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Health at Risk
America's Ailing Health System—and How to Heal It
Av Jacob Hacker
Inbunden, 2008
888 kr
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In this volume, the nation's leading advisors on health policy and financing appraise America's ailing healthcare system and suggest reasonable approaches to its rehabilitation. Each chapter confronts a major challenge to the country's health security, from runaway costs and uneven quality of care …
Health at Risk
America's Ailing Health System—and How to Heal It
Av Jacob Hacker
Häftad, 2008
236 kr
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In this volume, the nation's leading advisors on health policy and financing appraise America's ailing healthcare system and suggest reasonable approaches to its rehabilitation. Each chapter confronts a major challenge to the country's health security, from runaway costs and uneven quality of care …
Laid Off, Laid Low
Political and Economic Consequences of Employment Insecurity
Inbunden, 2008
1504 kr
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Laid Off, Laid Low provides a sobering portrait of the ailing American labor system and the social and political consequences of increasing job insecurity. It proves that the health of the labor market is not a transitory issue brought low by the factors of recession, but a serious concern …
Laid Off, Laid Low
Political and Economic Consequences of Employment Insecurity
Häftad, 2008
210 kr
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Laid Off, Laid Low provides a sobering portrait of the ailing American labor system and the social and political consequences of increasing job insecurity. It proves that the health of the labor market is not a transitory issue brought low by the factors of recession, but a serious concern …
Risks of Prescription Drugs
Inbunden, 2010
1068 kr
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Few people realize that prescription drugs have become a leading cause of death, disease, and disability. Adverse reactions to widely used drugs, such as psychotropics and birth control pills, as well as biologicals, result in FDA warnings against adverse reactions. The Risks of Prescription Drugs …
Risks of Prescription Drugs
Häftad, 2010
192 kr
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Few people realize that prescription drugs have become a leading cause of death, disease, and disability. Adverse reactions to widely used drugs, such as psychotropics and birth control pills, as well as biologicals, result in FDA warnings against adverse reactions. The Risks of Prescription Drugs …
Pensions, Social Security, and the Privatization of Risk
Inbunden, 2009
1384 kr
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As Social Security, workplace pensions, and individual retirement accounts become more insecure, America's pension system is in serious need of rehabilitation. In this timely volume, Mitchell A. Orenstein and his distinguished colleagues Gary Burtless, Teresa Ghilarducci, and Alicia Munnell argue …
Disaster and the Politics of Intervention
Inbunden, 2010
1384 kr
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Government plays a critical role in mitigating individual and collective vulnerability to disaster. Through measures such as disaster relief, infrastructure development, and environmental regulation, public policy is central to making societies more resilient. However, the recent drive to replace …
Disaster and the Politics of Intervention
Häftad, 2010
204 kr
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Government plays a critical role in mitigating individual and collective vulnerability to disaster. Through measures such as disaster relief, infrastructure development, and environmental regulation, public policy is central to making societies more resilient. However, the recent drive to replace …
Bailouts
Public Money, Private Profit
Inbunden, 2010
1296 kr
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Today's financial crisis is the result of dismal failures on the part of regulators, market analysts, and corporate executives. Yet the response of the American government has been to bail out the very institutions and individuals that have wrought such havoc upon the nation. Are such massive …
Biosecurity Interventions
Global Health and Security in Question
Av Andrew Lakoff, Stephen J Collier
E-bok, 2008
1091 kr
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In recent years, new disease threats& mdash;such as SARS, avian flu, mad cow disease, and drug-resistant strains of malaria and tuberculosis& mdash;have garnered media attention and galvanized political response. Proposals for new approaches to "securing health" against these threats have come not …
Health at Risk
America's Ailing Health System--and How to Heal It
Av Jacob Hacker
E-bok, 2008
355 kr
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In this volume, the nation's leading advisors on health policy and financing appraise America's ailing healthcare system and suggest reasonable approaches to its rehabilitation. Each chapter confronts a major challenge to the country's health security, from runaway costs and uneven quality of care …
Visualizing Social Science – Photographs by Rachel Tanur
Häftad, 2008
264 kr
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Rachel Dorothy Tanur (1958-2002) wasn't trained as a social scientist, but she cared deeply about people and their lives and was an acute observer of living conditions and interactions. Her profound empathy for others and her commitment to helping those less fortunate than herself accompanied her …
Pensions, Social Security, and the Privatization of Risk
Häftad, 2009
195 kr
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As Social Security, workplace pensions, and individual retirement accounts become more insecure, America's pension system is in serious need of rehabilitation. In this timely volume, Mitchell A. Orenstein and his distinguished colleagues Gary Burtless, Teresa Ghilarducci, and Alicia Munnell argue …
Bailouts
Public Money, Private Profit
Häftad, 2010
180 kr
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Today's financial crisis is the result of dismal failures on the part of regulators, market analysts, and corporate executives. Yet the response of the American government has been to bail out the very institutions and individuals that have wrought such havoc upon the nation. Are such massive …
