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This guide to the 5 licensed complementary and alternative healthcare professions, written by vetted experts, is a desk reference for clinicians and a textbook and resource for educators and students. Also included is information on emerging fields of traditional world medicines, holistic nursing and holistic and integrative medicine.

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Academic Consortium for Complementary and Alternative Health Care (ACCAHC)

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The U.S. health care system is in crisis. At stake are the quality of care for millions of Americans and the financial well-being of individuals and employers squeezed by skyrocketing premiums - not to mention the stability of state and federal government budgets. In Redefining Health Care, internationally renowned strategy expert Michael E. Porter and innovation expert Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg reveal the underlying - and largely overlooked - causes of the problem and provide a powerful prescription for change.

Few large institutions have changed as fully and dramatically as the U.S. healthcare system since World War II. Compared to the 1930s, healthcare now incorporates a variety of new technologies, service-delivery arrangements, financing mechanisms, and underlying sets of organizing principles. 

This volume presents a systematic review of interprofessional education in health and social care. This is accompanied by a wider-ranging critique of interprofessional education, grounded by experience, and informed by sources beyond the evaluations that qualified for inclusion in the review. Synthesising the evidence base for interprofessional education nevertheless remains central, with 353 studies surveyed in the first instance, from which 107 studies form the basis for the final analysis.

The Interprofessional Health Care Team: Leadership and Development
explores theoretical concepts of leadership in an interdisciplinary health
care environment and provides practical examples of these concepts
from the perspective of health care scholars, scientists, faculty, and
health administration professionals. This valuable resource will help
healthcare students and professionals to be prepared for future
collaboration with those of other related disciplines in order to develop

The competencies desired in interprofessional teamwork must be delineated in terms of knowledge, skills, and attitudes before decisions can be reached about the best curricular arrangements for attaining these objectives. It must be emphasized that interprofessional content is just one of many competing concerns that the curriculum planner juggles in designing a social work education program.

The interprofessional team has indeed become almost a standard feature in the delivery of professional services. A logical rationale has been advanced for reliance on interprofessional teamwork; the arguments usually stress the inevitable interdependence among professionals concerned with human services in an increasingly complex society.

Transforming Interprofessional Partnerships: A New Framework for Nursing and Partnership-Based Health Care