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More Health Less Care
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Author : Peter J. Weiss
language : en
Publisher: LaChance Publishing LLC
Release Date : 2010-04-14
More Health Less Care written by Peter J. Weiss and has been published by LaChance Publishing LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-14 with Lifestyles categories.
Tackling the problems plaguing the U.S. health-care system, this accessible guide explores the pitfalls of contemporary medicine and medical treatments, concentrating on diseases linked to poor lifestyle choices, such as obesity and diabetes. While much of the health-care industry is centered on a blanket approach that addresses a general disease instead of the person affected by it, this guide suggests that personalization is the key to good health. It asserts that patients who make physical, emotional, and spiritual lifestyle changes to improve their diets, exercise regimens, and stress levels can help alleviate problems caused by lifestyle illnesses.
Less Medicine More Health
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Author : Dr. H. Gilbert Welch
language : en
Publisher: Beacon Press
Release Date : 2016-03-01
Less Medicine More Health written by Dr. H. Gilbert Welch and has been published by Beacon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-01 with Medical categories.
A nationally recognized expert describes seven widespread assumptions that encourage excessive, ineffective, and sometimes harmful medical care—for readers of Overdiagnosed and Malcolm Gladwell You might think the biggest problem in medical care is that it costs too much. Or that health insurance is too expensive, too uneven, too complicated—and gives you too many forms to fill out. But the central problem is that too much medical care has too little value. Dr. H. Gilbert Welch is worried about too much medical care. He doesn’t deny that some people get too little medical care—rather that the conventional concern about “too little” needs to be balanced with a concern about “too much”: too many people being made to worry about diseases they don’t have and are at only average risk to get; too many people being tested and exposed to the harmful effects of the testing process; too many people being subjected to treatments they don’t need or can’t benefit from. The American public has been sold the idea that seeking medical care is one of the most important steps to maintain wellness. Surprisingly, medical care is not, in fact, well correlated with good health. More medicine does not equal more health; in reality the opposite may be true. In Less Medicine, More Health, Dr. Welch pushes against established wisdom and suggests that medical care can be too aggressive. Drawing on his twenty-five years of medical practice and research, he notes that while economics and lawyers contribute to the excesses of American medicine, the problem is essentially created when the general public clings to these powerful assumptions about the value of tests and treatments—a number of which are just plain wrong. By telling fascinating (and occasionally amusing) stories backed by reliable data, Dr. Welch challenges patients and the health-care establishment to rethink some very fundamental practices. His provocative prescriptions hold the potential to save money and, more important, improve health outcomes for us all.
More Health Less Care
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Author : Peter J. Weiss
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2010-04-14
More Health Less Care written by Peter J. Weiss and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-14 with categories.
More Health, Less Care outlines a practical philosophy of personal health and enables readers to develop and act on an individual plan for healthy living. Through the metaphor of "being your own doctor," it explains fundamental principles of change that can be applied for a lifetime instead of the latest fad diet or exercise program. The easily understood stories and disarming, open style invite readers to accept the message and inspire them to make meaningful changes. Other health books typically provide formulas for healthy living in a "one size fits all" approach, ignoring individual variation and the great difficulty of actually implementing major lifestyle changes. By engaging the reader farther upstream in the change process, More Health, Less Care complements other health and wellness works. This book is the same as the identically titled, authored, and dated book previously available from LaChance Publishing LLC (April 14, 2010).
The American Health Care Paradox
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Author : Elizabeth H. Bradley
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2013-11-05
The American Health Care Paradox written by Elizabeth H. Bradley and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-05 with Political Science categories.
Foreword by Harvey V. Fineberg, President of the Institute of Medicine For decades, experts have puzzled over why the US spends more on health care but suffers poorer outcomes than other industrialized nations. Now Elizabeth H. Bradley and Lauren A. Taylor marshal extensive research, including a comparative study of health care data from thirty countries, and get to the root of this paradox: We've left out of our tally the most impactful expenditures countries make to improve the health of their populations-investments in social services. In The American Health Care Paradox, Bradley and Taylor illuminate how narrow definitions of "health care," archaic divisions in the distribution of health and social services, and our allergy to government programs combine to create needless suffering in individual lives, even as health care spending continues to soar. They show us how and why the US health care "system" developed as it did; examine the constraints on, and possibilities for, reform; and profile inspiring new initiatives from around the world. Offering a unique and clarifying perspective on the problems the Affordable Care Act won't solve, this book also points a new way forward.
Self Care Health Care Guide Book Of Cures
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Author : Terry Cooksey
language : en
Publisher: Terry Cooksey
Release Date : 2011-05-29
Self Care Health Care Guide Book Of Cures written by Terry Cooksey and has been published by Terry Cooksey this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-29 with categories.
Self-Care Health Care Guide - BOOK of CURESA Revolutionary book for improving your health and curing and preventing many chronic diseases and conditions that doctors have no cures for. Doing what this book says will cure and prevent at least 80% of all disease.Are these miracle cures ? They only seem like miracle cures because of your unhealthy diet & the saturation of poisons in your food, drinks and water supplies and your personal hygiene items !The Self-Care Health Care Guide is A Health and Food Guide to Cure and Prevent Most Diseases and Medical Conditions. The Self -Care Health Care Guide includes cures for arthritis, bleeding gums, gout, dandruff, headaches and even diseases like breast cancer.This book empowers you with the knowledge to save your own life and cure yourself of any and all disease.This book is not from some author who picked this book to be his next subject to write a book about ! No, this book was written by a man who had to learn these things he shares in this book just to save his own life ! After doctors diagnosed him with chronic kidney disease, he was told he would be on dialysis or dead by 2008 or 2009. And without any help for his kidneys from the medical profession, he used himself as the guinea pig to see if he could make his kidneys better and thus, save his own life.Doctors have no cures. Doctors only prolong your diseases to maximize their income.To back that up, Chapter 12 states - Now, with 133,000,000 Americans who have at least one chronic disease.....is that what you call the result of the best health care system in the world ? Yes you do ! But it's complete nonsense. Each of those 133,000,000 Americans represents a failure of this country's medical profession. Even with 10,000,000 Americans with chronic disease, we should have declared a national emergency. But with 133,000,000 Americans with at least one chronic disease we not only haven't declared a national emergency, we continue to declare that we have the best health care on the planet ! If every single person had at least one chronic disease, they would still tell you that......and you would still believe them ! I don't know of any greater incompetence in any profession or line of work than this country's medical profession and health care system.Chapter 9 says - ........ avoiding poisons is the key to preventing and curing cancer. This is why all cancer patients should get serious about avoiding and eliminating poisons....... (in our food drinks and water supplies)Doing what this book says can cure you of any and all diseases that you have; and do so within a matter of months; with improvement coming within just a few weeks. The more things in this book that you do for yourself, the faster the results.Your doctors only treat your diseases. This book empowers you to cure yourself of all disease. Get started today with Self-Care Health Care Guide - The book that brings you real Health Care reform.....a Revolutionary Health Care Guide to save you from doctors' sick care system.
Singapore S Health Care System What 50 Years Have Achieved
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Author : Kandiah Satkunanantham
language : en
Publisher: World Scientific
Release Date : 2015-11-13
Singapore S Health Care System What 50 Years Have Achieved written by Kandiah Satkunanantham and has been published by World Scientific this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-13 with Medical categories.
How did Singapore's health care system transform itself into one of the best in the world? It not only provides easy access, but its standards of health care, not only in curative medicine but also in prevention, are exemplary. Fifty years ago, the infant mortality rate (IMR) was 26 per thousand live births; today the IMR is 2. Life expectancy was 64 years then; today, it is 83. The Singapore Medicine brand is trusted internationally, and patients are drawn to Singapore from all over the world. And while many countries struggle to finance their health care, Singapore has developed a health care financing framework that makes health care affordable for its people and gives sustainability to the health care system. Reliability is provided by a professional workforce that seeks to continually learn, improve and become ever more proficient with cutting edge technology while emphasizing the relational aspects of health care by nurturing compassion and maintaining high standards of integrity. Convenience and safety are enhanced by a unifying IT system that enables the portability of medical records across health care institutions. All these have been achieved not by chance but by careful planning, strong leadership and dedicated people who are prepared to learn from Singapore's own experience while adapting best practices from around the world. But the system is not without challenges — not least those of an aging population, and an increasing market influence. This book provides a fascinating insight into the development of Singapore's health care system from the early days of fighting infections and providing nutrition supplementation for school children, to today's management of lifestyle diseases and high-end tertiary care. It also discusses how the system must adapt to help Singaporeans continue to 'live well, live long, and with peace of mind.'
Variation In Health Care Spending
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Author : Institute of Medicine
language : en
Publisher: National Academies Press
Release Date : 2013-11-01
Variation In Health Care Spending written by Institute of Medicine and has been published by National Academies Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-01 with Medical categories.
Health care in the United States is more expensive than in other developed countries, costing $2.7 trillion in 2011, or 17.9 percent of the national gross domestic product. Increasing costs strain budgets at all levels of government and threaten the solvency of Medicare, the nation's largest health insurer. At the same time, despite advances in biomedical science, medicine, and public health, health care quality remains inconsistent. In fact, underuse, misuse, and overuse of various services often put patients in danger. Many efforts to improve this situation are focused on Medicare, which mainly pays practitioners on a fee-for-service basis and hospitals on a diagnoses-related group basis, which is a fee for a group of services related to a particular diagnosis. Research has long shown that Medicare spending varies greatly in different regions of the country even when expenditures are adjusted for variation in the costs of doing business, meaning that certain regions have much higher volume and/or intensity of services than others. Further, regions that deliver more services do not appear to achieve better health outcomes than those that deliver less. Variation in Health Care Spending investigates geographic variation in health care spending and quality for Medicare beneficiaries as well as other populations, and analyzes Medicare payment policies that could encourage high-value care. This report concludes that regional differences in Medicare and commercial health care spending and use are real and persist over time. Furthermore, there is much variation within geographic areas, no matter how broadly or narrowly these areas are defined. The report recommends against adoption of a geographically based value index for Medicare payments, because the majority of health care decisions are made at the provider or health care organization level, not by geographic units. Rather, to promote high value services from all providers, Medicare and Medicaid Services should continue to test payment reforms that offer incentives to providers to share clinical data, coordinate patient care, and assume some financial risk for the care of their patients. Medicare covers more than 47 million Americans, including 39 million people age 65 and older and 8 million people with disabilities. Medicare payment reform has the potential to improve health, promote efficiency in the U.S. health care system, and reorient competition in the health care market around the value of services rather than the volume of services provided. The recommendations of Variation in Health Care Spending are designed to help Medicare and Medicaid Services encourage providers to efficiently manage the full range of care for their patients, thereby increasing the value of health care in the United States.
Money Driven Medicine
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Author : Maggie Mahar
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2009-03-17
Money Driven Medicine written by Maggie Mahar and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-03-17 with Business & Economics categories.
Why is medical care in the United States so expensive? For decades, Americans have taken it as a matter of faith that we spend more because we have the best health care system in the world. But as costs levitate, that argument becomes more difficult to make. Today, we spend twice as much as Japan on health care—yet few would argue that our health care system is twice as good. Instead, startling new evidence suggests that one out of every three of our health care dollars is squandered on unnecessary or redundant tests; unproven, sometimes unwanted procedures; and overpriced drugs and devices that, too often, are no better than the less expensive products they have replaced. How did this happen? In Money-Driven Medicine, Maggie Mahar takes the reader behind the scenes of a $2 trillion industry to witness how billions of dollars are wasted in a Hobbesian marketplace that pits the industry's players against each other. In remarkably candid interviews, doctors, hospital administrators, patients, health care economists, corporate executives, and Wall Street analysts describe a war of "all against all" that can turn physicians, hospitals, insurers, drugmakers, and device makers into blood rivals. Rather than collaborating, doctors and hospitals compete. Rather than sharing knowledge, drugmakers and device makers divide value. Rather than thinking about long-term collective goals, the imperatives of an impatient marketplace force health care providers to focus on short-term fiscal imperatives. And so investments in untested bleeding-edge medical technologies crowd out investments in information technology that might, in the long run, not only reduce errors but contain costs. In theory, free market competition should tame health care inflation. In fact, Mahar demonstrates, when it comes to medicine, the traditional laws of supply and demand do not apply. Normally, when supply expands, prices fall. But in the health care industry, as the number and variety of drugs, devices, and treatments multiplies, demand rises to absorb the excess, and prices climb. Meanwhile, the perverse incentives of a fee-for-service system reward health care providers for doing more, not less. In this superbly written book, Mahar shows why doctors must take responsibility for the future of our health care industry. Today, she observes, "physicians have been stripped of their standing as professionals: Insurers address them as vendors ('Dear Health Care Provider'), drugmakers and device makers see them as customers (someone you might take to lunch or a strip club), while . . . consumers (aka patients) are encouraged to see their doctors as overpaid retailers. . . . Before patients can reclaim their rightful place as the center—and indeed as the raison d'être—of our health care system," Mahar suggests, "we must once again empower doctors . . . to practice patient-centered medicine—based not on corporate imperatives, doctors' druthers, or even patients' demands," but on the best scientific research available.
No Doctors Required
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Author : Larry Trivieri Jr
language : en
Publisher: Gatekeeper Press
Release Date : 2021-04-23
No Doctors Required written by Larry Trivieri Jr and has been published by Gatekeeper Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-23 with Health & Fitness categories.
The only book to ever be officially endorsed by the acclaimed Academy of Comprehensive Integrative Medicine, No Doctors Required is a must-have guide for everyone wanting to take control of their health using proven, and in many cases cutting-edge, self-care approaches they can do on their own. Most of these health-boosting methods aren't even known by most doctors. The information in No Doctors Required has never before been compiled in a single volume. Drawing on the author's nearly 30 years of research as a noted lay health expert and the recommendations of 15 of the world's most visionary health experts, including Drs. C. Norman Shealy, Zach Bush, W, Lee Cowden, Stephen Sinatra, and Brad Nelson, No Doctors Required introduces readers to the 10 most essential keys necessary for creating excellent health, and then empowers them with how-to instructions for optimizing each of those keys in their own lives and the lives of their loved ones. Among the many benefits this book provides are: A listing of important medical tests readers can obtain on their own to quickly discover their current health status far more accurately than conventional medical tests are capable of showing. Techniques for discovering the best diet for their unique nutritional needs. A quick and effective self-test for discovering food allergies and sensitivities. A unique discovery that supports the health of the GI tract and provides rapid protection against harmful toxins, including glyphosate. A powerful 4- minute exercise routine that provides significant cardiovascular and strength training benefits without the need for equipment or trips to the gym. A powerful method to quickly and permanently heal unresolved emotions and beliefs and the physical health ailments they can cause. Multiple methods for achieving healthy sleep. Plus much more. Book Review 1: "I highly recommend No Doctors Required as an important resource that teaches readers how to quickly improve their health using the powerful self-care healing methods it shares." -- Dr. Joseph Mercola, Founder of Mercola.com Book Review 2: "No Doctors Required is a book that is very needed at this time when the medical system in the USA is becoming less and less capable of truly helping most patients. The practical knowledge and self-care methods Larry Trivieri Jr and over a dozen other acclaimed health experts share in this book can be easily implemented by readers to take command over their own health and well-being. Everyone who wants to understand, gain, and maintain good health will benefit from reading No Doctors Required and applying its life-enhancing principles to their lives." -- Elle Macpherson Book Review 3: "As a celebrity cancer survivor, health activist, and founder of the Cancer Schmancer Movement, I come in contact with countless authorities in the health space. Few doctors whose paths I’ve crossed are as brilliant at understanding the body as a system and supporting its ability to function at an optimal level than Dr. Lee Cowden. I have written everything down that he has recommended to me like gospel because I know what a medical genius he is! In No Doctors Required, Dr. Cowden and over a dozen other health experts share their expertise with Larry Trivieri Jr to guide you to better health through proven self-care methods most doctors know nothing about. Do yourself a favor and listen to them!" -- Fran Drescher
Poverty And The Myths Of Health Care Reform
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Author : Richard (Buz) Cooper
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2016-08-15
Poverty And The Myths Of Health Care Reform written by Richard (Buz) Cooper and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-15 with Medical categories.
Proof that high health care spending is linked directly to poverty. In Poverty and the Myths of Health Care Reform, Dr. Richard (Buz) Cooper argues that US poverty and high health care spending are inextricably entwined. Our nation's health care system bears a financial burden that is greater than in any other developed country in large part because impoverished patients use more health care, driving up costs across the board. Drawing on decades of research, Dr. Cooper illuminates the geographic patterns of poverty, wealth, and health care utilization that exist across neighborhoods, regions, and states—and among countries. He chronicles the historical threads that have led to such differences, examines the approaches that have been taken to combat poverty throughout US history, and analyzes the impact that structural changes now envisioned for clinical practice are likely to have. His research reveals that ignoring the impact of low income on health care utilization while blaming rising costs on waste, inefficiency, and unnecessary care has led policy makers to reshape clinical practice in ways that impede providers who care for the poor. The first book to address the fundamental nexus that binds poverty and income inequality to soaring health care utilization and spending, Poverty and the Myths of Health Care Reform is a must-read for medical professionals, public health scholars, politicians, and anyone concerned with the heavy burden of inequality on the health of Americans.