Health policy and practice in Ireland / edited by Desmond McCluskey.
Material type: TextPublication details: Dublin : University College Dublin Press, 2006.Description: 320 p. ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781904558507 (pbk.) :
- 9781904558507
- 362.109417 McC
- RA395.I73
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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
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.