Changing Consumers and Changing Technology in Health Care and Health Care Delivery (Research in the Sociology of Health Care)
Publisher: JAI Press
Published: November 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780762308088
Subjects: Health systems & services; Sociology Of Medicine; Sociology; Medical; USA; History; Sociology - General; Science-History; Social Science / Sociology / General; Nursing - Home & Community Care
First sentence: Managed care came about in large part as a response to the rapidly rising medical costs in a system widely believed to be inefficient.