Understanding health policy a clinical approach /

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1. Verfasser: Bodenheimer, Thomas
Weitere Verfasser: Grumbach, Kevin
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York : McGraw-Hill Medical, c2012.
Ausgabe:6th ed.
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • Introduction: the paradox of excess and deprivation
  • Paying for health care
  • Access to health care
  • Reimbursing health care providers
  • How health care is organised--I: primary, secondary, and tertiary care
  • How health care is organised--II: health delivery systems
  • Health care workforce and the education of health professionals
  • Painful versus painless cost control
  • Mechanisms for controlling costs
  • Quality of health care
  • Prevention of illness
  • Long-term care
  • Medical ethics and rationing of health care
  • Health care in four nations
  • Health care reform and national health insurance
  • Conflict and change in America's health care system
  • Conclusion: tensions and challenges
  • Questions and discussion topics.