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Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Health systems have long been considered key determinants of well-being within modern societies, a valuable resource which have faced a series of reform initiatives throughout the past decades. These reforms have been used to manage the cost of development, measure the tenability of health systems...
Money-Driven Medicine
The Real Reason Health Care Costs So Much
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Why is medical care in the United States so expensive? For decades, Americans have taken it as a matter of faith that we spend more because we have the best health care system in the world. But as costs levitate, that argument becomes more difficult to make. Today, we spend twice as much as Japan...
Promising Care
How We Can Rescue Health Care by Improving It
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
Promising Care: How We Can Rescue Health Care by Improving It collects 16 speeches given over a period of 10 years by Donald M. Berwick, an internationally acclaimed champion of health care improvement throughout the course of his long and storied career as a physician, health care educator and policy...
by Dr. Ed Carlson, Dr. Livia Kohn
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Core Health is an easy and enjoyable way to reconnect to our energy system’s pure core of health. Based on an energy-focused understanding, Core Health is congruent with ancient Chinese Cosmology through modern Quantum Physics and all energy modalities. This process clears away clouds of confusion...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
Introduction to Global Health Promotion addresses a breadth and depth of public health topics that students and emerging professionals in the field must understand as the world's burden of disease changes with non-communicable diseases on the rise in low- and middle-income countries as their middle...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
The concept of global health has moved on from focusing on the problems of the developing world to encompass health problems with global impact. Global health issues impact daily on local healthcare delivery and professional practice. This illuminating guide for healthcare students and practitioners...
Health Psychology
An Interdisciplinary Approach
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
This textbook takes a truly interdisciplinary approach to studying health psychology. It examines five systems that affect individual health outcomes: individual, family/community, social/physical environment, healthcare systems, and health policy. While grounded in psychology, it incorporates perspectives...
Child Health
A Population Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2015
Children in the U.S. are not faring well. Despite major advances in public health, hygiene, and treatment for acute infections, child health outcomes in the U.S. are among the bottom for developed countries. As we enter the third decade of a child obesity epidemic, children born in the last ten years...
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...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2016
This clear-sighted volume introduces the concept of “disruptive cooperation”— transformative partnerships between the health and technology sectors to eliminate widespread healthcare problems such as inequities, waste, and inappropriate care. Emphasizing the most pressing issues of a world growing...
Health Care Operations and Supply Chain Management
Operations, Planning, and Control
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
Health Care Operations and Supply Chain Management
This innovative text offers a thorough foundation in operations management, supply chain management,?and the strategic implementation of programs, techniques, and tools for reducing costs and improving quality in health care organizations....
Differential Diagnoses
A Comparative History of Health Care Problems and Solutions in the United States and France
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
Although the United States spends 16 percent of its gross domestic product on health care, more than 46 million people have no insurance coverage, while one in four Americans report difficulty paying for medical care. Indeed, the U.S. health care system, despite being the most expensive health care...
by Yasar A. Ozcan
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
A compendium of health care quantitative techniques based in Excel
Analytics and Decision Support in Health Care Operations is a comprehensive introductory guide to quantitative techniques, with practical Excel-based solutions for strategic health care management. This new third edition has...
The Internet and Health Care
Theory, Research, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
The Internet and Health Care: Theory, Research, and Practice presents an in-depth introduction to the field of health care and the Internet, from international and interdisciplinary perspectives. It combines expertise in the areas of the social sciences, medicine, policy, and systems analysis. With...