Medical / Health Care Delivery

Foundations of Health Care Management: Principles and Methods

by Bernard J. Healey & Marc C. Marchese

Foundations of Health Care Management

Leaders and managers throughout the health care system are facing ever more challenging changes in the way care is delivered, paid for, and evaluated. Foundations of Health...

To Improve Health and Health Care

by Stephen L. Isaacs & David C. Colby

Since 1972, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has been the nation?s largest philanthropy devoted exclusively to health. Their premier annual review of public health and health care research, To Improve Health...

Pharmacy on a Bicycle: Innovative Solutions for Global Health and Poverty

by Eric Bing & Marc J. Epstein

Traditional pathways to delivering health care to the global poor are failing. Five million children die each year before their fifth birthday due to lack of basic health education, services, or low-cost treatments....

The New Arthritis Breakthrough: The Only Medical Therapy Clinically Proven to Produce Long-term Improvement and Remission of RA, Lupus, Juvenile RS, F

by Henry Scammell

...can be miraculous for rheumatoid arthritis sufferers.- Health & Healing, Tomorrow's Medicine Today

Foundations for Community Health Workers

by Tim Berthold

Foundations for Community Health Workers

Foundations for Community Health Workers is a training resource for client- and community-centered public health

practitioners, with an emphasis on promoting health equality....

My Second Life: Living with Parkinson's Disease

by William A. Harshaw

An account of Bill Harshaw's struggle to accept his new life, from early denial to experimental neurosurgery.

Studying the Organisation and Delivery of Health Services: A Reader

by Pauline Allen & Nick Black

Research into the delivery and organisation of health care is a vital component in the improvement of health services. A wide range of disciplines and methods needs to be deployed to address research questions...

Navigating the Healthcare Maze

by Jeff Knott

The primary purpose of this book is to empower readers and encourage them to become proactive consumer-patients. This book isn't an attempt to be politically correct, but is dedicated to providing tools that...

Health Care Information Systems: A Practical Approach for Health Care Management

by Karen A. Wager, Frances W. Lee & John P. Glaser

The Best Selling Text in the Field

Updated for the New Era of Health Care IT

"This is the most comprehensive and authoritative book available for the field today."

—Mark L. Diana, PhD, assistant professor and...

SocialQI: Simple Solutions For Improving Your Healthcare

by Brian S McGowan

The US ranks near the bottom of all developed countries when it comes to healthcare quality and costs, yet in some pockets of the US we provide some of the best and most effective care in the world. This variation...

The Wildwater Walking Club

by Tim Johnson

In today’s world, there are many hot-button topics that generate equal parts debate and confusion. At the top of that list is healthcare. For most Americans, finding out “the truth” about current problems...

The Ritalin Fact Book: What Your Doctor Won't Tell You About Adhd And Stimulant Drugs

by Peter Breggin

By the author of The Antidepressant Fact Book and Talking Back to Ritalin, a straight-talking guide to the drugs used to treat ADD and ADHD

The Antidepressant Fact Book: What Your Doctor Won't Tell You About Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, Celexa, And Luvox

by M.D. Peter Breggin

By the author of Talking Back to Prozac and Your Drug May Be Your Problem, the answers to over 100 questions about antidepressants

Practical Clinical Supervision for Counselors

by Lisa Aasheim

As the field of counseling continues to experience major growth, the need for clinical supervisors is growing proportionally. This stand-alone text for graduate and post-Masters level supervision courses contains...

Jonas' Introduction to the U.S. Health Care System, 7th Edition

by Raymond L. Goldsteen & Karen Goldsteen

"There are many books on the U.S. healthcare system, but few have the longevity of this one. It is easy to read and straightforward in its approach to difficult subjects such as the rise of the Tea Party and...

Communicating Health Risks to the Public: A Global Perspective

by Dawn Hillier

This book reviews current health risk communication strategies, and describes the techniques, including drama, storytelling and scenarios that are used to identify and prioritise key communication issues, and...

Qualitative Methods in Public Health: A Field Guide for Applied Research

by Priscilla R. Ulin, Elizabeth T. Robinson & Elizabeth E. Tolley

Qualitative Methods in Public Health is a comprehensive resource that presents practical strategies and methods for using qualitative research and includes the basic logic and rationale for making qualitative...

Governing the New NHS: Issues and Tensions in Health Service Management

by John Storey, John Bullivant & Andrew Corbett-Nolan

The new NHS is a very different organisation to the one set up 60 years ago. Two decades of reforms have introduced a market element, unprecedented transparency, patient choice, new incentives, devolved accountabilities...

Asian American Communities and Health: Context, Research, Policy, and Action

by Chau Trinh-Shevrin, Nadia Shilpi Islam & Mariano Jose Rey

This ground-breaking textbook examines Asian American health from a public health perspective. It provides an overview of the social, political, economic, and cultural forces that influence the distribution...

The Slim Book of Health Pearls: Am I At Risk? The Patient's Guide to Health Risk Factors

by Sheldon Cohen M.D.

Complete risk factor analysis, a critically important part of a complete medical examination, is often a neglected aspect of an initial doctor-patient interaction. It may worsen with the impending healthcare...