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This timely and thought-provoking book addresses the full range of health equity issues that impact the practice of hospital medicine, offering a fresh and comprehensive examination of the topic. Drawing from vast clinical experience, as well as from the latest evidence-based literature, the well-published hospitalist author encourages readers to reevaluate established practices and embrace that equitable hospital care must be applied with a systematic framework to ensure that social factors are deeply incorporated into the care provided -- so that it is truly equitable. Indeed, health equity is defined by the World Health Organization as “the absence of avoidable, unfair, or remediable differences among groups of people, whether those groups are defined socially, economically, demographically, or geographically, or by other means of stratification.” Health equity has not traditionally been incorporated into inpatient care in an intentional manner, says the author; yet, it is impossible to take care of patients who are acutely ill without taking into consideration the social milieu to which they will return. In fact, although hospital-based physicians are privy to some of the most meaningful moments of people’s lives, including life-changing diagnoses, pivotal medical procedures, complex medical decisions, and critical end-of-life decisions, they still have no framework for how to incorporate into clinical decision-making the varied social factors that impact care such as race, gender identity, cultural background, immigration status, sexual orientation, primary language, housing status, and poverty. The goal, emphasizes the author, should be to provide culturally humble healthcare that not only goes beyond speaking in the patient’s primary language but that also includes active listening and truly takes into consideration the life experiences and culture that have made patients who they are. Organized in three parts, the book covers 1) the foundations of health equity 2) specific populations and various issues and 3) a framework and action plan for moving hospital medicine closer to offering consistent, systematic, equitable care. Health Equity in Hospital Medicine: Foundations, Populations, and Action is a call to action and an invaluable addition to the clinical literature. The title will be of great interest to hospital medicine physicians, to allied health personnel working in a hospital setting, and to trainees.

Medicine. --- Internal medicine. --- Practice of medicine. --- Hospitals --- Cardiology. --- Endocrinology. --- Clinical Medicine. --- Internal Medicine. --- Practice and Hospital Management. --- Administration. --- Hospital Medicine. --- Hospitalists. --- Hospital Administration. --- Health Equity. --- Medicine --- Practice.

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The slow violence being inflicted on our environment—through everything from carbon emissions to plastic pollution—also represents an impending public health catastrophe. Yet standard health care practices are more concerned with short-term outcomes than long-term sustainability. Every resource used to deliver medical care, from IV tubes to antibiotics to electricity, has a significant environmental impact. This raises an urgent ethical dilemma: in striving to improve the health outcomes of individual patients, are we damaging human health on a global scale? In Dying Green, award-winning educator Christine Vatovec offers an engaging study that asks us to consider the broader environmental sustainability of health care. Through a comparative analysis of the care provided to terminally ill patients in a conventional cancer ward, a palliative care unit, and an acute-care hospice facility, she shows how decisions made at a patient’s bedside govern the environmental footprint of the healthcare industry. Likewise, Dying Green offers insights on the many opportunities that exist for reducing the ecological impacts of medical practices in general, while also enhancing care for the dying in particular. By envisioning a more sustainable approach to care, this book offers a way forward that is better for both patients and the planet.

Medical care --- Medical economics. --- Terminal care --- Medical wastes --- Sustainability. --- Environmental aspects. --- Economic aspects. --- cancer, death, end-of-life, care, health care, health, policy, health policy, end of life, end-of-life care, hospital, medicine, medical care, costs, economy, environment, ecology.

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Nervous System Diseases. --- Nervous system --- Neurology --- Système nerveux --- Neurologie --- Diseases --- Periodicals. --- Periodicals --- Maladies --- Périodiques --- Hospitalists --- Public health --- Hospitalists. --- Quality of Health Care. --- Quality control --- Diseases. --- Quality control. --- Medical neurology --- Nerves --- Neuropathology --- Nervous System Disorders --- Neurological Disorders --- Neurologic Disorders --- Disease, Nervous System --- Diseases, Nervous System --- Disorder, Nervous System --- Disorder, Neurologic --- Disorder, Neurological --- Disorders, Nervous System --- Disorders, Neurologic --- Disorders, Neurological --- Nervous System Disease --- Nervous System Disorder --- Neurologic Disorder --- Neurological Disorder --- Neurology. --- Hospitalist --- Quality of Care --- Quality of Healthcare --- Care Qualities --- Care Quality --- Health Care Quality --- Healthcare Quality --- Health Sciences --- Neurologic disorders --- Neurological disorders --- Nervous System Diseases --- Nervous System Diseases Periodicals. --- Hospital Medicine --- Hospital Medicine. --- Medicine, Hospital

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emergency medicial service --- emergency medicine --- pre-hospital medicine --- Emergency medicine --- Emergency Treatment. --- Emergency Medicine --- methods. --- Yugoslavia. --- Emergency Therapy --- Therapy, Emergency --- Emergency Therapies --- Emergency Treatments --- Therapies, Emergency --- Treatment, Emergency --- Treatments, Emergency --- Emergencies --- Medicine, Emergency --- Medicine --- Critical care medicine --- Disaster medicine --- Medical emergencies --- Vojvodina --- Emergency medicine.