Understanding health policy : a clinical approach / Thomas S. Bodenheimer, Kevin Grumbach.
Material type: TextSeries: A Lange medical bookPublication details: New York : Lange Medical Books/McGraw-Hill, Medical Pub. Division, ©2002.Edition: 3rd edDescription: vii, 222 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780071378154
- 0071378154
- 9780071124706
- 0071124705
- 362.10973 21
- RA395.A3 B63 2002
- 2002 B-772
- WA 540 AA1
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: the changing U.S. health care system -- Paying for health care -- Access to health care -- Reimbursing health care providers -- Capitation payment in managed care -- How health care is organized: I -- How health care is organized: II -- Painful versus painless cost control -- Mechanisms for controlling costs -- Long-term care -- The prevention of illness -- The quality of health care -- medical ethics and the rationing of health care -- Health care in four nations -- National health insurance -- Conflict and change in U.S. health care -- The health care workforce -- Conclusion: tensions and challenges.
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