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“stephen peckham”

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  • Commissioning Healthcare in England

    Evidence, Policy and Practice

    by Erica Gadsby, Ben Ritchie, Lorraine Williams, Christina Petsoulas, Elizabeth Watson, Dorota Osipovic, Oz Gore, Donna Bramwell, Neil Perkins, Stephen Harrison, Julia Segar, Rosalind Miller, Lynsey Warwick-Giles, Anna Coleman, Imelda McDermott, Marie Sanderson ...
    This timely book is the most comprehensive account yet of recent commissioning practice in the English NHS and its impact on health services and the healthcare system.Drawing on eight years of research, expert researchers in the field analyse crucial aspects of commissioning, including competition and cooperation, the development of Clinical Commissioning Groups and contractual mechanisms. They ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Public health ethics and practice

    Edited by Stephen Peckham, Alison Hann ...
    Ethical dilemmas are not new in the area of health care and policy making, but in recent years, their frequency and diversity have grown considerably. All health professionals now have to consider the ethical implications of an increasing array of treatments, interventions and health promotion activities on an almost daily basis. This goes hand in hand with increasing medical knowledge, and the ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • Shaping health policy

    Case study methods and analysis

    Edited by Mark Exworthy, Stephen Peckham, Martin Powell, Alison Hann ...
    This collection examines the role that case-studies play in understanding and explaining British health policy. Overall, the chapters cover the key health policy literatures in terms of the policy process, analytical frameworks and some of the seminal moments of the NHS. They have been written by leading health policy researchers in sociology, social policy, management and organisation studies. ... Read more

    $54.89 USD

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  • Deadly Spin

    An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR Is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans

    by Wendell Potter ...
    A behind the scenes look at how a huge portion of our absurd healthcare spending actually bankrolls a propaganda campaign and lobbying effort focused on protecting one thing: profits.A former senior VP of CIGNA, Wendell Potter made national headlines with his scorching testimony before the Senate panel on health care reform. He explained how health insurers make promises they have no intention of ... Read more

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  • High Performing Healthcare Systems, Delivering Quality By Design

    Delivering Quality by Design

    by G. Ross Baker,Anu MacIntosh-Murray,Christina Porcellato,Lynn Dionne,Kim Stelmacovish and Karen Born ...
    An examination of leadership, strategies, organization processes and investments made to create and sustain improvement in healthcare. ... Read more

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  • Community Mental Health in Canada, Revised and Expanded Edition

    Theory, Policy, and Practice

    by Simon Davis ...
    When it was first published in 2006, Community Mental Health in Canada was hailed as a much-needed critical overview of the provision of public mental health services in Canada. Comprehensive in scope, its coverage included:the prevalence and impact of mental illness in Canadathe complementary and conflicting interests of stakeholder groups, such as mental health professionals, clients, families, ... Read more

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  • The Cure

    How Capitalism Can Save American Health Care

    by David Gratzer ...
    We are surrounded by medical miracles: polio has been eradicated; childhood leukemia is now treatable; death by cardiovascular disease has declined by two-thirds in the last fifty years. Yet while American medicine has never been better, angst over American health care has never been greater. Why is American health care such a mess? In this path-breaking book--Nobel laureate Milton Friedman calls ... Read more

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  • 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

  • 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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  • Chaos and Organization in Health Care

    by Thomas H. Lee, James J. Mongan ...
    Two leading physicians' prescription for solving our health care problems: organizing the fragmented system that delivers care.One of the most daunting challenges facing the new U.S. administration is health care reform. The size of the system, the number of stakeholders, and ever-rising costs make the problem seem almost intractable. But in Chaos and Organization in Health Care, two leading ... Read more

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  • In Their Own Words

    12,000 Physicians Reveal Their Thoughts On Medical Practice in America

    by Phillip Miller ...
    In Their Own Words invites you to become “doctor for a day” and see medical practice from the physicians’ perspective. Drawing on one of the largest physician surveys ever undertaken, “In Their Own Words” offers insights from hundreds of doctors, who reveal in candid comments exactly how they feel about being physicians and why it matters to patients. Read why: Close to half of all doctors plan to ... Read more

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