Knowledge to action?

evidence-based health care in context

Health services can and should be improved by applying research findings about best practice. Yet, in Knolwedge to Action?, the authors explore why it nevertheless proves notoriously difficult to implement change based on research evidence in the face of strong professional views and complex organizational ...

Sustainability and health

supporting global ecological integrity in public health

The zone of interaction between the social and the natural environment is the most important emerging area in public health. Radical changes in the biosphere and human interaction with the environment are increasingly impacting the health of populations across the world. Whether the risk is ...

Sistema sanitario y recursos humanos

manual para gestores y profesionales

La obra Sistema Sanitario y Recursos Humanos, Manual para gestores y profesionales se postula como referencia vía de entrada- al conjunto del Sistema Nacional de Salud para los gestores y profesionales sanitarios de las organizaciones sanitarias públicas y privadas. El hilo conductor de esta obra ...

Health operations management

patient flow logistics in health care

Focusing on the mannagement of patient flows and resources in and between healthcare organizations, this book will include both a theoretical framework and case studies for practical use by students. Addressing one of the key challenges associated with the healthcare industry, this textbook leads readers ...

Public Health, ethics, and equity

ÍNDICE: Amartya Sen: Preface Sudhir Anand and Fabienne Peter: Introduction I. Health Equity 1 Sudhir Anand: The Concern for Equity in Health 2 Amartya Sen: Why Health Equity? II. Health, Society, and Justice 3 Michael Marmot: Social Causes of Social Inequalities in Health 4 Norman ...

Territorial politics and health policy

UK health policy in comparative perspective

CONTENTS: 1. Laboratories of democracy? 2. Medical politics and the politics of medicine 3. Scotland: professionalism 4. England: markets 5. Wales: localism 6. Northern Ireland: permissive managerialism 7. Creating divergent policy in the UK 8. Conclusion: international debates, local conclusions

Los inventores de enfermedades

cómo nos convierten en pacientes

Jörg Blech nos descubre de qué manera la industria farmacéutica nos manipula y hace todo lo posible por convertirnos sistemáticamente en pacientes y da las claves sobre cómo podemos protegernos de ello. En los últimos años, en el mundo industrializado, han hecho su aparición una ...

Los medicamentos en los países menos desarrollados

apuntes económicos para un debate social

Técnicas de evaluación económica en el campo sanitario

The price of smoking

What does a pack of cigarettes cost a smoker, the smoker's family, and society? This longitudinal study on the private and social costs of smoking calculates that the cost of smoking to a 24-year-old woman smoker is $86,000 over a lifetime; for a ...

Privatización y negocio sanitario

la salud del capital

El libro hace un recorrido crítico por las circunstancias en las que se han gestado y se han desarrollado históricamente los distintos #sistemas sanitarios#, tanto en nuestro país como en el resto del mundo, mostrando cómo la consolidación y evolución de los distintos sistemas se ...

Economics of health care financing

the visible hand

¿Más recursos para la salud?

Tal y como comenta el autor en la presentación, con la obra se pretende redirigir el debate político sobre si en España son necesarios más recursos para la salud desde los diferentes puntos de vista en función de una política sanitaria más basada en la ...

Elementos para la gestión de la prescripción y la prestación farmacéutica

Quality health care

a guide to developing and using indicators

Written by an internationally-recognized expert in the field of quality management, this book will serve as your guide for planning and implementing a successful quality measurement program in your healthcare facility. It begins by presenting an overview of the context for quality measurement, the forces ...

Public health

what it is and how it works

This book is a straightforward introduction to the complex, multidimensional field of public health and how it functions in modern day America.

Quality management in health care

principles and methods

Essencials of health care marketing

A complete curriculum of marketing management tools and techniques, ideal for graduate and upper-level graduate courses, is contained in this text. Filled with examples from a wide array of health care providers, health systems, HMOs, physician-hospital organizations, and more, the chapters cover market research, strategy ...

Health Program Planning and evaluation

a practical, systematic approach for community health

Today#s challenging health care conditions require the development of increasingly sophisticated health programs in order to compete for funding and support. The influencing forces of federal legislation, rigid public health goals, an emphasis on outcomes of health care and evidence-based practice, and use of ...

Ethics and the business of bioscience