Health Policy category: 748 books
Bargaining Power
Health Policymaking from England and New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2018
This monograph applies Kingdon’s Multiple Streams Framework to two policymaking episodes of implementing pay for performance in general practice, conducted in England and New Zealand. The Framework’s explanatory power for policymaking in Westminster majoritarian jurisdictions is tested and, based...
Race in a Bottle
The Story of BiDil and Racialized Medicine in a Post-Genomic Age
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2012
At a ceremony announcing the completion of the first draft of the human genome in 2000, President Bill Clinton declared, "I believe one of the great truths to emerge from this triumphant expedition inside the human genome is that in genetic terms, all human beings, regardless of race, are more...
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Trust
Towards Theoretical and Methodological Integration
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
This timely collection explores trust research from many angles while ably demonstrating the potential of cross-discipline collaboration to deepen our understanding of institutional trust. Citing, among other things, current breakdowns of trust in prominent institutions, the book presents a multilevel...
Psychoanalysis, Society, and the Inner World
Embedded Meaning in Politics and Social Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
Psychoanalysis, Society, and the Inner World explores ideas from psychoanalysis that can be valuable in understanding social processes and institutions and in particular, how psychoanalytic ideas and methods can help us understand the nature and roots of social and political conflict in the contemporary...
Informal Payments and Regulations in China's Healthcare System
Red Packets and Institutional Reform
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2016
This text addresses the key issue of informal payments, or ‘red packets’, in the Chinese Healthcare system. It considers how transactions take place at the clinical level as well as their regulation. Analysing the practice from the perspectives of institutions and power structure, it examines...
Infertility
Tracing the History of a Transformative Term
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
This book explores the arguments, appeals, and narratives that have defined the meaning of infertility in the modern history of the United States and Europe.
Throughout the last century, the inability of women to conceive children has been explained by discrepant views: that women are individually...
Guns and Suicide
An American Epidemic
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2018
The majority of gun deaths in the United States are suicide deaths, and the majority of suicide deaths are gun deaths. Most people are unaware that suicide, at nearly 43,000 deaths per year, is more common than homicide and other widely publicized tragedies. And yet, suicide is typically absent from...
The Energy Glut
The Politics of Fatness in an Overheating World
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
World-wide, over a billion adults are overweight and 300 million are officially 'obese', more than 3,000 people die every day on the world's roads and global warming and war threaten our survival as a species. The Energy Glut tells the story of energy and how our abuse of fossil fuel energy links...
Gewalt unter der Geburt
Der alltägliche Skandal
Language: German
Release Date: October 7, 2015
Für Frauen ist die Geburt ein äußerst schmerzhafter Vorgang. Das lässt sich hinnehmen. Dass die Geburtshilfe im deutschen Klinik- und Gebäralltag regelmäßig und beinahe unkritisiert von vielfältigen Formen der Gewaltausübung begleitet wird, ist dagegen ein Skandal, den Christina Mundlos'...
by Greg Parry
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2016
If money makes the world go round, this powerful Book Bundle will show you how to tap into its rich and boundless resources and secure a better lifestyle for yourself, for your family and for your future.Crafted by a leading wealth specialist with decades of experience and designed to share the practical,...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2013
This book cover both historical and contemporary concerns, including the role fashion plays in subcultures. Fashion is a phenomenon that exemplifies diversity across cultures.It is dependent on time and place and commonly defined as the prevailing style at a given moment or place. Fashion is codified...
by Dr. Pinkie Feinstein
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Ignorance is the worst problem people can ever face. The industrialized and developed countries as well as lesser-privileged areas of the world are crowded with people who feel helpless and intimidated by most things money can do. As I explain in detail in this book, most monetary problems are a kind...
Unfair
The New Science of Criminal Injustice
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
"A law professor sounds an explosive alarm on the hidden unfairness of our legal system." —Kirkus Reviews, starred
A child is gunned down by a police officer; an investigator ignores critical clues in a case; an innocent man confesses to a crime he did not commit; a jury acquits...
The Hardball Handbook
How to Win at Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2010
With his more than forty years’ experience observing people and politicians in our nation's capital–ten of those years on Hardball, five nights a week–Chris Matthews has learned from the pros what it takes to be a success. Now Matthews shows us what we can learn from the world’s most accomplished...