著者:Donald A. Barr
出版社: Johns Hopkins University Press
発売日: 2019年08月20日
Challenging students to think critically about the complex web of social forces that leads to health disparities in the United States.
The health care system in the United States has been called the……続きを見る
著者:Steven Z. Kussin
出版社: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
発売日: 2011年08月16日
The state of health care in this country is routinely discussed in the media, at the office, and around the kitchen table. Yet as consumers of medical care, Americans often blindly accept medical ad……続きを見る
著者:Daniel Low-beer
出版社: World Scientific Publishing Company
発売日: 2011年11月29日
Over the last ten years, the financing and diversity of new players in global health have increased significantly. Ten years ago it would have been difficult to predict some of these changes ー Bill……続きを見る
著者:Howard Padwa
出版社: Johns Hopkins University Press
発売日: 2012年03月15日
This comparative history examines the divergent paths taken by Britain and France in managing opiate abuse during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Though the governments of both na……続きを見る
There has been a dramatic spread of health markets in much of Asia and Africa over the past couple of decades. This has substantially increased the availability of health-related goods and services ……続きを見る
What new theories, evidence, and policies have shaped health economics in the 21st century?
Editors Mark Pauly, Thomas McGuire, and Pedro Pita Barros assemble the expertise of leading authorities in……続きを見る
The Asia-Pacific region has not only the greatest concentration of population but is, arguably, the future economic centre of the world. Epidemiological transition in the region is occurring much fa……続きを見る
Topical and controversial The Tyranny of Health exposes the dangers of the explosion of health awareness for both patients and doctors, using straightforward language to explain the latest health st……続きを見る
Award-winning journalists expose the horrific practices within America’s health care system, profiling patients and doctors and offering startling personal stories to illuminate what’s gone wrong.
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A wide-ranging collection of both classic writings and more recent articles in the sociology of health and illness, this reader is organized into the following sections:
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First Published in 2001. This is the first book to combine research methods from a range of social science disciplines and apply them to health service research**.** Health service delivery and orga……続きを見る
Named an Outstanding Academic Title for 2009 byChoice!
"[A] set of almost 70 essays, all well informed and many with attitude."
Harold Shapiro, PhD
Professor Emeritus and Professor of Economics and ……続きを見る
Through observations in three intensive care units, this book draws on the reality of practice to explore how nurses and doctors work in intensive care settings. It examines:
· the power held by the……続きを見る
This new work surveys how rapid changes taking place at the start of the twenty-first century in social, cultural, political and economic domains impact on sexuality, health and human rights. The re……続きを見る
著者:Paul Starr
出版社: Yale University Press
発売日: 2013年06月04日
In no other country has health care served as such a volatile flashpoint of ideological conflict. America has endured a century of rancorous debate on health insurance, and despite the passage of le……続きを見る
Family life has changed rapidly over te past fifty years and the number of people living longer increases year on year Family and Community Life of Older People revisits three areas (Bethnal Green i……続きを見る
著者:Thomas May
出版社: Johns Hopkins University Press
発売日: 2003年04月29日
Issues concerning patients' rights are at the center of bioethics, but the political basis for these rights has rarely been examined. In Bioethics in a Liberal Society: The Political Framework of Bi……続きを見る
This essential collection presents a state-of-the-art framework for how workers in public health and related disciplines should conceptualize health disparities and how they should be addressed worl……続きを見る
著者:Cam Donaldson
出版社: The Policy Press
発売日: 2011年02月16日
The credit crunch is a threat to publicly funded health care. World-leading health economist Cam Donaldson defends our systems on the same basis as those who seek to erode public services, namely, t……続きを見る
Human resources for health are a priority to improve health outcomes in Africa. In order to strengthen policies based on evidence, a better understanding is needed of health worker choice and behavi……続きを見る
著者:David Vogel
出版社: Princeton University Press
発売日: 2012年04月29日
The Politics of Precaution examines the politics of consumer and environmental risk regulation in the United States and Europe over the last five decades, explaining why America and Europe have ofte……続きを見る
Commissioning is now a key task for health and social care - and yet policy aspirations often outstrip the infrastructure needed to support commissioners as they take difficult decisions about futur……続きを見る
A riveting personal tale of the rise of public health.
There are occasions when a story told from a personal viewpoint can illuminate a profession. Alfred Sommer’s epidemiological memoir is such a b……続きを見る
In The Wisdom of Whores, epidemiologist Elizabeth Pisani brings honesty, wit and startling pragmatism to the tawdry front lines of sex and drugs. She explains how we could shut down HIV in most of t……続きを見る
著者:James C. Mohr
出版社: Johns Hopkins University Press
発売日: 2013年11月15日
How did American doctors come to be licensed on the terms we now take for granted?
Licensed to Practice begins with an 1891 shooting in Wheeling, West Virginia, that left one doctor dead and another……続きを見る
著者:David Goldhill
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2013年01月08日
A visionary investigation that will change the way we think about health care: how and why it is failing, why expanding coverage will actually make things worse, and how our health care can be trans……続きを見る
A contribuição da Estratégia Brasileirinhas e Brasileirinhos Saudáveis para a construção de uma política de atenção integral à saúde da criança no Brasil.
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This highly topical and controversial book presents a lively re-appraisal of the current changes to the health service and analyzes their effects on the status and practice of health professionals.
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We live in a transformational time in the history of medicine and health care. The twenty-first century will be a time of dramatic change, incredible breakthroughs, and totally altered thinking abou……続きを見る
"[I]t is becoming much more common for mental health providers to become community mental health advocates, and given the complexities and nuances associated with tasks such as getting involved with……続きを見る