Health Policy

For most of the twentieth century, people with disabilities have been regarded as 'victims' of their condition and a 'burden' on society. More recently, however, disabled people and their organizations across Europe and North America have challenged...

This revised edition of this bestselling textbook includes the latest research findings and contains more tools, frameworks and international examples of best practice to aid practitioners to more effectively evaluate partnerships. Up-to-date research...

Professionalism is a complex and highly disputed idea of crucial importance in a range of fields, not least health and social care. It can inspire people by reminding them of workplace ideals and the value of occupational expertise. But it can also feel...

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...

Our fear of cancer causes great harm to individual health and to society.The fear of cancer is understandable. But that fear is in some ways outdated, as it fails to account for the medical progress made against this family of diseases. In Curing...

The biggest challenges in public health today are often related to attitudes, diet and exercise. In many ways, this marks a return to the state of medicine in the eighteenth century, when ideals of healthy living were a much more central part of the...

Improving health in populations in which health is poor is a complex process. This book argues that the traditional government approach of exhorting individuals to live healthier lifestyles is not enough - action to promote public health needs to take...

Improving health in populations in which health is poor is a complex process. This book argues that the traditional government approach of exhorting individuals to live healthier lifestyles is not enough - action to promote public health needs to take...

Smart metrics, slow thinking, off-label drugs, and a "Moneyball" prescription for fixing modern medicine--by the author of Tripping Over the Truth The United States is fast becoming the sickest nation in the Western world. Cancer rates continue to...

Principles in Health Economics and Policy, second edition, is a concise introduction to health economics and its application to health policy. It introduces the subject of economics, explains the fundamental failures in the market for healthcare, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637582206Author Scott W AtlasFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Bombardier BooksPublisher Bombardier BooksWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm) 231mm *...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789292770129Author Asian Development BankFormat PaperbackPage Count 26Imprint Asian Development BankPublisher Asian Development BankWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583679944Author Rob WallaceFormat HardbackPage Count 512Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S.Weight(grams)...

"Deep China" investigates the emotional and moral lives of the Chinese people as they adjust to the challenges of modernity. Sharing a medical anthropology and cultural psychiatry perspective, Arthur Kleinman, Yunxiang Yan, Jing Jun, Sing Lee, Everett...

This book explores the experiences of informal home carers in the different welfare systems of the former West Germany and East Germany, and Britain. It is innovative in using a biographical case study approach to compare caring situations and caring...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781977412164Author Kimberly A HepnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint RAND CorporationPublisher RAND CorporationWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 279mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541797796Author Ezekiel J EmanuelFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint PublicAffairsPublisher PublicAffairsWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 150mm...

As national borders become more permeable, women are increasingly on the move, travelling from poor to rich countries to take up jobs as care workers. The struggle to maintain a healthy work/care balance in Western countries is creating a care deficit in...

Kaiser Permanente is the largest managed care organization in the country. It also happens to have the largest and most complex labor-management partnership ever created in the United States. This book tells the story of that partnership-how it started,...

Probes the relationship between the immigration and health care systems in the United States. For the roughly ten million undocumented immigrants living in the United States, federal health care coverage is out of reach. Barred from Medicare, Medicaid,...

Probes the relationship between the immigration and health care systems in the United States. For the roughly ten million undocumented immigrants living in the United States, federal health care coverage is out of reach. Barred from Medicare, Medicaid,...

Based on a comparative study covering 15 Western European countries, this edited volume examines the responses of long-term cares homes for older people to the COVID-19 pandemic. It analyses the preparedness of governments and residences and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815751632Author Lester LaveFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & Littlefield

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815773993Author Robert D. ReischauerFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 333g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815737070Author William A. HaseltineFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams)...

This important new textbook provides comparative and critical analysis of healthcare policy from high income states in Europe to low-income countries in the Global South.It integrates conceptual themes drawn from the fields of sociology, policy analysis,...

This important book introduces the Health in All Policies (HiAP) approach to health promotion, not only detailing how policy-making at all levels can foster the right conditions for better public health but also examining the inherent challenges to such...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815718512Author John J. DiIulioFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 454g

The government's NHS Plan emphasises the importance of services based on users' views. This highly topical report provides practical guidance on how to ensure that older people's views are heard and acted on, and their views monitored, in relation to...

The pervasiveness of global tuberculosis (TB) poses a particular set of challenges to policymakers. In order to make the necessary strategic decisions, it is essential to understand how the disease works and its impact on individuals, families,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815733881Author Henry AaronFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815700500Author Henry AaronFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815793793Author Joshua WienerFormat PaperbackPage Count 338Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815728757Author Christopher H. Foreman, Jr.Format PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & Littlefield

Reveals the presence of an informal system of valuable support and care for marginalized migrants The United States' health care system not only consists of a formal safety net, but also an informal and disjointed network of organizations that offer...

After the 1959 Cuban Revolution, hundreds of thousands of Cuban refugees came to Miami. With this influx, the city's health-care system was overwhelmed not just by the number of patients but also by the differences in culture. Mainstream medicine was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781464812637Author World BankFormat PaperbackPage Count 504Imprint World Bank PublicationsPublisher World Bank Publications

This textbook provides a critical assessment of developments in health and healthcare policy within the UK and Europe. Each chapter integrates conceptual themes drawn from the fields of sociology and political science to offer a unique combination of...

The existence of health inequities across racial, ethnic, gender, and class lines in the United States has been well documented. Less well understood have been the attempts of major institutions, health programs, and other public policy domains to...