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“james j mongan”

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  • Chaos and Organization in Health Care

    by Thomas H. Lee, James J. Mongan ...
    Two leading physicians' prescription for solving our health care problems: organizing the fragmented system that delivers care.One of the most daunting challenges facing the new U.S. administration is health care reform. The size of the system, the number of stakeholders, and ever-rising costs make the problem seem almost intractable. But in Chaos and Organization in Health Care, two leading ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Deadly Spin

    An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR Is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans

    by Wendell Potter ...
    A behind the scenes look at how a huge portion of our absurd healthcare spending actually bankrolls a propaganda campaign and lobbying effort focused on protecting one thing: profits.A former senior VP of CIGNA, Wendell Potter made national headlines with his scorching testimony before the Senate panel on health care reform. He explained how health insurers make promises they have no intention of ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

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  • High Performing Healthcare Systems, Delivering Quality By Design

    Delivering Quality by Design

    by G. Ross Baker,Anu MacIntosh-Murray,Christina Porcellato,Lynn Dionne,Kim Stelmacovish and Karen Born ...
    An examination of leadership, strategies, organization processes and investments made to create and sustain improvement in healthcare. ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • Thrive

    How Better Mental Health Care Transforms Lives and Saves Money

    by Richard Layard, David M. Clark ...
    A compelling argument for improving society's mental health through increased services and better policyMental illness is a leading cause of suffering in the modern world. In sheer numbers, it afflicts at least 20 percent of people in developed countries. It reduces life expectancy as much as smoking does, accounts for nearly half of all disability claims, is behind half of all worker sick days, ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • The Cure

    How Capitalism Can Save American Health Care

    by David Gratzer ...
    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 American health care such a mess? In this path-breaking book--Nobel laureate Milton Friedman calls ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • 2030 - The Future of Medicine

    Avoiding a Medical Meltdown

    by Richard Barker ...
    It is 2030. What are the new technologies that have advanced healthcare? What are the new or strengthened demands placed on the healthcare systems of the world? Is the future affordable, or do we see drastic rationing of care or the collapse of healthcare insurance? This book tackles these questions, and provides some answers. It does not shrink from the uncomfortable challenges that lie ahead, as ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Surviving Your Doctors

    Why the Medical System is Dangerous to Your Health and How to Get Through it Alive

    by Richard S. Klein ...
    Surviving Your Doctors, with its in-depth explanations, guidance, and direction will be the basic training manual patients need to work their way through the health care maze. It serves as a map of the medical minefield, told from the perspective of a doctor yet designed to reveal the faults in the system and the things that can and do go wrong during the course of both routine and special ... Read more

    $48.59 USD

  • In Their Own Words

    12,000 Physicians Reveal Their Thoughts On Medical Practice in America

    by Phillip Miller ...
    In Their Own Words invites you to become “doctor for a day” and see medical practice from the physicians’ perspective. Drawing on one of the largest physician surveys ever undertaken, “In Their Own Words” offers insights from hundreds of doctors, who reveal in candid comments exactly how they feel about being physicians and why it matters to patients. Read why: Close to half of all doctors plan to ... Read more

    $10.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Understanding Health Policy

    by Rob Baggott ...
    Series series Understanding Welfare: Social Issues, Policy and Practice
    In recent years the pace of reform in health policy and the NHS has been relentless. But how are policies formed and implemented? This fully updated edition of a bestselling book explores the processes and institutions that make health policy, examining what constitutes health policy, where power lies, and what changes could be made to improve the quality of health policy making. Drawing on ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Managing Innovation In Healthcare

    by James Barlow ...
    'The book would be a great text for advanced healthcare students, as it is chock-full of fair-minded and complete discussions of different scholarly views. The book contains the musts of excellent text books too: ample caselets, boxes and figures that illustrate key concepts; chapter summaries; and a distillation of key concepts and further reading suggestions stud every chapter. It is useful for ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Health Inequalities

    Critical Perspectives

    Edited by Katherine E. Smith, Clare Bambra, Sarah E. Hill ...
    Informed by a wealth of available research, between 1997 and 2010, the UK Labour government introduced a raft of policies to reduce health inequalities. Despite this, by most measures, the UK's health inequalities have continued to widen. This failure has prompted calls for new approaches to health inequalities research and some consensus that public health researchers ought to be more actively ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

  • Unequal Health

    The Scandal of Our Times

    by Danny Dorling ...
    Health inequalities are the most important inequalities of all. In the US and the UK these inequalities have now reached an extent not seen for over a century. Most people's health is much better now than then, but the gaps in life expectancy between regions, between cities, and between neighbourhoods within cities now surpass the worst measures over the last hundred years. In almost all other ... Read more

    $47.69 USD