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.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
"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
OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
Understanding health policy.
International Standard Book Number
1259584755
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Medical care-- United States.
Medical policy-- United States.
Health Care Costs-- United States.
Health Care Rationing-- United States.
Health Policy-- United States.
National Health Insurance, United States-- United States.