Health services planning is the process by which healthcare organizations appraise the health needs of a community and determine how best to meet these needs through existing and future facilities and programs. Thomas, a consultant, provides an understanding of the key concepts related to the planning process, and offers step-by-step guidelines for researching and developing a health services plan at both the systems and organizational levels. Case studies that illustrate the application of health services planning are included. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Health Services Planning: Skills for Effective Strategy, Management and Implementation

Politics & Social Sciences

Thomas, Richard K.

Social Sciences

McGraw=Hill

Demography of Health and Health Care (second Edition)

Louis G. Pol

Springer London, Limited

Society and Health: Sociology for Health Professionals

-Rick Thomas brings his 30 years experience in the field to the text making it very applied and accessible. 
-Lots of boxed material. 
-"Recommended" purchase for all librarians as reviewed in the June 2004 issue of CHOICE.

Sociology

Springer

-First edition by McGraw-Hill, 1998. 
-Textbook for courses on health administration and planning -Author is fairly well-known in the field.

Health Services Planning

Science & Math

Biological Sciences

Designed as a textbook for classroom use Glossary and bibliograpy will be useful pedagogy

Health Communication

Computers & Technology

Computer Science

Machine learning has become a rapidly growing field of Artificial Intelligence. Since the First International Workshop on Machine Learning in 1980, the number of scientists working in the field has been increasing steadily. This situation allows for specialization within the field. There are two types of specialization: on subfields or, orthogonal to them, on special subjects of interest. This book follows the thematic orientation. It contains research papers, each of which throws light upon the relation between knowledge representation, knowledge acquisition and machine learning from a different angle. Building up appropriate representations is considered to be the main concern of knowledge acquisition for knowledge-based systems throughout the book. Here machine learning is presented as a tool for building up such representations. But machine learning itself also states new representational problems. This book gives an easy-to-understand insight into a new field with its problems and the solutions it offers. Thus it will be of good use to both experts and newcomers to the subject.

Health Communication (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

A new and complete treatment of semi-abelian degenerations of abelian varieties, and their application to the construction of arithmetic compactifications of Siegel moduli space, with most of the results being published for the first time. Highlights of the book include a classification of semi-abelian schemes, construction of the toroidal and the minimal compactification over the integers, heights for abelian varieties over number fields, and Eichler integrals in several variables, together with a new approach to Siegel modular forms. A valuable source of reference for researchers and graduate students interested in algebraic geometry, Shimura varieties or diophantine geometry.

Health Services Marketing

Mathematics

For today’s busy health care professional, clinical expertise is not enough: one also has to know the market. Richard Thomas’s step-by-step guide for developing a marketing plan and carrying out a successful campaign offers a hands-on approach to proven methods for staying a step ahead of the healthcare marketing game. From promotions to pricing, this book clearly and succinctly explains the range of marketing activities and techniques.

Health Services Marketing: A Practitioner's Guide

Medical Books

Administration & Medicine Economics

Three-dimensional Design: A Cellular Approach

Van Nostrand Reinhold Company

Desktop Marketing: Lessons from America's Best

Business & Money

Kirchner, Russell J.

Management & Leadership

Amer Demographics Books

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Thomas, Richard K.. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Thomas, Richard K.