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The Public Health System in England
ISBN: 9781847424624 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Health systems everywhere are experiencing rapid change in response to new threats to health, which include lifestyle diseases, risks of pandemic flu, and the global effects of climate change. At the same time, health inequalities continue to widen despite efforts to halt and reverse them. Such developments have profound implications for the future direction of public health policy and practice. This book offers a wide-ranging, provocative, and accessible assessment of challenges confronting a public health system in the UK, exploring how its parameters have shifted over time and identifying...
Health systems everywhere are experiencing rapid change in response to new threats to health, which include lifestyle diseases, risks of pandemic flu,...
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148,50 zł |
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Health Policy and Federalism: A Comparative Perspective
ISBN: 9781553390008 / Angielski / Twarda / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Governments everywhere confront major challenges to their health care programs, but federal countries must respond through systems of multi-level governance. In Health Policy and Federalism the contributors analyse the resulting complexities in decision-making in five federations: Australia, Belgium, Canada, Germany, and the United States. They highlight the impact of federal institutions and processes on key dimensions of health policy, including the balance between the public and private sectors, overall levels of health spending, the access of citizens to services, and the capacity of...
Governments everywhere confront major challenges to their health care programs, but federal countries must respond through systems of multi-level gove...
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538,37 zł |
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Assessing Patient Safety Practices and Outcomes in the U.S. Health Care System
ISBN: 9780833047748 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Presents the results of a two-year study that analyzes how patient safety practices are being adopted by U.S. health care providers, examines hospital experiences with a patient safety culture survey, and assesses patient safety outcomes trends. In case studies of four U.S. communities, researchers collected information on the dynamics of local patient safety activities and on adoption of safe practices by hospitals.
Presents the results of a two-year study that analyzes how patient safety practices are being adopted by U.S. health care providers, examines hospital...
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170,61 zł |
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Federalism, Democracy and Health Policy in Canada: Volume 61
ISBN: 9780889118539 / Angielski / Miękka / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The future of Canadian health policy is the highest priority issue in Canadian politics and, recognizing that intergovernmental relations are central to tackling this issue, Federalism, Democracy and Health Policy in Canada examines the nature of prevalent intergovernmental regimes in the health sector and the impact of these regimes on both health policy and the health of Canadian federalism and democracy. Case studies tackle such diverse issues as interpretation and enforcement of the Canada Health Act; the way in which Canada-wide health goals and objectives are handled; cost containment;...
The future of Canadian health policy is the highest priority issue in Canadian politics and, recognizing that intergovernmental relations are central ...
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146,30 zł |
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Ethics Committees in Croatia
ISBN: 9783639172997 / Angielski / Miękka / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this book the work of ethics committees in Croatia is being investigated for the first time. The 1997 Law on Health Protection introduced legal standards for the establishment of the so- called "mixed" type of ethics committees at healthcare institutions. Our study aims to examine whether this top-down approach of ethics committee implementation was the right approach for Croatia and what the consequences of this approach have been for the work and formation of Croatian ethics committees. The investigation is focused on the types of committees, the functions they perform in...
In this book the work of ethics committees in Croatia is being investigated for the first time. The 1997 Law on Health Protection introduced legal s...
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224,32 zł |
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Die Pflegeversicherung: Handbuch Zur Begutachtung, Qualitätsprüfung, Beratung Und Fortbildung
ISBN: 9783110207095 / Angielski / Miękka / 289 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As a result of the reform of nursing care, nursing structures and processes will change. This comprehensive volume on nursing care insurance also deals with private nursing care insurance and its particular features in comparison to social nursing care insurance. As a result of the reform of nursing care, nursing structures and processes will change. This comprehensive volume on nursing care insurance also ... |
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282,47 zł |
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Six Countries, Six Reform Models: The Healthcare Reform Experience of Israel, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Singapore, Switzerland and Taiwan - Health
ISBN: 9789814261586 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book presents the healthcare reform experiences of six small- to mid-sized, but dynamic, economies spanning the Asia-Pacific, the Middle East and Europe. Usually not given serious consideration in major international comparisons because of their small size, each in fact provides a fascinating case study that illuminates the understanding of the dynamics of healthcare reform. Although dissimilar in historical and cultural backgrounds, they share some important features: all faced very similar pressures for change in the 1970s and 1980s; all considered a very similar range of policy...
This book presents the healthcare reform experiences of six small- to mid-sized, but dynamic, economies spanning the Asia-Pacific, the Middle East and...
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496,56 zł |
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Pain Control and Drug Policy: A Time for Change
ISBN: 9780313382802 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Pain Control and Drug Policy: A Time for Change" focuses on America's national crisis in pain management caused by the widening divergence between the enormous contributions of opioids ("narcotics") to pain management in the clinical setting and the mistaken belief that they are dangerous, highly addictive drugs. After dissecting the strategy and tactics of the War on Drugs from medical, historical, legal, socioeconomic, and geopolitical perspectives, Guy Faguet MD indicts the 40-year-long War on Drugs for having failed to stem the supply of illicit drugs in America despite expenditures... "Pain Control and Drug Policy: A Time for Change" focuses on America's national crisis in pain management caused by the widening divergence between... |
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407,15 zł |
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The Healthcare Debate
ISBN: 9780313356667 / Angielski / Twarda / 189 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Concise, authoritative, and unbiased, "The Healthcare Debate" provides meaningful context for thinking about one of the most controversial public policy issues the United States faces. It traces the evolution of the argument over the government's role in healthcare financing and delivery since the early 1800s, with an emphasis on the major reform efforts since the mid-20th century. Following the complex dynamics of public health policy across U.S. history, "The Healthcare Debate" brings together a wide range of voices on the subject--presidents, policymakers, reformers, lobbyists, and... Concise, authoritative, and unbiased, "The Healthcare Debate" provides meaningful context for thinking about one of the most controversial public p... |
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286,10 zł |
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Patient Empowerment in E-Health
ISBN: 9783639088991 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Patient Empowerment" (PE) bedeutet, dass der Mensch aktiv in sein Gesundheitsgeschehen eingreift, das Recht auf Einsicht in seine Daten und das Recht auf Treffen von Entscheidungen hat. Um die Qualitat im Gesundheitswesen zu verbessern und den Patienten im Empowermentprozess zu unterstutzen, haben einige Lander eine E-Health Strategie entwickelt, dass unter anderem die Entwicklung diverser Tools, wie z.B. Gesundheitskarte, Patientenportale, Telemedizin Services u.v.a. vorsieht, um effiziente Prozesse, Kostenreduzierung und die Verbesserung der Behandlungsqualitat zu erzielen. Ein weiterer...
Patient Empowerment" (PE) bedeutet, dass der Mensch aktiv in sein Gesundheitsgeschehen eingreift, das Recht auf Einsicht in seine Daten und das Recht ...
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224,32 zł |
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Next Medicine: The Science and Civics of Health
ISBN: 9780195369687 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Every year, the average American spends about $7,300 on medical expenses. The typical Canadian pays $2,700, the Briton only $2,000. And yet, according to the World Health Organization, our healthcare system, in terms of total quality, ranks thirty-eighth in the world, right between Costa Rica and Slovenia. Not only do 40 million Americans lack health insurance, but more than 200,000 die each year because of medical mistakes. Our average life expectancy is lower than Cuba's. In Next Medicine, Dr. Walter Bortz zeroes in on why the American medicine is spiraling toward disaster. A...
Every year, the average American spends about $7,300 on medical expenses. The typical Canadian pays $2,700, the Briton only $2,000. And yet, according...
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224,13 zł |
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Adolescent Health : Policy, Science, and Human Rights
ISBN: 9780773535251 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Adolescent Health a contemporary setting is used to illustrate the intersection of evidence and ethics in policy making. Individual chapters describe the social determinants of youth health (chronic conditions, ethnicity, family income, school and peer relationships) and youth health behaviours and outcomes (substance use, violence, sexual and physical activity). Within this broad landscape of youth health issues, the authors apply the human rights principles of the Convention to their research to illustrate the often competing frameworks of evidence and ethics. The underlying question is...
In Adolescent Health a contemporary setting is used to illustrate the intersection of evidence and ethics in policy making. Individual chapters descri...
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156,75 zł |
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Medical Charities, Medical Politics: The Irish Dispensary System and the Poor Law, 1836-1872
ISBN: 9780861932283 / Angielski / Twarda / 181 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Should be read by...every specialist in public administration in Ireland and England during the nineteenth century. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW **Choice' Outstanding Academic Book of 1998**In mid-nineteenth-century Ireland there existed a system of medical relief for the poor, via a country-wide system of dispensaries, superior to any public health system in England and arguably in Europe. This book examines the dispensary system and Irish health policy and administration in general, focusing upon the Medical Charities Act of 1851, which placed medical relief under the control of the Irish Poor...
Should be read by...every specialist in public administration in Ireland and England during the nineteenth century. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW **Choice...
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339,75 zł |
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Bring Market Prices to Medicare: Essential Reform at a Time of Fiscal Crisis
ISBN: 9780844743219 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Medicare is quickly approaching insolvency, in Chapter because the program pays too much for the services it provides. In Bring Market Prices to Medicare, Robert Coulam, Roger Feldman, and Bryan E. Dowd propose a groundbreaking solution: Use market-based arrangements to set prices for Medicare plans. The authors contend that the federal government should pay only the cost of the most economical health plan in each market area. To accomplish this, both traditional fee-for-service (FFS) Medicare and private Medicare Advantage (MA) would submit bids for the government's business; the federal...
Medicare is quickly approaching insolvency, in Chapter because the program pays too much for the services it provides. In Bring Market Prices to Medic...
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84,63 zł |
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Modelling Trends of Health and Health related indicators: 1995-2008
ISBN: 9783639219166 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Federal Ministry of Health has been publishing health and health related indicators on annual basis for the last 14 years. However, the trends and the trend-determinants of these indicators hasn't been analyzed in a systematic manner. Therefore, this modelling analysis was exercised to describe the trends, fit best fit equations/models that could explain the trends, identify determinants of the trends and predict future values based on the trends. Based on this analysis, thirty basic indicators were included in the analysis. Data quality issues were extensively adressed through the...
Federal Ministry of Health has been publishing health and health related indicators on annual basis for the last 14 years. However, the trends and the...
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224,32 zł |
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Understanding & Working with Substance Misusers
ISBN: 9781847872616 / Angielski / Twarda / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Understanding and Working with Substance Misusers" explores the complex nature of addiction and the challenges involved in responding effectively through policy and practice. It examines the biopyschosocial elements of addiction to substances (including alcohol) and, draws together key research findings from these fields to present a new framework for integrating theory and practice.
This book fills the need for a text which makes the complex issues surrounding substance misuse accessible to both students and practitioners. "Understanding and Working with Substance Misusers" explores the complex nature of addiction and the challenges involved in responding effectively thr...
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627,23 zł |
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Medical Governance: Values, Expertise, and Interests in Organ Transplantation
ISBN: 9781589016316 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Governments throughout the industrialized world make decisions that fundamentally affect the quality and accessibility of medical care. In the United States, despite the absence of universal health insurance, these decisions have great influence on the practice of medicine. In Medical Governance, David Weimer explores an alternative regulatory approach to medical care based on the delegation of decisions about the allocation of scarce medical resources to private nonprofit organizations. He investigates the specific development of rules for the U.S. organ transplant system... Governments throughout the industrialized world make decisions that fundamentally affect the quality and accessibility of medical care. In the Unit... |
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264,10 zł |
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Palestine
ISBN: 9783639202151 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For a nation in captivity, reproduction goes far beyond the classical meaning of the being. An existential instrument it becomes assuring survival and asserting identity. In these situations, women birth the Nation rather than birthing their own children. Hence, rhetoric and discourses surrounding reproduction including those on women, health and policy become inflamed and challenging. This book looks into the relationship between the contexts of reproductive health discourses in Palestine and the implications this has for policy formulation. It suggests four major interconnected contexts the...
For a nation in captivity, reproduction goes far beyond the classical meaning of the being. An existential instrument it becomes assuring survival and...
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361,66 zł |
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Reproductive Health Behavior and Needs of Street Youth in Dessie
ISBN: 9783639209471 / Angielski / Miękka / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Street youth are exposed to situations that make them vulnerable to sexual and reproductive health problems. Street youth have risky sexual behaviors that increase the likelihood of adverse sexual and reproductive health consequences. Majority, 67.9%, of the study groups had started sexual intercourse with the mean age of 15.2 years. Ever having sex was associated with being male, income, duration on the street, former residence, alcohol drinking and khat chewing. 80.6% of the respondents have more than one sexual partners and the mean lifetime number of sexual partners was 4.85. Among...
Street youth are exposed to situations that make them vulnerable to sexual and reproductive health problems. Street youth have risky sexual behaviors ...
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224,32 zł |
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Health Promotion and Prevention Programmes in Practice: How Patients' Health Practices Are Rationalised, Reconceptualised and Reorganised
ISBN: 9783837613025 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The shift to prevention and health promotion is an example of how policy makers aim to rationalise and organise both health systems and patients' health practices. By applying a perspective from empirical science & technology studies (STS), based on qualitative research methods, the chapters of this book present a view behind the scenes and zoom into the micropolitics of prevention and health promotion. They analyse how patients are framed as being "at risk," how preventative regimes shape medical practices, and what its practical consequences are in patients' everyday lives. This makes the...
The shift to prevention and health promotion is an example of how policy makers aim to rationalise and organise both health systems and patients' heal...
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187,02 zł |
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