Human rights violations are underlying causes of adverse health outcomes for vulnerable people and populations around the world. Public Health and Human Rights provides critical, evidence-based assessments and tools with which to investigate the role of rights abrogation in the health of populationsfrom repressive laws to social discord, ......
The Global Urban Impact of Bubonic Plague, 1894-1901
The third bubonic plague swept the globe, taking more than 15 million lives. This work tells the story of ten cities on five continents that were ravaged by the epidemic in its initial years. It examines plague's impact in each of these cities, on the politicians, the medical and public health authorities, and especially on the citizenry.
Beyond the Medical Meltdown describes the predicament we are in today in relation to health care and prescribes positive and concrete solutions to create a new effective and affordable health care system. These solutions require us to step out of the box and form new economic partnerships of practitioners and patients on local levels throughout ......
Cleveland Clinic versus University Hospitals of Cleveland
The author has studied two leading centers in specialty care, the Cleveland Clinic and the University Hospitals of Cleveland, to learn what these institutions are doing to survive in the current era.
An Outcome and Intervention Planning Instrument for Use with Families at
For use with at-risk families of children from birth to 3 years of age, this tool, along with a CD-ROM, provides the critical data home visiting programs need. Generating a portrait of the behaviors and skills of parents and children, it helps establish baseline client profiles, monitor outcomes and others, to show that interventions are working.
Offers a complementary and alternative medicine - from acupuncture and chiropractic treatments to homeopathy and nutritional supplements. This title tells how to scientifically measure the effectiveness of a particular treatment. It examines the clash between public support and the often hostile stance of clinicians and medical researchers.
Coercion and Constraints in a Liberal Society, Revised and Expanded Edit
Investigate the contentious intersections of interdependence and autonomy, rights and public responsibility. This title examines the abrasion occurring between America's tradition of personal freedom and privacy, as it rubs against the still valuable if almost vanishing ideals of sacrifice and social order.
Presents a fresh view of the development of Orem's theory of self care deficit over a forty-year period, along with its ramifications for nursing education and practice.
One in eight Americans today is over the age of 65, and the proportion will increase dramatically in the future. The aging of the population has begun to drive tax and budget decisions and the federal policy agenda, as policy makers and voters look ahead to enormous demands on the health and income security programs. Indeed, it is projected that ......
