Health Systems & Services

Clinical Management in Mental Health Services is a practical guide to the day to day operational management of mental health teams. It explores bot...

Health Care Finance and the Mechanics of Insurance and Reimbursement combines financial principles unique to the health care setting with the metho...

Researchers commonly ask subjects to self-identify their race from a menu of preestablished options. Yet if race is a multidimensional, multilevel ...

Mental health specialists and researchers contend that the development of resilience in youth is facilitated at several levels. Relational, cultura...

Responding to the growing need for tried-and-trusted solutions to the reproductive health care issues confronting millions of women worldwide, Obst...

The Cultivation of Whiteness is an award-winning history of scientific ideas about race and place in Australia from the time of the first European ...

If we can decode the human genome and fashion working machines out of atoms, why can't we navigate the quagmire that is our health care system? In ...

Medical care prices in the United States are not only the most expensive in the world, but there are wide variations in what physicians are paid. D...

What do we know about the possible poisons that industrial technologies leave in our air and water? How reliable is the science that federal regula...

In this rare, behind-the-scenes look at what goes on in hospitals across the country, a longtime medical insider and international authority on chi...

"Uninsured in America" goes to the heart of why more than forty million Americans are falling through the cracks in the health care system, and wha...

Disease and Democracy is the first comparative analysis of how Western democratic nations have coped with AIDS. Peter Baldwin's exploration of dive...

"Life in Crisis" tells the story of Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders or MSF) and its effort to "save lives" on a global scale. Beg...

On average, black Americans are sicker and die earlier than white Americans. "Uncertain Suffering" provides a richly nuanced examination of what th...

What does it mean to be the nation's doctor? In this engaging narrative, journalist Mike Stobbe examines the Office of the U.S. Surgeon General, em...

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, revolut...

"Life in Crisis" tells the story of Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders or MSF) and its effort to "save lives" on a global scale. Beg...

A multidisciplinary international team examines the safety, ethics, and health implications of the emerging global market for health care, and the ...

This book exposes and examines how Medicare, Medicaid, and private health insurance plans combined with widespread business practices and fraud cre...