 | Health and Wealth:: Studies in History and Policy (Rochester Studies in Medical History)
by Simon Szreter
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Publication Date: Wednesday, September 05, 2007
Description: Today's complex policy problems cannot be understood by the social, medical and policy sciences, alone. History is also required to interpret the present and to inform attempts to mould the future. The essays in this volume seek to bring an historical perspective to bear on today's national and international policy...more
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 | Air Quality in America: A Dose of Reality on Air Pollution Levels, Trends, and Health Risks
by Joel M. Schwartz
Publisher: AEI Press
Publication Date: Monday, June 25, 2007
Description: This book documents how much U.S. air quality has improved in recent decades and gives by far the most accurate picture available of continuing air pollution problems and how to address ...more
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 | WTO and China's Health Care System
by Mei-Ling Wang, Shuo Zhang, Xiaowan Wang
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication Date: Tuesday, May 01, 2007
Description: The rapid social and economic changes in China have brought about unprecedented challenges and opportunities to international stakeholders. This book provides valuable information about the key sectors of China's health care system after its entrance into WTO, including the pharmaceutical industry, health insurance services, and hospitals and related health service...more
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 | Best Care Anywhere: How America's Most Socialized Health Care System Became Its Finest
by Phillip Longman
Publisher: PoliPointPress
Publication Date: Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Description: The long-maligned Veterans Health Administration has become the highest-quality healthcare provider in the United States. This encouraging change not only has benefited veterans but also provides a blueprint for salvaging America’s own deeply troubled healthcare system. Best Care Anywhere shows how a government bureaucracy, working with little notice, is setting... more |
 | Handbook of Prevention and Intervention Programs for Adolescent Girls
by Craig Winston LeCroy
Publisher: Wiley
Publication Date: Friday, March 16, 2007
Description: Teenaged girls must confront an increasing array of pressures in modern society. As a consequence, physical and mental problems such as eating disorders and depression are on an alarming rise in this population. This valuable and ground-breaking book, edited by one of the major figures in the field, compiles all...more
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 | Violent Video Game Effects on Children and Adolescents: Theory, Research, and Public Policy
by Craig A. Anderson, Douglas A. Gentile, Katherine E. Buckley
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Publication Date: Saturday, January 06, 2007
Description: Violent video games are successfully marketed to and easily obtained by children and adolescents. Even the U.S. government distributes one such game, America's Army, through both the internet and its recruiting offices. Is there any scientific evidence to support the claims that violent games
contribute to aggressive and violent behavior?
Anderson,...more
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 | Undermining Science: Suppression and Distortion in the Bush Administration
by Seth Shulman
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication Date: Monday, January 01, 2007
Description: This vitally important exposé shows how the Bush administration has systematically misled Americans on a wide range of scientific issues affecting public health, foreign policy, and the environment by ignoring, suppressing, manipulating, or even distorting scientific research. It is the first book to focus exclusively on how this explosive issue...more
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 | Prioritising Child Health
by Roulstone
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Date: Saturday, December 30, 2006
Description: This book targets professionals working in child health, particularly those in non-acute settings such as allied health professionals (speech & language therapists, occupational therapists, physiotherapists) and nurses (particularly health visitors). The target audience is for both front-line practitioners who are facing workload management decisions and also therapy/nursing managers who must...more
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 | Eco-Freaks: Environmentalism Is Hazardous to Your Health!
by John Berlau
Publisher: Nelson Current
Publication Date: Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Description: Tree-huggers may actually be squeezing the life out of the environment. In book that is alternately alarming, enlightening, ironic, and entertaining, award-winning journalist John Berlau explores the many ways that shortsighted environmentalism actually endangers trees, wildlife, and people. In chapter after chapter, Berlau debunks myths and libels about: ...more
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 | The Community Mental Health System: A Navigational Guide for Providers
by Elizabeth L. Teed, John A. Scileppi
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
Publication Date: Monday, November 27, 2006
Description: The aim of this text is to provide mental health professionals, both those in the field and those in training, a better understanding of the service delivery system and ideas for how to work effectively in it. It examines various driving forces—deinstitutionalization, empirically based practices, managed care—-both in the evolution of the...more
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