| Edition |
Ninth edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations |
| Note |
"A Lange medical book." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Note |
Description based upon print version of record. |
| Contents |
Introduction: The Strengths and Weaknesses of US Health Care -- How Money Moves -- Paying for Health Care-- Health Insurance and Access to Health Care -- Paying Health Care Providers --Health Equity -- Medical Ethics and Rationing of Health Care -- How Health Care Is Organized I: Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Care -- How Health Care Is Organized II: Health Care Delivery Systems -- The Health Care Workforce and the Education of Health Professionals -- Long-Term Care -- Painful Versus Painless Cost Control -- Mechanisms for Controlling Costs -- Quality of Health Care -- Population Health and Disease Prevention -- Health Care in Four Nations -- Health Care Reform and National Health Insurance -- The Business of US Health Care -- Conclusion: Tensions an.d Challenges -- Questions to Assess Understanding. |
| Summary |
"This 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. When treating a patient's illness, health expenditures as a percentage of gross domestic product or variations in surgical rates between one city and another seem remote if not irrelevant-but they are neither remote nor irrelevant. Health policy affects the patients we see on a daily basis. Managed care referral rules determine which specialist will see a patient; coverage gaps in the Medicare benefit package affects access to care for the elderly. Understanding Health Policy hopes to bridge the gap separating the microworld of individual patient care and the macrouniverse of health policy"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Medical policy.
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Medical care, Cost of.
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Health care reform.
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Health insurance -- United States.
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Health Policy (DNLM)D006291
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Health Care Costs (DNLM)D017048
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Health Care Rationing (DNLM)D015276
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Health Care Reform (DNLM)D018166
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Health Equity (DNLM)D000069576
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National Health Insurance, United States (DNLM)D009310
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United States (DNLM)D014481
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Health care reform. (OCoLC)fst00952850
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Health insurance. (OCoLC)fst01715839
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Medical care, Cost of. (OCoLC)fst01013902
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Medical policy. (OCoLC)fst01014505
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Added Author |
Grumbach, Kevin, author.
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Willard-Grace, Rachel, author.
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| ISBN |
9781265905026 |
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1265905029 |
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