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	A Comparison of the Health Systems in China and India Author: Ma, Sai / Sood, Neeraj Publisher: Rand Corporation Format: Adobe PDF Description: The world?s two most populous countries, China and India, are undergoing dramatic demographic, societal, and economic transformations. However, the health status of residents of China and India still ...	$7.76
	A Pleasing Birth Author: De Vries, Raymond Publisher: Temple University Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: Women have long searched for a pleasing birth—a birth with a minimum of fear and pain, in the company of supportive family, friends, and caregivers, a birth that ends with a healthy mother and b...	$25.43
	Advances in Health Economics Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley Format: Adobe PDF Description: "It would be difficult to overstate the standing of the authors. Many HERU alumni are among the most highly esteemed health economists in the world."—Steve Morgan, University of British Columbia...	$182.28
	An Introduction to the US Health Care System: Sixth Edition Author: Jonas, Steven / Goldsteen, Raymond L. / Goldsteen, Karen Publisher: Springer Publishing Format: Adobe PDF Description: Completely expanded and updated to account for the latest changes in the U.S. health care system, this best-selling text remains the most concise and balanced introduction to the domestic health care ...	$45.50
	Are We Ready? Author: Rosner, David / Markowitz, Gerald Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: A contemporary history of a critical period, Are We Ready? analyzes the impact of 9/11, the anthrax attacks that followed, and preparations for a possible smallpox attack on the nation's public health...	$21.08
	Assessment of the AHRQ Patient Safety Initiative: Focus on Implementation and Dissemination Evaluation Report III (2004-2005) Author: Farley, Donna O. / Damberg, Cheryl L. / Ridgely, M. Susan Publisher: Rand Corporation Format: Adobe PDF Description: Evaluates progress of the patient safety initiative led by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), focusing on assessment of health information technology projects and dissemination of ...	$7.76
	Attacking Inequality in the Health Sector: A Synthesis of Evidence and Tools Author: Yazbeck, Abdo S. Publisher: World Bank Publications Format: Adobe PDF Description: The last 10 years have seen a resurgence in interest and research around inequalities in the health sector. While a disproportionate share of the new research has focused on measuring inequality in th...	$36.40
	Beyond Survival: Protecting Households from Health Shocks in Latin America Author: Baeza, Cristian / Packard, Truman G. Publisher: The World Bank Format: Adobe PDF Description: "Beyond Survival breaks new ground in the ongoing debate about health finance and financial protection from the costs of health care. The evidence and discussion support the need to consider financial...	$18.20
	Body Soviet Author: Starks, Tricia Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: Health, though essential to the revolutionary vision and crucial to Soviet plans for utopia, has been neglected by traditional histories caught up in Cold War debates. The Body Soviet recovers this si...	$12.63
	Challenges in Program Evaluation of Health Interventions in Developing Countries: Using Physical Reasoning to Solve Problems Author: Wynn, Barbara O. / Tellis, Ashley J. Publisher: Rand Corporation Format: Adobe PDF Description: Health interventions that are effective in developed countries may not be as effective in developing countries given the differing social, economic, cultural, and infrastructure factors that may affec...	$7.76
	Deceit and Denial Author: Markowitz, Gerald / Rosner, David Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: Deceit and Denial details the attempts by the chemical and lead industries to deceive Americans about the dangers that their deadly products present to workers, the public, and consumers. Gerald Marko...	$23.62
	Deceit and Denial: The Deadly Politics of Industrial Pollution Author: Markowitz , Gerald / Rosner, David Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: Deceit and Denial details the attempts by the chemical and lead industries to deceive Americans about the dangers that their deadly products present to workers, the public, and consumers. Gerald Marko...	$9.26
	DNA Author: McCabe, Linda L. / McCabe, Edward R.B., MD. Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: The genetic revolution has provided incredibly valuable information about our DNA, information that can be used to benefit and inform-but also to judge, discriminate, and abuse. An essential reference...	$21.93
	Foundation for Integrating Employee Health Activities for Active Duty Personnel in the Department of Defense Author: Cecchine, Gary / Sloss, Elizabeth M. / Nelson, Christopher Publisher: Rand Corporation Format: Adobe PDF Description: Use of the Reserve Component has steadily increased since the 1990s, but little research has focused on how deployment affects guard and reserve families. This monograph presents the results of interv...	$8.41
	Growing Older in World Cities: New York, London, Paris, and Tokyo Author: N/A Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: New cross-national data on urban living conditions and health care for older people	$27.88
	Health Care Errors and Patient Safety Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe ePUB Description: The detection, reporting, measurement, and minimization of medical errors and harms is now a core requirement in clinical organizations throughout developed societies. This book focuses on this major ...	$92.58
	Health Care Spending in the New EU Member States: Controlling Costs and Improving Quality Author: Mukesh Chawla / Chawla, Mukesh Publisher: World Bank Publications Format: Adobe PDF Description: Following the transition from central planning toward market-based economies, the formerly communist states of Central and Eastern Europe introduced a number of reforms in the finance, management, and...	$13.65
	Hospital-Based Integrative Medicine: A Case Study of the Barriers and Factors Facilitating the Creation of a Center Author: Coulter, Ian D. / Hoffman, Bruce Publisher: Rand Corporation Format: Adobe PDF Description: Current integrative medicine practices in hospital settings involve some form of partnership between complementary and alternative medicine and biomedicine. This five-year study adopted a longitudinal...	$7.76
	India's Undernourished Children: A Call for Reform and Action Author: Gragnolati, Michele / Shekar, Meera / Gupta, Monica , Das Publisher: The World Bank Format: Adobe PDF Description: "The prevalence of child undernutrition in India is among the highest in the world, nearly double that of Sub-Saharan Africa, with dire consequences for morbidity, mortality, productivity and economic...	$18.20
	Inside National Health Reform Author: McDonough, John E. Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe ePUB Description: This indispensable guide to the Affordable Care Act, our new national health care law, lends an insider's deep understanding of policy to a lively and absorbing account of the extraordinary-and extrao...	$29.53
	Invisible Wounds of War: Summary and Recommendations for Addressing Psychological and Cognitive Injuries Author: Tanielian, Terri / Jaycox, Lisa H. / Schell, Terry L. Publisher: Rand Corporation Format: Adobe PDF Description: Summarizes key findings and recommendations from Invisible Wounds of War: Psychological and Cognitive Injuries, Their Consequences, and Services to Assist Recovery (Tanielian and Jaycox [Eds.], MG-720...	$7.76
	Irish Apartheid Healthcare Author: Burke, Sarah Publisher: NewIsland Format: Adobe ePUB Description: Health services are top of the public and political agenda in Ireland, yet much of the rhetoric is confused, and most people cannot understand why the system is the way it is. Irish Medical Media Awar...	$19.43
	Maintaining Momentum to 2015?: An Impact Evaluation of Interventions to Improve Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition in Bangladesh Author: White, Howard, Nial Publisher: The World Bank Format: Adobe PDF Description: "This report addresses the issue of what publicly-supported programs and external assistance from the Bank and other agencies can do to accelerate attainment of targets such as reducing infant mortali...	$27.30
	Medicare Matters: What Geriatric Medicine Can Teach American Health Care Author: Cassel, Christine Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: Savvy, comprehensive, and authoritative, this book, written by a physician with more than thirty years' experience caring for elderly patients, assesses the current state and the future prospects of M...	$23.66
	Outcome Measures for Effective Teamwork in Inpatient Care: Final Report Author: Sorbero, Melony E. / Farley, Donna O. / Mattke, Soeren Publisher: Rand Corporation Format: Adobe PDF Description: Addresses one step in the process of moving from teamwork training to teamwork practices that improve outcomes of care: identifying outcomes that are most likely to be affected as teamwork practices i...	$8.41
	Patient Citizens, Immigrant Mothers Author: Galvez, Prof. Alyshia Publisher: Rutgers University Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: According to the Latina health paradox, Mexican immigrant women have less complicated pregnancies and more favorable birth outcomes than many other groups, in spite of socioeconomic disadvantage. In P...	$56.16
	Performance-Based Contracting for Health Services in Developing Countries: A Toolkit Author: Loevinsohn, Benjamin Publisher: World Bank Publications Format: Adobe PDF Description: Despite the existence of effective interventions, there are many developing countries which are not on track to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) for health. In many countries the delive...	$27.30
	Practical Patient Literacy: The Medagogy Model Author: Stewart, Melissa Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Format: Adobe PDF Description: Use the Medagogy Model to enhance patient communication—and the efficiency of your practiceIn this unique guide, Dr. Melissa Stewart explains her patient-centered Medagogy conceptual framework, ...	$31.20
	Protecting Emergency Responders, Volume 4: Personal Protective Equipment Guidelines for Structural Collapse Events: Personal Protective Equipment Guid Author: Willis, Henry H. / Castle, Nicholas / Sloss, Elizabeth M. Publisher: Rand Corporation Format: Adobe PDF Description: This monograph serves as a technical source for National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) incident commander guidelines for emergency response immediately following large structura...	$8.41
	Quality of Life and Human Difference Author: Wasserman, David / Bickenbach, Jerome / Wachbroit, Robert Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: This innovative volume brings together two important literatures for the first time. One concerns the role of quality assessments in social policy, especially health policy. The second concerns ethica...	$28.08
	Relax! It's Only Your Doctor's Waiting Room, Not the ER: Or How to Get Along With and Understand Your Doctor Author: Ackerman, Marvin Publisher: Gom MedPress Format: Adobe PDF Description: Dr. Ackerman provides helpful insights and answers to the important medical issues that affect you, including: . How Well Informed Is Your Healthcare Provider? . Misguided Media Coverage . When the Fi...	$10.92
	Searching Eyes Author: Fairchild, Amy L. / Bayer, Ronald / Colgrove, James Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: This is the first history of public health surveillance in the United States to span more than a century of conflict and controversy. The practice of reporting the names of those with disease to healt...	$22.77
	Strengthening Country Commitment to Human Development: Lessons from Nutrition Author: Heaver, Richard Publisher: The World Bank Format: Adobe PDF Description: "Malnutrition persists in most developing countries. It contributes to the deaths of 3.4 million children annually and reduces the intelligence, health, and productivity of those who survive. Nutritio...	$13.65
	The Convergence of Science and Governance Author: Fox, Daniel M. Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: Daniel M. Fox gives an incisive assessment of the critical collaboration between researchers and public officials that has recently emerged to evaluate the effectiveness and comparative effectiveness ...	$25.31
	The Economic Evolution of American Health Care Author: Dranove, David Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe ePUB Description: The American health care industry has undergone such dizzying transformations since the 1960s that many patients have lost confidence in a system they find too impersonal and ineffectual. Is their dis...	$38.68
	The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 Author: Wooten, James Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: This study of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) explains in detail how public officials in the executive branch and Congress overcame strong opposition from business and orga...	$59.15
	The Health Care Revolution Author: Ameringer, Carl F. Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: America's market-based health care system, unique among the nations of the world, is in large part the product of an obscure, yet profound, revolution that overthrew the medical monopoly in the late 1...	$50.70
	The Political Economy of Personal Injury Law Author: Cane, Peter Publisher: University of Queensland Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: This is the second volume in an annual series inaugurated by the University of Queensland's TC Beirne Law School. Inspired by the famous Hamlyn Lecture Series in England, the McPherson Lecture Series ...	$49.91
	The State and Pattern of Health Information Technology Adoption Author: Fonkych, Kateryna / Taylor, Roger Publisher: Rand Corporation Format: Adobe PDF Description: Helps focus the policy agenda for incentives to speed Healthcare Information Technology (HIT) adoption by estimating the current level and pattern of HIT adoption in the different types of healthcare ...	$8.41
	The Well-Being of the Elderly in Asia Author: N/A Publisher: University of Michigan Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: The past two decades have witnessed rapid social, economic, and demographic change in East and South-East Asia. The older populations in these regions have been increasing faster than in the West, and...	$88.40
	Understanding Global Health Author: Markle, William H. / Fisher, Melanie A. / Smego, Raymond A. Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Format: Adobe PDF Description: The rapidly evolving world of global health and medicine -- in the palm of your hand "The book's 17 multi-authored chapters cover contemporary global public health remarkably well....Overall, it is a...	$32.18
	User Involvement in Health Care Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF Description: How can the needs and perspective of patients be incorporated in the design and redesign of health services?Health organizations are focusing more and more on patients – and requiring their empl...	$51.63
	What Price Better Health? Author: Callahan, Daniel Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: The idea that we have an unlimited moral imperative to pursue medical research is deeply rooted in American society and medicine. In this provocative work, Daniel Callahan exposes the ways in which su...	$21.08
	An Introduction to the US Health Care System Author: Jonas, Steven / Goldsteen, Raymond L. Publisher: Springer Publishing Company Format: Adobe ePUB Description: Completely expanded and updated to account for the latest changes in the U.S. health care system, this best-selling text remains the most concise and balanced introduction to the domestic health ca	$45.50
	Deep China Author: Kleinman, Arthur / Yan, Yunxiang / Jun, Jing Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: Deep China investigates the emotional and moral lives of the Chinese people as they adjust to the challenges of modernity. Sharing a medical anthropology and cultural psychiatry perspective, Arthur Kl...	$22.77
	Deep China Author: Kleinman, Arthur / Yan, Yunxiang / Jun, Jing Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe ePUB Description: Deep China investigates the emotional and moral lives of the Chinese people as they adjust to the challenges of modernity. Sharing a medical anthropology and cultural psychiatry perspective, Arthur Kl...	$22.77
	Disease and Democracy Author: Baldwin, Peter Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: Disease and Democracy is the first comparative analysis of how Western democratic nations have coped with AIDS. Peter Baldwin's exploration of divergent approaches to the epidemic in the United States...	$21.93
	Fundamentals of the Stem Cell Debate Author: N/A Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe ePUB Description: Few recent advances in science have generated as much excitement and controversy as human embryonic stem cells. The potential of these cells to replace diseased or damaged cells in virtually every tis...	$21.93
	In Their Own Words Author: Miller, Phillip Publisher: Morgan James Publishing Format: Adobe PDF Description: Have you ever wondered what it is like to be a doctor in today's highly regulated and often dysfunctional healthcare system? Would it interest you to learn why so many physicians are disillusioned wit...	$7.79
	Inside National Health Reform Author: McDonough, John E. Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF Description: This indispensable guide to the Affordable Care Act, our new national health care law, lends an insider's deep understanding of policy to a lively and absorbing account of the extraordinary-and extrao...	$29.53

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