Health Care Issues category: 1336 books
The Citizen Patient
Reforming Health Care for the Sake of the Patient, Not the System
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Conflicts of interest, misrepresentation of clinical trials, hospital price-fixing, and massive expenditures for procedures of dubious efficacy--these and other critical flaws leave little doubt that the current U.S. health-care system is in need of an overhaul. In this essential guide, preeminent...
by Dolorita Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
Do you know what medical care your insurance covers? Do you understand when Medicare may stop paying for medical care or that Medicare managed care plans require approval for care the same as commercial insurance plans? This book contains information for everyone but all information pertains to everyone....
Critical Reflection in Context
Applications in Health and Social Care
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Critical reflection enables practitioners – especially those within health and social care –to theorise from their own practice, improving and developing their work and practising both creatively and professionally.
This book provides an accessible overview of the influential Fook/Gardner...
Bringing It Home
A Nurse Discovers the World Beyond the Hospital
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
ICU nurse and bestselling author Tilda Shalof learns what nursing beyond the hospital really means. For the 350,000 professional nurses in Canada and 3 million in the US; readers of Atul Gawande's award-winning books and The American Nurse by Carole Jones.
In her latest book, ICU nurse Tilda...
by Grace Budrys, PhD, Professor Emerita
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015
Our Unsystematic Health Care System presents readers with a comprehensive overview of the U.S. health care delivery system. Significantly revised and updated, the fourth edition explores the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, or "Obamacare," as it unfolds—including both challenges and successes....
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...
The Battle Over Health Care
What Obama's Reform Means for America's Future
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2012
As the most substantial health care reform in almost half a century, President Obama's health care overhaul was as historic as it was divisive. In its aftermath, the debate continues.
Drawing on decades of experience in health care policy, health care delivery reform, and economics, Rosemary...
The Heart of Care: Dignity in Action
A Guide to Person-Centred Compassionate Elder Care
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
I felt like a caged animal.' This damning indictment by Dame Dorothy Tutin of her treatment in hospital at the age of 70 propelled her daughter Amanda Waring into a crusade to ensure that all older people in care are treated with kindness, compassion and dignity. Amanda is now a widely respected filmmaker,...
by Curtis P. McLaughlin
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014
Contains over 200 reforms after the ACA gleaned from a number of sources including the author and edited down and commented on. Some are parallel alternatives to choose from. I estimate that an analyst could put together over 100 into a coherent package of proposal. This book is intended to stand...
Your Best Health Care Now
Get Doctor Discounts, Save With Better Health Insurance, Find Affordable Prescriptions
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
Inspired by his viral New York Times article, prize-winning investigative journalist Frank Lalli details how he mastered the ins and outs of health care—and how you, too, can get the best care for your money.
Frank Lalli, the former editor of Money and George magazines, has devoted his career...
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,...
by Stephen C. Schimpff, MD
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Approximately 100,000 deaths per year in the United States result from preventable medical errors. This figure is about twice the number of people who die in car accidents and five times the number of murder victims annually, and twenty times the number of servicemen and women killed in Iraq and Afghanistan...
Worried Sick
A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Nortin Hadler's clearly reasoned argument surmounts the cacophony of the health care debate. Hadler urges everyone to ask health care providers how likely it is that proposed treatments will afford meaningful benefits and he teaches how to actively listen to the answer. Each chapter of Worried Sick...
Redefining Health Care
Creating Value-based Competition on Results
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2006
The U.S. health care system is in crisis. At stake are the quality of care for millions of Americans and the financial well-being of individuals and employers squeezed by skyrocketing premiums-not to mention the stability of state and federal government budgets.
In Redefining Health Care, internationally...