Authors:Hideomi Watanabe, Misako Koizumi,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: japan, interprofessional, education, jipwen, network, working, initiatives, advanced
Number of Pages: 138
Published: 2010-02-01
List price: $139.00
ISBN-10: 443198075X
ISBN-13: 9784431980759

Interprofessional education (IPE) is becoming a recognized discipline among health care professionals and medical training institutions worldwide. Its significance is especially felt in Japan, where little has been written on the subject although the need is great. Recent initiatives among several institutions have helped to create the Japan Interprofessional Working and Education Network (JIPWEN), comprising ten universities. Through consultation and cooperation with the World Health Organization, other international networks, and local health policy planners, JIPWEN focuses on critical issue

Author: Audrey Leathard
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: health, welfare, together, working, interprofessional, going
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 1994-09-27
List price: $37.95
ISBN-10: 0415092868
ISBN-13: 9780415092869

Going Inter-Professional brings together researchers, academics and practitioners to assess the key developments and underlying issues as they affect hospitals, general practice and community care. Individual contributions look at topics such as the theoretical background to inter-professiona work; education and management issues; inter-professional practice issues in work with children, disabled, elderly and mentally ill people; the implications for carers; and developments in Australia, Western Europe and the US.The inter-professional approach is sometimes seen as a threat to the identities

Author: Audrey Leathard
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: social, care, health, practice, collaboration, policy, interprofessional
Number of Pages: 392
Published: 2003-09-25
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 1583911766
ISBN-13: 9781583911761

Interprofessional Collaboration highlights the benefits and factors arising from working together for patients, service users and carers through a review of theoretical models illustrated by relevant examples. Discussion of topical problems being faced by practitioners, managers, and policy makers in the health and social care sectors cover policy issues from various interprofessional angles and the application of policy to practice in working and learning together across professions, sectors and communities.

Author: Audrey Leathard
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: social, care, health, practice, collaboration, policy, interprofessional
Number of Pages: 392
Published: 2003-09-25
List price: $89.95
ISBN-10: 1583911758
ISBN-13: 9781583911754

Interprofessional Collaboration highlights the benefits and factors arising from working together for patients, service users and carers through a review of theoretical models illustrated by relevant examples. Discussion of topical problems being faced by practitioners, managers, and policy makers in the health and social care sectors cover policy issues from various interprofessional angles and the application of policy to practice in working and learning together across professions, sectors and communities.

Authors:Hugh Barr, Ivan Koppel, Scott Reeves, Marilyn Hamm
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: promoting, partnership, health, evidence, assumption, interprofessional, education, argument, effective
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2005-08-09
List price: $89.99
ISBN-10: 1405116544
ISBN-13: 9781405116541

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 book does much more than amass evidence. It revisits conventional wisdom; setting an agenda to help