Health Policy category: 748 books
Drug Safety
Problems, Pitfalls and Solutions in Identifying and Evaluating Risk
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
With “Big Pharma” garnering an increasing number of negative headlines due to reports of adverse drug reactions and a surge in prescription drug addiction and overdose deaths, many people are increasingly skeptical about the safety of modern pharmaceutics and the moral integrity of the pharmaceutical...
by Matt Lambert
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
We are in a remarkable time in healthcare. Market forces, healthcare policy, and politics have converged to create opportunities that we haven't seen in the US or the UK for a century, when healthcare policies for the two countries diverged sharply. By coming full circle, we have a second opportunity...
by
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2009
Named an Outstanding Academic Title for 2009 byChoice!
"[A] set of almost 70 essays, all well informed and many with attitude."
Harold Shapiro, PhD
Professor Emeritus and Professor of Economics and Public Affairs
Princeton University, Former Chair, National Bioethics Advisory...
by Susan Hunter
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
With more than one million people currently infected and half a million already dead, the U.S. ranks among the top ten most severe AIDS epidemics in the world. Americans should know more about the current state of the epidemic so they can protect themselves and demand that the government act responsibly...
Abortion
History, Politics, and Reproductive Justice after Morgentaler
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
When Henry Morgentaler, Canada’s best-known abortion rights advocate, died in 2013, activists and scholars began to reassess the state of abortion in this country. In Abortion, some of the foremost researchers in Canada challenge current thinking by revealing the discrepancy between what people...
Genetic Privacy
An Evaluation of the Ethical and Legal Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Privacy is an unwieldy concept that has eluded an essentialised definition despite its centrality and importance in the body of bioethics. The compilation presented in this volume represents continuing discussions on the theme of privacy in the context of genetic information. It is intended to present...
by
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2015
Drug use is a major challenge for public services, healthcare professionals and policy-makers all over the world. This book offers a complete overview of the issues associated with substance misuse from an interdisciplinary perspective. It begins by providing a reference guide to the different psychoactive...
by Dr. Larry Kessler
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
Next January will see the swearing in of Congress, a President, and many legislators and governors. When that happens the issue of healthcare will be on the table. Republicans are committed to repealing Obamacare. Democrats are just as committed to keeping it. No matter who’s in the White House,...
Mad Dogs and Meerkats
A History of Resurgent Rabies in Southern Africa
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2011
Through the ages, rabies has exemplified the danger of diseases that transfer from wild animals to humans and their domestic stock. In South Africa, rabies has been on the rise since the latter part of the twentieth century despite the availability of postexposure vaccines and regular inoculation...
Family and Community Life of Older People
Social Networks and Social Support in Three Urban Areas
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Family life has changed rapidly over te past fifty years and the number of people living longer increases year on year Family and Community Life of Older People revisits three areas (Bethnal Green in London, Wolverhampton in the Midlands and Woodford in Essex) which were the subject of classic studies...
The Health Gap
The Challenge of an Unequal World
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
In Baltimore's inner-city neighborhood of Upton/Druid Heights, a man's life expectancy is sixty-three; not far away, in the Greater Roland Park/Poplar neighborhood, life expectancy is eighty-three. The same twenty-year avoidable disparity exists in the Calton and Lenzie neighborhoods of Glasgow, and...
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...
The Access Health Plan
The "We Can Story"
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2016
The Access Health Plan: The "We Can Story" The Access Health Plan was developed to meet a need in our local community. There were those in Muskegon County working for small businesses who were uninsured. Small businesses identified they needed health coverage to compete and keep employees. The...
by Ann Taket
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Important links between health and human rights are increasingly recognised and human rights can be viewed as one of the social determinants of health. Furthermore, a human rights framework provides an excellent foundation for advocacy on health inequalities, a value-based alternative to views of...