Health Policy category: 748 books
Health Care Politics, Policy, and Services, Third Edition
A Social Justice Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
This AJN award-winning textbook helps readers understand and critically assess the US health care system and policies.
This AJN award-winning textbook helps readers understand and critically assess the US health care system and policies. With a focus on the prevalence of disparities in health...
Introduction to US Health Policy
The Organization, Financing, and Delivery of Health Care in America
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Health care reform has been a dominant theme in public discourse for decades now. The passage of the Affordable Care Act was a major milestone, but rather than quell the rhetoric, it has sparked even more heated debate. In the latest edition of Introduction to US Health Policy, Donald A. Barr reviews...
Health Policy
A Critical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2008
This textbook provides a critical assessment of developments in health and healthcare policy within the UK and Europe. Each chapter integrates conceptual themes drawn from the fields of sociology and political science to offer a unique combination of theory, historical detail and wider social commentary.
The...
by Thomas E Novotny, Ilona Kickbusch, Michaela Told
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
Global health diplomacy begins with a recognition that the most effective international health interventions are carried out with sensitivity to historical, political, social, economic, and cultural differences. It focuses on the interplay of globalization, economic interdependence, social justice,...
by Jiwei Qian
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
By reviewing regulatory initiatives in health financing, service provision, pharmaceutical sector and public health, this book attempts to connect recent research with policy developments in the Chinese health-care system. While there are a small number of studies on the regulations in the Chinese...
by Thea Emmerling, Ilona Kickbusch, Michaela Told
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2016
This book provides a systematic collection of EU actors, EU policy and EU actions in global health. It answers key questions on governance of the EU and its policy processes. The book starts with an introduction to the EU as a global actor and continues to outline the historical development and the...
An Undisciplined Economist
Robert G. Evans on Health Economics, Health Care Policy, and Population Health
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
For four decades Robert Evans has been Canada’s foremost health policy analyst and commentator, playing a leadership role in the development of both health economics and population health at home and internationally. An Undisciplined Economist collects sixteen of Evans’s most important contributions,...
by Hunter, David J.
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
Health care systems everywhere face multiple pressures from changing demography, the rise of non-communicable disease, the growing demand on health services, and limited resources at a time of austerity. Focusing on the British NHS from a political science perspective, this second edition of this...
Intelligent Health Policy
Theory, Concept and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
This book provides a general overview of intelligence in health policy, health-care organizations and health services in the light of the current EU digital agenda, which aims to make health data and e-health tools publicly available. The first part analyses the implications of knowledge management...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2018
This first-of-its-kind volume traces rarely explored links between public policy, the state of the environment, and key issues in public health, with recommendations for addressing longstanding intractable problems. Experts across diverse professions use their wide knowledge and experience to discuss...
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...
Unhealthy Health Policy
A Critical Anthropological Examination
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2004
This new collection turns a critical anthropological eye on the nature of health policy internationally. The authors reveal that in light of prevailing social inequalities, health policies may intend to protect public health, but in fact they often represent significant structural threats to the health...
by James Barlow
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Across the world, the demands placed on health systems are growing rapidly. Developed countries face the challenge of providing services to an ageing population with changing health needs, while countries with developing health systems must find ways of ensuring their populations are provided with...
Digital Storytelling in Health and Social Policy
Listening to Marginalised Voices
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
As digital life stories continue to assume more and more significance across a range of institutions, so too does their potential to bring into focus once marginalised and neglected voices. Breaking new ground by reframing multimedia life stories as a resource for education, public health, and policy,...