Vulnerable Populations in the United States
Vulnerable Populations in the United States

Author: Leiyu Shi

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2021-02-17

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 1119627648

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An in-depth look at disparities in health and health care, fully updated for 2021 Vulnerable Populations in the United States, 3rd Edition provides a general framework for studying vulnerable populations and summarizes major health and health care disparities by race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and health insurance coverage. This updated contains the latest statistics and figures, incorporates new information related to Healthy People 2020, analyzes the latest data and trends in health and health care disparities, and provides a detailed synthesis of recent and increasingly expansive programs and initiatives to remedy these disparities. In addition, the Third Edition offers new coverage of health care reform, the "deaths of despair" (suicide, opioids, etc.), and the global primary care initiative. Based on the authors' teaching and research at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, this landmark text is an important resource for students, researchers, practitioners, and policymakers for learning about vulnerable populations. The book's Web site includes instructor's materials that may be downloaded. Gain a general understanding of health and health care disparities related to race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and health insurance coverage Access online resources including editable PowerPoint slides, video, and more Delve into the programs and initiatives designed to remedy inequalities in health and health care, including Healthy People 2020 updates Enjoy new coverage of health care reform, the "deaths of despair" (suicide, opioids, etc.), and the global primary care initiative End of chapter revision questions and other pedagogical features make this book a valuable learning tool for anyone studying at the advanced undergraduate or graduate levels. Additionally, it will prove useful in the field for medical professionals, social and community workers, and health educators in the public sphere.

America the Vulnerable
America the Vulnerable

Author: Joel Brenner

Publisher: Penguin Press HC

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9781594203138

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A former top-level National Security Agency insider evaluates pressing threats in digital security, revealing how operatives from hostile nations have infiltrated power, banking and military systems to steal information and sabotage defense mechanisms. 40,000 first printing.

America’S Endless Loop Crisis
America’S Endless Loop Crisis

Author: Jayson Reeves

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2016-05-06

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 1491794534

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AMERICAS ENDLESS LOOP CRISIS Anger and Technology in America JAYSON REEVES the author has witten this book about todays anger, violence, cyber crimes, and technology in America. These Non-Domestic Tranquility issues apart from him working professionally throughout computer programming issues, design, engineering, and business ownership has observed critical details of Loss of Life. His writing targets the recent years of 1990 to 2016 with violence, anger, mass-murders, and domestic-murder with occasional suicide. Also the good, bad, and complexity of satellite technology in the American society. This issue of interest includes the work, and observation of individuals, corporations, and government outlined with international & American advancements of technology with so many people asking WHY so much violent devastation? Then various people, technology, and government disciplines have become a foundation of his writing to enlighten the American general public about (Anger & Technology) conditionally Americas Endless Loop Crisis.

Challenges for America in the Middle East
Challenges for America in the Middle East

Author: Richard W. Mansbach

Publisher: CQ Press

Published: 2016-03-31

Total Pages: 430

ISBN-13: 1506308236

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Challenges for America in the Middle East offers a comprehensive and contemporary analysis of the foreign policy challenges the United States faces in the Middle East. It takes a close look at the critical policy dilemmas posed by radical Islam, the Arab Spring, the Shia Crescent, and Israel–Palestine relations. Authors Richard W. Mansbach and Kirsten L. Taylor examine the issues from a historical perspective and in the context of the current state of affairs, and analyze options for future action. Throughout the text, they emphasize the interplay of foreign and domestic issues in the United States and overseas, and show how that interplay shapes American policy towards the region.

After America
After America

Author: Paul Starobin

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 9780670020942

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A veteran international correspondent uses rigorous historical analysis and current events to predict and describe a world in which the United States is no longer the dominant superpower, and explores five different possible scenarios of the future.

Contemporary American Foreign Policy
Contemporary American Foreign Policy

Author: Richard Mansbach

Publisher: CQ Press

Published: 2015-12-16

Total Pages: 569

ISBN-13: 1483313220

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Contemporary American Foreign Policy: Influences, Challenges, and Opportunities looks at today’s most pressing foreign-policy challenges from a U.S. perspective, as well as from the vantage point of other states and peoples. It explores global issues such as human rights, climate change, poverty, nuclear arms proliferation, and economic collapse from multiple angles, not just through a so-called national interest lens. Authors Richard Mansbach and Kirsten L. Taylor shed new light on the competing forces that influence foreign-policy decision making, outline the various policy options available to decision makers, and explore the potential consequences of those policies, all to fully grasp and work to meet contemporary foreign-policy challenges.

Sustaining America's Strategic Advantage
Sustaining America's Strategic Advantage

Author: Joel R. Hillison

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2023-02-14

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13:

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Written for foreign policy practitioners, scholars, and students, this book offers critical insights into the modern landscape of international politics and warfare and explains how the United States can sustain its strategic advantages in the 21st century and beyond. From the level of grand strategy to more intricate security issues, this book explores how the United States can sustain its strategic military and political advantages around the world. Developing and implementing effective national policies; fostering strong diplomatic and geopolitical ties with allies in Europe, the Indo-Pacific, and the Middle East; and managing an effective defense enterprise are key, according to the authors, to competing on a shifting international security landscape. Advancing the literature on grand strategy and outlining emerging critical issues in security, this book offers an overarching framework for strategy; an analysis of crucial security-related topics, such as cyber warfare; and informed opinions on components of competitive success, such as irregular warfare and partner building. Written by well-respected scholars, security professionals, and foreign policy practitioners, this book goes beyond focusing on hard power to consider how the U.S. can leverage its education institutions and a worldwide network of allies and partners to sustain its strategic advantage now and in the future.