Health Policy Books


Managed Care Best Price: $19.44 This book focuses on how a distinctly American product?managed care?got its start, how it works,...	Pharmacracy: Medicine and Politics in America Best Price: $17.95 This is a great book for laying to rest some orthodox but wrong ideas about our mental health....	Body Soviet: Propaganda, Hygiene, and the Revolutionary State Best Price: $22.84 In 1918 the People?s Commissariat of Public Health began a quest to protect the health of all...	The Second Fifty Years: Promoting Health and Preventing Disability Best Price: $8.50 Taking its title from the second 50 years of the human life span of about 100 years, this book...	HHS in the 21st Century: Charting a New Course for a Healthier America Best Price: $8.00 The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) profoundly affects the lives of all...



Critical Challenges for Healthcare Reform in Europe (State of Health) This volume explores the central issues driving the present process of healthcare reform in...	The Challenge of Regulating Managed Care (The University of Michigan Forum on Health Policy) Best Price: $75.80 Representatives of industry, government, caregivers, and consumers join scholars and policy...	Tobacco War: Inside the California Battles Best Price: $39.89 I could hardly put this book down. The battle being fought is truly a life and death matter,...	Smallpox: The Fight to Eradicate a Global Scourge Best Price: $1.90 Though smallpox was eradicated from the planet two decades ago, recent terrorist acts have...	Disease and Democracy: The Industrialized World Faces AIDS (California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public) Best Price: $23.40 A brilliant piece of comparative history. Written with panache and wit, you won't be able to...



Quality of Care and Patient Satisfaction from PHC in Benghazi, Libya: Quality of Care and Patient Satisfaction from Primary Health Care in Benghazi, Libya Best Price: $63.25 A study conducted to understand quality of care and patient satisfaction from primary...	Mucosal Immunity and the Gut Epithelium: Interactions in Health and Disease : International Symposium, Capri, April 22-23, 1994 (Dynamic Nutrition Research) Best Price: $252.00 This text presents recent advances in important areas of mucosal immunology, with special...	Towards Sustainable Health Care Systems: Strategies in Health Insurance Schemes in France, Germany, Japan And the Netherlands - a Comparative Study (Europ'aische Schriften Zu Staat Und Wirtschaft) Best Price: $22.20	Natural disasters, their risk perceptions and how to cope with?: An analytical study of coastal areas of Karachi Best Price: $62.75 The coastal communities of Pakistan are vulnerable to natural disasters such as cyclones.This...	Booster Dose Vaccination for Preventing Hepatitis B: A Meta-analysis: Protection Provided by HB Vaccine Seroprotection of HB Vaccine Capture-recapture Method MetaPlot: A Novel Stata Graph Best Price: $66.88 Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is a major public health problem worldwide and HB vaccine is...

IARC Monographs on the Evaluation of Carcinogenic Risk of Chemicals to Man Vol 1 Best Price: $44.11 Evaluates the carcinogenic risk to humans posed by chemicals to humans.	International Ethical Guidelines on Epidemiological Studies (A CIOMS Publication) Best Price: $33.39 The mere formulation of ethical guidelines for epidemiological research involving human subjects...	The Forensic Case Files: Diagnosing and Treating the Pathologies of the American Health System Best Price: $49.99 This book provides unique insights into the current heated healthcare reform debate in the...	Innovations in Neonatal-perinatal Medicine: Innovative Technologies and Therapies That Have Fundamentally Changed the Way We Deliver Care for the Fetus and the Neonate Best Price: $50.00 Innovations in technology and new therapies have changed the face of medicine in the last few...	What Macroeconomists Should Know About Health Care Policy Best Price: $23.54

Deadly Spin: An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR Is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans Best Price: $4.99 The title of this book, "Deadly Spin: An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How...	Moving Mountains: The Race to Treat Global AIDS Best Price: $4.75 Moving Mountains is a thorough and moving account of the overwhelming worldwide threat of AIDs...	Restoring Primary Care: Reframing Relationships and Redesigning Practice Best Price: $30.70 To many practitioners, managers and patients, US primary care is in crisis. Primary care...	Suffering and Healing in America: An American Doctor's View from the Outside Best Price: $45.00 Takes a critical look at Western healthcare and examines its weaknesses. Topics include health...	The Nature of Health: How America Lost, and Can Regain, a Basic Human Value Best Price: $17.95 This book targets the essentials of health....engagement in meaningful relationships and in...

Cultural Competency in Health Care: A Guide for Trainers A comprehensive training manual for health care professionals on diversity issues in the...	Multiple Sclerosis: Your Legal Rights Best Price: $2.50 This book mades the process understandable. Also, the personal aspects of the book are very...	Disability, Personal Care Assistance, and Quality of Life: A Study of the Relationships between Consumer- direction and Life Satisfaction of People ... who use Home-based Personal Assistance Best Price: $80.00 People with disabilities often require personal care assistance (PCA) to perform daily...	Informal Payments in Latvian Healthcare: Patients' motivations and relevance to policy Best Price: $73.00 Endemic to the Former Soviet Union countries, informal payments are a serious problem in...	The Social Medicine Reader, Second Edition, Vol. Two: Social and Cultural Contributions to Health, Difference, and Inequality Best Price: $71.97 Duke University Press is pleased to announce the second edition of the bestselling Social...

New Organs Within Us: Transplants and the Moral Economy (Experimental Futures) Best Price: $19.97 New Organs Within Us is a richly detailed and conceptually innovative ethnographic analysis of...	Medicare: Intentions, Effects, and Politics (Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law) Best Price: $16.00 At a time when Medicare stands at the forefront of national politics, Medicare: Intentions,...	Seeds of Change: The Story of ACORN, America's Most Controversial Anti-Poverty Community Organizing Group Best Price: $69.69 "There is more value on a single page of Seeds of Change than in a year's worth of...	The Challenges of Creating a Global Health Resource Tracking System Best Price: $19.97 Assesses current systems for tracking health resource flows to and within developing countries...	Challenges of Programs Evaluation of Health Interventions in Developing Countries Best Price: $17.63 Examines various approaches, methodogies, and issues related to evaluation of the impact of...

Pharmacy Use and Costs in Employer-Provided Health Plan: Insights for TRICARE Benefit Design from the Private Sector Best Price: $14.45 Assesses how changing to a three-tiered co-payment system would affect drug costs and pharmacy...	Health Benefits for MEdicare-Eligible Military Retirees: Rationalizing TRICARE for Life Best Price: $19.97 Examines TRICARE for Life's potential benefits and costs for the Department of Defense,...	Small Business and Workplace Fatality Risk: An Exploration Analysis, 2006 (Technical Report) Best Price: $19.97 Over 55 percent of Americans are employed in businesses with fewer than 100 workers....	Measuring Case Mix and Quality of Care: Rater Training and Reliability in the Graduate Medical Education Study Best Price: $15.00 This report reviews the training of raters and the instructions associated with each instrument...	Health Care Politics And Policy in America Best Price: $121.13 An overview of health care politics and policy, featuring both an historical review of the...

Cancer Policy: Research & Methods Best Price: $245.71 Policy and outcome studies represent a new area of research in oncology. Understanding the...	Governing Health: The Politics of Health Policy Best Price: $20.00 I appreciated the quick and efficient service since time was of the essence for my class. Thanks!	Reprogenetics: Law, Policy, and Ethical Issues Best Price: $27.17 New genetic technologies and their promise have led to much debate, much of this mired in not...	Health Promotion at the Community Level: New Advances (SAGE Sourcebooks for the Human Services) Best Price: $81.98 This timely book offers substantial help to professionals and the general public in their...	Sustainable Health Care Financing in Southern Africa: Papers from an EDI Health Policy Seminar held in Johannesburg, South Africa, June 1996 (WBI Learning Resources Series) Best Price: $22.00 This publication summarizes the proceedings of a senior policy seminar held in Johannesburg,...

Battling HIV/AIDS: A Decisionmaker's Guide to the Procurement of Medicines and Related Supplies Best Price: $7.95 'Battling HIV/AIDS' sets out principles and provides advice on the procurement of...	Disease And Mortality in Sub-saharan Africa Best Price: $13.19 Current data and trends in morbidity and mortality for the sub-Saharan Region as presented in...	Governing Mandatory Health Insurance: Learning from Experience Best Price: $13.99 Mandatory health insurance schemes are being proposed or expanded in many developing countries,...	Private Health Sector Assessment in Kenya (World Bank Working Papers) Best Price: $30.39 Kenya?s private sector is one of the most developed and dynamic in Sub-Saharan Africa. In the...	A Review of Current State-Level Adverse Medical Event Reporting Practices: Toward National Standards (Technical Report) Best Price: $24.01 Summarizes the results of a survey of a 50-state survey of systems for reporting adverse medical...

Medicare in the 21st Century: Seeking Fair and Efficient Reform Best Price: $4.00 These leading health economics experts make various recommendations for saving the popular...	Innovation and Technology Adoption in Health Care Markets Best Price: $6.57 I just finished reading this book and have to say it is a well written, insightful, and novel...	Putting Medicare Consumers in Charge: Lesson from the FEHBP (Aei Studies on Medicare Reform) Best Price: $8.99 I read this book because I wanted to learn whether a "public plan" was a good idea for...	Flesh of My Flesh Best Price: $63.34 Cloning is one of the most hotly debated issues to have hit the world news in years. The first...	Health Policy and Ethics (Pharmacy Business Administration) Best Price: $42.11 This text provides comprehensive yet concise coverage of international health policy and ethics....

Health Care Reform and Managed Care: A Guidebook for Orthopaedic Surgeons (Practice Management)	Embodying Inequality: Epidemiologic Perspectives (Policy, Politics, Health, and Medicine) ABOUT THE BOOK To advance the epidemiological analysis of social inequalities in health, and...	The Right Medicine: How to Make Health Care Reform Work Today Best Price: $5.65 David Cundiff, MD, and Mary Ellen McCarthy, PhD, offer in their uniquely powerful new book, The...	Caring for Profit: How Corporations Are Taking Over Canada's Health Care System Best Price: $16.00 Colleen Fuller gives the reader the history of the Canadian medicare system from the Canada...	A Systems Approach to Social and Organizational Planning: Cure For the Mess in Health Care? Best Price: $23.86 Offering a fresh approach to an intractable problem in the realm of planning and change...

Landmark: The Inside Story of America's New Health Care Law and What It Means for Us All Best Price: $15.67 The Washington Post 's must-read guide to health care reform traces how President Obama and...	Surviving Your Doctors: Why the Medical System is Dangerous to Your Health and How to Get Through it Alive Best Price: $5.88 Surviving Your Doctors, with its in-depth explanations, guidance, and direction will be the...	Better Medicine: Reforming Canadian Health Care Best Price: $11.81 Donner Prize-winning author Dr. David Gratzer ( Code Blue ) edits and introduces this collection...	Alternative Health Care in Canada: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Perspectives	An Introduction to Health Policy Best Price: $72.37 With a strong comparative and international element, this engaging book analyses the process,...

Promoting Children's Health: Integrating School, Family, and Community Best Price: $35.97 "Promoting Children's Health: Integrating School, Family and Community" is an...	Health and Wealth: Studies in History and Policy (Rochester Studies in Medical History) Best Price: $24.30 Today's complex policy problems cannot be understood by the social, medical, and policy...	Landmark: The Inside Story of America's New Health Care Law and What It Means for Us All (Publicaffairs Reports) Best Price: $0.50 Bravo! This book is a history of health care reform up to passing of the Patient Protection and...	Are We Ready?: Public Health since 9/11 (California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public) Best Price: $4.94 A contemporary history of a critical period, Are We Ready? analyzes the impact of 9/11, the...	Real Collaboration: What It Takes for Global Health to Succeed (California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public) Best Price: $22.30 Good overview and general introduction to international medicine gaining some perspective....

Inside National Health Reform (California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public) Best Price: $17.50 This indispensable guide to the Affordable Care Act, our new national health care law, lends an...	Men?s Health and Wellness for the New Millennium Best Price: $36.74 Millions of men suffer from diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, cancer,...	Evidence-Based Health Economics (Evidence-Based Medicine Workbks.) Best Price: $137.07 In his seminal work From Effectiveness to Efficiency: Random Reflections on Health Care, Archie...	Emtala Answer Book 2005 The EMTALA Answer Book, 2006 Edition provides an authoritative, easy-to-access guide for...	State By State Guide To Managed Care Law 2009 Best Price: $335.00 State by State Guide to Managed Care Law simplifies and expedites your research by giving you...

Opposing Viewpoints in Social Issues Best Price: $17.65	China's Urban Health Care Reform: From State Protection to Individual Responsibility Best Price: $86.78 One way to describe the importance of social policy is to say it's about "what is and...	Needs Assessment and Community Care: Clinical Practice and Policy Making Best Price: $51.65 I never received my order. I emailed the company and they told me to wait somemore because they...	Deep Brain Stimulation: A New Treatment Shows Promise in the Most Difficult Cases by Jamie Talan There are disorders that defy treatment with prescribed pharmaceuticals: a man?s hands shake so...	Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis In this book, Sen. Daschle outlines the history of failed health care reform efforts and lessons...

Rational Risk Policy: The 1996 Arne Ryde Memorial Lectures This book provides a comprehensive and accessible synthesis of Viscusi's 1996 Arne Ryde...	Taming the Beloved Beast: How Medical Technology Costs Are Destroying Our Health Care System Technological innovation is deeply woven into the fabric of American culture, and is no less a...	Profit Is Not the Cure: A Citizen's Guide to Saving Medicare On July 12, 1966, the Medical Care Insurance Act was passed by the federal House of Commons...	Health and Social Justice Societies make decisions and take actions that profoundly impact the distribution of health. Why...	Analyzing Health Equity Using Household Survey Data: A Guide to Techniques and their Implementation Have gaps in health outcomes between the poor and better off grown? Are they larger in one...

Medicare Prospective Payment and the Shaping of U.S. Health Care This is the definitive work on Medicare's prospective payment system (PPS), which had its...	Chronic Crisis: Critical Care for America's Collapsing Healthcare System The United States healthcare system leaks lives and dollars like a sieve. It neglects the needy...	Health Care Reform and American Politics : What Everyone Needs to Know The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act signed by President Obama in March 2010 is a...	Deep Brain Stimulation: A New Treatment Shows Promise in the Most Difficult Cases by Jamie Talan There are disorders that defy treatment with prescribed pharmaceuticals: a man?s hands shake so...	Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis In this book, Sen. Daschle outlines the history of failed health care reform efforts and lessons...

Rational Risk Policy: The 1996 Arne Ryde Memorial Lectures This book provides a comprehensive and accessible synthesis of Viscusi's 1996 Arne Ryde...	Taming the Beloved Beast: How Medical Technology Costs Are Destroying Our Health Care System Technological innovation is deeply woven into the fabric of American culture, and is no less a...	Profit Is Not the Cure: A Citizen's Guide to Saving Medicare On July 12, 1966, the Medical Care Insurance Act was passed by the federal House of Commons...	Health and Social Justice Societies make decisions and take actions that profoundly impact the distribution of health. Why...	Analyzing Health Equity Using Household Survey Data: A Guide to Techniques and their Implementation Have gaps in health outcomes between the poor and better off grown? Are they larger in one...

Medicare Prospective Payment and the Shaping of U.S. Health Care This is the definitive work on Medicare's prospective payment system (PPS), which had its...	Chronic Crisis: Critical Care for America's Collapsing Healthcare System The United States healthcare system leaks lives and dollars like a sieve. It neglects the needy...	Health Care Reform and American Politics : What Everyone Needs to Know The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act signed by President Obama in March 2010 is a...

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