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Inescapable decisions : the imperatives of health reform /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mechanic, David, 1936-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, U.S.A. : Transaction Publishers, [1994]
Subjects:
Delivery of Health Care > organization & administration > United States > Collected Works.
Health Care Reform > United States > Collected Works.
Health Services Administration > United States > Collected Works.
Table of Contents:
  • Medical care system in disarray
  • American medical care system
  • Sources of countervailing power in medicine
  • Professional judgment and the rationing of medical care
  • Need for a new paradigm
  • Conceptions of health
  • Promoting health and independence
  • Socioeconomic status and health
  • Special populations
  • Adolescents at risk
  • Deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill: efforts for inclusion
  • Health care for an aging population
  • Conclusion
  • Inescapable decisions
  • Appendixes
  • Medical sociology: some tensions between theory, method and substance
  • Role of sociology in health affairs.