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In the beginning, Healthwise offered printed decision-support and self-care materials for patients. It also publishes the Healthwise Handbook, a handbook with plain-language information and prevention tips on 190 common health problems, which is periodically updated and contains physician-approved guidelines on if and when to call a doctor for the problems it covers.
Where There Is No Doctor: A Village Health Care Handbook is a healthcare manual published by Hesperian Health Guides. Based on David Werner 's experiences at his Project Piaxtla in western Mexico , it was originally written in 1970 in Spanish as Donde No Hay Doctor . [ 1 ]
The Sphere Handbook was developed by international humanitarian aid agencies to describe minimum standards for the provision of emergency humanitarian aid. [1] The handbook is published by the Sphere Association (also known as the Sphere Project). [1] Médecins Sans Frontières declined to engage in the project to create the standards. [3]
Iconographic Collections. Keywords: E. Walker; Florence Nightingale; W.J. Simpson. Health administration, healthcare administration, healthcare management or hospital management is the field relating to leadership, management, and administration of public health systems, health care systems, hospitals, and hospital networks in all the primary, secondary, and tertiary sectors.
The Maternal and Child Health Handbook was originally developed in Japan. However, in the 1980s, an Indonesian doctor who was visiting Japan through a training program of the semi-governmental corporation of Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) noticed its effectiveness in contributing to the health of mothers and children and decided to promote it in his own country. [14]
A category for management and organisational (rather than purely economic or transactional) issues in health care, particularly those arising close to the front-line of healthcare delivery. The main article for this category is Healthcare administration .
The updated 2002 edition that Creative Health Care Management published was well received. [ 8 ] The book Relationship-Based Care: A Model for Transforming Practice was published by CHCM in 2004, and it applies the original concepts of Primary Nursing to all functions and relationships within the hospital setting. [ 9 ]
The generic model used in the United States is the chronic care model, which holds that health care does not only involve change in the patient and that high-quality disease care counts the community, the health system, self-management support, delivery system design, decision support, and clinical information systems as important elements in ...