Health care policy : a reader /

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The economics of U.S. health care policy : the role of market forces / by Musgrave, Frank W., 1932-

“…Economics of US health care policy…”


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Critical issues in aging policy : linking research and values

Table of Contents: “…Values, costs, and health care policy /…”


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Chirac's challenge : liberalization, Europeanization, and malaise in France

Table of Contents: “…Reforming French health care policy /…”


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Putting health into place : landscape, identity, and well-being

Table of Contents: “…Place, participation, and policy : people in and for health-care policy /…”


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A world growing old : the coming health care challenges

Table of Contents: “…Adult daughter caregivers : philosophical analysis and implications for health care policy /…”


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The Nation's health

Table of Contents: “…Health Care and Health Care Policy in a Changing World /…”


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Comparing public policies : issues and choices in six industrialized countries by Adolino, Jessica R. (Jessica Rose), 1962-, Blake, Charles H., 1962-

Table of Contents: “…An introduction to comparative public policy -- The policy process -- Theories of policy making -- Political and economic dynamics in industrialized countries -- The policy-making context -- Immigration policy -- Fiscal policy -- Taxation policy -- Health care policy -- Social policy -- Education policy -- Environmental policy -- Conclusion.…”


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Social issues : the ethics and economics of taxes and public programs by Winfrey, John C.

Table of Contents: “…A social ethics for social issues -- Social issues : some analytical perspectives from economics and political theory -- Taxes, the budget, and welfare reform -- Education, fair starts, and economic opportunity -- Moral choices and health care policies -- Social Security, old age, and retirement -- Environmental issues.…”


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Nursing wounds : nurse practitioners, doctors, women patients, and the negotiation of meaning by Fisher, Sue, 1936-

Table of Contents: “…The Politics of Location -- Epilogue: Making Health-Care Policy.…”


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Social welfare policy and social programs : a values perspective by Segal, Elizabeth A.

Table of Contents: “…Social insurance -- Aging and social welfare policy -- Children and families -- Health care policy -- Building our knowledge of social welfare policy and social programs. …”


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Sustainable development for a democratic South Africa

Table of Contents: “…Sustainable growth after sanctions : opportunities and constraints / Jesmond Blumenfeld -- The world bank, income distribution and employment : some lessons for South Africa / Colin Stoneman -- Towards a socialist critique of neo-liberalism : agenda setting for post-apartheid South Africa / Robert Fine -- The employment problem in post-apartheid South Africa / Leo Katzen -- Energy and sustainable development in southern Africa / Phil O'Keefe and John Kirkby -- Zimbabwe's experience in promoting "sustainable" rural development and the implications for South Africa / Lionel Cliffe --Sustainable development, democracy and the courts in a democratic South Africa / François du Bois -- The bank, the state, and development : local government in Maseru / Chris Peters -- NGOs, institutional development and sustainable development in post-apartheid South Africa / Charles Abugre -- South Africa's future health care policy : selective or comprehensive primary health care? …”


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Health care reform and American politics : what everyone needs to know by Jacobs, Lawrence R.

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Measuring the prices of medical treatments

Table of Contents: “…Eisenberg. The future of health care policy / Willard G. Manning Jr. The shape of health care research / David Meltzer. …”


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Inequality and American democracy : what we know and what we need to learn

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Social work speaks : National Association of Social Workers policy statements, 2009- 2012

Table of Contents: “…Clark -- Public and professional policy statements -- Adolescent health -- Adolescent pregnancy and parenting -- Aging and wellness -- Affirmative action -- Alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs -- Capital punishment and the death penalty -- Child abuse and neglect -- Civil liberties and justice -- Community development -- Confidentiality and information utilization -- Crime victim assistance -- Cultural and linguistic competence in the social work profession -- Deprofessionalization and reclassification -- Disasters -- Drug testing in the workplace -- Early childhood care and services -- Education of children and youths -- Electoral politics -- Employee assistance -- End-of-life care -- Environmental policy -- Family planning and reproductive choice -- Family policy -- Foster care and adoption -- Gender, ethnic, and race-based workplace discrimination -- Genetics -- Health care policy -- HIV and AIDS -- Homelessness -- Hospice care -- Housing -- Immigrants and refugees -- International policy on human rights -- Juvenile justice and delinquency prevention -- Language and cultural diversity in the United States -- Lesbian, gay, and bisexual issues -- Long-term care -- Mental health -- Parental kidnapping -- Peace and social justice -- People with disabilities -- Physical punishment of children -- Poverty and economic justice -- Professional impairment -- Public child welfare -- Racism -- Role of government, social policy, and social work -- Rural social work -- School truancy and dropout prevention -- School violence -- Slavery and human trafficking -- Social services -- Sovereignty and the health of indigenous peoples -- Technology and social work -- Transgender and gender identity issues -- Voter participation -- Welfare reform -- Women in the social work profession -- Women's issues -- Youth suicide -- NASW code of ethics.…”


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Random acts of medicine : the hidden forces that sway doctors, impact patients, and shape our health by Jena, Anupam B., Worsham, Christopher

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Uprooting racism : how white people can work for racial justice by Kivel, Paul

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Introduction to US health policy : the organization, financing, and delivery of health care in America by Barr, Donald A.

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The encyclopedia of aging : a comprehensive resource in gerontology and geriatrics

Table of Contents: “…. -- Gerontology -- Goteborg longitudinal study -- Grandparent-grandchild relationships -- Gray Panthers -- Graying of hair -- GRECC -- Grief -- Group membership -- Group psychotherapy -- Guardianship/Conservatorship -- Hair -- Halstead-Reitan Battery -- Health and retirement survey -- Health assessment -- Health beliefs -- Health care: organization, use, and financing -- Health care policy in the United States -- Health maintenance organizations -- Health promotion -- Hearing -- Hearing loss -- Heart -- Heart disease -- Hemispheric specialization -- Hip fracture -- Hispanic elderly -- Home and community-based care -- Home equity conversion -- Home health care -- Homelessness -- Homemaker services -- Home modifications -- Homeostasis -- Homosexuality -- Hormone replacement therapy: estrogen -- Hormones -- Hospice -- Hostility -- Housing -- Human aging study -- Human factors for older adults -- Humanities and the arts -- Humor -- Hyperoxygenation -- Hypertension in the elderly -- Images of aging in the media -- Immune cells -- Immunizations -- Implicit memory -- Income distribution: effects of government policies -- Incontinence -- Individual differences -- Individual retirement account -- Industrial gerontology -- Inflation impact -- Information-processing theory -- Injury. -- Institutionalization -- Intelligence -- Interference -- Intergenerational relationships -- Intergenerational stake hypothesis -- International Association of Gerontology -- International Federation on Ageing -- International gerontology -- International perspectives -- International Psychogeriatric Association -- Interviewing -- Introversion -- Invertebrate models -- Ions -- Isolation -- Isomerization -- Journalism and aging -- Kansas City studies of adult life -- Knowledge utilization -- Korsakoff's syndrome -- Langley Porter studies of aging -- Language comprehension -- Language production -- Law -- Learned helplessness -- Learning -- Legal services -- Leisure -- Leisure programs -- Levels of processing -- Lewy body disease -- Liability and risk -- Licensed nursing -- Life course -- Life cycle -- Life events -- Life expectancy -- Life extension -- Life review -- Life review: reminiscence -- Life satisfaction -- Life span -- Lipids -- Lipofuscin -- Living arrangements -- Living wills -- Locus of control -- Loneliness -- Longevity: societal impact -- Longitudinal data sets in aging -- Longitudinal research -- Longitudinal retirement history survey -- Longitudinal studies: Europe -- Longitudinal studies of aging -- Longitudinal study of aging -- Longitudinal study of generations -- Long-lived human populations -- Long-term care -- Long-term -- care assessment -- Long-term -- care insurance -- Long-term memory -- Loss -- Low vision -- Luria-Nebraska neuropsychological battery -- MacArthur community study of successful aging -- Magnetic resonance imaging -- Magnetic resonance spectroscopy: applications to the study of membrane and energy metabolism -- Malnutrition in the elderly -- Marital satisfaction -- Marital status -- Marriage -- Mature market -- Media -- Medicaid -- Medicaid waiver programs -- Medicare -- Membranes -- Memory and memory theory.…”


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