The Hippocratic Myth: Why Doctors Are Under Pressure to Ration Care, Practice Politics, and Compromise their Promise to Heal by Palgrave Macmillan $27.00
When we're ill, we put our trust in doctors who promise to put our wellbeing first and pledge to do us no harm. But medicine's expanding capabilities and soaring costs threaten to make this commitment obsolete. Increasingly, warns Gregg Bloche, society is calling upon physicians to ration care and to put their skills to use on behalf of insurance companies, hospital bureaucrats, government...
The Politics of Global Health Governance: United by Contagion by Palgrave Macmillan $95.00
AIDS, Ebola, SARS and Malaria – the list of deadly infectious diseases that provoke panic and cause devastating losses of life and economic welfare is virtually endless. In recent years the fight against infectious diseases has become a catalyst for cooperation in a world that is truly united by contagion. To an unprecedented degree, governments, international organizations, nongovernmental...
The Politics of Health Legislation: An Economic Perspective Second Edition, Revised by Health Administration Pr $72.00
In this book leading health economist Paul Feldstein uses economics to explain legislative outcomes in the healthcare field. This revised edition examines the latest legislative changes affecting both Medicare and health reform such as the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, the Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare, as well as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. These...
Healthy People 2010 (2 Volume Set) by International Medical Publishing $75.00
Public health
AIDS in Africa: How the Poor are Dying by Polity Press $26.95
Across Africa, HIV/AIDS is slowly killing millions of people in the prime of their lives, weakening state structures, deepening poverty and reversing the gains in life expectancy achieved over the past century. Although many who study the dynamics of Africas AIDS crisis accept that, to some degree, its entrenchment is a socially produced phenomenon, few have examined how the course and intensity...
Food Policy Old and New by Simon Maxwell $39.95
This book demonstrates the need for a new food policy to address the challenges for the global food system posed by globalisation, urbanisation, technical change and industrialisation. A collection of papers demonstrating the need for a new food policy. Looks at the challenges for the global food system posed by globalisation, urbanisation, technical change, and industrialisation. Suggests that...
Priority Setting Toolkit: Guide to the Use of Economics in Healthcare Decision Making by BMJ Books $54.95
This work provides a guide to how economics can be used to manage scarcity of resources in health services. It outlines the principles of economics in a non-technical manner, before going on to address the issues of how to apply the principles in day to day health services management.
Handbook of Health Care Management (Blackwell Business) by W. Jack Duncan $215.00
The Handbook for Health Care Management is about management and the manager's real and potential contribution to a more effective and efficient health care system.
Contemporary Health Policy: A Book of Readings by Health Administration Pr $84.00
The book collects recent articles on major health policy issues, along with an introduction by Longest. Topics addressed include Medicare, state health reform, the relationship between politics and policy, consumer protection, genetic privacy, and antitrust. In addition, a section at the end of the book summarizes key issues associated with health policy: expenditures, insurance coverage,...
HOSPITALS IN A CHANGING EUROPE (European Observatory on Health Care Systems Series) by Open University Press $59.98
What roles do hospitals play in the health care system and how are these roles changing? If hospitals are to optimize health gains and respond to public expectations, how should they be configured, managed, and sustained? What lessons emerge from experiences of changing hospital systems across Europe? Hospitals of the future will confront difficult challenges: new patterns of disease, rapidly...