Understanding Health Policy: A Clinical Approach 8th Edition (eBook PDF) – Digital Ebook – Instant Delivery Download
Product details:
- ISBN-10 : 1260454266
- ISBN-13 : 978-1260454260
- Author: Thomas Bodenheimer, Kevin Grumbach
Written by practicing primary care physicians who are experts in healthcare policy, this peerless guide covers the entire scope of the U.S. healthcare system and draws on lessons from systems in other nations. The authors carefully weave key principles, descriptions, and concrete examples into chapters that make vital health policy issues interesting and understandable. Whether you’re a student, medical practitioner, or public policy professional, you will come away with a clearer, more systematic way of thinking about our healthcare system, its biggest challenges, and the most effective ways of making it better for everyone.
Table contents:
1. Introduction: The Paradox of Excess and Deprivation
2. Paying for Health Care
3. Access to Health Care
4. Paying Health Care Providers
5. How Health Care Is Organized—I: Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Care
6. How Health Care Is Organized—II: Health Delivery Systems
7. The Health Care Workforce and the Education of Health Professionals
8. Painful Versus Painless Cost Control
9. Mechanisms for Controlling Costs
10. Quality of Health Care
11. Prevention of Illness
12. Long-Term Care
13. Medical Ethics and Rationing of Health Care
14. Health Care in Four Nations
15. Health Care Reform and National Health Insurance
16. Conflict and Change in America’s Health Care System
17. Conclusion: Tensions and Challenges
18. Questions and Discussion Topics
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