Author: Thomas Butler Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers ISBN: 0763793396 Category : Health & Fitness Languages : en Pages : 269
Book Description
Consumer Health: Making Informed Decisions is a concise, current text with the most up-to-date information about health care reform and insurance. It is devoted to the most important issues relative to consumer health issues, including advertising, dietary supplements, herbal remedies, weight management, and medications. There are in-depth analyses of the American health care system, insurance options, and consumer protection. The text also takes a critical look at complementary and alternative therapies. Throughout the text, there are guidelines for making decisions that can benefit the individual. A comprehensive list of learning objectives precede each chapter and a list of study questions conclude each chapter. The questions are designed to help the student summarize the major points of the chapter, prepare for exams, and critically analyze the material contained in the chapters. Instructor Resources: PowerPoint Presentations
Author: J. Thomas Butler Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers ISBN: 9781449646455 Category : Health & Fitness Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
Consumer Health offers up-to-date information about health care reforms and insurance in the United States. Rather than devoting entire chapters to consumer issues related to specific diseases or conditions, this practical guide weaves diseases and health conditions into discussions about fraud, alternative and complementary treatments, advertising, and the economics of health care. It also provides in-depth analyses of the American health care system, insurance options, consumer protection, and complementary and alternative therapies.--From publisher description.
Author: J. Thomas Butler Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers ISBN: 1449675433 Category : Health & Fitness Languages : en Pages : 268
Book Description
Consumer Health: Making Informed Decisions is a concise, current text with the most up-to-date information about health care reform and insurance. It is devoted to the most important issues relative to consumer health issues, including advertising, dietary supplements, herbal remedies, weight management, and medications. There are in-depth analyses of the American health care system, insurance options, and consumer protection. The text also takes a critical look at complementary and alternative therapies. Throughout the text, there are guidelines for making decisions that can benefit the individual. A comprehensive list of learning objectives precede each chapter and a list of study questions conclude each chapter. The questions are designed to help the student summarize the major points of the chapter, prepare for exams, and critically analyze the material contained in the chapters. Instructor Resources: PowerPoint Presentations
Author: Michael Sullivan Publisher: Pearson Education ISBN: 9780321757272 Category : Statistics Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
This is the eBook of the printed book and may not include any media, website access codes, or print supplements that may come packaged with the bound book. Michael Sullivan's Statistics: Informed Decisions Using Data, Fourth Edition, connects statistical concepts to students' lives, helping them to think critically, become informed consumers, and make better decisions. Throughout the book, "Putting It Together" features help students visualize the relationships among various statistical concepts. This feature extends to the exercises, providing a consistent vision of the bigger picture of statistics. This book follows the Guidelines for Assessment and Instruction in Statistics Education (GAISE), as recommended by the American Statistical Association, and emphasizes statistical literacy, use of real data and technology, conceptual understanding, and active learning.
Author: Archelle Georgiou Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 1442260343 Category : Health & Fitness Languages : en Pages : 209
Book Description
Making healthcare decisions is hard, but making the right choices has never mattered more. Healthcare Choices: 5 Steps to Getting the Care You Want and Needgives you the tools you need to choose the best medical care—for you. Archelle Georgiou, MD, explainsher CARES model, the formula she developed to help family, friends, and thousands of television viewers make smart healthcare decisions that balance the best medical options with individual preferences. Using more than 30 real-life stories and insider tips, she demonstrates how to use this step-by-step guide to access the medical information you need to evaluate your options and make well-informed choices. Whether you are addressing a life-threatening illness, self-managing a minor ailment, selecting a doctor, or buying insurance, Georgiou’s roadmap shows you how to be an active participant in your care. Her “go to” approach describes how to: Identify all treatment options for an illness, including those not mentioned by your doctor. Make treatment decisions that reflect your priorities and preferences. Find the best doctor to treat your condition. Communicate with your doctor and make shared treatment decisions. Choose the health insurance plan that’s right for you. Maintain a voice in your lifestyle as you age. Healthcare Choiceswill give you the confidence to advocate for the healthcare you want, need, and deserve.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Libraries Languages : en Pages : 950
Book Description
Includes, beginning Sept. 15, 1954 (and on the 15th of each month, Sept.-May) a special section: School library journal, ISSN 0000-0035, (called Junior libraries, 1954-May 1961). Also issued separately.
Author: Gordon Moore Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0190886137 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 265
Book Description
"Choice Matters is the healthcare sector's guide to understanding and delivering the brand of consumer-centered care that is an imperative for the Zocdoc age. Drawing on the authors' diverse backgrounds in medicine, business, and public policy, this practically-oriented resource offers an on-the-ground introduction for clinicians and managers to better understand the differences between healthcare and other consumer-driven markets, what factors are most important for consumers in seeking care providers, how consumers make decisions about healthcare, the system-wide effects of increased consumer choice in healthcare, [and] the important distinction between patients and consumers"--
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