epub |eng | 2016-11-05 | Author:Michael Marmot [Marmot, Michael]

By focusing on the problem in a strategic way, working with young people, giving them access to information, and perhaps above all, caring, authorities in these towns lowered the toll ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2016-05-12 | Author:Amanda Glassman

The Pay-for-Performance Scheme in Action Typically, health workers in low- and middle-income countries are paid a fixed salary according to their education, position, and seniority. In other words, the salary ...

epub |eng, eng | 2012-01-17 | Author:Jonathan Wolff

TRIPS AND THE PRICE OF MEDICINES Human right to health activists often pay a great deal of attention to the underlying determinants of health and illness, such as poverty and ...

epub |eng | 2014-04-06 | Author:Toby Cosgrove

Looking Ahead A willingness to innovate will determine the clinical, social, and economic future of medicine in this country. The challenge is to create an institutional architecture that supports innovation; ...

epub |eng | 2016-01-12 | Author:Steven Hatch

FIGURE 6.1. From the Report of the National Cholesterol Education Program Expert Panel on Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Cholesterol in Adults, 1988. Referenced in Witzum, J. L., ...

mobi |eng | 2013-03-15 | Author:Gerald Markowitz & David Rosner

BALTIMORE AND THE LEGACY OF RACE A growing port city, Baltimore in the nineteenth century had, up until the 1870s when it was overtaken by Washington, D.C. in this respect, ...

epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Tom Farley [Farley, Tom]

13 “Would you like us to say, ‘That’s not our responsibility’?” In April 2010 we were finally ready to announce the names of companies that had promised to cut the ...

epub |eng | | Author:Altman, Stuart.

The Birth of DRGs The HEW team had three goals in designing the new Medicare hospital payment system. It wanted to end cost-based payments, create an annual budget for hospital ...

epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2015-11-09 | Author:Michael Marmot

By focusing on the problem in a strategic way, working with young people, giving them access to information, and perhaps above all, caring, authorities in these towns lowered the toll ...

epub |eng | 2012-09-11 | Author:Mark Jerome Walters

6. The year 1997 saw one of the most prolific acorn crops in the mid-Atlantic states in years. In Hutcheson Memorial Forest, Edmund Stiles recalled the abundance of acorns that ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2015-02-23 | Author:Smith, Jeremy N.

By January 2012, four and a half years after Murray, Gakidou, and MacIntyre had arrived in Seattle, the start of the year in which the new Global Burden study results ...

epub |eng | | Author:David Healy

FACTS ON THE GROUND Across medicine, however misleadingly certain academic papers may be written, with a few exceptions, no studies allow claims that one drug is superior to another. Even ...

mobi | | | Author:Paul A. Offit

epub | | | Author:Atul Gawande

epub, mobi |eng | 2014-10-07 | Author:Atul Gawande [Gawande, Atul]

6 • Letting Go Before I began to think about what awaits my older patients—people very much like Lou Sanders and the others—I’d never ventured beyond my surgical office to ...