03076cam a2200445 i 45000010009000000050017000090080041000260100017000670200045000840350013001290400037001420420008001790490026001870500022002131000034002352450129002692500019003982640037004173000040004543360026004943370028005203380027005485000028005755040051006035050787006545200760014416500018022016500022022196500026022416500023022676500018022906500045023086510018023536550027023717000030023987000036024289420015024649990019024799520132024982320735920250925101534.0230628s2024    nyua     b    001 0 eng    a  2023030436  a9781265905026q(paperback )qalk. paper)  a23207359  aDNLM/DLCbengerdacDLCdDLCdAU  apcc  aAlfaisal Main Library00aRA418b.B576 20241 aBodenheimer, Thomas,eauthor.10aUnderstanding health policy :ba clinical approach /cThomas Bodenheimer, MD, Kevin Grumbach, MD, Rachel Willard-Grace, MPH.  aNinth edition. 1aNew York :bMcGraw Hill,c©2024  a247 pages :billustrations ;c24 cm  atextbtxt2rdacontent  aunmediatedbn2rdamedia  avolumebnc2rdacarrier  a"A Lange medical book."  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.0 aIntroduction : 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.  a"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"--12aHealth Policy22aHealth Care Costs22aHealth Care Rationing22aHealth Care Reform22aHealth Equity22aNational Health Insurance, United States 2aUnited States 0aPrint books.2local941 aGrumbach, Kevin,eauthor.1 aWillard-Grace, Rachel,eauthor.  2lcccBOOKS  c604319d604319  00102lcc4070aAUbAUcGENd2025-09-25l0oRA418 .B576 2024pAU00000000020807r2025-09-25 10:16:58v168.00w2025-09-25yBOOKS