Risk, health and health care : a qualitative approach

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    • Heyman, Bob

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Risk, health and health care : a qualitative approach

edited by Bob Heyman

Arnold, 1998

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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内容説明

Increased accountability means that health and social care professionals are having to pay greater attention to risk management. In attempting to deal with risks they cannot avoid drawing upon assumptions, often uncritically taken for granted, both about the nature of risk, and about the ways in which service users themselves approach risks. This timely book critically explores lay and professional understanding of health risks. Part One provides a theoretical overview of the concept of risk, drawing on philsophical, historical, and social scientific ideas. Part Two contains illustrative examples of original research, mostly qualitative, which examines the ways in which a wide range of client groups and professionals deal with health risks. Part Three offers broader critical discussions of risk management in a number of fields of health and social care. The clients groups discussed in the book include hospital patients, preganant women, the elderly, children at possible risk of abuse and people with diabetes, learning disabilities, dementia and serious mental health problems. The main professional groups considered are nurses, midwives, health promotion specialists, and social workers.

目次

Introduction Part One - Risk Rationality Values and health risks Probability and health risks Cultural dimensions of risk The symbolic representation of risk: risk imagery and the AIDS epidemic Reasoning about probabilities Part Two Researching Risk Rationality in Health and Social Care Risk, sex and the very young mother Being old and pregnant Risk perception and coping with diabetes How people with learning difficulties and their carers manage freedom of the locality Risk management in the resettlement of adults with severe learning difficulties How family and professional carers appraise risk for people with dementia Care and protection for older people: their choice, not the professionals' Risk as an integral part of nursing Blood pressure measurement: risk and certainty in clinical nursing and midwifery contexts Part 3 New Perpectives on Risk Rationality in Health and Social Care Risk a nursing dilemma Child protection and the management of risk Risk management in community care: the case of mental illness Reconceptualising risk in health promotion practice

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