Understanding health policy [electronic resource] : a clinical approach / [edited by] Thomas Bodenheimer, Kevin Grumbach.

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Series: McGraw-Hill's AccessMedicine | Lange medical bookPublication details: New York, N.Y. : McGraw-Hill Education LLC., c2012, c2009.Edition: 6th edDescription: vii, 231 p. : ill., figs., tablesISBN:

9780071770521 (print)
0071770526 (print)

ISSN:

1080-9465

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Electronic books.

DDC classification:

362.10973 23

LOC classification:

RA395.A3 U474 2012
RA395.A3 B63 2012

NLM classification:

WA 540 AA1

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Contents:

Chapter 1. Introduction: the paradox of excess and deprivation -- Chapter 2. Paying for health care -- Chapter 3. Access to health care -- Chapter 4. Reimbursing health care providers -- Chapter 5. How health care is organized—i: primary, secondary, and tertiary care -- Chapter 6. How health care is organized—ii: health delivery systems -- Chapter 7. The health care workforce and the education of health professionals -- Chapter 8. Painful versus painless cost control -- Chapter 9. Mechanisms for controlling costs -- Chapter 10. Quality of health care -- Chapter 11. Prevention of illness -- Chapter 12. Long-term care -- Chapter 13. Medical ethics and rationing of health care -- Chapter 14. Health care in four nations -- Chapter 15. Health care reform and national health insurance -- Chapter 16. Conflict and change in america's health care system -- Chapter 17. Conclusion: tensions and challenges -- Chapter 18. Questions and discussion topics.

Abstract: Expert practitioners in both the public and private healthcare sectors, the authors cover the entire scope of our healthcare system. From the concepts behind policy decisions to concrete examples of how they affect patients and professionals alike. Understanding Health Policy, 6e makes otherwise difficult concepts easy to understand.so you can make better decisions, improve outcomes, and enact positive change on a daily basis.

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"A Lange medical book."

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Expert practitioners in both the public and private healthcare sectors, the authors cover the entire scope of our healthcare system. From the concepts behind policy decisions to concrete examples of how they affect patients and professionals alike. Understanding Health Policy, 6e makes otherwise difficult concepts easy to understand.so you can make better decisions, improve outcomes, and enact positive change on a daily basis.

Also issued in print and PDF version.

Description based on cover image and table of contents, viewed on May 12, 2014.