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In today's chaotic health reform environment, it is especially important for non-financial health care managers to have a practical guide to the tools and concepts they need to manage their human, supply, and equipment resources.

Today's health care managers, frequently, were yesterday's technicians, physicians, and nurses.

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This edited volume fills an important gap in health communication, exploring the significant disparities in access to health care and health coverage that LGBT individuals and their families face. With cutting-edge empirical research, the essays examine the social and structural factors that lead to the stigma and discrimination that LGBT populations experience.

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This book offers a systematic review of major issues and trends in health care policy, including those related to physical health and disease trends, mental and behavioral health concerns, reorganizing the U.S. health system, and managed care and health care personnel.

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This book offers a systematic review of major issues and trends in health care policy, including those related to physical health and disease trends, mental and behavioral health concerns, reorganizing the U.S. health system, and managed care and health care personnel.

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This book exposes and examines how Medicare, Medicaid, and private health insurance plans combined with widespread business practices and fraud create inequity-the root cause of our dysfunctional health care system, and the reason for the rising cost of health care for all Americans.

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Health care reforms around the worldfrom Europe and North America to Africa, Latin America and Asiaseem to all be market-oriented reforms driven by international business interests and right wing political parties.

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Competitive health care markets are unable to produce the health status goals Americans have set for themselves.

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Presenting a brief analysis of health care systems in industrialized nations, the author includes the history, current realities, financing and delivery of services, as well as the impact of the systems on the core sociological variablesage, sex, social class, and race and ethnicity.

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The accessibility of health information on the Internet has revolutionized access to clinical information for health practitioners and patients.

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The accessibility of health information on the Internet has revolutionized access to clinical information for health practitioners and patients.

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Discusses the role of nutrition in alleviating or preventing illnesses and lists more than eight thousand brand and basic foods, covering calories, protein, fat, fiber, vitamins, and minerals.

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Drawing on a wide range of sources, from popular literature, movies, and television drama to government and institutional documents, this book reveals similarities in the presumptions underlying British and American health policies, while also exploring the distinctive way in which policy was shaped by political culture, class relationships, and ec

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This historical reference highlights the people, diseases, and innovations that have impacted the health of soldiers and civilians during wartime, focusing on U.S. conflicts from early colonial skirmishes to the current War on Terror.

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Its scope includes infectious and noninfectious diseases, physical trauma, mental health, health services, maternal and child health, nutrition, and famine, including resettlement and refugees.

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The development of effective health, food, and nutrition policies are essential to the rapid economic and social development of Third World countries.

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Distinguished international experts evaluate in this volume how health and nutrition in poor countries have been affected by economic adjustments made in response to external shocks. and examine what can be done to achieve the best possible health services in the face of economic constraints and crisis.

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This second volume to result from the Diebold Institute Infostructure Project focuses on the roles that information-based technology can play in improving our society's overall health and well-being and in solving the major current and anticipated future problems of the cost and quality of and access to health care.

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This second volume to result from the Diebold Institute Infostructure Project focuses on the roles that information-based technology can play in improving our society's overall health and well-being and in solving the major current and anticipated future problems of the cost and quality of and access to health care.

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This comprehensive survey focuses on African healthcare and institutions from the pre-colonial era to the present time.

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This comprehensive survey focuses on African healthcare and institutions from the pre-colonial era to the present time.