Suchergebnisse

Reflective practice is an essential skill for those working in health and social care, but why is it so vital and how can it be learned? As inter-disciplinary working becomes more common, finding shared ways of reflection on practice are becoming more and more important. How do we share our ideas and thoughts to enrich both professionals and their client base?This book uses stories and exercises to enable readers to develop their skills. Its emphasis is on the practical, from how to construct a reflective essay to the ethical ambiguities of whistleblowing and constructing a professional person

"This book presents Islam as a lived religion through observation and discussion of how Muslims from a variety of countries, traditions and views practice their religion. The range of fascinating case studies will also help students understand how research into religious practice is carried out, and what issues and challenges arise"--

Cover -- Half Title -- Dedication -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Keeping Social Work Honest -- 2 Walking the Borders: Practice and Research -- 3 Practitioners Talk -- 4 A Frame for Evaluating in Practice -- 5 Interlude -- 6 New Agenda, New Methods: Evaluating Assessments and Plans -- 7 Social Work in Action: Evaluating the Process of Practice -- 8 The End Game: Evaluating Outcomes -- 9 Developing Evaluating in Practice -- Bibliography -- Index

Intro -- PHYSICIAN PRACTICES: CHANGES, TRENDS, AND IMPLICATIONS -- PHYSICIAN PRACTICES: CHANGES, TRENDS, AND IMPLICATIONS -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1 PHYSICIAN PRACTICES: BACKGROUND, ORGANIZATION, AND MARKET CONSOLIDATION -- SUMMARY -- INTRODUCTION -- PHYSICIAN SUPPLY -- Supporting Practitioners -- PRACTICE CONSOLIDATION -- Market Trends -- Larger Group Practices and Physician Organizations -- Hospital Affiliation and Employment -- Affiliation with Insurers and Other Payers -- Delivery Reforms -- Concierge Practices -- LEGAL ISSUES -- ISSUES FOR CONGRESS -- Medical Spending -- Access -- Coordinated Care/Quality -- APPENDIX. PHYSICIAN INCOME AND PRACTICE COSTS -- Federal Policies Affecting Compensation -- End Notes -- Chapter 2 PHYSICIAN SUPPLY AND THE PATIENT PROTECTION AND AFFORDABLE CARE ACT -- SUMMARY -- INTRODUCTION -- SIZE OF THE PHYSICIAN POPULATION -- Measuring the Physician Population -- Determining the Appropriate Size of the Physician Population -- PPACA and the Size of the Physician Population -- PPACA Provisions Targeting the Number of Physicians Trained -- PPACA Provisions Targeting Physician Productivity -- COMPOSITION OF THE PHYSICIAN POPULATION -- Primary Care Supply and Factors Influencing Primary Care Supply -- PPACA and the Composition of the Physician Population -- PPACA Provisions Targeting Primary Care Supply -- Primary Care Content in Physician Training -- Primary Care Physician Payment -- Care Coordination by Primary Care Physicians -- PPACA Provisions Targeting Shortages in Specialties -- GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION OF THE PHYSICIAN POPULATION -- Health Professional Shortage Areas and Medically Underserved Areas/Populations -- Why Geographic Shortages May Exist -- PPACA and the Geographic Distribution of the Physician Population -- PPACA Provisions Targeting the NHSC

Competing British practices during the Spanish Civil WarConclusion; References; 8 Domestic practices and balancing: integrating practice into neoclassical realism; Neoclassical realism, domestic practices, and balancing; Bipartisanship and American foreign policy, 1945-1950; Conclusion: practice makes perfect?; References; Part IV Practices in practice; 9 Banking on power: how some practices in an international organization anchor others; Introduction; States, IOs, and the boundaries between them; Knowledge, discourse, practices; Anchoring practices; The World Bank; The CPIA and the PBA.

Translingual Practice: Global Englishes and Cosmopolitan Relations introduces a new way of looking at the use of English within a global context. Challenging traditional approaches in second language acquisition and English language teaching, this book incorporates recent advances in multilingual studies, sociolinguistics, and new literacy studies to articulate a new perspective on this area. Canagarajah argues that multilinguals merge their own languages and values into English, which opens up various negotiation strategies that help them decode other unique varieties of English and construct

Provides students with an overview of the process of environmental impact assessment (EIA). In particular, it examines the assessment of the potential environmental impacts of proposed very large projects and complex developments, in relation to the legislation surrounding Environmental Impact Assessment in Australia

Over the past few decades there has been a major shift in research methodology - away from technicist to more contextrual and pragmatic approaches. This is reflected in a greater emphasis on interdisciplinary and applied research skills, the concurrent use of qualitative and quantitative methods, and a more sophisticated understanding of the epistermological grounding of research. Research in Practice incorporates these new trends while also providing comprehensive coverage of the full range of established research apporaches and techniques.

What makes people cosmopolitan? How is cosmopolitanism shaping everyday life experiences and the practices of ordinary people? Making use of empirical research, Cosmopolitanism in Practice examines the concrete settings in which individuals display cosmopolitan sensibilities and dispositions, illustrating the ways in which cosmopolitan self-transformations can be used as an analytical tool to explain a variety of identity outlooks and practices. The manner in which both past and present cosmopolitanisms compete with meta-narratives such as nationalism, multiculturalism and religion is also investigated, alongside the employment of cosmopolitan ideas in situations of tension and conflict. With an international team of contributors, including Ulrich Beck, Steven Vertovec, Rob Kroes and Natan Sznaider, this book draws on a variety of intellectual disciplines and international contexts to show how people embrace and make use of cosmopolitan ideas and attitudes.

"Prioritarianism is a framework for ethical assessment that gives extra weight to the worse off. Unlike utilitarianism, which simply adds up well-being numbers, prioritarianism is sensitive to the distribution of well-being across the population of ethical concern. Prioritarianism in Practice examines the use of prioritarianism as a policy-evaluation methodology-across a range of policy domains, including taxation, health policy, risk regulation, climate change, education, and responses to the COVID-19 pandemic-and as an indicator of a society's condition (as contrasted with GDP). This chapter is an introductory chapter to the Prioritarianism in Practice volume. It surveys the intellectual roots of prioritarianism: in the philosophical literature, in welfare economics, and in scholarship about public health. And it provides brief summaries of each of the volume's chapters. This chapter provides theoretical foundations for the Prioritarianism in Practice volume, by clarifying the features of prioritarian social welfare functions (SWFs). A prioritarian SWF sums up individuals' well-being numbers plugged into a strictly increasing and strictly increasing transformation function. Prioritarian SWFs, like the utilitarian SWF, fall within the "generalized utilitarian" class of SWFs. Generalized-utilitarian SWFs are additive and, hence, especially tractable for purposes of policy analysis. The chapter reviews the axiomatic properties of generalized utilitarian SWFs and, specifically, of prioritarian SWFs. Prioritarianism satisfies the Pigou-Dalton axiom (a pure, gap-diminishing transfer of well-being from a better-off to a worse-off person is an ethical improvement), while utilitarianism does not. Pigou-Dalton is the axiomatic expression of the fact that a prioritarian SWF gives extra weight (priority) to well-being changes affecting worse-off individuals. The chapter also discusses the informational requirements of prioritarian SWFs (as regards interpersonal well-being comparisons). It reviews the various methodologies for applying a prioritarian SWF under uncertainty. And it describes the two main subfamilies of prioritarian SWFs, namely Atkinson and Kolm-Pollak SWFs"--