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The Challenges of Health Disparities
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 364

The Challenges of Health Disparities

This unique text explores health disparities in the United States and their implications from the perspective of a health care administration The book begins with a broad overview of health disparities including definitions from local, state, and federal legislation, as well as alternative definitions. The authors examine current and past frameworks of analysis regarding the causes of disparities and provide a statistical overview of death rates and their implications for health care administrators. In the final section of the book, each chapter looks at health disparities within each type of health care environment such as physician practices, hospitals, pharmaceutical products, Medicare/Medicaid, long-term care, insurance markets, and more.

Isms in Health Care Human Resources
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 173

Isms in Health Care Human Resources

Isms—typically defined as harmful and discriminatory philosophies or views—are a threat to human unity and may affect outcome maximization in healthcare workplaces. Isms in Health Care Human Resources: A Concise Guide to Workplace Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion lays a foundation in which readers can become familiar with diversity, equity and inclusion issues in the workplace and gain an understanding of how isms in health care can reduce output and elevate costs. After providing an overview of isms in healthcare and other workplaces, this concise text closely examines various isms, from central tendancyism and sexualism to IQism and heterosexism while covering a range of other isms. It then proposes strategies for intermediation for healthcare administrators in order to guide them in reducing isms in the workplace and, in turn, maximizing output.

Research Anthology on Instilling Social Justice in the Classroom
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1724

Research Anthology on Instilling Social Justice in the Classroom

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-11-27
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  • Publisher: IGI Global

The issue of social justice has been brought to the forefront of society within recent years, and educational institutions have become an integral part of this critical conversation. Classroom settings are expected to take part in the promotion of inclusive practices and the development of culturally proficient environments that provide equal and effective education for all students regardless of race, gender, socio-economic status, and disability, as well as from all walks of life. The scope of these practices finds itself rooted in curriculum, teacher preparation, teaching practices, and pedagogy in all educational environments. Diversity within school administrations, teachers, and studen...

Social Justice and Parent Partnerships in Multicultural Education Contexts
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 360

Social Justice and Parent Partnerships in Multicultural Education Contexts

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-02-09
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  • Publisher: IGI Global

Despite the ever-changing demographics of the United States and decisions made by the Supreme Court, racial tensions and turmoil continue to affect daily life in a multitude of environments. In educational environments, advancements in teaching technologies, in conjunction with these tensions, require a cooperation between parents and school personnel to promote student success. Social Justice and Parent Partnerships in Multicultural Education Contexts is a critical scholarly resource that explores the importance of cooperation between parents, teachers, and administrators to create valuable support systems that will promote student success through strategies using social justice. Featuring coverage on a wide range of topics, such as parent collaboration, bilingualism, and community-based partnerships, this book is geared toward academicians, researchers, and teachers seeking current research on the importance of cooperation between parents and education professionals in encouraging positive student outcomes in multicultural learning environments.

Immigrant Entrepreneurship
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 287

Immigrant Entrepreneurship

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008-10-01
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  • Publisher: ACIDI, I.P.

This Special Issue aims to provide an extensive mapping of policies in the promotion of ethnic entrepreneurship in a number of countries. It is motivated by the desire of national and municipal Governments to create an environment conducive to setting up and developing SMEs in general and immigrant businesses in particular. Furthermore it also highlights how the third sector has also had a crucial role in the reinforcement of immigrant entrepreneurship, and provides indications of how best to address this issue at a Governmental level in the future.

Job-Embedded Professional Development
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 201

Job-Embedded Professional Development

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-09-12
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  • Publisher: Routledge

In today’s schools, teachers are frequently called on to adapt new curricula and instructional practices in their classrooms. Making sense of the complexities of teaching occurs primarily during the work day, and instead of relying on before or after school one-size-fits-all professional development activities, schools must support teachers in learning on the job. The latest book from renowned author Sally J. Zepeda is written for teachers, teacher leaders, and school and district leaders who want to support job-embedded learning, a powerful form of professional development characterized by active learning and reflection grounded in the context of a teachers’ work environment. Job-Embedd...

Visual Rhetoric
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 465

Visual Rhetoric

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008-03-20
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  • Publisher: SAGE

Visual images, artifacts, and performances play a powerful part in shaping U.S. culture. To understand the dynamics of public persuasion, students must understand this "visual rhetoric." This rich anthology contains 20 exemplary studies of visual rhetoric, exploring an array of visual communication forms, from photographs, prints, television documentary, and film to stamps, advertisements, and tattoos. In material original to this volume, editors Lester C. Olson, Cara A. Finnegan, and Diane S. Hope present a critical perspective that links visuality and rhetoric, locates the study of visual rhetoric within the disciplinary framework of communication, and explores the role of the visual in th...

Places of Learning
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 201

Places of Learning

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2005-02-01
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This book takes a close look at places of learning located outside of schools, yet deeply concerned with the experience of the learning self. It explores what it might mean to think of pedagogy not in relation to knowledge as a "thing made," but to knowledge in the making.

Human Resource Management in Health Care
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 461

Human Resource Management in Health Care

This book introduces human resources to practitioners and students in all disciplines related to health care and health service. It covers important topics such as recruitment, training, termination, legal issues, labor unions, and more. Each chapter is introduced by a case study related to the material that follows and is resolved at the conclusion of each chapter along with expert commentary and practical suggestions that can be used in the real world. Many examples and a number of sample forms and documents are included. This edition has been re-organized to reflect a better chapter flow and organization, and offers: all data updated throughout; a new section on health care legislation; a new section in each chapter, "Customer Service Box", that emphasizes the importance of customer service in the context of the material presented in the chapter; and completely revised instructor ancillary material. --

Population-Based Nursing
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 299

Population-Based Nursing

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