Health Policy category: 748 books
by Lievens Tomas; Serneels Pieter; Butera Jean Damascene; Soucat Agnes
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2010
Human resources for health are a priority to improve health outcomes in Africa. In order to strengthen policies based on evidence, a better understanding is needed of health worker choice and behaviour. This book tries to help fill that gap. Relying on unique survey data, it analyses the career preferences...
by Lievens Tomas; Serneels Pieter; Butera Jean Damascene; Soucat Agnes
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2010
Human resources for health are a priority to improve health outcomes in Africa. In order to strengthen policies based on evidence, a better understanding is needed of health worker choice and behaviour. This book tries to help fill that gap. Relying on unique survey data, it analyses the career preferences...
Dignity, Mental Health and Human Rights
Coercion and the Law
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
This book explores the human rights consequences of recent and ongoing revisions of mental health legislation in England and Ireland. Presenting a critical discussion of the World Health Organization's 'Checklist on Mental Health Legislation' from its Resource Book on Mental Health, Human Rights and...
Measuring Health
Lessons for Ontario
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1978
Planning and evaluating any health care program is a formidable task: how do you measure the health of a population? This fundamental question has been approached from various perspectives in medical, administrative, and economic studies. This book provides a guide to health measurement literature...
A Right to Health
Medicine, Marginality, and Health Care Reform in Northeastern Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
In 1988, a new health care system, the Sistema Único de Saúde (Unified Health Care System or SUS) was formally established in Brazil. The system was intended, among other goals, to provide universal access to health care services and to redefine health as a citizens right and a duty of the state....
Accountability and Responsibility in Health Care
Issues in Addressing an Emerging Global Challenge
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2012
Serious scholarly analyses of the types and roles of accountability in health care first appeared in the late 1980s. That issue, along with the related issue of responsibility in health care, has continued to interest policymakers, analysts and scholars ever since. Indeed, there has been a renewed...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
While Canadians are proud of their healthcare system, the reality is that it is fragmented and disorganized. Instead of a pan-Canadian system, it is a "system of systems" - thirteen provincial and territorial systems and a federal system. As a result, Canadian healthcare has not only become...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Research into the delivery and organisation of health care is a vital component in the improvement of health services. A wide range of disciplines and methods needs to be deployed to address research questions in this field. This unique reader brings together thirty examples of high-quality SDO research...
Superbugs
An Arms Race against Bacteria
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
Antibiotics are powerful drugs that can prevent and treat infections, but they are becoming less effective as a result of drug resistance. Resistance develops because the bacteria that antibiotics target can evolve ways to defend themselves against these drugs. When antibiotics fail, there is very...
Collaboration across Health Research and Medical Care
Healthy Collaboration
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Health research and health care practice are radically transforming as governments invest more in large scale, national and international health projects with increasing levels of interdisciplinarity as populations age and as nations grow wealthier. This volume examines the structures and dynamics...
Risking Your Health
Causes, Consequences, and Interventions to Prevent Risky Behaviors
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
Behaviors that pose risks for an individuals health and that also represent important threats for public health, such as drug use, smoking, alcohol, unhealthy eating causing obesity, and unsafe sex, are highly prevalent in low income countries, even though they are traditionally associated with richer...
What's In, What's Out
Designing Benefits for Universal Health Coverage
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Vaccinate children against deadly pneumococcal disease, or pay for cardiac patients to undergo lifesaving surgery? Cover the costs of dialysis for kidney patients, or channel the money toward preventing the conditions that lead to renal failure in the first place? Policymakers dealing with the realities...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2010
Few contemporary social problems in the U.S. affect more people daily than those within the American health care system. Social Movements and the Transformation of American Health Care is the first collection of essays to examine dynamics of change in health care institutions through the lens of contemporary...
Health Care Reform and Globalisation
The US, China and Europe in Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
In the post-Cold War, post financial crisis era, health care is an issue of critical political, personal and economic concern. In the US, plans to address a troubled health care model were met by vocal opposition. In the UK and post-communist Europe, attempts to introduce aspects of that model have...