Health Policy category: 748 books
Making Medicare
New Perspectives on the History of Medicare in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2012
The Canadian health care system is so indisputably tied to our national identity that its founder, Tommy Douglas, was voted the greatest Canadian of all time in a CBC television contest. However, very little has been written to date on how Medicare as we know it was developed and implemented. This...
Child and Family Well-Being and Homelessness
Integrating Research into Practice and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
This brief highlights several of the most pressing challenges in addressing the needs of families who are experiencing homelessness and presents a set of strong policy recommendations for assessment, intervention, research, and service delivery related to homeless children and their parents. Chapters...
The Evolution and Everyday Practice of Collective Patient Involvement in Europe
An Examination of Policy Processes, Motivations, and Implementations in Four Countries
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
This timely study analyzes social, economic, political, provider, and patient factors shaping collective patient involvement in European health care from the postwar period to the present day. Examining representative countries England, the Netherlands, Germany, and Sweden, it documents the roles...
Refugee Children
Towards the Next Horizon
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2007
The last twenty years have seen unprecedented numbers of refugee children entering Western countries. Many of these children will have experienced the atrocities of war and issues concerning their care and treatment are high on the agenda of research bodies, policy makers and service providers.
Refugee...
The Politics of Autism
Navigating The Contested Spectrum
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015
In the first book devoted exclusively to the contentious politics of autism, noted political scientist and public policy expert John J. Pitney, Jr., explains how autism has evolved into a heated political issue disputed by scientists, educators, social workers, and families. Nearly everything about...
The Age of the Inquiry
Learning and Blaming in Health and Social Care
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
The plethora of inquiry reports published in the fields of health and welfare in the 1990s covered the full range of user groups, individuals and institutions. What similarities or differences were there between these inquiries? How effective were they in bringing about change? Whose interest did...
Sicker, Fatter, Poorer
The Urgent Threat of Hormone-Disrupting Chemicals to Our Health and Future . . . and What We Can Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
A leading voice in public health policy and top environmental medicine scientist reveals the alarming truth about how hormone-disrupting chemicals are affecting our daily lives—and what we can do to protect ourselves and fight back.
Lurking in our homes, hiding in our offices, and polluting...
Heroin Addiction and The British System
Volume I Origins and Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
The British system of dealing with drug addiction is notable for its flexibility and its capacity to adapt to changing circumstances. Because of this it has attracted considerable international interest, although it is rarely fully understood or accurately represented.
Presenting a comprehensive...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
This new Handbook presents an overview of cutting-edge research in the growing field of global health security.
Over the past decade, the study of global health and its interconnection with security has become a prominent and rapidly growing field of research. Ongoing debates question whether...
The Politics of Health Policy Reform in the UK
England’s Permanent Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2016
This book explains the politics of thirty years of ‘market reform’ in the English NHS, with the rest of the UK a counter-factual. Paton shows how each subsequent reform has been shaped by the confusion left by the previous reform. The long-term ideology has been anti-statist but policy-making...
The AIDS Pandemic
Complacency, Injustice, and Unfulfilled Expectations
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2005
In this collection of essays, Lawrence O. Gostin, an internationally recognized scholar of AIDS law and policy, confronts the most pressing and controversial issues surrounding AIDS in America and around the world. He shows how HIV/AIDS affects the entire population--infected and uninfected--by influencing...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
How can individuals best be encouraged to take more responsibility for their well-being and their environment or to behave more ethically in their business transactions? Across the world, governments are showing a growing interest in using behavioural economic research to inform the design of nudges...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
This wide-ranging study reviews the state of public health worldwide and presents informed recommendations for real-world solutions. Identifying the most urgent challenges in the field, from better understanding the causes of acute diseases and chronic conditions to reducing health inequities, it...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2007
The concept of risk is one of the most suggestive terms for evoking the cultural character of our times and for defining the purpose of social research. Risk attitudes and behaviours are understood to comprise the dominant experience of culture, politics and society in our times.
Health, Risk...