Health category: 185398 books
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
Firefighters, emergency medical technicians (EMTs), and other emergency responders face many dangers daily from exposure to smoke, deadly temperatures, and stress to issues surrounding personal protective equipment (PPE), vehicle safety, and personal health. Although publicized firefighter fatalities...
The Economics of Social Capital and Health
A Conceptual and Empirical Roadmap
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
This book defines the field of social capital and health. Over the last two decades, there has been a recognition of the importance of social capital (usually defined as ties in the community, attachment to the community, and participation in community activities) and its impact on the health of those...
by Grace Budrys, PhD, Professor Emerita
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015
Our Unsystematic Health Care System presents readers with a comprehensive overview of the U.S. health care delivery system. Significantly revised and updated, the fourth edition explores the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, or "Obamacare," as it unfolds—including both challenges and successes....
Health Care at Risk
A Critique of the Consumer-Driven Movement
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2007
In Health Care at Risk Timothy Stoltzfus Jost, a leading expert in health law, weighs in on consumer-driven health care (CDHC), which many policymakers and analysts are promoting as the answer to the severe access, cost, and quality problems afflicting the American health care system. The idea behind...
by Michele Spatz
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Comprised of fifteen chapters written by experienced consumer health librarians, The Medical Library Association Guide to Providing Consumer and Patient Health Information is designed for library and information science graduate students as well as librarians new to health and medical librarianship,...
Managing Health Services - E-Book
Concepts and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2005
Managing Health Service: Concepts and Practice 2nd edition E-book provides a valuable practice resource for the health service management students and managers. While new concepts and strategies of multidisciplinary health service management and leadership have been added, the focus remains on providing...
Global Climate Change and Human Health
From Science to Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
Learn the foundations of climate science and human health
Global Climate Change and Human Health examines the environmental crisis from a public health and clinical health perspective, giving students and clinicians the information they need to prepare for the future of health care. Edited...
The Health Practitioner's Guide to Climate Change
Diagnosis and Cure
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Highly commended in the Public Health category, BMA Medical Awards 2010 There are enormous health benefits from tackling climate change. This is the first book to set out what health practitioners can do to prevent the worst impacts of climate change, to make health services sustainable, and to design...
by K J Foxhall
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2012
K J Foxhall A.PLL, LLB (Hons), (LLM) obtained her Masters of Law degree in 2009 submitting a dissertation very similar to what is contained in this ebook.After obtaining a 1:2 LLB (Hons) in 2005, the decision to take the Masters degree, followed on from K J Foxhall’s work at a Cardiac Network. Albeit...
Nudging Health
Health Law and Behavioral Economics
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
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 become so commonplace that they often go unnoticed....
The Demand for Health
A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
A seminal work in health economics first published in 1972, Michael Grossman's The Demand for Health introduced a new theoretical model for determining the health status of the population. His work uniquely synthesized economic and public health knowledge and has catalyzed a vastly influential body...
by Raymond L. Goldsteen, DrPH, Karen Goldsteen
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2012
"There are many books on the U.S. healthcare system, but few have the longevity of this one. It is easy to read and straightforward in its approach to difficult subjects such as the rise of the Tea Party and how that movement has impacted healthcare. This update is certainly needed as the landscape...
Assembling Health Rights in Global Context
Genealogies and Anthropologies
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
What do we mean when we talk about rights in relation to health? Where does the language of health rights come from, and what are the implications of using such a discourse?
During the last 20 years there have been an increasing number of initiatives and efforts – for instance in relation...
Health Policy Developments 13
Focus on Health Policy in Times of Crisis, Competition and Regulation, Evaluation in Health Care
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2010
Health policy in times of crisis is one of the topics of Health Policy Developments 13 exploring the challenge the crisis has posed to health systems, but also asking whether it has provided an opportunity for reform. While some countries like Estonia drastically reduced their healthcare budgets,...