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Health care at risk : a critique of the consumer-driven movement
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ISBN: 0822341018 9786613035639 1283035634 0822341247 082239054X Year: 2007 Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press,

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Analyzes what is wrong with the U.S. health care system, assessing and critiquing the ability of consumer-driven approaches to fix these problems and comparing the U.S. experience with that of other nations.

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Consumer-driven health care --- Medical care --- Medical care, Cost of --- Health care reform --- Delivery of Health Care --- Consumer Participation --- Cost Sharing --- Health Care Reform --- Consumer-directed health care --- Community Involvement --- Public Participation --- Community Action --- Consumer Involvement --- Action, Community --- Actions, Community --- Community Actions --- Community Involvements --- Consumer Involvements --- Involvement, Community --- Involvement, Consumer --- Involvements, Community --- Participation, Community --- Participation, Consumer --- Participation, Public --- Political Activism --- Patient Care Planning --- Healthcare Reform --- Health Care Reforms --- Healthcare Reforms --- Reform, Health Care --- Reform, Healthcare --- Reforms, Health Care --- Reforms, Healthcare --- Cost-Sharing Insurance --- Cost Sharing Insurance --- Insurance, Cost-Sharing --- Sharing, Cost --- Community-Based Distribution --- Contraceptive Distribution --- Delivery of Healthcare --- Dental Care Delivery --- Distribution, Non-Clinical --- Distribution, Nonclinical --- Distributional Activities --- Healthcare --- Healthcare Delivery --- Healthcare Systems --- Non-Clinical Distribution --- Nonclinical Distribution --- Delivery of Dental Care --- Health Care --- Health Care Delivery --- Health Care Systems --- Activities, Distributional --- Activity, Distributional --- Care, Health --- Community Based Distribution --- Community-Based Distributions --- Contraceptive Distributions --- Deliveries, Healthcare --- Delivery, Dental Care --- Delivery, Health Care --- Delivery, Healthcare --- Distribution, Community-Based --- Distribution, Contraceptive --- Distribution, Non Clinical --- Distributional Activity --- Distributions, Community-Based --- Distributions, Contraceptive --- Distributions, Non-Clinical --- Distributions, Nonclinical --- Health Care System --- Healthcare Deliveries --- Healthcare System --- Non Clinical Distribution --- Non-Clinical Distributions --- Nonclinical Distributions --- System, Health Care --- System, Healthcare --- Systems, Health Care --- Systems, Healthcare --- Cost control.

Social Theory and Applied Health Research
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ISBN: 0335210341 033521035X 9780335210343 9780335210350 1280951362 033522492X 9780335224920 Year: 2007 Publisher: Maidenhead : McGraw-Hill Education,

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This book points clearly to the fact that applied research always rests on theoretical assumptions and argues persuasively that good research demands explicit consideration of those assumptions. By setting out the main theoretical paradigms clearly and fairly, it provides a very useful guide for researchers wishing to ensure that their work is properly grounded and appropriately focused, and to students requiring the tools to look under the surface of research claims.¿. Sam Porter, Research Professor of Nursing, Queen's University, Belfast. What is the relationship between social theory and ap

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Sociology of health --- Sociology of social welfare --- Social sciences --- Sciences sociales --- Research --- Recherche --- Medical care --- Social Sciences --- Delivery of Health Care --- Research&delete& --- Methodology --- E-books --- Medical care. --- Social sciences. --- Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation --- Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena --- Patient Care Management --- Behavioral Sciences --- Science --- Behavioral Disciplines and Activities --- Health Services Administration --- Natural Science Disciplines --- Health Care --- Psychiatry and Psychology --- Disciplines and Occupations --- Public Health - General --- Social Sciences - General --- Public Health --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Community-Based Distribution --- Contraceptive Distribution --- Delivery of Healthcare --- Dental Care Delivery --- Distribution, Non-Clinical --- Distribution, Nonclinical --- Distributional Activities --- Healthcare --- Healthcare Delivery --- Healthcare Systems --- Non-Clinical Distribution --- Nonclinical Distribution --- Delivery of Dental Care --- Health Care Delivery --- Health Care Systems --- Activities, Distributional --- Activity, Distributional --- Care, Health --- Community Based Distribution --- Community-Based Distributions --- Contraceptive Distributions --- Deliveries, Healthcare --- Delivery, Dental Care --- Delivery, Health Care --- Delivery, Healthcare --- Distribution, Community-Based --- Distribution, Contraceptive --- Distribution, Non Clinical --- Distributional Activity --- Distributions, Community-Based --- Distributions, Contraceptive --- Distributions, Non-Clinical --- Distributions, Nonclinical --- Health Care System --- Healthcare Deliveries --- Healthcare System --- Non Clinical Distribution --- Non-Clinical Distributions --- Nonclinical Distributions --- System, Health Care --- System, Healthcare --- Systems, Health Care --- Systems, Healthcare --- Natural Sciences --- Physical Sciences --- Discipline, Natural Science --- Disciplines, Natural Science --- Natural Science --- Natural Science Discipline --- Physical Science --- Science, Natural --- Science, Physical --- Sciences, Natural --- Sciences, Physical --- Administration, Health Services --- Health Services --- Sciences --- Proxemics --- Behavioral Science --- Proxemic --- Science, Behavioral --- Sciences, Behavioral --- Care Management, Patient --- Management, Patient Care --- Healthcare Quality, Access, and Evaluation --- Science, Social --- Sciences, Social --- Social Science --- Laboratory Research --- Research Activities --- Research and Development --- Research Priorities --- Activities, Research --- Activity, Research --- Development and Research --- Priorities, Research --- Priority, Research --- Research Activity --- Research Priority --- Research, Laboratory --- Ethics, Research --- Social science research --- organization & administration --- Delivery of health care --- Delivery of medical care --- Health care --- Health care delivery --- Health services --- Medical and health care industry --- Medical services --- Personal health services --- Public health


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Perspektiven des Medizinrechts im 21. Jahrhundert
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ISBN: 9783940344083 Year: 2007 Publisher: Universitätsverlag Göttingen

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Series "Göttinger Schriften zum Medizinrecht" (medicine law), which deals with several important debates in modern medicine such as gene therapy, research with embryonic stem cells, bio databases, living organ donation, and in general the economisation of the health system. Längst sind es nicht mehr nur die klassischen Gebiete des Arzt-Patienten-Verhältnisses, etwa die Reichweite der Aufklärungspflicht oder haftpflichtrechtliche Folgen ärztlicher Behandlungsfehler, die klärungsbedürftige rechtliche und ethische Fragen aufwerfen. Heute stehen gänzlich neue Themen und Dimensionen der modernen Medizin im Fokus: von der Forschung mit embryonalen Stammzellen zur Errichtung von Biodatenbanken, von der Gendiagnostik und Gentherapie über die Gewebespende bis zu der immer stärker spürbaren Ökonomisierung des gesamten Gesundheitswesens. Die rasante Entwicklung weckt nicht nur Hoffnungen, sondern zugleich Ängste, die nach Transparenz und Rechtssicherheit rufen. Die Sachgerechtigkeit der Regeln macht das interdisziplinäre Gespräch zwischen Recht und Medizin unabdingbar; das im WS 2004/05 neu gegründete Göttinger Zentrum für Medizinrecht bietet hierfür in Fortführung einer langen Tradition ein breites Dach. Die neue Reihe der "Göttinger Schriften zum Medizinrecht" schafft ein Forum, um der interessierten Öffentlichkeit die aktuellen Forschungsergebnisse zugänglich zu machen. Der vorliegende erste Band führt die (um weitere Abhandlungen ergänzten) Beiträge anlässlich der Eröffnungsveranstaltung des Zentrums vom November 2006 unter dem Generaltitel "Perspektiven des Medizinrechts" zusammen.

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Medical laws and legislation --- Bioethics --- Legislation as Topic --- Ethics --- Humanities --- Social Control, Formal --- Health Care Economics and Organizations --- Health Care --- Bioethical Issues --- Legislation, Medical --- Egoism --- Ethical Issues --- Metaethics --- Moral Policy --- Natural Law --- Situational Ethics --- Ethical Issue --- Ethics, Situational --- Issue, Ethical --- Issues, Ethical --- Law, Natural --- Laws, Natural --- Moral Policies --- Natural Laws --- Policies, Moral --- Policy, Moral --- Censorship, Research --- Constitutional Amendments --- Health Legislation as Topic --- Laws and Statutes --- Legislation, Health --- Model Legislation --- Population Law --- Statutes and Laws --- Health Legislation --- Amendment, Constitutional --- Amendments, Constitutional --- Constitutional Amendment --- Law, Population --- Laws, Population --- Legislation, Model --- Population Laws --- Biology --- Biomedical ethics --- Life sciences --- Life sciences ethics --- Science --- Medical Legislation --- Medicine --- Bioethical Issue --- Issue, Bioethical --- Issues, Bioethical --- Euthanasia --- Human Experimentation --- Patient Rights --- Animal Experimentation --- Community-Based Distribution --- Contraceptive Distribution --- Delivery of Healthcare --- Dental Care Delivery --- Distribution, Non-Clinical --- Distribution, Nonclinical --- Distributional Activities --- Healthcare --- Healthcare Delivery --- Healthcare Systems --- Non-Clinical Distribution --- Nonclinical Distribution --- Delivery of Dental Care --- Health Care Delivery --- Health Care Systems --- Activities, Distributional --- Activity, Distributional --- Care, Health --- Community Based Distribution --- Community-Based Distributions --- Contraceptive Distributions --- Deliveries, Healthcare --- Delivery, Dental Care --- Delivery, Health Care --- Delivery, Healthcare --- Distribution, Community-Based --- Distribution, Contraceptive --- Distribution, Non Clinical --- Distributional Activity --- Distributions, Community-Based --- Distributions, Contraceptive --- Distributions, Non-Clinical --- Distributions, Nonclinical --- Health Care System --- Healthcare Deliveries --- Healthcare System --- Non Clinical Distribution --- Non-Clinical Distributions --- Nonclinical Distributions --- System, Health Care --- System, Healthcare --- Systems, Health Care --- Systems, Healthcare --- Healthcare Economics and Organizations --- Health Care Economics --- Health Economics --- Healthcare Economics --- Care Economic, Health --- Economic, Health --- Economic, Health Care --- Economic, Healthcare --- Economics, Health Care --- Health Care Economic --- Health Economic --- Healthcare Economic --- Regulation --- Social Control --- Control, Social --- Controls, Social --- Formal Social Control --- Formal Social Controls --- Regulations --- Social Controls --- Public Policy --- Moral and ethical aspects --- legislation & jurisprudence --- health system --- ethic dimensions --- live organ donation --- stem cell therapy --- medicine law --- Arzt --- Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch --- Medizin --- Patient --- Patientenverfügung --- Sterbehilfe


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Tecnologie riproduttive e tutela della persona : verso un comune diritto europeo per la bioetica
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ISBN: 8884536243 8884536235 Year: 2007 Publisher: Firenze University Press

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Tecnologie riproduttive e tutela della persona. This book emerged from the collaboration between the department of Biolaw of the University of Florence and the non-profit association Madre Provetta. It represents the first stage in a larger editorial project that aspires to contribute study and research to build towards a common European law on bioethics. The authors who have collaborated on this book are among the leading experts, in their respective fields, on questions raised by technologies of reproduction, which are here elaborated at both medical-scientific level and in their relation to sociology, bioethics, law and politics. The various contributions are divided into three specific thematic areas: liberty of reproduction and rights of the individual, pre-implant genetic diagnosis and the freedom and limitations of scientific research.

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Human reproductive technology --- Bioethics --- Social Control, Formal --- Ethics --- Reproductive Techniques --- Humanities --- Sociology --- Investigative Techniques --- Therapeutics --- Health Care Economics and Organizations --- Social Sciences --- Health Care --- Reproductive Techniques, Assisted --- Human Rights --- Bioethical Issues --- Law and legislation --- Bioethical Issue --- Issue, Bioethical --- Issues, Bioethical --- Euthanasia --- Human Experimentation --- Patient Rights --- Animal Experimentation --- Collective Human Rights --- Equal Rights --- Linguistic Rights --- Right to Housing and Shelter --- Rights of Indigenous Peoples --- Human Rights, Collective --- Indigenous Peoples Rights --- Rights, Collective Human --- Rights, Equal --- Rights, Linguistic --- Social Justice --- Human Rights Abuses --- Assisted Reproductive Technics --- Assisted Reproductive Techniques --- Reproductive Technology, Assisted --- Assisted Reproductive Technic --- Assisted Reproductive Technique --- Assisted Reproductive Technologies --- Assisted Reproductive Technology --- Reproductive Technic, Assisted --- Reproductive Technics, Assisted --- Reproductive Technique, Assisted --- Reproductive Technologies, Assisted --- Technic, Assisted Reproductive --- Technics, Assisted Reproductive --- Technique, Assisted Reproductive --- Techniques, Assisted Reproductive --- Technologies, Assisted Reproductive --- Technology, Assisted Reproductive --- Healthcare Economics and Organizations --- Health Care Economics --- Health Economics --- Healthcare Economics --- Care Economic, Health --- Economic, Health --- Economic, Health Care --- Economic, Healthcare --- Economics, Health Care --- Health Care Economic --- Health Economic --- Healthcare Economic --- Therapy --- Treatment --- Therapeutic --- Therapies --- Treatments --- Disease --- Community-Based Distribution --- Contraceptive Distribution --- Delivery of Healthcare --- Dental Care Delivery --- Distribution, Non-Clinical --- Distribution, Nonclinical --- Distributional Activities --- Healthcare --- Healthcare Delivery --- Healthcare Systems --- Non-Clinical Distribution --- Nonclinical Distribution --- Delivery of Dental Care --- Health Care Delivery --- Health Care Systems --- Activities, Distributional --- Activity, Distributional --- Care, Health --- Community Based Distribution --- Community-Based Distributions --- Contraceptive Distributions --- Deliveries, Healthcare --- Delivery, Dental Care --- Delivery, Health Care --- Delivery, Healthcare --- Distribution, Community-Based --- Distribution, Contraceptive --- Distribution, Non Clinical --- Distributional Activity --- Distributions, Community-Based --- Distributions, Contraceptive --- Distributions, Non-Clinical --- Distributions, Nonclinical --- Health Care System --- Healthcare Deliveries --- Healthcare System --- Non Clinical Distribution --- Non-Clinical Distributions --- Nonclinical Distributions --- System, Health Care --- System, Healthcare --- Systems, Health Care --- Systems, Healthcare --- Science, Social --- Sciences, Social --- Social Science --- Investigative Technics --- Investigative Technic --- Investigative Technique --- Technic, Investigative --- Technics, Investigative --- Technique, Investigative --- Techniques, Investigative --- General Social Development and Population --- Reproduction Technics --- Reproduction Techniques --- Reproductive Technologies --- Technology, Reproductive --- Reproductive Technology --- Reproduction Technic --- Reproduction Technique --- Reproductive Technique --- Technic, Reproduction --- Technics, Reproduction --- Technique, Reproduction --- Technique, Reproductive --- Techniques, Reproduction --- Techniques, Reproductive --- Technologies, Reproductive --- Selective Breeding --- Reproductive Medicine --- Reproductive Health Services --- Egoism --- Ethical Issues --- Metaethics --- Moral Policy --- Natural Law --- Situational Ethics --- Ethical Issue --- Ethics, Situational --- Issue, Ethical --- Issues, Ethical --- Law, Natural --- Laws, Natural --- Moral Policies --- Natural Laws --- Policies, Moral --- Policy, Moral --- Censorship, Research --- Regulation --- Social Control --- Control, Social --- Controls, Social --- Formal Social Control --- Formal Social Controls --- Regulations --- Social Controls --- Public Policy --- Assisted conception --- Assisted human reproduction --- Assisted human reproductive technology --- Conception --- Human assisted reproduction --- Human assisted reproductive technology --- Human reproduction --- Medical technology --- Reproductive technology --- Biology --- Biomedical ethics --- Life sciences --- Life sciences ethics --- Science --- therapy --- Technological innovations --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Riproduzione --- Biotecnologie --- Bioetica --- Diritto

Nanotechnology - toxicological issues and environmental safety
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ISBN: 9781402060755 1402060750 9786610864225 1402060769 1280864222 Year: 2007 Publisher: Dordrecht, Netherlands : Springer,

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Nanotechnology is one of the fastest growing technological fields of the 21st century. Nanotechnologies will impact numerous industries, including daily consumer products, health care, energy, and transportation. However, the success of the emerging nanotechnology applications will depend on dynamic development of nanomaterial toxicology, risk and exposure assessment. Little is known about the potential adverse health and ecological effects of exposure to engineered nanomaterials, the main components of many nanotechnologies. Concerns are coming from the initial toxicological studies as well as the research and epidemiological reports on ultrafine particle toxicity. This book provides a summary of the state-of-art knowledge on nanomaterials and nanoparticles – toxicological issues; risk assessment and control measures; public participation and educational/ethical issues; and lastly, institutional mechanisms and status reports from various countries. This book includes a summary of the most important gaps in knowledge, needs for research, and collaborations in the field of nanotechnology regarding safe application and development.

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Nanotechnology --- Nanoparticles --- Environmental aspects --- Risk assessment --- Congresses. --- Toxicology --- Nanotechnology. --- Epidemiologic Measurements --- Risk --- Manufactured Materials --- Environmental Pollution --- Risk Management --- Public Health --- Organization and Administration --- Probability --- Technology, Industry, and Agriculture --- Technology, Industry, Agriculture --- Statistics as Topic --- Environment and Public Health --- Health Services Administration --- Epidemiologic Methods --- Health Care Evaluation Mechanisms --- Health Care --- Investigative Techniques --- Quality of Health Care --- Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment --- Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation --- Risk Assessment --- Environmental Exposure --- Nanostructures --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Technology - General --- Community-Based Distribution --- Contraceptive Distribution --- Delivery of Healthcare --- Dental Care Delivery --- Distribution, Non-Clinical --- Distribution, Nonclinical --- Distributional Activities --- Healthcare --- Healthcare Delivery --- Healthcare Systems --- Non-Clinical Distribution --- Nonclinical Distribution --- Delivery of Dental Care --- Health Care Delivery --- Health Care Systems --- Activities, Distributional --- Activity, Distributional --- Care, Health --- Community Based Distribution --- Community-Based Distributions --- Contraceptive Distributions --- Deliveries, Healthcare --- Delivery, Dental Care --- Delivery, Health Care --- Delivery, Healthcare --- Distribution, Community-Based --- Distribution, Contraceptive --- Distribution, Non Clinical --- Distributional Activity --- Distributions, Community-Based --- Distributions, Contraceptive --- Distributions, Non-Clinical --- Distributions, Nonclinical --- Health Care System --- Healthcare Deliveries --- Healthcare System --- Non Clinical Distribution --- Non-Clinical Distributions --- Nonclinical Distributions --- System, Health Care --- System, Healthcare --- Systems, Health Care --- Systems, Healthcare --- Investigative Technics --- Investigative Technic --- Investigative Technique --- Technic, Investigative --- Technics, Investigative --- Technique, Investigative --- Techniques, Investigative --- Healthcare Evaluation Mechanisms --- Evaluation Mechanism, Healthcare --- Evaluation Mechanisms, Healthcare --- Healthcare Evaluation Mechanism --- Mechanism, Healthcare Evaluation --- Mechanisms, Healthcare Evaluation --- Epidemiologic Method --- Epidemiological Methods --- Methods, Epidemiologic --- Epidemiological Method --- Method, Epidemiologic --- Method, Epidemiological --- Methods, Epidemiological --- Epidemiology --- Administration, Health Services --- Health Services --- Area Analysis --- Correlation Studies --- Correlation Study --- Correlation of Data --- Data Analysis --- Estimation Technics --- Estimation Techniques --- Indirect Estimation Technics --- Indirect Estimation Techniques --- Multiple Classification Analysis --- Service Statistics --- Statistical Study --- Statistics, Service --- Tables and Charts as Topic --- Analyses, Area --- Analyses, Data --- Analyses, Multiple Classification --- Analysis, Area --- Analysis, Data --- Analysis, Multiple Classification --- Area Analyses --- Classification Analyses, Multiple --- Classification Analysis, Multiple --- Data Analyses --- Data Correlation --- Data Correlations --- Estimation Technic --- Estimation Technic, Indirect --- Estimation Technics, Indirect --- Estimation Technique --- Estimation Technique, Indirect --- Estimation Techniques, Indirect --- Indirect Estimation Technic --- Indirect Estimation Technique --- Multiple Classification Analyses --- Statistical Studies --- Studies, Correlation --- Studies, Statistical --- Study, Correlation --- Study, Statistical --- Technic, Estimation --- Technic, Indirect Estimation --- Technics, Estimation --- Technics, Indirect Estimation --- Technique, Estimation --- Technique, Indirect Estimation --- Techniques, Estimation --- Techniques, Indirect Estimation --- Nanomaterials --- Nanostructured Materials --- Material, Nanostructured --- Materials, Nanostructured --- Nanomaterial --- Nanostructure --- Nanostructured Material --- Exposure, Environmental --- Environmental Exposures --- Exposures, Environmental --- Heatlh Risk Assessment --- Risks and Benefits --- Assessment, Risk --- Benefit-Risk Assessment --- Risk-Benefit Assessment --- Assessment, Benefit-Risk --- Assessment, Heatlh Risk --- Assessment, Risk-Benefit --- Assessments, Benefit-Risk --- Assessments, Heatlh Risk --- Assessments, Risk --- Assessments, Risk-Benefit --- Benefit Risk Assessment --- Benefit-Risk Assessments --- Benefits and Risks --- Heatlh Risk Assessments --- Risk Assessment, Heatlh --- Risk Assessments --- Risk Assessments, Heatlh --- Risk Benefit Assessment --- Risk-Benefit Assessments --- Healthcare Quality, Access, and Evaluation --- Quality of Care --- Quality of Healthcare --- Care Qualities --- Care Quality --- Health Care Quality --- Healthcare Quality --- Probabilities --- Administration and Organization --- Administrative Technics --- Administrative Techniques --- Coordination, Administrative --- Logistics --- Supervision --- Technics, Administrative --- Techniques, Administrative --- Administration --- Administrative Coordination --- Administrative Technic --- Administrative Technique --- Technic, Administrative --- Technique, Administrative --- Environment, Preventive Medicine & Public Health --- Environment, Preventive Medicine and Public Health --- Health, Public --- Hospital Incident Reportings --- Incident Reporting --- Incident Reportings, Hospital --- Management, Risks --- Reporting, Hospital Incident --- Reportings, Hospital Risk --- Voluntary Patient Safety Event Reporting --- Hospital Incident Reporting --- Incident Reporting, Hospital --- Hospital Risk Reporting --- Hospital Risk Reportings --- Incident Reportings --- Management, Risk --- Reporting, Hospital Risk --- Reporting, Incident --- Reportings, Hospital Incident --- Reportings, Incident --- Risk Reporting, Hospital --- Risk Reportings, Hospital --- Risks Management --- Pollution, Environmental --- Soil Pollution --- Pollution, Soil --- Manufactured Material --- Material, Manufactured --- Materials, Manufactured --- Relative Risk --- Relative Risks --- Risk, Relative --- Risks --- Risks, Relative --- Measurements, Epidemiologic --- Epidemiologic Measurement --- Measurement, Epidemiologic --- Molecular technology --- Nanoscale technology --- methods --- organization & administration --- Materials science. --- Pharmacology. --- Occupational medicine. --- Materials Science. --- Pharmacology/Toxicology. --- Occupational Medicine/Industrial Medicine. --- High technology --- Industrial medicine --- Medicine, Occupational --- Occupational medicine --- Medicine --- Occupational diseases --- Drug effects --- Medical pharmacology --- Medical sciences --- Chemicals --- Chemotherapy --- Drugs --- Pharmacy --- Material science --- Physical sciences --- Physiological effect --- Nano-particles --- NPs (Nanoparticles) --- Nanoscale particles --- Nanostructured materials --- Particles

Microscale and Nanoscale Heat Transfer
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ISSN: 03034216 ISBN: 9783540360568 3540360565 9786611392215 3540360573 1281392219 Year: 2007 Volume: v. 107 Publisher: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer,

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The book constitutes a particularly complete and original collection of ideas, models, numerical methods and experimental tools which will prove invaluable in the study of microscale and nanoscale heat transfer. It should be of interest to research scientists and thermal engineers who wish to carry out theoretical research or metrology in this field, but also to physicists concerned with the problems of heat transfer, or teachers requiring a solid foundation for an undergraduate university course in this area.

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Energy Transfer --- Heat --- Microchemistry --- Nanotechnology --- Microelectronics --- Chaleur --- Microélectronique --- Transmission --- Hot Temperature --- Biochemical Processes --- Biophysical Processes --- Miniaturization --- Temperature --- Physicochemical Processes --- Natural Science Disciplines --- Chemistry Techniques, Analytical --- Weather --- Chemistry --- Biochemical Phenomena --- Investigative Techniques --- Physical Processes --- Thermodynamics --- Biophysical Phenomena --- Technology --- Physicochemical Phenomena --- Disciplines and Occupations --- Atmosphere --- Chemical Processes --- Physical Phenomena --- Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment --- Chemical Phenomena --- Technology, Industry, and Agriculture --- Meteorological Concepts --- Phenomena and Processes --- Technology, Industry, Agriculture --- Ecological and Environmental Phenomena --- Environment --- Biological Phenomena --- Environment and Public Health --- Health Care --- Physics --- Physical Sciences & Mathematics --- Biologic Phenomena --- Biological Phenomenon --- Biological Process --- Phenomena, Biological --- Biological Processes --- Phenomena, Biologic --- Phenomenon, Biological --- Process, Biological --- Processes, Biological --- Community-Based Distribution --- Contraceptive Distribution --- Delivery of Healthcare --- Dental Care Delivery --- Distribution, Non-Clinical --- Distribution, Nonclinical --- Distributional Activities --- Healthcare --- Healthcare Delivery --- Healthcare Systems --- Non-Clinical Distribution --- Nonclinical Distribution --- Delivery of Dental Care --- Health Care Delivery --- Health Care Systems --- Activities, Distributional --- Activity, Distributional --- Care, Health --- Community Based Distribution --- Community-Based Distributions --- Contraceptive Distributions --- Deliveries, Healthcare --- Delivery, Dental Care --- Delivery, Health Care --- Delivery, Healthcare --- Distribution, Community-Based --- Distribution, Contraceptive --- Distribution, Non Clinical --- Distributional Activity --- Distributions, Community-Based --- Distributions, Contraceptive --- Distributions, Non-Clinical --- Distributions, Nonclinical --- Health Care System --- Healthcare Deliveries --- Healthcare System --- Non Clinical Distribution --- Non-Clinical Distributions --- Nonclinical Distributions --- System, Health Care --- System, Healthcare --- Systems, Health Care --- Systems, Healthcare --- Environmental Impact --- Environmental Impacts --- Impact, Environmental --- Impacts, Environmental --- Environments --- Ecological and Environmental Concepts --- Ecological and Environmental Processes --- Meteorologic Factors --- Meteorological Factors --- Concept, Meteorological --- Concepts, Meteorological --- Factor, Meteorologic --- Factor, Meteorological --- Factors, Meteorologic --- Factors, Meteorological --- Meteorologic Factor --- Meteorological Concept --- Meteorological Factor --- Atmospheres --- Physical Phenomenon --- Physical Process --- Physical Concepts --- Concept, Physical --- Concepts, Physical --- Phenomena, Physical --- Phenomenon, Physical --- Physical Concept --- Process, Physical --- Processes, Physical --- Investigative Technics --- Investigative Technic --- Investigative Technique --- Technic, Investigative --- Technics, Investigative --- Technique, Investigative --- Techniques, Investigative --- Chemical Phenomenon --- Chemical Process --- Physical Chemistry Phenomena --- Physical Chemistry Process --- Physicochemical Phenomenon --- Physicochemical Process --- Chemical Concepts --- Physical Chemistry Concepts --- Physical Chemistry Processes --- Physicochemical Concepts --- Chemical Concept --- Chemistry Process, Physical --- Chemistry Processes, Physical --- Concept, Chemical --- Concept, Physical Chemistry --- Concept, Physicochemical --- Concepts, Chemical --- Concepts, Physical Chemistry --- Concepts, Physicochemical --- Phenomena, Chemical --- Phenomena, Physical Chemistry --- Phenomena, Physicochemical --- Phenomenon, Chemical --- Phenomenon, Physicochemical --- Physical Chemistry Concept --- Physicochemical Concept --- Process, Chemical --- Process, Physical Chemistry --- Process, Physicochemical --- Processes, Chemical --- Processes, Physical Chemistry --- Processes, Physicochemical --- Arts, Industrial --- Industrial Arts --- Biophysical Phenomenon --- Biophysical Process --- Biophysical Concepts --- Biophysical Concept --- Concept, Biophysical --- Concepts, Biophysical --- Phenomena, Biophysical --- Phenomenon, Biophysical --- Process, Biophysical --- Processes, Biophysical --- Thermodynamic --- Biochemical Concepts --- Biochemical Phenomenon --- Biochemical Process --- Phenomena, Biochemical --- Biochemical Concept --- Concept, Biochemical --- Concepts, Biochemical --- Phenomenon, Biochemical --- Process, Biochemical --- Processes, Biochemical --- Fog --- Fogs --- Natural Sciences --- Physical Sciences --- Discipline, Natural Science --- Disciplines, Natural Science --- Natural Science --- Natural Science Discipline --- Physical Science --- Science, Natural --- Science, Physical --- Sciences, Natural --- Sciences, Physical --- Analytical Chemistry Methods --- Analytical Chemistry Techniques --- Analytical Chemistry Method --- Analytical Chemistry Technique --- Chemistry Method, Analytical --- Chemistry Methods, Analytical --- Chemistry Technique, Analytical --- Method, Analytical Chemistry --- Methods, Analytical Chemistry --- Technique, Analytical Chemistry --- Techniques, Analytical Chemistry --- Temperatures --- Miniaturisation --- Miniaturisations --- Miniaturizations --- Hot Temperatures --- Temperature, Hot --- Temperatures, Hot --- Transfer, Energy --- Nanotechnologies --- Microminiature electronic equipment --- Microminiaturization (Electronics) --- Heat transfer --- Thermal transfer --- Transmission of heat --- Physics. --- Thermodynamics. --- Engineering. --- Heat engineering. --- Heat transfer. --- Mass transfer. --- Engineering, general. --- Engineering Thermodynamics, Heat and Mass Transfer. --- Construction --- Industrial arts --- Chemistry, Physical and theoretical --- Dynamics --- Mechanics --- Heat-engines --- Quantum theory --- Mass transport (Physics) --- Transport theory --- Energy transfer --- Mechanical engineering

Dynamics of cancer : incidence, inheritance, and evolution
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ISBN: 0691133654 0691133662 Year: 2007 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] Princeton University Press

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Carcinogenesis --- Cancer --- Disease Susceptibility --- Cells --- Age Factors --- Diseases --- Genotype --- Gene Expression Regulation --- Genetic Processes --- Epidemiologic Factors --- Anatomy --- Genetic Phenomena --- Disease Attributes --- Pathologic Processes --- Phenomena and Processes --- Quality of Health Care --- Public Health --- Environment and Public Health --- Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms --- Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation --- Health Care --- Age of Onset --- Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic --- Neoplasms --- Stem Cells --- Genetic Predisposition to Disease --- Mutagenesis --- Medicine --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Oncology --- Age factors --- Genetic aspects --- Epidemiology --- Predisposition, Genetic --- Susceptibility, Genetic --- Genetic Predisposition --- Genetic Susceptibility --- Genetic Predispositions --- Genetic Susceptibilities --- Predispositions, Genetic --- Susceptibilities, Genetic --- Colony-Forming Unit --- Colony-Forming Units --- Mother Cells --- Progenitor Cells --- Cell, Mother --- Cell, Progenitor --- Cell, Stem --- Cells, Mother --- Cells, Progenitor --- Cells, Stem --- Colony Forming Unit --- Colony Forming Units --- Mother Cell --- Progenitor Cell --- Stem Cell --- Benign Neoplasms --- Malignancy --- Neoplasia --- Neoplasm --- Neoplasms, Benign --- Tumors --- Benign Neoplasm --- Cancers --- Malignancies --- Neoplasias --- Neoplasm, Benign --- Tumor --- Mutageneses --- Regulation, Gene Expression, Neoplastic --- Neoplastic Gene Expression Regulation --- Regulation of Gene Expression, Neoplastic --- Age-at-Onset --- Age at Onset --- Onset Age --- Healthcare Quality, Access, and Evaluation --- Symptoms and General Pathology --- Community-Based Distribution --- Contraceptive Distribution --- Delivery of Healthcare --- Dental Care Delivery --- Distribution, Non-Clinical --- Distribution, Nonclinical --- Distributional Activities --- Healthcare --- Healthcare Delivery --- Healthcare Systems --- Non-Clinical Distribution --- Nonclinical Distribution --- Delivery of Dental Care --- Health Care Delivery --- Health Care Systems --- Activities, Distributional --- Activity, Distributional --- Care, Health --- Community Based Distribution --- Community-Based Distributions --- Contraceptive Distributions --- Deliveries, Healthcare --- Delivery, Dental Care --- Delivery, Health Care --- Delivery, Healthcare --- Distribution, Community-Based --- Distribution, Contraceptive --- Distribution, Non Clinical --- Distributional Activity --- Distributions, Community-Based --- Distributions, Contraceptive --- Distributions, Non-Clinical --- Distributions, Nonclinical --- Health Care System --- Healthcare Deliveries --- Healthcare System --- Non Clinical Distribution --- Non-Clinical Distributions --- Nonclinical Distributions --- System, Health Care --- System, Healthcare --- Systems, Health Care --- Systems, Healthcare --- Environment, Preventive Medicine & Public Health --- Environment, Preventive Medicine and Public Health --- Health, Public --- Quality of Care --- Quality of Healthcare --- Care Qualities --- Care Quality --- Health Care Quality --- Healthcare Quality --- Pathological Processes --- Processes, Pathologic --- Processes, Pathological --- Attribute, Disease --- Attributes, Disease --- Disease Attribute --- Genetic Concepts --- Genetic Phenomenon --- Genetic Process --- Concept, Genetic --- Concepts, Genetic --- Genetic Concept --- Phenomena, Genetic --- Phenomenon, Genetic --- Process, Genetic --- Processes, Genetic --- Anatomies --- Determinant, Epidemiologic --- Determinants, Epidemiologic --- Epidemiologic Determinant --- Epidemiologic Factor --- Factor, Epidemiologic --- Factors, Epidemiologic --- Epidemiologic Determinants --- Expression Regulation, Gene --- Regulation, Gene Action --- Regulation, Gene Expression --- Gene Action Regulation --- Regulation of Gene Expression --- Genogroup --- Genogroups --- Genotypes --- Age Reporting --- Age Factor --- Factor, Age --- Factors, Age --- Cell --- Susceptibility, Disease --- Diathesis --- Diatheses --- Disease Susceptibilities --- Susceptibilities, Disease --- Carcinoma --- Malignancy (Cancer) --- Malignant tumors --- Cancer genetics --- Oncogenesis --- Pathogenesis of cancer --- Tumorigenesis --- genetics --- Pathogenesis --- Genetic Testing --- Anticipation, Genetic --- Genetic Association Studies --- Gene-Environment Interaction --- Cell Self Renewal --- Stem Cell Research --- Malignant Neoplasms --- Malignant Neoplasm --- Neoplasm, Malignant --- Neoplasms, Malignant --- Medical Oncology --- Mutation Accumulation --- Mutagens --- Mutation --- Teratogenesis --- Community Health --- Health, Community --- Preventive Medicine --- Education, Public Health Professional --- Pharmacy Audit --- Audit, Pharmacy --- Pharmacy Audits --- Molecular Biology --- RNAi Therapeutics --- Gene Regulatory Networks --- Genotyping Techniques --- Cell Biology --- Cancer genes --- Pathology --- Genetic toxicology --- Age of Onset. --- Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic. --- Genetic Predisposition to Disease. --- Mutagenesis. --- Stem Cells. --- etiology.

Assessment of the AHRQ patient safety initiative : moving from research to practice evaluation report II (2003-2004
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ISBN: 0833060023 0833041487 9780833060020 9780833041487 Year: 2007 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] RAND Health

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Medical errors --- Iatrogenic diseases --- Patients --- Health Services --- Evaluation Studies as Topic --- Social Sciences --- Quality of Health Care --- Health Care Evaluation Mechanisms --- North America --- Health Services Administration --- Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena --- Americas --- Investigative Techniques --- Health Care Facilities, Manpower, and Services --- Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment --- Health Care --- Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation --- Geographic Locations --- Geographicals --- Government Programs --- United States --- Medical Errors --- Program Evaluation --- Medicine --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Medical Professional Practice --- Government policy --- Prevention --- Safety measures --- Family Planning Program Evaluation --- Program Appropriateness --- Program Effectiveness --- Program Sustainability --- Evaluation, Program --- Appropriateness, Program --- Effectiveness, Program --- 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Critical Incidents --- Medical Error --- Medical Incident, Critical --- Medical Incidents, Critical --- Never Events --- Omission Medical Error --- Omission Medical Errors --- Surgeries, Wrong-Patient --- Surgeries, Wrong-Site --- Surgery, Wrong-Patient --- Surgery, Wrong-Site --- Wrong Patient Surgery --- Wrong Procedure Errors --- Wrong Site Surgery --- Wrong-Patient Surgeries --- Wrong-Procedure Error --- Wrong-Site Surgeries --- Government Sponsored Programs --- Government-Sponsored Programs --- Government Program --- Government Sponsored Program --- Government-Sponsored Program --- Program, Government --- Program, Government Sponsored --- Program, Government-Sponsored --- Programs, Government --- Programs, Government Sponsored --- Programs, Government-Sponsored --- Healthcare Quality, Access, and Evaluation --- Community-Based Distribution --- Contraceptive Distribution --- Delivery of Healthcare --- Dental Care Delivery --- Distribution, Non-Clinical --- Distribution, Nonclinical --- Distributional Activities --- Healthcare --- Healthcare Delivery --- Healthcare Systems --- Non-Clinical Distribution --- Nonclinical Distribution --- Delivery of Dental Care --- Health Care Delivery --- Health Care Systems --- Activities, Distributional --- Activity, Distributional --- Care, Health --- Community Based Distribution --- Community-Based Distributions --- Contraceptive Distributions --- Deliveries, Healthcare --- Delivery, Dental Care --- Delivery, Health Care --- Delivery, Healthcare --- Distribution, Community-Based --- Distribution, Contraceptive --- Distribution, Non Clinical --- Distributional Activity --- Distributions, Community-Based --- Distributions, Contraceptive --- Distributions, Non-Clinical --- Distributions, Nonclinical --- Health Care System --- Healthcare Deliveries --- Healthcare System --- Non Clinical Distribution --- Non-Clinical Distributions --- Nonclinical Distributions --- System, Health Care --- System, Healthcare --- Systems, Health Care --- Systems, Healthcare --- Healthcare Facilities, Manpower, and Services --- Investigative Technics --- Investigative Technic --- Investigative Technique --- Technic, Investigative --- Technics, Investigative --- Technique, Investigative --- Techniques, Investigative --- Administration, Health Services --- Healthcare Evaluation Mechanisms --- Evaluation Mechanism, Healthcare --- Evaluation Mechanisms, Healthcare --- Healthcare Evaluation Mechanism --- Mechanism, Healthcare Evaluation --- Mechanisms, Healthcare Evaluation --- Quality of Care --- Quality of Healthcare --- Care Qualities --- Care Quality --- Health Care Quality --- Healthcare Quality --- Science, Social --- Sciences, Social --- Social Science --- Critique --- Evaluation --- Evaluation Indexes --- Evaluation Methodology --- Evaluation Report --- Evaluation Research --- Methodology, Evaluation --- Pre-Post Tests --- Qualitative Evaluation --- Quantitative Evaluation --- Theoretical Effectiveness --- Use-Effectiveness --- 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Assisted dying and legal change
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ISBN: 0191707066 Year: 2007 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press,

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Exploring how the way in which assisted dying is legalised affects the regime produced, this text suggests that the experience of one jurisdiction cannot readily be translated to another, and argues for a subtler understanding of euthanasia against the backgrounds of diverse legal and political cultures.

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Assisted suicide --- Right to die --- Euthanasia --- Right to Die --- Suicide, Assisted --- Suicide --- Terminal Care --- Patient Rights --- Homicide --- Self-Injurious Behavior --- Patient Care --- Social Problems --- Human Rights --- Social Control, Formal --- Therapeutics --- Sociology --- Behavioral Symptoms --- Health Services --- Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment --- Behavior --- Health Care Economics and Organizations --- Health Care Facilities, Manpower, and Services --- Social Sciences --- Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena --- Health Care --- Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms --- Psychiatry and Psychology --- Law, General & Comparative --- Law, Politics & Government --- Law and legislation --- Community-Based Distribution --- Contraceptive Distribution --- Delivery of Healthcare --- Dental Care Delivery --- Distribution, Non-Clinical --- Distribution, Nonclinical --- Distributional Activities --- Healthcare --- Healthcare Delivery --- Healthcare Systems --- Non-Clinical Distribution --- Nonclinical Distribution --- Delivery of Dental Care --- Health Care Delivery --- Health Care Systems --- Activities, Distributional --- Activity, Distributional --- Care, Health --- Community Based Distribution --- Community-Based Distributions --- Contraceptive Distributions --- Deliveries, Healthcare --- Delivery, Dental Care --- Delivery, Health Care --- Delivery, Healthcare --- Distribution, Community-Based --- Distribution, Contraceptive --- Distribution, Non Clinical --- Distributional Activity --- Distributions, Community-Based --- Distributions, Contraceptive --- Distributions, Non-Clinical --- Distributions, Nonclinical --- Health Care System --- Healthcare Deliveries --- Healthcare System --- Non Clinical Distribution --- Non-Clinical Distributions --- Nonclinical Distributions --- System, Health Care --- System, Healthcare --- Systems, Health Care --- Systems, Healthcare --- Science, Social --- Sciences, Social --- Social Science --- Healthcare Facilities, Manpower, and Services --- Healthcare Economics and Organizations --- Acceptance Process --- Acceptance Processes --- Behaviors --- Process, Acceptance --- Processes, Acceptance --- Services, Health --- Health Service --- Behavioral Symptom --- Symptom, Behavioral --- Symptoms, Behavioral --- General Social Development and Population --- Therapy --- Treatment --- Therapeutic --- Therapies --- Treatments --- Disease --- Regulation --- Social Control --- Control, Social --- Controls, Social --- Formal Social Control --- Formal Social Controls --- Regulations --- Social Controls --- Public Policy --- Collective Human Rights --- Equal Rights --- Linguistic Rights --- Right to Housing and Shelter --- Rights of Indigenous Peoples --- Human Rights, Collective --- Indigenous Peoples Rights --- Rights, Collective Human --- Rights, Equal --- Rights, Linguistic --- Social Justice --- Human Rights Abuses --- Labor Exploitation --- Social Exploitation --- Exploitation, Labor --- Exploitation, Social --- Exploitations, Labor --- Problem, Social --- Problems, Social --- Social Problem --- Informal care --- Care, Patient --- Informal cares --- care, Informal --- cares, Informal --- Deliberate Self-Harm --- Non-Suicidal Self Injury --- Nonsuicidal Self Injury --- Self-Injury --- Self-Destructive Behavior --- Behavior, Self-Destructive --- Behavior, Self-Injurious --- Behaviors, Self-Destructive --- Behaviors, Self-Injurious --- Deliberate Self Harm --- Non Suicidal Self Injury --- Non-Suicidal Self Injuries --- Nonsuicidal Self Injuries --- Self Destructive Behavior --- Self Injuries, Non-Suicidal --- Self Injuries, Nonsuicidal --- Self Injurious Behavior --- Self Injury --- Self Injury, Non-Suicidal --- Self Injury, Nonsuicidal --- Self-Destructive Behaviors --- Self-Harm, Deliberate --- Self-Injuries --- Self-Injurious Behaviors --- Body Modification, Non-Therapeutic --- Killing --- Wrongful Death --- Murder --- Death, Wrongful --- Deaths, Wrongful --- Homicides --- Killings --- Murders --- Wrongful Deaths --- Death --- Patient's Rights --- Patients' Rights --- Right to Treatment --- Patient Right --- Patient's Right --- Patients Rights --- Patients' Right --- Right to Treatments --- Right, Patient --- Right, Patient's --- Right, Patients' --- Rights, Patient --- Rights, Patient's --- Rights, Patients' --- Treatment, Right to --- Treatments, Right to --- Patient Advocacy --- Truth Disclosure --- Bioethical Issues --- End of Life Care --- Care End, Life --- Care Ends, Life --- Care, Terminal --- Life Care End --- Life Care Ends --- Advance Care Planning --- Suicides --- Mercy Killing --- Killing, Mercy --- Killings, Mercy --- Mercy Killings --- Medically Assisted Suicides --- Suicide, Medically Assisted --- Suicides, Medically Assisted --- Assisted Suicide --- Death, Assisted --- Medically Assisted Suicide --- Physician-Assisted Suicide --- Assisted Death --- Assisted Deaths --- Assisted Suicides --- Deaths, Assisted --- Physician Assisted Suicide --- Physician-Assisted Suicides --- Suicide, Physician-Assisted --- Suicides, Assisted --- Suicides, Physician-Assisted --- Euthanasia, Active --- Euthanasia, Active, Voluntary --- Death with Dignity --- Dignity, Death with --- Advance Directives --- Living Wills --- Medical laws and legislation --- Informed consent (Medical law) --- therapy --- Behavior And Behavior Mechanism --- Health Care Economics --- Health Economics --- Healthcare Economics --- Care Economic, Health --- Economic, Health --- Economic, Health Care --- Economic, Healthcare --- Economics, Health Care --- Health Care Economic --- Health Economic --- Healthcare Economic --- Intentional Self Harm --- Intentional Self Injury --- Self Harm --- Harm, Self --- Intentional Self Injuries --- Self Harm, Intentional --- Self Injury, Intentional --- End-Of-Life Care --- Care, End-Of-Life --- End-Of-Life Cares --- Psychology --- Factors, Psychological --- Psychological Factors --- Psychological Side Effects --- Psychologists --- Psychosocial Factors --- Side Effects, Psychological --- Factor, Psychological --- Factor, Psychosocial --- Factors, Psychosocial --- Psychological Factor --- Psychological Side Effect --- Psychologist --- Psychosocial Factor --- Side Effect, Psychological

OECD Reviews of Risk Management Policies: Sweden 2007 : The Safety of Older People
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ISBN: 1281746509 9786611746506 9264027076 9264027068 Year: 2007 Publisher: Paris : OECD Publishing,

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As the share of the population aged 65 and over grows rapidly in the next decades across most of the OECD, the number of fall-related injuries could rise dramatically, and with it, the strains on hospitals, medical services, social services and public budgets. This OECD review of risk management policies focuses on Sweden because, with the ageing of its society already at a quite advanced stage, it exemplifies many of the current and future problems that OECD countries face in addressing fall-related injuries and fatalities among the elderly. The report looks at Sweden's policies in the area of older people's safety and well-being, seeking out and identifying good practices and areas where improvements could be made. It offers lessons that other countries can also draw from. While the report underscores the importance of the management of fall accidents, it also emphasizes the more general point that multidisciplinary and forward-looking approaches to safety and risk are essential for any policy concerning older people.

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Falls (Accidents) -- Sweden -- Prevention. --- Older people -- Care -- Government policy -- Sweden. --- Older people -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Sweden. --- Older people -- Wounds and injuries -- Sweden -- Prevention. --- Safety --- Risk Management --- Epidemiologic Measurements --- Risk --- Organization and Administration --- Public Policy --- Accidents --- Adult --- Probability --- Age Groups --- Social Control Policies --- Accident Prevention --- Health Services Administration --- Public Health --- Health Care --- Statistics as Topic --- Environment and Public Health --- Social Control, Formal --- Persons --- Policy --- Health Care Evaluation Mechanisms --- Sociology --- Named Groups --- Epidemiologic Methods --- Health Care Economics and Organizations --- Social Sciences --- Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena --- Quality of Health Care --- Investigative Techniques --- Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment --- Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation --- Risk Assessment --- Health Policy --- Safety Management --- Aged --- Accidental Falls --- Social Welfare & Social Work --- Social Welfare & Social Work - General --- Policies --- Person --- Regulation --- Social Control --- Control, Social --- Controls, Social --- Formal Social Control --- Formal Social Controls --- Regulations --- Social Controls --- Prevention, Accident --- Accident Preventions --- Preventions, Accident --- Control Policies, Social --- Control Policy, Social --- Policies, Social Control --- Policy, Social Control --- Social Control Policy --- Area Analysis --- Correlation Studies --- Correlation Study --- Correlation of Data --- Data Analysis --- Estimation Technics --- Estimation Techniques --- Indirect Estimation Technics --- Indirect Estimation Techniques --- Multiple Classification Analysis --- Service Statistics --- Statistical Study --- Statistics, Service --- Tables and Charts as Topic --- Analyses, Area --- Analyses, Data --- Analyses, Multiple Classification --- Analysis, Area --- Analysis, Data --- Analysis, Multiple Classification --- Area Analyses --- Classification Analyses, Multiple --- Classification Analysis, Multiple --- Data Analyses --- Data Correlation --- Data Correlations --- Estimation Technic --- Estimation Technic, Indirect --- Estimation Technics, Indirect --- Estimation Technique --- Estimation Technique, Indirect --- Estimation Techniques, Indirect --- Indirect Estimation Technic --- Indirect Estimation Technique --- Multiple Classification Analyses --- Statistical Studies --- Studies, Correlation --- Studies, Statistical --- Study, Correlation --- Study, Statistical --- Technic, Estimation --- Technic, Indirect Estimation --- Technics, Estimation --- Technics, Indirect Estimation --- Technique, Estimation --- Technique, Indirect Estimation --- Techniques, Estimation --- Techniques, Indirect Estimation --- Community-Based Distribution --- Contraceptive Distribution --- Delivery of Healthcare --- Dental Care Delivery --- Distribution, Non-Clinical --- Distribution, Nonclinical --- Distributional Activities --- Healthcare --- Healthcare Delivery --- Healthcare Systems --- Non-Clinical Distribution --- Nonclinical Distribution --- Delivery of Dental Care --- Health Care Delivery --- Health Care Systems --- Activities, Distributional --- Activity, Distributional --- Care, Health --- Community Based Distribution --- Community-Based Distributions --- Contraceptive Distributions --- Deliveries, Healthcare --- Delivery, Dental Care --- Delivery, Health Care --- Delivery, Healthcare --- Distribution, Community-Based --- Distribution, Contraceptive --- Distribution, Non Clinical --- Distributional Activity --- Distributions, Community-Based --- Distributions, Contraceptive --- Distributions, Non-Clinical --- Distributions, Nonclinical --- Health Care System --- Healthcare Deliveries --- Healthcare System --- Non Clinical Distribution --- Non-Clinical Distributions --- Nonclinical Distributions --- System, Health Care --- System, Healthcare --- Systems, Health Care --- Systems, Healthcare --- Environment, Preventive Medicine & Public Health --- Environment, Preventive Medicine and Public Health --- Health, Public --- Administration, Health Services --- Health Services --- Age Group --- Group, Age --- Groups, Age --- Probabilities --- Adults --- Accident --- Migration Policy --- Population Policy --- Social Protection --- Social Policy --- Migration Policies --- Policies, Migration --- Policies, Population --- Policies, Public --- Policies, Social --- Policy, Migration --- Policy, Population --- Policy, Public --- Policy, Social --- Population Policies --- Protection, Social --- Public Policies --- Social Policies --- Administration and Organization --- Administrative Technics --- Administrative Techniques --- Coordination, Administrative --- Logistics --- Supervision --- Technics, Administrative --- Techniques, Administrative --- Administration --- Administrative Coordination --- Administrative Technic --- Administrative Technique --- Technic, Administrative --- Technique, Administrative --- Relative Risk --- Relative Risks --- Risk, Relative --- Risks --- Risks, Relative --- Measurements, Epidemiologic --- Epidemiologic Measurement --- Measurement, Epidemiologic --- Hospital Incident Reportings --- Incident Reporting --- Incident Reportings, Hospital --- Management, Risks --- Reporting, Hospital Incident --- Reportings, Hospital Risk --- Voluntary Patient Safety Event Reporting --- Hospital Incident Reporting --- Incident Reporting, Hospital --- Hospital Risk Reporting --- Hospital Risk Reportings --- Incident Reportings --- Management, Risk --- Reporting, Hospital Risk --- Reporting, Incident --- Reportings, Hospital Incident --- Reportings, Incident --- Risk Reporting, Hospital --- Risk Reportings, Hospital --- Risks Management --- Safeties --- Falling --- Falls --- Slip and Fall --- Falls, Accidental --- Accidental Fall --- Fall and Slip --- Fall, Accidental --- Elderly --- Hazard Control --- Hazard Surveillance Program --- Safety Culture --- Hazard Management --- Control, Hazard --- Culture, Safety --- Cultures, Safety --- Hazard Controls --- Hazard Surveillance Programs --- Management, Hazard --- Management, Safety --- Program, Hazard Surveillance --- Programs, Hazard Surveillance --- Safety Cultures --- Surveillance Program, Hazard --- Surveillance Programs, Hazard --- National Health Policy --- Health Policies --- Health Policies, National --- Health Policy, National --- National Health Policies --- Policies, Health --- Policies, National Health --- Policy, Health --- Policy, National Health --- Heatlh Risk Assessment --- Risks and Benefits --- Assessment, Risk --- Benefit-Risk Assessment --- Risk-Benefit Assessment --- Assessment, Benefit-Risk --- Assessment, Heatlh Risk --- Assessment, Risk-Benefit --- Assessments, Benefit-Risk --- Assessments, Heatlh Risk --- Assessments, Risk --- Assessments, Risk-Benefit --- Benefit Risk Assessment --- Benefit-Risk Assessments --- Benefits and Risks --- Heatlh Risk Assessments --- Risk Assessment, Heatlh --- Risk Assessments --- Risk Assessments, Heatlh --- Risk Benefit Assessment --- Risk-Benefit Assessments --- Healthcare Quality, Access, and Evaluation --- Investigative Technics --- Investigative Technic --- Investigative Technique --- Technic, Investigative --- Technics, Investigative --- Technique, Investigative --- Techniques, Investigative --- Quality of Care --- Quality of Healthcare --- Care Qualities --- Care Quality --- Health Care Quality --- Healthcare Quality --- Science, Social --- Sciences, Social --- Social Science --- Healthcare Economics and Organizations --- Epidemiologic Method --- Epidemiological Methods --- Methods, Epidemiologic --- Epidemiological Method --- Method, Epidemiologic --- Method, Epidemiological --- Methods, Epidemiological --- Epidemiology --- General Social Development and Population --- Healthcare Evaluation Mechanisms --- Evaluation Mechanism, Healthcare --- Evaluation Mechanisms, Healthcare --- Healthcare Evaluation Mechanism --- Mechanism, Healthcare Evaluation --- Mechanisms, Healthcare Evaluation --- prevention & control --- organization & administration --- methods --- Community Health --- Health, Community --- Preventive Medicine --- Education, Public Health Professional --- Policy Making --- Risk Reduction Behavior --- Harm Reduction --- Truth Disclosure --- Geriatrics --- Longevity --- Organizational Culture --- Health Risk Assessment --- Assessment, Health Risk --- Assessments, Health Risk --- Health Risk Assessments --- Risk Assessment, Health --- Risk Assessments, Health --- Pharmacy Audit --- Audit, Pharmacy --- Pharmacy Audits --- Affirmative Action --- Action, Affirmative --- Incidence --- Healthcare Policy --- Healthcare Policies --- Policy, Healthcare --- Risk Analysis --- Analysis, Risk --- Risk Analyses --- Health Care Economics --- Health Economics --- Healthcare Economics --- Care Economic, Health --- Economic, Health --- Economic, Health Care --- Economic, Healthcare --- Economics, Health Care --- Health Care Economic --- Health Economic --- Healthcare Economic --- Sweden --- Health Care Policies --- Care Policies, Health --- Health Care Policy --- Policies, Health Care --- Policies, Healthcare --- Policy, Health Care

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