Health Care Issues category: 1336 books
The Decision Tree
How to make better choices and take control of your health
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2010
For all the talk about personalized medicine, our health care system remains a top-down, doctor-driven system where individuals are too often bit players in their own health decisions. In The Decision Tree, Thomas Goetz proposes a new strategy for thinking about health, one that applies cutting-edge...
Never Go to the Hospital Alone
And Other Insider Secrets for Getting Mistake-Free Health Care from Your Doctor and Hospital
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
This year 176,445 patients in the U.S. will die due to preventable errors, infections, and medication mistakes. This book explains the simple steps you must take to avoid being one of them.
Safety systems expert Steve Harden shows you how to pick a great doctor and a great hospital for yourself...
Health Technology Development and Use
From Practice-Bound Imagination to Evolving Impacts
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2010
How do development and use of new technology relate? How can users contribute to innovation? This volume is the first to study these questions by following particular technologies over several product launches in detail. It examines the emergence of inventive ideas about future technology and uses,...
By the Bedside of the Patient
Lessons for the Twenty-First-Century Physician
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2016
In By the Bedside of the Patient, Nortin Hadler places current efforts to reform medical education--from the undergraduate level through residency programs and on to continuing medical education--in historical context. In doing so, he traces the evolution of medical school curricula, residency and...
Making Medicare
New Perspectives on the History of Medicare in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2012
The Canadian health care system is so indisputably tied to our national identity that its founder, Tommy Douglas, was voted the greatest Canadian of all time in a CBC television contest. However, very little has been written to date on how Medicare as we know it was developed and implemented. This...
by Mark Britnell
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2015
Have you ever imagined what a truly great health system could look like? In Search of the Perfect Health System provides the answers. Over the past six years, Mark Britnell has worked in 60 countries – covering eight-tenths of the world's GDP – with hundreds of government, public and private healthcare...
The Affordable Care Act: Examining the Facts
Examining the Facts
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
This is the first reference book to provide a detailed assessment of the Affordable Care Act, explaining the realities and myths surrounding one of the most divisive political struggles in recent U.S. history.
• Uses nonpartisan sources of information that include studies and reports to assess...
Sick
The True Story of How American
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
America's health care system is unraveling, with millions of hard-working people unable to pay for prescription drugs and regular checkups, let alone hospital visits. Jonathan Cohn traveled across the United States—the only country in the developed world that does not guarantee its citizens access...
Chronic Resilience
10 Sanity-Saving Tools for Women Coping with the Stress of Illness
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Chronic illness comes with stress, and Chronic Resilience provides a complete self-help blueprint for managing the difficulties chronic illness presents. Certified life coach and speaker Danea Horn, who suffers from chronic kidney disease, infertility, and other demanding health challenges due to...
by Lorena Tonarelli
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
Looking after someone ill, elderly or disabled can be physically and emotionally challenging, especially if you are new to caring. However, you are not alone.
Offering practical advice and drawing on the latest research in the field of caring, this book helps you begin your journey as a...
by Felicia Marie Knaul
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2013
Felicia Knaul, an economist who has lived and worked for two decades in Latin America on health and social development, documents the personal and professional sides of her breast cancer experience. Beauty without the Breast contrasts her difficult but inspiring journey with that of the majority of...
by Judith Lorber, Lisa Jean Moore, Purchase College
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2002
Judith Lorber and Lisa Jean Moore consider the interface between the social institutions of gender and Western medicine in this brief, lively textbook. They offer a distinct feminist viewpoint to analyze issues of power and politics concerning physical illness. SIGNS labeled the first edition 'a rich...
by Kenneth Kee
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2012
A male child becomes a boy and matures into a man.
He must learn to take care of his family just his father before him.
As he grows he will find that he must learn to be:
Physically fit
Mentally strong
Emotionally balanced
A man learns as he grows.
He is not afraid to...
by Kanchan Kabra
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
Clothes Their Care And Maintenance
by Kanchan Kabra
There are lots of books available under general sections but still there is a lack of books which help us to keep our clothes neat, clean and shinny even after many washes. Presenting here is a solution in the forms of books under household...