San Antonio College Library

Americans have the wealthiest health care system in the world, yet the health status of Americans ranks in the lowest quartile among the worldʼs 25 industrialized nations and 45 million Americans are without health insurance. Todayʼs cost, quality, and access problems are inter-related and can be traced to taken-for-granted assumptions and health careʼs outmoded organizing concepts: reductionism and materialism. Greater fragmentation of care, an...

School-based mental health professionals intervene daily to address a variety of student mental health concerns. From challenges that arise in the educational context to those carried over from home, from managing daily care to handling emergent traumatic events, they must be prepared for an extremely varied work life. While some of the most common issues recur with such frequency that they may seem straightforward to address, others crop up with...

"In addition to informing parents, family members, and advocates aiming to improve the lives of children who need mental health care, this work will also interest clinicians, policy makers, and students in social work, clinical psychiatry, public health, and public policy."--Jacket.

Written specifically for nurses who have ever dreamed about volunteering in the U.S. or in other countries. Covers what nurses need to consider, know, and plan if they want to volunteer. Covers the entire volunteering process from choosing an organization to settling into the volunteer experience to re-entering society after the experience. Filled with practical tips and advice about volunteering, whether a novice or more experienced volunteer. Contains...

Health Care as a Social Good: Religious Values and the American Democracy argues that as escalating health costs absorb more and more of family income and government budgets, we need to take stock of the full range of health care values to create a different and more affordable community-based health care system. Transformation of that system is a national priority but Americans have failed to find a way to work together that bypasses our differences....

Examines the American health care system, from its origins to what the author claims is its deterioration, and the role that special interest groups have played in its downfall, and proposes a solution for remedying its numerous problems.

William F. May, a leading expert on medical ethics, here explores two of today's most crucial tests of the medical covenant - active euthanasia and health care reform. May begins with an incisive introduction that delineates the covenantal, or relational, nature of the practice of medicine over against the merely contractual view - the quid pro quos of the commercial buying and selling of professional services. In the subsequent chapters, May follows...

"A comprehensive overview of the current state of world poverty and health, directed to the health care provider interested in volunteering abroad"--Provided by publisher.