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  • The Economics of Medical Technology

    by Kristian Bolin, Robert Kaestner, Michael Grossman, Björn Lindgren ...
    Series Book 23 - Advances in Health Economics and Health Services Research
    Medical technology broadly defined to include all aspects of the process of treating disease (e.g., pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and surgical procedures) is profoundly important for individual health and, consequently, also for general welfare. Advances in medical technology convey the prospect of both improved population health and increased general welfare. However, because of the extensive ... Read more

    $136.19 USD

  • Human Capital and Health Behavior

    Edited by Kristian Bolin, Michael Grossman, Dorte Gyrd-Hansen, Tor Iversen, Björn Lindgren, Dr Robert Kaestner, Dr Jody Sindelar ...
    Series Book 25 - Advances in Health Economics and Health Services Research
    Human capital is embodied in human beings. It embraces the individual’s capacity to perform and enjoy activities that provide money and/or psychic income. Health behaviour affects human capital and is itself affected by the individual’s human capital. This volume consists of original theoretical and empirical contributions to our knowledge of the interdependence between Human Capital and Health ... Read more

    $136.19 USD

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  • Reinventing American Health Care

    How the Affordable Care Act will Improve our Terribly Complex, Blatantly Unjust, Outrageously Expensive, Grossly Inefficient, Error Prone System

    by Ezekiel J. Emanuel ...
    The definitive story of American health care today -- its causes, consequences, and confusions.In March 2010, the Affordable Care Act was signed into law. It was the most extensive reform of America's health care system since at least the creation of Medicare in 1965, and maybe ever. The ACA was controversial and highly political, and the law faced legal challenges reaching all the way to the ... Read more

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  • Surviving Your Doctors

    Why the Medical System is Dangerous to Your Health and How to Get Through it Alive

    by Richard S. Klein ...
    Surviving Your Doctors, with its in-depth explanations, guidance, and direction will be the basic training manual patients need to work their way through the health care maze. It serves as a map of the medical minefield, told from the perspective of a doctor yet designed to reveal the faults in the system and the things that can and do go wrong during the course of both routine and special ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Health Economics

    Edited by Sherry Glied, Peter C. Smith ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Health Economics provides an accessible and authoritative guide to health economics, intended for scholars and students in the field, as well as those in adjacent disciplines including health policy and clinical medicine. The chapters stress the direct impact of health economics reasoning on policy and practice, offering readers an introduction to the potential reach of the ... Read more

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  • Survival Manual for Elders: Encouraging Elders' Resiliency Potential

    by Melanie Adair, Joe B. Adair ...
    Helps seniors and their caregivers successfully navigate the challenges of aging, make informed decisions, and focus on individualized goals of care to promote resiliency and maximum functional potential. A team of physicians, nurses, social workers, psychologists, therapists, chaplains, business and legal experts collaborate on topics such as dignity, health promotion, care choices, common ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Bright Side and the Dark Side of Patient Empowerment

    Co-creation and Co-destruction of Value in the Healthcare Environment

    by Rocco Palumbo ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    Patient empowerment as a key component in the future of healthcare systems is the focus of this concise in-depth analysis. It begins by defining patient empowerment as a collaborative partnership linking patients, providers, and systems, and examines the roles of health literacy, provider-patient and system-patient communication, and patient-centered care in the empowerment process. Models of ... Read more

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  • The Future of Health-Care Delivery

    by Stephen C. Schimpff, MD ...
    Approximately 100,000 deaths per year in the United States result from preventable medical errors. This figure is about twice the number of people who die in car accidents and five times the number of murder victims annually, and twenty times the number of servicemen and women killed in Iraq and Afghanistan since the start of hostilities in 2001. If you think Americans have the best health-care ... Read more

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  • The Best Healthcare for Less

    Save Money on Chronic Medical Conditions and Prescription Drugs

    by David Nganele ...
    You can afford the care you need.If you're one of the millions who suffer from medical conditions such as cancer, heart disease, or diabetes, you know that these illnesses can, over time, cause extreme financial hardship. In this timely, thorough resource, Dr. David Nganele helps you identify the drugs, programs, hospitals, and strategies that will significantly reduce your out-of-pocket expenses. ... Read more

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  • Public-Private Partnerships in Health

    Improving Infrastructure and Technology

    Edited by Veronica Vecchi, Mark Hellowell ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book considers the use of Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) in the delivery of physical assets, infrastructure and technologies and related clinical services, in the health sector. The PPP model represents the most complex form of contracting transaction yet to have emerged in the health sector, owing to its long-term character, financial complexity, and risk-allocation mechanisms. This book ... Read more

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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

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