Health Policy category: 748 books
Alternative Models of Sports Development in America
Solutions to a Crisis in Education and Public Health
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
In the United States, the entanglement of sports and education has persisted for over a century. Multimillion-dollar high school football stadiums, college coaches whose salaries are many times those of their institutions’ presidents, psychological and educational tolls on student-athletes, and...
Solving the American Healthcare Crisis
Improving Value via Higher Quality and Lower Costs by Aligning Stakeholders
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2017
The mutual distrust between Democrats and Republicans seems to have affected every topic of our healthcare system. The focus of conversation circles politics rather than finding innovative solutions to providing the most efficient care at the lowest cost. In Solving the American Healthcare Crisis,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2009
This groundbreaking book takes us around the world in search of birth models that work in order to improve the standard of care for mothers and families everywhere. The contributors describe examples of maternity services from both developing countries and wealthy industrialized societies that apply...
Patient Engagement
Catalyzing Improvement and Innovation in Healthcare
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
CFHI's first book on patient engagement. Case studies from healthcare delivery organizations in three countries, catalyzing improvement and innovation in healthcare illustrates patient engagement strategies and their impacts.
The Hippocratic Myth
Why Doctors Are Under Pressure to Ration Care, Practice Politics, and Compromise their Promise to Heal
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
When we're ill, we trust in doctors to put our well-being first. But medicine's expanding capability and soaring costs are putting this promise at risk. Increasingly, society is calling upon physicians to limit care and to use their skills on behalf of health plan bureaucrats, public officials, national...
Diagnostic Cultures
A Cultural Approach to the Pathologization of Modern Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Some studies estimate that each year, around a quarter of the population of Western countries will suffer from at least one mental disorder. Should this be interpreted as evidence for the progress of psychiatry, a discipline that is now able to identify and treat mental illnesses that have always...
by Iain Dale
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
The NHS is an institution close to the hearts of most Britons. People even profess to ‘love it’. But it is now of pensionable age and, some would say, no longer fit for purpose. It isn’t possible to reform the NHS until we accept that it cannot meet every demand made of it. We need to embrace...
Formative Years
Children's Health in the United States, 1880-2000
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2009
Alexandra Minna Stern is Associate Director of the Center for the History of Medicine and Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and American Culture at the University of Michigan. Howard Markel is the George Edward Wantz Professor of the History of Medicine, Professor of Pediatrics and...
Rationing Is Not a Four-Letter Word
Setting Limits on Healthcare
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2014
A provocative argument that the best way to deliver high-quality healthcare to Americans is to institute a comprehensive and fair system of rationing.
Most people would agree that the healthcare system in the United States is a mess. Healthcare accounts for a larger percentage of gross domestic...
Holding Fast
The Struggle to Create Resilient Caregiving Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2004
How can caregivers remain both caring and strong enough to withstand the stress of their work?
How can caregiving organizations effectively improve their management and practice?
Increasing pressure on caregiving organizations to serve more people with fewer resources means that epidemics of...
by John Koster, Gary Bisbee, Ram Charan
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
This book, n=1 is a collaboration of physician health system CEO, venture capital entrepreneur and leading global business advisor and best-selling business author. These differing perspectives provide insights into the forces transforming the global society, business and professions with a focus...
Sleep in the Military
Promoting Healthy Sleep Among U.S. Servicemembers
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Given the unprecedented demands on the U.S. military since 2001 and the risks posed by stress and trauma, there has been growing concern about the prevalence and consequences of sleep problems. This first-ever comprehensive review of military sleep-related policies and programs, evidence-based interventions,...
Suicide Postvention in the Department of Defense
Evidence, Policies and Procedures, and Perspectives of Loss Survivors
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
A review of the scientific evidence on suicide postvention (organizational responses to prevent additional suicides and help loss survivors cope), guidance for other types of organizations, and the perspectives of the family and friends of service members who have died by suicide provide insights...
Cracked
The Unhappy Truth about Psychiatry
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
A “thought-provoking” look at the psychiatric profession, the overprescribing of pharmaceuticals, and the cost to patients’ health (Booklist).
In an effort to enlighten a new generation about its growing reliance on psychiatry, this illuminating volume investigates why psychiatry has...