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Medicine and Social Justiceby Rosamond Rhodes (Editor), et al List Price: $52.50 Available from Amazon $52.50 On 7-18-2006 
See Item's Page From the New England journal of Medicine, May 8, 2003 Is health care a right? If so, what duties does this right confer on health care systems and on societies? Since an unlimited right to all services is unaffordable, even in the United States (where spending on health care in 2001 exceeded 14 percent of the gross domestic product), where, and by whom and what means, should the line be drawn? With more than 40 million U.S. citizens without health insurance, is the health care system in this country fundamentally immoral? When the medical director of a health maintenance organization or the chief executive officer of a hospital makes decisions about allocating resources, what is a fair, just, and defensible process? Bioethicists, heretofore focused on thorny issues in individual patient care, are now beginning to assess the ethical underpinnings of the allocation and distribution of resources in health policy and health care organizations. They are joined by philosophers, lawyers, economists, physicians, and political scientists in medicine and Social Justice. This compilation brings a variety of perspectives, national settings, and disciplinary backgrounds to the topic and provides a unique survey of theoretical and applied thinking about the connections between health care and social justice. The first of the book's four sections is an introduction to various theories of justice and their connection to health care. Anyone who cares about justice in health care should read the first chapter, by Norman Daniels. His approach to fairness in health care builds on the late John Rawls's theory of justice yet is also informed by the empirical study of health insurers in action. In the second section, which examines the fairness of health care systems around the world, Bruce Vladek and Eliot Fishman offer an engaging overview of the U.S. health care system, with a particular focus on Medicare. This essay (along with Roger Crisp's, on the British National Health Service) illustrates the tensions between ideal theory and practical realities -- the problem of "partial compliance." Baruch Brody's chapter on the ethics of clinical trials in developing countries, though interesting, seems out of place here. The third section of the book addresses the special issues of vulnerable groups: minorities, women, the disabled, children, the elderly, caregivers, and poor persons. Since the problem of social justice in these groups is acute, many of the chapters in this section assess the special role (if any) of health care in the context of these social disadvantages. The final section analyzes and raises provocative questions about current and emerging challenges in health care. Should alternative medicine be included as a covered benefit? What is a fair way to organize the distribution of organs for transplantation? (Rosamond Rhodes's chapter rightly criticizes some aspects of the policy of the United Network for Organ Sharing but leaves the reader wondering whether other countries, with more "just" health care systems, also have "fairer" systems for allocating organs.) Who should have priority, those in the worst health or those with the most to gain? Dan Brock's chapter on this subject clearly lays out the issues, while Jerome Bickenbach's chapter dissects and critiques the World Health Organization framework for assessing health care systems across countries. He (and other authors) fear that disability-adjusted life-years, quality-adjusted life-years, and life expectancy may slide from usefulness as analytic tools and become unjust applications that systematically and subtly discriminate against the disabled and those in poor health. Any book with "social justice" in its title will tend to tilt to the left; libertarians will find little here to their liking, aside from Bernard Baumrin's chapter, which flatly asserts that there is no right to health care, and Paul Menzel's chapter, which offers a defense of liberty-preserving health policy. Most of the authors reside in the United States or the United Kingdom; more than half have appointments in departments of philosophy. Physicians and others interested in this field will find this book an engaging introduction to the theoretical and practical challenges pertaining to social justice and health care. Those seeking to delve deeper into the topic may find additional nourishment from Rawls's Justice as Fairness: A Restatement (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001) and Amartya Sen's Development as Freedom (New York: Knopf, 1999). The collection of essays in medicine and Social Justice can serve as a fine primer for courses in bioethics and comparative health systems. Lewis G. Sandy, M.D. Copyright © 2003 Massachusetts medical Society. All rights reserved. The New England journal of medicine is a registered trademark of the MMS. Book Description Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York City, NY. Text explores a wide range of different approaches to the issue of justice in health care, and probes the connections between theoretical accounts of justice and observations of justice in practice. topics include theoretical foundations, rationing access, and special needs of social groups. Expanded-outline format. |
Manager's Guide to Contingency Planning for Disasters: Protecting Vital Facilities and Critical Operationsby Kenneth N. Myers List Price: $80.00 Available from Amazon $62.86 On 7-18-2006 
See Item's Page Book Description With the help of an implementation strategy, guidelines for minimizing development costs, and insight into a proven plan development methodology, Manager's Guide to Contingency Planning for Disasters: Protecting Vital Facilities and Critical Operations helps you to: * Establish a corporate contingency plan policy and strategy that will ensure timely completion of a plan with minimal disruption to operations. * Minimize plan development costs * Understand the importance of conducting briefings to communicate the proper mindset before the plan development process begins. * Save time and money by avoiding the consultant's traditional approach of extensive information-gathering that contributes little to the development of practical solutions Remember that you have good people on your management team who don't need a lot of detailed instruction on how to do things in an emergency situation. Precisely "how" they do anything will depend on the specific nature of the disaster and the extent of the damage. Addressing complex hypothetical disaster combinations does not make good business sense. Just prepare "what if" strategies for a worst case and rely on the judgment of your line managers to cope with less severe incidents. From the Inside Flap As businesses grow more aware of the need to provide some level of protection against an unplanned disaster, management needs to know how to structure such a strategic planning project so that it is completed quickly and with a minimal disruption to operations. Managers need to develop business continuity strategies that will enable the organization to retain market share, service customers, and maintain cash flow if a disaster does occur. Kenneth N. Myers, one of the world’s foremost innovators in the field of disaster recovery and business continuity planning, now provides you with a time-tested contingency planning philosophy, an implementation strategy, and a plan development methodology that matches the low probability of a disaster with the need for low-cost solutions. While other books offer complex and detailed approaches that are difficult to understand and even more costly to implement, Manager’s Guide to Contingency Planning for Disasters: Protecting Vital Facilities and Critical Operations presents an unusually straightforward format that deals in "what if" strategies instead of inordinately detailed procedures. It also emphasizes strategies to maintain business continuity, regardless of the cause of the disaster. Myers lays the foundation by prompting you to document a corporate contingency planning policy and strategy in writing before delegating the project to anyone. Solidifying and documenting a contingency planning policy and strategy is, in Myers’s words, "the key to containing development costs and to completing the project on time." He also stresses the importance of documenting the assumptions on which a plan is to be based to prevent "witch-hunting" during plan development. What’s more, you’ll learn that losing the computer system is probably not your most serious threat; losing vital buildings or critical production operations pose much more serious problems. And you’ll also learn that, contrary to popular belief, risk management programs and emergency response plans should not be developed first, but only after "what if" departmental business continuity strategies are documented. The first step is using a "worst case" scenario to cover various disaster possibilities and their impact on your ability to service customers and maintain market share following a physical disaster. Most computer systems can be restored in an alternate location, without the costly expense of computer hot-site agreements, within ten working days. Developing "what if" strategies for continuing to ship products is the real challenge. In a highly competitive world where vital buildings and critical operations are essential for business continuity, your company must have a strategic plan for coping with unplanned disasters that could suddenly threaten its survival. Manager’s Guide to Contingency Planning for Disasters: Protecting Vital Facilities and Critical Operations presents a time-tested approach that helps you do just that. |
Introduction to Emergency Managementby George Haddow, Jane Bullock Available from Amazon $56.99 On 7-18-2006 
See Item's Page Product Review A valuable and insightful textbook for teachers and students of emergency management. - George Busenberg, Graduate School of Public Affairs, University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center Would recommend that all who teach college emergency management courses get a copy to Review for consideration as a textbook. - B.Wayne Blanchard, Ph.D., CEM, Higher Education Project Manager Emergency management Institute, National Emergency Training Center, Federal Emergency management Agency, Department of Homeland Security does a very good job covering "roles, responsibilities & interrelationships that exist among state & local emergency management systems, FEMA - B.Wayne Blanchard, Ph.D., CEM, Higher Education Project Manager Emergency management Institute, National Emergency Training Center, Federal Emergency management Agency, Department of Homeland Security this book provides a comprehensive overview of the emergency management discipline. - Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake engineering research News the material with the case studies, facts and figures, examples, diagrams, and templates makes this book a fine resource. - Security Management the case studies go beyond giving life to the book. They also inspire ideas that emergency managers can themselves implement. - Security Management The authors load the book with bracing case studies and examples, which have infinitely more impact than generalizations and theories. - Security Management Product Review Would recommend that all who teach college emergency management courses get a copy to Review for consideration as a textbook. - B.Wayne Blanchard, Ph.D., CEM, Higher Education Project Manager Emergency management Institute, National Emergency Training Center, Federal Emergency management Agency, Department of Homeland Security does a very good job covering "roles, responsibilities & interrelationships that exist among state & local emergency management systems, FEMA - B.Wayne Blanchard, Ph.D., CEM, Higher Education Project Manager Emergency management Institute, National Emergency Training Center, Federal Emergency management Agency, Department of Homeland Security this book provides a comprehensive overview of the emergency management discipline. - Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake engineering research News |
Impact of AIDS, The (Economic and Social Affairs)List Price: $22.50 Available from Amazon $22.50 On 7-18-2006
See Item's Page Book Description This report documents the wide-ranging impacts of HIV/AIDS: on population size and growth and national mortality levels; on families and households; agricultural sustainability; business; the health sector; education, and economic growth. It also shows that the AIDS epidemic will continue to have devastating consequences for decades to come for virtually every sector of society. Divided into two parts, part one is an attempt to provide a comprehensive survey of available studies on the impact of AIDS while part two presents summaries of selected studies, with particular attention to the methodology and scope of each study. |
Engineering Safety: Fundamentals, Techniques, and Applications (Series on Industrial and Systems Engineering, 1)by B. S. Dhillon List Price: $25.00 Available from Amazon $25.00 On 7-18-2006
See Item's Page Book Description Safety has become very important because each year a vast number of people die due to workplace and other accidents. For example, in the United States for the year 1996 as per the National Safety Council, there were 93,400 deaths and 20,700,000 disabling injuries due to workplace accidents, with a total loss of $121 billion. Today there are a large number of books available on safety, but to the best of the author's knowledge none covers both general and systems safety (i.e., at a significant depth) and application or specialized areas such as software safety, robot safety, health care safety, and maintenance safety. This book has been written to satisfy that vital need. Book Info Text covers general and systems safety, with application to specialized areas such as software safety, robot safety, healthcare safety, and maintenance safety. For graduate and upper level undergraduate students in safety, industrial, and manufacturing engineering courses. Hardcover, softcover available from the publisher. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. |
Ecosystem Change and Public Health: A Global Perspectiveby Joan L. Aron (Editor), Jonathan A. Patz (Editor) List Price: $39.95 Available from Amazon $34.51 On 7-18-2006
See Item's Page —Bernard D Goldstein, M.D., Dean, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh "This important and timely book explores the interface between public health and natural systemsinformation needed for the future." --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. Product Review "The global disruption of the ecosystem caused by changing human behavior during the last two centuries creates the need for new public health specialists who can understand environmental and social science specialists and act in concert with them. With Joan L. Aron and Jonathan A. Patz' book, the next generation is undoubtedly better equipped than its predecessors to do so." -- Jean Lebel, Ph.D., journal of the American medical Association "A most useful contribution to informed discussion of global changes. Richly referenced with many website coordinates as well as conventional citations to journal articles and monographs. A very valuable addition to the literature on ecosystems and human health. Graduate students taking courses with this as a guide will have their knowledge enriched, their skills strengthened, and their awareness of the issues greatly enhanced." -- John M. LastMD, Ecosystem Health "This is an outstanding interdisciplinary text for upper level undergraduate and graduate students in studying the connections between global change and public policy. Logically written, well-organized, and straightforward, it provides an Earth systems approach to current global change studies. The wide array of references, the Suggested Study Projects, and the two appendices that provide outstanding information, are well structured for educational inquiry, and enhance student learning." -- NASA Earth Science Enterprise "One of the first books to explore the interface between public health and global ecosystem changes. Highly recommended for graduate students in public health, upper-division undergraduates in a range of disciplines, researchers, faculty, and practitioners." -- Choice "In short, it is an innovative and timely textbook which will influence the evolution of teaching and research in this topic area, whose international importance continues to grow rapidly." -- Tony McMichael, Bulletin of the World Health Organization "[Ecosystem Change and Public Health] provides a bridge between traditional public health disciplines and new concerns, and as a model of the new generation of textx it is well worth reading." -- Alistair Woodward, International journal of Epidemiology "[Ecosystem Change and Public Health] provides navigational tools and supplemental resources that together serve as a springboard from which interested scholars can actively explore the issues and interrelationships that underlie ecosytem change and public health." -- Meredith L. Golden, Environment "Ecosystem Change and Public Health is an impressive text that is sure to become a key reference on the subject." -- Thomas Tenkate, Environmental Health |
Assessment and Planning in Health Programsby Bonni C. Hodges, Donna M. Videto List Price: $48.95 Available from Amazon $36.73 On 7-18-2006
See Item's Page Book Description This text gives an overview of needs assessment, program planning, and program evaluation, and explains several goals and strategies for each. The text also gives an overview of the importance and use of theories, data collections strategies, and key teminology in the field of health education. |
A Guide for Nursing Home Social Workersby Elise M. Beaulieu List Price: $34.95 Available from Amazon $34.95 On 7-18-2006
See Item's Page Book Description This book gives an in-depth discussion of all aspects of nursing home practice, and is an encyclopedia of nursing home practice issues with which social workers must become familiar. This is essential reading for beginning and experienced social workers alike. Book Info Discusses the function of beginning nursing home social workers and provides information and resources essential for them. Covers assessment, intake and discharge processes, interventions, resource allocation, medication, diagnosis and treatment of depression, dementias, legal and ethical issues, and more. Softcover. |
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