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Based on interviews with those who lived and worked through the 2011 Canterbury earthquakes, and the authors own experiences, `Rising from the Rubble gives a compelling account of those who rallied to maintain and rebuild essential health services after the earthquakes.

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An engaging and comprehensive research handbook for patients and members of the public who want to learn more about the approaches, methods and language of health-services research. -- .

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"Offers fifty strategies for being productive while suffering from depression, such as avoiding isolation, eliminating distractions, and regulating sleep."--Publisher's description.

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Since the 1980s, Australians have had a system of universal health care that they largely take for granted. But the road there wasnt easy. Making Medicare is a comprehensive account of the Australias long, tortuous and unconventional path towards universal health care as it was established, abolished and introduced again and of the reforms that brought it into being.

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Translation of La repubblica dei matti: Franco Basaglia e la psichiatria radicale in Italia, 1961-1978 / John Foot. 2015.

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This work, examines the transformation of American hospitals from a series of community- based charitable institutions into the large, bureaucratic system that existed by the end of the Progressive era. Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-p

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The book, divided into 16 chapters on different aspects of aging and health, will be useful to gerontologists, geriatricians, health policy analysts, researchers, librarians and information specialists, marketing professionals, journalists, students, and others doing research on aging, health, and health services.

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"America's Bitter Pill is Steven Brill's sweeping narrative of how the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, was written, how it is being implemented, and, most important, how it is changing--and failing to change--the rampant abuses in the healthcare industry"--

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The focus of this book is the journey babies have made over the past century. By reviewing the events of the past century, Reedy hopes we can make even more of a difference in the lives of American babies in the century to come.

In 1900, most babies were born at home.

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This book is a guide to the academic and practice journal literature and to the health reports from the U.S. Accounting Office and the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research.

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This unique book examines the physical, psychological, social, and environmental factors that support or undermine healthy development in American Indian children, including economics, biology, and public policies.

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A compassionate and sometimes shocking account of the Boxing Day tsunami told by the first Australian surgical team into Banda Aceh.

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In this work, a panel of experts discusses clinical, business and operational aspects of assisted living, seeking to offer innovative approaches to providing a superior atmosphere of care. Examples and case studies are included to illustrate the text.

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This book presents the problem of attempted suicide as a meaningful and momentous event in the person's life with special consideration of its effects on the human environment. Five groups of people who have made suicide attempts were studied.

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Originally published in hardcover in 2016 by Doubelday.

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This book outlines problems that have been building in the Canadian Health Care System over decades and presents a way to restructure the system to maximize benefits for the patient, healthcare providers, administrators, and taxpayers.

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Of particular interest to family psychologists are the chapters on family relationships, systems theories and marital and family therapy. This book is a valuable addition to the library of seasoned family psychologists as well as beginning graduate students in marriage and family therapy programs.

The Family Psychologist

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A comprehensive guide to the ways in which business strategy must be designed and implemented to help teaching hospitals improve economic performance and compete successfully with their counterparts in the private sector.

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