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Understanding Health Policy : A Clinical Approach

ISBN: 9780838590751 | 0838590756
Edition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Pub. Date: 5/1/1998

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SummaryTable of Contents
Numerous case examples illustrate fundamental topics such as cost containment, health insurance, primary care, and physician and hospital payment. In addition, this book does a superior job linking policy issues to the practice of medicine. The second edition features a brand new chapter on payment in managed care.
Prefacevii
1. Introduction: The Changing US Health Care System
1(6)
2. Paying for Health Care
7(14)
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3. Access to Health Care
21(26)
4. Reimbursing Health Care Providers
47(16)
5. Capitation Payment in Managed Care
63(14)
6. How Health Care Is Organized-I
77(20)
7. How Health Care Is Organized-II
97(18)
8. Painful Versus Painless Cost Control
115(16)
9. Mechanisms for Controlling Costs
131(22)
10. Long-Term Care
153(14)
11. The Prevention of Illness
167(24)
12. The Quality of Health Care
191(24)
13. Medical Ethics & the Rationing of Health Care
215(26)
14. Health Care in Three Nations
241(18)
15. National Health Insurance
259(14)
16. The Ascendance of Managed Care
273(18)
17. Conclusion: Tensions & Challenges
291(6)
18. Questions & Discussion Topics
297(12)
Index309

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