Health Care Delivery

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780446514385Author Dominique LapierreFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Time Warner PaperbacksPublisher Little, Brown Book GroupWeight(grams) 300g

"Excellent. . . . This detailed analysis of how the Marshfield Clinic struggled to balance competing priorities and interest groups nicely illustrates the adage 'If you see one HMO, you've seen one HMO.'"--Joel D. Howell, The Journal of...

New Orleans is a city that is rich in culture, music, and history. It has also long been a site of some of the most intense racially based medical inequities in the United States. Kevin McQueeney traces that inequity from the city's founding in the early...

This book offers an original perspective on AIDS as a development issue in South Asia, a region with a heterogeneous epidemic and estimated national HIV prevalence rates of up to 0.5 percent. The analysis challenges the common perception of HIV and AIDS...

Health insurance can offer protection against catastrophic medical expenses and improve access to health care. There are, however, imperfections in the insurance market that require intervention such as asymmetry of information between the policy holder...

A longstanding debate on health system organization relates to the benefits of integrating programs that emphasize specific interventions into mainstream health systems to increase access and improve health outcomes. This debate has long been...

Based on extensive field research in the Manianga region of the Lower Congo, Health in a Fragile State is an anthropological account of public health and health care after the collapse of the Congolese state in the 1980s and 1990s. This work brings into...

This book focuses on the use of strategy for the purposes of managing and controlling change in health services. The book explains the application of strategy to the management and control of change in health services, as well as providing some of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865438125Author Meredeth TurshenFormat PaperbackPage Count 253Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 363g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780833037305Author Michael SchoenbaumFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint RANDPublisher RANDWeight(grams) 258g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156004954Author Charles GarfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner Books

Throughout Africa, Asia, and Latin America public health professionals and paraprofessionals work to control serious, frequent and preventable causes of death and sickness among women and children. Despite international agreement about which health...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997424003Author Robert Dennis MDFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Robert Dennis, M.D., P.A.Publisher Robert Dennis, M.D., P.A.Weight(grams) 349g

In this report on one of the first continuing care departments in the country, Dr. Harold Willard describes how he set up and directed a program in Thayer Hospital, Waterville, Maine, to provide the personnel and services necessary for improved care of...

Camcorder AIDS activism is a prime example of a new form of political expression-an outburst of committed, low-budget, community-produced, political video work made possible by new accessible technologies. As Alexandra Juhasz looks at this phenomenon-why...

Today the relevance of cultures to health policies is even more important than it was before -- the world is smaller, international health care is a reality, and the immigration of people from country to country has brought increasing challenges to...

Nortin Hadler's clearly reasoned argument surmounts the cacophony of the health care debate. Hadler urges everyone to ask health care providers how likely it is that proposed treatments will afford meaningful benefits and he teaches how to actively...

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The majority of people with learning disabilities are likely to die whilst living in a service setting. This book, written by practitioners in the field, offers practical advice, and aims to raise the awareness of everyone involved in enabling people...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780903319577Author Peter SeniorFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Calouste Gulbenkian FoundationPublisher Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781874097440Author Oliver MorganFormat PaperbackPage Count 332Imprint The Social Market FoundationPublisher The Social Market Foundation

In order to control ever-increasing health care expenditure, Western and Asian countries are seeking to develop more efficient health care models. Studies on health care that focus specifically on Asian countries are rare, rendering this a unique and...

Health care is clearly in transition -- but to where? Managed or unmanaged care? HMO's or not? Are insurance companies and hospitals the enemy of health care for their own patients? What about the 40,000,000 uninsured in America? Don't ask the patients,...

This textbook for research methods courses in communication disorders integrates evidence-based practice throughout the chapters. Rather than treating empirical research and searching for clinical evidence as separate topics, it presents both as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594540172Author John V. LambertFormat HardbackPage Count 65Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 135g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594540165Author John V. LambertFormat HardbackPage Count 91Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590339794Author Mark LearmonthFormat HardbackPage Count 204Imprint Nova BiomedicalPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 592g

The use of dietary supplements is often promoted as a solution to a number of nutrition problems, including general dietary patterns and nutrient intakes, malnutrition in the elderly, the nutritional needs in pregnant women, poor nutrient intakes in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781070986425Author D Emil Leroy-JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 62Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 191g

In exploring integration of acute and long-tern care, this book begins by characterising the dually eligible population, and describing problems associated with meeting their health and social service needs in an uncoordinated system. It continues by...

Whatever Happened to the General PractitionersBook InformationISBN 9781560723820Author Ralph CantafioFormat HardbackPage Count 171Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 355g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781560722687Author Scott BlankenshipFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Nova BiomedicalPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 215g

For years, opponents of outsourcing have argued that offshoring American jobs destroys our local industries, lays waste to American job creation, and gives foreigners the good jobs and income that would otherwise remain on our shores. Yet few Americans...

Beyond Method provides a forum for scholars across health and human sciences disciplines to explore issues surrounding philosophy, methodology, and epistemology in the context of interpretive scholarship. The essays comprising this volume move beyond the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999656600Author Martha Howard M DFormat HardbackPage Count 382Imprint Titles Supplied/Distributed by Scholastic AustraliPublisher Scholastic Australia

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692707289Author Teresa F CuttsFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Faithhealth Innovations, Inc.Publisher Faithhealth Innovations, Inc.Weight(grams) 757g

This text outlines the history of attempts to supervise the supply of specialist providers, revealing the false premises of the Clinton health plan and the likely hazards of its consequences.Book InformationISBN 9780844770246Author David DranoveFormat...

This text pinpoints the loss in economic efficiency from global budgeting and its likely distributive effects.Book InformationISBN 9780844770239Author Patricia M. DanzonFormat PaperbackPage Count 23Imprint AEI PressPublisher AEI PressWeight(grams) 63g

This book focuses on the process of competition in our private health insurance market and its effects on the cost of care and access to insurance coverage.Book InformationISBN 9780844738192Author Robert B. HelmsFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint AEI...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802845337Author KilnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 314Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing CoWeight(grams) 476g