Health Policy category: 748 books
E-Health Communities and Online Self-Help Groups
Applications and Usage
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
E-health communities, also called Web-based health communities, have become popular arenas for support and sharing of experience, knowledge and advice among patients and citizens. E-health communities are used on a day-to-day basis by people who help each other cope with different health conditions and...
The Bottom Line
The Truth Behind Private Health Insurance in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006
The Alberta government is looking to the private sector – and in particular to private health insurance – to solve health care problems. However, private health insurance is mired in myth and misunderstanding. The Bottom Line summarizes a huge body of evidence to get to the truth: private health...
Case Studies on Corporations and Global Health Governance
Impacts, Influence and Accountability
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2016
There is growing evidence of the wide-ranging impacts of corporations in selected industries on global patterns of health and disease. However, limited analysis has been undertaken of the increasing corporate involvement in collective action needed to effectively address these impacts.
This...
Toward Equity in Health
A New Global Approach to Health Disparities
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2007
This essential collection presents a state-of-the-art framework for how workers in public health and related disciplines should conceptualize health disparities and how they should be addressed worldwide. The contributors, who are leading public health professionals, educators, and practitioners in...
Restructuring Canada's Health Systems: How Do We Get There From Here?
Proceedings of the Fourth Canadian Conference on Health Economics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1992
Is the Canadian health care system becoming a victim of its own success? It has done what it set out to do – provide universal access to all medically necessary health services without financial barriers to patients – but expanding technology, an aging population, and escalating costs strain its...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Health and healthy life styles are something that we all would like to induce in our youths and children. This book provides a new perspective for health education. It represents Finnish ideas and solutions of health education and provides analyses of health promotion. In today’s world, health education...
Unraveling U.S. Health Care
A Personal Guide
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Unraveling U.S. Health Care is a guidebook to the health care system that provides a timely and thorough explanation of U.S. health care, written in readable laymen’s terms. Roberta Winter educates and informs general readers about useful information that will empower their health care decision...
Breaking out of the Health Care Abyss
Transformational Tips for Agents of Change
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2017
It has become routine to see in various health care magazines, e-mails to leaders, and executive discussions on social media internet outlets, a listing of the ten top challenges that CEOs believe they are facing in the health care industry today. They often call this list the “what is keeping me...
The New Health Age
The Future of Health Care in America
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
We live in a transformational time in the history of medicine and health care. The twenty-first century will be a time of dramatic change, incredible breakthroughs, and totally altered thinking about health, medicine, and health care delivery.
This book sets forth what health care and medicine...
by Valiere Alcena M.D. M.A.C.P.
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2011
This book is written to bring to light the many wrongs that are going on in the health care insurance system in the U.S.
The U.S. health care insurance system is the most expensive health care system in the world and the most inefficient health care system of all the health care systems of...
Restoring Quality Health Care
A Six-Point Plan for Comprehensive Reform at Lower Cost
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
In Restoring Quality Health Care, Dr. Scott Atlas examines the status of US health care, particularly in light of the Affordable Care Act, and presents a series of key reforms to meet the significant health care challenges facing the nation. Atlas proposes a six-point, strategic, incentive-based reform...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2010
The last two decades have witnessed an explosion of research on sexuality as the social sciences have worked to find new ways of understanding a rapidly changing world. Growing concern for issues such as population, women's and men's reproductive health, and the HIV and AIDS pandemic, has since provided...
Health Care Systems Around the World
A Comparative Guide
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2013
This concise reference provides a one-stop point of research that examines major aspects of health care systems for over 190 countries worldwide. In a consistent format, ten major health care categories are systematically examined for each country: 1. Emergency Health Services; 2. Costs of Hospitalization;...
by Valentina Marinescu, Bianca Mitu
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
Health is a contested concept that has been defined in numerous ways. The media is extremely powerful in promoting health beliefs and in creating role models for contemporary people. The ways in which health is defined or understood can have wide-ranging implications and can have an impact on issues...