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The Cure
How Capitalism Can Save American Health Care
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
We are surrounded by medical miracles: polio has been eradicated; childhood leukemia is now treatable; death by cardiovascular disease has declined by two-thirds in the last fifty years. Yet while American medicine has never been better, angst over American health care has never been greater. Why is...
Health Policy Developments 11
Focus on Primary Care, Appropriateness and Transparency, National Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2010
The spotlight of Health Policy Developments 11 is on primary care. Thirty years after Alma-Ata, the WHO's declaration on primary care has lost none of its relevance. Hopes are high, realization a real challenge: Ideally, primary care overcomes the divide between the outpatient and inpatient sectors...
by Raymond L. Goldsteen, DrPH, Karen Goldsteen
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
The eighth edition of this best-selling text, valued for its concise and balanced introduction to the U.S. health care system, is entirely updated to reflect alterations to health care services, delivery, and financing resulting from the Affordable Care Act. The text describes how our health care...
Project Management in Health and Community Services
Getting good ideas to work
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
The use of project management is now well established in the health and community services sector. In this complex environment, project managers need to be determined, flexible and prepared to respond to emerging evidence and stakeholder demands.
This wholly revised edition of Project Management...
Getting to Standard Work in Health Care
Using TWI to Create a Foundation for Quality Care
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Addressing the challenges involved in achieving standard work in health care, Getting to Standard Work in Health Care: Using TWI to Create a Foundation for Quality Care describes how to incorporate the most widely used Training Within Industry (TWI) method, the Job Instruction (JI) training module,...
The Big Unlock
Harnessing Data and Growing Digital Health Businesses in a Value-Based Care Era
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
Along with a shift towards value-based care, a digital transformation is under way in health care. However, health care enterprises are having a hard time keeping up with advances in information technology.
Organizations that could once spend months or years developing a strategy to deliver...
by Charles E. Phelps
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Can we really use economic thinking to understand our health care system? Health Economics, now in its sixth edition, not only shows how this is done, but also provides the tools to analyze the economic behavior of patients and providers in health care markets.
Health Economics combines current...
by Daniel E. Dawes
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
In this groundbreaking book, health-care attorney Daniel E. Dawes explores the secret backstory of the Affordable Care Act, shedding light on the creation and implementation of the greatest and most sweeping equalizer in the history of American health care. An eye-opening and authoritative narrative...
New Directions in Public Health Care
A Prescription for the 1980's
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
This volume is a revised edition of The Institute for Contemporary Study's report on national health insurance. It includes an analysis of legislation currently before Congress; an examination of hos-pital cost increases and cost containment; an in-vestigation of the politics of the National Health...
by Hans Keiding
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2017
As a relatively young discipline, health economics as it appears today contains many features which can be traced back to its beginnings. Since it arose in the interface between the medical sciences and economics, the way of dealing with problems were often influenced by traditions which were well-established...
EMF Book: Radiation Nation - Complete Guide to EMF Protection & Safety
The Proven Health Risks of EMF Radiation & What You Can Do to Protect Yourself & Family
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
An Invisible Danger on the Rise
You eat organic and non-GMO food. You only drink purified water. You take care of yourself and your family's health. But could there be a silent, invisible danger causing potential harm to you and your loved ones? There could. And it's called electromagnetic...
Ethical Challenges in Health Care
Developing Your Moral Compass
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
Designated a Doody's Core Title!
Lachman successfully addresses the most important topics in health care ethics in this volume...The 20 chapters are divided logically and proceed onward from those dealing with the evolution of the philosophical basis for personal and organizational ethics...This...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
This volume initiates a much-needed conversation about the ethical and policy concerns facing health care providers in the rural United States. Although 21 percent of the population lives in rural areas, only 11 percent of physicians practice there. What challenges do health care workers face in remote...
When People Come First
Critical Studies in Global Health
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2013
When People Come First critically assesses the expanding field of global health. It brings together an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars to address the medical, social, political, and economic dimensions of the global health enterprise through vivid case studies and bold conceptual...