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  • Saving Gotham

    A Billionaire Mayor, Activist Doctors, and the Fight for Eight Million Lives

    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 smoking in bars, outlawed trans fats in restaurants, and attempted to cap the size of sodas, among other ... Leer más

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  • Prescription for a Healthy Nation

    A New Approach to Improving Our Lives by Fixing Our Everyday World

    America spends more than twice as much for health care as any other nation. So why are Americans among the sickest people in the industrialized world?Public health experts Tom Farley and Deborah A. Cohen show that the answer does not lie in our medical care system but rather in the world around us. As they explain, the leading killers of our time fall almost entirely into two categories: injuries ... Leer más

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    The Future of Medicine is in Your Hands

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  • Pandemic

    Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Coronaviruses and Beyond

    de Sonia Shah ...
    Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize | A New York Times Editor's Choice“[A] grounded, bracingly intelligent study” —NaturePrizewinning science journalist Sonia Shah presents a startling examination of the pandemics that have ravaged humanity—and shows us how history can prepare us to confront the most serious acute global health emergency of our time.Over the past fifty years, more than ... Leer más

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  • Medical Terminology

    A Student Workbook

    de Linda Rener ...
    This workbook has been developed for all individuals with little to no background in the health care field. It is a basic introduction to medical terminology. It provides the student with an opportunity to develop good word-building skills so that the student can identify medical terms by their corresponding word components.This workbook is unique in that it has been designed for use with any ... Leer más

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  • Epic Measures

    One Doctor. Seven Billion Patients.

    Moneyball meets medicine in this remarkable chronicle of one of the greatest scientific quests of our time—the groundbreaking program to answer the most essential question for humanity: how do we live and die?—and the visionary mastermind behind it.Medical doctor and economist Christopher Murray began the Global Burden of Disease studies to gain a truer understanding of how we live and how we die. ... Leer más

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  • God Bless the NHS

    de Roger Taylor ...
    The National Health Service, described by Nigel Lawson as Britain's only 'national religion', has never been more popular. So why is the government so desperate to reform it?Last year, the Office of National Statistics reported higher public satisfaction with the NHS than at any time since its foundation. In a 2012 survey of developed countries, the UK showed the highest public support of its ... Leer más

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  • Global Health Law

    The international community has made great progress in improving global health. But staggering health inequalities between rich and poor still remain, raising fundamental questions of social justice. In a book that systematically defines the burgeoning field of global health law, Lawrence Gostin drives home the need for effective global governance for health and offers a blueprint for reform, ... Leer más

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  • The Gateway to 10,000 Illnesses

    de Robert Boyd ...
    Author Robert Boyd suggests what he sees as the hitherto missing link in the world of medicine. Robert's writings are refreshing, stimulating and thought provoking – even humorous - and challenge the accepted norms in wide areas of conventional and alternative medicine. He has been at the forefront of cranial research and innovation for over 30 years. ... Leer más

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  • The Health of Nations

    Towards a New Political Economy

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    Why, despite vast resources being expended on health and health care, is there still so much ill health and premature death? Why do massive inequalities in health, both within and between countries, remain? In this devastating critique, internationally renowned health economist Gavin Mooney places the responsibility for these problems firmly at the door of neoliberalism.Mooney analyses how power ... Leer más

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Health Economics

    Edición de Sherry Glied, Peter C. Smith ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Health Economics provides an accessible and authoritative guide to health economics, intended for scholars and students in the field, as well as those in adjacent disciplines including health policy and clinical medicine. The chapters stress the direct impact of health economics reasoning on policy and practice, offering readers an introduction to the potential reach of the ... Leer más

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  • Health Inequalities

    Critical Perspectives

    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 ... Leer más

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