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| 131 - 140 of 1000 Most Recent Health Policy Books, Journals and Periodicals |
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 | Customer-Directed Healthcare Reform with Episode Pricing
by Douglas Emery
Publisher: South-Western Educational Pub
Publication Date: Monday, December 05, 2005
Description: After 15 years of reform efforts, managed healthcare is on life support. But there is room for hope. Addressing what remains a key national issue, CONSUMER DRIVEN HEALTHCARE REFORM does not disparage managed care but addresses its underlying limitations. Building upon the strengths of managed care, it offers a refreshing...more
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 | Improving Health, Nutrition and Population Outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Role of the World Bank (Sub-Saharan Africa and the World Bank)
by World Bank
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Publication Date: Thursday, December 01, 2005
Description: In recent years, the focus in many developing regions is increasingly moving away from communicable disease, where as Africa continues to face a high burden of communicable disease, malnutrition, and fertility. At the same time, the ways in which the World Bank operates are changing - increasingly countries define their...more
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 | Intermediate and Continuing Care: Policy and Practice
by Roger Beech
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing, Incorporated
Publication Date: Thursday, December 01, 2005
Description: Intermediate care comprises strategies which allow early discharge from acute care, prevent admission or re-admission to acute care and avoid bed-blocking in both acute and long-term residential care. It encompasses a range of short-term options including rapid response, hospital at home, residential rehabilitation, supported discharge and day rehabilitation. Continuing Care...more
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 | Human Resources for Health in Europe (European Observatiory O N Health Systems and Policies)
by Carl-Ardy Dubois, Ellen Nolte, Martin McKee
Publisher: Open University Press
Publication Date: Thursday, December 01, 2005
Description: Health service human resources are key determinants of health service performance. The human resource is the largest and most expensive input into health care, yet it can be the most challenging to develop. This book examines some of the major challenges facing health care professions in Europe and the potential...more
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 | Primary Care in the Driver's Seat (European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies)
by Richard Saltman, Ana Rico, Wienke Boerma
Publisher: Open University Press
Publication Date: Thursday, December 01, 2005
Description: - What is the best way to structure primary care services?
- How can coordination between primary care and other parts of health care systems be improved?
- How should new technologies be integrated into primary care?
There is considerable agreement among national policy makers across Europe that, in...more
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 | Building Health Promotion Capacity: Action For Learning, Learning From Action
by Scott McLean, Joan Feather, David Butler-Jones
Publisher: UBC Press
Publication Date: Wednesday, November 30, 2005
Description: Building Health Promotion Capacity explores the professional practice of health promotion, and the means through which individuals and organizations become more effective in supporting and undertaking such practice. The concepts of "capacity" and "capacity-building" are used to structure this exploration. Simply put, capacity refers to those qualities or characteristics that...more
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 | China's Urban Health Care Reform: From State Protection to Individual Responsibility
by Wong Chack-kie
Publisher: Lexington Books
Publication Date: Monday, November 28, 2005
Description: One way to describe the importance of social policy is to say it's about what is and what might be. This ethos is the driving force behind Chack-Kie Wong, Vai Io Lo, and Kwong-leung Tang's China's Urban Health Care Reform. Based on a study of a mid-level city in China,...more
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 | Surfacing Up: Psychiatry And Social Order In Colonial Zimbabwe, 1908-1968 (Cornell Studies in the History of Psychiatry)
by Lynette A. Jackson
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication Date: Wednesday, November 23, 2005
Description: Focusing on the history of the Ingutsheni Lunatic Asylum (renamed a mental hospital after 1933), situated near Bulawayo in the former Southern Rhodesia, Surfacing Up explores the social, cultural, and political history of the colony that became Zimbabwe after gaining its independence in 1980. The phrase "surfacing up" was drawn...more
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 | Care Work: Present and Future
by J. Boddy
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Date: Tuesday, November 22, 2005
Description: If care work is to be re-valued and reformed, who will pay? As borders between care and other adjacent fields, such as education and health, become blurred, might care work gradually merge into other types of work? What are the implications for the current workforce?
In this wide-ranging and...more
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 | Fat Politics: The Real Story behind America's Obesity Epidemic
by J. Eric Oliver
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Publication Date: Tuesday, November 15, 2005
Description: Our government is telling us that obesity is a major health crisis, that sixty percent of Americans are "overweight," and that one in four is obese. But how true are these claims?
In Fat Politics, Eric Oliver unearths the real story behind America's "obesity...more
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Last Updated: 29 November 2007.
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