Health Policy category: 748 books
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Climate change will affect health in most countries in Asia and the Pacific. It will challenge the public health community at the global, regional and national levels with emerging diseases and existing diseases increasing and spreading geographically. This study aims to improve the understanding...
by xaiver newman
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2013
As with most other industries, the healthcare field is taking hold of 21st century technology, and changing the way doctors care for their patients. Regulated by the government among healthcare professionals nationwide, electronic health record management is making it easier and more convenient for...
Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise
5 Steps to a Better Health Care System, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
In this second edition of their 2005 work, the authors offer market-based alternatives to recent health care reforms that center on tax changes, insurance market changes, and the redesign of Medicare and Medicaid. They show that, by promoting cost- conscious behavior and competition in both private...
The Sociology of Health and Illness
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
A wide-ranging collection of both classic writings and more recent articles in the sociology of health and illness, this reader is organized into the following sections:
* health beliefs and knowledge
* inequalities and patterning of health and illness
* professional and patient interaction
*...
by John R. Krismer
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
Patients legally own their medical records that are stored either manually or on an assortment of computers, software, and operating systems in a variety of disorganized healthcare facilities, which are spiraling healthcare costs out of control. In 1910, the Flexner Report by the Carnegie and Rockefeller...
by Jerry L. Rhoads
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2014
America is number one in health care cost per capita and 38th in quality care. Statistically, Americans spend more money on their health care than anything else but food. But the consumption of the health care dollar is predominately not paid for by the consumer. The middlemen, so to speak, make the...
Health Justice Now
Single Payer and What Comes Next
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2019
"The best concise explanation of why the United States needs single-payer health care — and needs to widen the definition of health care itself."— The Washington Post
Single payer healthcare is not complicated: the government pays for all care for all people. It’s cheaper than our current...
Improving Health Care Safety and Quality
Reluctant Regulators
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Responding to the public concern caused by recent hospital scandals and accounts of unintended harm to patients, this author draws on her experience of analysing the health care systems of over a dozen countries and examines whether greater regulation has increased patient safety and health care quality....
Purchasing Medical Innovation
The Right Technology, for the Right Patient, at the Right Price
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
Innovation in medical technology generates a remarkable supply of new drugs, devices, and diagnostics that improve health, reduce risks, and extend life. But these technologies are too often used on the wrong patient, in the wrong setting, or at an unaffordable price. The only way to moderate the...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2011
How can the needs and perspective of patients be incorporated in the design and redesign of health services?
Health organizations are focusing more and more on patients – and requiring their employees to practise patient focused care. The Modernisation Initiative described in this book explores...
Bodies in a Broken World
Women Novelists of Color and the Politics of Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2004
In this multidisciplinary study, Ann Folwell Stanford reads literature written by U.S. women of color to propose a rethinking of modern medical practice, arguing that personal health and social justice are inextricably linked. Drawing on feminist ethics to explore the work of eleven novelists, Stanford...
Understanding and Changing Health Behaviour
From Health Beliefs to Self-Regulation
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
The identification of the factors predicting health behaviour has become a major focus of research in the field of health psychology and related disciplines. This awareness not only increases our understanding but also provides important targets for interventions to change health behaviour. Understanding...
Crooked
Outwitting the Back Pain Industry and Getting on the Road to Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
The acclaimed author of Carved in Sand—a veteran investigative journalist who endured persistent back pain for decades—delivers the definitive book on the subject: an essential examination of all facets of the back pain industry, exploring what works, what doesn't, what may cause harm, and how...
Fresh Medicine
How to Fix Reform and Build a Sustainable Health Care System
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
Last spring, after congress passed sweeping legislation to reform our nation’s health care system, the editorial board of the New York Times wrote: Just as Social Security grew from a modest start in 1935 to become a bedrock of the nation’s retirement system, this is a start on health care reform,...