Health Policy category: 748 books
50 Vetoes
How States Can Stop the Obama Health Care Law
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2013
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) remains vulnerable to repeal, largely because Congress and the Supreme Court have granted each state the power to veto major provisions of the law before they take effect in 2014. The PPACA itself empowers states to block the employer mandate, to...
In Their Own Words
12,000 Physicians Reveal Their Thoughts On Medical Practice in America
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
In Their Own Words invites you to become “doctor for a day” and see medical practice from the physicians’ perspective. Drawing on one of the largest physician surveys ever undertaken, “In Their Own Words” offers insights from hundreds of doctors, who reveal in candid comments exactly how...
The Ethics of Personalised Medicine
Critical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
In recent times, the phrase ’personalised medicine’ has become the symbol of medical progress and a label for better health care in the future. However, a controversial debate has developed around whether these promises of better, more personal and more cost-efficient medicine are realistic. This...
by Chinyere Ogbonna
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
A Different Perspective on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act provides a brief history of health insurance within the United States, offering an accessible perspective on the highly contentious Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). This book traces the political and financial...
Skills Are Transferable from One Industry to Another
SHORT STORY # 41. Nonfiction series #1 - # 60.
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
One Friday was my graduation day, I received my doctoral degree, or PhD. The next day, on Saturday, my then husband, Chrys, a physician, asked me to come to his office and see that is going on there. I was surprise, but went.
He confessed that he is running out of business. All his physicians...
by Alan Cribb, Sharon Gewirtz
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
Professionalism is a complex and highly disputed idea of crucial importance in a range of fields, not least health and social care. It can inspire people by reminding them of workplace ideals and the value of occupational expertise. But it can also feel threatening and de-motivating; for example,...
Governance of Teaching Hospitals
Turmoil at Penn and Hopkins
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
What forces lead to changes in governance among medical schools and their associated teaching hospitals? To what extent do such changes affect how well those schools and hospitals do their work? In this book, John A. Kastor, M.D., focuses on the academic medical centers of the University of Pennsylvania...
by Eileen Milner
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
For the public sector, which is globally the largest employer of people and repository of information, managing information and knowledge is an extremely problematic area to address. The essence of both resources is that they are intangible, their impact and value cannot be measured through traditional...
In Food We Trust
The Politics of Purity in American Food Regulation
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
One of the great myths of contemporary American culture is that the United States’ food supply is the safest in the world because the government works to guarantee food safety and enforce certain standards on food producers, processors, and distributors. In reality U.S. food safety administration...
The Medical Marijuana Mess
A Prescription for Fixing a Broken Policy
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
The uncertainty and inconsistency surrounding federal and state laws for medical marijuana use, distribution, and research is placing unnecessary obstacles in the way of suffering patients, their families, and the people trying to help them.
In The Medical Marijuana Mess, senior fellow John...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Canada’s fragmented healthcare system is one of the most expensive among the OECD countries, yet the quality of its performance is mediocre at best. Canada lacks a system-wide healthcare strategy that brings together many individual federal, provincial, and territorial strategies into a comprehensive...
Contesting Illness
Process and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2008
The relationship between power and illness is the subject of limited discussion despite it being one of the most important issues in health-related policies and services. In an effort to correct this, Contesting Illness engages critically with processes through which the meanings and effects of illness...
Economics of Tobacco Control in China
From Policy Research to Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Nearly 370 million people in China smoke; about one-third of all smokers in the world are in China; and about 1.2 million deaths in China are attributable to smoking. The death toll is expected to reach 2.2 million in 2030 if no smoking intervention pr
Achieving an AIDS Transition
Preventing Infections to Sustain Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Five million people in poor countries are receiving AIDS treatment, but international AIDS policy is still in crisis. Donors are giving less than they had been, even though infections continue unabated, and the number of people dependent on treatment rises each year.
This book proposes a feasible...