Health Care Issues category: 1336 books
The Health Care Dilemma
An Inside View
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014
I have given an inside view of my perception of the heath care dilemma. I was motivated by my daily experience with my wife who has suffered from the sudden onset of a stroke. This experience has brought me face-to-face with occurrences and situations which were alien to me as a physician and consultant...
The Myths of Modern Medicine
The Alarming Truth about American Health Care
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
The American health care system is terminally ill. It is astonishingly expensive, remarkably variable in quality, and incapable of stemming the rising tide of chronic illness in our population. Yet, the majority of Americans believe it is the best system in the world and cling to the belief that,...
by Toni P Miles
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2012
In Health Care Reform and Disparities: History, Hype, and Hope, prolific author Toni P. Miles, MD, PhD, uniquely expands the usual discussion of health disparities by including and emphasizing the voice and perspective of the consumer, and by featuring policy, media, and financing data. Highlighting...
Managing to Nurse
Inside Canada's Health Care Reform
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2006
How does the contemporary restructuring of health care affect nursing practice? Increasingly since the 1970s, and more intensively under recent reforms, Canadian health care is the focus of information-supported, professionally based management. In Managing to Nurse, Janet M. Rankin and Marie L. Campbell...
Health Care and the Ethics of Encounter
A Jewish Discussion of Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
The last several years have seen a sharpening of debate in the United States regarding the problem of steadily increasing medical expenditures, as well as inflation in health care costs, a scarcity of health care resources, and a lack of access for a growing number of people in the national health...
by Lydell Lettsome
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Americans have been led to believe that uncontrolled costs and waste are destroying their healthcare system. This is not true. Costs and waste are merely smokescreens. Greed and profit margins drive the American healthcare system. Together they have been used to block Americans from having a more...
by William J. Ward Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Today's health care managers, frequently, were yesterday's technicians, physicians, and nurses. This puts them in an interesting predicament, since they know the health care side of the business but often lack the financial management skills necessary to create budgets and manage finances in a health...
Provider-Led Population Health Management
Key Strategies for Healthcare in the Cognitive Era
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Provider-Led Population Health Management: Key Healthcare Strategies in the Cognitive Era, Second Edition draws connections among the new care-delivery models, the components of population health management, and the types of health IT that are required to support those components. The key concept...
Coercive Care
Rights, Law and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
There has been much debate about mental health law reform and mental capacity legislation in recent years with the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities also having a major impact on thinking about the issue. This edited volume explores the concept of ‘coercive care’ in relation...
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The Praeger Handbook of Veterans' Health: History, Challenges, Issues, and Developments [4 volumes]
History, Challenges, Issues, and Developments
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
This comprehensive contribution to understanding veterans' healthcare uniquely draws on a national and international cadre of scientists and practitioners, both within the Department of Veterans Affairs and specialists beyond the institution, providing a matrix view of veterans' healthcare, past,...
Restructuring Canada's Health Systems: How Do We Get There From Here?
Proceedings of the Fourth Canadian Conference on Health Economics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1992
Is the Canadian health care system becoming a victim of its own success? It has done what it set out to do – provide universal access to all medically necessary health services without financial barriers to patients – but expanding technology, an aging population, and escalating costs strain its...
The Men's Health Book
A Guide for the Irish Man
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2009
With life expectancies increasing, it's more important than ever for men to take care of their health. This title, the first in Ireland to cover exclusively men's health issues and written by a renowned Irish GP, gives all the facts a man will need to stay fit and well.
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by Lawrence W. Lazarus
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
This book will help you take full advantage of the ACA, reduce your medical costs, and find a physician. You will discover the value of having a health care advocate and obtaining a second opinion. You will learn how to best use complementary and alternative (non-traditional) treatments and how to...
by Mary Mahoney
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
In this second book in the "My Strategic View" series, Mary Mahoney explores the many areas of health-care that affect us as individuals and as businesses. In recent years, her firm – J. Robinson Group – has evolved to focus more on health-care clients, and since 2013, Mahoney's blog posts...