This book investigates what international placements of healthcare employees in low resource settings add to the UK workforce and the efficacy of the its national health system. The authors present empirical data collected from a volunteer deployment project in Uganda focused on reducing...

Definitions of health and illness -- Public health : defining determinants of health -- Health status indicators -- Role of culture in the organization of health care systems -- Political and philosophical values that influence the US health care system -- Do we have as system? -- People who...

"Customer-centric, market-driven solutions for fixing America's broken healthcare system from one of the industry's most innovative thought leaders. Healthcare accounts for one-fifth of the U.S. economy. Everyone agrees that our current system is broken and needs repair. It must cost less,...

The high cost of having hypertension while black in America / Leslie R. Hinkson -- "When treating patients like criminals makes sense" : medical hot spotting, race, and debt / Nadine Ehlers and Shiloh Krupar -- Obamacare and sovereign debt : race, reparations, and the haunting of premature death...