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  • The General Practitioner

    by Kenneth Clute ...
    Series series Heritage
    An important and definitive study and critique of 86 general practices in Ontario and Nova Scotia, with particular attention to the quality of medical care and to problems of medical education and of the organization of medical care as these relate to quality. It was conceived by the College of General Practice of Canada and directed by Kenneth F. Clute. The book is addressed to all those who are ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Doctors and Doctrines

    The Ideology of Medical Care in Canada

    Series series Heritage
    There has been controversy for several years now in Canada over the various developments in insurance for medical care. The Canadian Medical Association is of course concerned with protecting the profession as well as the public: those who believe in a government-sponsored medicare plan claim that the medical profession’s reaction is based on self-interest. The debate was intensified by the 1962 ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Measuring Health

    Lessons for Ontario

    Series series Heritage
    Planning and evaluating any health care program is a formidable task: how do you measure the health of a population? This fundamental question has been approached from various perspectives in medical, administrative, and economic studies. This book provides a guide to health measurement literature and relates it to Ontario's current and prospective policy choices and to the federal context of ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Doctors in Canada

    The Changing World of Medical Practice

    Series series Heritage
    Through the twentieth century, the nature of medical practice has changed more quickly, more dramatically, and far more publicly than that of any other profession in Canada. In this study Bernard Blishen identifies the social and political pressures on the medical profession and assesses how it has responded to them.Among the changes doctors have confronted are third-party pressures from ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Restructuring Canada's Health Systems: How Do We Get There From Here?

    Proceedings of the Fourth Canadian Conference on Health Economics

    Edited by Raisa Deber, Gail Thompson ...
    Series series Heritage
    Is the Canadian health care system becoming a victim of its own success? It has done what it set out to do – provide universal access to all medically necessary health services without financial barriers to patients – but expanding technology, an aging population, and escalating costs strain its ability to continue. It is time to explore ways to reorient and restructure the health care system and ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Advances in Chemical Engineering

    Advances in Chemical Engineering, Volume 19 reflects the major impact of chemical engineering on medical practice, with chapters covering polymer systems for controlled release, receptor binding and signaling,and transport phenomena in tumors. Other key topics include oil refining, pollution prevention in engineering design, and atmospheric dynamics. ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Breaking the Vicious Circle

    Toward Effective Risk Regulation

    Breaking the Vicious Circle is a tour de force that should be read by everyone who is interested in improving our regulatory processes. Written by a highly respected federal judge, who would go on to serve on the Supreme Court, and who obviously recognizes the necessity of regulation but perceives its failures and weaknesses as well, it pinpoints the most serious problems and offers a creative ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • AIDS in the UK

    The Making of Policy, 1981-1994

    Fifteen years ago the AIDS `epidemic' did not exist on the public agenda. In just over a decade the public and official response to the disease has resulted in the development of a whole network of organizations devoted to the study, containment, and practical treatment of AIDS. In this important and original analysis of AIDS policy, Virginia Berridge examines the speed and nature of the official ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Immunoassay

    Immunoassays are among the most powerful and sensitive technologies now available for patient diagnosis and monitoring. This book is an indispensable guide to information on the theory and practice of immunoassays. It discusses the scientific basis of these technologies in a logical, organized, and heuristic manner and provides protocols for specific assays. The contents of this unique book are ... Read more

    $152.99 USD

  • Cost-Effectiveness in Health and Medicine

    A unique, in-depth discussion of the uses and conduct of cost-effectiveness analyses (CEAs) as decision-making aids in the health and medical fields, this volume is the product of over two years of comprehensive research and deliberation by a multi-disciplinary panel of economists, ethicists, psychometricians, and clinicians. Exploring cost-effectiveness in the context of societal decision-making ... Read more

    $88.99 USD

  • Human Toxicology

    Edited by J. Descotes ...
    This excellent volume was designed and edited with two major ideas in mind: firstly, the field of clinical toxicology is changing and an acknowledgement of these changes is warranted; secondly, no comprehensive compilation of recently published case reports of, and clinical studies on, human poisonings is available, which is in sharp contrast to the closely related field of drug-induced side ... Read more

    $350.99 USD

  • Mucosal Vaccines

    This comprehensive, authoritative treatise covers all aspects of mucosal vaccines including their development, mechanisms of action, molecular/cellular aspects, and practical applications. The contributing authors and editors of this one-of-a-kind book are very well known in their respective fields. Mucosal Vaccines is organized in a unique format in which basic, clinical, and practical aspects of ... Read more

    $220.99 USD

  • The Public Health Consequences of Disasters

    Edited by Eric K. Noji ...
    Natural and man-made disasters--earthquakes, floods, volcanic eruptions, industrial crises, and many others--have claimed more than 3 million lives during the past 20 years, adversely affected the lives of at least 800 million people, and caused more than 50 billion dollars in property damages. A major disaster occurs almost daily in some part of the world. Increasing population densities in flood ... Read more

    $130.99 USD

  • Avaliação em saúde

    dos modelos conceituais à prática na análise da implantação de programas

    Emerge da convicção sobre a efetividade possível das ações programáticas para evitar ou reduzir o sofrimento causado pelos problemas de saúde. Reúne especialistas brasileiros e canadenses para discutir conceitos e métodos da avaliação na saúde, valendo-se, como exemplo, de desenho metodológico na implantação de um programa em sistemas locais de saúde no Nordeste brasileiro. Com texto fluente e ... Read more

    Free

  • Measuring Stress

    A Guide for Health and Social Scientists

    Measuring Stress is the definitive resource for health and social scientists interested in assessing stress in humans. With contributions from leading experts, this work provides for the first time a unified conceptual overview of the intricate relationship between stress and a variety of disorders. Its interdisciplinary approach to the selection of appropriate environmental, psychological, and ... Read more

    $74.99 USD

  • Medical Applications of Liposomes

    The development of liposomes as a drug delivery system has fluctuated since its introduction in the late 1960's by A.D. Bangham. While academic research of liposomes as a model membrane system has always flourished, as the exponential growth of papers can testify, the application of these findings to medically useful products has gone through several crises. Following the original optimism in the ... Read more

    $386.99 USD

  • Veterinary Vaccines and Diagnostics

    This volume of Advances in Veterinary Medicine, derived in part from the First Veterinary Vaccines and Diagnostic Conferences, deals with vaccines, an especially active area of veterinary research and controversy. ... Read more

    $166.99 USD

  • Qualitative Health Psychology

    Theories and Methods

    `This book constitutes a valuable resource for postgraduate students and researchers. Most.... of the chapters succeed in providing a clear and comprehensive introduction to the various approaches and/or methods, thus enabling the reader to make an informed decision about whether or not they wish to pursue the topic further. The book as a whole is also very well referenced and this makes it a ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Air Pollution and Health

    Concern about the impact of air pollution has led governments and local authorities across the world to regulate, among other things, the burning of fossil fuels, industrial effluence, cigarette smoke, and aerosols. This legislation has often followed dramatic findings about the impact of pollution on human health. At the same time there have been significant developments in our ability to detect ... Read more

    $247.99 USD

  • Researching Health Needs

    A Community-Based Approach

    by Judy Payne ...
    `[It is] difficult to find a single volume that addresses the specific range of methodological challenges [in] health needs assessment… Judy Payne′s book is a very welcome answer to this problem. [This book] offers a lucid d logical exposition of the research process. It begins with a short introduction to the relevant policy context and a clarification of the terms `health′, `need′ and `community ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Women and Health

    Women and Health is a comprehensive reference which addresses health issues affecting women of all ages--adolescence through maturity. It goes far beyond other books on this topic which concentrate only on reproductive health, and has a truly international perspective. It covers key issues ranging from osteoporosis to breast cancer and other cancers, domestic violence, sexually transmitted ... Read more

    $251.99 USD

  • Salud y equidad

    una mirada desde las ciencias sociales

    A saúde da população mundial tem melhorado, porém, apesar do impressionante avanço tecnológico, ainda há graves problemas a superar - entre estes, o maior talvez seja a desigualdade. Diante de tal realidade, o tema da 'eqüidade em saúde' mostra-se de extrema relevância, uma vez que trata-se de assunto que merece os enfoques político, econômico, social e cultural. Esta coletânea é produto de ... Read more

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  • Organization Ethics in Health Care

    The ethical aspects of the operation of healthcare organizations (HCOs) are central to the delivery of health care. Organization Ethics in Health Care begins by assessing the shortcomings of clinical ethics, business ethics, and professional ethics as a basis for solving problems that have emerged in healthcare delivery systems since the advent of managed care. The text focuses on the meaning of ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Social Epidemiology

    The authors of this groundbreaking text define social epidemiology as the study of the social determinants of health, implying that an important goal of public health is to identify and address factors in the social environment that may be related to health outcomes. In the first systematic account of this field, they focus on the major social variables that influence health, including ... Read more

    $65.99 USD