Health Care Delivery

For those with full health care provided by their employers, the day is bright. But they are becoming more and more like rare birds. Besides the almost 50,000,000 without any health insurance who most frequently let their health deteriorate rather than...

Volatility in prices and availability of medical malpractice liability insurance and allegations that insurance companies may have colluded in raising current rates are receiving attention from policymakers. This book provides an overview of the current...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590339039Author Arthur B. RoseFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Nova BiomedicalPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 266g

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,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781567933277Author Myron FottlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 456Imprint Health Administration PressPublisher Health Administration PressWeight(grams) 0g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781567932362Author James ReinertsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Health Administration PressPublisher Health Administration PressWeight(grams) 0g

As access to sufficient health care continues to become a dominant--and divisive--issue in the world today, this resource acts as a primer to the public health care system Canada has had in place for the last 30 years. While explaining the program's cost...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550654011Author David LevineFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Vehicule PressPublisher Vehicule PressWeight(grams) 414g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550594546Author Cheryl L. McLeanFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Brush Education IncPublisher Brush Education IncWeight(grams) 400g

For over a decade, Congress and DOD have led a series of efforts to address the governance structure of the Military Health System. In chapter1, GAO examines (1) measures DOD uses to assess the quality of direct and purchased care, and (2) the extent to...

The Affordable Care Act's impact on coverage, access to care, and systematic exclusion in our health care system The Affordable Care Act set off an unprecedented wave of health insurance enrollment as the most sweeping overhaul of the U.S. health...

Written by a well-respected health and public policy expert, this book provides a comprehensive exploration of the under-appreciated role of public health policy in the United States’ medical care industry. The book offers students: • an introduction to...

This timely comparative study assesses the role of medical doctors in reforming publicly-funded health services in England and Canada. Respected authors from health and legal backgrounds from both sides of the Atlantic consider how the high status of...

Drawing from the perspectives of a variety of disciplines, this innovative text is unlike any others of its kind. Health Policy Analysis: An Interdisciplinary Approach, Third Edition analyzes current U.S. health policy and proposes various alternatives...

Healthcare facilities or hospital systems are classified as some of the most critical infrastructure systems when responding to natural disasters. Seismic Resilience Assessment of Hospital Infrastructure systematically presents a suite of novel...

“A comprehensive guide to planning, constructing, and delivering presentations. This is the missing manual that every doctor needs”.Rowan Parks, Professor of Surgical Sciences and Honorary Consultant Surgeon,University of Edinburgh; President of Royal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780864866738Author Anton A. van NiekerkFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint David Philip PublishersPublisher New Africa Books (Pty) Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780855754587Author David Piers ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Aboriginal Studies PressPublisher Aboriginal Studies Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853458654Author Vicente NavarroFormat PaperbackPage Count 127Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 181g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780833044808Author Donna O. FarleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint RANDPublisher RAND

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780833037879Author Donna O. FarleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint RANDPublisher RANDWeight(grams) 317g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780833037176Author Harold Alan PincusFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint RANDPublisher RANDWeight(grams) 231g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780833032959Author Tom LaTourretteFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint RANDPublisher RAND

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820476292Author Shani OrgadFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams) 320g

Embodied Politics illuminates the influential force of public health promotion in indigenous migrant communities by examining the Indigenous Health Project (IHP), a culturally and linguistically competent initiative that uses health workshops, health...

The HIV epidemic in Bolivia has received little attention on a global scale in light of the country's low HIV prevalence rate. However, by profiling the largest city in this land-locked Latin American country, Carina Heckert shows how global...

This dynamic and richly layered account of mental health in the late twentieth century interweaves three important stories: the rising political prominence of mental health in the United States since 1970; the shifting medical diagnostics of mental...

Today, more than 75 percent of pharmaceutical drug trials in the United States are being conducted in the private sector. Once the sole province of academic researchers, these important studies are now being outsourced to non-academic physicians...

Increasingly, there is a need for managers operating in the complex and dynamic health care environment to better understand the competitive nature of the health care industry and the opportunities that potentially exist within it. In response, this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsLong-listed for British Columbia's National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction 2018.Book InformationISBN 9780735232617Author Dr. Danielle MartinFormat PaperbackPage Count...

Katharine Park has written a social, intellectual, and institutional history of medicine in Florence during the century after the Black Death of 1348. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology...

HIV/AIDS affects every walk of life, and has a profound influence on everything we do -- in our closest relationships, at work, at home, at school, college or university. Not a day goes by without a reference to the pandemic in newspapers or on the...

Susan Sontag once described illness as "the night-side of life." When we or our loved ones fall ill, our world is thrown into darkness and disarray, our routines are interrupted, our deepest beliefs shaken. The modern regime of hyper-logical biomedicine...

Many people in developing countries lack access to health technologies, even basic ones. Why do these problems in access persist? What can be done to improve access to good health technologies, especially for poor people in poor countries?This book...

Grounded in intimate moments of family life in and out of hospitals, this book explores the hope that inspires us to try to create lives worth living, even when no cure is in sight. "The Paradox of Hope" focuses on a group of African American families in...

Grounded in intimate moments of family life in and out of hospitals, this book explores the hope that inspires us to try to create lives worth living, even when no cure is in sight. "The Paradox of Hope" focuses on a group of African American...

It happens every day: we pick up a newspaper or magazine or turn on the television and are bombarded with urgent advice about how to stay healthy. Lose weight! Lower your cholesterol! Early detection saves lives! Sunscreen prevents cancer! But in many...

Throughout the health care system, the traditional boundaries between professional groups are becoming increasingly blurred in response to local service needs and national policy objectives. New clinical roles are developing and nurses and other health...

Available in paperback for the first time, this milestone work offers an in-depth treatment of all aspects of the discipline and practice of social policy globally. Supported by a distinguished international advisory board, the editors have compiled...

"I recommend that all members of the health community read this book to obtain a real snapshot of how the Intelligent Health System is being transformed via new technologies." Chris Landon MD FAAP, FCCP, FRSMClinical Associate Professor USC Keck School...