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| 571 - 580 of 1000 Most Recent Health Policy Books, Journals and Periodicals |
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 | Home Truths About Child Sexual Abuse: Influencing Policy and Practice, A Reader
by C. Itzin
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Date: Sunday, October 15, 2000
Description: Violence and abuse occur regularly and sometimes routinely within families of all different kinds. Home Truths analyzes the structural constructionist perspective on the origins and effects of violence, abuse and inequality to illustrate the different forms of power relations that exist and how they operate at an institutional and societal...more
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 | Is Inequality Bad for Our Health? (New Democracy Forum)
by Joshua Cohen, Joel Rogers, Norman Daniels, Bruce Kennedy, Ichiro Kawachi
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: Tuesday, October 10, 2000
Description: In this election year, health care again proves to be one of our nation's most urgent issues. Daniels, Kennedy, and Kawachi shift the focus of the debate, forcing us to take a closer look at how our health is affected by social injustice and inequality. Arguing that it isn't enough...more
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 | Young Homeless People
by Suzanne Fitzpatrick
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication Date: Friday, October 06, 2000
Description: Young Homeless People takes a broad approach to the distressing phenomenon of youth homelessness. While politicians, researchers and the media focus on the more visibly homeless--those sleeping in city streets and shelters--this book also considers the young homeless hidden in local communities. It places young people's experiences of homelessness in...more
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 | Paying for Health, Education, and Housing: How Does the Centre Pull the Purse Strings?
by Howard Glennerster, John Hills, Tony Travers, Ross Hendry
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Publication Date: Thursday, October 05, 2000
Description: England is unusual in relying so heavily on central government to finance its social services. Citizens expect to be able to access services of similar standards wherever they live. This raises difficult theoretical and practical issues. This book reviews the economic theory that underpins
thinking about such issues. It then traces...more
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 | Children of Addiction : Research, Health, and Public Policy Issues
by H. Fitzgerald
Publisher: Garland
Publication Date: Thursday, September 28, 2000
Description: This book reports important original research, and the individual papers included are consistently well written. They reflect on the larger social implications of the research undertaken, as well as the biological and psychological effects on the children involved. It will be useful in a broad array of courses on Alcoholism...more
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 | No One Was Turned Away: The Role of Public Hospitals in New York City since 1900
by Sandra Opdycke
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Publication Date: Thursday, September 28, 2000
Description: No One Was Turned Away is a book about the importance of public hospitals to New York City. At a time when less and less value seems to be placed on public institutions, argues author Sandra Opdycke, it is both useful and prudent to consider what this particular set of...more
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 | Ending Neglect: The Elimination of Tuberculosis in the United States
by Committee on Tuberculosis Elimination in the United States, Institute of Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Publication Date: Friday, September 15, 2000
Description: Tuberculosis emerged as an epidemic in the 1600s, began to decline as sanitation improved in the 19th century, and retreated further when effective therapy was developed in the 1950s. TB was virtually forgotten until a recent resurgence in the U.S. and around the world-ominously, in forms resistant to commonly used...more
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 | U.S. Health Policy and Problem Definition
by Frank Govern
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Publication Date: Friday, September 08, 2000
Description: Because of the peculiar history of how the U.S. Government has viewed health care as a market good, health policy formation has been and continues to be driven, not by reactions to problems as defined by rational federal health policy analysts and processes, but by situations and forces occurring external...more
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 | Essentials of Health Services
by Stephen J. Williams
Publisher: Thomson Delmar Learning
Publication Date: Friday, September 08, 2000
Description: A straightforward, uncomplicated explanation of the nation's health care system: how its' structured, and perhaps more importantly, how it functions. The scope of the system and its many complex and interrelated components are described and analyzed, defined and illustrated. (KEYWORDS: health care, national health, health care...more
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 | U.S. Health Policy and Problem Definition
by Frank Govern
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Publication Date: Friday, September 08, 2000
Description: Because of the peculiar history of how the U.S. Government has viewed health care as a market good, health policy formation has been and continues to be driven, not by reactions to problems as defined by rational federal health policy analysts and processes, but by situations and forces occurring external...more
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Last Updated: 29 November 2007.
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