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  • The Political Economy of Social Inequalities

    Consequences for Health and Quality of Life

    by Vincente Navarro ...
    Series series Policy, Politics, Health and Medicine Series
    In the last two decades of the 20th century, we witnessed a dramatic growth in social inequalities within and among countries. This has had a most negative impact on the health and quality of life of large sectors of the populations in the developed and underdeveloped world. This volume analyzes the reasons for this increase in inequalities and its consequences for the well-being of populations. ... Read more

    Was $116.99 USD Now $104.99 USD

  • The Temporal Lobe

    by Gabriele Miceli, Paolo Bartolomeo, Vincent Navarro ...
    Series Book 187 - Handbook of Clinical Neurology
    The Temporal Lobe, Volume 187 covers the exponential growth of studies on the relationships between brain and language/cognition, many of which involved the temporal lobe. This volume summarizes research on the anatomy and function of the temporal lobe under both normal and pathological conditions. In addition, it discusses the interactions of the temporal lobe with other brain structures. The ... Read more

    $247.49 USD

  • Political And Economic Determinants of Population Health and Well-Being:

    Controversies and Developments

    Edited by Vincente Navarro, Caries Muntaner ...
    Series series Policy, Politics, Health and Medicine Series
    The field of social inequalities in health continues its vigorous growth in the early years of the 21st century. This volume, following in the footsteps of Vicente Navarro's edited collection The Political Economy of Social Inequalities, is a compilation of recent contributions to the areas of social epidemiology, health disparities, health economics, and health services research. The overarching ... Read more

    $199.99 USD

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  • Latin American Development Priorities

    Costs and Benefits

    Edited by Bjørn Lomborg ...
    Many countries in Latin America and the Caribbean have achieved considerable economic growth, yet the region still faces many seemingly intractable problems. The conventional wisdom in development agencies - that prioritization is impossible and that everything must be done - is simply not effective. Latin American Development Priorities shows how limited resources could be used for the greatest ... Read more

    $54.19 USD

  • Clinical Manual of Neuropsychiatry

    Edited by Stuart C. Yudofsky, MD, Robert E. Hales, MD MBA ...
    Clinical Manual of Neuropsychiatry focuses on the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of the full spectrum of neuropsychiatric disorders, as well as those conditions that have significant neuropsychiatric components.With the help of this highly practical manual, clinicians are empowered to evaluate patients and treat the neuropsychiatric aspects of a host of disorders. The manual: Sets forth a ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Health Care in Canada

    A Citizen's Guide to Policy and Politics

    by Katherine Fierlbeck ...
    Health Care in Canada examines the challenges faced by the Canadian health care system, a subject of much public debate. In this book Katherine Fierlbeck provides an in-depth discussion of how health care decisions are shaped by politics and why there is so much disagreement over how to fix the system.Many Canadians point to health care as a source of national pride; others are highly critical of ... Read more

    $36.29 USD

  • Biological Psychiatry

    by Michael R. Trimble, Mark George ...
    Biological psychiatry has dominated psychiatric thinking for the past 40 years, but the knowledge base of the discipline has increased substantially more recently, particularly with advances in genetics and neuroimaging. The third edition of Biological Psychiatry has been thoroughly updated taking into account these developments. As in the earlier editions of the book, there are comprehensive ... Read more

    $98.00 USD

  • Handbook of Development Economics

    Edited by M.R. Rosenzweig, Dani Rodrick ...
    Series Book 5 - Handbooks in Economics
    What guidance does academic research really provide to economic policy development? The critical and analytical surveys in this volume investigate links between policies and outcomes by surveying work from broad macroeconomic policies to interventions in microfinance. Asserting that there are no universal correspondences between policies and outcomes, contributors demonstrate instead that only an ... Read more

    $148.49 USD

  • The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience

    Edited by David B. Arciniegas, MD, Stuart C. Yudofsky, MD, Robert E. Hales, MD MBA ...
    For more than three decades, the Textbook of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences has been the gold standard for understanding the structural and functional foundations and rapidly evolving knowledge base of neuropsychiatric disorders. In the new edition, the esteemed editors have undertaken a complete reorganization, reconceptualizing the way the material is presented and integrating ... Read more

    $186.29 USD

  • The American Health Care Paradox

    Why Spending More is Getting Us Less

    by Elizabeth H. Bradley, Lauren A Taylor ...
    Foreword by Harvey V. Fineberg, President of the Institute of MedicineFor decades, experts have puzzled over why the US spends more on health care but suffers poorer outcomes than other industrialized nations. Now Elizabeth H. Bradley and Lauren A. Taylor marshal extensive research, including a comparative study of health care data from thirty countries, and get to the root of this paradox: We've ... Read more

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  • The Welfare State Revisited

    Edited by José Antonio Ocampo, Joseph E. Stiglitz ...
    Series series Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia: Challenges in Development and Globalization
    The welfare state has been under attack for decades, but now more than ever there is a need for strong social protection systems—the best tools we have to combat inequality, support social justice, and even improve economic performance. In this book, José Antonio Ocampo and Joseph E. Stiglitz bring together distinguished contributors to examine the global variations of social programs and make the ... Read more

    $57.59 USD