Health Policy category: 748 books
Socio-Analytic Dialogue
Incorporating Psychosocial Dynamics into Public Policies
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2014
In this book, Bruno Boccara argues that complex and changing psychosocial issues, in particular those related to the societal unconscious, must be assessed and incorporated in public policy analysis through Socio-Analytic Dialogue, a psychosocial approach aimed at understanding and addressing emotional...
The Politics of Global AIDS
Institutionalization of Solidarity, Exclusion of Context
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2016
This timely book looks critically at the policy response to AIDS and its institutionalization over time. It raises important questions about who benefits, who decides, and in whose interests decisions are made. Taking the early international response to the epidemic as its starting point, and focusing...
The Healing of America
A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
A New York Times Bestseller, with an updated explanation of the 2010 Health Reform Bill
Bringing to bear his talent for explaining complex issues in a clear, engaging way, New York Times bestselling author T. R. Reid visits industrialized democracies around the world--France, Britain, Germany,...
Advancing Health and Wellbeing in the Changing Urban Environment
Implementing a Systems Approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2017
This book addresses up-to-date urban health issues from a systems perspective and provides an appealing integrated urban development strategy based on a 10-year global interdisciplinary research programme created by the International Council for Science (ICSU), and sponsored by the InterAcademy Partnership...
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,...
CBT for Occupational Stress in Health Professionals
Introducing a Schema-Focused Approach
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2006
The costs of occupational stress in terms of sickness absence, ill-health-related retirement, litigation and lost productivity are increasing, putting strain on economies across the world. The fact that health care work is inherently more stressful than many other occupations makes it vital that the...
Fat Politics
The Real Story behind America's Obesity Epidemic
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2005
It seems almost daily we read newspaper articles and watch news reports exposing the growing epidemic of obesity in America. Our government tells us we are experiencing a major health crisis, with sixty percent of Americans classified as overweight, and one in four as obese. But how valid are these...
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...
Universal Healthcare without the NHS: Towards a Patient-Centred Health System
Towards a Patient-Centred Health System
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
The National Health Service remains the sacred cow of British politics – any criticism is considered beyond the pale, guaranteed to trigger angry responses and accusations of bad faith. This book argues that the NHS should not be insulated from reasoned debate. In terms of health outcomes, it is...
by Steve Smith
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
This book is about the people of the Third World like Trinidad and Tobago. It is about the violence of globalization, the rigidity of ideological orthodoxy and economic dogma and the unjust structure of the existing global economic order and its impact on global health. It is about the chaos created by a flawed epistemology.
The Case against Fluoride
How Hazardous Waste Ended Up in Our Drinking Water and the Bad Science and Powerful Politics That Keep It There
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2010
When the U.S. Public Health Service endorsed water fluoridation in 1950, there was little evidence of its safety. Now, six decades later and after most countries have rejected the practice, more than 70 percent of Americans, as well as 200 million people worldwide, are drinking fluoridated water....
Managing Global Health Security
The World Health Organization and Disease Outbreak Control
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
Drawing on insights from international organization and securitization theory, the author investigates the World Health Organization and how its approach to global health security has changed and adapted since its creation in 1948. He also examines the organization's prospects for managing global health security now and into the future.
by Robin Stott, June Crown
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
In this Briefing, Robin Stott proposes solutions to the key problems that beset our present health system. He argues that if we are to develop a true public health service rather than a 'disease service', we must make radical changes to the decision-making processes.
America in the Red Zone
In Pursuit of the Self-Health End Zone Diet
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
Science and socialized health care continue to wage a diabolical struggle thats hurting the overall health of the nation. Meanwhile, were receiving conflicting signals about our collective health, with some studies predicting well live longer and other studies showing that obesity and disease will...