Health Policy category: 748 books
The Coordination of European Public Hospital Systems
Interests, Cultures and Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
This book engages theoretically and empirically with the unprecedented wave of public management reforms in public hospitals in Europe in the past 25 years. It provides a useful overview of these reforms and studies the way in which they have influenced the ability of national policy-making institutions...
Political and Civic Engagement
Multidisciplinary perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
Based upon a three-year multi-disciplinary international research project, Political and Civic Participation examines the interplay of factors affecting civic and political engagement and participation across different generations, nations and ethnic groups, and the shifting variety of forms that...
The Welfare Trait
How State Benefits Affect Personality
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
The welfare state has a problem: each generation living under its protection has lower work motivation than the previous one. In order to fix this problem we need to understand its causes, lest the welfare state ends up undermining its own economic and social foundations. In The Welfare Trait, award-winning...
What Is the Truth About the Great Recession and Increasing Inequality?
Dialogues on Disputed Issues and Conflicting Theories
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
Have you ever puzzled over the causes of the 2007–8 financial crisis and wondered how it will affect all our futures? If so, this book is for you. Using imagined dialogue between three economists with contrasting theoretical perspectives and a student who knows little about economics, different...
Enlarging the Scope of Peace Psychology
African and World-Regional Contributions
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
With the major goal of building an inclusive international community that promotes peace-related research and action, this volume reflects on local, national and global peace engagement and works towards transdisciplinary understandings of the role of psychology in peace, conflict, and violence....
One Nation, Two Realities
Dueling Facts in American Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2019
The deep divides that define politics in the United States are not restricted to policy or even cultural differences anymore. Americans no longer agree on basic questions of fact. Is climate change real? Does racism still determine who gets ahead? Is sexual orientation innate? Do immigration and free...
Divorce, Families and Emotion Work
'Only Death Will Make Us Part'
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
“This book is a carefully researched, clearly written, very important contribution to our understanding of divorce.” —Arlie Hochschild, University of California, USA
“This rich, evidence-informed narrative provides a frank, ‘up close and personal’ portrait of the aftermath of...
Applied Psychology
Proceedings of the 2015 Asian Congress of Applied Psychology (ACAP 2015)
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
This is the conference proceedings for the 2015 Asian Congress of Applied Psychology (ACAP 2015), hosted by Aventis School of Management, Singapore. It includes papers by a group of international academics and researchers. It covers the most recent research findings in the fields of Psychology, especially...
Dying of Whiteness
How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
A physician reveals how right-wing backlash policies have mortal consequences -- even for the white voters they promise to help
Named one of the most anticipated books of 2019 by Esquire and the Boston Globe
In the era of Donald Trump, many lower- and middle-class white Americans are...
by Daniel Alman
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
All 341 of the items in this book are also included in a previous book that I published, which is called "1,342 well sourced examples of Barack Obama's lying, lawbreaking, corruption, cronyism, hypocrisy, waste, etc."
Therefore, if you already own that book, then you already own the...
by Scott Stevens
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2010
Alcohol Abuse (problem drinkers) and Alcoholism (drinking problems) constitute the top public health and public safety issues in America, to the tune of $220 billion in costs per year. Alcohol overuse is our number one killer and is behind more illness and ER visits than any other aspect of our society...
Jesse Ventura's Marijuana Manifesto
How Lies, Corruption, and Propaganda Kept Cannabis Illegal
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
New York Times Bestselling Author!
In this groundbreaking book – for the first time in paperback and fully-updated with all the latest legal information - outspoken freethinker Jesse Ventura lays out his philosophy. Now more than ever before, our country needs full legalization of medical/recreational...
The World's Emergency Room
The Growing Threat to Doctors, Nurses, and Humanitarian Workers
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Twenty years ago, the most common cause of death for medical humanitarians and other aid workers was traffic accidents; today, it is violent attacks. And the death of each doctor, nurse, paramedic, midwife, and vaccinator is multiplied untold times in the vulnerable populations deprived of their care....
Unprecedented
The Constitutional Challenge to Obamacare
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
Foreword by Randy E. Barnett
In 2012, the United States Supreme Court became the center of the political world. In a dramatic and unexpected 54 decision, Chief Justice John Roberts voted on narrow grounds to save the Affordable Care Act, commonly known as Obamacare. Unprecedented tells the...