02932cam a2200433 i 4500 23207359 20250925101534.0 230628s2024 nyua b 001 0 eng 2023030436 9781265905026 (paperback ) alk. paper) 23207359 DNLM/DLC eng rda DLC DLC AU pcc Alfaisal Main Library RA418 .B576 2024 Bodenheimer, Thomas, author. Understanding health policy : a clinical approach / Thomas Bodenheimer, MD, Kevin Grumbach, MD, Rachel Willard-Grace, MPH. Ninth edition. New York : McGraw Hill, ©2024 247 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier "A Lange medical book." Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction : the strengths and weaknesses of US health care -- Paying for health care -- Health insurance and access to care -- Paying health care providers -- Health equity -- Medical ethics and rationing of health care -- How health care is organized : primary, secondary and tertiary care -- How health care is organized : health care delivery systems -- The health care workforce and the education of health professionals -- Long-term care -- Painful vs painless cost control -- Mechanisms for controlling costs -- Quality of health care -- Population health and disease prevention -- Health care in four nations -- Health care reform and national health insurance -- The business of US health care -- Conclusion : tensions and challenges -- Questions and discussion topics. "This is a book about health policy as well as individual patients and caregivers and how they interact with each other and with the overall health system. When treating a patient's illness, health expenditures as a percentage of gross domestic product or variations in surgical rates between one city and another seem remote if not irrelevant-but they are neither remote nor irrelevant. Health policy affects the patients we see on a daily basis. Managed care referral rules determine which specialist will see a patient; coverage gaps in the Medicare benefit package affects access to care for the elderly. Understanding Health Policy hopes to bridge the gap separating the microworld of individual patient care and the macrouniverse of health policy"-- Health Policy Health Care Costs Health Care Rationing Health Care Reform Health Equity National Health Insurance, United States United States Print books. local 4 Grumbach, Kevin, author. Willard-Grace, Rachel, author. lcc BOOKS 604319 604319 0 0 lcc 0 0 AU AU GEN 2025-09-25 0 RA418 .B576 2024 AU00000000020807 2025-09-25 10:16:58 168.00 2025-09-25 BOOKS