Health Policy category: 748 books
Globalisation, Migration and Health
Challenges and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2016
As globalisation gains momentum, international migration continues to divide opinion and polarise policy makers, politicians, and advocates. This polarisation has been reflected in research and publications, with pro-globalisation being pitched against
by George Alleyne and Rose-Marie Antoine
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
This diverse text looks at the troubling, topical issue of HIV from several angles and provides a significant contribution to the literature on the subject.
Identified versus Statistical Lives
An Interdisciplinary Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2015
The identified lives effect describes the fact that people demonstrate a stronger inclination to assist persons and groups identified as at high risk of great harm than those who will or already suffer similar harm, but endure unidentified. As a result of this effect, we allocate resources reactively...
Debating Human Genetics
Contemporary Issues in Public Policy and Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2010
Debating Human Genetics is based on ethnographic research focusing primarily on the UK publics who are debating and engaging with human genetics, and related bio and techno-science. Drawing on recent interviews and data, collated in a range of public settings, it provides a unique overview of multiple...
An American Sickness
How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
**A New York Times bestseller/Washington Post Notable Book of 2017/NPR Best Books of 2017/Wall Street Journal Best Books of 2017
"This book will serve as the definitive guide to the past and future of health care in America.”—Siddhartha Mukherjee, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The...
by Ellen Rand
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
Too often, end-of-life care in the U.S. is fragmented, uncoordinated, costly, and unsustainable. But it doesn't have to be that way.*Last Comforts: Notes from the Forefront of Late-Life Care *spotlights many innovations that can make a significant difference as we approach the last chapters of our...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
In recent years everyone from politicians to celebrity chefs has been proselytizing about how we should grow, buy, prepare, present, cook, taste, eat and dispose of food. In light of this, contributors to this book argue that food has become the target of intensified pedagogical activity across a...
The Second Amendment
An Excerpt from Reducing Gun Violence in America: Informing Policy with Evidence and Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
For many years, some groups have claimed that the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution stands as an obstacle to most gun control laws. Lawrence E. Rosenthal and Adam Winkler debunk this myth with careful legal analysis of recent court decisions, including District of Columbia v. Heller. This...
Obamacare Wars
Federalism, State Politics, and the Affordable Care Act
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2016
Not five minutes after the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was signed into law, in March 2010, Virginia’s attorney general was suing to stop it. And yet, the ACA rolled out, in infamously bumpy fashion, and rolled on, fought and defended at every turn—despite President Obama’s claim, in 2014, that...
The Power to Heal
Civil Rights, Medicare, and the Struggle to Transform America's Health Care System
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
In less than four months, beginning with a staff of five, an obscure office buried deep within the federal bureaucracy transformed the nation's hospitals from our most racially and economically segregated institutions into our most integrated. These powerful private institutions, which had for a half...
Financing Medicaid
Federalism and the Growth of America's Health Care Safety Net
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
Conventional wisdom holds that programs for the poor are vulnerable to instability and retrenchment. Medicaid, however, has grown into the nation’s largest intergovernmental grant program, accounting for nearly half of all federal funding to state and local governments. Medicaid’s generous open-ended...
by Miriam J. Laugesen
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
Miriam Laugesen goes to the heart of U.S. medical pricing: to a largely unknown committee of organizations affiliated with the American Medical Association. Medicare’s ready acceptance of this committee’s advisory recommendations sets off a chain reaction across the American health care system, leading to high—and disproportionate—rate setting.
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Representatives of industry, government, caregivers, and consumers join scholars and policy analysts in comparing market forces to regulation as potential means for righting what is wrong with managed care. The contributors that John E. Billi and Gail B. Agrawal have gathered here quickly move the...
by Jeremy Lim
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
This book provides a comprehensive look at the political philosophy that has shaped Singapore's healthcare system over the last five decades, and the financing and delivery of healthcare in Singapore. It delves into different aspects of the Singapore healthcare landscape, including pharmaceutical...