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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Health Systems Financing Health Systems Financing World Health Organization (WHO) Good health is essential to human welfare and to sustained economic and social development. WHO's Member States have set themselves the target of developing their health financing systems to ensure t… OL14939493W
Pathologies of power Pathologies of power Paul Farmer Pathologies of Power uses harrowing stories of life--and death--in extreme situations to interrogate our understanding of human rights. Paul Farmer, a physician and anthropologist with twenty years o… OL15893773W
Entitled to nothing Entitled to nothing Lisa Sun-Hee Park "In <span style="font-style: italic;">Entitled to Nothing</span>, Lisa Sun-Hee Park investigates how the politics of immigration, health care, and welfare are intertwined. Documenting the formal retu… OL15980439W
Social determinants approaches to public health Social determinants approaches to public health Erik Blas The thirteen case studies presented in this publication describe experiences with implementing public health programs that intend to address social determinants and to have a great impact on health e… OL16178694W
Health equity, social justice, and human rights Health equity, social justice, and human rights A. R. Taket "Important links between health and human rights are increasingly being recognised and human rights can be viewed as one of the social determinants of health. Furthermore, a human rights framework pr… OL16283481W
Medical marginality in South Asia Medical marginality in South Asia David Hardiman,Projit Bihari Mukharji "This book demarcates and records subaltern therapy as a distinct realm that both interacts with and resists statist medicine. It provides a more integrated approach that places the subaltern subject… OL16416392W
Sick from freedom Sick from freedom Jim Downs "Bondspeople who fled from slavery during and after the Civil War did not expect that their flight toward freedom would lead to sickness, disease, suffering, and death. But the war produced the large… OL16617538W
Health tourism Health tourism David A. Reisman Spas, pilgrimages and trips to famous specialists are not new. What is new is the volume of patients willing and able to travel great distances for a variety of treatments and procedures. This book e… OL16651430W
The imaginations of unreasonable men The imaginations of unreasonable men William H. Shore Through the story of scientists pursuing an impossible dream of permanently eradicating malaria, a renowned social entrepreneur examines what it really takes to change the world. OL19945089W
The right to try The right to try Darcy Olsen "The inspiring state-by-state campaign to allow sick Americans access to experimental treatments currently blocked by the government, chronicled by the woman leading the charge. Should you need the g… OL20012600W
India and the Patent Wars India and the Patent Wars Murphy Halliburton India and the Patent Wars examines struggles over patents and access to medicine among pharmaceutical producers, activists and others under a new global intellectual property regime. In the past two … OL20930886W
The politics of sickle cell and thalassaemia The politics of sickle cell and thalassaemia Karl Atkin,Elizabeth Anionwu The politics of sickle cell and thalassanaemia, blood disorders found mainly in people whose families come from Africa, the Caribbean and the East, are examined in this text, and a detailed evaluatio… OL21182329W
Inequalities in health Inequalities in health Great Britain. Working Group on Inequalities in Health A condensed version of the report of the working group on Inequalities in Health, published by the Department of Health and Social Security, 1980. OL21773208W
The World Health Report 2005 The World Health Report 2005 World Health Organization (WHO) The World Health Report 2005 - Make Every Mother and Child Count examines the reasons why so many children under five years of age and women in pregnancy, during childbirth or soon after continue to … OL22073513W
Health care in America Health care in America Kant Patel "The present book focuses on health care disparities. ... The United States has a wonderful health care system, especially in terms of its capabilities. But it is not equally available to all. It is … OL3744342W
Awakening Hippocrates Awakening Hippocrates Edward O'Neil "A comprehensive overview of the current state of world poverty and health, directed to the health care provider interested in volunteering abroad"--Provided by publisher. OL5838112W
Conceiving Normalcy Conceiving Normalcy Elizabeth Britt "Elizabeth C. Britt uses a Massachusetts statute requiring insurance coverage for infertility as a lens through which the work of rhetoric in complex cultural processes can be better understood. Coun… OL8532368W
Health and Development Health and Development Derek Yach 'Health and Development' brings the reader to a closer understanding of the role of international organisations in the health arena. OL9699303W