Medical : Administration

En esta publicación se describen los pasos que deben seguirse para diseñar un sistema de atención de víctimas en masa a efectos de lograr la tasa más alta posible de supervivencia. more...

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Dennis D. Pointer and James E. Orlikoff, two of the most experienced and highly regarded governance consultants in the country, have written a definitive guide for health care boards that want to maximize their performance and help their organizations reach full potential. Getting to Great presents a set of easily applied principles and best practices based on a model that has been proven to strengthen health care governance. more...

Price: $48.00

Written for virtually every professional and leader in the health care field, as well as students who are preparing for careers in health services delivery, this book presents a framework for developing a patient safety program, shows how best to examine events that do occur, and reveals how to ensure that appropriate corrective and preventative actions are reviewed for effectiveness. more...

Price: $95.00

Como recurso para facilitar la preparación y fortalecimiento de los mismos en la parte de desastres, la OPS/OMS ha preparado este material técnico de capacitación. El propósito es sensibilizar y orientar a las autoridades de salud, directores y técnicos de laboratorio y bancos de sangre en la identificación de responsabilidades y funciones de estos servicios ante situaciones de desastres, basándose en prioridades, necesidades y capacidad de respuesta inmediata local. more...

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Let’s say you’re the devil, and you want to corrupt the American republic. How would you go about it? According to David Hyman, you might create something like Medicare, the federal health care program for the elderly. Hyman submits that Medicare may be the greatest trick the devil ever played. Medicare feeds on the avarice of doctors and other providers, turns seniors into health care gluttons, and makes regions of the United States green with envy over the dollars showered on other regions. The program exploits the sloth of government officials to increase the tax burden on workers and drag down the quality of care for seniors. Medicare makes Democrats lust for socialized medicine, while its imperviousness to reform makes Republicans angrier and angrier. Most of all, Medicare allows its ideological supporters to bleat and preen their way to the heights of moral vanity. In the style of C.S. Lewis’ The Screwtape Letters, Hyman writes that Medicare has “freed the self-interest of these mortals from its natural restraints. As a result, the seven deadly sins have blossomed.”. With epic political battles over Medicare and the future of limited government looming just over the horizon, Hyman uses satire to cast a critical eye on this mediocre government program. more...

Price: $14.95