Caring and well-being a lifeworld approach

Something is missing in contemporary health and social care. Health and illness is often measured in policy documents in economic terms, and clinical outcomes are enmeshed in statistical data, with the patient's experience left to one side. This stimulating book is concerned with how to humanis...

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Main Author: Galvin, Kathleen M. (-)
Other Authors: Les, Todres
Format: Book
Language:Inglés
Published: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge 2013
Series:Routledge studies in the sociology of health and illness
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Summary:Something is missing in contemporary health and social care. Health and illness is often measured in policy documents in economic terms, and clinical outcomes are enmeshed in statistical data, with the patient's experience left to one side. This stimulating book is concerned with how to humanise health and social care and keep the person at the centre of practice.Caring and Well-Being opens by articulating Galvin and Todres' innovative framework for humanising health care and closes with a synthesis of their argument and a discussion of how this can be applied in health
Physical Description:XVI, 205 p. ; 24 cm
ISBN:9780415504607