Product Description: Health care systems across the world are in a state of permanent revolution as they struggle to cope with multiple pressures arising from changing demography, the rise of noncommunicable disease, the growing demand for health services, and limited resources in a time of austerity...read more

Product Description: Osteoarthritis is the leading cause of disability among older adults affecting upward of 1 in 8 adults. This issue will cover epidemiology, imaging, disease management and modification, and many more topics.

Essentials of Discrete Mathematics is the ideal text for the one-semester discrete mathematics course geared towards computer science majors as well as students from a wide range of other disciplines including biology, sociology, linguistics, physics, chemistry and economics. The material is organized around five types of mathematical thinking: logical, relational, recursive, quantitative, and analytical, which results in a coherent presentation that steadily builds upon mathematical sophistication. Graphs are introduced early and referred to throughout the text, providing a richer context for examples and applications. Students will encounter algorithms near the end of the text, after they have built up enough skills and sophistication to analyze them properly. Clear and Concise, Essentials of Discrete Mathematics presents a unified and complete picture of discrete math that instructors can move actually through in a single semester!

Product Description: Expertly mixing theory with practice, this text makes a unique and important contribution to the area of health management. Through examples and case studies drawn from across Europe, Managing for Health explores the management challenge in public health policy and offers pointers to equip students of health management and public health managers with the necessary perspectives and skills to function effectively in the twenty-first century...read more

Product Description: Key Topics is a short, easy-to-read text that provides basic information about twelve key topics in public health, such as diabetes, cancer, smoking and teenage pregnancy, and how prevention and health promotion should be tackled at community and one-to-one levels...read more

This volume provides a new and innovative overview of the key debates relating to public health policy in the UK and sets out the policy implications for the future, offering a way forward based on the concept of managing for health. * A timely and innovative overview of the key debates relating to public health policy in the UK. * explains that health-care services are not the principal determinants of health, and asks why, therefore, they absorb the bulk of resources and attention of policy-makers. * Argues that a paradigm shift is needed if current health policy biases are to be confronted. * Uses examples from Europe and Canada, where a similar policy imbalance exists. * Sets out the policy implications for the future and offers a way forward based on the concept of managing for health.

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Product Description: Following the Governments health reforms in 1991 rationing has been put firmly on the agenda. This book identifies and clarifies the numerous political and ethical issues surrounding rationing in healthcare. Drawing upon international examples it offers a critical overview of the approaches to rationing and makes practical proposals for its management...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The authors' primary purpose is to analyze the forces that have shaped British health policy over the last two decades, but they have also provided up-to-date factual information. Areas covered include the funding of the service, resources, allocation, health care priorities, organization and management, industrial relations, medical careers, and the evaluation of the NHS's performance...read more