Understanding health policy
Subtitle: a clinical approach
By: Thomas Bodenheimer, Kevin Grumbach
Contributors: Grumbach, Kevin
Edition: 6th ed.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Medical
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9780071770521
Subjects: Health Policy; United States National Health Insurance; Health Care Costs; Medical care; Medical policy; Health Care Rationing
Description: Expert practitioners in both the public and private healthcare sectors, the authors cover the entire scope of our healthcare system. From the concepts behind policy decisions to concrete examples of how they affect patients and professionals alike. Understanding Health Policy, 6e makes otherwise difficult concepts easy to understand.so you can make better decisions, improve outcomes, and enact positive change on a daily basis.
Notes: At head of title: A Lange medical book.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of contents: title: Introduction: the paradox of excess and deprivation --; title: Paying for health care --; title: Access to health care --; title: Reimbursing health care providers --; title: How health care is organized-- -- I:; title: Primary, secondary, and tertiary care --; title: How health care is organized -- -- II:; title: Health delivery systems --; title: Health care workforce and the education of health professionals --; title: Painful versus painless cost control --; title: Mechanisms for controlling costs --; title: Quality of health care --; title: Prevention of illness --; title: Long-term care --; title: Medical ethics and rationing of health care --; title: Health care in four nations --; title: Health care reform and national health insurance --; title: Conflict and change in America's health care system --; title: Conclusion: tensions and challenges --; title: Questions and discussion topics.