دانلود کتاب Excessive Medical Spending: Facing the Challenge

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Content: Front Cover
Contents
Foreword
Author addresses
Introduction
1. The cost of medical care: how much is too much?
2. The nuts and bolts of medical research
3. Conflict of interest: a major problem in medical research
4. Drug regulation: two paradigms in conflict
5. The marketing of drugs: how drug companies manipulate the prescribing habits of doctors
6. Pricing pharmaceutical drugs in the USA
7. Potential savings from therapeutic substitution of 10 of Canada's most dispensed prescription drugs
8. Statins: is the net being thrown too wide? 9. Modern Western medicine: lots of bucks --
where's the bang?10. Genetics, genomic medicine, and achieving better population health: a flawed strategy?
11. Issues in screening for cancer
12. The Canadian National Breast Screening Study: science meets controversy
13. Screening for breast cancer: benefits versus costs
14. Screening for cervical cancer by Pap tests
15. Paying for what works: the Reference Drug Program as a model for rational policy-making
16. Disease prevention: the neglected alternative. 17. Promoting the health of the medical profession: environmentalism and commercialism in medical education18. A proposed new grand strategy: an integrated health system for the 21st century
Back Cover.