Health Policy category: 748 books
by Gottret Pablo; Schieber George; Waters Hugh R.
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
For humanitarian reasons and the concern for households' economic and health security, the health sector is at the center of global development policy. Developing countries and the international community are scaling up health systems to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and are improving...
Getting Better
Improving Health System Outcomes in Europe and Central Asia
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
Fifty years ago, health outcomes in the countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia were not far behind those in Western Europe and well ahead of most other regions of the world. But progress since then has been slow. While life expectancy in the ECA region today is close to the global average, the...
Towards the emancipation of patients
Patients' experiences and the patient movement
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2010
Despite a policy focus on involving patients in health care and increasing patient autonomy, much covert coercion of patients takes place in everyday healthcare. This book, by a leading patient activist, examines for the first time how the patient movement, which works to improve the quality of healthcare,...
Understanding Health Inequalities and Justice
New Conversations across the Disciplines
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
The need for informed analyses of health policy is now greater than ever. The twelve essays in this volume show that public debates routinely bypass complex ethical, sociocultural, historical, and political questions about how we should address ideals of justice and equality in health care. Integrating...
Health Disparities in the United States
Social Class, Race, Ethnicity, and Health
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Outstanding Academic Title, Choice magazine
The health care system in the United States has been called the best in the world. Yet wide health disparities persist between different social groups, and many Americans suffer from poorer health than people in other developed countries. Donald A....
by Eleanor DeArman Kinney
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2002
Despite the attention to the problem of protecting the health care interests of Americans, there is little consensus on what should be done politically or otherwise to address this problem. In Protecting American Health Care Consumers Eleanor DeArman Kinney, a nationally regarded expert on health...
Globalization and Health
Pathways, Evidence and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2009
Contemporary globalization has had tremendous impact on health equity across the globe. However, no volume has systematically analyzed the relationship between globalization and global trends in health outcomes. This book consolidates and updates the findings of a global research project undertaken...
Dead on Arrival
The Politics of Health Care in Twentieth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Why, alone among industrial democracies, does the United States not have national health insurance? While many books have addressed this question, Dead on Arrival is the first to do so based on original archival research for the full sweep of the twentieth century. Drawing on a wide range of political,...
Unequal health
The scandal of our times
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Health inequalities are the most important inequalities of all. In the US and the UK these inequalities have now reached an extent not seen for over a century. Most people's health is much better now than then, but the gaps in life expectancy between regions, between cities, and between neighbourhoods...
Harm Reduction
A New Direction for Drug Policies and Programs
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1997
Since the First International Conference on the Reduction of Drug-Related Harm, held in 1990, the term 'harm reduction' has gained wide currency in the areas of public health and drug policy. Previously the field was characterized by heated struggle between prohibition and legalization of addictive...
Ideas and the Pace of Change
National Pharmaceutical Insurance in Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
Canada is the only OECD country that has universal, comprehensive public hospital and medical insurance but lacks equivalent pharmaceutical coverage. In Ideas and the Pace of Change, Katherine Boothe explains the reasons for this unique situation. Using archival, interview, and polling data, Boothe...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
This volume initiates a much-needed conversation about the ethical and policy concerns facing health care providers in the rural United States. Although 21 percent of the population lives in rural areas, only 11 percent of physicians practice there. What challenges do health care workers face in remote...
by Shenglan Tang
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
The on-going transition to a market economy in China is having a profound effect on health services. As a result, the government has made health one of the key policy areas, and there is now a general recognition of the need to reform urban health services. Multidisciplinary in scope, this exceptional...
Exposed Science
Genes, the Environment, and the Politics of Population Health
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
We rely on environmental health scientists to document the presence of chemicals where we live, work, and play and to provide an empirical basis for public policy. In the last decades of the 20th century, environmental health scientists began to shift their focus deep within the human body, and to...