Health Policy category: 748 books
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Protecting Health on a Warming Planet
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
How climate change can affect our health, from heat-related illnesses to extreme weather events.
Climate change affects not just the planet but the people who live on it. In this book, physician Alan Lockwood describes how global warming will be bad for our health. Drawing on peer-reviewed...
by Johanna Hood
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
HIV/AIDS is an increasingly serious problem in China, with an increasing number of new cases every year. As a result, HIV organizations have boomed, with both state and non-governmental organisations responding to the threat with campaigns to increase public awareness of the disease, utilising the...
by Charles R. Morris
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2008
"Insightful and filled with verve...electrifying."—Wall Street Journal
Hailed as "an astute book of enormous importance" (Sherwin Nuland), The Surgeons follows the team at one of the world's premier cardiac surgery and transplant centers. Given unprecedented access, Charles...
Doctors in Denial
Why Big Pharma and the Canadian medical profession are too close for comfort
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Doctors in Denial examines the relationship between the Canadian medical profession and the pharmaceutical industry, and explains how doctors have become dependents of the drug companies instead of champions of patients' health. Big Pharma plays a role in every aspect of doctors' work. These giant,...
by David Healy
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
This searing indictment, David Healy’s most comprehensive and forceful argument against the pharmaceuticalization of medicine, tackles problems in health care that are leading to a growing number of deaths and disabilities. Healy, who was the first to draw attention to the now well-publicized suicide-inducing...
2030 - The Future of Medicine
Avoiding a Medical Meltdown
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
It is 2030. What are the new technologies that have advanced healthcare? What are the new or strengthened demands placed on the healthcare systems of the world? Is the future affordable, or do we see drastic rationing of care or the collapse of healthcare insurance? This book tackles these questions,...
The Affordable Care Act and Health Insurance Markets
Simulating the Effects of Regulation
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
In this report, the authors estimate the effects of the Affordable Care Act on health insurance enrollment and premiums for ten states (Florida, Kansas, Louisiana, Minnesota, New Mexico, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Texas) and for the nation overall, with a focus on outcomes in the nongroup and small group markets.
by John B. Shoven, George P. Shultz
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2008
A former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and an eminent economist tackle the biggest social issue of our time.
Of all the issues swirling around the 2008 election, the staggering projected costs for the upkeep of America's largest entitlement programs—Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid—loom...
Health Reform without Side Effects
Making Markets Work for Individual Health Insurance
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Mark V. Pauly offers a detailed look at the individual insurance market in the United States. He explains how it works, suggests approaches to improvement that build on what currently works well, and provides a realistic assessment of how much improvement we can demand and expect. He concludes that,...
Final Report
Evaluation of Tools and Metrics to Support Employer Selection of Health Plans
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
The Affordable Care Act places strong emphasis on quality of care as a means to improve outcomes for Americans and promote the financial sustainability of our health care system. This report attempts to help employers understand the structural differences between health plans and the performance dimensions...
Self-determination in Health Care
A Property Approach to the Protection of Patients' Rights
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
It is generally accepted in legal and bioethical discourse that the patient has a right to self-determination. In practice though, this is often not the case. Paternalism is waning and it is increasingly recognised that there are values other than medical factors which determine the choices that patients...
The Afterlives of the Psychiatric Asylum
Recycling Concepts, Sites and Memories
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
The last 40 years has seen a significant shift from state commitment to asylum-based mental health care to a mixed economy of care in a variety of locations. In the wake of this deinstitutionalisation, attention to date has focussed on users and providers of care. The consequences for the idea and...
by Charles Vincent
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2011
When you are ready to implement measures to improve patient safety, this is the book to consult. Charles Vincent, one of the world's pioneers in patient safety, discusses each and every aspect clearly and compellingly. He reviews the evidence of risks and harms to patients, and he provides practical...
by Kristy Gonzalez Morganti, Sebastian Bauhoff, Janice C. Blanchard
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
This report explores the evolving role that hospital emergency departments play in the U.S. health care system. EDs evaluate and manage complex and high-acuity patients, are the major point of entry to inpatient care, and serve as "the safety net of the safety net" for patients who cannot get care elsewhere....