Title: Allocating health resources for the aged and disabled :
Authors: Morris, Robert,; Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center (Little Rock, Ark.); University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.; Florence Heller Graduate School for Advanced Studies in Social Welfare.
Date: 1981
Publisher: Lexington Books,
Physical description: vi, 153 pages ; 24 cm
Language: English
LC classification: R
Abstract: This book focuses on alternative emphases in the allocation of heath resources that would better serve the needs of long-term patients.
Contents: Alternative models for health care / George Maddox -- Direction for reallocation of heath resources: some next steps / Robert L Kane, and Rosalie A. Kane -- Do most public hospitals have a future? / Lowell Eliezer Bellin -- Some political, economic and social considerations / Charles Fahey -- Hospital views about resource allocation / David Kinzer -- Community home-care services and reallocating health-system resources / Florence Moore -- Nursing home resources and long term care / J. Albin Yokie -- Views of state units of the aging / F. Leon Povey -- Views from the health-care financing administration / Jeffrey Merrill -- Targeting resources for the long-term patient / John Skinner -- Vewis from the Congress / Bentley Lipscomb -- The view from the states / Arthur Webb -- Technology versus politics in allocating and reallocating health-system resources / Robert Morris -- Areas of ambiguity and confusion: examples from symposium discussion.
Notes: Proceedings of a national symposium, held in Little Rock, Ark., Sept. 1979 and sponsored by the Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center in the Little Rock Veterans Administration Medical Center, the University of Arkansas College of Medicine, and the Heller School of Brandeis University.
Subject headings (LCSH): Long-term care of the sick--Government policy--United States--Congresses.; Long-term care of the sick--United States--Congresses.; Long-term care of the sick--United States--Finance--Congresses.