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  • Financing Universal Access To Healthcare: A Comparative Review Of Landmark Legislative Health Reforms In The Oecd

    by Alexander S Preker ...
    Series Book 1 - World Scientific Series In Health Investment And Financing
    The recent expansion of health insurance coverage in the USA under the Affordable Health Care Act, and current threats to reverse the benefits of this reform, have once again focused the world's attention on the difficult challenges faced by other countries trying to provide better access to healthcare to their population at an affordable cost. This textbook provides a comparative review of ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

  • Financing The Education Of Health Workers: Gaining A Competitive Edge

    by Alexander S Preker, Hortenzia Beciu, Eric L Keuffel ...
    Series Book 3 - World Scientific Series In Health Investment And Financing
    This volume reviews the economic underpinnings (investment and financing) and institutional reforms needed to successfully scale up the education of health workers. In this regard, the book examines five major economic and institutional challenges that policy makers face: (1) governance of health education organizations and systems; (2) approaches to financing the education of health workers; (3) ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD

  • Sustainability

    Business and Investment Implications

    by Diane-Charlotte Simon, Alexander S Preker, Susan C Hulton ...
    Series Book 5 - World Scientific Series in Health Investment and Financing
    This book explores the business and investment implications of sustainability, both opportunities and challenges. The volume lays the groundwork for understanding the growing areas of sustainable business and sustainable finance. Over the past few decades, the world has witnessed significant improvements in economic development that meet a wide range of human needs. Ensuring that such development ... Read more

    $56.99 CAD

  • Scaling Up Affordable Health Insurance

    Staying the Course

    Edited by Alexander S. Preker, Marianne E. Lindner, Dov Chernichovsky, Onno P. Schellekens ...
    "Scaling Up Affordable Health Insurance: Staying the Course" is the fifth volume in a series of in-depth reviews on the role of health care financing in improving access for low-income populations to needed care, protecting them from the impoverishing effects of illness, and addressing the important issues of social exclusion in government financed programs. Success in improving access and ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Global Marketplace For Private Health Insurance: Strength In Numbers

    by Preker Alexander S.; Zweifel Peter; Schellekens Onno ...
    Financial protection against the cost of illness and inclusion of vulnerable groups - will require better mobilization and use of private means. Private voluntary health insurance already plays an important role in mobilizing additional resources to the health sector and protecting against the catastrophic cost of illness in some countries. This review explores the context under which private ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

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    How American Health Care Killed My Father--and How We Can Fix It

    by David Goldhill ...
    A visionary investigation that will change the way we think about health care: how and why it is failing, why expanding coverage will actually make things worse, and how our health care can be transformed into a transparent, affordable, successful system.In 2007, David Goldhill’s father died from infections acquired in a hospital, one of more than two hundred thousand avoidable deaths per year ... Read more

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  • Who Shall Live? Health, Economics And Social Choice (2nd Expanded Edition)

    by Victor R Fuchs ...
    Since the first edition of Who Shall Live? (1974) over 100,000 students, teachers, physicians, and general readers from more than a dozen fields have found this book to be a reader-friendly, authoritative introduction to economic concepts applied to health and medical care. Fuchs provides clear explanations and memorable examples of the importance of the non-medical determinants of health, the ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Better Now

    Six Big Ideas to Improve Health Care for All Canadians

    by Dr. Danielle Martin ...
    Longlisted for British Columbia's National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction 2018Dr. Danielle Martin sees the challenges in our health care system every day. As a family doctor and a hospital vice president, she observes how those deficiencies adversely affect patients. And as a health policy expert, she knows how to close those gaps. A passionate believer in the value of fairness that underpins the ... Read more

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  • Powerful Medicines

    The Benefits, Risks, and Costs of Prescription Drugs

    by Jerry Avorn M.D. ...
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  • The Best Care Possible

    A Physician's Quest to Transform Care Through the End of Life

    by Ira Byock ...
    A palliative care doctor on the front lines of hospital care illuminates one of the most important and controversial ethical issues of our time on his quest to transform care through the end of life.It is harder to die in this country than ever before. Statistics show that the vast majority of Americans would prefer to die at home, yet many of us spend our last days fearful and in pain in a ... Read more

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  • Next Medicine

    The Science and Civics of Health

    by Walter Bortz, MD ...
    Every year, the average American spends about $7,300 on medical expenses. The typical Canadian pays $2,700, the Briton only $2,000. And yet, according to the World Health Organization, our healthcare system, in terms of total quality, ranks thirty-eighth in the world, right between Costa Rica and Slovenia. Not only do 40 million Americans lack health insurance, but more than 200,000 die each year ... Read more

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  • Health Policy Reform In China: A Comparative Perspective

    by Jiwei Qian, Ake G Blomqvist ...
    Series Book 36 - Series On Contemporary China
    Most of the existing literature on health system reform in China deals with only one part of the reform process (for example, financing reform in rural areas, or the new system of purchasing pharmaceuticals), or consists of empirical case studies from particular cities or regions. This book gives a broad overview of the process of health system reform in China. It draws extensively both on the ... Read more

    $56.99 CAD