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Accounting for Health and Health Care: Approaches to Measuring the Sources and Costs of Their Improvement by Panel to Advance a Research Program on the Design of National Health Accounts 9780309156790
RRP: $107.25$93.66It has become trite to observe that increases in health care costs have become unsustainable. How best for policy to address these increases, however, depends in part on the degree to which they represent increases in the real quantity of medical... -
Patients Charting the Course: Citizen Engagement and the Learning Health System: Workshop Summary by Institute of Medicine 9780309149938
RRP: $109.20$95.34As past, current, or future patients, the public should be the health care system's unwavering focus and serve as change agents in its care. Taking this into account, the quality of health care should be judged not only by whether clinical decisions are... -
Healers Abroad: Americans Responding to the Human Resource Crisis in HIV/AIDS by Committee on the Options for Overseas Placement of U.S Health Professionals 9780309096164
RRP: $78.00$68.68Healers Abroad:Americans Responding to the Human Resource Crisis in HIV/AIDS calls for the federal government to create and fund the United States Global Health Service (GHS) to mobilize the nationA-A'A1/2s best health care professionals and other highly... -
Best Care at Lower Cost: The Path to Continuously Learning Health Care in America by Committee on the Learning Health Care System in America 9780309260732
RRP: $142.35$125.93America's health care system has become too complex and costly to continue business as usual. Best Care at Lower Cost explains that inefficiencies, an overwhelming amount of data, and other economic and quality barriers hinder progress in improving... -
Academic Health Centers: Leading Change in the 21st Century by Institute of Medicine 9780309088930
RRP: $85.80$75.35Academic health centers are currently facing enormous changes that will impact their roles in education, research, and patient care. The aging and diversity of the population will create new health care needs and demands, while rapid advances in... -
Digital Data Improvement Priorities for Continuous Learning in Health and Health Care: Workshop Summary by Roundtable on Value & Science-Driven Health Care 9780309259415
RRP: $56.55$50.37Digital health data are the lifeblood of a continuous learning health system. A steady flow of reliable data is necessary to coordinate and monitor patient care, analyze and improve systems of care, conduct research to develop new products and... -
Geographic Adjustment in Medicare Payment: Phase II: Implications for Access, Quality, and Efficiency by Committee on Geographic Adjustment Factors in Medicare Payment 9780309257985
RRP: $93.60$82.78Medicare, the world's single largest health insurance program, covers more than 47 million Americans. Although it is a national program, it adjusts payments to hospitals and health care practitioners according to the geographic location in which they... -
Relieving Pain in America: A Blueprint for Transforming Prevention, Care, Education, and Research by Board on Health Sciences Policy 9780309256278
RRP: $103.35$91.10Chronic pain costs the nation up to $635 billion each year in medical treatment and lost productivity. The 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act required the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to enlist the Institute of Medicine... -
Allied Health Services: Avoiding Crises by Committee to Study the Role of Allied Health Personnel 9780309038966
RRP: $157.95$138.57With estimates of their numbers ranging from one million to almost four million people, allied health care personnel make up a large part of the health care work force. Yet, they are among the least studied elements of our health care system. This book... -
Homelessness, Health, and Human Needs by Institute of Medicine 9780309038324
RRP: $72.15$63.69There have always been homeless people in the United States, but their plight has only recently stirred widespread public reaction and concern. Part of this new recognition stems from the problem's prevalence: the number of homeless individuals, while... -
Primary Care and Public Health: Exploring Integration to Improve Population Health by Institute of Medicine 9780309255202
RRP: $72.15$63.69Ensuring that members of society are healthy and reaching their full potential requires the prevention of disease and injury; the promotion of health and well-being; the assurance of conditions in which people can be healthy; and the provision of timely,... -
Employment and Health Benefits: A Connection at Risk by Institute of Medicine 9780309048279
RRP: $111.15$97.77The United States is unique among economically advanced nations in its reliance on employers to provide health benefits voluntarily for workers and their families. Although it is well known that this system fails to reach millions of these individuals as... -
Improving the Quality of Care in Nursing Homes by Committee on Nursing Home Regulation 9780309036467
RRP: $171.60$150.33As more people live longer, the need for quality long-term care for the elderly will increase dramatically. This volume examines the current system of nursing home regulations, and proposes an overhaul to better provide for those confined to such... -
Integrating the Patient and Caregiver Voice into Serious Illness Care: Proceedings of a Workshop by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine 9780309460286
RRP: $79.95$70.36Millions of peopleaEURO"infants, children, adults, and their familiesaEURO"are currently coping with serious illness in the United States. Efforts are intensifying to improve overall care quality through the delivery of person-centered and... -
Emerging Issues in Hispanic Health: Summary of a Workshop by Joah G. Iannotta 9780309085243
RRP: $76.05$67.02Hispanics are defined as people of Spanish-speaking origin from Latin America, the Caribbean, or Europe. Hispanics vary in terms of socioeconomic status, race, religion and/or more. A common occurrence among the Hispanics, however, are the emerging... -
Perspectives on Essential Health Benefits: Workshop Report by Committee on Defining and Revising an Essential Health Benefits Package for Qualified Health Plans 9780309215435
RRP: $72.15$63.69The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (herein known as the Affordable Care Act [ACA]) was signed into law on March 23, 2010. Several provisions of the law went into effect in 2010 (including requirements to cover children up to age 26 and to... -
Improving Diagnosis in Health Care by The National Academies of Sciences Engineering, and Medicine 9780309377690
RRP: $111.15$97.77Getting the right diagnosis is a key aspect of health care - it provides an explanation of a patient's health problem and informs subsequent health care decisions. The diagnostic process is a complex, collaborative activity that involves clinical... -
Keeping Patients Safe: Transforming the Work Environment of Nurses by Committee on the Work Environment for Nurses and Patient Safety 9780309187367
RRP: $87.75$77.79Building on the revolutionary Institute of Medicine reports To Err is Human and Crossing the Quality Chasm, Keeping Patients Safe lays out guidelines for improving patient safety by changing nursesaEURO (TM) working conditions and demands. Licensed... -
Health Literacy Implications for Health Care Reform: Workshop Summary by Roundtable on Health Literacy 9780309164160
RRP: $54.60$47.37Health literacy is the degree to which one can understand and make decisions based on health information. Nearly 90 million adults in the United States have limited health literacy. While poor health literacy spans all demographics, rates of low health... -
Improving Health Care Cost Projections for the Medicare Population: Summary of a Workshop by National Research Council 9780309159760
RRP: $72.15$10.84Developing credible short-term and long-term projections of Medicare health care costs is critical for public- and private-sector policy planning, but faces challenges and uncertainties. There is uncertainty not only in the underlying economic and... -
Rewarding Provider Performance: Aligning Incentives in Medicare by Committee on Redesigning Health Insurance Performance Measures, Payment, and Performance Improvement Programs 9780309102162
RRP: $95.55$83.67The third installment in the Pathways to Quality Health Care series, Rewarding Provider Performance: Aligning Incentives in Medicare, continues to address the timely topic of the quality of health care in America. Each volume in the series effectively... -
HHS in the 21st Century: Charting a New Course for a Healthier America by Leonard D. Schaeffer 9780309127967
RRP: $103.35$90.32The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) profoundly affects the lives of all Americans. Its agencies and programs protect against domestic and global health threats, assure the safety of food and drugs, advance the science of preventing and... -
Learning What Works: Infrastructure Required for Comparative Effectiveness Research: Workshop Summary by The Learning Health System Series 9780309120685
RRP: $118.95$104.44It is essential for patients and clinicians to have the resources needed to make informed, collaborative care decisions. Despite this need, only a small fraction of health-related expenditures in the United States have been devoted to comparative... -
Improving the Quality of Health Care for Mental and Substance-Use Conditions by Committee on Crossing the Quality Chasm: Adaptation to Mental Health and Addictive Disorders 9780309100441
RRP: $95.55$84.45Each year, more than 33 million Americans receive health care for mental or substance-use conditions, or both. Together, mental and substance-use illnesses are the leading cause of death and disability for women, the highest for men ages 15-44, and the... -
Supporting Local Health Care in a Chronic Crisis: Management and Financing Approaches in the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo by Roundtable on the Demography of Forced Migration 9780309100380
RRP: $64.35$57.02Providing medical support to the local population during a chronic crisis is difficult. The crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which is characterized by high excess mortality, ongoing armed violence, mass forced displacement,... -
Medical Care Economic Risk: Measuring Financial Vulnerability from Spending on Medical Care by Panel on Measuring Medical Care Risk in Conjunction with the New Supplemental Income Poverty Measure 9780309266048
RRP: $93.60$82.00The United States has seen major advances in medical care during the past decades, but access to care at an affordable cost is not universal. Many Americans lack health care insurance of any kind, and many others with insurance are nonetheless exposed to... -
The Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Lectures 2003: Keeping Patients Safe -- Transforming the Work Environment of Nurses by Institute of Medicine of the National Academies 9780309094412
RRP: $56.55$50.37Through the generosity of the Rosenthal Family Foundation (formerly the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation), a discussion series was created to bring greater attention to some of the significant health policy issues facing our nation today. Each year... -
Patient Safety: Achieving a New Standard for Care by Institute of Medicine 9780309090773
RRP: $87.75$78.96Americans should be able to count on receiving health care that is safe. To achieve this, a new health care delivery system is needed aEURO" a system that both prevents errors from occurring, and learns from them when they do occur. The... -
The Role of Telehealth in an Evolving Health Care Environment: Workshop Summary by Board on Health Care Services 9780309262019
RRP: $79.95$70.36In 1996, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released its report Telemedicine: A Guide to Assessing Telecommunications for Health Care. In that report, the IOM Committee on Evaluating Clinical Applications of Telemedicine found telemedicine is similar in... -
Injury in America: A Continuing Public Health Problem by Committee on Trauma Research 9780309074599
RRP: $79.95$70.36"Injury is a public health problem whose toll is unacceptable," claims this book from the Committee on Trauma Research. Although injuries kill more Americans from 1 to 34 years old than all diseases combined, little is spent on prevention and... -
Description and Analysis of the VA National Formulary by VA Pharmacy Formulary Analysis Committee 9780309069861
RRP: $124.80$108.65The VA National Formulary generated controversy, which motivated congressional scrutiny and a directive to the VA to commission this report reviewing the experience with the National Formulary and formulary system. This Institute of Medicine committee... -
Measuring the Quality of Health Care by Molla S. Donaldson 9780309063876
RRP: $76.05$67.02The National Roundtable on Health Care Quality was established in 1995 by the Institute of Medicine. The Roundtable consists of experts formally appointed through procedures of the National Research Council (NRC) who represent both public and... -
Identified versus Statistical Lives: An Interdisciplinary Perspective by I. Glenn Cohen 9780190217471
RRP: $118.95$104.81On August 5, 2010, a cave-in left thirty-three Chilean miners trapped underground. The Chilean government embarked on a massive rescue effort that is estimated to have cost between ten and twenty million dollars. There is a puzzle here. Many mine... -
One Nation, Uninsured: Why the U.S. Has No National Health Insurance by Jill Quadagno 9780195312034
RRP: $27.28$22.27Every industrial nation in the world guarantees its citizens access to essential health care services-every country, that is, except the United States. In fact, one in eight Americans-a shocking 43 million people-do not have any health care insurance at... -
What Makes Women Sick by Leslie Doyal 9780813522074
$61.48"Lesley Doyal has done it again! By making a political, cross-cultural analysis the core of every topic she covers, she makes us change the way we think about and act on critical issues in women's health. Students in public health and in women... -
Medicine and Health in Africa: Multidisciplinary Perspectives by Paula Viterbo 9780870139918
$68.84Over the last two decades, the implosion of economies under the burden of debt, the negative repercussions of structural adjustment programs, the crisis of legitimacy, civil wars, and the collapse of some states have resulted in serious health issues... -
Challenging Operations: Medical Reform and Resistance in Surgery by Katherine Kellogg 9780226430027
$192.13In 2003, in the face of errors and accidents caused by medical and surgical trainees, the American Council of Graduate Medical Education mandated a reduction in resident work hours to eighty per week. Over the course of two and a half years spent... -
A Plague of Paradoxes: AIDS, Culture, and Demography in Northern Tanzania by Philip W. Setel 9780226748856
$191.00Since recording its first AIDS cases in 1983, Tanzania has reported nearly 90,000 more to the World Health Organization - more than any other country in Africa. The AIDS epidemic has forced Africans to reflect upon the meaning of traditional ideas and... -
Doctors and Doctrines: Ideology of Medical Care in Canada by Bernard R. Blishen 9780802061058
RRP: $42.88$38.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802061058Author Bernard R. BlishenFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto Press -
Social Work in the Hospital Organization by Margaret Gaughan Brock 9780802015945
RRP: $37.03$33.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802015945Author Margaret Gaughan BrockFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto Press