Health Policy category: 748 books
Global Perspectives on ADHD
Social Dimensions of Diagnosis and Treatment in Sixteen Countries
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018
Attention deficithyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has been a common psychiatric diagnosis in both children and adults since the 1980s and 1990s in the United States. But the diagnosis was much less common—even unknown—in other parts of the world. By the end of the twentieth century, this was no longer...
High Performing Healthcare Systems, Delivering Quality By Design
Delivering Quality by Design
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2008
An examination of leadership, strategies, organization processes and investments made to create and sustain improvement in healthcare.
Informal Healthcare in Contemporary Russia
Sociographic Essays on the Post-Soviet Infrastructure for Alternative Healing Practices
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
This volume deals with one of the most understudied aspects of everyday life in Russian society. Its main characters are the providers of goods and services to whom people turn for healthcare instead of official medical institutions. This encompasses a wide range of actors—from network marketing...
Pharmacopolitics
Drug Regulation in the United States and Germany
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
Advocates of rapid access to medicines and critics fearful of inadequate testing both argue that globalization will supersede national medical practices and result in the easy transfer of pharmaceuticals around the world. In Pharmacopolitics, Arthur Daemmrich challenges their assumptions by comparing...
The Perils of Un-Coordinated Healthcare
A Strategic Approach toward Eliminating Preventable Harm
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
Despite its frequency and its potential severity, preventable medical harm is still prominent in American hospitals and continues to put an alarming amount of lives at risk, being the third leading cause of death in the United States. Even some of the most commonly performed surgeries, such as knee...
The Experiment Must Continue
Medical Research and Ethics in East Africa, 1940–2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
The Experiment Must Continue is a beautifully articulated ethnographic history of medical experimentation in East Africa from 1940 through 2014. In it, Melissa Graboyes combines her training in public health and in history to treat her subject with the dual sensitivities of a medical ethicist and...
Managing Disruptive Change in Healthcare
Lessons from a Public-Private Partnership to Advance Cancer Care and Research
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Healthcare faces unprecedented global challenges. Rapid advances in genomics, computational sciences, and technology -- as well as the new focus on value-based care and an increased trend toward healthcare commercialization -- represent disruptive changes to an already-fragmented delivery system....
Critical Interventions in the Ethics of Healthcare
Challenging the Principle of Autonomy in Bioethics
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Critical Interventions in the Ethics of Healthcare argues that traditional modes of bioethics are proving incommensurable with burgeoning biotechnologies and consequently, emerging subjectivities. Drawn from diverse disciplines, this volume works toward a new mode of discourse in bioethics, offering...
Denial
How Refusing to Face the Facts about Our Autism Epidemic Hurts Children, Families, and Our Future
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
Even as the autism rate soars and the cost to our nation climbs well into the billions, a dangerous new idea is taking hold: There simply is no autism epidemic.
The question is stark: Is autism ancient, a genetic variation that demands acceptance and celebration? Or is it new and disabling,...
Eventful Bodies
The Cosmopolitics of Illness
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Disrupting, questioning and altering the taken-for-granted ’cosmos’ of everyday life, the experiences of illness challenge the different ways in which social normalcy is remembered, maintained and expected. This book explores the manifold experiences of life threatening, infectious or non-curable...
Gendered Drugs and Medicine
Historical and Socio-Cultural Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Drugs are considered to be healers and harmers, wonder substances and knowledge makers; objects that impact on social hierarchies, health practices and public policies. As a collective endeavour, this book focuses on the ways that gender, along with race/ethnicity and class, influence the design,...
by Arcangelo Badoladi - Attilio Sabato
Language: Italian
Release Date: August 2, 2012
Language: Italian
Release Date: August 2, 2012
Codice Rosso è un viaggio da incubo nella Sanità calabrese che porta il lettore a sprofondare nelle malebolge dell’inferno dantesco.
E sono vere e proprie trivelle le penne dei due attenti giornalisti calabresi, Arcangelo Badolati e Attilio Sabato, che scavano in un sistema putrido e putrescente...
Nelle mani del dottore? Il racconto e il possibile futuro di una relazione difficile
Il racconto e il possibile futuro di una relazione difficile
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 11, 2014
L’opinione che la maggior parte delle persone nutre nei confronti della medicina e dei medici non è positiva ormai da molto tempo. Chi è il responsabile di questa situazione? Questo libro si propone di trovare una risposta e lo fa attraverso un’analisi dei problemi organizzativi e sociali che caratterizzano la medicina di oggi.
by Rafael Álvarez Alva, Pablo Kuri Morales
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 16, 2019
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 16, 2019
La salud de una población es resultado de múltiples factores y no solamente de la calidad de la atención sanitaria. En el cumplimiento del derecho a la protección de la salud se involucran diversos actores y sectores. Sin embargo, estos esfuerzos deben implementarse de manera organizada, y para...