Understanding health policy : a clinical approach /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Lange Medical Books/McGraw-Hill,
[2005]
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| Edition: | Fourth edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : the paradox of excess and deprivation
- 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 & the rationing of health care
- Health care in four nations
- National health insurance
- Conflict & change in America's health care system
- The health care workforce
- Conclusion : tensions and challenges
- Questions and discussion topics