Health Policy category: 748 books
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Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2006
Health psychology is the scientific study of psychological processes related to health and health care. Although the field is only 25 years old, it has burgeoned into a major scientific and clinical discipline. Health psychology has excellent scientific journals, thousands of scientists and practitioners,...
Mexican Americans and Health
¡Sana! ¡Sana!
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
By the middle of the twenty-first century, one out of every six Americans will be of Mexican descent; and as health care becomes of increasing concern to all Americans, the particular needs of Mexican Americans will have to be more thoroughly addressed. Mexican Americans and Health explains how the...
The Right to Try
How the Federal Government Prevents Americans from Getting the Life-Saving Treatments They Need
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Why should you need the government’s permission to save your own life?
Jenn McNary’s two sons, Max and Austin, were diagnosed with Duchenne muscular dystrophy—a fatal disorder that leads to muscle degeneration and eventually death. In a cruel and unnecessary twist, Max received access...
The Truth in Small Doses
Why We're Losing the War on Cancer-and How to Win It
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
A “brilliant” (Fortune), eye-opening history of the war on cancer, The Truth in Small Doses asks why we are losing this essential fight and charts a path forward.
Over the past half century, deaths from heart disease, stroke, and so many other killers have fallen dramatically. But cancer...
The Treatment Trap
How the Overuse of Medical Care is Wrecking Your Health and What You Can Do to Prevent It
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
With health reform enacted by the Congress and signed by the President, the subject matter of The Treatment Trap is a compelling component in the national debate. Taking advantage of Rosemary Gibson's knowledge gleaned from extended experience in the field of medical care and Janardan Singh's similar...
Mistreated
Why We Think We're Getting Good Health Care-and Why We're Usually Wrong
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
A WASHINGTON POST BESTSELLER
The biggest problem in American health care is us
Do you know how to tell good health care from bad health care? Guess again. As patients, we wrongly assume the "best" care is dependent mainly on the newest medications, the most complex treatments,...
Critical Condition
How Health Care in America Became Big Business--and Bad Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2004
Exposing the most controversial, little-known practices of America’s most flawed system, Time magazine’s Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative team pulls back the curtain on the health care industry to explain exactly how things grew so out of control.
Dirty examination and operating rooms...
by Stefan Timmermans
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2010
Sudden Death and the Myth of CPR is for anyone who has taken a CPR course or who believes the images from television dramas. It is also for families of victims and survivors of CPR. It will engage emergency personnel, others in the medical field, and anyone concerned with ethical issues of death and...
Culture of Death
The Age of Do Harm Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
When his teenage son Christopher, brain-damaged in an auto accident, developed a 105-degree fever following weeks of unconsciousness, John Campbell asked the attending physician for help. The doctor refused. Why bother? The boy’s life was effectively over. Campbell refused to accept this verdict. He...
The Global War on Tobacco
Mapping the World's First Public Health Treaty
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
The tobacco industry has capitalized on numerous elements of globalization—including trade liberalization, foreign direct investment, and global communications—to expand into countries where effective tobacco control programs are not in place. As a consequence, tobacco is currently the leading...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2014
The single greatest way to improve health and quality of life is not by developing new medical approaches, but by addressing harmful personal behaviors. These behaviors—which include tobacco, alcohol, and drug use, diet, and physical activity—play a significant role in the risk for and development,...
by Tom Farley, MD
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
The inside story of the most audacious public health campaign of the twenty-first century.
In 2002, a dynamic doctor named Thomas Frieden became health commissioner of New York City. With support from the new mayor, billionaire Michael Bloomberg, Frieden and his health department team prohibited...
Global Health in Africa
Historical Perspectives on Disease Control
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Global Health in Africa is a first exploration of selected histories of global health initiatives in Africa. The collection addresses some of the most important interventions in disease control, including mass vaccination, large-scale treatment and/or prophylaxis campaigns, harm reduction efforts,...