Health care politics, policy, and services
Subtitle: a social justice analysis
By: Gunnar Almgren
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Springer; Springer Pub. Co.
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780826108876; 9780826108883; 9780826199492
Subjects: Economics; Health Services; Healthcare Disparities; Socioeconomic Factors; Social Justice; Delivery of Health Care; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A primer on theories of social justice and defining the problem of health care; title: The historical evolvement of the U.S. health care system; title: The contemporary organization of health care : health care finance; title: The contemporary organization of health care : health care services and utilization; title: Long-term care of the aged and disabled; title: Disparities in health and health care; title: Social epidemiology : unraveling the social determinants of disparities in health; title: Prospects for just health care system reform : a political and principled analysis.