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by John P. Glaser, Claudia Salzberg
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011
This new edition of The Strategic Application of Information Technology in Health Care Organizations offers a peerless guide for health care leaders to understand information technology (IT) strategic planning and implementation. Filled with illustrative case studies, the book explores the link between...
by Barnes Jeff; O'Hanlon Barbar; Feeley Frank; Kimberly McKeon; Nelson Gitonga; Caytie Decker
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2010
Kenya's private sector is one of the most developed and dynamic in Sub-Saharan Africa. In the health sector - where the leading causes of death are HIV/AIDS, acute respiratory infection, diarrheal diseases, and malaria - the private commercial (for-profit) sector and the not-for-profit sector play critical...
Introduction to US Health Policy
The Organization, Financing, and Delivery of Health Care in America
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Health care reform has been a dominant theme in public discourse for decades now. The passage of the Affordable Care Act was a major milestone, but rather than quell the rhetoric, it has sparked even more heated debate. In the latest edition of Introduction to US Health Policy, Donald A. Barr reviews...
Foundations of Health Care Management
Principles and Methods
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2012
Foundations of Health Care Management
Leaders and managers throughout the health care system are facing ever more challenging changes in the way care is delivered, paid for, and evaluated. Foundations of Health Care Management: Principles and Methods offers an innovative, concise, reader-friendly...
by Elaine A. Gillingham, AAS, BA
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
Get the most comprehensive, in-depth coverage on health unit coordinating from the industry’s most popular text! Expert authors Elaine Gillingham and Monica Wadsworth Seibel offer in-depth discussion of key theories and concepts surrounding the profession and guide you through the common responsibilities...
Working in Public Health
An introduction to careers in public health
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
What can you contribute to improving and protecting the health of your community? Public health is becoming an increasingly central area of healthcare practice and people working in public health come from a wide range of disciplines and backgrounds.
This practical and accessible book maps...
by Stephen Verderber
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Sprawl is an unsustainable pattern of growth that threatens to undermine the health of communities globally. It has been a dominant mid-to-late twentieth century growth pattern in developed countries and in the twenty-first century has shown widespread signs of proliferation in India, China, and other...
by George Rosen
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Since publication in 1958, George Rosen’s classic book has been regarded as the essential international history of public health. Describing the development of public health in classical Greece, imperial Rome, England, Europe, the United States, and elsewhere, Rosen illuminates the lives and contributions...
A History of Global Health
Interventions into the Lives of Other Peoples
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Over the past century, hundreds of billions of dollars have been invested in programs aimed at improving health on a global scale. Given the enormous scale and complexity of these lifesaving operations, why do millions of people in low-income countries continue to live without access to basic health...
Treating Health Care
How the Canadian System Works and How It Could Work Better
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Canada has been among the world leaders in recognizing the multiple factors that impact health. Focusing on Canada’s health care system, Raisa B. Deber provides brief descriptions of some key facts and concepts necessary to understand health care policy in Canada and place it in an international...
by Samuel Obura Afubwa
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
This book is one of its kind and is divided into two parts: (i) Environmental Health (ii) Occupational Health and Safety. Environmental Health has been written to cover the pillars of Environmental Health with categories in history, solid waste management, sanitation, pollution, toxicology, ventilation...
Health Inequalities
Critical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
Informed by a wealth of available research, between 1997 and 2010, the UK Labour government introduced a raft of policies to reduce health inequalities. Despite this, by most measures, the UK's health inequalities have continued to widen. This failure has prompted calls for new approaches to health...
Reinventing American Health Care
How the Affordable Care Act will Improve our Terribly Complex, Blatantly Unjust, Outrageously Expensive, Grossly Inefficient, Error Prone System
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
The definitive story of American health care today-its causes, consequences, and confusions
In March 2010, the Affordable Care Act was signed into law. It was the most extensive reform of America's health care system since at least the creation of Medicare in 1965, and maybe ever. The ACA was...
by Kathleen Heery, MS RN CCM
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
After many years in the health care and insurance industries, author Kathleen Heery MS, RN, CCM was struck by the reality that health care services could better align with health and that the chaos and expense in receiving these services could be better coordinated. The Affordable Care Act, also called...