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Health Workforce Governance: Improved Access, Good Regulatory Practice, Safer Patients

by Stephanie D. Short & Fiona McDonald

With increasing recognition of the international market in health professionals and the impact of globalism on regulation, the governance of the health workforce is moving towards greater public engagement and...


Improving Health Care Safety and Quality: Reluctant Regulators

by Judith Healy

Responding to the alarm caused by recent hospital scandals and accounts of unintended harm to patients, this author draws on her experience of analyzing the health care systems of over a dozen countries and...


Understanding Human Error in Mine Safety

by Geoff Simpson & Tim Horberry

The consideration of human factors issues is vital to the mining industry. As in other safety-critical domains, human performance problems constitute a significant threat to system safety, making the study of...


A Socio-cultural Perspective on Patient Safety

by Emma Rowley & Justin Waring

This edited volume of original essays brings together researchers from around the world who are exploring the facets of health care organization and delivery that are sometimes marginal to mainstream patient...


Safety and Quality in Medical Transport Systems: Creating an Effective Culture

by John W. Overton Jr. & Frazer

You can attribute most helicopter EMS (emergency medical service) accidents and many ground ambulance accidents to human factors and systems designs that lead to poor decision-making. Management commitment is...


Medical Proofs, Social Experiments: Clinical Trials in Shifting Contexts

by Will & Moreira

Clinical trials have become key technologies for decision making in the contemporary world. Their results shape medical practice and determine priorities across health care systems, but the work that goes into...


Just Culture: Balancing Safety and Accountability

by Sidney Dekker

While many organizations see the value of creating a just culture they struggle when it comes to developing it. In this Second Edition, Dekker expands his views, additionally tackling the key issue of how justice...


Reconstructing Medical Practice: Engagement, Professionalism and Critical Relationships in Health Care

by Christine Jorm

Change in the medical profession carries with it disturbing features - established practitioners are no longer sure what to recommend to their trainees about how to think and act. In Reconstructing Medical Practice,...


Safety Culture: Building and Sustaining a Cultural Change in Aviation and Healthcare

by Manoj S. Patankar & Jeffrey P. Brown

In Safety Culture: Building and Sustaining a Cultural Change in Aviation and Healthcare, the four authors draw upon their extensive teaching, research and field experience from multiple industries to describe...


Safer Surgery: Analysing Behaviour in the Operating Theatre

by Rhona Flin & Lucy Mitchell

Owing to rising concern about patient safety, surgeons and anaesthetists have looked for ways of minimising adverse events. Clinicians have encouraged behavioural scientists to bring research techniques used...


Communicating Health Risks to the Public: A Global Perspective

by Dawn Hillier

This book reviews current health risk communication strategies, and describes the techniques, including drama, storytelling and scenarios that are used to identify and prioritise key communication issues, and...


Rural Populations and Health: Determinants, Disparities, and Solutions

by Richard A. Crosby, Monica L. Wendel & Robin C. Vanderpool

Health-related disparities remain a persistent, serious problem across the nation's more than 60 million rural residents. Rural Populations and Health provides an overview of the critical issues surrounding...


Patient Safety, Law Policy and Practice

by John Tingle & Pippa Bark

Patient safety is an issue which in recent years has grown to prominence in a number of countries' political and health service agendas. The World Health Organisation has launched the World Alliance for Patient...