FREE Health Care Books

America’s Uninsured Crisis: Consequences for Health and Health Care (prepublication version, 2009), by Institute of Medicine (U.S.) Board on Health Care Services (page images at NAP)
Benefit Design in Health Care Reform: Clinical Preventive Services (1993), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
Benefit Design in Health Care Reform: Patient Cost-Sharing (1993), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
Bringing Health Care Online: The Role of Information Technologies (1995), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
Changing Health Care Systems and Rheumatic Disease, ed. by Frederick J. Manning and Jeremiah A. Barondess (page images at NAP)
The Computer-Based Patient Record: An Essential Technology for Health Care (1991 edition), by Institute of Medicine (U.S.) (page images at NAP)
The Computer-Based Patient Record: An Essential Technology for Health Care (revised edition, 1997), by Institute of Medicine (U.S.) (page images and partial HTML at NAP)
Confronting AIDS: Directions for Public Health, Health Care, and Research (1986), by Institute of Medicine (U.S.) and National Academy of Sciences (page images at NAP)
Coverage of Preventive Services: Provisions of Selected Current Health Care Reform Proposals (1993), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
Defining “Rural” Areas: Impact on Health Care Policy and Research (1989), by Maria Elizabeth Hewitt (PDF files at Princeton)
Do Options Exist? The Reform of Pension and Health Care Systems in Latin America (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1998), ed. by María Amparo Cruz Saco and Carmelo Mesa-Lago (searchable page images at Pitt)
Effective Communications for Nutrition in Primary Health Care, ed. by Jean E. Andersen and Aree Valyasevi (HTML at UNU Press)
Effectiveness and Outcomes in Health Care: Proceedings of an Invitational Conference, ed. by Kim A. Heithoff and Kathleen N. Lohr (page images at NAP)
Ensuring Value for Money in Health Care: The Role of Health Technology Assessment in the European Union (c2008), by Corinna Sorenson, Michael Drummond, and Panos Kanavos (PDF at who.int)
Ethical Considerations in the Business Aspects of Health Care, by Woodstock Theological Center Seminar in Business Ethics (HTML at Georgetown)
The Female Client and the Health-Care Provider, ed. by Janet Hatcher Roberts and Carol Vlassoff (HTML at idrc.ca)
Health Care in France and Germany: Lessons for the UK (c2001), by David G. Green and Benedict Irvine (PDF at Civitas)
Managing Managed Care: Quality Improvement in Behavioral Health, by Institute of Medicine (U.S.) (page images and partial HTML at NAP)
The New Health Care for Profit: Doctors and Hospitals in a Competitive Environment, ed. by Bradford H. Gray (page images with commentary at NAP)
Occupational Health and Safety in the Care and Use of Research Animals, by National Research Council Commission on Life Sciences (page images at NAP)
Paying Attention to Children in a Changing Health Care System: Summaries of Workshops, by National Research Council Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education and Institute of Medicine (U.S.) (page images at NAP)
Primary Care: America’s Health in a New Era, ed. by Molla S. Donaldson, Karl D. Yordy, Kathleen N. Lohr, and Neal A. Vanselow (page images and partial HTML at NAP)
Reshaping Health Care in Latin America: A Comparative Analysis of Health Care Reform in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico, ed. by Sonia Fleury, Susana Belmartino, and Enis Baris (HTML with commentary at idrc.ca)
Summary: Managing Managed Care: Quality Improvement in Behavioral Health, by Institute of Medicine (U.S.) (page images at NAP)
Taking a Stand on Health Care, by Helen P. Rogers (HTML at Wellington Publications)
Technology and Health Care in an Era of Limits, ed. by Annetine C. Gelijns (page images at NAP)
Teeth and Health: How to Lengthen Life and Increase Happiness by Proper Care (1921), by Thomas J. Ryan and Edwin F. Bowers (multiple formats at archive.org)
Telemedicine: A Guide to Assessing Telecommunications for Health Care, ed. by Marilyn J. Field (page images and partial HTML at NAP)
Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care, ed. by Brian D. Smedley, Adrienne Y. Stith, and Alan R. Nelson (page images at NAP)
What, If Any, Should Government’s Role Be Regarding Health Care in the United States? Excerpts from the 1992 Harry Singer Foundation Essay Contest, ed. by Margaret Bohannon-Kaplan (HTML at Wellington Publications)
Where There Is No Doctor: A Village Health Care Handbook (revised edition, 1992), by David Werner, Carol Thuman, and Jane Maxwell (PDF files at hesperian.org)