Health Care Issues category: 1336 books
by Deborah Young-Hyman, Mark Peyrot
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
Psychosocial Care for People with Diabetes describes the major psychosocial issues which impact living with and self-management of diabetes and its related diseases, and provides treatment recommendations based on proven interventions and expert opinion. The book is comprehensive and provides the...
3 (Three) Secrets Hospitals Don't Want You To Know
How To Empower Patients
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
If you are like most people, entering a hospital is a lot like entering hostile, foreign territory. The surroundings are unfamiliar, everyone speaks a different tongue, and the natives are suspicious of strangers. If you are unfortunate to have to go there, the inhabitants sometimes either ignore you...
by Michael H. Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2007
One of the transformations facing health care in the twenty-first century is the safe, effective, and appropriate integration of conventional, or biomedical, care with complementary and alternative medical (CAM) therapies, such as acupuncture, chiropractic, massage therapy, herbal medicine, and spiritual...
by Alex Burke
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2012
The Medical Culling of America
By
Alex Burke
Bill Durst, beloved family man, 42 was injured on the job. Denied surgery that would have given him his life back, the state buried him in medication, knowing it would bankrupt and kill him. Where there's a murder, there's a motive.
Perry...
Surviving Your Doctors
Why the Medical System is Dangerous to Your Health and How to Get Through it Alive
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2010
Surviving Your Doctors, with its in-depth explanations, guidance, and direction will be the basic training manual patients need to work their way through the health care maze. It serves as a map of the medical minefield, told from the perspective of a doctor yet designed to reveal the faults in the...
The Good Caregiver
A One-of-a-Kind Compassionate Resource for Anyone Caring for an Aging Loved One
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
A survival guide with an insider's perspective, for the millions of unprepared caregivers of aging loved ones.
As Americans are living longer, an unprecedented number of people now require long-term care during their last years. More than 15 million adult children now care for their elderly...
Undoctored
Why Health Care Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter Than Your Doctor
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
Conventional health care is no longer working in your favor—but thankfully, Dr. Davis is.
In his New York Times bestseller Wheat Belly, Dr. William Davis changed the lives of millions of people by teaching them to remove grains from their diets to reverse years of chronic health damage. In...
A Forty-Year Retrospective of President Nixon’S Committee on Health Education
A Whistle-Blower’S Diary
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
Corruption within the Nixon administration was not limited to Watergate; his Committee on Health Education ignored and suppressed the opinions of professional health educators. In this history, two education insiders explain why and how the committee was a sham from the beginning. One of the authorsJoy...
Health Insurance Resources
A Guide for People with Chronic Disease and Disability:Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2006
The second edition of Health Insurance Resources: A Guide for People with Chronic Disease and Disability continues to be a uniquely helpful reference for those who need and use health insurance most often but have the least access to it. The book was developed to assist individuals living with disability...
It's Enough to Make You Sick
The Failure of American Health Care and a Prescription for the Cure
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
It's Enough to Make You Sick explains how the American health care system developed and how it has deteriorated into a national disgrace. Lobosky indicts the special interests who have played a role in the demise of American health care, examines the current attempts at reform, and offers a practical, compassionate blueprint for effective change.
Profit Is Not the Cure
A Citizen's Guide to Saving Medicare
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2011
On July 12, 1966, the Medical Care Insurance Act was passed by the federal House of Commons after a ferocious public debate that pitted the vast majority of Canadians against a powerful alliance of business, insurance companies, and doctors.
More than thirty years later, the same battle is...
The Gold Standard
The Challenge Of Evidence-Based Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2010
Few things make people react more strongly to the changes going on in health care than the word standardization. Critics shudder at the mindless sameness of standards, while supporters dream of a world in which standardized "best practices" open up a world of efficient health care delivery....
by Allan Kellehear
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Once it was difficult to see end of life care beyond conventional medical intervention, but hospice and palliative care introduced a more holistic approach, providing quality of life for the dying and their families. This ground-breaking work takes end-of-life care beyond these palliative boundaries,...
Privileged Presence
Personal Stories of Connections in Health Care
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Privileged Presence is a collection of more than 50 stories that capture both the medical and emotional aspects of the health care experience through tales from those who have been there, and offers powerful messages about the essential ingredients of “good” health care: respect, compassion, collaboration,...