Health Policy category: 748 books
Global Health Programs and Partnerships
Evidence of Mutual Benefit and Equity
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Academic global health programs are proliferating, and global health partnerships between North American academic institutions and institutions in low- and middle-income countries are steadily increasing. This study employs surveys and key informant interviews to examine global health partnerships,...
by Alastair M. Gray, Philip M. Clarke, Jane L. Wolstenholme
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2010
The third volume in the Handbooks in Health Economic Evaluation series, this book provides the reader with a comprehensive set of instructions and examples of how to perform an economic evaluation of a health intervention. It focuses solely on cost-effectiveness analysis in health care. The book is...
by Robert M. Hardaway
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
What is the big deal about cannabis? This modern book covers everything from botany to the historical uses of marijuana to common misconceptions about the use of cannabis, with a primary focus on the political process of prohibition and legalization of cannabis in the United States.
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Place, Health, and Diversity
Learning from the Canadian Experience
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
Although health equity and diversity-focussed research has begun to gain momentum, there is still a paucity of research from health geographers that explicitly explores how geographic factors, such as place, space, scale, community, and location, inform multiple axes of difference. Such axes can include...
The Measurement of Health and Health Status
Concepts, Methods and Applications from a Multidisciplinary Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
The Measurement of Health and Health Status: Concepts, Methods and Applications from a Multidisciplinary Perspective presents a unifying perspective on how to select the best measurement framework for any situation. Serving as a one-stop shop that unifies material currently available in various locations,...
Experiments in Democracy
Human Embryo Research and the Politics of Bioethics
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Human embryo research touches upon strongly felt moral convictions, and it raises such deep questions about the promise and perils of scientific progress that debate over its development has become a moral and political imperative. From in vitro fertilization to embryonic stem cell research, cloning,...
Collaboration in Private Practice
Psychotherapy in the Midst of Health Care Reform
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2014
The practice of psychology, psychiatry, social work, counseling, and psychotherapy is changing under the increasing impact of market forces, corporate insurance companies, and government reforms. Collaboration in Private Practice: Psychotherapy in the Midst of Health Care Reform is a guide to establishing...
Recovery's Edge
An Ethnography of Mental Health Care and Moral Agency
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
In 2003 the Bush Administration's New Freedom Commission asked mental health service providers to begin promoting "recovery" rather than churning out long-term, "chronic" mental health service users. Recovery's Edge sends us to urban America to view the inner workings of a mental...
Next Medicine
The Science and Civics of Health
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2011
Every year, the average American spends about $7,300 on medical expenses. The typical Canadian pays $2,700, the Briton only $2,000. And yet, according to the World Health Organization, our healthcare system, in terms of total quality, ranks thirty-eighth in the world, right between Costa Rica and...
by Laura Cushing-Kidney, Thomas H. Lee, MD
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
Two leading physicians' prescription for solving our health care problems: organizing the fragmented system that delivers care.
One of the most daunting challenges facing the new U.S. administration is health care reform. The size of the system, the number of stakeholders, and ever-rising costs...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
Medical and health activities can greatly benefit from the effective use of health informatics. By capturing, processing, and disseminating information to the correct systems and processes, decision-making can be more successful and quality care and patient safety would see significant improvements....
Litigating Health Rights
Can Courts Bring More Justice to Health?
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2011
This book examines the potential of litigation as a strategy to advance the right to health by holding governments accountable for these obligations. It asks who benefits both directly and indirectly—and what the overall impacts on health equity are. Included are case studies from Costa Rica, South Africa, India, Brazil, Argentina and Colombia.
by John Appleby, Nancy Devlin, David Parkin
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
A practical, introductory guide to the best use of Patient Reported Outcomes (PROs) to improve the quality of health care and patient health.
Only title to exclusively introduce, explain and show how PROs can be best used to improve healthcare and patient outcomes
Includes real life examples...
Phantom Billing, Fake Prescriptions, and the High Cost of Medicine
Health Care Fraud and What to Do about It
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
U.S. health care is a $2.5 trillion system that accounts for more than 17 percent of the nation’s GDP. It is also highly susceptible to fraud. Estimates vary, but some observers believe that as much as 10 percent of all medical billing involves some type of fraud. In 2009, New York’s Medicaid...