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Medical Records Review
Medical Records Review
by Kristyn S. Appleby, Joanne Tarver
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Completely up to date, this resource helps you interpret and use medical records to your best advantage. Medical Records Review combines basic medical information, an understanding of the form and content of medical records, and record summarization technique in giving you practical, step-by-step guidance for understanding these often cloudy documents. Written by a medical professional and a legal professional, Medical Records Review enables you to extract the true meaning from medical records.
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- Amazon Sales Rank: #70898 in Books
- Published on: 2005-09-02
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 2.85 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 656 pages
Sunday, April 22, 2012
Health and the National Health Service (Contemporary Issues in Public Policy)
Health and the National Health Service (Contemporary Issues in Public Policy)
by John Carrier, Ian Kendall
Publication Date: February 12, 2013
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Reviewing recent healthcare policy in the NHS, this book firmly locates the NHS in the context of the welfare state.
Setting health policy in both an historical and modern context (post-1997) Carrier and Kendall weigh up the successes and failures of the National Health Service in the United Kingdom and examine the conflicts which have driven the Health Service for over fifty years. After looking at recent responses to the apparent failure of healthcare in the United Kingdom, they conclude that the NHS has successfully met the challenges it faced when founded over sixty years ago and is likely to continue to meet the changing health needs of the population. This excellent book is appropriate for a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate students studying health policy and the NHS.Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #11414770 in Books
- Published on: 2013-02-12
- Original language: English
- Binding: Hardcover
- 350 pages
Saturday, April 21, 2012
Health Care Law
Health Care Law
by Janice L. Kazmier
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Health Care Law provides essential information necessary for students pursuing careers in the growing health care sector, as paralegals, managers, or compliance/ethics professionals. This text offers students easy-to-read chapters that provide outlines, learning objectives, summaries, and exercises to assist students with comprehension. Chapters focus on key information such as the types of health care entities, and the laws and ethics that govern them, and discuss the major areas of health care law, including regulatory research and administrative law review. Also highlighted are important contemporary topics like electronic health records, corporate compliance, HIPAA privacy and security, physician professional relationships, and prepares students for their careers with real-world examples.
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- Amazon Sales Rank: #87542 in Books
- Published on: 2008-03-21
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: .51" h x 8.03" w x 9.10" l, 1.10 pounds
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- 286 pages
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The EL-W516XBSL scientific calculator by Sharp performs over 535 scientific functions and has seven different modes. It features Write View technology which displays formulas as they are written in textbooks eliminating any confusion on how to enter each formula into the calculator. It has a large 4-line, 12-digit LCD display, ensuring that whole formulas will be visible. The playback feature allows you to make changes to formulas easily without having to start over from the beginning when you've entered a wrong key. It has four programmable function keys that you program for quick and easy access to the functions you use the most. The Sharp EL-W516XBSL has improved calculation speed for smooth operations. The hard cover helps prevent the calculator from dents or scratches. Calculator is solar and battery operated.
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- Color: Silver
- Brand: Sharp
- Model: EL-W516XBSL
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- Scientific calculator with 535 different scientific functions
- Extra large 4-Line, 12-digit LCD display screen
- Write View Technology displays formulas as they are written in textbooks
- Modes: Normal, Stat, Drill, Complex, Matrix, List, Equation; Ability to solve three simultaneous equations
- Four programmable keys for quick use of user desired functions; Ability to solve three simultaneous equations
Friday, April 20, 2012
Global Health Governance: International Law and Public Health in a Divided World
Global Health Governance: International Law and Public Health in a Divided World
by Obijiofor Aginam
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Globalization has immersed all of humanity in a single germ pool. There are no health sanctuaries in a globalizing world. InGlobal Health Governance, Obijiofor Aginam explores the relevance of international law in contemporary public health diplomacy. He focuses on the concept of mutual vulnerability to explore the globalization of disease, in what is paradoxically a global village and a divided world.
Drawing from a wide range of disciplines, Global Health Governance offers a holistic approach to global health governance involving a multiplicity of actors: nation-states, international organizations, civil society organizations, and private actors. Aginam articulates modest proposals under the rubric of communitarian globalism, a paradigm that strives to meet the ideals of 'law of humanity.' These proposals project a humane global health order where all of humanity is inexorably tied into a global compact and where the health of one nation-state rises and falls with the health of others.
International law—with its bold claims to universal protection of human rights and human dignity—is an indispensable governance tool for the reconstruction of damaged public health trust in the relations of nations and peoples.
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- Amazon Sales Rank: #2245043 in Books
- Published on: 2005-08-05
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 1.07 pounds
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- 240 pages
Thursday, April 19, 2012
The Modern Military and the Environment: The Laws of Peace and War
The Modern Military and the Environment: The Laws of Peace and War
by William A., Jr. Wilcox
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The battle is an old one: man versus nature. And in modern society, man includes the military. Machines. Chemicals. Who wins the battle and at what cost? This practical analysis of the conflict between national security requirements and environmental responsibility looks at just that.
William Wilcox examines the most common environmental issues that the military faces during wartime and peacetime and provides an introduction to the legal authorities, including statutes, regulations, and executive orders, governing the application of environmental law to military activities.
It also illuminates the tension between environmentalists and regulators concerned with the damages that military development, testing, and training operations inflict on the environment and military leaders dedicated to using actual field conditions to prepare soldiers for war. In addition, this book addresses environmentalists' desire for greater accountability from the military, which has a history of dumping, spilling, stockpiling, and launching harmful chemicals.
Although some exemptions from environmental compliance have been granted to the military, federal agencies are sometimes held to higher standards than private sector companies. Wilcox, an experienced environmental attorney and former military attorney, focuses on the legal framework in which environmental issues are addressed and examines how policy translates into legal application. He also examines the changing relationship between the military and the environment by exploring environmental law as it applies to the military domestically and the impact of international environmental law on combat operations.
In addition to addressing such environmental laws as the National Environmental Policy Act and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, the author provides an overview of the laws governing access to information concerning the military's impact on the environment.
Other topics covered include civil penalties and sovereign immunity, water rights,
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- Amazon Sales Rank: #41832 in Books
- Published on: 2007-04-16
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: .64 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 188 pages
Briefcase on Medical Law (Briefcase Series)
Briefcase on Medical Law (Briefcase Series)
by Alasdair Maclean
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Medical law is a relatively new area of law. It draws on, and overlaps with, many other areas of law such as tort, family law, human rights and criminal law. Apart from this hybrid legal basis it is also informed by bioethical theory. This book draws those elements together to form a comprehensible and succinct overview. The cases - and other relevant material - will be linked by short notes that help to explain and clarify their legal relevance. A brief introduction to the ethical principles that govern the provision of healthcare provides a framework for considering the issues that arise in the cases. Following this, relevant cases and important judicial dicta will illustrate the legal rules and principles of each key area of healthcare law. Some relevant statutory material will be included as will appropriate extracts from professional bodies' codes of practice. The book provides a rapid and easy access to the important cases within the area of healthcare law. It provides law students with a valuable adjunct to more substantial texts, as well as being an essential revision tool. It will also be useful to students and practitioners of other disciplines for whom medical law is important. Doctors, nurses, other healthcare workers and bioethicists will all find the book a ready source of relevant case law.
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- Amazon Sales Rank: #96392 in Books
- Published on: 2004-11-18
- Original language: English
- Binding: Paperback
- 294 pages
Impairment and Disability: Law and Ethics at the Beginning and End of Life
Impairment and Disability: Law and Ethics at the Beginning and End of Life
Laura Williamson (Author)
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- Amazon Sales Rank: #68742 in eBooks
- Published on: 2009-01-28
- Released on: 2009-01-28
- Format: Kindle eBook
- Number of items: 1
Telemedicine And E-health Law (Healthcare Law Series)
Telemedicine And E-health Law (Healthcare Law Series)
by Lynn D. Fleisher, James C. Dechene
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The use of the internet and high-tech communications in health care has led to new approaches to medical treatment - and to challenging new legal questions. "Telemedicine and E-Health Law" has the answers that health care providers, hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, insurers, and their legal counsel need in the online era. Its comprehensive scope includes everything from the licensing requirements for physicians who provide medical services electronically across state lines to the privacy issues raised by the sharing of electronic medical records (EMRs) across computer networks. This important new book includes chapters on these topics, as well as on tax, antitrust, intellectual property, and other aspects of e-health - all packed with expert advice that will help you steer clear of difficulties. For anyone involved in this growing and important field, "Telemedicine and E-Health Law" is a book you can not afford to ignore. This book is updated as needed, generally two times each year.
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- Amazon Sales Rank: #110386 in Books
- Published on: 2004-12-05
- Original language: English
- Binding: Ring-bound
- 600 pages
Asbestos: Medical and Legal Aspects, Fifth Edition
Asbestos: Medical and Legal Aspects, Fifth Edition
by Barry I. Castleman
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Written by one of the leading asbestos experts for both plaintiff and defense attorneys, occupational and environmental health professionals, as well as others in the field of toxic substances control, Asbestos: Medical and Legal Aspects has become the definitive resource on the medical and legal aspects of asbestos.
Asbestos: Medical and Legal Aspects provides a comprehensive examination of the public health history of asbestos, from the origins of industrial use to the present. It includes in-depth coverage of prior and ongoing litigation; extensive evaluation of the legal arguments put forth by plaintiff and defense counsel; and provides crucial information, materials and resources on the evolving corporate knowledge of asbestos hazards. The book covers in detail: asbestosis and cancer; compensability of asbestosis and cancer as occupational diseases; thresholds and standards used to determine safe or acceptable levels of asbestos exposure in the workplace; and company knowledge of asbestos hazards, gleaned from countless depositions, company records, industry consultants and trade associations.
Some items new to the Fifth Edition include:
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- Amazon Sales Rank: #101290 in Books
- Published on: 2005-03
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 2.03" h x 7.18" w x 10.20" l, 3.97 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 940 pages
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Case Studies in Health Care Supervision
Case Studies in Health Care Supervision
Charles McConnell (Author)
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Health Care Manager's Casebook presents a comprehensive collection of case studies for use in continuing education by working health care managers, primarily first-line and middle managers, aspiring health care managers, and inservice education instructors. It will be equally useful to students of health administration and the various health occupations and professions. The cases are presented in a manner that lends itself to classroom activity, small-group activity, and individual self-study.
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- Published on: 2010-10-25
- Released on: 2010-10-25
- Format: Kindle eBook
- Number of items: 1
Health Law, Cases, Materials and Problems, Abridged (American Casebook Series)
Health Law, Cases, Materials and Problems, Abridged (American Casebook Series)
by Barry R. Furrow, Thomas L. Greaney, Sandra H. Johnson, Timothy S. Jost, Robert L. Schwartz
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This abridged edition continues to use the broad organization that health law teachers and students found so helpful in the last five editions. Notes material has been trimmed substantially and some cases and sections of the primary casebook have been deleted. The authors' goal was to create a book better suited for schools that have curricular space for only one course, including medical schools and schools of public health.
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- Amazon Sales Rank: #79010 in Books
- Published on: 2008-09-10
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 1.50" h x 7.20" w x 9.90" l, 3.40 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 880 pages
Nurse's Legal Handbook
Nurse's Legal Handbook
by Springhouse
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The newly revised Fifth Edition of this handbook is an up-to-the-minute, authoritative guide to the legal and ethical issues faced daily by nurses. Replete with real-life examples and information from hundreds of court cases, the book covers the full range of contemporary concerns, including computer documentation, cloning, stem cell research, pain management, euthanasia, prescribing, privacy, and confidentiality as well as the nursing shortage. New topics include workplace violence and harassment, needlesticks, telephone triage, and quality assurance. A new Legal Tip logo highlights proactive, protective actions nurses can take, and an entire chapter explains step-by-step what to expect in a malpractice lawsuit.
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- Amazon Sales Rank: #739128 in Books
- Published on: 2004-01-19
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.00" h x 5.00" w x 1.00" l, .98 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 448 pages
Emergency Department Manual: Clinical & Administrative Forms, Checklists & Guidelines
Emergency Department Manual: Clinical & Administrative Forms, Checklists & Guidelines
by Sara N. Di Lima, Shawn Beard, Hazel Harrison, Carmen Germaine Warner
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Emergency Department Manual: Clinical & Administrative Forms, Checklists, & Guidelines provides emergency department directors/managers with the rare opportunity to review some of the best tools their colleagues use in their own emergency department settings. Packed with the best practical forms, policies, and cutting-edge information from top health care facilities across the country, this comprehensive, practical resource tool clearly and concisely addresses key administrative and clinical elements of emergency department management. The sample materials can serve as a foundation from which managers may develop and build upon their own forms, policies, and procedures for their own emergency departments.
Features include:
- Strategies for managing a more cost-effective emergency department
- Emergency care pathways and protocols
- Quality improvement policies and guidelines
- Patient assessment and triage
- Risk management and legal issues
- And more!
Emergency Department Manual has been updated to include:
Important legal information including:
- Revisions to the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) regulations adopted in 2009
- HIPAA Communications with Family and Friends
Essential Guidance from the Centers for Disease Control:
- CDC Guidelines for Disinfection and Sterilization
- CDC Standard Precaution Guidelines
Plus new information on:
- EMS and Terrorism
- Injury Data from the Emergency Department
- Emergency Medical Services Management of Swine Origin Influenza
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- Amazon Sales Rank: #4407851 in Books
- Published on: 1998-01-15
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Ring-bound
- 1008 pages
FDA: NDA and IND Applications - Contemporary Decisions (Health Care Law Series)
FDA: NDA and IND Applications - Contemporary Decisions (Health Care Law Series)
LandMark Publications (Author)
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This casebook contains 92 federal court of appeals decisions that address issues surrounding the Food and Drug Administration's Investigational New Drug process and New Drug Applications. The selection of decisions spans from 2005 through the date of publication and is organized by federal circuit. The decisions are listed in the order of frequency of citation. The most cited decisions appear higher in each section.
The regulation and control of new drugs in the United States is based on the FDA's New Drug Application procedure. Since 1938, every newly proposed drug is subject to an approved NDA prior to approval for sale and distribution in the U.S. The NDA application is the vehicle through which a sponsor formally solicits approval from the FDA. If all the regulatory requirements are satisfied, the FDA approves a new pharmaceutical for sale and marketing in the U.S. The data gathered during animal studies and human clinical trials of an Investigational New Drug application become part of the NDA.
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- Amazon Sales Rank: #134373 in eBooks
- Published on: 2012-04-02
- Released on: 2012-04-02
- Format: Kindle eBook
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Silicone Spills: Breast Implants on Trial
Silicone Spills: Breast Implants on Trial
by Mary White Stewart
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For 30 years, silicone gel breast implants were marketed to and implanted in at least one million women in the U.S. alone, damaging the health of hundreds of thousands. To many women seeking to improve their appearance, these virtually untested implants were promoted as a safe, lifelong answer to their needs. In actuality, however, they have been the cause of devastating, often irreversible health problems, making the implantation of these bags of gel one of the worst health care debacles in recent memory. Lawsuits against the manufacturers and the resulting trials have made prominent headlines and are a matter of public records, but until the publication of Silicone Spills: Breast Implants on Trial, there has never been a sophisticated and accurate presentation of the women who have had implants, why they have had them, and what has happened to them socially, medically, and legally as a result. Silicone Spills portrays the breast implant "business" as a personal and social tragedy, as well as a complex legal and political controversy. Sociologist Mary White Stewart interviewed over 50 women at great length, examined questionnaires completed by 60 other women, observed pre-trial hearings and courtroom proceedings during the litigation against implant manufacturers, and read countless documents and press coverage about the cases. The fascinating and horrifying story she tells in this book, full of women's personal experiences, is a tale of corporate greed, of the commodification and medicalization of women's bodies, and of women's lack of personal and economic power. How can so many women have been damaged and failed by the very people and institutions that exist to protect them? Silicone Spills reveals that the complex answers to this question lie in our culture, in which women continue to be eager consumers of any procedures and products that seductively promise physical transformation into the desirable feminine ideal.
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- Amazon Sales Rank: #2496487 in Books
- Published on: 1998-10-30
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Hardcover
- 240 pages
Monday, April 16, 2012
Health Care Law & Ethics 7e (Health Care Law and Ethics) (Casebook Series)
Health Care Law & Ethics 7e (Health Care Law and Ethics) (Casebook Series)
by Mark A. Hall, Mary Anne Bobinski, David Orentlicher
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Health Care Law and Ethics, Seventh Edition, embodies a relationship-oriented approach to health law, and it offers comprehensive coverage of essential topics as well as current and controversial subjects. The new edition of this pioneering casebook is well suited for courses ranging from health law surveys to more specialized courses dealing with medical malpractice or bioethics.
Among the features that have made this casebook a success:
A logical and straightforward organization, providing coverage under three main areas: The Provider and the Patient; The Patient, the Provider, and the State; and Institutions, Providers, and the State;
Coverage of important current issues in health care law, including federalism issues, consumer-driven health care and health savings accounts, prescription drug coverage, specialty hospitals, medical malpractice reform, and constitutionality issues over restricting access to health care;
A companion website (www.health-law.org) with updates and supplemental material by chapter, significant developments since publication, and errata.
The Seventh Edition includes coverage of cases and laws influencing today's health care law:
Oregon's assisted suicide law cases;
California medical marijuana case;
Aetna v. Davila (2004) on managed care liability and ERISA pre-emption;
new Medicare Part D covering prescription drugs;
Latest developments in the medical malpractice crisis and reform efforts.
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- Amazon Sales Rank: #102941 in Books
- Published on: 2007-10-11
- Original language: English
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Uneasy Alchemy: Citizens and Experts in Louisiana's Chemical Corridor Disputes (Urban and Industrial Environments)
Uneasy Alchemy: Citizens and Experts in Louisiana's Chemical Corridor Disputes (Urban and Industrial Environments)
by Barbara L. Allen
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Louisiana annually reports over eight tons of toxic waste for each citizen. Uneasy Alchemy examines the role of experts -- lawyers, economists, health professionals, and scientists -- in the struggles for environmental justice in the state's infamous Chemical Corridor or "Cancer Alley." This legendary toxic zone between New Orleans and Baton Rouge is home to about 125 oil and chemical plants; cancer and respiratory illness rates there are among the highest in the nation. The efforts of residents to ensure a healthy environment is one of the most important social justice movements of the post-civil rights era.Louisiana is an especially appropriate venue for the examination of race, class, and politics within an environmental justice framework because of the critical role the chemical industry has played in the economic development of the state, and the weak record of state agencies in controlling toxic chemicals and enforcing environmental regulations. But while Louisiana suffers from some of the worst chemical pollution in the nation, it has also been the site of important environmental victories. Using ethnographic analysis of interviews with citizens, activists, and experts, media accounts, policy reports, government documents, minutes of hearings, and company statements, Barbara Allen identifies the factors that contribute to successful environmental justice efforts. She finds that the most successful strategies involved temporary alliances between local citizens and expert-activists, across lines of race and class, and between local and national organizations. These alliances were not easy to achieve -- local citizens tend to mistrust outside experts and want fast action in response to health threats -- but once formed, these powerful combinations of local and expert knowledge were an important force for action and change.
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- Amazon Sales Rank: #77560 in Books
- Published on: 2003-09-12
- Original language: English
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- 224 pages
Health Care in 2020: Where Uncertain Reform, Bad Habits, Two Few Doctors and Skyrocketing Costs Are Taking Us
Health Care in 2020: Where Uncertain Reform, Bad Habits, Two Few Doctors and Skyrocketing Costs Are Taking Us
Steve Jacob (Author)
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Health reform, often called Obamacare, may or may not survive legal challenges and the aftermath of the 2012 election. The new law and the alternatives put forth by its opponents are unlikely to alter U.S. health care's most pressing problems: physician shortages; uncontrollable cost increases; widespread and poorly controlled chronic disease, and widespread medical treatment that does not benefit patients.
In Health Care in 2020, award-winning veteran journalist Steve Jacob distills six years of research and reporting on health care policy to reveal where health care is going and what can be done to change its treacherous course.
Health reform's major goal was to ensure everyone had affordable health insurance. How affordable that insurance will be is a separate – and more important – issue. By 2020:
• About 20 cents of every U.S. dollar will be spent on health care.
• Nearly 40,000 of the nation's doctors will have reached retirement age, contributing to an expected physician shortage of more than 90,000.
• Medicare and Medicaid are expected to account for 40 percent of the federal budget's growth.
• Average out-of-pocket medical costs are expected to consume 17 percent of household income for a family of four. A common rule of thumb is that health-care costs become a financial burden when they reach 10 percent of household income.
• About 81 million Americans will have multiple chronic conditions – compared with 51 million in 2000 – as baby boomers swell the ranks of retirees and aging bodies pay the price for poor lifestyle choices.
• More than 50 percent of Americans are expected to have diabetes or prediabetes.
Americans will need to seize control of their health and health-care finances to avoid what appears to be a very perilous future. High costs are not inevitable. Exercising, eating right and maintaining a normal weight cuts the odds of heart disease, cancer and diabetes by 80 percent. Health Care in 2020 tells you what the health-care landscape will look like by the end of the decade and how to navigate it.
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- Amazon Sales Rank: #67502 in eBooks
- Published on: 2012-01-25
- Released on: 2012-01-25
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Saturday, April 14, 2012
The Geneva Conventions Under Assault
The Geneva Conventions Under Assault
by Sarah Perrigo, Jim Whitman
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Outrages committed during violent conflict and as part of the 'war on terror' are not only an affront to human dignity -- they also violate the Geneva Conventions.
This book examines recent high-profile cases of repeated and open abuse of the Conventions. The contributors explore why these and related violations of international humanitarian law cannot be viewed as anomalies, but must be regarded as part of a pattern which is set to undermine the Geneva Conventions as a whole. The contributors argue that an international system in which there is diminishing legal restraint on the use of force means that the world will become less secure and more volatile, even for those in the most powerful countries. Individuals everywhere face the prospect of a horrifying vulnerability. This is the first scholarly yet accessible work to consider the meanings of outrages such as the normalisation of torture, as well as the worrying new normative, technical and tactical developments that challenge the purpose and standing of the Geneva Conventions.Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #2135559 in Books
- Published on: 2010-03-15
- Released on: 2010-03-30
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: .70 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 272 pages
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