Health Policy category: 748 books
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Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2000
The Handbook of Health Economics provide an up-to-date survey of the burgeoning literature in health economics. As a relatively recent subdiscipline of economics, health economics has been remarkably successful. It has made or stimulated numerous contributions to various areas of the main discipline:...
Bending the Cost Curve in Health Care
Canada's Provinces in International Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2014
Through Canadian and international perspectives, Bending the Cost Curve in Health Care explores the management of growing health costs in an extraordinarily complex arena. The book moves beyond previous debates, agreeing that while efficiencies and better value for money may yet be found, more fundamental...
Nova Scotia
A Health System Profile
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Despite notable variation in health care policy from province to province, most scholarship published on the health care system in Canada uses a broad national perspective. Focusing on the health care systems of individual Canadian provinces and territories, our new series, Health System Profiles,examines...
Transforming Health Markets in Asia and Africa
Improving Quality and Access for the Poor
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
There has been a dramatic spread of health markets in much of Asia and Africa over the past couple of decades. This has substantially increased the availability of health-related goods and services in all but the most remote localities, but it has created problems with safety, efficiency and cost....
Partnership working 2e
What is integrated care and how can we deliver it?
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
UK health and social care are increasingly being asked to work together across traditional agency boundaries. Although this sounds easy in theory, doing it in practice is complicated and difficult. In many cases, moreover, current training programmes, research and textbooks are even more divided than...
Health Reform Policy to Practice
Oregon’s Path to a Sustainable Health System: A Study in Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
Health Reform Policy to Practice: Oregon as a Case Study for a Path to a Comprehensive and Sustainable Health Delivery Model offers a real world example of an innovative, successful and comprehensive program conducted by the U.S. State of Oregon.
In 1991, Oregon embarked on a journey to improve...
Introduction to U.S. Health Policy
The Organization, Financing, and Delivery of Health Care in America
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Home to the world's most advanced medical practices, the United States spends more on health care than any other country. At the same time, treatment is harder to get in the United States than in most other industrialized nations. Benchmark statistics such as infant mortality and life expectancy reveal...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2018
Policy-makers are increasingly concerned about the impact of climate variability and change on the health of vulnerable populations. Variations and trends in climatic factors and extreme weather events impact many health outcomes, including malaria, heat stress and undernutrition.
Climate...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
Healthcare providers require timely and accurate information about their patients. As such, a great amount of effort and resources are spent to ensure that the right information is presented to the right people at the right time. Research Perspectives on the Role of Informatics in Health Policy and...
Credit crunch health care
How economics can save our publicly funded health services
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
The credit crunch is a threat to publicly funded health care. World-leading health economist Cam Donaldson defends our systems on the same basis as those who seek to erode public services, namely, that of economic efficiency. However, protecting government funding of health care is not enough. Donaldson...
Healthcare Policy and Reform
Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2018
Industry professionals, government officials, and the general public often agree that the modern healthcare system is in need of an overhaul. With many organizations concerned with the long-term care of patients, new strategies, practices, and organizational tools must be developed to optimize the...
Reducing Gun Violence in America
Informing Policy with Evidence and Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
The staggering toll of gun violence—which claims 31,000 U.S. lives each year—is an urgent public health issue that demands an effective evidence-based policy response.
The Johns Hopkins University convened more than 20 of the world's leading experts on gun violence and policy to summarize...
Using Knowledge and Evidence in Health Care
Multidisciplinary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2008
At the clinical, management, and policy levels, the use of knowledge and evidence in health care has become a worldwide priority. The contributors to Using Knowledge and Evidence in Health Care seek to broaden our understanding of the complexity involved in health care decision-making by integrating...
Paradigm Freeze
Why It Is So Hard to Reform Health Care in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
Why has health care reform proved a stumbling block for provincial governments across Canada? What efforts have been made to improve a struggling system, and how have they succeeded or failed? In Paradigm Freeze, experts in the field answer these fundamental questions by examining and comparing six essential...