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In this fascinating memoir, cardiologist Stephen Stowers eloquently captures the various changes that he has lived through over a lifetime spent as a caring and ethical medical professional. With sadness, he watched as a profession he loved became more and more focused on the bottom line, while working as a doctor in the United States. He unpacks for the reader exactly what has gone awry in American medicine, showing us how the misguided shift toward...
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The coronavirus pandemic conferred enormous power on certain government officials. They have no intention of giving it up.
In the space of a few weeks in early 2020, Americans witnessed the imposition of previously unimagined social controls by the biomedical security state-the unelected technocrats who suddenly enjoyed nearly absolute power to incarcerate, isolate, and medicate the entire population. In this chilling new book, a dissident scientist...
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All Americans deserve and should have access to high quality, affordable healthcare services delivered by professionals who have sufficient time and resources to care for them. This book offers proven and practical approaches for redesigning healthcare organizations to be less fragmented-and more patient-centered-by tapping into the experiences of staff on the front lines of patient care.
Peter Lazes and Marie Rudden show how collaboration and active...
84) Decentralized Autonomous Organization the Book of Dao Business in the Next Generation Strategies
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Many American retail companies that have experienced outbreaks of foodborne diseases and subsequent food recalls have implemented blockchain technology within their food supply chains. A food item's provenance can now be identified in a few seconds when it used to take at least seven days to trace a single product.Thus, blockchain solutions make the recall process more rapid, efficient and cost-effective. Customers have also witnessed the implementation...
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This report highlights how financial technology or fintech can be leveraged to improve health systems and outcomes. A "Fintech for Health" approach integrates digital financial services with health innovations to help solve health-care affordability, quality, and access challenges. It can be powerful in enabling people to gain access to health care and in preventing health-related bankruptcy. The report draws on examples of this approach from Indonesia,...
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In the early 1970s, a new wave of public service announcements urged parents to "help end an American tradition" of child abuse. The message, relayed repeatedly over television and radio, urged abusive parents to seek help. Support groups for parents, including Parents Anonymous, proliferated across the country to deal with the seemingly burgeoning crisis. At the same time, an ever-increasing number of abused children were reported to child welfare...
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Providing care for individuals with significant medical needs disproportionately drives the cost of medical care in the United States. In fact, 5 percent of patients in the U.S. account for nearly half of all health care spending. This population of high-need patients includes a diverse group of people with multiple chronic diseases and varying levels of medical, functional, social, and psychological complexity. Improving care management and outcomes...
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Illusion of Control examines information, studies, and data used by experts and authority figures to justify pandemic-related policies. It explains how the mandates, endless masking, and indefensible vaccine passports failed to control the pandemic. Instead of accepting that reality, those in power doubled down. Politicians, administrators, and local officials repeated the same mistakes, refusing to limit ancillary consequences and damage. Illusion...
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Myth: People from marginalized backgrounds have poorer health outcomes because of poor decision-making.
Through extensive research and interviews, Health Care of a Thousand Slights, Connecting Legacy to Access to Healthcare debunks the myth, demonstrating that the historical legacy of discriminatory policies and culture has had an enduring impact on healthcare access and outcomes among marginalized communities. Readers will understand the importance...
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The CAREC Health Strategy 2030 aims to enhance health security through regional cooperation, benefiting the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) region's population (including migrants and vulnerable population groups), health system managers and workers, and active development partners; and CAREC countries' ministries of health. The strategy has four main pillars: (i) leadership and human resource capacity, (ii) technical preparedness,...
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Developing a better understanding of the meaning of human rights in drug policy.
When people have a history of dependence, they often experience stigmatisation and are frequently perceived as criminals. This stigma has a negative impact on their lives, therefore the issue of human rights for people who use drugs is crucial and needs to be taken seriously, and urgently, into consideration. This publication puts into perspective different country situations...
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L'hygiène est classiquement la science qui enseigne les mesures propres à conserver la santé, voire à l'améliorer. Elle a été présente dans toute les civilisations depuis les plus primitives mais avec une évolution des approches liées aux progrès des connaissances et aux transformations des ...
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Dicen que los libros tienen tantas entradas como lectores, al ser obras que se completan en un diálogo entre quien escribe y quien lee. Este volumen es precisamente una conversación abierta y tiene el gran valor de dar cabida a las múltiples voces de quienes se formaron desde el compromiso social.
El doctor Solimano invita a un recorrido por un camino largo de sesenta años, donde conviven el pediatra, el salubrista, el investigador, el formador....
94) Covid, Capitalism, and Class War, Volume 1 2020: A Social and Political Chronology of the Pandemic
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COVID, Capitalism, and Class War is the definitive scientific, social and political account of the COVID-19 pandemic, drawing on investigative reports, economic data, and extensive interviews with scientists, doctors, healthcare professionals, and workers.A unique element are the rich accounts by workers around the world – from factories, meatpacking plants, transport and logistic centers, hospitals, and schools – of the devastating toll the uncontrolled...
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We live in a transformational time in the history of medicine and health care. The twenty-first century will be a time of dramatic change, incredible breakthroughs, and totally altered thinking about health, medicine, and health care delivery. This book sets forth what health care and medicine will look like in the years ahead. It takes a look at history, the transformational changes going on today, the health of Americans, the nine dynamic flows...
96) Accessibility and Active Offer: Health Care and Social Services in Linguistic Minority Communities
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It is imperative that we train leaders who are able to intervene efficiently with service users and to support a better organization of the workplace. It is especially important to look at the many issues related to postsecondary training and human resources, such as recruiting and keeping these leading professionals. Accessibility and Active Offer thus combines theory and empirical data to help future professionals understand the workplace issues...
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Choosing to serve your country in the military is a noble occupation. However, the sad truth is that Veterans often find it difficult to get the support they need after leaving the service. This is especially true when it comes to their medical care and putting in claims for disability benefits from the VA. Veterans frequently aren't given any guidance in how to navigate this process, resulting in delays and denials, until after years of effort, it's...
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After the many bureaucratic changes that followed the passing of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) and other legislation, patient care has become secondary to satisfying the whims of government and giant insurance company administrators, who are in total control. The result is a web of complicated rules and misguided programs whose chief effect has been to distract doctors and nurses from their proper focus on patient care. Access to health care...
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Two Futures-Millions of Lives
2030 will be a year of reckoning for the AIDS epidemic, marking fifty years of one of the worst epidemics in the history of the world. The 28th International AIDS Conference will be, held in July of that year in Durban, South Africa. The conference will include a panel of leaders looking back on the fifty-year history of HIV and AIDS. But, what will the panelists say?
If HIV and AIDS have made a strong resurgence in the...
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The U.S. does not have a health system. Instead, we have market for health-related goods and services, a market in which the few profit from the public's ill-health.
Health Care Revolt looks around the world for examples of health care systems that are effective and affordable, pictures such a system for the U.S., and creates a practical playbook for a political revolution in health care that will allow the nation to protect health while strengthening...
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