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This book is the outcome of a path-breaking symposium on HIV and human rights organized by the University of the West Indies Cave Hill, Barbados, together with the Pan Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP) and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS). An impressive gathering of international agencies, the judiciary, human rights experts, lawyers, nongovernmental organizations, academics, activists, business persons, union...
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Trillions of dollars spent every year, billions wasted, and all of it at the expense of American families. This reality is the American healthcare economy.
For you, an employee of the healthcare ecosystem, the current state of the healthcare economy poses an opportunity. This industry was created by humans, which means it can be fixed by humans too. Unlike a rare disease with an unknown pathology, healthcare has known variables and processes-and...
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David Dranove is the Walter McNerney Distinguished Professor of Health Industry Management and Professor of Management and Strategy at Northwestern University's Kellogg Graduate School of Management. He recently authored How Hospitals Survived, with William D. White, and is coauthor of The Economics of Strategy, a popular business strategy textbook.Correction: On pages 114 and 172, the book incorrectly states that Oxford Health Plan went bankrupt...
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Personal health budgets are an important new tool to improve the lives of people living with long-term conditions and disabilities by giving them greater choice and control over their healthcare. This is the first step-by-step guide to their implementation. Using current evidence and best practice identified by pilot sites, Delivering personal health budgets contains everything there is to know about the purpose and history of personal health budgets,...
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Risk has emerged as a key mechanism for controlling the future and learning from past misfortunes. How did risk influence policy makers' responses to COVID-19? How will they be judged for their decisions? Drawing on case studies from the UK, China, Japan, New Zealand and the US, this original text explores policy responses to COVID-19 through the lens of risk. The book considers how different countries framed the pandemic, categorised their populations...
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World-leading health economist Cam Donaldson defends NHS-type systems on the same basis as their detractors: economic efficiency. However, protecting government funding of health care is not enough: scarcity has to be managed. Donaldson goes on to show how we can get more out of our systems by addressing issues of value for money. In particular, he demonstrates what has been achieved through health care reform but questions how much more this can...
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Health care systems everywhere face multiple pressures from changing demography, the rise of non-communicable disease, the growing demand on health services, and limited resources at a time of austerity. Focusing on the British NHS from a political science perspective, this second edition of this best-selling book offers a fresh look at how it is coping with such pressures. The book explores the complexity of health policy and health services, offering...
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Deficiencies in old age care are some of the most pressing human rights concerns in mature welfare states. This book radically challenges the ethics of viewing care as a tradeable commodity and introduces a novel framework for understanding and analysing social care through the concept of ailment. Providing examples from the British and Finnish welfare states, it demonstrates how ailment shapes societies from the micro to the macro level. Addressing...
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The starting point of Ann Oakley's fascinating book is the fracture of her right arm in the grounds of a hotel in the USA. What begins as an accident becomes a journey into some critical themes of modern Western culture: the crisis of embodiment and the perfect self; the confusion between body and identity; the commodification of bodies and body parts; the intrusive surveillance and profiteering of medicine and the law; the problem of ageing; and...
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"Enfoques y herramientas para el gobierno de la salud" resume una inmensa cantidad de investigaciones y estudios comparados de diez países, con desarrollo y aplicación de herramientas de análisis y diagnóstico. El objetivo de estas páginas es brindar herramientas para pensar y debatir alternativas para los modelos de salud a la luz de la experiencia internacional. Los autores de esta obra nos proponen, a través de un análisis criterioso y pormenorizado...
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The mutual distrust between Democrats and Republicans seems to have affected every topic of our healthcare system. The focus of conversation circles politics rather than finding innovative solutions to providing the most efficient care at the lowest cost. In Solving the American Healthcare Crisis, Dr. Robert J. Cerfolio, MD, MBA, discusses practical solutions to such problems as providing universal access to healthcare and motivating physicians, patients,...
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With a foreword by Tony Benn. Drawing on clinical experience dating from the birth of the NHS in 1948, Julian Tudor Hart, a politically active GP in a Welsh coal mining community, charts the progress of the NHS from its 19th century origins in workers' mutual aid societies, to its current forced return to the market. His starting point is a detailed analysis of how clinical decisions are made. He explores the changing social relationships in the NHS...
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The Affordable Care Act (ACA) granted the federal government unprecedented regulatory authority over health insurance and the health care industry. Those changes ignore the fundamental problems with the existing system: the incentives that have caused runaway costs and excluded millions of Americans from accessing the world's best medical care. Many former ACA supporters now push for an even more extreme takeover of the US system: overt single-payer...
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The biggest problem in American health care is us.
Do you know how to tell good health care from bad health care? Guess again. As patients, we wrongly assume the "best" care is dependent mainly on the newest medications, the most complex treatments, and the smartest doctors. But Americans look for health-care solutions in the wrong places. For example, hundreds of thousands of lives could be saved each year if doctors reduced common errors and maximized...
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When we're ill, we trust in doctors to put our well-being first. But, medicine's expanding capability and soaring costs are putting this promise at risk. Increasingly, society is calling upon physicians to limit care and to use their skills on behalf of health plan bureaucrats, public officials, national security, and courts of law. And doctors are answering this call. They're endangering patients, veiling moral choices behind the language of science...
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In the shadow of the pandemic, how do we make a healthcare system that is affordable, effective and fair?
With a single drug in the UK currently costing £ 340,000 per patient per year, or a gene therapy in the USA being cost at $1.2million, who should get such treatments, and how can we begin to afford them? Should we all be entitled to timely mental health therapy? How should we care for our old?
As we grapple with the world's worst pandemic...
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In 2003, the Bush Administration's New Freedom Commission asked mental health service providers to begin promoting "recovery" rather than churning out long-term, "chronic" mental health service users. Recovery's Edge sends us to urban America to view the inner workings of a mental health clinic run, in part, by people who are themselves "in recovery" from mental illness.
In this provocative narrative, Neely Myers sweeps us up in her own journey through...
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"Este libro habla de la obra de un trabajador de la salud, que realizó una apasionada e intensa tarea a lo largo de su vida profesional para que el Derecho a la Salud se haga realidad en el ámbito de la Salud Pública.
Es un relato autobiográfico que debe ser contextualizado en la década de 1960 en adelante, y especialmente en las provincias del norte de nuestro país, en donde existían los más bajos indicadores socioeconómicos y sanitarios....
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Life Expectancy in the West has been falling since 2015. Linked to this, the climate of healthcare has become toxic. This crisis, as urgent as global climate change, has its roots in the same factors that drive climate change.
Shipwreck of the Singular looks at our changing environment through a healthcare lens rather than an economic one. One advantage to this is that each of us is better, placed to put right what is, going wrong in the climate...
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