Health Systems & Services

This book explores the moral lives of mental health clinicians serving the most marginalized individuals in the US healthcare system. Drawing on ye...

In the years since the end of apartheid, South Africans have enjoyed a progressive constitution, considerable access to social services for the poo...

A timely examination of innovations to the Canadian health care system and their impact on the delivery of services.

This book offers a systematic review of major issues and trends in health care policy, including those related to physical health and disease trend...

This book explores the moral lives of mental health clinicians serving the most marginalized individuals in the US healthcare system. Drawing on ye...

Why is the United States the only advanced industrial democracy today without a national health insurance program? Laham aptly examines the reasons...

Essential reading for health and mental health administrators, community agencies, and policy makers as well as students and general interest reade...

Unlike earlier work in medical economics, which has focused on medical care, these ten papers stress the production and consequences of health itse...

Hearing (Our) Voices describes two innovative participatory action research projects - one on communication with medical professionals, the other o...

This book offers a timely account of health reform struggles in developed democracies.  The editors, leading experts in the field, have brought tog...

Over the past century, hundreds of billions of dollars have been invested in programs aimed at improving health on a global scale. Given the enormo...

If national health insurance becomes a reality, what options should be considered for the coverage of prescription drugs? The authors—whose Pills, ...

Although American medicine has had truly impressive clinical achievements, America's health care system fails to provide equal access to reasonable...

Documenting the real world of the contemporary hospital, its nurses, and their moral and ethical crises, this work analyzes the forces that shape m...

In Britain alone, more than 20% of the adult population take a psychiatric drug in any one year. This is an increase of over 500% since 1980 and th...

An international bestseller and winner of the Stonewall Book Award, which inspired an award-winning film 'A heroic work of journalism on what must ...

This book offers a systematic review of major issues and trends in health care policy, including those related to physical health and disease trend...

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 ...

The personal testimony of individuals engaged in healing practices and the opposing voices of orthodox and alternative medicines are the center of ...

Shelton confirms the power of talk in the specific case of the 1994 debate on comprehensive health care reform and beyond. He provides a context ri...

Leutz and his colleagues offer the most practice-oriented and realistic assessment of how chronically ill elders are being served at the community ...

In this intriguing volume, Merrie G. Klapp explains how regulatory decisions in such crucial areas as public health, technological safety, and envi...

How can healthcare systems be transformed by reimagining their multiple silos to favor processes and practices that are more responsive to local, h...

What is the relationship between social science research and public health policy, particularly in the developing world? This question is at the he...

This NIH-supported study of HIV's physical and psychosocial impacts offers both practical and inspiring accounts of how individuals living with HIV...

This book is a thorough, balanced, and insightful study of what is happening and what should be happening in health care financing. Americans want ...

This book examines a range of current health care issues affecting Asian Americans and explores ways to improve the quality of their health care. T...

Mental health policy in the United States has involved varying approaches, often reflecting the social and economic conditions of the times. The co...

A collection of 15 papers from The American Ceramic Society’s 38th International Conference on Advanced Ceramics and Composites, held in Daytona Be...

Why Nobody Believes the Numbers introduces a unique viewpoint to population health outcomes measurement:   Results/ROIs should be presented as they...

In Entitled to Nothing, Lisa Sun-Hee Park investigates how the politics of immigration, health care, and welfare are intertwined. Documenting the f...

A systematic review of the most current decision models and techniques for disease prevention and treatment  Decision Analytics and Optimization in...

A focused guide for healthcare simulation operations in education and training With the growing use of simulation within the field of healthcare, H...

Discover How Electronic Health Records Are Built to Drive the Next Generation of Healthcare Delivery The increased role of IT in the healthcare sec...