Health Policy category: 748 books
Surviving American Medicine
How to Get the Right Doctor, Right Hospital, and Right Treatment with Today’S Health Care
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012
We live in a time when the business of health care has superseded the care of health. Health-care reform isnt just political rhetoric: its a reality. Its happening every dayand for you it means new ways of getting your care. Virtually every American understands we are experiencing dramatic changes...
Toward the Healthy City
People, Places, and the Politics of Urban Planning
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2009
A call to reconnect the fields of urban planning and public health that offers a new decision-making framework for healthy city planning.
In distressed urban neighborhoods where residential segregation concentrates poverty, liquor stores outnumber supermarkets, toxic sites are next to playgrounds,...
The Cure
How Capitalism Can Save American Health Care
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
We are surrounded by medical miracles: polio has been eradicated; childhood leukemia is now treatable; death by cardiovascular disease has declined by two-thirds in the last fifty years. Yet while American medicine has never been better, angst over American health care has never been greater. Why is...
Eight Questions You Should Ask About Our Health Care System
(Even if the Answers Make You Sick)
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Charles E. Phelps provides a comprehensive look at our health care system, including how the current system evolved, how the health care sector behaves, and a detailed analysis of "the good, the bad, and the ugly" parts of the system—from technological advances (the "good") to...
by Daniel E. Dawes
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
In this groundbreaking book, health-care attorney Daniel E. Dawes explores the secret backstory of the Affordable Care Act, shedding light on the creation and implementation of the greatest and most sweeping equalizer in the history of American health care. An eye-opening and authoritative narrative...
by Hans Keiding
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2017
As a relatively young discipline, health economics as it appears today contains many features which can be traced back to its beginnings. Since it arose in the interface between the medical sciences and economics, the way of dealing with problems were often influenced by traditions which were well-established...
Saviour Siblings and the Regulation of Assisted Reproductive Technology
Harm, Ethics and Law
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Advances in the field of Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) have been revolutionary. This book focuses on the use of ARTs in the context of families who seek to conceive a matching sibling donor as a source of tissue to treat an existing sick child. Such children have been referred to as 'saviour...
Reproductive Medicine and the Life Sciences in the Contemporary Economy
A Sociomaterial Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
In Reproductive Medicine and the Life Sciences in the Contemporary Economy, Alexander Styhre and Rebecka Arman illuminate issues that have given rise to terms such as 'the bioeconomy' and 'the baby business'. The life sciences play an increasing role in providing services and commodities consumed...
Reparable Harm
Assessing and Addressing Disparities Faced by Boys and Men of Color in California
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2009
The Los Angeles area has the most severe traffic congestion in the United States. Trends in many of the underlying causal factors suggest that congestion will continue to worsen in the coming years, absent significant policy intervention. Excessive traffic congestion detracts from quality of life,...
by Judith Dwyer, Pauline Stanton, Valerie Thiessen
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
In the health and community service industries, projects are increasingly used for the development of new services, and to achieve change in existing services, work practices and delivery models.
Until now, project workers in these fields have had to rely on books designed for architects, builders...
by Ahmed Ceegaag
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
The purpose of this book is to address a popular debate in America right now. Imagine that youre political candidate running for office and you have an upcoming debate in which you will be defending your position on Obamacare. Your argument broadsheets are due two days from now, one week from now,...
Activists and Advocates
Toronto's Health Department 1883-1983
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 1990
For more than a century, Toronto’s Health Department has served as a model of evolving municipal public health services in Canada and beyond. From horse manure to hippies and small pox to AIDS, the Department’s staff have established and maintained standards of environmental cleanliness and communicable...
Health Communication
Strategies for Developing Global Health Programs
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Promotion of healthy behaviors and prevention of disease are inextricably linked to cultural understandings of health and well-being. Health communication scholarship and practice can substantially and strategically contribute to people living safer, healthier, and happier lives. This book represents...
Disentitlement?
The Threats Facing Our Public Health Care Programs and a Right-Based Response
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2003
No developed nation relies exclusively on the private sector to finance health care for citizens. This book begins by exploring the deficiencies in private health insurance that account for this. It then recounts the history and examines the legal character of America's public health care entitlements...