Health Policy category: 748 books
NHS for Sale
Myths, Lies & Deception
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
The English National Health Service (NHS) is under massive threat and this work challenges several myths relating to the issue, including that the NHS is broken and that it is not affordable. The authors review the policies of the Coalition and the Labour Party and suggest what can done to promote...
Accessibility and Active Offer
Health Care and Social Services in Linguistic Minority Communities
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
It is imperative that we train leaders who are able to intervene efficiently with service users and to support a better organization of the workplace. It is especially important to look at the many issues related to postsecondary training and human resources, such as recruiting and keeping these leading...
by Allyson Pollock
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2020
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2020
In 2010, weeks after the election, the Coalition government started to dismantle the National Health Service, in an ideological assault disguised as austerity. Since its foundation in 1946, the NHS has been at the center of the welfare state, but now it lies in tatters, the result of costcutting and...
Malaria in the Social Context
A Study in Western India
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book underscores how, apart from bacteriological factors, human behavioural characteristics as well as the socio-cultural factors that affect people’s lives contribute to the risk for and prevention of infection, with particular focus on malaria. It argues that the implementation of malaria-control...
The Heart of Power, With a New Preface
Health and Politics in the Oval Office
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2010
Even the most powerful men in the world are human—they get sick, take dubious drugs, drink too much, contemplate suicide, fret about ailing parents, and bury people they love. Young Richard Nixon watched two brothers die of tuberculosis, even while doctors monitored a suspicious shadow on his own...
Tobacco Taxes
A Win-Win Measure for Fiscal Space and Health
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
This study analyzes the potential fiscal, health, and poverty impacts of increasing cigarette taxes in five countries---the People's Republic of China, India, the Philippines, Thailand, and Viet Nam. For each of these countries, increasing taxes on cigarettes would result in substantially fewer long-term...
The Edge of Life
Controversies and Challenges in Human Health
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2015
‘The world beyond the thought horizon is as vast as the universe, and probing it is the stuff of dreams, imaginative thinking and new technologies.’The gap between rapid scientific progress and public understanding faces unprecedented challenges. Leading research scientist Mike Berridge explores...
Insourced
How Importing Jobs Impacts the Healthcare Crisis Here and Abroad
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
For years, opponents of outsourcing have argued that offshoring American jobs destroys our local industries, lays waste to American job creation, and gives foreigners the good jobs and income that would otherwise remain on our shores. Yet few Americans realize that a parallel dynamic is occurring...
Optimizing Strategies for Clinical Decision Support
Summary of a Meeting Series
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
The result of a collaboration between the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, this NAM Special Publication summarizes and builds upon a meeting series in which a multistakeholder group of experts discussed the potential of...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
This highly topical and controversial book presents a lively re-appraisal of the current changes to the health service and analyzes their effects on the status and practice of health professionals.
Modern medicine is a powerful institution. With the help of highly-developed drugs and surgical...
Vaccine Injuries
Documented Adverse Reactions to Vaccines
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
Reveals the truth behind the controversial issue of vaccine-related injuries.
Proponents declare that vaccines have saved millions of lives. Critics claim that the success is overstated and that vaccines may even be dangerous. Many consider mandatory vaccinations a violation of individual rights...
Tobacco War
Inside the California Battles
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2000
Tobacco War charts the dramatic and complex history of tobacco politics in California over the past quarter century. Beginning with the activities of a small band of activists who, in the 1970s, put forward the radical notion that people should not have to breathe second-hand tobacco smoke, Stanton...
The Makings of a Modern Epidemic
Endometriosis, Gender and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Since its ’discovery’ some 150 years ago, thinking about endometriosis has changed. With current estimates identifying it as more common than breast and ovarian cancer, this chronic, incurable gynaecological condition has emerged as a ’modern epidemic’, distinctive in being perhaps the only...
Obamacare: What's in It for Me?
What Everyone Needs to Know About the Affordable Care Act
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
On January 1, 2014, the most important consumer protections in ObamaCare (the Affordable Care Act) go into effect. With both supporters and opponents of the law debating its merits and its controversial rollout, there is a need for “news-you-can-use” types of resources from credible third parties.
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