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The Forgetting
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2003; US$ 15.95Afflicting nearly half of all persons over the age of 85, Alzheimer?s disease kills nearly 100,000 Americas a year as it insidiously robs them of their memory and wreaks havoc on the lives of their loved ones. It was once minimized and misunderstood as forgetfulness in the elderly, but Alzheimer?s is now at the forefront of many medical and scientific... more...
Adopting Medicare Fee Schedules
RAND Corporation 2004; US$ 9.95In response to rapidly increasing medical costs in the California workers? compensation program, the California Commission on Health and Safety and Workers? Compensation is recommending that the current fee schedule that determines the amount health care providers are paid be linked to Medicare fee schedules. more...
Health Communication in Practice
Taylor and Francis 2005; US$ 67.95Health Communication in Practice: A Case Study Approach offers a comprehensive examination of the complex nature of health-related communication. This text contains detailed case studies that demonstrate in-depth applications of communication theory in real-life situations. With chapters written by medical practitioners as well as communication... more...
Assessment of 24-Hour Care Options for California
RAND Corporation 2005; US$ 9.95Proponents of a type of insurance program called 24-hour care--which would consolidate employers? health care benefits, and possibly disability benefits, for both work-related and non-work-related claims--believe that it could yield substantial workers? compensation savings for California. more...
Evaluation of Community Voices Miami
RAND Corporation 2005; US$ 9.95An evaluation of Community Voices Miami (CVM), a project aimed at enhancing health care access and quality for the underserved in Miami-Dade County, Florida. The report concludes that CVM affected intermediate outcomes--raising awareness of issues, getting safety-net providers to collaborate, nurturing neighborhood-based solutions, and advocating... more...
Evaluation of the Arkansas Tobacco Settlement Program
RAND Corporation 2005; US$ 9.95Documents the initiation and first two years of activity by the seven funded health-related programs set up under the Tobacco Settlement Proceeds Act, evaluates their progress, and makes recommendations for future program activities and funding. more...
La réforme du système de santé
International Development Research Centre 2004; US$ 15.00En 1993, le Rapport sur le développement dans le monde laissait entendre que l?on pouvait réduire considérablement les taux de mortalité si l?affectation des ressources était plus conforme aux réalités locales. Le Projet d?interventions essentielles en santé en Tanzanie (PIEST) a été mis sur pied pour vérifier cette hypothèse. Après une décennie de... more...
Salud
International Development Research Centre 2005; US$ 15.00Puede la gente ser saludable en un mundo enfermo? Muchos desastres ecológicos pueden imputarse directamente a la explotación descuidada del entorno, y los seres humanos actúan como causantes y luego como víctimas. Nuestra salud refleja exactamente la salud de lo que nos rodea, y esa es la base del enfoque de Ecosalud, que reconoce los intrincados lazos... more...
Lean on Me
Touchstone 2006; US$ 19.95The prognosis you give yourself is the only one that's important. You can't allow yourself to become the victim of a negative prognosis. At the young age of thirty-three, Nancy Davis was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. The finality of the neurologist's prognosis was devastating: "There is nothing you can do. Go home and go to bed...forever."... more...
Living Time
Random House Publishing Group 2007; US$ 14.00Living Time is at once a personal odyssey, an intimate doctor-patient communication, and a prescriptive guide for patients and their families. Writing with wit and humility, Dr. Bernadine Healy shares the hard-won insights that transformed her own struggle with a deadly cancer more than seven years ago, affirming her identity as patient and doctor... more...









