Problem Solving for Better Health
Springer Publishing Co Inc (Verlag)
978-0-8261-0468-7 (ISBN)
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Problem Solving for Better Healthcovers human potential and possibilities for change in a global environment where health issues have now reached crisis proportions. Through the Dreyfus Health Foundation's Problem Solving for Better HealthÆ and related programs, this book presents innovative methodologies that promote grass-roots solutions to pressing health issues. A progress report and call to further action, the book speaks to such issues in 27 countries, including the United States.
With contributions from Dreyfus Health Foundation international program leaders and esteemed health care practitioners and educators, Problem Solving for Better Health presents practical interventions through community and institutional initiatives to improve health and quality of life. The tools presented are currently integrated into nursing and medical curricula internationally, including 75 medical institutions in India and 20 in China. This book is an essential resource for doctors, nurses, public health care providers, and individuals working at the community, institutional, and policy levels.
Co-publication with the Dreyfus Health Foundation, this book:
Offers new approaches to health challenges at the local level for teachers and students in nursing, public health, medicine, and health policy programs Provides useful problem-solving tools now in use in various settings internationally Gives examples of interventions that have influenced policy in and across institutions and at the national level Incorporates perspectives from international health leaders
Barry H. Smith, MD (Cornell, '72), PhD (MIT, '68), is Director of The Rogosin Institute. He is Professor of Clinical Surgery at Weill Cornell Medical College and Attending Physician at the New York Presbyterian Weill-Cornell Medical Center. Joyce J. Fitzpatrick, PhD, MBA, RN, FAAN, is Elizabeth Brooks Ford Professor of Nursing, Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, where she was Dean from 1982 through 1997. She is also Professor, Department of Geriatrics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY. In 1990, Dr. Fitzpatrick received an honorary doctorate, Doctor of Humane Letters, from her alma mater, Georgetown University. In 2011 she received an honorary doctorate, Doctor of Humane Letters, from the Frontier University of Nursing. She has received numerous honors and awards; she was elected a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing in 1981 and a Fellow in the National Academies of Practice in 1996. She received the American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Award 18 times. Dr. Fitzpatrick is widely published in nursing and health care literature with over 300 publications. She served as co-editor of the Annual Review of Nursing Research series, vols. 1-26; she edits the journals Applied Nursing Research, Archives in Psychiatric Nursing, and Nursing Education Perspectives, the official journal of the National League for Nursing. She edited three editions of the classic Encyclopedia of Nursing Research (ENR), and a series of nursing research digests Pamela Hoyt-Hudson, BSN, RN (Georgetown, '86), has directed the global nursing program at the Dreyfus Health Foundation of The Rogosin Institute for the past eight years.
SECTION I
1. Introduction
2. An international perspective on health
3. What are our global healthcare goals and challenges to date?
SECTION II
COUNTRY PERSPECTIVES:
4. Bulgaria
5. China
6. Dominican Republic
7. Ghana
8. India
9. Indonesia
10. Jordan
11 Kenya
12. Lithuania
13. Nigeria/Niger
14. Poland
15. Romania
16. United States
17. Vietnam
18. Zambia
SECTION III
CONCLUSION
19. Future needs on the national and international horizon
20. Implications for nursing education nationally and internationally
21. Anticipated outcomes of expanded interventions: how to scale up successful approaches and connect the macro /micro perspective?
| Zusatzinfo | 10 illustrations; 20 photographs; 30 Illustrations |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 178 x 254 mm |
| Themenwelt | Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pflege ► Ausbildung / Prüfung |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8261-0468-1 / 0826104681 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8261-0468-7 / 9780826104687 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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