Kategoria BISAC: Health & Fitness >> Health Care Issues

How do you go about choosing between health insurance plans . . . selecting a hospital. . .choosing a doctor? These are just some of the difficult decisions certain to have a profound impact on your physical, emotional, and financial well-being for years to come.

This comprehensive guide shows you how to make knowledgeable choices--how to get everything you require from our nation's $600 billion a year health care system. Health Care Services in the 1990s provides life-or-death information about ambulatory care, long-term care, and mental health services. Learn about the changing roles...

In this edition, the author has maintained the goal of producing a user-friendly, clinically relevant and succinct book, while revising it to reflect a...

Start feeling better. More than one and a half billion people suffering from chronic pain don't have to. Chronic pain affects more people than cancer, diabetes and heart disease combined and most doctors still don't understand the cause. Finally, here is a book that identifies the causes of chronic pain and explains how to prevent and treat it in a way anyone can understand.

When you are finished reading, you will have the knowledge and tools to successfully have a discussion with your doctor. This is not about pain management. It is about resolving and preventing chronic pain....

"Landscapes of Voluntarism "collects new and innovative work by researchers from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom sites where voluntarism has become increasingly important in the development and delivery of social welfare policy. With a preface by one of the foremost geographers in the field, this book features empirical and theoretical work from both emerging and well-established scholars. These contributors explore the interactions between voluntarism and a range of issues including governance, health, community action, faith, ethnicity, counselling, and...

The feminist ethic of care has received much attention in schoarly circles recently. An ethic of care is concerned most of all with contextualizing the human condition, being responsive to people's individual differences through a particular form of engagement, and taking into account the consequences of decisions in terms of relieving burdens, hurt, or suffering. Although the theory continues to develop, less attention has been paid to its practical implications. To date, the relationship between care ethics and public policy in the Canadian context has not been investigated.Through a...