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Veterans’ Benefits and Care


Free Download Mathew H. Bradley, "Veterans’ Benefits and Care "
English | ISBN: 1606925008 | 2010 | 280 pages | PDF | 5 MB
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) provides services and benefits to veterans who meet certain eligibility criteria. Benefits to veterans range from disability compensation and pensions to hospital and medical care. Furthermore, veterans’ education benefits have evolved substantially over the last 60-plus years. This book reviews the two disability programs administered by the VA, one of which is called the Disability Compensation, and the other which is known as a Disability pension. The authors of this book discuss the eligibility criteria and the fundamentals of these VA-administered disability benefit programs and related issues. The evolution of veterans’ education benefit programs are also examined and the types of education benefits made available under these programs are described. Furthermore, the VA administers several pension benefit programs for the surviving spouses and dependent children of veterans. This book describes these programs, including the eligibility criteria and current benefit levels. Other chapters in this book examine the provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act, reflecting the congressional concern about the quality and availability of medical, mental health and dental care services for service members returning from active duty in Iraq and Afghanistan. It is well-known that veterans have a number of risk factors that increase their chance of attempting suicide. This book discusses suicide prevention efforts by the VA This book consists of public documents which have been located, gathered, combined, reformatted, and enhanced with a subject index, selectively edited and bound to provide easy access.

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Handbook of Drugs in Intensive Care (7th Edition)


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English | 2025 | ISBN: 1009429698 | 699 Pages | PDF | 5 MB
A seventh edition practical guide providing key information on the medications used in critical care, in a concise and compact format. Thoroughly updated and featuring new drug monographs, it continues to provide critical care professionals with the latest and essential information on drug therapy in the intensive care unit.

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Families and Their Health Care after Homelessness Opportunities for Improving Access


Free Download Lisa M. Duchon, "Families and Their Health Care after Homelessness: Opportunities for Improving Access"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 0815331460 | EPUB | pages: 170 | 0.2 mb
First published in 1999. This book focuses on the health and health care use of families after they have left the shelter system, with the first three chapters dedicated to a review of relevant literature. The research is based on self-reported data collected during a follow up study of 543 poor New York City mothers who were first interviewed in 1988.

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Strategies in Evaluation of Complex Health Care Interventions for People with Physical or Mental Health Issues


Free Download Wai-Tong Chien, "Strategies in Evaluation of Complex Health Care Interventions for People with Physical or Mental Health Issues"
English | ISBN: 1606921762 | 2009 | 162 pages | PDF | 6 MB
Strategies in the evaluation of psychosocial health care interventions for people with physical and/or mental health problems are useful and important to practitioners and researchers. However, there is limited evidence in health care journals and information in books about this important topic. The purposes of this edited book are two-fold. First, the book will highlight and discuss a variety of methods used in evaluation research, which are mainly categorised as process and outcome-based evaluation. Second, it will disseminate up-to-date research evidence on a variety of psychotherapeutic, educational and supportive models of psychosocial interventions for people with physical or mental health problems, including those with cancer, heart failure and cardiovascular diseases, schizophrenia, dementia, first-time pregnancy, and paediatric surgery, as well as for their family caregivers. Most of research studies included in this book were randomised controlled trials (RCTs) with repeated measures design. However, a few are focused on not only health outcomes but also the process of the intervention or study. Interestingly, the study populations in these research reports consisted of people in different stages of life-span development, ranging from young children undergoing surgery (Chapter 2), adolescents and adults with schizophrenia (Chapter 4), women with first-time pregnancy (Chapter 5), to older people with dementia (Chapter 7), as well as their adult family members and parents. Discussion and evaluation of strategies for multi-component psychosocial interventions are limited. This edited book, which reports research using different study methods and designs of approaches to psychosocial interventions for different groups of people with physical and/or mental health problems, and also for their family caregivers, offers highly useful empirical evidence, or can be used as a reference guide, for health care practitioners and researchers.

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Manual of Neonatal Care


Free Download Manual of Neonatal Care by M.D. Cloherty, John P., M.D. Eichenwald, Eric C., M.D. Hansen, Anne R.
English | September 15, 2011 | ISBN: 1608317773 | 1007 pages | PDF | 5.83 Mb
This edition of the Manual of Neonatal Care has been completely updated and extensively revised to reflect the changes in fetal, perinatal, and neonatal care that have occurred since the sixth edition. This portable text covers current and practical approaches to evaluation and management of conditions encountered in the fetus and the newborn, as practiced in high volume clinical services that include contemporary prenatal and postnatal care of infants with routine, as well as complex medical and surgical problems.

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Dimensions of Long-Term Care Management An Introduction, Third Edition


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English | April 10, 2023 | ISBN: 1640553673 | 528 pages | MOBI | 24 Mb
The field of long-term care continues to experience substantial expansion and change. Dimensions of Long-Term Care Management provides a comprehensive introduction to this dynamic and rapidly growing market. Readers will gain a thorough understanding of how long-term care is delivered and of what it is like to work in this sector.

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