Health Policy category: 748 books
The Economic Evolution of American Health Care
From Marcus Welby to Managed Care
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
The American health care industry has undergone such dizzying transformations since the 1960s that many patients have lost confidence in a system they find too impersonal and ineffectual. Is their distrust justified and can confidence be restored? David Dranove, a leading health care economist, tackles...
Financing Universal Access to Healthcare
A Comparative Review of Landmark Legislative Health Reforms in the OECD
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
The recent expansion of health insurance coverage in the USA under the Affordable Health Care Act, and current threats to reverse the benefits of this reform, have once again focused the world's attention on the difficult challenges faced by other countries trying to provide better access to healthcare...
The Lancet: Family Planning
Global Health Series
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
Family planning is about listening to what parents want, not dictating what they should do; it is about enabling women and their partners to decide freely when and how many children they want to have. This Lancet Series reviews the evidence for the effects of population and family planning on people's...
Marijuana is Safer
So Why Are We Driving People to Drink? 2nd Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
In 2012, voters in Colorado shocked the political establishment by making the use of marijuana legal for anyone in the state twenty-one years of age or older. In the wake of that unprecedented victory, nationally recognized marijuana-policy experts Steve Fox, Paul Armentano, and Mason Tvert revisit...
Champions for children, revised edition
The lives of modern child care pioneers
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
Numerous books have been written about Victorian child care pioneers, but few biographical studies have been published about more recent child care and welfare giants. In the revised edition of this classic book, Bob Holman, a champion for children in his own right, looks at the lives of six inspirational...
Medical Science in the 21st Century
Sunset or New Dawn?
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
This book sets out the unique and paradoxical position biomedical science finds itself in, in the early 21st (superscript st) century. Science has never been stronger in shaping the world we live in; progress in medical science during most of the last century has helped to transform health care and...
Public Health in Asia and the Pacific
Historical and Comparative Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2007
The Asia-Pacific region has not only the greatest concentration of population but is, arguably, the future economic centre of the world. Epidemiological transition in the region is occurring much faster than it did in the West and many countries face the emerging problem of chronic diseases at the...
Epic Measures
One Doctor. Seven Billion Patients.
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
Moneyball meets medicine in this remarkable chronicle of one of the greatest scientific quests of our time—the groundbreaking program to answer the most essential question for humanity: how do we live and die?—and the visionary mastermind behind it.
Medical doctor and economist Christopher...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2011
The detection, reporting, measurement, and minimization of medical errors and harms is now a core requirement in clinical organizations throughout developed societies. This book focuses on this major new area in health care. It explores the nature of medical error, its incidence in different health...
Green Warriors
Army Environmental Considerations for Contingency Operations from Planning Through Post-Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2007
This study assesses whether Army policy, doctrine, and guidance adequately address environmental activities in post-conflict phases of contingencies. A review of policy, doctrine, operational experience, and documentation, as well as interviews with Army personnel, indicates that environmental concerns...
Blue Marble Health
An Innovative Plan to Fight Diseases of the Poor amid Wealth
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
In 2011, Dr. Peter J. Hotez relocated to Houston to launch Baylor’s National School of Tropical Medicine. He was shocked to discover that a number of neglected diseases often associated with developing countries were widespread in impoverished Texas communities. Despite the United States’ economic...
Regulating Gun Sales
An Excerpt from Reducing Gun Violence in America: Informing Policy with Evidence and Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
As the debate on gun control continues to take center stage, evidence-based research is at the forefront to answer the question, How do we reduce gun violence? Arguably the biggest gun policy reform under consideration today is the regulation of firearm sales and stopping the diversion of guns to...
Healthcare Policies and Systems in Europe and China
Comparisons and Synergies
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
Healthcare Policies and Systems in Europe and China, a product of an interdisciplinary European Union-funded project, comprehensively investigates opportunities for mutual integration in the healthcare sector of the two regions and analyses policies at both national and local levels, the legal environment,...
by Mu Li, Yang Feng Wu
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2015
Urbanization has dominated China's development landscape in recent decades, yet the human costs of this economic achievement are largely ignored in commentaries on the subject.
Urbanization and Public Health in China seeks to redress this imbalance by bringing together academics and researchers...