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Ethics and the Metaphysics of Medicine: Reflections on Health and Beneficence
Explores the philosophical and practical ethical implications of a definition of health as a state that allows us to reach our goals.Definitions of health and disease are of more than theoretical interest. Understanding what it means to be healthy has implications for choices in medical treatment, for ethically sound informed consent, and for accurate assessment of policies or programs. This de…
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Frontiers in Health Policy Research, Volume 7
"National Bureau of Economic Research."These papers were presented at the seventh annual Frontiers in Health Policy Research meeting held in Washington, D.C., in the summer of 2003.This series from the NBER presents new research by leading economists on current health care policy issues. The papers in this seventh volume, originally presented at the annual Frontiers in Health Policy Research co…
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Resistance Behavior to National eHealth Implementation Programs
This monograph discusses challenges faced during the implementation of national eHealth programs. In particular, it analyzes the causes of stakeholders’ reluctance to adopt these technologies by drawing on user resistance theory and context specific variables. Taking the example of the introduction of the electronic health card (Elektronische Gesundheitskarte – eGK) technology in Germany, t…
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- 978-3-319-17828-8
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- 353.6
Toward the healthy city People, Places, and the Politics of Urban Planning
A call to reconnect the fields of urban planning and public health that offers a new decision-making framework for healthy city planning.
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Health and medicine on display : International Expositions in the United Stat…
This work offers a book-length examination of how international expositions, through their exhibits and infrastructures, sought to demonstrate innovations in applied health and medical practice.
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Disease eradication in the 21st century :implications for global health
This title takes a fresh look at the evolving concepts of disease eradication, influenced by scientific advances, field experience, societal issues, and economic realities.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262304207
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- 1 online resource (xi, 319 pages) :illustrations (some color), maps (some color).
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Better doctors, better patients, better decisions :envisioning health care 2020
How eliminating "risk illiteracy" among doctors and patients will lead to better health care decision making.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262298957
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- 1 online resource (xi, 391 pages) :illustrations.
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Noxious New York :the racial politics of urban health and environmental justice
'Noxious New York' examines the culture, politics, and history of the movement for environmental justice in New York City, tracking activism in four neighborhoods on issues of public health, garbage, and energy systems in the context of privatisation, deregulation, and globalisation.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262284646
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Bridging the silos :collaborating for environment, health, and justice in urb…
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- 9780262354981
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- 1 online resource (376 pages) :illustrations.
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Competitive Failures in Insurance Markets: Theory and Policy Implications
Leading international economists offer new insights on recent developments in the economic analysis of the limits of insurability, with particular attention of adverse selection and moral hazard.Risk sharing is a cornerstone of modern economies. It is valuable to risk-averse consumers and essential for investment and entrepreneurs. The standard economic model of risk exchange predicts that comp…
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