Health category: 185398 books
Markets and Medicine
The Politics of Health Care Reform in Britain, Germany, and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2009
Are advanced industrialized countries converging on a market response to reform their systems of social protection? By comparing the health care reform experiences of Britain, Germany, and the United States in the 1990s, Susan Giaimo explores how countries pursue diverse policy responses and how such...
Matters of Life and Death
Public Health Issues in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2017
Health issues have long occupied top headlines in Canadian media, and no journalist has written on public health with more authority or for as many years as André Picard. Matters of Life and Death collects Picard's most compelling columns, covering a broad range of topics including Canada's right-to-die...
by Merck
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
Now in paperback—the most comprehensive home health reference bestseller
Millions of people around the world have relied on The Merck Manual Home Health Handbook for quick access to authoritative, accessible health information. Written by more than 300 internationally respected medical experts,...
by American Medical Association
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
The Long-Awaited Revision of the Bestselling Family Health Guide
"This completely updated fourth edition of our bestselling health reference is comprehensive, easy to understand, and even more user-friendly than the previous editions. We're excited to provide our patients with an invaluable...
by Anonymous
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2014
Get All The Support And Guidance You Need To Be A Success At Better Total Health! Is the fact that you would like to get a grip on how to manage better health for you and your loved ones health but just don't know how making your life difficult... maybe even miserable? First, you are NOT alone!...
Global Health Governance
International Law and Public Health in a Divided World
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2005
Globalization has immersed all of humanity in a single germ pool. There are no health sanctuaries in a globalizing world. In Global Health Governance, Obijiofor Aginam explores the relevance of international law in contemporary public health diplomacy. He focuses on the concept of mutual vulnerability...
by Kim Forrester, PhD, LLM (Advanced)
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2014
Perfect for:
• Bachelor of Nursing students
• Diploma of Nursing students
• Bachelor of Midwifery students
• Bachelor of Paramedicine students
• Bachelor of Health science students
• Post graduate Nursing and Midwifery students
Essentials of Law for Health Professionals 4e provides...
The Public-private Health Care State
Essays on the History of American Health Care Policy
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
The distinctive mixing and continuous remixing of public and private roles is a defining feature of health care in the United States. The Public-Private Health Care State explores the interweaving of public and private enterprise in health care in the United States as a basis for thinking about health...
The World’s Health Care Crisis
From the Laboratory Bench to the Patient’s Bedside
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2011
At present, human society is facing a health care crisis that is affecting patients worldwide. In the United States, it is generally believed that the major problem is lack of affordable access to health care (i.e. health insurance). This book takes an unprecedented approach to address this issue...
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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...
by Jennifer Prah Ruger
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2009
Societies make decisions and take actions that profoundly impact the distribution of health. Why and how should collective choices be made, and policies implemented, to address health inequalities under conditions of resource scarcity? How should societies conceptualize and measure health disparities,...
You Can't Afford to Get Sick
Your Guide to Optimum Health and Health Care
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2010
With a two-week plan for optimum wellness, “America’s best-known doctor” (The New York Times) shows you what you need to know to be in the best health and have the best care.
The crisis in American health has hit home in very personal ways. Every thirty seconds someone in this country...
History of the Social Determinants of Health
Global Histories, Contemporary Debates
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Every subject has its history, including the Social Determinants of Health. It is a subject that investigates differences in human health that occur because of social life, from income and class to family life and neighbourhood. Social determinants can have very large effects on longevity, just as do...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
The geographies of health and development is an emerging sub-discipline, tying in with many of the conceptual, theoretical and practical components of other disciplines working in health, health care, economics, and international development. Spatially and theoretically grounded in geography, this...