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| 721 - 730 of 1000 Most Recent Health Policy Books, Journals and Periodicals |
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 | Housing And Public Policy
by Marsh
Publisher: Open University Press
Publication Date: Saturday, August 01, 1998
Description: * Is change in housing driven by policy or by wider social and economic factors?
* How have policy changes affected citizens' rights to housing?
* What has been the impact of housing policy on the choices available to producers and consumers and the control over housing consumption and production?
This book is...more
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 | Making Babies: Biomedical Technologies, Reproductive Ethics, and Public Policy
by Inmaculada de Melo-Martín
Publisher: Springer
Publication Date: Wednesday, July 15, 1998
Description: The present work tries to show that problematic evaluations of new technologies such as IVF may be as dangerous as no evaluation at all. Because technology assessments may give people a false sense of security, poor ones may serve as a legitimization of premature, dangerous, or...more
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 | Incentives and Institutional Reform in Tax Enforcement: An Analysis of Developing Country Experience
by Arindam Das-Gupta, Dilip Mookherjee
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Publication Date: Wednesday, July 01, 1998
Description: Based on a detailed study of taxation policies in India, Spain, Singapore, the Philippines, and Mexico, and set against the background of the inability of governments to enforce income tax laws, this book suggests various reforms to overcome incentive and organizational problems. ...more
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 | Parting at the Crossroads
by Antonia Maioni
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication Date: Wednesday, July 01, 1998
Description: As almost all newspaper or magazine readers know, Canada figured prominently in the turbulent U.S. debates over health care reform in the early Clinton presidency. Furthermore, future news analysts and policymakers will undoubtedly again use Canada to cite the "good" and the "bad" aspects of single-payer national health insurance. Beyond...more
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 | Is It Time to Reform Social Security?
by Edward Martin Gramlich
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Publication Date: Wednesday, July 01, 1998
Description: Social Security is now the federal government's largest, and probably its most popular, program. It has performed well and grown hugely over the twentieth century, with the trust fund that pays benefits generally being kept financially solvent and paying people a decent return on their contributions.
But all of that could... more |
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 | Community Nutrition: Challenges and Opportunities
by Jeannette Endres
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Publication Date: Friday, June 12, 1998
Description: Introduces prospective and practicing health professionals interested in nutritional care to the planning, intervention, and evaluation services they will be called upon to provide to individuals and groups. KEY TOPICS: Outlines the historical evolution of community nutrition and its current, changing environment. Considers the application of...more
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 | Mental Health and Social Policy: The Emergence of Managed Care (4th Edition)
by David Mechanic
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
Publication Date: Monday, June 01, 1998
Description: Just a few years ago there was much optimism that the American health care system would be reformed and that we would have a system of universal insurance entitlement with few people uninsured. The realization that full mental health benefits would only be financially acceptable within a managed care framework...more
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 | Universal Health Care: What the United States Can Learn from the Canadian Experience
by Pat Armstrong, Hugh Armstrong, Claudia Fegan
Publisher: New Press
Publication Date: Monday, June 01, 1998
Description: In place for over a quarter-century, public health insurance remains Canada's most popular social program. Why do 96 percent of Canadians prefer their health care system to the U.S. model? And why do more than 60 percent of Americans agree with them? The answers can be found in the five...more
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 | AIDS Alibis: Sex, Drugs, and Crime in the Americas
by Stephanie Kane
Publisher: Temple University Press
Publication Date: Monday, June 01, 1998
Description: AIDS Alibis tackles the cultural landscape upon which AIDS, often accompanied by poverty, drug addiction, and crime, proliferates on a global scale. Stephanie Kane layers stories of individuals and events—from Chicago to Belize City, to cyberspace—to illustrate the paths of HIV infection and the effects of environment, government intervention, and...more
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 | Rational Risk Policy: The 1996 Arne Ryde Memorial Lectures (Arne Ryde Memorial Lectures)
by W. Kip Viscusi
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Publication Date: Thursday, May 21, 1998
Description: This book provides a comprehensive and accessible synthesis of Viscusi's 1996 Arne Ryde Memorial lectures on risk policy. In this volume, Viscusi explores the various forms of irrationality exemplified in individual risk behavior and the role government policy has played in institutionalizing
these biases. He examines the implications for government policy...more
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