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As Dr. Ken Fisher argues so passionately in this book, it's time for a change.

End-of-life care in the U.S. has evolved over the years into a nightmare for patients and family members, and it has created a near-crushing financial burden on the medical system that is not just excessive but unsustainable.

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Enormous progress has been made in global health conditions during the past several decades, yet chronic hunger and illness persist in poor countries. Drawing on various disciplines, including public health, economics, and other social sciences, the authors stress the need for collaborative processes and local institution strengthening.

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This reference source provides a synopsis of the state of the development of public health in 20 countries around the world. Each chapter is devoted to a particular country which discusses the overall status of public health and takes into account the quality and efficiency of the delivery systems.

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This book is an insight on how the healthcare quality may improve through a model of knowledge management and multi-contingency approach to organizational design. Abundant primary data about Montenegrin health system, the authors interdisciplinary approach, special emphasis on the COVID-19 pandemic, make this book thought-provoking.

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This is an explanation of how thieves exploit the U.S. health system and steal more than $100 billion each year. The author examines the effects of managed care on the problem, the government's attempts to grapple with fraud, and the campaign by provider associations to undermine those efforts.

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As the population ages, policymakers must evaluate the nation's readiness to assist a growing group of people with conditions requiring chronic and long-term care.

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Produced in close consultation with state health care officials from all around the US, this important volume offers practical and timely recommendations for how to make health reform work. It addresses the central implementation, management, and federalism dimensions of reform.

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Health professionals need to learn the communication skills that will create collaborative and mutually satisfying relationships with patients.

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Explores the development of patient-consumerism from the 1960s to 2010 in relation to seven key areas: patient autonomy, representation, complaint, rights, information, voice and choice. -- .

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Covering a wide range of topics in medical economics, the author provides a comprehensive study of cost containment and financial management. The issues of health care competition, regulation, marketing, and the impact of health finances on the quality of care are addressed.

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and the significant impact of medical tourism on health care systemsthat of the United States, and those of the destination countries.

The book highlights many contemporary problems, controversies, and implications of medical tourism both for individuals and health care systems, and presents thought-provoking potential solutions.

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This wide-ranging resource serves as a guide for understanding America's Medicare and Medicaid programs, which provide health care services and coverage to millions of Americans across the USA.

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This monograph is devoted to an analysis of Medicare and Medicaid provisions together with a brief description of the conditions and events that led to their enactment into law. The conditions that gave rise to the law are reviewed in Chapter 2, and a brief chronicle of the legislation is given in Chapter 3.

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Looks at the major characteristics of the Medicare rate payment system, how it has changed the pattern of medical service, how these changes have affected the health of the beneficiaries, and the system's effects on Medicare outlays. Russell reviews what is known and what needs to be learned to arrive at a valid assessment of the system.

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In this cross-cutting analysis, some of the US's most prominent social insurance experts go beyond recent budget debates to examine the fundamental and technical choices Medicare poses for the American people in the next century. The book concludes with an examination of how public opinion, politics, and leadership affect the prospects for Medicare restructuring in the near and long term.

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Medicine on the Periphery traces the development of Yucatns medical institutions, public health programs, healers, and changing disease environment from the 1870s through 1960. The biomedicalization of Yucatns public health system is analyzed within the Atlantic medical community and the emerging revolutionary state of central Mexico.

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Military Mental Health Care is both a resource for struggling veterans and a useful tool for their loved ones or anyone looking for ways to support the veterans in their lives.

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Health disparities exist between races in America. This important collection of interdisciplinary personal essays considers what neither social science nor medicine, alone, can tell us about the unequal health outcomes of various racial and ethnic groups in the United States.

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This book draws on multiple real life experiences to make a compelling case for how the NHS can organise care better around the needs of patients.

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This book draws on multiple real life experiences to make a compelling case for how the NHS can organise care better around the needs of patients.

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