Health Care Issues

Poverty in Europe synthesizes the author's exploration of the topic as presented at the twelfth Yrjo Jahnsson Lecture at the University of Helsinki. This three lecture collection confronts the serious questions surrounding the persistence of poverty in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578755960Author Paul PenderFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Early Arrival PressPublisher Early Arrival PressWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578728803Author Samara Elizabeth ThornockFormat PaperbackPage Count 34Imprint Malcolm ThornockPublisher Malcolm ThornockWeight(grams) 216g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578473390Author Steven G TaibbiFormat PaperbackPage Count 330Imprint Puppy Duck ProductionsPublisher Puppy Duck ProductionsWeight(grams) 440g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578341996Author Janice WashingtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Janice B. WashingtonPublisher Janice B. WashingtonWeight(grams) 263g

In today's impersonal world of health care conglomerates, receiving the best medical care isn't always possible. Superior care means knowing what treatments to insist on when you're sick. In this cutting-edge guide, Dr Rosenfeld describes in detail, in...

A multidisciplinary international team examines the safety, ethics, and health implications of the emerging global market for health care, and the issues that arise when patients cross borders for medical procedures they cannot afford or access at home,...

This book exposes and examines how Medicare, Medicaid, and private health insurance plans combined with widespread business practices and fraud create inequity-the root cause of our dysfunctional health care system, and the reason for the rising cost of...

Research shows that supportive family and friends can improve the outcome of a loved one's hospital stay, but how exactly can they help? Hospitalization is often as dismaying and frightening for family members as it is for the patient. And despite a...

Why is our health care system so fragmented in the care it gives patients? Why is there little coordination amongst the many doctors who treat individual patients, who often even lack access to a common set of medical records? Why is fragmentation a...

In the wake of the recent unsuccessful drive for health care reform, many people have been asking themselves what brought about the failure of this as well as past attempts to make health care accessible to all Americans. The author of this original...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781862043336Author Marie FarquharsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Element BooksPublisher Element Books LtdWeight(grams) 260g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781580544610Author Candace HoffmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 30Imprint Woodland Publishing Inc.Publisher Woodland Publishing Inc.Weight(grams) 215g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781478770893Author Gary Joseph LeBlancFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Outskirts PressPublisher Outskirts PressWeight(grams) 399g

Description currently unavailableBook InformationISBN 9780850363005Author Julian Tudor HartFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint The Merlin Press LtdPublisher The Merlin Press Ltd

* Are you searching for a new dentist? * Are you struggling to find the right dentist for you? * Are you disappointed by a previous bad experience? * Are you confused and don't know who to trust? * Or are you petrified of dental care and don't know where...

Since it was first published Public Sector Economics has become the most widely adopted undergraduate textbook in its field. Major revisions have been made to this fourth edition while preserving the central objective of the book, which is to explain the...

In this committed and compassionate book, Phil Hammond - a doctor, journalist, campaigner and patient - argues for a bidet revolution in the NHS - from the bottom up, with patients leading the charge. What we can do for ourselves to live well often far...

* Are you searching for a new dentist? * Are you struggling to find the right dentist for you? * Are you disappointed by a previous bad experience? * Are you confused and don't know who to trust? * Or are you petrified of dental care and don't know where...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644620045Author Teresa D MabryFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Page Publishing, Inc.Publisher Page Publishing, Inc.Weight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781462852086Author James Gordon MD VatcherFormat HardbackPage Count 48Imprint Xlibris CorporationPublisher Xlibris CorporationWeight(grams) 231g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781662438677Author Teresa D MabryFormat HardbackPage Count 92Imprint Page Publishing, IncPublisher Page Publishing, IncWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798224378234Author Zemelak GoragaFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint Dr. Zemelak GoragaPublisher Dr. Zemelak GoragaWeight(grams) 408g

'Body Breakdowns' is a collection of true tales about brushes with mortality and the medical establishment. Some are serious, some are funny; all are about illnesses, both minor and major. The pieces are all related to aging and are told in strong,...

The fields of pharmaceutical economics and health economics/policy are reaching a point of convergence. This is due to both the widespread availability of pharmaceutical treatments, accompanied by broader insurance coverage, and the regulation of...

Publishers Weekly hailed the first edition of Eldercare 911 as an "excellent, comprehensive guidebook." Today it continues to be the best "how to" book on the market for anyone facing the challenges of caring for an elderly loved one. Now this revised,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781633854734Author Jeff WeinbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Word Association PublishersPublisher Word Association PublishersWeight(grams) 218g

Here is your roadmap to healthcare in the 21st century. With over forty years of experience in directing health policy activities for such major organisations as the Blue Cross Association, the American Pharmaceutical Association, and Georgetown...

This essential collection on maternal and child health focuses on the rites of giving birth from a cross-cultural perspective. The distinguished list of contributors describe the many customs surrounding birth through infancy, highlighting a wide range...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780446676199Author Marie SavardFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams) 277g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780977574209Author Ellie GaffneyFormat HardbackPage Count 120Imprint eContent Management Pty LtdPublisher eContent Management Pty LtdWeight(grams) 318g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684098873Author Phd V Tellis-NayakFormat PaperbackImprint Page Publishing, Inc.Publisher Page Publishing, Inc.Weight(grams) 526g

Medical technology broadly defined to include all aspects of the process of treating disease (e.g., pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and surgical procedures) is profoundly important for individual health and, consequently, also for general welfare...

Are the baby boomers in Canada more or less healthy than previous generations? What are the implications of this for the national health care system? Baby Boomer Health Dynamic responds to the growing interest in the generation that makes up over...

Low- and middle-income countries face major challenges to their health systems. These include a high burden of communicable disease and an emerging non-communicable disease burden. Coverage of effective services and interventions is inadequate and often...

The contributors to this latest volume of Research in the Sociology of Health Care investigate macro-level system issues and micro-level issues involving the socially disadvantaged and underserved. Looking specifically at the factors impacting on health...

Across the globe every nation wrestles with how it will pay for, provide, regulate and administer its healthcare system. Health economics is the field of economics that deals with every one of those issues and the difficult issue of allocating resources...

Originally published in 1985, this book is a detailed study of the ways of harmonizing school and community policies, strategies and methods in health education, with examples of work achieved in most countries of Western Europe and the USA. It is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439254868Author Dean HalversonFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Booksurge PublishingPublisher Booksurge PublishingWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781588200372Author Samuel J. WeinFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint AuthorHousePublisher AuthorHouseWeight(grams) 207g