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"Despite all the debate about health care, Americans tend to assume they are in the best of hands when they enter the hospital. This is inaccurate : American health care is in the bottom half of all industrialized countries. This is only the largest in a broad set of misperceptions. We appropriately worry about the security of technology, but fail to see how its absence kills hundreds of people every day from medical errors. We over-value the impact...
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"Physician and former FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb asks: Has America's COVID-19 catastrophe taught us anything? ... [H]e shows how the coronavirus and its variants were able to trounce America's pandemic preparations, and he outlines the steps that must be taken to protect against the next outbreak. As the pandemic unfolded, Gottlieb was in regular contact with all the key players in Congress, the Trump administration, and the drug and diagnostic...
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This sourcebook provides up-to-date information regarding ADB environmental safeguards, poverty and social analysis, and compliance procedures in order to support the process of health impact assessment. It is a useful reference for ADB staff, borrowers, executing agencies, consultants, and others seeking a better understanding of how to implement health impact assessments. The publication outlines the procedures, methods, and tools that health impact...
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The Alberta government is looking to the private sector – and in particular to private health insurance – to solve health care problems. However, private health insurance is mired in myth and misunderstanding. The Bottom Line summarizes a huge body of evidence to get to the truth: private health insurance is more expensive and actually reduces access to health care. Evidence reveals that a manufactured cost crisis is driving the push for more...
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Les systèmes de santé sont des organismes extrêmement complexes qui doivent répondre à des besoins multiples. De nombreux
professionnels, des gestionnaires, des organismes ainsi que du personnel de soutien parviennent néanmoins à assurer une prestation de services coordonnés et intégrés.
Le but de cet ouvrage est de simplifier cette réalité, afin d'en faciliter la compréhension et la gestion. La démarche présentée explique les facettes...
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"Este libro habla de la obra de un trabajador de la salud, que realizó una apasionada e intensa tarea a lo largo de su vida profesional para que el Derecho a la Salud se haga realidad en el ámbito de la Salud Pública.
Es un relato autobiográfico que debe ser contextualizado en la década de 1960 en adelante, y especialmente en las provincias del norte de nuestro país, en donde existían los más bajos indicadores socioeconómicos y sanitarios....
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Moneyball meets medicine in this remarkable chronicle of one of the greatest scientific quests of our time and the visionary mastermind behind it.
Medical doctor and economist Christopher Murray began the Global Burden of Disease study to gain a truer understanding of how we live and how we die. While it is one of the largest scientific projects ever attempted—as breathtaking as the first moon landing or the Human Genome Project—the
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David Dranove is the Walter McNerney Distinguished Professor of Health Industry Management and Professor of Management and Strategy at Northwestern University's Kellogg Graduate School of Management. He recently authored How Hospitals Survived, with William D. White, and is coauthor of The Economics of Strategy, a popular business strategy textbook.Correction: On pages 114 and 172, the book incorrectly states that Oxford Health Plan went bankrupt...
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With employers offering free flu shots and pharmacies expanding into one-stop shops to prevent everything from shingles to tetanus, vaccines are ubiquitous in contemporary life. The past fifty years have witnessed an enormous upsurge in vaccines and immunization in the United States: American children now receive more vaccines than any previous generation, and laws requiring their immunization against a litany of diseases are standard. Yet, while...
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Are we ready for the next global health threat? COVID-19 opened the world's eyes to the inadequacies of our global healthcare system, and it's on us to change what happens next.
Through personal accounts gathered during his nearly forty years of experience in global health, infectious disease physician Joseph Saba provides an eye-opening analysis of healthcare's resistance to globalization and the implications for our health. His story contrasts...
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In a world devastated by war, cyber-attacks, disease, and natural disasters, over half the global population cannot obtain essential health services. The most vulnerable among us are often pushed into poverty by out-of-pocket medical costs, or left to die from preventable diseases. Rebooting Global Health: Changing How We Approach Health Technology follows trailblazing medical workers, health organizations, community leaders, and entrepreneurs who...
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Using the examples of Vioxx, Celebrex, cholesterol-lowering statin drugs, and anti-depressants, Overdosed America shows that at the heart of the current crisis in American medicine lies the commercialization of medical knowledge itself.
Drawing on his background in statistics, epidemiology, and health policy, John Abramson, M.D., reveals the ways in which the drug companies have misrepresented statistical evidence, misled doctors, and compromised...
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In his travels, Dr. Hugues Fidele Batsielilit, has worked with health clinics and public health programs in professional capacities observing the intersectionality of the human condition, government, technology, politics, and disease. His observations have provided first-hand knowledge of how healthcare systems and health outcomes are impacted when proper consideration is not given to the needs of citizens and governments do not prioritize health....
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Ce livre essai traite de trois problèmes d'actualité sur la santé:
-Les déserts médicaux,
-la gouvernance de l'hpital et des territoires,
-les urgences.
En raison de son expérience et de sa connaissance sur ces trois sujets, l'auteure a pu illustrer et conforter ses propos par des témoignages, des articles, des statistiques et des comptes rendus de recherche.
Pour plus d'objectivité, les réflexions menées s'appuient sur les textes de...
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Americans today are dying for want of freedom. Despite being told over and
over again that they are free, the truth is that Americans have little freedom
left. This is due to the rise of an oligarchy of technocrats who now rule our
society in violation of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. These people
are totalitarian technocrats. They seek complete control over individuals
and therefore, society under the guise of "public health and safety."...
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This well-researched and highly critical examination of the state of our mental health system by the industry's most relentless critic presents a new and controversial explanation as to why-in spite of spending $147 billion annually-140,000 seriously mentally ill are homeless, 390,000 are incarcerated, and even educated, tenacious, and caring people can't get treatment for their mentally ill loved ones. DJ Jaffe blames the mental health industry and...
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Public health is a very multidisciplinary profession that everyone out there are very proud to be associated with especially in this era of vast development.
We have over thousands of graduates year in and year out who are well trained, equipped and culturally diverse individuals who put programs in place to promote healthy lifestyle among the people.
Over the years, public health professionals have complained about the difficulties in getting jobs...
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The Healthcare Conversation is an inspiring read about understanding how to navigate the health system in order to become a smarter, better-informed patient-consumer. The main goal of this book is to empower readers to take their physical and financial well-being into their own hands.
This book strives to answer questions that have puzzled Americans for years:
• Why is obtaining care so expensive in the United States?
• What are the main issues...
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Advocates of rapid access to medicines and critics fearful of inadequate testing both argue that globalization will supersede national medical practices and result in the easy transfer of pharmaceuticals around the world. In Pharmacopolitics, Arthur Daemmrich challenges their assumptions by comparing drug laws, clinical trials, and systems for monitoring adverse reactions in the United States and Germany, two countries with similarly advanced systems...
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One Friday was my graduation day, I received my doctoral degree, or PhD. The next day, on Saturday, my then husband, Chrys, a physician, asked me to come to his office and see that is going on there. I was surprise, but went.
He confessed that he is running out of business. All his physicians’ friends already closed their offices. His accounts receivable had over $700,000 uncollectable debt. He already took a loan and hired 2 consultants to turn...
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