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| 931 - 940 of 1000 Most Recent Health Policy Books, Journals and Periodicals |
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 | National Health Systems of the World: The Issues (National Health Systems)
by Milton I. Roemer
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication Date: Tuesday, December 01, 1992
Description: This is the companion to the comprehensive review of national health systems presented in Volume I. In that volume, the author analyzed the resources, organization, financing, management, and delivery of health services in 68 countries at diverse levels of economic development and political ideology. In Volume II, the principal issues...more
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 | A Guide to NIH Grant Programs
by Samuel M. Schwartz, Mischa E. Friedman
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Publication Date: Thursday, November 19, 1992
Description: Each year thousands of biomedical and behavioral researchers submit grant applications to the United States Public Health Service (USPHS) for support of their research or research training activities. The majority of these applications are submitted to the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
By describing the inner workings of the NIH extramural...more
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 | Economics and Mental Health
by Richard G. Frank, Willard G., Jr. Manning
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication Date: Sunday, November 01, 1992
Description: How do health insurance regulations affect the care of persons with mental illness? And how do such persons, in turn, affect the economy through lost productivity, reduced labor supply, and deviant behavior at the workplace? In "Economics and Mental Health", Richard G. Frank and Willard G. Manning, Jr., bring together...more
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 | Care for Frail Elders: Developing Community Solutions
by Walter N. Leutz, John A. Capitman, Margaret MacAdam, Ruby Abrahams
Publisher: Auburn House
Publication Date: Friday, October 30, 1992
Description: Leutz and his colleagues offer the most practice-oriented and realistic assessment of how chronically ill elders are being served at the community level. They analyze options and opportunities open to policy makers and practitioners relative to long-term care in the community environment where so many elders want to be. In...more
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 | Private Choices, Social Costs, and Public Policy: An Economic Analysis of Public Health Issues
by Nancy Hammerle
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Publication Date: Wednesday, September 30, 1992
Description: This data-rich work examines today's most compelling and controversial public health issues, including alcohol and drug abuse, AIDS, abortion, black and infant mortality, drug-affected babies, child abuse, teenage pregnancy, and cigarette smoking. Hammerle's theme is that individual behavioral choices often have far-reaching and costly effects. When practiced by large numbers...more
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 | Mission and Method: The Early Nineteenth-Century French Public Health Movement (Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine)
by Ann Elizabeth Fowler La Berge
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Date: Friday, September 25, 1992
Description: In Mission and Method Ann La Berge shows how the French public health movement developed within the socio-political context of the Bourbon Restoration and July Monarchy, and within the context of competing ideologies of liberalism, conservatism, socialism, and statism. The dialectic between liberalism, whose leading exponent was Villermé, and...more
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 | The Erosion of Autonomy in Long-Term Care
by Charles W. Lidz, Lynn Fischer, Robert M. Arnold
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Publication Date: Thursday, September 24, 1992
Description: In few places in American society are adults so dependent on others as in nursing homes. Minimizing this dependency and promoting autonomy has become a major focus of policy and ethics in gerontology. Yet most of these discussions are divorced from the day-to-day reality of long-term care and
are implicitly based...more
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 | Healing Powers: Alternative Medicine, Spiritual Communities, and the State (Morality and Society Series)
by Fred M. Frohock
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Publication Date: Tuesday, September 15, 1992
Description: The personal testimony of individuals engaged in healing practices and the opposing voices of orthodox and alternative medicines are the center of Healing Powers. Focusing on medical norms and practices and on competing philosophies of the mind, the body, reality, and rationality across radically different "belief systems", Fred Frohock clarifies... more |
 | Deviance and Medicalization: From Badness to Sickness : With a New Afterword by the Authors
by Peter Conrad, Joseph W. Schneider
Publisher: Temple University Press
Publication Date: Tuesday, September 01, 1992
Description: This classic text on the nature of deviance, originally published in 1980, is now reissued with a new Afterword by the authors. In this new edition of their award-winning book, Conrad and Schneider investigate the origins and contemporary consequences of the medicalization of deviance. They examine specific cases—madness, alcoholism, opiate...more
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 | Children in Chaos: How Israel and the United States Attempt to Integrate At-Risk Youth
by Ivan C. Frank
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Publication Date: Sunday, August 30, 1992
Description: High-risk youth are rarely able to succeed in school, on the job, in their family relationships, or in society at large. They often express hopelessness, frustration, anger. Even after they have acquired skills and have begun to work, they tend to lose jobs, fail again in schools, and become involved...more
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