Understanding health policy a clinical approach /
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | English |
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New York :
McGraw-Hill Medical,
c2012.
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| Edición: | 6th ed. |
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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
- 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.