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Provider-Led Population Health Management

Key Strategies for Healthcare in the Cognitive Era

By: Richard Hodach,Paul Grundy,Anil Jain,Michael Weiner

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Provider-Led Population Health Management

Key Strategies for Healthcare in the Cognitive Era

By: Richard Hodach,Paul Grundy,Anil Jain,Michael Weiner

Provider-Led Population Health Management: Key Healthcare Strategies in the Cognitive Era, Second Edition draws connections among the new care-delivery models, the components of population health management, and the types of health IT that are required to support those components. The key concept that ties all of this together is that PHM requires a high degree of automation to reach everyone in a population, engage those patients in self-care, and maximize the chance that they will receive the proper preventive, chronic, and acute care. While this book is intended for healthcare executives and policy experts, anyone who is interested in health care can learn something from its exploration of the major issues that are stirring health care today. In the end, the momentous changes going on in health care will affect us all.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119277256

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Tell Me What Happened

Questioning Children About Abuse

By: Michael E. Lamb,Deirdre A. Brown,Irit Hershkowitz,Yael Orbach,Phillip W. Esplin

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Tell Me What Happened

Questioning Children About Abuse

By: Michael E. Lamb,Deirdre A. Brown,Irit Hershkowitz,Yael Orbach,Phillip W. Esplin

Represents a scholarly and ambitious attempt to improve the quality of interviews received by the courts and minimize the risks of miscarriages of justice, for victims and defendants This book updates the previous review of research on children’s testimony—reexamining and readdressing how the quality of information provided by young witnesses is affected by the way they are questioned. Drawing upon both experimental and field studies conducted in different countries, it summarizes evidence supporting the effectiveness of the National Institute for Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Protocol and showcases the Protocol’s superiority over other current interviewing techniques for eliciting detailed and forensically useful content from child complainants. Written with both child protection professionals and researchers in mind, Tell Me What Happened: Questioning Children About Abuse offers advice and opinions drawn from actual investigative interviews as well as academic research. Its insightful chapters cover: children’s testimony; interview and questioning strategies; how investigators typically interview alleged victims; the NICHD Investigative Interview Protocols; the impact that following the Protocol has on interviews and children’s responses; interviewing victims under the age of six; interviewing children with developmental disabilities; using tools and props to complement the Protocol; training and maintaining good interviewing practices; and more. Provides a primary source of guidance practitioners and professionals involved in child protection Updates guidance for interviewers by adding consideration of emotional and motivational factors to better understand children’s behavior during interviews Integrates the substantial body of research published over the last decade and reflects upon questions that the field should continue to address Tell Me What Happened: Questioning Children About Abuse deserves to be read by all practitioners involved in child protection, whether as investigators, interviewers, judges, or lawyers.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118881672

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Handbook of Religion and Health

By: Harold G. Koenig,Michael E. McCullough,David B. Larson

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Handbook of Religion and Health

By: Harold G. Koenig,Michael E. McCullough,David B. Larson

What effect does religion have on physical and mental health? In answering this question, this book reviews and discusses research on the relationship between religion and a variety of mental and physical health outcomes, including depression and anxiety; heart disease, stroke, and cancer; and health related behaviors such as smoking and substance abuse. The authors examine the positive and negative effects of religion on health throughout the life span, from childhood to old age. Based on their findings, they build theoretical models illustrating the behavioral, psychological, social, and physiological pathways through which religion may influence health. The authors also review research on the impact of religious affiliation, belief, and practice on the use of health services and compliance with medical treatment. In conclusion, they discuss the clinical relevance of their findings and make recommendations for future research priorities. Offering the first comprehensive examination of its topic, this volume is an indispensable resource for research scientists, health professionals, public policy makers, and anyone interested in the relationship between religion and health.

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Oxford University Press

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0199880662

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America in Crisis

Insights from New Social Science Disciplines

By: Michael A. Alexander

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America in Crisis

Insights from New Social Science Disciplines

By: Michael A. Alexander

America is in trouble. Today’s young people seem destined to become the nation’s first generation poorer than their parents. A changing climate, dangerously overvalued financial markets and political instability (recent polling shows many Americans believe civil war is imminent) simultaneously threaten America. What has happened to us? What can we do about it? America in Crisis employs the new disciplines of cliodynamics and cultural evolution to explain how and why we have come to this place. Cliodynamics teaches that crises like this have happened before and stem from consequences of rising inequality. Cultural evolution provides the processes through which inequality and society in general change with time. The book tells the story of how and why America evolved from the previous crisis a century ago through a period of broadly shared prosperity and stability (both political and financial) to the current crisis. This story welds the ideas of cliodynamacists, evolutionary scientists, cultural historians, economists and political scientists into data-rich verbal and mathematical models illustrated with numerous charts and tables. From this synthesis come fresh insights concerning race relations, economics, foreign policy, and how addressing climate change can create a stronger and more prosperous America. The final chapter describes some ideas on how we might proceed going forward.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1527591034

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Reading Poetry

A Complete Coursebook

By: Tom Furniss,Michael Bath

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Reading Poetry

A Complete Coursebook

By: Tom Furniss,Michael Bath

Reading Poetry offers a comprehensive and accessible guide to the art of reading poetry. Discussing more than 200 poems by more than 100 writers, ranging from ancient Greece and China to the twenty-first century, the book introduces readers to the skills and the critical and theoretical awareness that enable them to read poetry with enjoyment and insight. This third edition has been significantly updated in response to current developments in poetry and poetic criticism, and includes many new examples and exercises, new chapters on ‘world poetry’ and ‘eco-poetry’, and a greater emphasis throughout on American poetry, including the impact traditional Chinese poetry has had on modern American poetry. The seventeen carefully staged chapters constitute a complete apprenticeship in reading poetry, leading readers from specific features of form and figurative language to larger concerns with genre, intertextuality, Caribbean poetry, world poetry, and the role poetry can play in response to the ecological crisis. The workshop exercises at the end of each chapter, together with an extensive glossary of poetic and critical terms, and the number and range of poems analysed and discussed – 122 of which are quoted in full – make Reading Poetry suitable for individual study or as a comprehensive, self-contained textbook for university and college classes.

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Routledge

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1000548996

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American Environmentalism

Philosophy, History, and Public Policy

By: J. Michael Martinez

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American Environmentalism

Philosophy, History, and Public Policy

By: J. Michael Martinez

Protecting the natural environment and promoting sustainability have become important objectives, but achieving such goals presents myriad challenges for even the most committed environmentalist. American Environmentalism: Philosophy, History, and Public Policy examines whether competing interests can be reconciled while developing consistent, coherent, effective public policy to regulate uses and protection of the natural environment without destroying the national economy. It then reviews a range of possible solutions. The book delves into key normative concepts that undergird American perspectives on nature by providing an overview of philosophical concepts found in the western intellectual tradition, the presuppositions inherent in neoclassical economics, and anthropocentric (human-centered) and biocentric (earth-centered) positions on sustainability. It traces the evolution of attitudes about nature from the time of the Ancient Greeks through Europeans in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, the Enlightenment and the American Founders, the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and up to the present. Building on this foundation, the author examines the political landscape as non-governmental organizations (NGOs), industry leaders, and government officials struggle to balance industrial development with environmental concerns. Outrageous claims, silly misrepresentations, bogus arguments, absurd contentions, and overblown prophesies of impending calamities are bandied about by many parties on all sides of the debate—industry spokespeople, elected representatives, unelected regulators, concerned citizens, and environmental NGOs alike. In lieu of descending into this morass, the author circumvents the silliness to explore the crucial issues through a more focused, disciplined approach. Rather than engage in acrimonious debate over minutiae, as so often occurs in the context of "green" claims, he recasts the issue in a way that provides a cohesive look at all sides. This effort may be quixotic, but how else to cut the Gordian knot?

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CRC Press

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1466559705

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9781466559707

The Mixed Methods Research Workbook

Activities for Designing, Implementing, and Publishing Projects

By: Michael D. Fetters

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The Mixed Methods Research Workbook

Activities for Designing, Implementing, and Publishing Projects

By: Michael D. Fetters

The Mixed Methods Research Workbook by Michael Fetters is the perfect tool for doctoral students and researchers who want support throughout their research project, as well as a practical way to apply the knowledge they have learned. With this text, students can tackle their mixed methods research project with confidence.

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SAGE Publications

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1506393608

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9781506393605

Applied Behaviour Analysis and Autism

Building a Future Together

By: Michael Keenan

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Applied Behaviour Analysis and Autism

Building a Future Together

By: Michael Keenan

This practical book gives detailed guidance on how to develop a tailored Applied Behavioural Analysis programme that includes the key features of ABA: detailed individual behaviour assessment, reinforcement strategies to encourage new behaviours and systematic programme implementation.

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Jessica Kingsley Publishers

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1843103109

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9781843103103

Pediatric Rehabilitation

Principles & Practices, Fourth Edition

By: Michael A. Alexander, MD,Dennis J. Matthews, MD

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Pediatric Rehabilitation

Principles & Practices, Fourth Edition

By: Michael A. Alexander, MD,Dennis J. Matthews, MD

Pediatric Rehabilitation: Principles and Practice is the classic comprehensive reference on pediatric rehabilitation. Taking the reins from Dr. Gabriella Molnar, Drs. Michael Alexander and Dennis Matthews have brought together a broad range of pediatric specialists to thoroughly update the text to reflect current thinking and practice. The Fourth Edition covers everything from basic examination and psychological assessment to electrodiagnosis, therapeutic exercise, orthotics and assistive devices, and in-depth clinical management of the full range of disabling childhood diseases and injuries.

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Demos Medical Publishing

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1933864370

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9781933864372

The Neural Simulation Language

A System for Brain Modeling

By: Alfredo Weitzenfeld,Michael A. Arbib,Amanda Alexander

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The Neural Simulation Language

A System for Brain Modeling

By: Alfredo Weitzenfeld,Michael A. Arbib,Amanda Alexander

Simulation in NSL - Modeling in NSL - Schematic Capture System - User Interface and Graphical Windows - The Modeling Language NSLM - The Scripting Language NSLS - Adaptive Resonance Theory - Depth Perception - Retina - Receptive Fields - The Associative Search Network: Landmark Learning and Hill Climbing - A Model of Primate Visual-Motor Conditional Learning - The Modular Design of the Oculomotor System in Monkeys - Crowley-Arbib Saccade Model - A Cerebellar Model of Sensorimotor Adaptation - Learning to Detour - Face Recognition by Dynamic Link Matching - Appendix I : NSLM Methods - NSLJ Extensions - NSLC Extensions - NSLJ and NSLC Differences - NSLJ and NSLC Installation Instructions.

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MIT Press

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0262731495

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9780262731492

The Student

A Short History

By: Michael S. Roth

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The Student

A Short History

By: Michael S. Roth

From the president of Wesleyan University, an illuminating history of the student, spanning from antiquity to Zoom In this sweeping book, Michael S. Roth narrates a vivid and dynamic history of students, exploring some of the principal models for learning that have developed in very different contexts, from the sixth century BCE to the present. Beginning with the followers of Confucius, Socrates, and Jesus and moving to medieval apprentices, students at Enlightenment centers of learning, and learners enrolled in twenty-first-century universities, he explores how students have been followers, interlocutors, disciples, rebels, and children becoming adults. There are many ways to be a student, Roth argues, but at their core is developing the capacity to think for oneself by learning from others, and thereby finding freedom. In an age of machine learning, this book celebrates the student who develops more than mastery, cultivating curiosity, judgment, creativity, and an ability to keep learning beyond formal schooling. Roth shows how the student throughout history has been someone who interacts dynamically with the world, absorbing its lessons and creatively responding to them.

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Yale University Press

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0300274831

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9780300274837

Pediatric Rehabilitation

Principles and Practice

By: Dennis J. Matthews, MD

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Pediatric Rehabilitation

Principles and Practice

By: Dennis J. Matthews, MD

Named a Doodyís Core Title in 2012 and 2013! Widely acknowledged as the cornerstone reference in the field, Pediatric Rehabilitation brings together renowned specialists from all sectors of the pediatric rehabilitation community to provide the most current and comprehensive information available. The fifth edition has been substantially updated and expanded with evidence-based discussions of new theories, therapies, interventions, research findings, and controversies. Five completely new chapters focus on such emerging areas as the use of ultrasound to guide motor point and nerve injections, rehabilitation of chronic pain and conversion disorders, management of concussions, sports injuries, and neurodegenerative and demyelinating diseases in children. This edition also addresses important new directions in genetic markers and tests, cognitive, developmental, and neuropsychological assessment, and rehabilitation for common genetic conditions. Additionally, several new contributors provide fresh perspectives to the voices of established leaders in the field. The text covers all aspects of pediatric rehabilitation medicine from basic examination and testing to electrodiagnosis, therapeutic exercise, orthotics and assistive devices, gait labs, aging with pediatric onset disability, and in-depth clinical management of the full range of childhood disabilities and injuries. ìPearls and Perilsî featured throughout the book underscore crucial information, and illustrations, summary tables, information boxes, and lists contribute to the textís abundant clinical utility. New to the Fifth Edition: Every chapter has been thoroughly revised and expanded to reflect current thinking and practice Evidence-based discussions of new theories, therapies, interventions, research findings, and areas of controversy Five entirely new chapters illuminating emerging areas: rehabilitation of chronic pain and conversion disorders, ultrasound-guided injections, concussion management, sports injuries, and neurodegenerative and demyelinating diseases in children

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Demos Medical Publishing

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1617052256

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Provider-Led Population Health Management

Provider-Led Population Health Management

Tell Me What Happened

Tell Me What Happened

Handbook of Religion and Health

Handbook of Religion and Health

America in Crisis

America in Crisis

Reading Poetry

Reading Poetry

American Environmentalism

American Environmentalism

The Mixed Methods Research Workbook

The Mixed Methods Research Workbook

Applied Behaviour Analysis and Autism

Applied Behaviour Analysis and Autism

Pediatric Rehabilitation

Pediatric Rehabilitation

The Neural Simulation Language

The Neural Simulation Language

The Student

The Student

Pediatric Rehabilitation

Pediatric Rehabilitation

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