Health Policy category: 748 books
Ethics of care
Critical advances in international perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2015
Over the last 20 years there has been a flourishing of work on feminist care ethics. This collection makes a unique contribution to this body of work. The international contributors demonstrate the significance of care ethics as a transformative way of thinking across diverse geographical, policy...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
Elder abuse has been increasingly recognised over the past ten years in many countries and progress has been made in both understanding and addressing the issue. This volume provides a much-needed international overview of the topic.
Opening with an examination of what elder abuse is, Amanda...
The Dutch Response To HIV
Pragmatism and Consensus
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
The Netherlands' response to AIDS is widely regarded as well organized and effective. This is largely due to the timely response to the threat of the disease, with a prevention programme starting in 1982. This Dutch example provides an instructive case study for other countries with relevance for...
A Spirit of Charity
Restoring the Bond Between America and Its Public Hospitals
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Most Americans view the nation's great public hospitals as refuges of last resort for poor and uninsured people. But these iconic institutions -- some recently closed, some renamed, others rebuilt -- have also served as a safety valve for the nation's highly profitable medical industrial complex....
Surgeon General's Warning
How Politics Crippled the Nation's Doctor
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2014
What does it mean to be the nation's doctor? In this engaging narrative, journalist Mike Stobbe examines the Office of the U.S. Surgeon General, emphasizing that it has always been unique within the federal government in its ability to influence public health. But now, in their efforts to provide...
Overdosed America
The Broken Promise of American Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Using the examples of Vioxx, Celebrex, cholesterol-lowering statin drugs, and anti-depressants, Overdosed America shows that at the heart of the current crisis in American medicine lies the commercialization of medical knowledge itself.
Drawing on his background in statistics, epidemiology,...
Bioscience - Lost in Translation?
How precision medicine closes the innovation gap
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
Medical innovation as it stands today is fundamentally unsustainable. There is a widening gap between what biomedical research promises and the impact that it is currently achieving, in terms of patient benefit and health system improvement. This book highlights the global problem of the ineffective...
Governing the New NHS
Issues and Tensions in Health Service Management
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
The new NHS is a very different organisation to the one set up 60 years ago. Two decades of reforms have introduced a market element, unprecedented transparency, patient choice, new incentives, devolved accountabilities and a host of new regulatory bodies. All these changes have made governance a...
by Justin Waring
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
This edited volume of original chapters brings together researchers from around the world who are exploring the facets of health care organization and delivery that are sometimes marginal to mainstream patient safety theories and methodologies but offer important insights into the socio-cultural and...
A Healthy Society
How a Focus on Health can Revive Canadian Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
Income, education, employment, housing, the wider environment, and social supports; far more than the actions of physicians, nurses, and other health care providers, it is these conditions that make the greatest difference in our health. Drawing on his experiences as a family physician in the inner...
Politics in the Corridor of Dying
AIDS Activism and Global Health Governance
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Few diseases have provoked as many wild moralistic leaps or stringent attempts to measure, classify, and define risk and treatment standards as AIDS. In Politics in the Corridor of Dying, Jennifer Chan documents the emergence of a diverse range of community-based, nongovernmental, and civil society...
Tracking Medicine
A Researcher's Quest to Understand Health Care
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2010
Written by a groundbreaking figure of modern medical study, Tracking Medicine is an eye-opening introduction to the science of health care delivery, as well as a powerful argument for its relevance in shaping the future of our country. An indispensable resource for those involved in public health...
The Challenge to Change
Reforming Health Care on the Front Line in the United States and the United Kingdom
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
There is constant pressure on hospitals to improve health care delivery and increase cost effectiveness. New initiatives are the order of the day in the dramatically different health care systems of the United States and Great Britain. Often, as we know all too well, these efforts are not successful....
Dying and Living in the Neighborhood
A Street-Level View of America’s Healthcare Promise
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Even as US spending on healthcare skyrockets, impoverished Americans continue to fall ill and die of preventable conditions. Although the majority of health outcomes are shaped by non-medical factors, public and private healthcare reform efforts have largely ignored the complex local circumstances...