Health Care Issues category: 1336 books
by Christopher J. Conover
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
With 150 original color charts and graphs, The Illustrated Guide to the American Health Care Economy is an attractive, user-friendly, one-of-a-kind resource on the economics of health care in the United States. Covering topics such as 'How Is Each Health Care Dollar Spent?' and 'Who Pays for Health...
Healthcare Teamwork: Interprofessional Practice and Education, 2nd Edition
Interprofessional Practice and Education
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
Both comprehensive and accessible, this is an ideal resource for anyone who plans to teach or practice integrated, cost-effective healthcare in the 21st century.
• Explores the complexities of interprofessional teamwork and education, addressing both practice and teaching
• Discusses...
by Elizabeth Rasheed
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
Take the guesswork out of BTEC assessment with sample student work and assessor feedback for all pass, merit and distinction criteria.
By focusing on assessment this compact guide leads students through each pass, merit and distinction criterion by clearly showing them what they are required...
Overdiagnosed
Making People Sick in the Pursuit of Health
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2011
From a nationally recognized expert, an exposé of the worst excesses of our zeal for medical testing
Going against the conventional wisdom reinforced by the medical establishment and Big Pharma that more screening is the best preventative medicine, Dr. Gilbert Welch builds a compelling counterargument...
Your Health, Your Decisions
How to Work with Your Doctor to Become a Knowledge-Powered Patient
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
In nearly every medical-decision-making encounter, the physician is at the center of the discussion, with the patient the recipient of the physician's decisions. Dr. Robert Alan McNutt starts from a very different premise: the patient should be at the center. McNutt challenges the physician-directed,...
Measuring Health
Lessons for Ontario
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1978
Planning and evaluating any health care program is a formidable task: how do you measure the health of a population? This fundamental question has been approached from various perspectives in medical, administrative, and economic studies. This book provides a guide to health measurement literature...
ikioo® 21st Century Medicine
Artificial Intelligence for Health Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017
ikioo® 21st Century Medicine: Artificial Intelligence for Health Professionals
It’s no surprise that the US healthcare system needs drastic reform. Aging population demographics, increases in chronic disease prevalence, and advances in costly technologies contribute greatly to staggering...
Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise
5 Steps to a Better Health Care System, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
In this second edition of their 2005 work, the authors offer market-based alternatives to recent health care reforms that center on tax changes, insurance market changes, and the redesign of Medicare and Medicaid. They show that, by promoting cost- conscious behavior and competition in both private...
Military Mental Health Care
A Guide for Service Members, Veterans, Families, and Community
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
Too often American veterans return from combat and spiral into depression, anger and loneliness they can neither share nor tackle on their own. Military Mental Health Care: A Guide for Service Members, Veterans, Families, and Community seeks to aid our troubled, returning forces by dissecting the...
Understanding Health Inequalities and Justice
New Conversations across the Disciplines
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
The need for informed analyses of health policy is now greater than ever. The twelve essays in this volume show that public debates routinely bypass complex ethical, sociocultural, historical, and political questions about how we should address ideals of justice and equality in health care. Integrating...
In Excellent Health
Setting the Record Straight on America's Health Care
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
In Excellent Health offers an alternative view of the much maligned state of health care in America, using facts and peer-reviewed data to challenge the statistics often cited as evidence that medical care in the United States is substandard and poor in value relative to that of other countries. The...
When the Unacceptable Becomes the Norm
Choosing a Care Home in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2017
When the Acceptable Becomes the Norm is an essential guide for any person looking to place a relative in care or already in the care system. Few subjects have aroused public concern since the millennium more than care for the elderly in the UK, and in particular residential care homes for the elderly....
by Robert Goff, Jerry Ashton
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
The Patient, The Doctor and Bill Collector reveals the hidden truths behind the crushing wave of medical debt now drowning more than 64 million Americans.
Authors Robert E. Goff and Jerry Ashton know the inside story on medical debt. Each offers more than 40 years of experience inside the healthcare...
Greed on Trial
Doctors and Patients Unite to Fight Big Insurance
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
In today’s medical landscape, insurance companies call the shots. In order to make a profit, insurers and health-care corporations often enact policies that require cutting corners on patient care. They ask doctors to double- and triple-book appointments and reduce the amount of time spent with...