Ensuring America's Health explains why the US health care system offers world-class medical services to some patients but is also exceedingly costly with fragmented care, poor distribution, and increasingly bureaucratized processes. Based on exhaustive historical research, this …
Ensuring America's Health explains why the US health care system offers world-class medical services to some patients but is also exceedingly costly with fragmented care, poor distribution, and increasingly bureaucratized processes. Based on exhaustive historical research, this …
This book provides an in-depth evaluation of the US health care system's development in the twentieth century.
"This book moves away from the orthodox neoliberal paradigm to suggest a new framework linking social policy with citizenship and transformation. The interjection of nation-building, public society and public provisioning to the study of education, healthcare and employment cate…
"The book covers everything from start-up troubles with the first managed care organizations to attempts at government regulation to the mergers and quality control issues facing MCOs today. It also reflects on how difficult it is for patients to shop for medical care. Up until …
"Medicaid is the single largest public health insurer in the United States, covering upwards of 70 million Americans. Crucially, Medicaid is also an intergovernmental program that yokes poverty to federalism: the federal government determines its broad contours, while states hav…
Understanding West Africa's Ebola epidemic: towards a political economy
by Abdulmelik, Semiha, Amos, Julia, Bah, Chernoh Alpha M., Barry, Alpha Amadou Bano, Batty, Fodei, Gezmu, Tefera, Howard, Allen M., Ibrahim, Aisha Fofana, Kamara, Abou Bakarr, Kieh, George Klay, Turshen, Meredeth
fromSecurity and society in Africa
