Health Policy category: 748 books
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Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2014
As the average age of the U.S. population continues to increase, age-related policies have come under intense scrutiny, sparking heated debates. In the past, older people were seen as a frail, dependent population, but major policies enacted or expanded on their behalf have made them major players...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Organ transplantation as a high-cost surgical and medical procedure poses an extraordinarily rich and complex set of social, ethical, and policy issues.
A June 1988 symposium at Vanderbilt University gathered leaders in a wide variety of fields to synthesize the current state of knowledge concerning...
Health Economics and Healthcare Reform
Breakthroughs in Research and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
The effective delivery of healthcare services is vital to the general welfare and well-being of a country’s citizens. Financial infrastructure and policy reform can play a significant role in optimizing existing healthcare programs. Health Economics and Healthcare Reform: Breakthroughs in Research...
Medicare and Medicaid at 50
America's Entitlement Programs in the Age of Affordable Care
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
For fifty years, Medicare and Medicaid have stood at the center of a contentious debate surrounding American government, citizenship, and health care entitlement. In Medicare and Medicaid at 50, leading scholars in politics, government, economics, health policy, and history offer a comprehensive assessment...
Preventing Eating-Related and Weight-Related Disorders
Collaborative Research, Advocacy, and Policy Change
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
This book presents a collection of writings by expert researchers from Canada, the United States, and Australia who are committed to finding common cause and common ground in the prevention of eating disorders and obesity. The ten chapters in this book seek to create a new public health approach to...
Pot Politics
Marijuana and the Costs of Prohibition
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2006
Marijuana use continues to attract interest and fuel controversy. Big, green pot leaves have adorned the covers of Time, National Review, and Forbes. Almost 100 million Americans have tried marijuana at least once. Groups such as The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana (NORML) and The...
Going Universal
How 24 Developing Countries are Implementing Universal Health Coverage from the Bottom Up
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
This book is about 24 developing countries that have embarked on the journey towards universal health coverage (UHC) following a bottom-up approach, with a special focus on the poor and vulnerable, through a systematic data collection that provides practical insights to policymakers and practitioners....
by Knut Schroeder, Trevor Thompson, Kathleen Frith
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
Sustainable Healthcare sets out a vision for medical care of high quality, manageable cost and low impact on the planetary systems which sustain us.
In tackling the major challenges of our age, such as resource depletion, loss of biodiversity and climate change, health services can play a central...
Tapping into The Wire
The Real Urban Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2012
Did Omar Little die of lead poisoning? Would a decriminalization strategy like the one in Hamsterdam end the War on Drugs? What will it take to save neglected kids like Wallace and Dukie? Tapping into 'The Wire' uses the acclaimed television series as a road map for exploring connections between inner-city...
by Grace Budrys, PhD, Professor Emerita
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015
Our Unsystematic Health Care System presents readers with a comprehensive overview of the U.S. health care delivery system. Significantly revised and updated, the fourth edition explores the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, or "Obamacare," as it unfolds—including both challenges and successes....
Health Care Under the Knife
Moving Beyond Capitalism for Our Health
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
“I’ve still got my health so what do I care?” goes a lyric in an old Cole Porter song. Most of us, in fact, assume we can’t live full lives, or take on life’s challenges, without also assuming that we’re basically healthy and will be for the foreseeable future. But these days, our health...
Community Mental Health in Canada, Revised and Expanded Edition
Theory, Policy, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
When it was first published in 2006, Community Mental Health in Canada was hailed as a much-needed critical overview of the provision of public mental health services in Canada. Comprehensive in scope, its coverage included:
the prevalence and impact of mental illness in Canada
the complementary...
Better health in harder times
Active citizens and innovation on the frontline
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
For years the NHS has been the most trusted of public institutions and the envy of many around the world. But today there is turmoil. Painful shortcomings in clinical care and patient experience, together with funding cuts, threaten to dig deep into service levels and standards. Seventy years of technically...
The Lancet: Universal Health Coverage
Global Health Series
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
Margaret Chan, Director General of the World Health Organization, has stated that "Universal Health Coverage is the single most powerful concept that public health has to offer." In this Series from The Lancet, the first of three papers explores the evidence on the links between expansions in coverage...