Medical : Public Health

Chronic childhood disease brings psychological challenges for families and carers as well as the children. Roger Bradford explores how they cope with these c......

Major goals of health care in the 21st century are to make health care more efficient and less costly. These goals can be accomplished by implementation of e......

Now updated to reflect the USMLE Step 2 exam, with greater emphasis on case presentations and diagnostic skills. Approximately 400 new clinical vignettes wit......

Everything you need to deliver safe patient care or to improve patient safety in your organization"This easy-to-read book provides an excellent overview of t......

An engaging and clinically applicable work on the principles and structure of the U.S. healthcare system A Doody's Core Title ESSENTIAL PURCHASE! "Eminentl......

Contributors to this book have written to analyze the major ethical issues in public and community health. They also examine all aspects of public healthcare......

This book exposes the dangers of the explosion of health awareness for both patients and doctors. The author argues that we need to establish a clear boundar......

Alexandra Minna Stern is Associate Director of the Center for the History of Medicine and Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and American Cultu......

The United States is facing a health crisis of epidemic proportions: children are gaining weight younger and faster than ever before. With the prospect of be......

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 sm......

Increasing recognition of the impact that globalisation may be having on public health has led to widespread concern about the risks arising from emerging an......

Poor Families in America's Health Care Crisis examines the implications of the fragmented and two-tiered health insurance system in the United States for the......

The Asia-Pacific region has seen great social, environmental and economic change across the past century, with great acceleration of change in the last 20 ye......

In this new book by the award-winning author of Just Healthcare, Norman Daniels develops a comprehensive theory of justice for health that answers three key ......

Government debt management has a long tradition, dating back more than two centuries in some European countries. Since the late 1980's, however, many OECD go......

Most community financing schemes have evolved in the context of severe economic constraints, political instability, and lack of good governance. Usually gove......

A New Approach compares and contrasts the various instruments and approaches used by the World Bank, IMF, European Commission and other development agencies ......

A companion to the 'Customs Modernization Handbook', this book provides case studies on customs modernization initiatives in seven countries: Bolivia, Morocc......

Truck Drivers and Casual Sex is part of the World Bank Working Paper series. These papers are published to communicate the results of the Bank's ongoing rese......

"Accountability of government to citizens-the idea that the public sector must answer to the people for its performance-is the foundation for good governance......