Health Policy category: 748 books
Conflicts of Interest and the Future of Medicine
The United States, France, and Japan
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011
As most Americans know, conflicts of interest riddle the US health care system. They result from physicians practicing medicine as entrepreneurs, from physicians' ties to pharma, and from investor-owned firms and insurers' influence over physicians' medial choices. These conflicts raise questions...
Money Can Buy You Happiness
Secrets Women Need to Know To Get Paid What They Are Worth!
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
Money Can Buy You Happiness provides all the negotiating strategies, tools and skills needed for women to close the gender wage gap and get paid what they are worth. "Finally, a book that gives women permission to be happy and rich at the same time. "Money Can Buy You Happiness: Secrets Women Need...
Safety-I and Safety-II
The Past and Future of Safety Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Safety has traditionally been defined as a condition where the number of adverse outcomes was as low as possible (Safety-I). From a Safety-I perspective, the purpose of safety management is to make sure that the number of accidents and incidents is kept as low as possible, or as low as is reasonably...
The Nurture Effect
How the Science of Human Behavior Can Improve Our Lives and Our World
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
A fascinating look at the evolution of behavioral science, the revolutionary way it’s changing the way we live, and how nurturing environments can increase people’s well-being in virtually every aspect of our society, from early childhood education to corporate practices. If you want to know how...
No Accident
Eliminating Injury and Death on Canadian Roads
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Chapter 3
Neil Arason
Children, pedestrians, cyclists and those who use public transport have been forgotten in the design of our cities. This chapter makes a case to re-work urban order and shift it away from old style thinking and toward the road users of the new century.
The AIDS Conspiracy
Science Fights Back
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
Since the early days of the AIDS epidemic, many bizarre and dangerous hypotheses have been advanced to explain the origins of the disease. In this compelling book, Nicoli Nattrass explores the social and political factors prolonging the erroneous belief that the American government manufactured the...
by J Horsfield @ Hearts Minds Media, J. HORSFIELD
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Children and the media - kids and Technology combo - The need for limits
by Hearts and Minds Media
Kids and Technology - Nature vs Nurture?
How to keep screen time in check for kids' health and development
Bottom of Form
Edited by Hearts & Minds Media 2017
It seems these days that kids are operating...
by Neil Bateman
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2006
Practising Welfare Rights aims to improve awareness among people working in social work and advice agencies about the skills required for effective welfare rights work, and offers guidance for managers and other professionals about how to develop a welfare rights service.
Written by a well-known...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2010
The theme of this volume is ethnicity and the implications for integration of our increasingly ethnically diversified population. New research findings from a range of census, survey and administrative data sources are presented, and case studies are included.
Analysis and Activism
Social and Political Contributions of Jungian Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
Jungian psychology has taken a noticeable political turn in the recent years, and analysts and academics whose work draws on Jung’s ideas have made internationally recognised contributions in many humanitarian, communal and political contexts. This book brings together a multidisciplinary and international...
Stealing from a Child
The Injustice of ‘Marriage Equality’
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2017
Australians are being asked to accept a breathtakingly subversive redefinition of marriage, parenting, family and gender, with consequences for core liberties and our children’s education; yet when we raise concerns we are called ‘bigots’. We are branded as ‘haters’ for defending a child’s...
The New NHS
A Guide
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Dr Alison Talbot-Smith, an experienced doctor and researcher, and Professor Allyson M. Pollock, one of the UKs leading authorities on the NHS, give a lucid and incisive account of the new NHS – which has emerged from a far-reaching programme of market-oriented changes.
Providing an authoritative...
Consuming Pleasures
Australia and the International Drug Business
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2010
Tracing the international and Australian history of both licit and illicit drug use, this investigation combines the topic of drug use with analyses of political power, the rise of the market, and social issues. It examines the way in which drug consumption is regulated in the era of global free trade...
by Andrew I. Batavia, Mitchell Batavia
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Twelve years after his death, the family of Andrew (Drew) I. Batavia discovered his unfinished memoirs, with instructions for his wife or brother to complete them. In these memoirs, Drew shares the wisdom he acquired while living with a high-level spinal cord injury in a wheelchair, describing a person...