Health Policy category: 748 books
Healthcare in transition
Understanding key ideas and tensions in contemporary health policy
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2017
Health policy thinking must change. This book explores the fundamental currents and tensions that lie behind recent trends such as shared decision-making, co-production, and personalisation. These are often discussed in relation to an epidemiological transition but this text argues that they embody...
Health Action Zones
Partnerships for Health Equity
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Health Action Zones (HAZ) were one of the earliest and most prominent area-based initiatives launched by the New Labour government in England soon after it came to power in 1997. Written by members of the team undertaking the national evaluation of HAZ, this book examines the initiative’s development...
by Daniel W. Webster, Jon S. Vernick
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
In 2013—in the wake of the tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School—Johns Hopkins University Press published Reducing Gun Violence in America, a collection of essays written by the world’s leading experts on gun violence. Updated Evidence and Policy Developments on Reducing Gun Violence...
Vital Directions for Health & Health Care
An Initiative of the National Academy of Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
What can be more vital to each of us than our health? Yet, despite unprecedented health care spending, the U.S. health system is substantially underperforming, especially with respect to what should be possible, given current knowledge. Although the United States is currently devoting 18% of its Gross...
by Victoria D. Weisfeld, MPH
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2011
This tenth edition of a classic textbook, updated in November 2013 with a free, downloadable chapter on the Affordable Care Act (ACA), presents the critical issues and core challenges surrounding our health care system. Designed for graduate and advanced undergraduate students, it includes the contributions...
Dismantling the NHS?
Evaluating the impact of health reforms
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
This book provides an in-depth analysis of the NHS reforms ushered in by UK Coalition Government under the 2012 Health and Social Care Act, arguably the most extensive reforms ever introduced in the NHS. Contributions from leading researchers from the UK, the US and New Zealand examine the reforms...
Rationing in health care
The theory and practice of priority setting
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2011
The challenges faced by those rationing scarce health care resources have intensified following the economic downturn. This book tackles this challenge by exploring the latest thinking and practice on priority setting methods. In an accessible style the book brings together theories, practice and...
Contested Illnesses
Citizens, Science, and Health Social Movements
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2011
The politics and science of health and disease remain contested terrain among scientists, health practitioners, policy makers, industry, communities, and the public. Stakeholders in disputes about illnesses or conditions disagree over their fundamental causes as well as how they should be treated...
Regulating Alcohol around the World
Policy Cocktails
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
With the World Health Organization estimating that nearly four percent of global deaths are due to alcohol, alcohol misuse can be an extremely damaging social problem, and one that governments around the world have endeavored to address through a range of policy strategies. Regulating Alcohol around...
From Calcedonies to Orchids
Plays Promoting Humanity in Health Policy
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013
Jeff Nisker has been writing plays since the early 1990s. He did this in order to bring audiences to the position of persons immersed in the vortex of new scientific capacity and its social implications. Jeff ultimately aims to promote humanity in health policy development. From Calcedonies to Orchids:...
The Economics of Social Capital and Health
A Conceptual and Empirical Roadmap
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
This book defines the field of social capital and health. Over the last two decades, there has been a recognition of the importance of social capital (usually defined as ties in the community, attachment to the community, and participation in community activities) and its impact on the health of those...
Treating Health Care
How the Canadian System Works and How It Could Work Better
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Canada has been among the world leaders in recognizing the multiple factors that impact health. Focusing on Canada’s health care system, Raisa B. Deber provides brief descriptions of some key facts and concepts necessary to understand health care policy in Canada and place it in an international...
Nudging Health
Health Law and Behavioral Economics
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Behavioral nudges are everywhere: calorie counts on menus, automated text reminders to encourage medication adherence, a reminder bell when a driver’s seatbelt isn’t fastened. Designed to help people make better health choices, these reminders have become so commonplace that they often go unnoticed....
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Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
To what extent can we have truly universal, comprehensive and timely health services, equally available to all? Access to Health Care considers the meaning of 'access' in health care and examines the theoretical issues that underpin these questions.
Contributors draw on a range of disciplinary...