Health policy and practice in Ireland / 
edited by Desmond McCluskey. 
 - Dublin :  University College Dublin Press,  2006. 
 - 320 p. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Part 1: Health and health care in Ireland: a macro perspective--1. Overview of the health services--2. Mental illness in Ireland and its management--3. The evolution of Irish health policy: a sociological analysis--4. Making competition fair for health insurance in Ireland--5. Inequalities in health and health care--Part 2: The nursing role--6. Development of the role of the nurse in Ireland--7. Learning only to labour--8. The child health care service: the role of the publi health nurse--Part 3: The doctor-patient relationship--9. The changing face of general practice: the role of the family doctor--10. Patient roles, present and future.--Part 4. Disability issues--11. The contours of learning/intellectual disability--12. People with physical disability: health policy and practice--Part 5: Lay health beliefs and practices--13. Breastfeeding: issues in the implementation of policy --14. Health, illness and lifestyles 
<br/><br/> This textbook features contributions from academics, administrators and practitioners which provide a framework for understanding the relationship between the Irish health care system and the society in which it operates. Sections cover a macro perspective of health, the role of nursing and lay health beliefs. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781904558507 (pbk.) :  £16.95 9781904558507 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Medical policy--Ireland<br/>National health services--Ireland<br/>Health services administration--Ireland<br/>Public health--Ireland<br/>Medical care--Ireland<br/>Physician and patient--Ireland<br/>Health and Wellbeing.<br/>Ireland<br/>Health systems & services
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>RA395.I73 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>362.109417 McC