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Understanding health policy : a clinical approach / Thomas Bodenheimer, Kevin Grumbach.

By: Bodenheimer, Thomas [author.].
Contributor(s): Grumbach, Kevin [author.].
Publisher: New York : McGraw-Hill Education, [2016]Copyright date: �2016Edition: Seventh edition.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781259584756.Subject(s): Health Policy | Health Care Costs | Health Care Rationing | National Health Insurance, United States | United StatesGenre/Form: Print books.
Contents:
Introduction: the paradox of excess and deprivation -- Paying for health care -- Access to health care -- Paying health care providers -- How health care is organized-I: Primary, secondary, and tertiary care -- How health care is organized-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.
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"A Lange medical book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: the paradox of excess and deprivation -- Paying for health care -- Access to health care -- Paying health care providers -- How health care is organized-I: Primary, secondary, and tertiary care -- How health care is organized-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.

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