiley.com for further details. The definitive introductory textbook on haematology, covering basic science, diagnostic testing, clinical features, and patient management Hoffbrand’s Essential Haematology has helped medical students and trainee physicians understand the core p...

A practical guide for the nursing care of neonates within hospital and home settings for the first year of life.