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| 31 - 40 of 1000 Most Recent Health Policy Books, Journals and Periodicals |
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 | After Cancer Treatment: Heal Faster, Better, Stronger (A Johns Hopkins Press Health Book)
by Julie K. Silver
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication Date: Monday, September 11, 2006
Description: At age 36, Julie Silver was enjoying an exciting career as a physician at the Harvard Medical School and a rewarding personal life as a mother, wife, and award-winning writer. But she had the sense that something was wrong. Two years and multiple doctors later, she was diagnosed with the...more
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 | Are We Ready?: Public Health since 9/11 (California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public)
by David Rosner, Gerald Markowitz
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication Date: Monday, September 11, 2006
Description: A contemporary history of a critical period, Are We Ready? analyzes the impact of 9/11, the anthrax attacks that followed, and preparations for a possible smallpox attack on the nation's public health infrastructure. David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz interviewed local, state, and federal officials to determine the immediate reactions of...more
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 | The Economics of Effective AIDS Treatment: Evaluating Policy Options for Thailand (Health, Nutrition, and Population)
by Ana Revenga, Mead Over, Emiko Masaki, Wiwat Peerapatanapokin, Julian Gold
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Publication Date: Monday, September 11, 2006
Description: HIV is the leading cause of premature death in Thailand. Since the first case of AIDS was reported in 1984 more than one million Thais have been infected. The social, human and economic costs of this burden are enormous. The Thai government has shown a strong commitment...more
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 | Better But Not Well: Mental Health Policy in the United States since 1950
by Richard G. Frank, Sherry A. Glied
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication Date: Friday, September 08, 2006
Description: The past half-century has been marked by major changes in the treatment of mental illness: important advances in understanding mental illnesses, increases in spending on mental health care and support of people with mental illnesses, and the availability of new medications that are easier for the patient to tolerate. Although...more
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 | EU Pharmaceutical Regulation: The Politics of Policy-Making (European Policy Studies)
by Govin Permanand
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Publication Date: Tuesday, September 05, 2006
Description: This book provides an analysis of European Union pharmaceutical regulation from a policy-making perspective. The focus is on how the often conflicting agendas of the pharmaceutical industry, the EU member states, the European Commission, and consumer interests are reconciled within the context of regulatory outcomes having to serve public health,... more |
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 | The Impact of Inequality: How to Make Sick Societies Healthier
by Richard Wilkinson
Publisher: New Press
Publication Date: Friday, September 01, 2006
Description: A groundbreaking inquiry into the relationship between societies' inequality and their citizens' happiness and well-being.
Comparing the United States with other market democracies and one state with another, this book offers irrefutable evidence that unequal societies create poor health, more social conflict, and more violence. Richard Wilkinson, a pioneering social scientist,...more
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 | AIDS and Power: Why There Is No Political Crisis - Yet (African Arguments)
by Alexander De Waal
Publisher: Zed Books
Publication Date: Wednesday, August 30, 2006
Description: Why, twenty years into the crisis, are democratic governments performing so poorly in tackling AIDS in Africa? De Waal argues that existing approaches are driven by interests and frameworks that fail to engage with African societies' resilience and creativity. Already, African communities have confounded some of the worst predictions of... more |
 | Medicare: A Policy Primer
by Marilyn Moon
Publisher: Urban Institute Press
Publication Date: Wednesday, August 30, 2006
Description: For some, Medicare is a model of what national health insurance could be in the United States. Despite its low administrative costs and significant contributions to the well-being of America's oldest and most disabled citizens, some critics assail the program as being out of sync with the needs of many...more
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 | Expansion of Publicly Funded Health Insurance in the United States: The Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIPS) and Its Implications
by Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld
Publisher: Lexington Books
Publication Date: Monday, August 28, 2006
Description: Expansion of Publicly Funded Health Insurance in the United States introduces the issues, policies, and future concerns of health care within the United States to scholars of social sciences. Through research and outreach projects with the Child Health Insurance Program, Jennie Jacobs Kronenfield expresses concerns with the United States health...more
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 | Solving the Health Care Problem: How Other Nations Have Succeeded and Why United States Has Failed
by Pamela Behan
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Publication Date: Thursday, August 10, 2006
Description: Examines Australia and Canada to help explain why the United States provides less health care protection than other democratic ...more
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Last Updated: 29 November 2007.
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