Understanding health policy : a clinical approach /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bodenheimer, Thomas S.
Other Authors: Grumbach, Kevin
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Lange Medical Books/McGraw-Hill, [2005]
Edition:Fourth edition.
Subjects:
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