Redefining health care systems
By: Robert H. Brook
Publisher: RAND
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Santa Monica, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 137
ISBN-13: 9780833090416; 9780833090423; 9780833090430; 9780833090409
Subjects: Health Status; Delivery of Health Care; Organization & administration; Health Services Research
Other titles: JAMA.
Notes: "The third section of the book comprises a series of short commentaries on specific issues, originally published in JAMA between March 2009 and March 2012."

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Health status can be measured; title: Free care increases health service use but does not improve health; title: Patient copayments strongly influence health care use; title: How physicians are paid influences how they practice; title: Quality of care can be measured; title: Quality of care varies; title: The appropriateness of care can be determined; title: Geography is a strong predictor of health service use; title: Depression, a leading cause of morbidity, is poorly detected and poorly treated; title: Physicians and patients need tools to support decisionmaking; title: Person's waste is another's income; title: Social factors are powerful determinants of health; title: Science and technology will increase health care costs; title: How health services research can fix the health care system; title: Stories; title: Story one; title: Story two; title: Story three; title: Story four; title: Story five; title: Story six; title: Story seven; title: Story eight.