Creator: Organization for Economic Cooperation &
Publication date: 1995-01
Price: $90.71
Review Internal Markets in the Making: Health Systems in Canada, Iceland and the United Kingdom (Road Transport Research) / Organization for Economic Cooperation & Devel:In trying to make health financing and delivery cost-effective, countries have introduced incentive mechanisms and methods which have worked well in the business sector. But health care continues to be publicly funded to ensure equity. Based on recent economic surveys of Canada, Iceland, and the United Kingdom, this publication highlights the efforts of these countries to reconcile aggregate control, greater microefficiency, and high quality in health care.
Authors
- Jo Fairbanks
- William H. Wiese
Dewey code: 362.1
List Price: $72.95
Price: $103.47
Review The Public Health Primer / Sage Publications, Inc:Authored by two highly experienced public health professors at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, The Public Health Primer offers the reader a cogent glimpse into the broad-ranging and often complex arena of public health. Drs. Jo Fairbanks and William H. Wiese provide not only an orientation to public health practice, but also a review of the basic terminology used by public health officials. This timely volume begins with a brief overview of the history and development of public health and then examines the current public health system in the United States in terms of its structure, funding, and policy development. In the second part, the book covers the fundamentals of how disease and disease patterns across populations are defined, observed, and measured through the application of epidemiological and statistical tools and concepts. In the final part, the authors turn their attention to health promotion, prevention, health planning, and global health issues. The book provides a useful glossary of terms, acronyms, and abbreviations. The Public Health Primer makes the fundamentals of public health immediately accessible, providing an excellent platform for further study and professional development.
Publication date: 2007-01
Review The Health of the Nation: The Irish Healthcare System 1957-2007 / Gill & MacMillan:
Publication date: 1993-03-24
Dewey code: 362.1
Price: $48.00
Review Negotiating Health Care: The Social Context of Chronic Illness / Sage Publications, Inc:Contributing a unique perspective to health reform, Negotiating Health Care presents the findings of a large qualitative investigation of the experiences of the chronically ill within today's health care system. The author develops the argument that chronic illness and acute illness are social experiences of a vastly different order that lead to different health care consequences, especially in a health system geared to the "miracle cure. " From interviews with chronically ill patients, Thorne discusses the onset of their diseases, handling acute episodes, and their attempts to normalize life. The author also examines the interpersonal experience with health care providers exploring the issues of trust, confidence, and compliance. The institutional experience can, and often does, pose daunting problems for the chronically ill because of organizational and sociocultural issues, health care politics and ideology, and the individual patient's response to the system. In her concluding chapter, Thorne proposes future directions for health care organization, biomedical technology, and social policy. Students and professionals in the fields of nursing, allied health/medical sciences, and human services will find Negotiating Health Care a valuable resource. "This book is highly recommended for all health care professionals and anyone involved in legislation regarding chronic health care on a national basis. The book also could be very useful for lay people who are chronically ill and for their caregivers and families. " -Rehabilitation Nursing "Finally, a window is opened to the experience of chronic illness as it exists within the North American health care system. [+]Just in time. Every health care provider and reformer who looks inside will be changed by the reflections of themselves they see. This book is a courageous voice for both the bolder, more conclusive clinical research and for the chronically ill who may yet show us a better way. " -William L. Miller, M. D. , The University of Connecticut "Although there are a number of texts available on chronic illness, Dr. Thorne's approach to the topic is unique in that it provides a graphic illustration of how the beliefs and values guiding the health care system contribute to problems which the chronically ill encounter in obtaining care. By setting the experience of chronic illness in the broader context of the health care system, the [book] provides some clear guidelines for needed changes, something I have not found elsewhere. This is a valuable piece of work. which is a valuable contribution to our understanding of chronic illness and which provides a guide both to practice and to health policy revision. " -Lee Walker, R. N. , Ph. D. , The University of Utah "This extraordinary book provides rich description and unique insights into the illness experience. Data obtained from interviews with 91 informants provides remarkable detail, strong linkages to existing theory, and powerful development of the illness trajectory. The book is well documented, methodologically rigorous, and presented in a refreshing style. Dr. Thorne has written a classic! Negotiating Health Care will become the book of the 90s for anyone interested in providing humanistic care. " -Jan Morse, R. N. , Ph. D. , College of Health and Human Development, The Pennsylvania State University "The book provides a view into the major issues adults with chronic illness experience in obtaining health care, a perspective that is rarely available to those of use who use the health care system mainly for acute problems, or indeed, who are the providers. The book is powerful, intense, and often uncomfortable reading; the 'patients' own words should sensitize all of us who work with the chronically ill. Verbatim accounts of patients' experiences are woven into a lucid and perceptive view of the structure and organization of Canadian health care, which should be read by health policymakers in all the western industrialized countries. " -Juliene G. Lipson, Ph. D. , F. A. A. N. , University of California, San Francisco "Thorne takes a unique approach in providing a graphic illustration of how the beliefs and values guiding the health care system contribute to the problems the chronically ill encounter in obtaining care. Those concerned with the evolving social and health policy in the United States would be well served in reading Negotiating Health Care. " -Academic Library Book Review.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1989
Dewey code: 362.19897
List Price: $9.95
Price: $20.76
Review Family Involvement In Treatment Of The Frail Elderly (CLINICAL PRACTICE (FORMERLY CLIN INSIGHTS)) / American Psychiatric Press:
Authors
- Dennis D. Pointer
- Dennis M. Stillman
Publication date: 2004-09-22
Dewey code: 362.10681
List Price: $50.00
Price: $20.50
Review Essentials of Health Care Organization Finance: A Primer for Board Members / Jossey-Bass:"Finally! The book that all health care board members needed but were afraid to ask for! Those dark days of staring at incomprehensible numbers during board meetings, of nervous nodding when their financially-literate brethren make comments or ask questions, of voting on things that they do not understand are gone! This book is long overdue and should be read by every trustee who is not a finance professional. " -James E. Orlikoff, president, Orlikoff & Associates, Inc. and executive director, American Governance & Leadership Group Accounting for $1. 4 trillion in expenditures (13. 7 percent of gross domestic product), health care is one of the nation's largest and fastest growing industries. This concise, expertly written primer on health care organization finance is a nuts and bolts guide to what has become every hospital's most sensitive topic. Health care organization board members must possess basic financial competence to govern effectively. This book will help them acquire, easily and painlessly, the basic financial literacy essential for discharging their roles and fulfilling their fiduciary duties.
Publication date: 2006-02-25
List Price: $24.00
Price: $23.09
Review Implementation of the Diabetes Practice Guideline in the Army Medical Department: Final Evaluation / RAND Corporation:Can the ARmy effectively implement clinical treatment guidelines in its military treatment facilities to achieve consistent and high-quality practices throughout its health system?
Creator: Joseph S. Alpert
Publication date: 1999-01-15
Dewey code: 362.108997073
List Price: $61.95
Price: $20.61
Review Primary Care of Native American Patients: Diagnosis, Therapy, and Epidemiology / Butterworth-Heinemann:This concise reference provides clinicians with the information they need to successfully treat and manage Native American patients. Emphasis is on the unique medical differences between Native American and standard U. S. (anglo) diseases and health care procedures.
Creator: A. J. Culyer
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1983-12
Dewey code: 362.1072
Price: $55.00
Review Economic and Medical Evaluation of Health Care Technologies / Springer:
Creator: Joan Pine
Publication date: 1992-04
Dewey code: 362.10685
List Price: $25.95
Price: $25.95
Review Increasing Physician Involvement in Quality Improvement Programs / American College of Physician Executives:
Creator: Carolyn Hughes Tuohy
Publication date: 2008-04-30
Dewey code: 353
List Price: $34.95
Price: $28.50
Review Exploring Social Insurance: Can a Dose of Europe Cure Canadian Health Care Finance? (School of Policy Studies) / School of Policy Studies Queen's University:Sustainability, quality, and accessibility are vital questions in Canadian health care. All Canadian governments, concerned about the growing share of the public budget absorbed by health care, are questioning the sustainability of the present system. How can we maintain and improve access to health care services of appropriate quality while ensuring sustainability? If there is one consolation to Canadian governments as they wrestle with the future of Medicare, it is that sustainability concerns are not unique to Canada but affect all countries, regardless of the level of private financing in a system. Some countries, however - particularly social insurance countries in Northern Europe such as Germany and France - manage to achieve universal access without wrestling with waiting lists, while providing a wide range of services. This book examines whether the grail of sustainability, quality, and accessibility could be better achieved through a marriage of the traditional Canadian model with elements of a European system. Contributors include Sherry Glied (Columbia), Stefan Gress (Duisburg-Essen), Morley Gunderson and Doug Hyatt (Toronto), Tim Jost (Washington and Lee Universities), Ted Marmor (Yale), Jack Mintz (Toronto), Steve Morgan (UBC), Terry Sullivan (Cancer Care Ontario), Joe White (Case Western Reserve University), and Wynand Van de Ven (Erasmus).
Authors
- Daniel Callahan
- Angela A. Wasunna
Publication date: 2006-04-20
Dewey code: 362.10688
List Price: $35.00
Price: $20.75
Review Medicine and the Market: Equity v. Choice / The Johns Hopkins University Press:Much has been written about medicine and the market in recent years. This book is the first to include an assessment of market influence in both developed and developing countries, and among the very few that have tried to evaluate the actual health and economic impact of market theory and practices in a wide range of national settings. Tracing the path that market practices have taken from Adam Smith in the eighteenth century into twenty-first-century health care, Daniel Callahan and Angela A. Wasunna add a fresh dimension: they compare the different approaches taken in the market debate by health care economists, conservative market advocates, and liberal supporters of single-payer or government-regulated systems. In addition to laying out the market-versus-government struggle around the world - from Canada and the United States to Western Europe, Latin America, and many African and Asian countries - they assess the leading market practices, such as competition, physician incentives, and co-payments, for their economic and health efficacy to determine whether they work as advertised. This timely and necessary book engages new dimensions of a development that has urgent consequences for the delivery of health care worldwide.
Creator: Wayne W. Myers
Publication date: 1996-01
Dewey code: 362.16
List Price: $39.95
Price: $39.95
Review Long-Term Care for the Rural Elderly: New Directions in Services, Research, and Policy / Springer Publishing Company:University of Kentucky, Lexington. Examination of the rural long-term care system, for long-term care policy makers and professionals. Discusses the pitfalls and shortcomings of the programs, and analyses strategies for improvement. 9 U. S. contributors.
Creator: James B., M.D. Couch
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 1998-09-15
Dewey code: 362.1
List Price: $87.95
Price: $70.19
Review The Health Care Professional's Guide to Disease Management: Patient-Centered Care for the 21st Century / Jones & Bartlett Publishers:American RE-Insurance Company, Princeton, NJ. Addresses the recent advances in the art of medical management and some things that such advances, coupled with evolving information technology, can accomplish. For administrators and other professionals. Softcover. DNLM: Disease Management.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2007-07
Dewey code: 362.10973
List Price: $22.95
Price: $20.71
Review Health Care at Risk: A Critique of the Consumer-Driven Movement / Duke University Press:In Health Care at Risk Timothy Stoltzfus Jost, a leading expert in health law, weighs in on consumer-driven health care (CDHC), which many policymakers and analysts are promoting as the answer to the severe access, cost, and quality problems afflicting the American health care system. The idea behind CDHC is simple: consumers should be encouraged to save for medical care with health savings accounts, rely on these accounts to cover routine medical expenses, and turn to insurance only to cover catastrophic medical events. Advocates of consumer-driven health care believe that if consumers are spending their own money on medical care, they will purchase only services with real value to them. Jost contends that supporters of CDHC rely on oversimplified ideas about health care, health care systems, economics, and human nature. In this concise, straightforward analysis, Jost challenges the historical and theoretical assumptions on which the consumer-driven health care movement is based and reexamines the empirical evidence that it claims as support. He traces the histories of both private health insurance in the United States and the CDHC movement. The idea animating the drive for consumer-driven health care is that the fundamental problem with the American health care system is what economists call “moral hazard,” the risk that consumers overuse services for which they do not bear the cost. Jost reveals moral hazard as an inadequate explanation of the complex problems plaguing the American health care system, and he points to troubling legal and ethical issues raised by CDHC. He describes how other countries have achieved universal access to high-quality health care at lower cost, without relying extensively on cost sharing, and he concludes with a proposal for how the United States might do the same, incorporating aspects of CDHC while recognizing its limitations.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2007-09-28
Dewey code: 306.461
List Price: $22.95
Price: $20.35
Review Introducing Medical Anthropology: A Discipline in Action / AltaMira Press:A new text in the growing field of medical anthropology.
Publication date: 1994-08
Dewey code: 362.10973
Price: $31.95
Review American Health Care: Rebirth or Suicide? / C.L. Thomas:
Authors
- Committee on Quality of Health Care in America
- Institute of Medicine
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2000-04-15
Dewey code: 362.1
List Price: $34.95
Price: $27.90
Review To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System / National Academies Press:Committee on Quality of Health Care in America. Reveals the truth of medical error and the disparity between the incidence of error and public perception. Examines how surrounding forces of legislation, regulation, and market activity influence the quality of care provided and handling medical mistakes. For policymakers, regulators, and clinicians. Experts estimate that as many as 98,000 people die in any given year from medical errors that occur in hospitals. That's more than die from motor vehicle accidents, breast cancer, or AIDS-three causes that receive far more public attention. Indeed, more people die annually from medication errors than from workplace injuries. Add the financial cost to the human tragedy, and medical error easily rises to the top ranks of urgent, widespread public problems. To Err Is Human breaks the silence that has surrounded medical errors and their consequence-but not by pointing fingers at caring health care professionals who make honest mistakes. After all, to err is human. [+]Instead, this book sets forth a national agenda-with state and local implications-for reducing medical errors and improving patient safety through the design of a safer health system. This volume reveals the often startling statistics of medical error and the disparity between the incidence of error and public perception of it, given many patients' expectations that the medical profession always performs perfectly. A careful examination is made of how the surrounding forces of legislation, regulation, and market activity influence the quality of care provided by health care organizations and then looks at their handling of medical mistakes. Using a detailed case study, the book reviews the current understanding of why these mistakes happen. A key theme is that legitimate liability concerns discourage reporting of errors-which begs the question, "How can we learn from our mistakes?"Balancing regulatory versus market-based initiatives and public versus private efforts, the Institute of Medicine presents wide-ranging recommendations for improving patient safety, in the areas of leadership, improved data collection and analysis, and development of effective systems at the level of direct patient care. To Err Is Human asserts that the problem is not bad people in health care-it is that good people are working in bad systems that need to be made safer. Comprehensive and straightforward, this book offers a clear prescription for raising the level of patient safety in American health care. It also explains how patients themselves can influence the quality of care that they receive once they check into the hospital. This book will be vitally important to federal, state, and local health policy makers and regulators, health professional licensing officials, hospital administrators, medical educators and students, health caregivers, health journalists, patient advocates-as well as patients themselves. First in a series of publications from the Quality of Health Care in America, a project initiated by the Institute of Medicine.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2006-09
Dewey code: 990
List Price: $35.95
Price: $24.95
Review Kissing Can Be Dangerous: The Public Health Campaigns to Prevent And Control Tuberculosis in Western Australia, 1900-1960 / University of Western Australia Press:
Creator: Marlene Viljoen
Publication date: 2004-04-01
Dewey code: 362.10968
List Price: $20.95
Price: $20.72
Review Educating for Better Health: A Handbook for Healthcare Professionals / Juta Academic:Recently passed South African legislation that addresses the education and training of health-care professionals is explained in clear, detailed language in this guide. Health-care experts from various organizations, including governmental agencies, private health facilities, and the Health Professions Council of South Africa, address how this legislation affects nursing and medical universities, schools of public health, state hospitals, and libraries. The guide's outcomes-based approach helps health-care workers determine how to use and act on the new educational guidelines. A definitions section explains and summarizes complicated terminology.
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Internal Markets in the Making: Health Systems in Canada, Iceland and the United Kingdom (Road Transport Research), The Public Health Primer, The Health of the Nation: The Irish Healthcare System 1957-2007, Negotiating Health Care: The Social Context of Chronic Illness, Family Involvement In Treatment Of The Frail Elderly (CLINICAL PRACTICE (FORMERLY CLIN INSIGHTS)), Essentials of Health Care Organization Finance: A Primer for Board Members, Implementation of the Diabetes Practice Guideline in the Army Medical Department: Final Evaluation, Primary Care of Native American Patients: Diagnosis, Therapy, and Epidemiology, Economic and Medical Evaluation of Health Care Technologies, Increasing Physician Involvement in Quality Improvement Programs, Exploring Social Insurance: Can a Dose of Europe Cure Canadian Health Care Finance? (School of Policy Studies), Medicine and the Market: Equity v. Choice, Long-Term Care for the Rural Elderly: New Directions in Services, Research, and Policy, The Health Care Professional's Guide to Disease Management: Patient-Centered Care for the 21st Century, Health Care at Risk: A Critique of the Consumer-Driven Movement, Introducing Medical Anthropology: A Discipline in Action, American Health Care: Rebirth or Suicide?, To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System, Kissing Can Be Dangerous: The Public Health Campaigns to Prevent And Control Tuberculosis in Western Australia, 1900-1960, Educating for Better Health: A Handbook for Healthcare ProfessionalsTop headlines: Obama accuses McCain of smear tactics: Democrat Barack Obama on Sunday accused Republican opponent John McCain of launching a smear campaign to reverse his slide in the polls. ›00:43 Simpson jurors did not trust witness testimony: Jurors who found O.J. 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