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Record Nr.

UNINA9910144661103321

Titolo

Health care in a changing setting : the UK experience

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam : , : Elsevier/Excerpta Medica/North-Holland

New York : , : American Elsevier, , 1976

ISBN

0-470-72025-5

1-280-78362-1

9786613694010

0-470-71793-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (198 pages)

Collana

Ciba Foundation symposium ; ; 43 (new ser.)

Disciplina

362.1/0941

Soggetti

Medical care - Great Britain

National health services - Great Britain

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Health Care in a Changing Setting: the UK experience; Contents; Chairman's introduction; The difficulties of changing; Discussion; The reorganized National Health Service: theory and reality; Discussion; Changing concepts in university health; Discussion; General discussion I: The medical profession, patients and society; Implications of shortening the time spent in hospital; Discussion; The nurse's contribution to care; Discussion; Some quandaries facing the health visitor in these times of change; Discussion; Commitment and concern in the health service; Discussion

The response of the hospital doctor to the health requirements of a changing societyDiscussion; The place of academic research; Discussion; Health education, cancer and postgraduate training; Discussion; Women and their health: is there a conflict?; Discussion; General discussion II: Themes for discussion emerging from papers and discussions; Biographies of the participants; Index of contributors; Subject index