Health Policy

Over the past decade health care systems around the world have placed increasing importance on the relationship between patient choice and clinical decision-making. In the years since the publication of the second edition of Shared Decision Making in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781119277231Author HodachFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher John Wiley & Sons IncWeight(grams) 408g

Nearly everyone agrees that the nation's health care system needs to be reformed. By mid-1994 over a half-dozen major reform plans were under consideration in Congress. But beyond the political challenge of passing a reform package lies an even bigger...

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,...

Everyone agrees on the need to reform Medicare but not on how to do it. Some argue the program is too comprehensive, others that it is not comprehensive enough. Some suggest it pays too much for health care, others, too little. Meanwhile, the financial...

The United States spends more on health care than any other nation in the world, yet millions of Americans cannot afford basic care for acute illnesses, few are insured against the costs of long-term care, and many frequently used medical procedures have...

A key issue in the debate about reforming the U.S. health care system is how to finance and organize the delivery of long-term care. This volume offers perspectives on several important facets of this problem, including the regulation of private...

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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780700635078Author Daniel BelandFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint University Press of KansasPublisher University Press of Kansas

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, Fourth Edition analyzes current U.S. health policy and proposes various alternatives...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781553392132Author Colleen FloodFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint Queen's UniversityPublisher Queen's UniversityWeight(grams) 614g

Despite notable variation in health care policy from province to province, most scholarship published on the health care system in Canada uses a broad national perspective. Focusing on the health care systems of individual Canadian provinces and...

If Barack Obama has his way, the American health care system is headed for a train wreck. In this vital expose, Dr. David Gratzer reveals how a government takeover by Washington will put a massive new bureaucracy between doctors and patients, create...

Written for nonexperts, this is a brisk, engaging history of American healthcare from the advent of Medicare and Medicaid in the 1960s to the impact of the Affordable Care Act in the 2010s. Step by step, Jonathan Engel shows how we arrived at our present...

This new collection turns a critical anthropological eye on the nature of health policy internationally. The authors reveal that in light of prevailing social inequalities, health policies may intend to protect public health, but in fact they often...

The detection, reporting, measurement, and minimization of medical errors and harms is now a core requirement in clinical organizations throughout developed societies. This book focuses on this major new area in health care. It explores the nature of...

The Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institution was established to foster policy innovation from leading economic thinkers -ideas based on evidence and experience, not ideology and doctrine. The overall goal is to promote America's long-term economic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781977404701Author Bernard D RostkerFormat HardbackPage Count 550Imprint RANDPublisher RAND

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789290612223Author Who Regional Office for the Western PacificFormat PaperbackPage Count 31Imprint WHO Regional Office for the Western PacificPublisher WHO...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789290611653Author Who Regional Office for the Western PacificFormat PaperbackPage Count 59Imprint World Health OrganizationPublisher World Health...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789241564410Author World Health OrganizationFormat PaperbackPage Count 37Imprint World Health OrganizationPublisher World Health Organization

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789289072953Author J.N. BlauFormat PaperbackPage Count 319Imprint WHO Regional Office for EuropePublisher WHO Regional Office for EuropeWeight(grams) 730g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789241503143Author World Health OrganizationFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint World Health OrganizationPublisher World Health OrganizationWeight(grams)...

Health care in the United States has made remarkable advances during the past forty years. Yet our health care system also has several well-known problems: high costs, significant numbers of people without insurance, and glaring gaps in quality and...

Some painful news: Canada no longer has the best health-care system in the world. How might we fix Canada’s health-care system? Why would we want to? What’s stopping us from doing so? These three questions lie at the heart of this in-depth exploration of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789289051378Author World Health OrganizationFormat PaperbackPage Count 111Imprint WHO Regional Office for EuropePublisher WHO Regional Office for Europe

Essentials of Health Policy and Law, Fifth Edition provides students of public health, medicine, nursing, public policy, and health administration with an introduction to a broad range of seminal issues in U.S. health policy and law, analytic frameworks...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815776314Author Louise B. RussellFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 454g

As Americans struggle with the dual problems of exploding health care costs and ensuring access to health care for the uninsured, health care rationing has moved to the center of the public policy debate. A prime example of this is the intense public...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815724834Author Michael DoonanFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm)...

In 1983 Congress changed the way Medicare pays for hospital care. Under the new prospective payment system, hospitals are paid a fixed rate, set in advance, to cover a patient's stay. If costs are less than the fixed rates, the hospital keeps the profit;...

This book is a must-read for anyone interested in transforming the impersonal character of the medical experience into a personalised, relational, spiritual, and holistic dialog about human health. It promotes a holistic vision of the doctor-patient...

With health care reform at the top of the domestic agenda, this volume assesses the Clinton administration's proposals and several alternative plans by discussing how six other countries have organized health care finance and delivery to achieve...

How eliminating "risk illiteracy" among doctors and patients will lead to better health care decision making. Contrary to popular opinion, one of the main problems in providing uniformly excellent health care is not lack of money but lack of...

This book contends that attempts to reform the NHS can only be understood by reference to both the wider social and political context, and to the organisational and ideational legacies present within the NHS itself. It aims to take students beyond a...

The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare the world's vulnerabilities to health and economic ruin from disease outbreaks. But the pandemic merely reveals fundamental weaknesses and contradictions in global health. What are the roots of discontents in global...

Healthcare decision makers in search of reliable information that compares health interventions increasingly turn to systematic reviews for the best summary of the evidence. Systematic reviews identify, select, assess, and synthesize the findings of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781989555699Author Dr. Julie PonesseFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint The Sutherland House Inc.Publisher The Sutherland House Inc.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143110859Author Elisabeth RosenthalFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 357gDimensions(mm) 214mm *...