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| 711 - 720 of 1000 Most Recent Health Policy Books, Journals and Periodicals |
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 | The Heart of Long-Term Care
by Rosalie A. Kane, Robert L. Kane, Richard C. Ladd
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Publication Date: Tuesday, September 15, 1998
Description: Long-term care in the United States has taken the nursing home as its benchmark, but the monetary, social, and psychological costs of nursing home care are all too high. This book challenges the current dominance of nursing homes as the principal institution of long-term care. It offers a
series of alternative...more
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 | The Art of Balance in Health Policy: Maintaining Japan's Low-Cost, Egalitarian System
by John Creighton Campbell, Naoki Ikegami
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Date: Sunday, September 13, 1998
Description: Compared to the rest of the world, Japan has a healthy population but pays relatively little for medical care. Taking a comparative perspective, the authors describe the politics of health care in Japan, the variety of providers, the universal health insurance system, and how the fee schedule constrains costs. ...more
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 | Journey to Excellence: Development of the Military and VA Blind
by Stephen Miyagawa
Publisher: Galde Press
Publication Date: Tuesday, September 01, 1998
Description: Journey to Excellence describes the history, development, and progress of military rehabilitation programs for the blind. A blinded veteran himself, Miyagawa adds heartrending yet uplifting personal accounts from those men who had lost the gift of sight while in service to ...more
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 | Women's Health Care: Activist Traditions and Institutional Change
by Carol S. Weisman
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication Date: Saturday, August 15, 1998
Description: The fact that women experience the health care system differently than men is as issue of increasing importance to health professionals as well as the general public. Yet, while women's health problems have received unprecedented attention in recent years, the unique relationship between women and health care institutions remains little...more
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 | The Potential for Health (Oxford Medical Publications)
by Kenneth C. Calman
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Publication Date: Saturday, August 15, 1998
Description: Chief Medical Officer U.K. Government. The Chief Medical Officer of the United Kingdom discusses his views on British public health improvement, British health policy, and improvement in the quality and delivery of health care. For the general reader. Softcover, hardcover edition will not be...more
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 | All About Hip Replacement: A Patient's Guide
by Richard Trahair
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Publication Date: Saturday, August 15, 1998
Description: Every year more than half a million people around the world undergo hip replacement. This book records the experiences of the author and thirteen other patients who have had the operation. They talk about their troubles with the old hips, reaching the difficult decision to have the operation,
the strenuous process...more
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 | Health Care for Older People: Practitioner Perspectives in a Changing Society
by Linda Patterson, Mairi M. Gould
Publisher: BMJ Publishing Group
Publication Date: Saturday, August 15, 1998
Description: This practical guide addresses the health-care needs of older people, within the wide contexts that affect so significantly their physical well-being. Advocating a multidisciplinary approach to care of older people, this work addresses the need for, and practicalities of, a team-based approach to their care. Changes in primary and secondary...more
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 | Caring and Coping
by A. Douglas
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Date: Thursday, August 13, 1998
Description: Caring and Coping provides a clear and accessible explanation of the history, politics, management, funding and day-to-day work of the social services in Britain. Social care now encompasses a wide range of increasingly specialized professions. This book aims to improve the practitioner's, as well as the general public's,...more
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 | Nutrition In The Community: The Art and Science of Delivering Services
by A. L. Owen, Patricia L. Splett, George M. Owen, Reva T. Frankle
Publisher: William C. Brown
Publication Date: Thursday, August 06, 1998
Description: This practical new edition prepares community nutrition professionals for the challenges of the future by providing them with guidelines for managing the sea of change around them, and the basics of program planning, management evaluation. This book also helps students to understand the complexities of developing effective programs and...more
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 | The Economics of Railroad Safety (Transportation Research, Economics and Policy)
by Ian Savage
Publisher: Springer
Publication Date: Saturday, August 01, 1998
Description: The Economics of Railroad Safety stems from the traditions of industrial organization and law and economics. The objective of the book is to examine the exact nature of the `safety problem': how much safety should be provided; what might hinder obtaining such a level of provision;...more
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