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  • Pharmacy on a Bicycle

    Innovative Solutions for Global Health and Poverty

    by Eric G. Bing, Marc J. Epstein ...
    Every four minutes, over 50 children under the age of five die. In the same four minutes, 2 mothers lose their lives in childbirth. Every year, malaria kills nearly 1.2 million people, despite the fact that it can be prevented with a mosquito net and treated for less than $1.50.Sadly, this list goes on and on. Millions are dying from diseases that we can easily and inexpensively prevent, diagnose, ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Better Now

    Six Big Ideas to Improve Health Care for All Canadians

    by Dr. Danielle Martin ...
    Longlisted for British Columbia's National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction 2018Dr. Danielle Martin sees the challenges in our health care system every day. As a family doctor and a hospital vice president, she observes how those deficiencies adversely affect patients. And as a health policy expert, she knows how to close those gaps. A passionate believer in the value of fairness that underpins the ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Innovator's Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care

    by Clayton Christensen, Jerome H. Grossman, M.D. Jason Hwang ...
    A groundbreaking prescription for health care reform--from a legendary leader in innovation . . .Our health care system is in critical condition. Each year, fewer Americans can afford it, fewer businesses can provide it, and fewer government programs can promise it for future generations.We need a cure, and we need it now.Harvard Business School’s Clayton M. Christensen—whose bestselling The ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Managing the Myths of Health Care

    Bridging the Separations between Care, Cure, Control, and Community

    by Henry Mintzberg ...
    “Health care is not failing but succeeding, expensively, and we don't want to pay for it. So the administrations, public and private alike, intervene to cut costs, and herein lies the failure.”In this sure-to-be-controversial book, leading management thinker Henry Mintzberg turns his attention to reframing the management and organization of health care.The problem is not management per se but a ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • The Cost Disease: Why Computers Get Cheaper and Health Care Doesn't

    by William J. Baumol, Monte Malach, Ariel Pablos-Mendez, Lillian Gomory Wu ...
    The exploding cost of health care in the United States is a source of widespread alarm. Similarly, the upward spiral of college tuition fees is cause for serious concern. In this concise and illuminating book, well-known economist William J. Baumol explores the causes of these seemingly intractable problems and offers a surprisingly simple explanation. Baumol identifies the "cost disease" as a ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Harvard Business Review on Fixing Healthcare from Inside & Out

    by Harvard Business Review ...
    How can management cure health care's ills?If you need the best practices and ideas for transforming health care--but don't have time to find them--this book is for you. Here are 10 inspiring and useful perspectives, all in one place.The HBR articles in this collection propose several remedies:- Organizing doctors into teams- Focusing incentives on patients' recovery- Saving lives and dollars by ... Read more

    $15.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Human: Solving the global workforce crisis in healthcare

    by Mark Britnell ...
    By 2030, the world will be short of approximately 15 million health workers - a fifth of the workforce needed to keep healthcare systems going. Global healthcare leader and award-winning author, Dr Mark Britnell, uses his unique insights from advising governments, executives, and clinicians in more than 70 countries, to present solutions to this impending crisis. Human: Solving the Global ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • The Patient Priority: Solve Health Care's Value Crisis by Measuring and Delivering Outcomes That Matter to Patients

    by Stefan Larsson, Jennifer Clawson, Josh Kellar ...
    From the thought leaders at Boston Consulting Group come lessons on how leading health systems around the world are delivering patient-centered, value-based care by focusing on the health outcomes that matter to patients.To address the growing crises confronting the global health sector, health systems need to deliver better health outcomes to patients for the money spent, an approach known as ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Managing Innovation In Healthcare

    by James Barlow ...
    'The book would be a great text for advanced healthcare students, as it is chock-full of fair-minded and complete discussions of different scholarly views. The book contains the musts of excellent text books too: ample caselets, boxes and figures that illustrate key concepts; chapter summaries; and a distillation of key concepts and further reading suggestions stud every chapter. It is useful for ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • How Hockey Can Save Healthcare: A Principle - Based Approach to Reforming the Canadian Healthcare System

    by Stephen Pinney MD ...
    Canadians are passionate about their healthcare system—and their hockey. While the Canadian medical system is a source of pride—based on ideals of universal coverage, public funding, and high-quality medical care—this treasured healthcare system is failing due to soaring costs, the challenge of an aging population, and poor care delivery. It needs a reality check. Dr. Stephen Pinney pulls the ... Read more

    $8.09 USD

  • 2030 - The Future of Medicine

    Avoiding a Medical Meltdown

    by Richard Barker ...
    It is 2030. What are the new technologies that have advanced healthcare? What are the new or strengthened demands placed on the healthcare systems of the world? Is the future affordable, or do we see drastic rationing of care or the collapse of healthcare insurance? This book tackles these questions, and provides some answers. It does not shrink from the uncomfortable challenges that lie ahead, as ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • First, Do Less Harm

    Confronting the Inconvenient Problems of Patient Safety

    Edited by Ross Koppel, Suzanne Gordon ...
    Series series The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
    Each year, hospital-acquired infections, prescribing and treatment errors, lost documents and test reports, communication failures, and other problems have caused thousands of deaths in the United States, added millions of days to patients' hospital stays, and cost Americans tens of billions of dollars. Despite (and sometimes because of) new medical information technology and numerous well ... Read more

    $14.29 USD