Understanding Health Policy, Sixth Edition

Sampul Depan
McGraw Hill Professional, 5 Apr 2012 - 231 halaman

Understand how the healthcare system works – and how you can succeed in it

Covers the 2010 Affordable Care Act

The most trusted and comprehensive guide to healthcare available, Understanding Health Policy provides everything students and professionals need to build a solid foundation on the field’s most critical issues.

Expert practitioners in both the public and private healthcare sectors, the authors cover the entire scope of our healthcare system—from the concepts behind policy decisions to concrete examples of how they affect patients and professionals alike. Understanding Health Policy, 6e makes otherwise difficult concepts easy to understand—so you can make better decisions, improve outcomes, and enact positive change on a daily basis.

Features:

  • Coverage of structure, organization, and financing of the health care system
  • Key principles, descriptions, and concrete examples are skillfully interwoven in each chapter to make important issues interesting and understandable
  • Clinical vignettes clarify difficult concepts and demonstrate how they apply to real-world situations
  • Comprehensive list of review questions reinforce what you have learned
Understanding Health Policy, 6e will help you develop a clearer, more systematic way of thinking about health care in the United States, its problems, and the alternatives for managing and solving these problems.
 

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The Paradox of Excess and Deprivation
1
2 Paying for Health Care
5
3 Access to Health Care
17
4 Reimbursing Health Care Providers
31
Primary Secondary and Tertiary Care
43
Health Delivery Systems
59
7 The Health Care Workforce and the Education of Health Professionals
73
8 Painful Versus Painless Cost Control
91
11 Prevention of Illness
135
12 LongTerm Care
145
13 Medical Ethics and Rationing of Health Care
153
14 Health Care in Four Nations
169
15 Health Care Reform and National Health Insurance
187
16 Conflict and Change in Americas Health Care System
201
Tensions and Challenges
213
18 Questions and Discussion Topics
217

9 Mechanisms for Controlling Costs
103
10 Quality of Health Care
115
Index
225
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Tentang pengarang (2012)

Thomas Bodenheimer, MD Professor of Family Medicine UCSF School of Medicine San Francisco, CA Kevin Grumbach, MD Chair, Department of Family Medicine UCSF School of Medicine San Francisco, CA

Kevin Grumbach, MD Associate Professor Department of Family & Community Medicine Institute for Health Policy Studies University of California, San Francisco Clinical Faculty San Francisco General Hospital

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