Health Care Delivery category: 1556 books
Accountability and Responsibility in Health Care
Issues in Addressing an Emerging Global Challenge
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2012
Serious scholarly analyses of the types and roles of accountability in health care first appeared in the late 1980s. That issue, along with the related issue of responsibility in health care, has continued to interest policymakers, analysts and scholars ever since. Indeed, there has been a renewed...
by William Bryans, Steve Field
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Practical budget management is at the core of this book. As well as giving an insight into the way budgets behave in certain circumstances and what can be done about it, the book also deals with practical steps the budget and resource manager can take to eliminate waste and reduce opportunities for...
Unequal Coverage
The Experience of Health Care Reform in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2017
The Affordable Care Act’s impact on coverage, access to care, and systematic exclusion in our health care system
The Affordable Care Act set off an unprecedented wave of health insurance enrollment as the most sweeping overhaul of the U.S. health insurance system since 1965. In the years...
Advancing Medical Practice through Technology
Applications for Healthcare Delivery, Management, and Quality
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Medical practitioners are continuing to advance their knowledge of the latest technologies in order to keep up with the opportunities for faster and more reliable treatments for patients. Advancing Medical Practice through Technology: Applications for Healthcare Delivery, Management, and Quality focuses...
by Eleanor DeArman Kinney
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2002
Despite the attention to the problem of protecting the health care interests of Americans, there is little consensus on what should be done politically or otherwise to address this problem. In Protecting American Health Care Consumers Eleanor DeArman Kinney, a nationally regarded expert on health...
Health Care Reform and Globalisation
The US, China and Europe in Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
In the post-Cold War, post financial crisis era, health care is an issue of critical political, personal and economic concern. In the US, plans to address a troubled health care model were met by vocal opposition. In the UK and post-communist Europe, attempts to introduce aspects of that model have...
Man-Made Medicine
Women’s Health, Public Policy, and Reform
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
If not for the reproductive functions of women, would there be anything called women’s health care? A review of medical literature, practice, and policy in this country would suggest that the answer is no. Offering a startling view of the current state of health care for women in the United States...
by Kanchan Kabra
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
Cooking For Pregnant And Lactating Women
by Kanchan Kabra
This book presents a feast of delicious and nutritious recipes created for women planning a baby, for pregnant women and for lactating ones. This is a boon to them.
Kanchan Kabra being a nutrition consultant and a dietician has...
Your Money or Your Life
Strong Medicine for America's Health Care System
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2004
The problems of medical care confront us daily: a bureaucracy that makes a trip to the doctor worse than a trip to the dentist, doctors who can't practice medicine the way they choose, more than 40 million people without health insurance. "Medical care is in crisis," we are repeatedly told,...
The Cure
How Capitalism Can Save American Health Care
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
We are surrounded by medical miracles: polio has been eradicated; childhood leukemia is now treatable; death by cardiovascular disease has declined by two-thirds in the last fifty years. Yet while American medicine has never been better, angst over American health care has never been greater. Why is...
The Big Unlock
Harnessing Data and Growing Digital Health Businesses in a Value-Based Care Era
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
Along with a shift towards value-based care, a digital transformation is under way in health care. However, health care enterprises are having a hard time keeping up with advances in information technology.
Organizations that could once spend months or years developing a strategy to deliver...
New Directions in Public Health Care
A Prescription for the 1980's
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
This volume is a revised edition of The Institute for Contemporary Study's report on national health insurance. It includes an analysis of legislation currently before Congress; an examination of hos-pital cost increases and cost containment; an in-vestigation of the politics of the National Health...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
The mission of healthcare organizations has undergone a remarkable transformation from curing disease to caring for the well-being of populations. While health care policy has explored this domain before, notably in Health Maintenance Organizations, the current efforts to create Patient-Centered Medical...
European Integration and Health Policy
The Artful Dance of Economics and History
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
The impact of European integration on diverse national social policies is still largely unknown. While policy decision making remains at the country level, there is a strong possibility that indirectly, as a result of ideological imperatives and financial constraints, policies will change. National...