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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Desmond McCluskey |
ISBN: | 190455850X 9781904558507 |
OCLC Number: | 969875325 |
Notes: | MAY06. |
Description: | 320 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Introduction; Part 1: Health and health care in Ireland: a macro perspective; 1 Overview of the health services, John Curry; 2 Mental illness in Ireland and its management, Dermot Walsh; 3 The evolution of Irish health policy, Peter Murray; 4 Making competition fair for health insurance in Ireland, Donald W. Light; 5 Inequalities in health and health care Desmond McCluskey; Part 2: The nursing role; 6 Development of the role of the nurse in Ireland, Gerard M. Fealy; 7 Learning only to labour, Anne Stakelum; 8 The child health care service: the role of the public health nurse, Margaret O'Keeffe; Part 3: The doctor-patient relationship; 9 The changing face of general practice: the role of the family doctor, William Shannon; 10 Patient roles, present and future, Tony O'Sullivan; Part 4: Disability issues; 11 The contours of learning/intellectual disability Mairide Woods; 12 People with physical disability: health policy and practice, Anne Colgan; Part 5: Lay health beliefs and practices; 13 Breastfeeding: issues in the implementation of policy, Aoife Rickard; 14 Health, illness and lifestyles, Desmond McCluskey; References; Index. |
Responsibility: | edited by Desmond McCluskey. |
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"The contributors include academics and health practitioners, thus giving both intellectual and practical analysis, but overall the socio-political angle is dominant." Books Ireland March 2006
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- Medical policy -- Ireland.
- National health services -- Ireland.
- Health services administration -- Ireland.
- Public health -- Ireland.
- Medical care -- Ireland.
- Physician and patient -- Ireland.
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- Medical care.
- Medical policy.
- National health services.
- Physician and patient.
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