Health Policy category: 748 books
Health Economics and Policy
Selected Writings by Victor Fuchs
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
"The collection represents an extraordinary intellectual achievement and ... a handbook for anyone thinking about health and health policy."
Foreword by Sir Angus Deaton
winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics
"Victor Fuchs ... is one of the world's most influential figures...
by Baeza Cristian C.; Packard Truman G.
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2006
Beyond Survival breaks new ground in the ongoing debate about health finance and financial protection from the costs of health care. The evidence and discussion support the need to consider financial protection, in addition to health status, as a policy objective when setting priorities for health systems....
Who Shall Live?
Health, Economics and Social Choice
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2011
Since the first edition of Who Shall Live? (1974) over 100,000 students, teachers, physicians, and general readers from more than a dozen fields have found this book to be a reader-friendly, authoritative introduction to economic concepts applied to health and medical care. Fuchs provides clear explanations...
Health Inequalities
Critical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
Informed by a wealth of available research, between 1997 and 2010, the UK Labour government introduced a raft of policies to reduce health inequalities. Despite this, by most measures, the UK's health inequalities have continued to widen. This failure has prompted calls for new approaches to health...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
Presently, the healthcare industry is grappling with many challenges both nationally and globally, including escalating costs, a move to a preventative care environment and a technology savvy patient with high expectations. To accommodate the changing health demands of the current global population,...
Working in Mental Health
Practice and Policy in a Changing Environment
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
A paradigm shift in the ways in which mental health services are delivered is happening—both for service users and for professional mental healthcare workers. The landscape is being changed by a more influential service user movement, a range of new community-based mental healthcare programmes delivered...
Introduction to U.S. Health Policy
The Organization, Financing, and Delivery of Health Care in America
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
Health care reform has dominated public discourse over the past several years, and the recent passage of the Affordable Care Act, rather than quell the rhetoric, has sparked even more debate. Donald A. Barr reviews the current structure of the American health care system, describing the historical and...
by
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
"Health care managers, practitioners, and students must both operate as effectively as they can within the daunting and continually evolving system at hand and identify opportunities for reform advances… Health Care Delivery in the United States has been an indispensable companion to those preparing...
Achieving Access
Professional Movements and the Politics of Health Universalism
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
At a time when the world’s wealthiest nations struggle to make health care and medicine available to everyone, why do resource-constrained countries make costly commitments to universal health coverage and AIDS treatment after transitioning to democracy? Joseph Harris explores the dynamics that...
Commissioning for health and well-being
An introduction
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2012
Commissioning is now a key task for health and social care - and yet policy aspirations often outstrip the infrastructure needed to support commissioners as they take difficult decisions about future services and to make commissioning a career of choice for future leaders. While commissioning was...
Delivering personal health budgets
A guide to policy and practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Personal health budgets are an important new tool to improve the lives of people living with long-term conditions and disabilities by giving them greater choice and control over their healthcare.This is the first step-by-step guide to their implementation. Using current evidence and best practice...
by Tom O'Connor
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2013
Integrated Care in Ireland in an International Context aims to bring the debate on the future of integrated care in Ireland to a wider audience than heretofore. It is intended to guide the thinking of policy-makers and the whole panoply of different health and social care professions that are stakeholders...
Health Care in Canada
A Citizen's Guide to Policy and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2011
Health Care in Canada examines the challenges faced by the Canadian health care system, a subject of much public debate. In this book Katherine Fierlbeck provides an in-depth discussion of how health care decisions are shaped by politics and why there is so much disagreement over how to fix the system.
Many...
Health Care and the Charter
Legal Mobilization and Policy Change in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
Since the introduction of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms in 1982, individuals and organizations have increasingly turned to the courts to try to bring about policy change in areas such as health care. Health Care and the Charter explores the systematic use of Charter litigation in the...