Michael Schlander 2007 A Qualitative Study The present volume introduces a new series on “Innovation and Valuation in Health Care.” This series of publications will scrutinize relevant health care issues and their implications for rational policy making. The series will primarily focus on themes related to public health issues and the economics of health care delivery.
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Edited by Lynda S. Doll Sandra E. Bonzo David A. Sleet James A. Mercy 2007 We live in challenging times and our attention becomes focused on the public health threats that lead daily news reports. Yet, there is one health threat that the public has accepted as fait accompli—injuries. Injuries kill more Americans in their first three decades […]
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Edited by HAROLD KINCAID JENNIFER MCKITRICK 2007 ESSAYS IN THE METAPHYSICS AND EPISTEMOLOGY OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCE
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Arthur E. Blank Sean O’Mahony Amy Selwyn 2007 Issues in Health Care Delivery By 2050, 22% of patients are anticipated to live to be 85 years or older and expect to face 3 to 6 years of life with progressive disability (Fried, 2000). This increased longevity, evident in the United States and other industrialized societies, has to large […]
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Editors: Peter Ho, Margarida Vieira 2007 Case Studies in Food Safety and Environmental health is intended as a reference for incorporating case studies into a traditional food safety lecture course. It will also be useful in developing case studies for problem-based learning. The book is divided into three main sections which contain case studies that can be used, […]
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Sana Loue Earl C. Pike 2007 This book represents the compilation of efforts by researchers across the country, each of whom is dedicated not only to the prevention and elimination of HIV infection, but also to the conduct of research according to the highest ethical principles. The authors of the case studies have graciously agreed to share their […]
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Sana Loue 2006 Research tells us that sex is often “unsafe.” A survey of sexual behavior reported that only 40% of 16 to 45 year olds in the U.K. consistently use a condom with a casual sex partner.
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By Louis Anthony Cox 2006 Modeling the Human Health Impacts of Antibiotics Used in Food Animals This book grew out of an effort to salvage a potentially useful idea for greatly simplifying traditional quantitative risk assessments of the human health consequences of using antibiotics in food animals. In 2001, the United States FDA’s Center for Veterinary Medicine […]
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Edited by Franz Porzsolt Robert M. Kaplan 2006 This is an important and timely book. As health care costs soar, there is increasing interest in examining what society and particularly patients receive in return for these expenditures. Optimizing Health brings together the best thinking from both sides of the Atlantic to explore these issues.
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By JOSEPH L. VERHEIJDE 2006 The goal of this book is to propose an alternative approach to address the problem of the exponential rise of health care costs, and, more importantly, to address the lingering dilemma of how to establish broadly agreed-upon fundamental guidelines by which health care can be managed in a manner that is more morally appropriate.
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