Health Policy category: 748 books
by Zaheer-Ud-Din Babar
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016
Economic Evaluation of Pharmacy Services provides the latest on the trend to a more product-centered and service-centered practice, eschewing traditional economic evaluation techniques that focus on product-to-product comparisons in favor of evaluating processes that measure costs and health outcomes.
Complete...
Compound Solutions
Pharmaceutical Alternatives for Global Health
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
Claiming 1.5 million lives in 2015, tuberculosis is the world’s most deadly infectious disease. Because of the population it overwhelmingly affects, however, pharmaceutical companies are uninterested in developing better drugs for the disease. Compound Solutions examines Product Development Partnerships...
The Health Care Case
The Supreme Court's Decision and Its Implications
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2013
The Supreme Court's decision in the Health Care Case, NFIB v. Sebelius, gripped the nation's attention during the spring of 2012. Like the legislative battle leading to adoption of "Obamacare", the litigation took many unexpected twists and turns, culminating in a surprising, fractured and confusing...
Tragic Failures
How and Why We are Harmed by Toxic Chemicals
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
The world is awash in chemicals created by fellow citizens, but we know little to nothing about them. Understanding whether even the most prevalent ones are toxic would take decades. Many people have tragically suffered serious diseases and premature death, including children during development. Why...
Global Child Health Advocacy
On the Front Lines
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2013
Global Child Health Advocacy: On the Front Lines inspires and equips child health professionals to join together and work for positive change.
This first-in-its-field resource brings you up-close accounts of successful initiatives straight from the front lines. If offers an inside look on the...
by Yvonne Foss
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2014
Why is it so easy to gain weight and yet so difficult to lose it?
Why is extra weight so bad for your health if it is just a store of energy?
Why is obesity higher among the rich in poor countries and among the poor in rich countries?
Why is the prevalence of obesity particularly...
Fall from Grace
A Physician’S Retrospective on the Past Fifty Years of Medicine and the Impact of Social Change
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2015
Fall from Grace is a candid, personal history of an academic physician and biotechnology executive that reflects on medicine as it was in the mid-twentieth century and chronicles the changes in society and medicine during the second half of that century. The book investigates the social revolution...
The Riddle of Malnutrition
The Long Arc of Biomedical and Public Health Interventions in Uganda
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2017
More than ten million children suffer from severe acute malnutrition globally each year. In Uganda, longstanding efforts to understand, treat, and then prevent the condition initially served to medicalize it, in the eyes of both biomedical personnel and Ugandans who brought their children to the hospital...
Studying the Organisation and Delivery of Health Services
Research Methods
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2004
First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Evaluating the "Keep Your Health Plan Fix"
Implications for the Affordable Care Act Compared to Legislative Alternatives
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
This report describes a comparative analysis of three proposals to allow Americans to keep their existing health plans under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The proposals are evaluated based on their potential impact on the ACA-compliant market and the cost and coverage of health insurance. The possibility...
by Ryan Andrew Brown, Grant N. Marshall, Joshua Breslau
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
Concerns about access to behavioral health care for military service members and their dependents living in geographically remote locations prompted research into how many in this population are remote and the effects of this distance on their use of behavioral health care. The authors conducted geospatial...
Moving Mountains
A Socratic Challenge to the Theory and Practice of Population Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
Medicine has become increasingly depersonalized. Patients complain of being treated like numbers. Doctors resent being cogs in a complex healthcare system. Yet enthusiasm remains within the high towers of academia, the halls of government, and the corporate boardrooms of insurance companies, for a...
by Carrie M. Farmer, Christine Anne Vaughan, Jeffrey Garnett
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
As part of an evaluation of the Marine Corps Operational Stress Control and Readiness (OSCAR) program, this report describes the methods and findings of a large survey of marines who were preparing for a deployment to Iraq or Afghanistan in 2010 or 2011. The results are among the first to shed light...
Co-design in Living Labs for Healthcare and Independent Living
Concepts, Methods and Tools
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
There has been a surge in "Living Labs" in recent years including those focusing on the health and autonomy sectors. The aim of these innovative user-centered spaces is the emergence of products and services that meet market needs and support both the efficiency of public health and the competitiveness...