Personal Health Navigator: A Patient's Guide to Ontario's Health Care System
Personal Health Navigator: A Patient's Guide to Ontario's Health Care System

Author: Paul Taylor

Publisher: Healthy Debate

Published: 2014-12-08

Total Pages: 106

ISBN-13: 099401080X

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Ontario’s health care system can feel like a maze. In response, some hospitals have introduced patient navigators, who act as guides through the labyrinth of health care services. They help connect patients with the right doctors, resources and therapies, and get answers to patients’ questions. In 2012, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and Healthy Debate launched the Personal Health Navigator blog. Over the past few years, we've answered nearly 100 patient questions. In collaboration with our Citizens’ Advisory Council, we have selected 33 of the best articles for this free e-book. They span a variety of topics, from family doctors to cancer and surgery.

Psycho-Oncology
Psycho-Oncology

Author: William Breitbart

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2021-01-22

Total Pages: 816

ISBN-13: 0190097663

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Originally published in 1998, Psycho-Oncology was the first comprehensive text in the field and remains the gold standard today. Previously led by Dr. Jimmie C. Holland, the founder of the field, this new edition is edited by a team of internationally renowned experts in psycho-oncology. The text reflects the interdisciplinary nature and global reach of this growing field. It covers evidence-based clinical practice guidelines from around the world, survivorship issues, psychotherapeutic interventions, and psychopharmacologic interventions. Thoroughly updated and developed in collaboration with the American Psychosocial Oncology Society and the intrnational Psycho-oncology Society, the fourth edition is a current, comprehensive reference for psychiatrists, psychologists, oncologists, hospice workers, and social workers seeking to understand and manage the psychological issues involved in the care of persons with cancer and the psychological, social, and behavioral factors that contribute to cancer risk and survival.

Patient Advocacy for Health Care Quality: Strategies for Achieving Patient-Centered Care
Patient Advocacy for Health Care Quality: Strategies for Achieving Patient-Centered Care

Author: Jo Anne L. Earp

Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning

Published: 2008-05-02

Total Pages: 646

ISBN-13: 0763749613

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As a contribution to the emerging healthcare quality movement, Patient Advocacy for Healthcare Quality: Strategies for Achieving Patient-Centered Care is distinct from any others of its kind in its focus on the consumer’s perspective and in its emphasis on how advocacy can influence change at multiple social levels. This introductory volume synthesizes patient advocacy from a multi-level approach and is an ideal text for graduate and professional students in schools of public health, nursing and social work.

Medicare
Medicare

Author: Institute of Medicine

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 1990-02-01

Total Pages: 462

ISBN-13: 0309042305

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Health care for the elderly American is among our nation's more pressing social issues. Our society wishes to ensure quality health care for all older people, but there is growing concern about our ability to maintain and improve quality in the face of efforts to contain health care costs. Medicare: A Strategy for Quality Assurance answers the U.S. Congress' call for the Institute of Medicine to design a strategic plan for assessing and assuring the quality of medical care for the elderly. This book presents a proposed strategic plan for improving quality assurance in the Medicare program, along with steps and timetables for implementing the plan by the year 2000 and the 10 recommendations for action by Congress. The book explores quality of careâ€"how it is defined, measured, and improvedâ€"and reviews different types of quality problems. Major issues that affect approaches to assessing and assuring quality are examined. Medicare: A Strategy for Quality Assurance will be immediately useful to a wide audience, including policymakers, health administrators, individual providers, specialists in issues of the older American, researchers, educators, and students.

Understanding and Using Health Experiences
Understanding and Using Health Experiences

Author: Sue Ziebland

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2013-04-04

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 0199665370

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Improving patient experience is a global priority for health policy-makers and care providers. This book critically examines the various ways in which people's experience of health and healthcare can be recorded, analysed and therefore improved.

Health Systems in Transition Third Edition
Health Systems in Transition Third Edition

Author: Gregory P. Marchildon

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2021-04-21

Total Pages: 235

ISBN-13: 1487508085

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This book provides insight into how the Canadian health care system is financed and organized, how it has evolved over time, and how well it performs relative to peer countries.

Establishing Effective Patient Navigation Programs in Oncology
Establishing Effective Patient Navigation Programs in Oncology

Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2018-08-13

Total Pages: 115

ISBN-13: 030947454X

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Delivering high-quality cancer care to all patients presents numerous challenges, including difficulties with care coordination and access. Patient navigation is a community-based service delivery intervention designed to promote access to timely diagnosis and treatment of cancer and other chronic diseases by eliminating barriers to care, and has often been proposed and implemented to address these challenges. However, unresolved questions include where patient navigation programs should be deployed, and which patients should be prioritized to receive navigation services when resources are limited. To address these issues and facilitate discussion on how to improve navigation services for patients with cancer, the National Cancer Policy Forum of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a workshop on November 13 and 14, 2017. At this workshop, a broad range of experts and stakeholders, including clinicians, navigators, researchers, and patients, explored which patients need navigation and who should serve as navigators, and the benefits of navigation and current gaps in the evidence base.