Health Policy category: 748 books
by Palfrey, Colin
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2018
Does health promotion have a lasting and positive effect on people? With mounting pressure to reduce costs to the NHS and increasing scepticism of the so-called nanny state, health promotion initiatives are increasingly being criticised as costly and ineffective, with many arguing that health inequalities...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
This unique book brings together, for the first time, advocates and critics of the personalisation agenda in English social care services to debate key issues relating to personalisation. Perspectives from practitioners, service users and academics come together to give an account of the practicalities...
by Mark W. Friedberg, Peggy G. Chen, Kristin R. Van Busum
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
The American Medical Association asked RAND Health to characterize the factors that affect physician professional satisfaction. RAND researchers sought to identify high-priority determinants of professional satisfaction by gathering data from 30 physician practices in six states, using a combination...
by John E. McDonough
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2011
This indispensable guide to the Affordable Care Act, our new national health care law, lends an insider’s deep understanding of policy to a lively and absorbing account of the extraordinary—and extraordinarily ambitious—legislative effort to reform the nation’s health care system. Dr. John...
Catastrophic Care
How American Health Care Killed My Father--and How We Can Fix It
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
A visionary investigation that will change the way we think about health care: how and why it is failing, why expanding coverage will actually make things worse, and how our health care can be transformed into a transparent, affordable, successful system.
In 2007, David Goldhill’s father died from...
Taming the Beloved Beast
How Medical Technology Costs Are Destroying Our Health Care System
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2009
Technological innovation is deeply woven into the fabric of American culture, and is no less a basic feature of American health care. Medical technology saves lives and relieves suffering, and is enormously popular with the public, profitable for doctors, and a source of great wealth for industry....
Improving Patient Care
The Implementation of Change in Health Care
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2013
As innovations are constantly being developed within health care, it can be difficult both to select appropriate new practices and technologies and to successfully adopt them within complex organizations. It is necessary to understand the consequences of introducing change, how to best implement new...
Noncommunicable Diseases in the Developing World
Addressing Gaps in Global Policy and Research
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs)—including cardiovascular disease, diabetes, asthma and other chronic respiratory conditions, and cancers—are the leading causes of death worldwide. An estimated 36 million people die from such diseases each year; this represents roughly two out of three deaths globally....
Drugs and Drug Policy
What Everyone Needs to Know®
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2011
While there have always been norms and customs around the use of drugs, explicit public policies--regulations, taxes, and prohibitions--designed to control drug abuse are a more recent phenomenon. Those policies sometimes have terrible side-effects: most prominently the development of criminal enterprises...
Promoting Worker Health
A New Approach to Employee Benefits in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018
In this extended essay, Nortin M. Hadler and Stephen P. Carter introduce a new approach to reforming the American health-care system--a plan they call the Universal Workers' Compensation Model (UWCM). Drawing on Hadler's expertise as a physician and Carter's as an attorney, the two have conceived...
Redirecting Innovation in U.S. Health Care
Options to Decrease Spending and Increase Value
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
New medical technologies are a leading driver of U.S. health care spending. This report identifies promising policy options to change which medical technologies are created, with two related policy goals: (1) Reduce total health care spending with the smallest possible loss of health benefits, and...
by World Bank, International Monetary Fund
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
What has been the impact of yet another food price spike on developing countries’ ability to make progress toward the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)? How many poor people have been prevented from lifting themselves out of poverty? How many people, and how many children, have seen their personal...
by Sonia Corrêa, Rosalind Petchesky, Richard Parker
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2008
This new work surveys how rapid changes taking place at the start of the twenty-first century in social, cultural, political and economic domains impact on sexuality, health and human rights. The relationships between men, women and children are changing quickly, as are traditional family structures...
by Zephyros Press
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
ObamaCare is a complex law that will affect every single American.
Everyone has an opinion about ObamaCare, but few people actually understand how the Affordable Care Act works. ObamaCare Simplified navigates you through the intricacies of the health care law and explains...