Health care politics, policy, and services
Subtitle: a social justice analysis
By: Gunnar Almgren.
Publisher: Springer Pub.
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 347
ISBN-13: 9780826102362; 9780826102362
Subjects: Medical policy -- United States; Medical policy -- United States -- History; Social justice -- United States; Delivery of Health Care -- United States; Health Services -- economics -- United States; Health Services -- history -- United States; Social Justice -- United States; Socioeconomic Factors -- United States
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: Competing agendas for health care system reform: a social justice critique.