Health Care Issues

Family caregivers struggle with keeping their heads above water while caring for an impaired loved one. Most caregivers feel their well-being is sacrificed for the wellbeing of their loved ones. Hanging on until their loved one passes away is simply not...

Conflicts of interest, misrepresentation of clinical trials, hospital price-fixing, and massive expenditures for procedures of dubious efficacy--these and other critical flaws leave little doubt that the current U.S. health-care system is in need of an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996983297Author Karen HoffmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Omega PressPublisher Omega PressWeight(grams) 145gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 6mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781090569141Author William Frangipane M DFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 494g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781077486386Author Lora A LankfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 118g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781073535590Author Georgine Scarpino RsmFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 181g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595010974Author Beverly Huber AlbaneseFormat PaperbackPage Count 712Imprint Writers Club PressPublisher Writers Club PressWeight(grams) 1030g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780471740285Author Benjamin H. NatelsonFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher Turner Publishing CompanyWeight(grams)...

At a time when the baby boom generation looks forward to life asseventy-somethings, author and consumer health expert Dr. MattMinson turns in his second book to the multiple challenges ofaging at a time when the whole country is "going gray."...

Demographic change is a defining issue of our time. The worldwide population is aging and countries are facing ongoing challenges in caring for their elderly. Will countries be able to overcome these challenges? Aging with Dignity provides a robust...

Health is an important indicator of a nation's development, and nations with healthy people are quite likely to be the most prosperous. The importance given to the health sector, however, varies across nations, and in many parts of the world, a low...

Do you really need to pay that outstanding balance with the hospital? Do you know the differences between a nurse practitioner, a physician's assistant, a physician, and a paramedic? Did you realize that not all hospitals can treat your stroke, heart...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551304090Author Irving RootmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Brown Bear PressPublisher Brown Bear Press

A history of the struggle among competing stakeholders in one of the oldest and most controversial experiments in US health care policy, a precursor to Obamacare. In 1993, Tennessee launched a reform initiative designed to simultaneously expand the...

Care in Context is a thought-provoking book that looks at gender inequalities in the context of care. Drawing in part from unique transnational perspectives and gripping interviews, this book focuses on key questions that intellectuals, policy makers and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996892063Author Temple Emmet WilliamsFormat HardbackPage Count 394Imprint Templeworks Properties, LLCPublisher Templeworks Properties, LLCWeight(grams)...

Gerald A. Larue shows how social values impact elders in the United States and how older persons, and those who advocate on their behalf, may respond to the attitudes and actions of others. This book offers the elderly and those who care for them a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781088299968Author Tigers PublicationFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint IngramSparkPublisher IngramSparkWeight(grams) 50g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781074302030Author Sarah CullenFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 145g

Hong Kong is ageing fast and the pressure to improve health care is mounting. Should taxes be raised or social services be cut? Should the public buy more health insurance? Using unofficial statistics and his survey data of households, the author...

With the rapid advances in diagnostic medicine, it is more important than ever for consumers to have access to up-to-date, objective information about the tools commonly used by physicians, hospitals and commercial labs. This second edition provides a...

Within the last twenty years a large-scale bottom-up privatisation has taken place in Vietnam, changing and dismantling the public health care system. This process has led to severe tensions inherent in the transitional society of Vietnam between equity...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789291738915Author United NationsFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDSPublisher Joint United Nations Programme on...

For many years bioethicist Carl Elliott fought to expose a psychiatric research study at his own university in which an especially vulnerable patient lost his life. Elliott’s efforts alienated friends and colleagues and the university stonewalled him and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615999173Author Jean Duffy RathFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Duffy-Rath PublicationsPublisher Duffy-Rath PublicationsWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595756131Author John W WildeFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 594g

In this readable and well-researched book, Ken Terry analyzes the current state of health care reform and finds it wanting. Instead of tackling the core problems in our failing system, he argues, politicians, insurance executives, and health care leaders...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781088755662Author Michelle GoldFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 50gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781081914165Author Ron KnessFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 216g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781079310887Author Mohamadou M Diene MDFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 349g

Combining powerful personal stories with astute analysis and recommendations, ""Always on Call"" reveals the hidden struggles of the more than 25 million family caregivers in the United States.Book InformationISBN 9780826514608Author...

The provision of universal access to healthcare, a right enshrined in the South African Constitution, is the responsibility of government. Although much progress has been made towards the creation of a national health system which makes 'access to health...

This guide to long-term care and care facilities offers families advice on key information. It explains how to choose a facility, what to expect from professional caregivers, paying for care, and other difficult issues, including the right to refuse care...

Entry into the long-term health care system often happens suddenly. A mental or physical breakdown seriously weakens you or your parents health, leaving you unable to cope with a host of complex decisions, rules, and information. Families must...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781082031328Author Karen ReynoldsFormat PaperbackPage Count 26Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780978901318Author Earl C HarrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Earl HarrisPublisher Earl HarrisWeight(grams) 408g

By the millennium Americans were spending more than 12 billion dollars yearly on antidepressant medications. Currently, millions of people in the U.S. routinely use these pills. Are these miracle drugs, quickly curing depression? Or is their popularity a...

You've argued politics with your aunt since high school, but failing eyesight now prevents her from keeping current with the newspaper. Your mother fractured her hip last year and is confined to a wheelchair. Your father has Alzheimer's and only...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781874790112Author Mandy FaderFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Hawker Publications LtdPublisher Hawker Publications LtdWeight(grams) 86g

The modern hospital represents a complex community in which life and death decisions are made on the front lines of patient care, and difficult operational and strategic initiatives are developed in the offices of institutional leaders. Effective Medical...