Download or read book The Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care the New England States written by Dartmouth Medical School. Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Dartmouth Atlas of Children s Health Care in Northern New England written by David C. Goodman (MD) and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dartmouth Atlas of Children s Health Care in Northern New England written by David C. Goodman and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Dartmouth Atlas report shows the variation in pediatric care across the hospital service areas of Northern New England, reflecting the care provided by local physicians and hospitals. The population included in the report is children and infants less than 18 years of age represented in the All Payer Claims Databases of Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont for the period from 2007 through 2010. Seven domains of health care are reported: the physician workforce, ambulatory care, effective care, hospitalization, common surgical procedures, diagnostic imaging, and outpatient pharmacy prescription fills.
Download or read book The Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care written by Dartmouth Medical School. Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care Great Plains States written by Dartmouth Medical School. Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care written by and published by Health Forum Publishing Company. This book was released on 1996 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Dartmouth atlas of health care the Mountain states written by Dartmouth Medical School. Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Dartmouth atlas of health care the Pacific states written by Dartmouth Medical School. Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Our Parents Ourselves written by Judith Steinberg Turiel and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2005-11-09 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Our Parents, Ourselves is the best presentation of our aging, and of general healthcare issues that I have ever seen. Tremendously important."—Henrik Blum, M.D., MPH, Professor Emeritus, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley "This book could well transform how we as a country address aging and caregiving for generations to come."—Lynn Friss Feinberg, MSW, Deputy Director, National Center on Caregiving at Family Caregiver Alliance "Turiel's book can help elders and their families find humane care in our often inhumane and uncaring health care system."— Steffi Woolhandler, co-founder of Physicians for a National Health Program
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Download or read book Improving Patient Decision making in Health Care written by Shannon Brownlee and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report, a collaborative project with the Informed Medical Decisions Foundation, looks at the variation in surgical rates in 306 hospital referral regions across the United States (a hospital referral region is a large health care market containing at least one referral hospital). In the Appendix, patients can find the rates for ten different surgical procedures and one test in 12 different hospital referral regions and 166 hospital service areas in the New England region (a hospital service area encompasses the geographic area served by a relatively small number of hospitals). Other editions will look at variation in the rates of these procedures in other regions. Data for the entire nation, encompassing more than 3,400 hospital service areas, can be found on the Dartmouth Atlas web site (www.dartmouthatlas.org).This report is divided into three parts. The first section, "The Importance of Choice in Health Care," explains the concept of shared decision-making, a process that helps patients understand their choices fully and allows them to share treatment decisions with their clinicians. The second section, "Variation in Preference-Sensitive Care," briefly describes the treatment choices facing patients with eight different conditions, all of which can--but do not have to be--treated with surgery. The last section, "Ensuring Patients Get the Care They Need and Want," discusses steps patients can take to make sure they get the care they want and need. It also discusses how physicians and other clinicians can support shared decision-making to ensure that patients make fully informed choices. When done right, shared decision-making results in a better decision: a personalized choice based on the best scientific evidence and the patient's own values.
Download or read book An Introduction to the U S Health Care System written by Steven Jonas and published by Springer Publishing Company. This book was released on 2003-04-15 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Completely updated to reflect the continual changes in the U.S. health care delivery system, this bestselling text is a concise and balanced classic presenting the domestic health care system. It explains the five major components of the U.S. health care system: health care institutions, health care personnel, financing mechanisms, research and educational institutions that produce biomedical knowledge and health personnel, and firms producing "health commodities" (such as pharmaceutical drugs and hospital equipment).
Download or read book The Myths of Modern Medicine written by John Leifer and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-09-11 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American health care system is terminally ill. It is astonishingly expensive, remarkably variable in quality, and incapable of stemming the rising tide of chronic illness in our population. Yet, the majority of Americans believe it is the best system in the world and cling to the belief that, far from ailing, it delivers care superior to those of countries across the globe. The system has obliged us by providing an elaborate set of myths and misconceptions about American health care that significantly shape our beliefs. These myths keep us blissfully ignorant about the true quality, safety, and value of the care we receive. This ignorance has a price: it leads us to draw erroneous conclusions about our conditions, fail to properly evaluate potential treatment options, and rarely question our providers’ competency. The Myths of Modern Medicine looks at the real issues contributing to the dysfunction of our healthcare system and how these issues affect the care we receive. The book, based upon John Leifer’s 30 years of immersion in the healthcare industry, challenges some of our most commonly held misperceptions about this vitally important industry. Leifer strips away the elaborately constructed myths that conceal the ugly underbelly of healthcare and lays bare the truth about an industry that serves special interest groups far better than it serves its patients. A survival guide for anyone entering the healthcare system, this timely work helps consumers better research provider competency; ask the right questions to evaluate potential treatment options; and communicate the information that will help yield the right treatment decisions. Several studies have shown patients today have only about a 50 percent chance of getting the generally accepted best treatment for their conditions. This book helps consumers increase these odds with step-by-step directions on how to interact more productively with their doctors and become true partners in making what may be the most crucial decisions of their lives.
Download or read book An Introduction to the Geography of Health written by Helen Hazen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-05-23 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Health issues such as the emergence of infectious diseases, the potential influence of global warming on human health, and the escalating strain of increasing longevity and chronic conditions on healthcare systems are of growing importance in an increasingly peopled and interconnected world. A geographic approach to the study of health offers a critical perspective to these issues, considering how changing relationships between people and their environments influence human health. An Introduction to the Geography of Health provides an accessible introduction to this rapidly growing field, covering theoretical and methodological background. The text is divided into three sections which consider distinct approaches and techniques related to health geographies. Section one introduces ecological approaches, with a focus on how natural and built environments affect human health. For instance, how have irrigation projects influenced the spread of water-borne diseases? How can modern healthcare settings, such as hospitals, affect the spread and evolution of pathogens? Section two discusses social aspects of health and healthcare, considering health as not merely a biological interaction between a pathogen and human host, but as a process that is situated among social factors which ultimately drive who suffers from what, and where disease occurs. Section three then considers spatial techniques and approaches to exploring health, giving special focus to the growing role of cartography and geographic information systems (GIS) in the study of health. This clearly written text contains a range of pedagogical features including a wealth of global case studies, discussion questions and suggestions for further reading at the end of each chapter, a colour plate section and over eighty diagrams and figures. The accompanying website also provides presentations, exercises, further resources, and tables and figures. This book is an essential introductory text for undergraduate students studying Geography, Health and Social Studies.
Download or read book GIS Automated Delineation of Hospital Service Areas written by Fahui Wang and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2021-10-14 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hospital service areas (HSAs) and hospital referral regions (HRRs) are considered more appropriate units than geopolitical units for analyzing the performance of health care markets and policy implementation. GIS Automated Delineation of Hospital Service Areas represents the state-of-the-art approach in delineating HSAs and HRRs by using GIS-automated processes. It provides the best practices for defining such areas scientifically, in a geographically accurate manner, and without a steep learning curve. This book is intended to mainly serve professionals in geography, urban and regional planning, public health, and related fields. It is also useful for scholars in the above fields who have research interests related to GIS and spatial analysis applications in health care. It can be used as a supplemental text for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in courses related to GIS and public health. Features: Introduces innovative state-of-the-art methods for delineation of HSAs (Dartmouth method, Huff model, network community detection methods) Provides best practices and one-stop solution for related data processing tasks (e.g., distance and travel time estimation, identifying the best-fitting distance decay function) Automates the methods in ArcGIS Pro toolkits Includes free ready-to-download GIS tools and sample data available on authors’ website Presents a methodology that is applicable to delineation of other service areas, catchment areas or functional regions for business analysis, planning, and public policy studies
Download or read book An Introduction to the US Health Care System written by Steven Jonas, MD, MPH, FACPM and published by Springer Publishing Company. This book was released on 2007-05-25 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Completely expanded and updated to account for the latest changes in the U.S. health care system, this best-selling text remains the most concise and balanced introduction to the domestic health care system. Like its predecessors, it provides an accessible overview of the basic components of the system: healthcare personnel, hospitals and other institutions, the federal government, financing and payment mechanisms, and managed care. Finally, it provides an insightful look at the prospects for health care reform. Steven Jonas, a revered expert in public health, has enlisted his colleagues, Drs. Raymond and Karen Goldsteen, to add their expertise in public health and health policy and management to this outstanding volume. All students of health care administration and policy, as well as practicing healthcare professionals who simply want a relatively brief overview of the system, will find it useful.
Download or read book Consumer Directed Health Care written by Kim Slocum and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2008-07-07 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With three decades of experience in a variety of healthcare, pharmaceutical, and biotechnology firms, respected healthcare consultant, Kim Slocum applies a uniquely broad viewpoint to the U.S. healthcare crisis. He discusses how the system has evolved and debunks various myths that continue to persist. Exploring potential solutions, he balances many diverse and conflicting factors, including the movement to make healthcare more patient-centered and the growing trend to transfer significant portions of financial risk to patients via high-deductibles. Slocum closes the book by discussing what a successful consumer-directed system might look like and what steps would be required to make it happen.
