Public Health and related subjects.: Books

This book reviews current health risk communication strategies, and examines and assesses the technical and psycho-sociological tools available to support risk communication plans. It brings together approaches to risk communication from a number of countries and describes the techniques, including drama, storytelling and scenarios that are used to identify and prioritise key communication issues, and to identify policy responses.

This book is for those who want to answer the question 'What is public health?'. Much of modern public health is about tackling strong vested interests head on, empowering people so they can make healthy decisions, and recognising the political nature of the issues. If a society is to achieve these things, it needs public health practitioners with the necessary knowledge, skills and vision.

Describe how insurance markets cope with risk. Analyzes the individual, small-group, and large-group markets and disproves the conventional wisdom that large-group insurance pool risks among the insured, while individual insurance sets premiums proportionately to risk. Shows that the problem of risk segmentation in unregulated individual health insurance markets is less serious than thought: the premiums paid by those with chronic conditions are not consistently greater than those paid by the healthy- Publisher

This important book makes a significant contribution to the emergent body of public health knowledge by examining debates around the social context of health, including key socio-economic, environmental and cultural factors. In doing so, the text locates within a social context the theoretical debates and problems surrounding public health, and analyzes the practical public health strategies and solutions that have been developed to address them.

Explores the political implications and economic consequences of a variety of health care reforms. Among the topics addressed are Medicare reform, managed care, health insurance, and tax policy- Publisher

Explores the dynamics of the right to privacy in the United States, discussing its common law heritage, its expansion in the twentieth century, and trends in privacy jurisprudence-Publisher