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Debates on U.S. Health Care

Author : Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1452266646
Total Pages : 593 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (522 download)

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Download or read book Debates on U.S. Health Care written by Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2012-09-06 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This issues-based reference work (available in both print and electronic formats) shines a spotlight on health care policy and practice in the United States. Impassioned debates about the best solutions to health care in America have perennially erupted among politicians, scholars of public policy, medical professionals, and the general public. The fight over the Health Care Reform Act of 2010 brought to light a multitude of fears, challenges, obstacles, and passions that often had the effect of complicating rather than clarifying the debate. The discourse has never been more heated. The complex issues that animate the health care debate have forced the American public to grapple with the exigencies of the present system with regard to economic, fiscal, and monetary policy, especially as they relate to philosophical, often ideologically driven approaches to the problem. Americans have also had to examine their ideas about the relationship of the individual to and interaction with the state and the varied social and cultural beliefs about what an American solution to the problem of health care looks like. In light of the need to keep students, researchers, and other interested readers informed and up-to-date on the issues surrounding health care in the U.S., this volume uses introductory essays followed by point/counterpoint articles to explore prominent and perennially important debates, providing readers with views on multiple sides of this complex issue. Features & Benefits: The volume is divided into three sections, each with its own Section Editor: Quality of Care Debates (Dr. Jennie Kronenfeld), Economic & Fiscal Debates (Dr. Mark Zezza), and Political, Philosophical, & Legal Debates (Prof. Wendy Parmet). Sections open with a Preface by the Section Editor to introduce the broad theme at hand and provide historical underpinnings. Each Section holds 12 chapters addressing varied aspects of the broad theme of the section. Chapters open with an objective, lead-in piece (or "headnote") followed by a point article and a counterpoint article. All pieces (headnote, point article, counterpoint article) are signed. For each chapter, students are referred to further readings, data sources, and other resources as a jumping-off spot for further research and more in-depth exploration. Finally, the volume concludes with a comprehensive index, and the electronic version of the book includes search-and-browse features, as well as the ability to link to further readings cited within chapters should they be available to the library in electronic format.

The Body Size and Health Debate

Author : Christine L. B. Selby
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book The Body Size and Health Debate written by Christine L. B. Selby and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-10-27 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Has the connection between body size and overall health been overstated for decades? This book examines how our dogged efforts to eradicate obesity may be doing more harm than good and explores alternative ways to measure and encourage health. It's fair to say that Americans are obsessed with body size and weight—whether it's in the name of health and disease prevention or the idealization of unrealistically thin proportions. But trying to lose weight and drop clothing sizes is healthy, right? Or is it not healthy, in many cases? In this book, the latest in Greenwood's Health and Medical Issues Today series, Certified Eating Disorder Specialist and Certified Sport Psychology Consultant Christine L. B. Selby, PhD, examines the often confusing information—and misinformation—that exists on obesity and its connection to overall health. She provides a broad examination of this timely topic, addressing the rate of obesity in the United States, questioning the appropriateness of BMI to gauge overall health and well-being, discussing controversies related to weight and health including excessive dieting, and providing real-world scenarios that clearly illustrate major concepts related to weight and health. The book also summarizes a relatively new and still controversial approach to improving well-being that takes the focus off the number on the scale. But can individuals really be happy and healthy at any size

The Healthcare Debate

Author : Greg M. Shaw
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 031335667X
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book The Healthcare Debate written by Greg M. Shaw and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the debate over health care consuming the nation, this timely book looks at the evolution of healthcare policy in the United States throughout its history. Concise, authoritative, and unbiased, The Healthcare Debate provides meaningful context for thinking about one of the most controversial public policy issues the United States faces. It traces the evolution of the argument over the government's role in healthcare financing and delivery since the early 1800s, with an emphasis on the major reform efforts since the mid-20th century. Following the complex dynamics of public health policy across U.S. history, The Healthcare Debate brings together a wide range of voices on the subject—presidents, policymakers, reformers, lobbyists, and everyday citizens. Each of its eight chronologically organized chapters focuses on the battle over government involvement in healthcare in a specific era, drawing on historic documents and the latest retrospective research. With President Obama making healthcare reform his top domestic priority in his first year in office, this remarkable new book could not be more timely.

The Health Debate

Author : David J. Hunter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781447326991
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (269 download)

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Download or read book The Health Debate written by David J. Hunter and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The health debate 2nd edition

Author : Hunter, David J.
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1447305426
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book The health debate 2nd edition written by Hunter, David J. and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2008-09-24 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Health care systems across the world are in a state of permanent revolution as they struggle to cope with multiple pressures arising from changing demography, new technologies, and limited resources. Focusing on the British NHS, this book offers a fresh look at how it has coped with such pressures over its 60 year history and considers what the future holds. The book explores the complexity of health policy and health services, offering a critical perspective on their development. The health debate offers a lively and accessible reassessment of successive reforms of the NHS and their cyclical nature. The book will appeal to all students of health care and health policy, and to policy-makers and health care professionals.

Contesting Medical Confidentiality

Author : Andreas-Holger Maehle
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022640482X
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Contesting Medical Confidentiality written by Andreas-Holger Maehle and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-10-18 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, for the first time, offers a comparative study of the origins of professional and public debates on medical confidentiality in the US, Britain, and Germany during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In this period traditional medical secrecy began to be seriously contested by demands for disclosure in the name of public health and the law. Andreas-Holger Maehle examines three representative debates: Do physicians and surgeons have a privilege to refuse to give evidence in court about confidential patient details? Can doctors breach patient confidence in order to prevent the spread of disease? And is there a medical duty to report illegal procedures to the authorities? The comparative approach reveals significant differences and similarities among the three countries concerned, and the book s historical perspective illuminates the fundamental ethical issues at stake that continue to give rise to public debate."

Priced Out

Author : Uwe E. Reinhardt
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691208530
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Priced Out written by Uwe E. Reinhardt and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-09 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uwe Reinhardt was a towering figure and moral conscience of health care policy in the United States and beyond. Famously bipartisan, he advised presidents and Congress on health reform and originated central features of the Affordable Care Act. In Priced Out, Reinhardt offers an engaging and enlightening account of today's U.S. health care system, explaining why it costs so much more and delivers so much less than the systems of every other advanced country, why this situation is morally indefensible, and how we might improve it.

Contemporary Issues in the U.S. Healthcare Debate

Author : Elisha Caldwell MPH
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1728309433
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (283 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Issues in the U.S. Healthcare Debate written by Elisha Caldwell MPH and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2019-05-10 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary Issues in the U.S. Healthcare Debate discuss the nature of the U.S. healthcare system. It centers on the driving cost and skyrocketing of the U.S. market-based healthcare system as opposed to the National Health System in the United Kingdom, for example, and the Canadian health system. The book presents an alternative view of the healthcare debate in Washington while, at the same time, addressing the underlying cost of healthcare. The book argues that the U.S healthcare system has been politicized, which has exerted pressure on taxpayers to keep investing in a system that is not providing desirable results in patient care. It is found in the book that the U.S. spend more by far than any other industrialized nation on the face of the planet and yet perform terribly on health indicators like life expectancy and infant and maternal mortality. The book argued the rising cost of medical schools, high physicians pay rate, and barriers to adopt a healthcare system that could benefit every resident in the United States.

Debating Obesity

Author : E. Rich
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230304230
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Debating Obesity written by E. Rich and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-11-17 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together critical perspectives on some of the recent claims associated with the obesity crisis. It develops both theoretical and conceptual arguments around the obesity debate, as well as taking a more practical focus in terms of implications for the health professions to outline an agenda for a 'critical weight studies'.

EBOOK: Health And Society: Key Debates In Health Care

Author : Gary Taylor
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
ISBN 13 : 0335240542
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book EBOOK: Health And Society: Key Debates In Health Care written by Gary Taylor and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 2010-03-16 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This is an accessible text that will be a useful source for lecturers and students in the field of health studies. The material is coherently organised into three main themes: the politics of provision; setting priorities; and patients and professionals. I was particularly impressed with way in which the authors draw on theoretical insights and on the experiences of different heath care systems in their analysis.” Professor Rob Baggott, Director of the Health Policy Research Unit, De Montfort University, UK Who is responsible for the health of the nation? To what extent should the state tackle health inequalities? Is prevention better than cure?, Key Debates in Healthcare explores the answers to these and many more topical questions in healthcare. The book considers eight main debates in healthcare, ranging from the role of the state in the provision of health care to the rights of patients, and the responsibilities each of us have for our own health. The book also examines the different models of health and healthcare delivery, and explores alternative methods of providing healthcare, using the state, the private sector or the voluntary sector. Through these debates the book will help readers explore issues such as health inequalities, health promotion and service delivery, and establish their own perspective on issues of health and society. Written as a core course book, the book includes: Theoretical perspectives: to help you understand the logic and implications of broad social and political arguments related to health Policy developments: to show the practical application of ideas in Britain, the United States and in other parts of the world Perspectives of health professionals: to illustrate the impact of healthcare debates on professional practice Healthcare scenarios: to assist you to make connections between theory, policy and practice Key Debates in Healthcare is key reading for all those training and studying to become health professionals and looking for a text to help them get to grips with the heart of healthcare provision.

The Great Psychotherapy Debate

Author : Bruce E. Wampold
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136672672
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)

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Download or read book The Great Psychotherapy Debate written by Bruce E. Wampold and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-01-30 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of The Great Psychotherapy Debate has been updated and revised to expand the presentation of the Contextual Model, which is derived from a scientific understanding of how humans heal in a social context and explains findings from a vast array of psychotherapies studies. This model provides a compelling alternative to traditional research on psychotherapy, which tends to focus on identifying the most effective treatment for particular disorders through emphasizing the specific ingredients of treatment. The new edition also includes a history of healing practices, medicine, and psychotherapy, an examination of therapist effects, and a thorough review of the research on common factors such as the alliance, expectations, and empathy.

20 Questions

Author : Westerman and Ward
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781450512039
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book 20 Questions written by Westerman and Ward and published by . This book was released on 2010-02-28 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finally.....a book to explain the healthcare debate for the rest of us. 20 Questions helps us understand what is being proposed, what the fight is all about, and what we can do to get involved. Just as we can play 20 questions to figure out almost anything, these 20 questions can help you arrive at a true understanding of where we are and where we may be headed with our healthcare system.

The Health Debate

Author : David J. Hunter
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1447326970
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book The Health Debate written by David J. Hunter and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2016-01-13 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the British NHS, this book reviews some of the key contemporary debates concerning health systems and how they have shaped the way that health care has, and is, evolving.

Cries of Crisis

Author : Robert B. Hackey
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
ISBN 13 : 0874178908
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (741 download)

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Download or read book Cries of Crisis written by Robert B. Hackey and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 2012-10-31 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the late 1960s, health care in the United States has been described as a system in crisis. No matter their position, those seeking to improve the system have relied on the rhetoric of crisis to build support for their preferred remedies, to the point where the language and imagery of a health care crisis are now deeply embedded in contemporary politics and popular culture. In Cries of Crisis, Robert B. Hackey analyzes media coverage, political speeches, films, and television shows to demonstrate the role that language and symbolism have played in framing the health care debate, shaping policy making, and influencing public perceptions of problems in the health care system. He demonstrates that the idea of crisis now means so many different things to so many different groups that it has ceased to have any shared meaning at all. He argues that the ceaseless talk of “crisis,” without a commonly accepted definition of that term, has actually impeded efforts to diagnose and treat the chronic problems plaguing the American health care system. Instead, he contends, reformers must embrace a new rhetorical strategy that links proposals to improve the system with deeply held American values like equality and fairness.

The Health Policy Debate

Author : Peter J. Ferrara
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781568080208
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book The Health Policy Debate written by Peter J. Ferrara and published by . This book was released on 1994-07-01 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Great Psychotherapy Debate

Author : Bruce E. Wampold
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135599149
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (355 download)

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Download or read book The Great Psychotherapy Debate written by Bruce E. Wampold and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-08-21 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume disproves the belief that certain psychotherapies are more effective in treating certain psychological problems than other therapies.

Evidence-based Practices in Mental Health

Author : John C. Norcross
Publisher : American Psychological Association (APA)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Evidence-based Practices in Mental Health written by John C. Norcross and published by American Psychological Association (APA). This book was released on 2006 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Mental health professionals comprise a nation of differences. Those differences do not necessarily make us weak; differences can serve as sources of creativity, strength, and progress if constructively harnessed. In this volume, we have tried to constructively harness the active interplay of these various tenaciously held views, to find the harmony among these diverse voices on EBPs in mental health. In terms of process, informed dialogue and respectful debate are surely the ways to progress. In terms of outcome, we should remember that the overarching goal of EBPs, however defined and disseminated, is to enhance the effectiveness of patient services and to improve public health"--Book. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)