Health Policy

What is true advocacy? How can advocacy be evaluated? Should there be practice standards in advocacy? As advocacy moves into the mainstream of health and social care provision, and the prospect of a legal right to advocacy inches closer, so the need to...

There is increasing recognition that advances in medicine are only part of the answer to better health care. These advances, together with rising expectations of health care users, mean that demands on the way we organize and deliver services will become...

Top policy experts offer Medicare reform solutions for the millions of seniors whose health care depends on America's fastest growing federal entitlement.In Modernizing Medicare, editors Robert Emmet Moffit and Marie Fishpaw bring together a rare...

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...

Behavioral nudges are everywhere: calorie counts on menus, automated text reminders to encourage medication adherence, a reminder bell when a driver's seatbelt isn't fastened. Designed to help people make better health choices, these reminders have...

In this incisive examination of lead poisoning during the past half century, Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner focus on one of the most contentious and bitter battles in the history of public health. Lead Wars details how the nature of the epidemic has...

This is the first history of epidemics in South Africa, lethal episodes that significantly shaped this society over three centuries. Focusing on five devastating diseases between 1713 and today-smallpox, bubonic plague, "Spanish influenza," polio, and...

The National Academies Roundtable on Obesity Solutions hosted a public workshop in March 2024 to explore the current understanding of pharmacotherapy for overweight or obesity, the effects of medications intended for obesity and obesity-related...

The American health care industry has undergone such dizzying transformations since the 1960s that many patients have lost confidence in a system they find too impersonal and ineffectual. Is their distrust justified and can confidence be restored? David...

Patient management is the central clinical task of medical care. Until the 1970s, there was no generally accepted method of ensuring a scientific, critical approach to clinical decision making. And while traditional clinical authority was under attack,...

At the clinical, management, and policy levels, the use of knowledge and evidence in health care has become a worldwide priority. The contributors to Using Knowledge and Evidence in Health Care seek to broaden our understanding of the complexity involved...

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Not five minutes after the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was signed into law, in March 2010, Virginia's attorney general was suing to stop it. And yet, the ACA rolled out, in infamously bumpy fashion, and rolled on, fought and defended at every turn-despite...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781636764061Author Anjana SreedharFormat HardbackPage Count 326Imprint New Degree PressPublisher New Degree PressWeight(grams) 140g

As countries consider how they will invest in essential improvements to their defenses against future health threats, we propose a three-layer investment framework approach for the most effective use of their resources.Book InformationISBN...

In The Lost Art of Caring, Leighton E. Cluff, M.D., and Robert H. Binstock, Ph.D., bring together experts to address the importance of caring, the reasons why it has eroded, and measures that can strengthen caring as provided by health professionals,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789290617044Author World Health Organization: Regional Office for the Western PacificFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint WHO Regional Office for the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781737398516Author Jerry AshtonFormat HardbackPage Count 286Imprint Media Visions PressPublisher Media Visions PressWeight(grams) 576g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781039161252Author Cathy MacNeilFormat HardbackPage Count 372Imprint FriesenPressPublisher FriesenPressWeight(grams) 649g

Chronic conditions such as arthritis, heart disease, and Parkinson disease are the principal cause of all sickness and death in the United States and represent the vast majority of health care expenditures. Although we now live in a world dominated by...

What forces lead to changes in governance among medical schools and their associated teaching hospitals? To what extent do such changes affect how well those schools and hospitals do their work? In this book, John A. Kastor, M.D., focuses on the academic...

This book assembles timely evidence from a major national survey regarding the different experiences of health care as it is being delivered to various minority members of our society-Hispanics, African Americans, Asian Americans, and minority women. It...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789289002868Author World Health Organization: Regional Office for EuropeFormat PaperbackPage Count 75Imprint WHO Regional Office for EuropePublisher WHO...

One in eight Americans today is over the age of 65, and the proportion will increase dramatically in the future. The aging of the population has begun to drive tax and budget decisions and the federal policy agenda, as policy makers and voters look ahead...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783640708833Author Varun KumarFormat PaperbackImprint Grin PublishingPublisher Grin PublishingWeight(grams) 104g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904750451Author John ListerFormat PaperbackPage Count 370Imprint Middlesex University PressPublisher Middlesex University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781636765082Author Anjana SreedharFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint New Degree PressPublisher New Degree PressWeight(grams) 140g

Drawing on clinical experience dating from the birth of the NHS in 1948, Julian Tudor Hart, a politically active GP in a Welsh coal mining community, charts the progress of the NHS from its 19th century origins in workers' mutual aid societies, to its...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781977410856Author Lisa M HarringtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 111Imprint RAND CorporationPublisher RAND Corporation

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798869279330Author Aysun AlagozFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Tribune PublishersPublisher Tribune PublishersWeight(grams) 259g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789888805655Author Christine LohFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Hong Kong University PressPublisher Hong Kong University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789290223429Author Who Regional Office for South-East AsiaPage Count 124Imprint WHO Regional Office for South East AsiaPublisher WHO Regional Office for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789241565219Author World Health OrganizationFormat PaperbackPage Count 390Imprint World Health OrganizationPublisher World Health Organization

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789241565134Author World Health OrganizationFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint World Health OrganizationPublisher World Health Organization

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789241565073Author World Health OrganizationFormat PaperbackPage Count 53Imprint World Health OrganizationPublisher World Health Organization

"Prime Example" tells the story of the State of New York Department of Health versus Warren M Levin, MD. In the late 1980s the Commissioner of Health of New York was a very brilliant and morbidly depressed individual who suddenly got the idea...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781464802249Author Barbara McPakeFormat PaperbackPage Count 93Imprint World Bank PublicationsPublisher World Bank Publications

Drawing on key research, government policies and real-life case studies, the book assists health and social care professionals to work more effectively together in order to improve services for users and carers. The health and social care divide:...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781421451459Author James KellyFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Johns Hopkins University PressPublisher Johns Hopkins University Press