Understanding health policy [electronic resource] : a clinical approach / [edited by] Thomas Bodenheimer, Kevin Grumbach.
Material type: TextSeries: McGraw-Hill's AccessPharmacy | A Lange medical bookPublication details: New York, N.Y. : McGraw-Hill Education LLC., c2016.Edition: 7th edDescription: vii, 225p. : ill., figs., tables; 24 cmISBN:- 1259584755 (printISBN)
- 9781259584756 (print-ISBN)
- 9781259251191 (e-ISBN)
- 1259251195 (e-ISBN)
- 1080-9465
- 362.10973 23
- RA395.A3
- WA 540 AA1
- Also issued in online and PDF version.
"A Lange medical book."
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
1: Introduction: The Paradox of Excess and Deprivation --2: Paying for Health Care --3: Access to Health Care --4: Paying Health Care Providers --5: How Health Care Is Organized—I: Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Care --6: How Health Care Is Organized—II: Health Delivery Systems --7: The Health Care Workforce and the Education of Health Professionals --8: Painful Versus Painless Cost Control --9: Mechanisms for Controlling Costs --10: Quality of Health Care --11: Prevention of Illness --12: Long-Term Care --13: Medical Ethics and Rationing of Health Care --14: Health Care in Four Nations --15: Health Care Reform and National Health Insurance --16: Conflict and Change in America’s Health Care System --17: Conclusion: Tensions and Challenges --18: Questions and Discussion Topics.
"Understanding Health Policy: A Clinical Approach is a book about health policy as well as individual patients and caregivers and how they interact with each other and with the overall health system."--Preface.
Also issued in online and PDF version.
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