Health Policy

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262547840Author Chikako TakeshitaFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 369g

America may be one of the wealthiest countries in the world, yet its citizens have lower life expectancy, more infant mortalities, and higher adolescent death rates than those in most other advanced industrial nations--and even some developing countries...

America may be one of the wealthiest countries in the world, but its citizens rank near the bottom in health status. Americans have lower life expectancy, more infant mortalities and higher adolescent death rates than most other advanced industrial...

Can American health insurance survive?In The Transformation of American Health Insurance, Troyen A. Brennan traces the historical evolution of public and private health insurance in the United States from the first Blue Cross plans in the late 1930s to...

The need for policy coherence between trade and health has never been greater, yet few public health workers are equipped to navigate this complex field. This book aims to fill this gap, providing a focused and readable introduction to the topic. It...

The need for policy coherence between trade and health has never been greater, yet few public health workers are equipped to navigate this complex field. This book aims to fill this gap, providing a focused and readable introduction to the topic. It...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938218095Author John Geyman M DFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint Copernicus HealthcarePublisher Copernicus HealthcareWeight(grams) 449g

Commissioning is now a key task for health and social care - and yet policy aspirations often outstrip the infrastructure needed to support commissioners as they take difficult decisions about future services and to make commissioning a career of choice...

For years the NHS has been the most trusted of public institutions and the envy of many around the world. But today there is turmoil. Painful shortcomings in clinical care and patient experience, together with funding cuts, threaten to dig deep into...

Trust is fundamental to everyday interactions and the functioning of society. How trust develops, or fails to develop, within contexts of severe mental illness is a pertinent topic for social scientists and healthcare professionals, not simply because it...

Despite a policy focus on involving patients in health care and increasing patient autonomy, much covert coercion of patients takes place in everyday healthcare. This book, by a leading patient activist, examines for the first time how the patient...

In The Battle for Veterans' Healthcare, award-winning author Suzanne Gordon takes us to the front lines of federal policymaking and healthcare delivery, as it affects eight million Americans whose military service makes them eligible for Veterans Health...

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...

Modernising health care: Reinventing professions, the state and the public is a crucial contribution to debates about the rapid modernisation of health care systems and the dynamics of changing modes of governance and citizenship. Structured around the...

In the context of the 'cross-cutting' policy ambitions of the current Labour government, Working together or pulling apart? examines the contribution of the NHS to the multi-agency and inter-professional child protection process. Applying the insights of...

Amid a welter of simultaneous policy initiatives, treatment centres were a top-down NHS innovation that became subverted into a multiplicity of solutions to different local problems. This highly readable account of how and why they evolved with...

Health systems everywhere are experiencing rapid change in response to new threats to health, including from lifestyle diseases, risks of pandemic flu, and the global effects of climate change. At the same time, health inequalities continue to widen...

Anyone working, or planning to work, as an advocate for people who need help in dealing with public services will want to read this book. Advocacy is an area of increasing importance in service provision, where new ways of working have to be found that...

Once regarded as taboo, it is now claimed that we are a death-obsessed society. The face of death in the 21st century, brought about by cultural and demographic change and advances in medical technology, presents health and social care practitioners with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781642378795Author Antonio Paulo PintoFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Gatekeeper PressPublisher Gatekeeper PressWeight(grams) 181g

U.S. military conflicts abroad have left nine million Americans dependent on the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) for medical care. Their "wounds of war" are treated by the largest hospital system in the country-one that has come under fire...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781634320108Author Seton RossiniFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Green Publishing House, LLCPublisher Green Publishing House, LLCWeight(grams) 259g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789843489838Author Dr Mohammad Nazrul IslamFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint National ArchivePublisher National ArchiveWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938218231Author John Geyman M DFormat PaperbackPage Count 38Imprint Copernicus HealthcarePublisher Copernicus HealthcareWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732291904Author Larry Warren PierceFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Lone Wolf Publishing, Ltd. Co.Publisher Lone Wolf Publishing, Ltd. Co...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947170070Author Anant Kumar TripatiFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Sureshot Books Publishing LLCPublisher Sureshot Books Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938218293Author John GeymanFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Copernicus HealthcarePublisher Copernicus HealthcareWeight(grams) 308g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781735027210Author Brook A ChamberyFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Mr. Brook ChamberyPublisher Mr. Brook ChamberyWeight(grams) 222gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781421448701Author Deborah R McFarlaneFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint Johns Hopkins University PressPublisher Johns Hopkins University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938218279Author GeymanFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Copernicus HealthcarePublisher Copernicus HealthcareWeight(grams) 308g

World-leading health economist Cam Donaldson defends NHS-type systems on the same basis as their detractors: economic efficiency. However, protecting government funding of health care is not enough: scarcity has to be managed. Donaldson goes on to show...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541724143Author Ezekiel J EmanuelFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint PublicAffairsPublisher PublicAffairsWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 206mm * 132mm...

U.S. military conflicts abroad have left nine million Americans dependent on the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) for medical care. Their "wounds of war" are treated by the largest hospital system in the country-one that has come under fire...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945847523Author Anne Crawford, MPHFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Emerald Lake BooksPublisher Emerald Lake Books

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938218347Author John GeymanFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Copernicus HealthcarePublisher Copernicus HealthcareWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781039161245Author Cathy MacNeilFormat PaperbackPage Count 372Imprint FriesenPressPublisher FriesenPressWeight(grams) 494gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 20mm

Domestic violence and health is one of the first indepth studies within Britain to explore the issue of healthcare professionals' attitudes towards women who are victims of domestic violence. There is a growing interest by healthcare professionals and...

For fifty years, Medicare and Medicaid have stood at the center of a contentious debate surrounding American government, citizenship, and health care entitlement. In Medicare and Medicaid at 50, leading scholars in politics, government, economics, health...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733932523Author W Terry HowellFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Skye Solutions NashvillePublisher Skye Solutions NashvilleWeight(grams) 152g