| Contents |
Disablement, policy, and systems -- Access and cost of health care -- Quality of health care -- Public policies addressing social disablement -- Fundamentals of insurance -- Managed care and beyond -- Medicare -- Medicaid, SCHIP, military/veterans medical insurance, and Indian Health Service -- The acute medical care system -- The post-acute health care system -- Special education, public health, and complementary/alternative medicine -- Effecting policy change : therapist as advocate. |
| Review |
"This resource equips occupational and physical therapists with the foundations for understanding the rapidly and continually evolving developments in private and public health policy that shape their professions. The text explains the principles and major structures of health services, provides an overview of how policies and systems affect the ability to serve patients, and details ways to be an effective advocate during private and public policy change. Readers will explore issues such as access, cost, and quality, as well as regulation basics including public health, licensure, informed consent, and medical liability."--BOOK JACKET. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Acquisitions source |
Laupus- Dowdy Bookstore, donor. |
| LCCN | 2008021783 |
| ISBN | 9780135146521 |
| ISBN | 0135146526 |
