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  • Understanding Global Health, 2E

    by William H. Markle, Melanie A. Fisher, Ray A. Smego Jr. ...
    A complete introductory review of global health--updated to reflect the latest issues and challengesThe first edition of Understanding Global Health set a new information standard for this rapidly emerging subject. Written by a remarkable group of authors and contributors, this comprehensive, engagingly written text offers unmatched coverage of every important topic--from infectious disease to ... Read more

    $75.59 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

  • Powerful Medicines

    The Benefits, Risks, and Costs of Prescription Drugs

    by Jerry Avorn M.D. ...
    If you believe that the latest blockbuster medication is worth a premium price over your generic brand, or that doctors have access to all the information they need about a drug’s safety and effectiveness each time they write a prescription, Dr. Jerry Avorn has some sobering news. Drawing on more than twenty-five years of patient care, teaching, and research at Harvard Medical School, he shares ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Politics of Precaution

    Regulating Health, Safety, and Environmental Risks in Europe and the United States

    by David Vogel ...
    The Politics of Precaution examines the politics of consumer and environmental risk regulation in the United States and Europe over the last five decades, explaining why America and Europe have often regulated a wide range of similar risks differently. It finds that between 1960 and 1990, American health, safety, and environmental regulations were more stringent, risk averse, comprehensive, and ... Read more

    $22.39 USD

  • Public-Private Partnerships in Health

    Improving Infrastructure and Technology

    Edited by Veronica Vecchi, Mark Hellowell ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book considers the use of Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) in the delivery of physical assets, infrastructure and technologies and related clinical services, in the health sector. The PPP model represents the most complex form of contracting transaction yet to have emerged in the health sector, owing to its long-term character, financial complexity, and risk-allocation mechanisms. This book ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Accessibility and Active Offer

    Health Care and Social Services in Linguistic Minority Communities

    Edited by Marie Drolet, Pier Bouchard, Jacinthe Savard ...
    Series series Health and Society
    It is imperative that we train leaders who are able to intervene efficiently with service users and to support a better organization of the workplace. It is especially important to look at the many issues related to postsecondary training and human resources, such as recruiting and keeping these leading professionals. Accessibility and Active Offer thus combines theory and empirical data to help ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Phantom Billing, Fake Prescriptions, and the High Cost of Medicine

    Health Care Fraud and What to Do about It

    by Terry L. Leap ...
    Series series The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
    U.S. health care is a $2.5 trillion system that accounts for more than 17 percent of the nation's GDP. It is also highly susceptible to fraud. Estimates vary, but some observers believe that as much as 10 percent of all medical billing involves some type of fraud. In 2009, New York's Medicaid fraud office recovered $283 million and obtained 148 criminal convictions. In July 2010, the U.S. Justice ... Read more

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  • Conceptual Design Standards for a Single Comprehensive Confidential Health Record Database Communications Network

    by John R. Krismer ...
    Patients legally own their medical records that are stored either manually or on an assortment of computers, software, and operating systems in a variety of disorganized healthcare facilities, which are spiraling healthcare costs out of control. In 1910, the Flexner Report by the Carnegie and Rockefeller Foundations, established medical education standards and licensing of qualified physicians who ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Chronic Disease in the Twentieth Century

    A History

    by George Weisz ...
    How the evolving concept of chronic disease has affected patients and politics in the United States and Europe.Long and recurring illnesses have burdened sick people and their doctors since ancient times, but until recently the concept of "chronic disease" had limited significance. Even lingering diseases like tuberculosis, a leading cause of mortality, did not inspire dedicated public health ... Read more

    $27.09 USD

  • Humanizing Healthcare Reforms

    by Gerald Arbuckle ...
    Looking at the current turmoil facing contemporary healthcare systems worldwide, resulting from relentless imposition of financially-based performance indicators, the author argues that a return to a values-based approach to healthcare will create positive transformation. Writing from the fresh perspective of social anthropology, the author takes a highly pragmatic approach to practice, ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • European Union As A Global Health Actor, The

    by Thea Emmerling, Ilona Kickbusch, Michaela Told ...
    Series Book 4 - Global Health Diplomacy
    This book provides a systematic collection of EU actors, EU policy and EU actions in global health. It answers key questions on governance of the EU and its policy processes. The book starts with an introduction to the EU as a global actor and continues to outline the historical development and the Treaty basis for health, including the Maastricht and Lisbon Treaties. It also discusses the ... Read more

    $76.49 USD

  • Insourced

    How Importing Jobs Impacts the Healthcare Crisis Here and Abroad

    by Dr. Kate Tulenko ...
    For years, opponents of outsourcing have argued that offshoring American jobs destroys our local industries, lays waste to American job creation, and gives foreigners the good jobs and income that would otherwise remain on our shores. Yet few Americans realize that a parallel dynamic is occurring in the healthcare sector—previously one of the most consistent sources of stable, dependable living ... Read more

    $12.99 USD