Subjects:  1. Health & Fitness    2. Health Care Delivery    3. Health Care Issues    4. Health/Fitness    5. Medical / Nursing    6. Medical care    7. Nursing - Management & Leadership    8. Project management    9. Public Health    10. Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare    11. Social Work    12. Social service    13. Health & Fitness / Health Care Issues    14. Hospital administration & management    15. Social welfare & social services   

Subjects:  1. Evaluation    2. Health promotion    3. Medical    4. Medical / Nursing    5. Preventive Medicine    6. Public Health    7. Medical / Public Health    8. Personal & public health   

Subjects:  1. Allied Health Services - Emergency Medical Services    2. Emergencies    3. Emergency Medicine    4. Emergency medical technicians    5. Examination Questions    6. Examinations, questions, etc    7. Medical    8. Medical / Nursing    9. Study Guides    10. Test Preparation & Review    11. Tests    12. Emergency services    13. First aid & paramedical services    14. Health systems & services    15. Medical / Allied Health Services / Emergency Medical Services   

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Awesome Biostats Primer!
I'm currently an undergraduate student at Univ. South Florida majoring in social work (BSW). I am also doing a math minor because I plan on going on to graduate school in a dual program, social work (MSW) and public health-biostatistics (MSPH).
Fundamentals of Biostatistics by Rosner
This is an easy-to-read volume on the implementation of statistics for medicinal applications. The author describes the following:
For a textbook, it is darn good!
People usually dislike textbooks. Textbooks tend to be voluminous and expansive on the simplest of topics.
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Subjects:  1. Biometry    2. Biostatistics    3. Life Sciences - Biology - General    4. Medical / Nursing    5. Medical statistics    6. Public Health    7. Research    8. Science    9. Science/Mathematics    10. Biology, Life Sciences    11. Mathematics / Statistics    12. Mathematics for scientists & engineers    13. Probability & statistics   

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An excellent overview
A solid general survey of the US health care system.Provides demographic and comparative perspectives, discusses political and economic policy in a clear and balanced way, plus gives insight into the institutional settings and professional environments where health care carried out.
Not Worth It!
I am a public administration student in a top ranked gradute program. This book was one course's required textbook and only because the editior, Anthony Kovner, was the instructor. While few students enjoyed the course, no one felt that this book is worth purchase. The only people that I would recommend this book to are foreign graduate students who have no working knowledge whatsoever about the US healthcare system. Otherwise, there are numerous books on the market that are cheaper and much more informative and intellectual. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Administration    2. Health & Fitness    3. Health Care    4. Health Care Delivery    5. Health Care Issues    6. Health/Fitness    7. Medical / Nursing    8. Medical care    9. Public Health    10. United States    11. Industrial or vocational training    12. Medicine: General Issues   

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OSCAR Rated Book
O: Objective
Most realistic view of the future of the practice
This book covers the history, evolution, and definition of the future practice of pharmacy. It describes a rational, realistic, and exceptionally well defined view of the future practice of community pharmacy. The definition is backed up by a large scale analysis of data collected using the model demonstrating its effectivness and positive effects on patient clinical outcomes. Topics include reimbusement, documentation and data models associated with the practice. This is an exceptional and cutting edge landmark text that if adopted will change the level of care provided by medicine whereever it is used. HMO's and managed care and pharmacy benefit organizations supporting this model would actually be involved in managing care rather than managing contracts. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Drug Therapy    2. Medical    3. Medical / Nursing    4. Pharmacology    5. Pharmacy    6. Practice    7. Professional Practice    8. Health systems & services    9. Medical / Pharmacy   

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Remarkable, inspiring, and wonderful but occassionally painful to read.
A wonderful book told with humility, intelligence, warmth, anger and knowledge.
Outstanding
Escape Fire is collection of compelling speeches by one of America's leading crusaders for health care quality and patient safety - Don Berwick, MD, founder and president of the Boston-based Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI.org).
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Subjects:  1. Health Care    2. Health Care Delivery    3. Health Policy    4. Health care reform    5. Health services administration    6. Medical    7. Medical / Nursing    8. Medical care    9. Public Health    10. Quality control    11. United States    12. Health systems & services    13. Medical / Public Health   

Subjects:  1. Classification    2. Disability evaluation    3. Health/Fitness    4. Human anatomy    5. Human physiology    6. Medical / Nursing    7. Physiology    8. Public Health    9. Diseases & disorders    10. Illness & addiction: social aspects    11. Medicine: General Issues    12. Reference works   

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An eloquent speaker as well as health disparities researcher
Dr. LaVeist is such an eloquent speaker.I had the pleasure of hearing him speak today at the University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill's School of Public Health.He captivated all of us with his topic of "Problems and Prospects for Health Disparities Research".
A Much Needed Corrective to the Turnock position
There are many public health "experts," most notably Barney Turnock of UIC, who spend entire careers re-writing the same vapid books about public health. These authors have a tendency to blithely summarize highly abstract and idealized models of how public health systems should work, rather than analyzing and questioning the ways in which public health systems DO work. And it goes without saying that people like Turnock never examine the ways in which race and economic class determine the availability and quality of health care available - they prefer to believe that these issues have nothing to do with the American health care system. Used it in class
We used this book in my class at this past semester. It was a good overview of the key studies in health disparities. I learned alot about health disparities. Overall I found this book to be a good resource for my class. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Discrimination in medical care    2. Ethnic Studies - General    3. Health Care Delivery    4. Health and hygiene    5. Health services accessibility    6. Medical    7. Medical / Nursing    8. Minorities    9. Public Health    10. United States    11. Ethnic studies    12. Health systems & services    13. Medical / Public Health    14. Public health & preventive medicine    15. USA   

Subjects:  1. Allied Health Personnel    2. Allied Health Services - General    3. Allied health personnel and pa    4. Allied health personnel and patient    5. Examinations, questions, etc    6. Interpersonal communication    7. Medical    8. Medical / Nursing    9. Physician & Patient    10. Health & Fitness / General    11. Health systems & services    12. Nursing & Ancillary Services   

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Dr. JS STEELE -- JUST AN ENGLISH PROFESSOR at A SMALL UNIVERSITY
I recently finished Patient from Hell -- I have mixed feelings about it; I am a non-Hodgkin's lymphoma patient just finishing my second course of chemo and Rituxan; I relapsed after three years. I experienced small-city medical limitations, to say the least, although everyone involved tried to help. I eventually found my way to UAB in Birmingham, AL, where I found help of the highest quality.
Raises more questions than answers
I have no first-hand experience with the issues discussed here, but I want to be prepared for the day when I will face the Medical Establishment.
Interesting, but not at all essential
I ended up with a copy of this book just after I was diagnosed with Hodgkin's, because the reviews and recommendations here suggested that this was an essential text for cancer patients. So I worked it into my all-cancer, all-the-time reading schedule, but I found it only very mildly helpful. Schneider has an interesting perspective on the health care system, and his suggestions about how it might be improved are thought-provoking, so it's not a bad read (although his personal story is not as riveting as it might be, and after a handful of "it's a good thing I asked!" anecdotes, I started finding him a bit whiny). But if you're planning your own treatment for cancer or another condition, don't waste too much time with this book. Read the cover copy and you'll have learned what Schneider has to teach you; now spend your time with something more informative and specific to your situation. (I recommend Adler's "Living with Lymphoma" for anybody dealing with a lymphoma diagnosis.) ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Cancer (Psychosocial Aspects)    2. Consumer Health    3. Diet / Health / Fitness    4. General    5. Healing    6. Health & Fitness    7. Health/Fitness    8. Physician-Patient Interaction    9. Chemotherapy    10. Health systems & services    11. Oncology    12. Radiotherapy   

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I found this book to be extremely informative.
I found this book to be extremely informative. It was well outlined and easy to follow. I would highly recommend it to the health care professional.

Outstanding...
This book is the only one of its kind, it informs health professional on topics of exercise and disease management.The workbooks that can be purchased separately are a key component for the management of patients. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Diseases    2. Exercise    3. Exercise Therapy    4. Health aspects    5. Human Exercise Physiology    6. Internal Medicine    7. Internal Medicine (Specific Aspects)    8. Medical    9. Medical / Nursing    10. Medicine, Preventive    11. Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation    12. Medical / Sports Medicine    13. Public health & preventive medicine    14. Specific disorders & therapies   

Subjects:  1. Clinical Chemistry    2. Health facilities    3. Health/Fitness    4. Infection Control    5. Infectious Diseases    6. Medical    7. Medical / Nursing    8. Nosocomial infections    9. Nursing - General    10. Prevention    11. Preventive Medicine    12. Sanitation    13. handbooks    14. organization & administration    15. Medical / Nursing / General    16. Public health & preventive medicine   

Editorial Review

What do Russia, Zaire, Los Angeles, and--most likely--your community have in common? Each is woefully unprepared to deal with a major epidemic, whether it's caused by bioterrorism or by new or reemerging diseases resistant to antibiotics. After the publication of her critically acclaimed Read more

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Betrayal of Trust
I received what looked like a nicely preserved used copy.
promising start but poor finish
If horror writer Stephen King ever suffers from writer's block, he should read this book's opening chapter, where Pulitzer Prize winner Laurie Garrett describes traveling into the plague ravished Indian city of Surat. The description, which belongs more in the Book of Revelations than in a chronicle of modern day health care, is stomach churning. Irula tribesmen are paid to catch the plague carrying rats - and are encouraged to eat their prey. The rats, being the breeding grounds for all conceivable types of plagues and pestilences that they are, quickly turn the Irula predators into their prey. Even as the yesinia pestis bacterium and its bubonic plague cousin were devastating the city, Surat's Aids-racked prostitutes continued to ply their trade. Life goes on, even in the midst of death.
Betrayal of Trust
I really enjoyed reading this book, so much so that I assigned it as a text for a course in Issues in International Health. The writing is clear, and the topics addressed are timely and detailed. As a text, it would be better to have more and shorter chapters.As a source of information, it is excellent. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Current Affairs    2. Epidemiology    3. Health Policy    4. Medical / Nursing    5. Medical policy    6. Political    7. Politics/International Relations    8. Popular works    9. Public Health    10. Public Policy - General    11. World health    12. Current Events / Political   

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GREAT book!
This book is really useful and handy. It is very well written and easy to read. As the name stated, it provides very practical guides for those who don't have strong background in Statistics but are dealing with longitudinal data. It is written in an example guided format. The outputs from the analysis and guidelines on how to interpret them step by step are included. There is no heavy Statistical notation and you don't need to translate Statistics into English. At the end of the book, there are chapters of how to handle missing data and softwares used in longitudinal data analysis. This book is probably too boring if you are a hardcore Statistician. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Epidemiology    2. Life Sciences - Biology - General    3. Longitudinal studies    4. Medical    5. Medical / Nursing    6. Public Health    7. Research    8. Statistical methods    9. Epidemiology & medical statistics    10. Medical / Dentistry / General   

Subjects:  1. Administration    2. Allied Health Services - General    3. Health Care    4. Health Care Delivery    5. Management - General    6. Medical    7. Medical / Nursing    8. Medical care    9. United States    10. Health systems & services    11. USA   

Subjects:  1. Essays    2. Ethics    3. General    4. Medical / Nursing    5. Medical ethics    6. Political Science    7. Politics/International Relations    8. Public Health    9. Public Policy - General    10. Bio-ethics    11. Medical / Ethics    12. Science / General   

Subjects:  1. Allied Health Services - General    2. Case studies    3. Citizen participation    4. Community Health    5. Community health services    6. Health Care Delivery    7. Medical    8. Medical / Nursing    9. Medical Research    10. Methodology    11. Public Health    12. Research    13. Medical / Public Health    14. Public health & preventive medicine   

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It is always good to read the text before...
The book is based on some solid quantitative studies and it is important that we read the text first before inclining to accept any particular views invoked by reviews. I suggest that you read the text first and then make your mind based on your reading.

Not a good resource for this important area of inquiry
This review updated by author on March 21, 2006:
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Subjects:  1. Allied Health Services - General    2. General    3. Health Services For Special Classes    4. Health attitudes    5. Health/Fitness    6. Medical    7. Medical / Nursing    8. Nursing - Issues    9. Nursing - Nurse & Patient    10. Sociology Of Medicine    11. Transcultural medical care    12. Transcultural nursing    13. United States    14. Health systems & services    15. Medical / Nursing / General    16. Public health & preventive medicine    17. Social theory   

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good guided tour of cost-effectiveness analyses
This book was really well-written in that everything was laid out clearly and consistently. I could basically choose my level of involvement, since the author explicitly delineates what each chapter and each exercise is for. The book was especially helpful in helping me choose which statistical methods of analysis would best fit the data set and research question I was working on; no other books I looked up did this in a readable way. Also, what really impressed me is the fact that the book made all the exercises not only seem, but actually feel, easy (or at least logical), and it wasn't until the end that I realized that I had built a decent foundation in cost-effectiveness analysis. The lessons were cumulative, so that the process of doing the problem sets actually felt fulfilling. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Cost effectiveness    2. Medical    3. Medical / Nursing    4. Medical care    5. Medical care, Cost of    6. Preventive Medicine    7. Public Health    8. Research    9. United States    10. Health systems & services    11. Medical / Public Health    12. Public health & preventive medicine    13. Research methods: general