Health Policy category: 748 books
Nunavut
A Health System Profile
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Based on extensive research including visits to most health centres and facilities in Nunavut, Gregory Marchildon and Renée Torgerson have produced a comprehensive review of healthcare in Canada's newest territory. Nunavut: A Health System Profile provides an in-depth examination of population health...
Entitlement Spending
Our Coming Fiscal Tsunami
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
David Koitz clarifies misconceptions and presents the facts on the impending fiscal crisis driven by spending on Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. Although these programs are idolized as pillars of the nation's safety net, he shows how they are in fact the largest drivers of our looming fiscal...
Free To Choose Medicine
Better Drugs Sooner at Lower Cost
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Free To Choose Medicine offers a compelling argument for the freedom of every patient, guided by the advice of his or her doctor, to make informed decisions about the use of not-yet-FDA-approved therapeutic drugs that are in late stages of clinical testing. After discussing the FDA’s current drug approval...
Public Health in India
Technology, governance and service delivery
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
Despite rapid advances in modern medicine and state-of-the-art health care services in the private sector, primary health care in India remains inaccessible to a majority of the population. Besides, even policymakers often do not have access to real-time data to fine-tune their policies or design...
by Gerald Arbuckle
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Looking at the current turmoil facing contemporary healthcare systems worldwide, resulting from relentless imposition of financially-based performance indicators, the author argues that a return to a values-based approach to healthcare will create positive transformation. Writing from the fresh perspective...
Future Medicine
Ethical Dilemmas, Regulatory Challenges, and Therapeutic Pathways to Health Care and Healing in Human Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2009
Future Medicine is an investigation into the clinical, legal, ethical, and regulatory changes occurring in our health care system as a result of the developing field of Complimentary and Alternative Medicine (CAM). Here Michael H. Cohen describes the likely evolution of the legal system and the health...
by Capobianco,Emanuele; Naidu,Veni
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
This study reviews trends in aid provided to the health sector in Somalia over 2000?2009. It is a testimony to the commitment of donors and implementers who have relentlessly tried to improve the dire health situation of millions of Somalis. At the same time this study is a wake-up call for all donors...
In Excellent Health
Setting the Record Straight on America's Health Care
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
In Excellent Health offers an alternative view of the much maligned state of health care in America, using facts and peer-reviewed data to challenge the statistics often cited as evidence that medical care in the United States is substandard and poor in value relative to that of other countries. The...
by Daniel Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2017
Highly Commended in the BMA Medical Book Awards 2018!
Here’s what the judges said: "This is one of the few textbooks I would suggest every clinician reads.”
From reviews of the first edition:
“This is a clearly written and accessible introduction to health economics… This...
The Organ Shortage Crisis in America
Incentives, Civic Duty, and Closing the Gap
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Nearly 120,000 people are in need of healthy organs in the United States. Every ten minutes a new name is added to the list, while on average twenty people die each day waiting for an organ to become available. Worse, our traditional reliance on cadaveric organ donation is becoming increasingly insufficient,...
Old and Sick in America
The Journey through the Health Care System
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
Since the introduction of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965, the American health care system has steadily grown in size and complexity. Muriel R. Gillick takes readers on a narrative tour of American health care, incorporating the stories of older patients as they travel from the doctor's office to the...
Innovative Health Partnerships
The Diplomacy of Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
Over the last ten years, the financing and diversity of new players in global health have increased significantly. Ten years ago it would have been difficult to predict some of these changes — Bill Gates programming global health rather than software; NGOs formally governing a US20 billion health...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 1996
A unique, in-depth discussion of the uses and conduct of cost-effectiveness analyses (CEAs) as decision-making aids in the health and medical fields, this volume is the product of over two years of comprehensive research and deliberation by a multi-disciplinary panel of economists, ethicists, psychometricians,...
The Health of Populations
Beyond Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
The Health of Populations: Beyond Medicine uses current research and in-depth analysis to provide insights into the issues and challenges of population health; a subject of increasing concern, due largely to rapid population growth, population aging, rising costs and diminishing resources, health...