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  • An Undisciplined Economist

    Robert G. Evans on Health Economics, Health Care Policy, and Population Health

    by Morris L. Barer, Greg L. Stoddart, Chris B. McLeod, Kimberlyn McGrail ...
    Series Book 237 - Carleton Library Series
    For four decades Robert Evans has been Canada’s foremost health policy analyst and commentator, playing a leadership role in the development of both health economics and population health at home and internationally. An Undisciplined Economist collects Evans’ most important contributions and includes two new articles.The topics addressed range widely, from the peculiar structure of the health care ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • An Undisciplined Economist

    Robert G. Evans on Health Economics, Health Care Policy, and Population Health

    by Morris L. Barer, Greg L. Stoddart, Chris B. McLeod, Kimberlyn McGrail ...
    Series Book 237 - Carleton Library Series
    For four decades Robert Evans has been Canada’s foremost health policy analyst and commentator, playing a leadership role in the development of both health economics and population health at home and internationally. An Undisciplined Economist collects Evans’ most important contributions and includes two new articles.The topics addressed range widely, from the peculiar structure of the health care ... Read more

    $33.09 USD

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  • Ending Medical Reversal

    Improving Outcomes, Saving Lives

    by Vinayak K. Prasad, Adam S. Cifu ...
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  • Biopolitics

    An Advanced Introduction

    by Thomas Lemke, Lisa Jean Moore, Monica Casper ...
    Series Book 5 - Biopolitics
    The first systematic overview of the notion of biopolitics and its relevance in contemporary theoretical debateThe biological features of human beings are now measured, observed, and understood in ways never before thought possible, defining norms, establishing standards, and determining average values of human life. While the notion of “biopolitics” has been linked to everything from rational ... Read more

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  • The Key Facts on Medicare

    Everything You Need to Know About Medicare

    by Patrick W. Nee ...
    Series series Usable Medical Information for the Patient
    The Key Facts on Medicare provides readers with essential, easy-to-read information on the nationwide healthcare system. Compiled in a simplified manner, this guide helps patients navigate the complicated world of Medicare without enduring the complicated nature of medical terminology or fine print. By making a patient-friendly manual to the plans and inner workings of Medicare, one can easily ... Read more

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  • Ethical Issues in Rural Health Care

    Edited by Craig M. Klugman, Pamela M. Dalinis ...
    Series series Bioethics
    Klugman and Dalinis initiate a much-needed conversation about the ethical and policy concerns facing health care providers in the rural United States.This volume initiates a much-needed conversation about the ethical and policy concerns facing health care providers in the rural United States. Although 21 percent of the population lives in rural areas, only 11 percent of physicians practice there. ... Read more

    $29.49 USD

  • The Real Costs of American Health Care

    by David Goldhill ...
    Series series A Vintage Short
    A Vintage Shorts Original SelectionDespite all attempts to make it otherwise, the American health care system remains arcane, bloated, inefficient, and damaging to our health. We pay high premiums, endure exorbitant out-of-pocket costs, see little to no information about treatment options, and suffer often meager and sloppy care. The Affordable Care Act was an unambitious reform not likely to have ... Read more

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  • Going Universal

    How 24 Developing Countries are Implementing Universal Health Coverage from the Bottom Up

    by Daniel Cotlear, Somil Nagpal, Owen Smith, Tandon, Rafael Cortez ...
    This book is about 24 developing countries that have embarked on the journey towards universal health coverage (UHC) following a bottom-up approach, with a special focus on the poor and vulnerable, through a systematic data collection that provides practical insights to policymakers and practitioners. Each of the UHC programs analyzed in this book is seeking to overcome the legacy of inequality by ... Read more

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  • Health Behavior Change in Populations

    Edited by Scott Kahan, Andrea Carlson Gielen, Peter J. Fagan, Lawrence W. Green ...
    Focuses on today’s major public health concerns to teach students the principles of population health behavior and behavior change.The single greatest way to improve health and quality of life is not by developing new medical approaches, but by addressing harmful personal behaviors. These behaviors—which include tobacco, alcohol, and drug use, diet, and physical activity—play a significant role in ... Read more

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  • Making and Unmaking Public Health in Africa

    Ethnographic and Historical Perspectives

    Edited by Ruth J. Prince, Rebecca Marsland ...
    Series series Cambridge Centre of African Studies Series
    Africa has emerged as a prime arena of global health interventions that focus on particular diseases and health emergencies. These are framed increasingly in terms of international concerns about security, human rights, and humanitarian crisis. This presents a stark contrast to the 1960s and ‘70s, when many newly independent African governments pursued the vision of public health “for all,” of ... Read more

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  • Prescription for the People

    An Activist’s Guide to Making Medicine Affordable for All

    by Fran Quigley ...
    Series series The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
    In Prescription for the People**, Fran Quigley diagnoses our inability to get medicines to the people who need them and then prescribes the cure.** He delivers a clear and convincing argument for a complete shift in the global and U.S. approach to developing and providing essential medicines—and a primer on how to make that change happen.Globally, 10 million people die each year because they are ... Read more

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