Insurance category: 1053 books

In this volume, Hugo Letiche tackles the allimportant question, is there “care” in healthcare? If, as Klaus Krippendorff(2006) argues, “meaning is a structured space, a network of expected senses, a set of possibilities…[that] emerges in the use of language,” then within the healthcare systems...

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.

Terrorist attacks. Data assaults. Natural catastrophes. Disease outbreaks. Recent years have taught us that not only was 9/11 not just a single, horrible occurrence, but that events of many types can-and statistically will-hit organizations of every size, threatening to disrupt and potentially even...

The assessment and management of risk to society from the operation of chemical process plants and other industrial activities in which dangerous substances are produced, used, handled or stored will remain a topic of great importance in the next decade. In order to evaluate this specific risk on...

Plant Hazard Analysis and Safety Instrumentation Systems is the first book to combine coverage of these two integral aspects of running a chemical processing plant. It helps engineers from various disciplines learn how various analysis techniques, international standards, and instrumentation and controls...

Tras 28 años creando y gestionando redes de ventas en el sector asegurador, he querido compartir algunas experiencias personales que de forma amena, invitarán al lector a avanzar en el contenido del libro y que, aunque en apariencia, no están directamente relacionadas con el mundo comercial, fueron...

Medicare and its various supplemental plans offers comprehansive health coverage for aging and retired Americans. While this is a "right of passage" for those in their 60s, this program can be complicated and confusing. Idiot's Guides: Medicare is aneasy-to-understand guide that explains...

Can we really use economic thinking to understand our health care system? Health Economics, now in its sixth edition, not only shows how this is done, but also provides the tools to analyze the economic behavior of patients and providers in health care markets. Health Economics combines current...

The tourism industry is arguably one of the most important sources of income and foreign exchange, and is growing rapidly. However, national and international crises have huge negative economic consequences. Crisis Management in the Tourism Industry aims to illustrate the theories and actions...

�This is a major, and deeply thoughtful, contribution to understanding uncertainty and risk. Our world and its unprecedented challenges need such ways of thinking! Much more than a set of contributions from different disciplines, this book leads you to explore your own way of perceiving your own...

How Fiscally Fit Is Your Company? Just Say Ah In Stick Out Your Balance Sheet and Cough, Gary Patterson details for the first time the proven methods hes used to successfully treat ailing companies of all sizes across a range of industriesfrom a startup purchased by IBM to a public technology company...

Efficiently and profitably delivering quality flexible packaging to the marketplace requires designing and manufacturing products that are both "fit-to-use" and "fit-to-make". The engineering function in a flexible packaging enterprise must attend to these dual design challenges. Flexible Packaging...

Viewed from the perspective of environmental management, this study describes the implications and applications of the precautionary principle - a theory of avoiding risk even when its likelihood seems remote. This principle has been employed in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change...

The Tools & Techniques of Estate Planning for Modern Families, 2nd Edition, discusses the estate planning issues that are unique to modern families. It moves from a basic estate planning overview to a discussion of the unique issues in today’s modern families. It also includes tax issues, premarital...