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Understanding health policy : a clinical approach / Thomas Bodenheimer, Kevin Grumbach

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: New York : McGraw-Hill Medical, 2016.Edition: Seventh editionDescription: vii, 225 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781259584756
  • 1259584755
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • RA395.A3 .B634 2016
  • RA 395.A3 .B634 2016
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
Summary: 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
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Books Overnight Far Eastern University - Nicanor Reyes Medical Foundation Circulation Section RA 395.A3 .B634 2016 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 0008806

At head of title: A Lange medical book

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

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

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