Understanding health policy
Subtitle: a clinical approach
By: Thomas S. Bodenheimer, Kevin Grumbach
Contributors: Grumbach, Kevin
Edition: 4th ed.
Publisher: Lange Medical/McGraw-Hill
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 202
Subjects: Medical care; Medical policy
Notes: Previous ed.: 2002.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the paradox of excess & deprivation; title: Paying for health care; title: Access to health care; title: Reimbursing health care providers; title: Capitation payment in managed care; title: How health care is organized-I; title: How health care is organized-II; title: Painful verson painless cost control; title: Mechanisms for controlling costs; title: Long-term care; title: The prevention of illness; title: The quality of health care; title: Medical ethics & the rationing of health care; title: Health care in four nations; title: National health insurance; title: Conflict & change in America's health care system; title: The health care workforce; title: Conclusions: tensions & chanllenges; title: Questions & discussion topics.