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
• Binding: Paperback
• 286 pages

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

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
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .49" h x 5.98" w x 9.06" l, .72 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

One Nation, Uninsured: Why the U.S. Has No National Health Insurance

One Nation, Uninsured: Why the U.S. Has No National Health Insurance
by Jill Quadagno
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Every industrial nation in the world guarantees its citizens access to essential health care services--every country, that is, except the United States. In fact, one in eight Americans--a shocking 43 million people--do not have any health care insurance at all.
One Nation, Uninsured offers a vividly written history of America's failed efforts to address the health care needs of its citizens. Covering the entire twentieth century, Jill Quadagno shows how each attempt to enact national health insurance was met with fierce attacks by powerful stakeholders, who mobilized their considerable resources to keep the financing of health care out of the government's hands. Quadagno describes how at first physicians led the anti-reform coalition, fearful that government entry would mean government control of the lucrative private health care market. Doctors lobbied legislators, influenced elections by giving large campaign contributions to sympathetic candidates, and organized "grassroots" protests, conspiring with other like-minded groups to defeat reform efforts. As the success of Medicare and Medicaid in the mid-century led physicians and the AMA to start scaling back their attacks, the insurance industry began assuming a leading role against reform that continues to this day.
One Nation, Uninsured offers a sweeping history of the battles over health care. It is an invaluable read for anyone who has a stake in the future of America's health care system.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #58821 in Books
• Published on: 2006-10-09
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .92 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 288 pages

Collaboration Across the Disciplines in Health Care

Collaboration Across the Disciplines in Health Care
by Dr. Brenda Freshman, Louis Rubino, Dr. Yolanda Reid Chassiakos

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Collaboration Across the Disciplines in Health Care brings together seasoned professionals from the disciplines of medicine, nursing, public health, health services and administration, and other areas, who present their diverse perspectives on collaboration across the spectrum of the healthcare fields. Using a learning-centered approach, this timely resource helps the reader develop communication skills and prepares them to work inter-professionally with those who have different perspectives and thought processes. Perfect for senior-level undergraduate and graduate courses in health services administration, allied health, and nursing, this current and engaging text offers experiential activities to facilitate learning.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #108594 in Books
• Published on: 2009-03-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .90" h x 7.40" w x 9.00" l, 1.45 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 325 pages

Health Care Administration: Managing Organized Delivery Systems, 5th Edition

Health Care Administration: Managing Organized Delivery Systems, 5th Edition
by Lawrence F. Wolper
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Health Care Administration: Managing Organized Delivery Systems, Fifth Edition provides graduate and pre-professional students with a comprehensive, detailed overview of the numerous facets of the modern healthcare system, focusing on functions and operations at both the corporate and hospital level. The Fifth Edition of this authoritative text comprises several new subjects, including new chapters on patient safety and ambulatory care center design and planning. Other updated topics include healthcare information systems, management of nursing systems, labor and employment law, and financial management, as well discussions on current healthcare policy in the United States. Health Care Administration: Managing Organized Delivery Systems, Fifth Edition continues to be one of the most effective teaching texts in the field, addressing operational, technical and organizational matters along with the day-to-day responsibilities of hospital administrators. Broad in scope, this essential text has now evolved to offer the most up-to-date, comprehensive treatment of the organizational functions of today's complex and ever-changing healthcare delivery system. The Fifth Edition features: Data-intensive comparison of 12 healthcare systems around the world; Up-to-date data tables, graphs and case studies; New discussions of current policy challenges, including healthcare reform and bioterrorism preparedness; New chapters on Quality, Safety, and Facility Design and Planning.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #160565 in Books
• Published on: 2010-04-12
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 1.70" h x 7.10" w x 9.90" l, 3.13 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 816 pages

Health Care Reform and American Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know

Health Care Reform and American Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know
by Lawrence R. Jacobs, Theda Skocpol
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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act signed by President Obama in March 2010 is a landmark in U.S. social legislation. The new law extends health insurance to nearly all Americans, fulfilling a century-long quest and bringing the United States to parity with other industrial nations. Affordable Care aims to control rapidly rising health care costs and promises to make the United States more equal, reversing four decades of rising disparities between the very rich and everyone else. Millions of people of modest means will gain new benefits and protections from insurance company abuses - and the tab will be paid by privileged corporations and the very rich.

How did such a bold reform effort pass in a polity wracked by partisan divisions and intense lobbying by special interests? What does Affordable Care mean - and what comes next? In Health Care Reform and American Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know, Lawrence R. Jacobs and Theda Skocpol--two of the nation's leading experts on politics and health care policy--provide a concise and accessible overview. They explain the political battles of 2009 and 2010, highlighting White House strategies, the deals Democrats cut with interest groups, and the impact of agitation by Tea Partiers and progressives. Jacobs and Skocpol spell out what the new law can do for everyday Americans, what it will cost, and who will pay. Above all, they explain what comes next, as critical yet often behind-the-scenes battles rage over implementing reform nationally and in the fifty states. Affordable Care might end up being weakened. But, like Social Security and Medicare, it could also gain strength and popularity as the majority of Americans learn what it can do for them.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #27271 in Books
• Published on: 2010-10-20
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .80" h x 5.40" w x 8.10" l, .57 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 232 pages

The Law of Healthcare Administration

The Law of Healthcare Administration
by J. Stuart Showalter
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Now in its fifth edition, The Law of Healthcare Administration continues to examine the legal aspects of healthcare from a management perspective. Using plain language, the book is a comprehensive treatment of health law in the United States, addressing topics from the basic structure of the court system to the general legal responsibilities of healthcare organizations to the specific liabilities inherent in the provision of care. Legal concepts in the book are supported by examples from actual court decisions.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #181688 in Books
• Published on: 2007-09-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 2.32 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 511 pages