| Contents |
Introduction: the paradox of excess and deprivation -- Paying for health care -- Access to health care -- Paying health care providers -- How health care is organized-I: Primary, secondary, and tertiary care -- How health care is organized-II: Health delivery systems -- Health care workforce and the education of health professionals -- Painful versus painless cost control -- Mechanisms for controlling costs -- Quality of health care -- Prevention of illness -- Long-term care -- Medical ethics and rationing of health care -- Health care in four nations -- Health care reform and national health insurance -- Conflict and change in America's health care system -- Conclusion: tensions and challenges -- Questions and discussion topics. |
| Abstract |
"Understanding Health Policy: A Clinical Approach is a book about health policy as well as individual patients and caregivers and how they interact with each other and with the overall health system."--Preface |
| General note | "A Lange medical book." |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographic references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 1260454266 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 9781260454260 (paperback) |
