Health Care IssuesNova Publishers, 2005 - 203 pages Health care is clearly in transition - but to where? Managed or unmanaged care? HMO's or not? Are insurance companies and hospitals the enemy of health care for their own patients? What about the 40,000,000 uninsured in America? Don't ask the patients, for they have become the ping pong balls in the health care game. This book examines important issues in this ever-growing maze. |
Contents
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Path Dependency and Health Policy in the NHS | 41 |
Pain Care and Stem Cells The Effect of Political Ideology on the Patient Centered Paradigm of Health Care | 55 |
Policy Analysis in Practice Sun Safety in Ontario Canada | 71 |
Cardiovascular Risk Profile of Menopausal Women Analysis from the Canadian National Population Health Survey | 91 |
Childrens Conceptions of Experientially and Verbally Learned Diseases Examples Flu AIDS and Cancer | 111 |
Recent Developments in EUImmigration Law and Policy | 127 |
Investment in Health Care and Psychological and Physical WellBeing in European Nations | 153 |
Personal Ways of Construing Others an Application of Personal Construct Theory Methodology in Drug Abuse and Alcoholism | 171 |
Index | 191 |
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