Forces of Change: New Strategies for the Evolving Health Care Marketplace

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Edition: 1
Release: 2012-07-31
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 1118099133
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American health care has made great strides in the past hundred years. Life expectancy has increased dramatically and advances in medicine and treatments have eradicated many life-threatening diseases. However, in today's health care arena there is divergence between our health needs, the structure of our health care system, and how health care is delivered and funded.In Forces of Change, David A. Shore has collected the leading thinking from experts in the field on how our health care system can benefit from important lessons from other industries and effect transformational change that truly serves all stakeholders well.Contributors include Max Caldwell of Towers Watson; Michael J. Dowling of North Shore–Long Island Jewish Medical Health System; John P. Glaser of Siemens Healthcare; Ashish K. Jha of the Harvard School of Public Health; Eric D. Kupferberg of Northeastern University; Lucian Leape of the Harvard School of Public Health; Jeff Margolis of the TriZetto Group, Inc.; and D Download Forces of Change for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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Subacute Care Services: The Evolving Opportunities and Challenges

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Edition: 1
Release: 1996-01-01
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 1557386218
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Hospitals, nursing facilities and independant management companies have discovered that subacute care is capable of either generating greater profits for financially healthy institutions, or turning struggling organizations around. This book introduces and defines this financially prosperous industry while addressing the intrinsic value of its services to healthcare professionals. It provides a pragmatic look at the development process for starting a subacute care unit, and discusses the hospital versus a long-term care facility as a unit site. Download Subacute Care Services for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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Evolving Health: The Origins of Illness and How the Modern World Is Making Us Sick Reviews

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Edition: 1st
Release: 2002-04-15
Publisher: Wiley
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 0471352616
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• ISBN13: 9780471352617
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Human illnesses can be understood as damage to those adaptations that we took on at various stages in our evolution from pre-life molecules to modern Homo sapiens. Preventing these illnesses entails avoiding what causes the damage-- which too frequently are the everyday hazards of twenty-first-century life, as the chart below shows:

Level of Evolution

Cause of adaptive failure

resulting disease or problem

Pre-life

Environmental poisons

Certain birth defects

Single cell (bacteria and amoeba-like)

Viral infection

Colds/flu/HIV

Morula (sponge-like)

Cellular stress

Cancer

Chordate

Physical stress

Back pain

Fish

Excess dietary salt

Hypertension/heart disease

Amphibian

Tobacco smoke

Lung cancer/emphysema

Lower primate

Excess dietary sugar

Diabetes mellitus

Higher primate

Vitamin C deficiency

Scurvy

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