Health Policy category: 748 books
The Citizen Patient
Reforming Health Care for the Sake of the Patient, Not the System
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Conflicts of interest, misrepresentation of clinical trials, hospital price-fixing, and massive expenditures for procedures of dubious efficacy--these and other critical flaws leave little doubt that the current U.S. health-care system is in need of an overhaul. In this essential guide, preeminent...
Catching Homelessness
A Nurse's Story of Falling Through the Safety Net
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
• Homelessness is at a “crisis/emergency” level in many US cities and states today (Hawaii, along the cities of LA, Seattle, and Portland, OR have all officially declared states of emergency for homelessness). • ACA/health care reform efforts—especially “safety-net” healthcare services—across...
Patient Privacy, Consent, and Identity Management in Health Information Exchange
Issues for the Military Health System
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2013
As a step toward improving its health information technology (IT) interoperability, the Military Health System is seeking to develop a research roadmap to better coordinate health IT research efforts, address IT capability gaps, and reduce programmatic risk for its enterprise projects. This report identifies...
by David Goldhill
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
A Vintage Shorts Original Selection
Despite all attempts to make it otherwise, the American health care system remains arcane, bloated, inefficient, and damaging to our health. We pay high premiums, endure exorbitant out-of-pocket costs, see little to no information about treatment options, and...
Invisible Wounds of War
Psychological and Cognitive Injuries, Their Consequences, and Services to Assist Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2008
Since October 2001, approximately 1.64 million U.S. troops have been deployed for Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom (OEF/OIF) in Afghanistan and Iraq. Early evidence suggests that the psychological toll of these deployments many involving prolonged exposure to combat-related stress over...
Wounds of War
How the VA Delivers Health, Healing, and Hope to the Nation's Veterans
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
U.S. military conflicts abroad have left nine million Americans dependent on the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) for medical care. Their "wounds of war" are treated by the largest hospital system in the country—one that has come under fire from critics in the White House, on Capitol Hill, and...
Unsafe Abortion and Women's Health
Change and Liberalization
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Unsafe abortion remains one of the most neglected sexual and reproductive health problems according to the World Health Organisation. In recent years it has been estimated that nearly 44 million abortions occur annually leading to around 47,000 deaths. At this rate a woman will die of an unsafe abortion...
Shared Decision Making in Health Care
Achieving evidence-based patient choice
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
Over the past decade health care systems around the world have placed increasing importance on the relationship between patient choice and clinical decision-making. In the years since the publication of the second edition of Shared Decision Making in Health Care, there have been significant new developments...
Discovering the Cause and the Cure for America’S Health Care Crisis
A Physician’S Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011
The health care system remains in crisis, and its hurting the overall economy. Join an insider as he examines the problem and offers solutions.
Everyone knows that there are severe challenges when it comes to health care delivery and financing these days. Even so, not many people are offering...
Understanding Treatment Without Consent
An Analysis of the Work of the Mental Health Act Commission
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
In Understanding Treatment Without Consent, key contributors examine the work of the UK Mental Health Act Commission (MHAC), which was established to ensure the care and rights of people subjected to the various sections of the 1983 Mental Health Act. Based on a research project funded by the Department...
by Dr Mary Zennett
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
The principles of health reform are actually simple but remain formidable due to the size and complexity of the necessary implementation.The purpose of this book in this era of health reform is to educate and offer potential solutions that represent an actual overhaul of the existing health care system...
Deadly Spin
An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR Is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2010
That's how Wendell Potter introduced himself to a Senate committee in June 2009. He proceed to explain how insurance companies make promises they have no intention of keeping, how they flout regulations designed to protect consumers, and how they make it nearly impossible to understand information...
by Agnes Gereben Schaefer, Radha Iyengar, Srikanth Kadiyala
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
The U.S. Department of Defense is considering a change in policy to allow transgender military personnel to serve openly. A RAND study examined the health care needs of transgender personnel, the costs of gender transition–related care, and the potential readiness implications of a policy change....
Reforming America's Health Care System
The Flawed Vision of ObamaCare
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Health policy experts from the United States, Canada, and Western Europe discuss both what to expect from the recent health reform legislation and alternatives that should still be considered. The contributors argue that Americans already have a superior health care system and that if Congress enacts...