Monitoring the Health of Populations: Statistical Principles and Methods for Public Health Surveillance
ISBN: 9780195146493 / Angielski / Twarda / 390 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Public health faces critical challenges ranging from outbreaks of new and old pathogens to the threat of bioterrorism and the impact of lifestyle and environmental changes on health. Modern tools of health surveillance and sound statistical practices are essential for meeting these challenges and providing accurate warnings about real public health threats without wasting resources on false alarms. Advances in statistical techniques, computing power and the Internet have led to many new approaches to monitoring population health, analyzing the data, and rapidly sharing it.
This text... Public health faces critical challenges ranging from outbreaks of new and old pathogens to the threat of bioterrorism and the impact of lifestyle and ...
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463,61 zł |
Health Care Regulation in America: Complexity, Confrontation, and Compromise
ISBN: 9780195159684 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Regulation shapes all aspects of America's fragmented health care industry, from the flow of dollars to the communication between physicians and patients. It is the engine that translates public policy into action. While the health and lives of patients, as well as almost one-sixth of the national economy depend on its effectiveness, health care regulation in America is bewilderingly complex. Government agencies at the federal, state, and local levels direct portions of the industry, but hundreds of private organizations do so as well. Some of these overseers compete with one another, some...
Regulation shapes all aspects of America's fragmented health care industry, from the flow of dollars to the communication between physicians and patie...
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379,10 zł |
Measuring Health: A Guide to Rating Scales and Questionnaires
ISBN: 9780195165678 / Angielski / Twarda / 768 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Worldwide economic constraints on health care systems have highlighted the importance of evidence-based medicine and evidence-based health policy. The resulting clinical trials and health services research studies require instruments to monitor the outcomes of care and the output of the health system. However, the over-abundance of competing measurement scales can make choosing a measure difficult at best. Measuring Health provides in-depth reviews of over 100 of the leading health measurement tools and serves as a guide for choosing among them.LNow in its third edition, this book...
Worldwide economic constraints on health care systems have highlighted the importance of evidence-based medicine and evidence-based health policy. The...
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528,22 zł |
AIDS and the Ecology of Poverty
ISBN: 9780195169270 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. AIDS and the Ecology of Poverty combines the insights of economics and biology to explain the spread of HIV/AIDS and deliver a telling critique of AIDS policy. Drawing on a wealth of scientific evidence, Stillwaggon demonstrates that HIV/AIDS cannot be stopped without understanding the ecology of poverty. Her message is optimistic, with pragmatic solutions to the health problems that promote the spread of HIV/AIDS.
AIDS and the Ecology of Poverty combines the insights of economics and biology to explain the spread of HIV/AIDS and deliver a telling critiq...
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252,30 zł |
The Trust Crisis in Healthcare: Causes, Consequences, and Cures
ISBN: 9780195176360 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The lack of trust in our healthcare system brings ominous results, from decreasing health outcomes to increasing costs, from organization inefficiencies to a pervasive pattern of litigation. This will only worsen as healthcare becomes subject to greater market mechanisms, and as patients, providers, and payers view each other with increasing suspicion. Healthcare professionals are just now coming to realize what other professionals have known for years: trust is earned, not assumed. The Trust Crisis represents the first comprehensive survey of the causes and consequences of declining trust in...
The lack of trust in our healthcare system brings ominous results, from decreasing health outcomes to increasing costs, from organization inefficienci...
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252,30 zł |
Confronting AIDS: Public Priorities in a Global Epidemic
ISBN: 9780195215915 / Angielski / Miękka / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This updated edition of 'Confronting AIDS' includes a vital, new statistical appendix that assembles information about the levels and determinants of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and selected policy variables for low- and middle-income countries. It draws on three bodies of knowledge: the epidemiology of HIV; public health insights into disease control; and especially public economics, which focuses on assessing tradeoffs in the allocation of scarce public resources. This title is written to inform and motivate political leaders, policymakers, and development specialists to support the public health...
This updated edition of 'Confronting AIDS' includes a vital, new statistical appendix that assembles information about the levels and determinants of ...
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165,42 zł |
The Health of Populations: General Theories and Particular Realitites
ISBN: 9780195308075 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the maelstrom of current public health debate over the social determinants of health, this book offers a well-balanced discussion on the roots of prevalent strains of thought on the matter. While this area of research deals in complex problems, it is often dominated by those who deploy rather categorical, partisan positions, citing from a wide range of contradictory statistical studies. Stephen Kunitz brings a measured, balanced and independent perspective to bear on the debate, taking a step back from current arguments to look at the fundamental issues through a socio-historical lens....
In the maelstrom of current public health debate over the social determinants of health, this book offers a well-balanced discussion on the roots of p...
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364,19 zł |
One Nation, Uninsured: Why the U.S. Has No National Health Insurance
ISBN: 9780195312034 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Every industrial nation in the world guarantees its citizens access to essential health care services--every country, that is, except the United States. In fact, one in eight Americans--a shocking 43 million people--do not have any health care insurance at all. One Nation, Uninsured offers a vividly written history of America's failed efforts to address the health care needs of its citizens. Covering the entire twentieth century, Jill Quadagno shows how each attempt to enact national health insurance was met with fierce attacks by powerful stakeholders, who mobilized their considerable...
Every industrial nation in the world guarantees its citizens access to essential health care services--every country, that is, except the United State...
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80,81 zł |
Health, Illness, and Healing: Society, Social Context, and Self: An Anthology
ISBN: 9780195329766 / Angielski / Miękka / 600 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This innovative collection offers a fresh look at health, healing, and illness--providing a "bridge" between human experience and social policies and practices. The book brings people with illness into the foreground; it goes beyond patient's roles and into their lives--emphasizing the gap between the acute care model and the needs of the chronically ill. The readings link personal accounts with structural problems, inviting students to identify with these authors and to see the social issues within their stories. Selections are accessible and edited for succinctness. Section and chapter...
This innovative collection offers a fresh look at health, healing, and illness--providing a "bridge" between human experience and social policies and ...
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1125,32 zł |
Contracting for Health: Quasi-Markets and the National Health Service
ISBN: 9780198290223 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sweeping changes have taken place in many parts of the world in the provision and organization of health care, welfare, and other "public" services. The UK's National Health Service (NHS) has been a prime example of this. This book presents a detailed analysis of these changes, focusing in particular on the management and organization, and strengths and weaknesses of the "contract" culture.
Sweeping changes have taken place in many parts of the world in the provision and organization of health care, welfare, and other "public" services. T...
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714,63 zł |
Reducing the Burden of Headache
ISBN: 9780198515890 / Angielski / Twarda / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first book devoted to the study of the social and economic consequences of headache. Reducing the Public Burden of Headache analyses the financial cost of headache diseases, the disability and suffering they cause and the impact they have on the quality of life and the sufferers and their families.
These are issues of major importance; migraine appears in the top 20 list of diseases ranked according to years lived with the disability. Headache, in general, is thought to account for approximately 20% of all days lost from work. Of even greater importance is the impact on... This is the first book devoted to the study of the social and economic consequences of headache. Reducing the Public Burden of Headache analyses the f...
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963,17 zł |
The Economics of Infectious Disease
ISBN: 9780198516224 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The threat of infection, both new and re-emerging strains that have developed drug resistance, is a major public health issue. This book shows the contribution economists can make to the management and control of these diseases, using a range of economic analysis studies. It also discusses regulations and governance of infection control.
The threat of infection, both new and re-emerging strains that have developed drug resistance, is a major public health issue. This book shows the con...
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289,63 zł |
Global Public Goods for Health : Health economic and public health perspectives
ISBN: 9780198525448 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There is a growing awareness of cross-border issues in health that require new policy responses and financing mechanisms. This expanding importance of health as an international issue, and the growth in attention given to health by non-health sector bodies, has brought to prominence the concept of Global Public Goods (GPGs) as applied to health: 'goods' that are in the interest of the world as a whole, but where 'public good' attributes (non excludability and non rivalry in consumption) mean that there is a lack of incentive to produce these goods.
The book addresses the growing... There is a growing awareness of cross-border issues in health that require new policy responses and financing mechanisms. This expanding importance of...
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751,91 zł |
Decision Modelling for Health Economic Evaluation
ISBN: 9780198526629 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book deals with the key techniques and approaches that can be used to estimate the cost-effectiveness of health care interventions. It is a practical guide, using examples and encouraging the reader to apply the methods. A supporting website is available.
This book deals with the key techniques and approaches that can be used to estimate the cost-effectiveness of health care interventions. It is a pract...
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324,43 zł |
Global Public Goods for Health : Health economic and public health perspectives
ISBN: 9780198527985 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There is a growing awareness of cross-border issues in health that require new policy responses and financing mechanisms. This expanding importance of health as an international issue, and the growth in attention given to health by non-health sector bodies, has brought to prominence the concept of Global Public Goods (GPGs) as applied to health: 'goods' that are in the interest of the world as a whole, but where 'public good' attributes (non excludability and non rivalry in consumption) mean that there is a lack of incentive to produce these goods.
The book addresses the growing... There is a growing awareness of cross-border issues in health that require new policy responses and financing mechanisms. This expanding importance of...
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488,46 zł |
The HIV Pandemic : Local and global implications
ISBN: 9780198528432 / Angielski / Twarda / 840 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Offers a multi-country comparative study that examines how the response to the common, global threat of HIV is shaped by the history, culture, institutions and health systems of the individual countries affected. This book shows that all parts of the health system must be involved: policy makers, healthcare professionals and users of the services.
Offers a multi-country comparative study that examines how the response to the common, global threat of HIV is shaped by the history, culture, institu...
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789,19 zł |
An Introduction to Health Planning for Developing Health Systems
ISBN: 9780198571346 / Angielski / Miękka / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Health planning is a critical component when responding to the health needs of low and middle income countries, characterised by particularly stringent resource constraints. The major communicable diseases such as AIDS, TB and malaria often appear in parallel with growing non-communicable diseases including heart disease and diabetes, and yet resources are often less than the levels recommended by the World Health Organisation for basic health care. The new edition of this well-respected text explains the importance of health planning in both developing regions such as Africa, and those in...
Health planning is a critical component when responding to the health needs of low and middle income countries, characterised by particularly stringen...
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433,78 zł |
The HIV Pandemic : Local and global implications
ISBN: 9780199237401 / Angielski / Miękka / 840 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As we approach the 25th anniversary of the first recognition fo HIV/AIDS in 1981, this book reflects on the international impact of the disease. It has persistently remained a global issue, with more than 50 million people worldwide estimated to have been infected since that date. This ambitious book, written by 165 authors from 30 countries, offers a multi-country comparative study that examines how the response to the common, global threat of HIV is shaped by the history, culture, institutions and health systems of the individual countries affected.
Increasingly the shift of health... As we approach the 25th anniversary of the first recognition fo HIV/AIDS in 1981, this book reflects on the international impact of the disease. It ha...
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205,08 zł |
Qualitative Methods and Health Policy Research
ISBN: 9780202307107 / Angielski / Twarda / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Qualitative researchers have traditionally been cautious about claiming that their work was scientific. The "right-on" schools have exaggerated this caution into an outright rejection of science as a model for their work. Science is, for them, outmoded; "an archaic form of consciousness surviving for a while yet in a degraded form" (Tyler 1986:200). Scientists' assertions that they are in pursuit of truth simply camouflage their own lust for power. There is no essential difference between truth and propaganda. The authors acknowledge that the boundary between science and... Qualitative researchers have traditionally been cautious about claiming that their work was scientific. The "right-on" schools have exaggerated thi... |
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Qualitative Methods and Health Policy Research
ISBN: 9780202307114 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Qualitative researchers have traditionally been cautious about claiming that their work was scientific. The "right-on" schools have exaggerated this caution into an outright rejection of science as a model for their work. Science is, for them, outmoded; "an archaic form of consciousness surviving for a while yet in a degraded form" (Tyler 1986:200). Scientists' assertions that they are in pursuit of truth simply camouflage their own lust for power. There is no essential difference between truth and propaganda. The authors acknowledge that the boundary between science and... Qualitative researchers have traditionally been cautious about claiming that their work was scientific. The "right-on" schools have exaggerated thi... |
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241,30 zł |