TY  - BOOK
AU  - McCluskey,Desmond
TI  - Health policy and practice in Ireland
SN  - 9781904558507 (pbk.) :
AV  - RA395.I73 
U1  - 362.109417 McC 
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Dublin
PB  - University College Dublin Press
KW  - Medical policy
KW  - Ireland
KW  - National health services
KW  - Health services administration
KW  - Public health
KW  - Medical care
KW  - Physician and patient
KW  - Health and Wellbeing
KW  - ukslc
KW  - thema
KW  - Health systems & services
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -