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Healthy Development
World Bank Publications 2007; US$ 34.99This paper spells out the vision of the World Bank on how to strenghten worldwide health systems and ensure better responses to key challenges such as combating the HIV/AIDS pandemic, repositioning nutrition on the development agenda, and renewing commitment on population policy. This strategy also entails stronger analytical and operational work in... more...
The Official Guide for Foreign Nurses
Springer Publishing Company 2009; US$ 39.00This book serves as the only guide to U.S. healthcare targeted specifically for nurses interested in immigrating to this country as well as FENs who are already here. Written in simple, accessible language, the guide will address a variety of topics related to living in the U.S., nursing practice, and the health care system in this country. Key topics... more...
Amen, Amen, Amen
Scribner 2009; US$ 15.00Until the age of ten, Abby Sher was a happy child in a fun-loving, musical family. But when her father and favorite aunt pass away, Abby fills the void of her loss with rituals: kissing her father's picture over and over each night, washing her hands, counting her steps, and collecting sharp objects that she thinks could harm innocent pedestrians.... more...
Pharmaceutical Systems
Wiley 2008; US$ 220.00* Offers a social view of the activities leading to the timely patient access to medicines including: drug research, drug production, drug distribution, drug prescribing, drug information and drug control * Provides theoretical models to enable pharmacists to understand the organization of drug systems in their particular global territory * Written... more...
Healthgrid Research, Innovation and Business Case
IOS Press 2009; US$ 167.00The principal objective of HealthGrid conference and HealthGrid Association is the exchange and debate of ideas, technologies, solutions and requirements that interest the grid and the life-science communities. This work reflects the anticipated move towards real applications, and discusses accessibility, core technologies and data integration. more...
Hospital-Based Integrative Medicine
RAND Corporation 2008; US$ 9.95Current integrative medicine practices in hospital settings involve some form of partnership between complementary and alternative medicine and biomedicine. This five-year study adopted a longitudinal methodology to track the establishment of a single hospital-based Integrative Medicine Center. Using extensive qualitative interview data, the project... more...
Reforming Medicare
Brookings Institution Press 2008; US$ 29.99Everyone agrees on the need to reform Medicare but not on how to do it. Some argue the program is too comprehensive, others that it is not comprehensive enough. Some suggest it pays too much for health care, others, too little. Meanwhile, the financial stakes continue to mount. Medicare spending exceeded $400 billion in 2007, making it more expensive... more...
Strategy for the Future of Health
IOS Press 2009; US$ 195.00Examines the horizon of ideas and technologies which must be addressed by decision makers involved in health-related resource allocation. This book addresses the technological revolution in healthcare which is manifesting itself in the convergence of molecular biology, computer and medical science, mechanical, genetic and biomedical engineering. more...
Infection Prevention and Control
Wiley 2008; US$ 74.50This book provides the reader with all of the background information necessary to enhance their understanding of the rationale behind the basic principles of infection control and how to apply them in every day situations; how specific bacteria interact with the host and cause infection; the background to each of the bacteria/infections described within... more...
Understanding Health Inequalities
McGraw-Hill Education 2009; US$ 186.00Presents an exploration of why the opportunity to live a long and healthy life remains profoundly unequal. This book tackles such questions as: How health is influenced by circumstances across people's lives and by the areas in which they live? And how health is simultaneously shaped by inequalities of gender, ethnicity and socioeconomic position? more...









