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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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- 1 online resource (x, 282 pages) :illustrations, map.
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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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Health care turning point: Why single payer won't work
In the battle over health care reform we can try to fashion new policies based on old ideas—or we can acknowledge today's demographic and economic realities. In Health Care Turning Point, health policy expert Roger Battistella argues that the conventional wisdom that dominates health policy debates is out of date. Battistella takes on popular misconceptions about the advantages of single-paye…
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- 9780262265966
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- 1 online resource (xx, 165 pages)
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Resigned Activism: Living with Pollution in Rural China
An examination of the daily grind of living with pollution in rural China and of the varying forms of activism that develop in response.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262341097
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Power generation and environmental change :symposium of the Committee on Envi…
Enormous increases in the demand for power throughout the world make it imperative to reduce the environmental hazards and pollution associated with power generation. This book discusses the effects that power generation has had on the land, the water, the air, and the biosphere. It reviews the technological means available for abatement and control of damaging environmental effects and describ…
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- 9780262268257
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- 1 online resource (xxiii, 440 pages) :illustrations
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Rationing is not a four-letter word : setting limits on healthcare
"Most people would agree that the healthcare system in the United States is a mess. Healthcare accounts for a larger percentage of gross domestic product in the United States than in any other industrialized nation, but health outcomes do not reflect this enormous investment. In this book, Philip Rosoff offers a provocative proposal for providing quality healthcare to all Americans and controll…
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- 0262320762
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 320 pages).
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Pricing life :why it's time for health care rationing
A rational look at health care rationing, from ethical, economic, psychological, and clinical perspectives. Although managed health care is a hot topic, too few discussions focus on health care rationing—who lives and who dies, death versus dollars. In this book physician and bioethicist Peter A. Ubel argues that physicians, health insurance companies, managed care organizations, and gover…
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- 9780262285346
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- 1 online resource (xix, 208 pages).
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Pricing the priceless :a health care conundrum
The health care industry differs from most other industries in that medical pricing is primarily administered by the government and private insurers and in that it uses several types of contracts. Providers may receive a fixed sum for all necessary services within a given period of time, for the necessary services to treat a given condition, or for each specific service. The industry is changin…
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- 9780262280600
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- 1 online resource (viii, 258 pages) :illustrations.
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Fighting king coal :the challenges to micromobilization in central Appalachia
In the coal-mining region of Central Appalachia, mountaintop-removal mining and coal-industry-related flooding, water contamination, and illness have led to the emergence of a grassroots, women-driven environmental justice movement. But the number of local activists is small relative to the affected population, and recruiting movement participants from within the region is an ongoing challenge.…
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- 9780262333597
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