Understanding Health Policy, Fifth Edition
ISBN: 9780071496063 | 0071496068
Edition: 5thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Medical
Pub. Date: 8/18/2008
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An engaging and clinically applicable work on the principles and structure of the U.S. healthcare system ..Understanding Health Policyis the best-written, most informative book available on the subject--and it's the #1 choice for healthcare students and professionals alike. The authors carefully weave key principles, descriptions, and concrete examples into chapters that make important health policy issues both interesting and understandable. ..Fully updated to reflect current issues in the ever-changing world of healthcare, the newest edition ... MORE
| Preface | p. v |
| Introduction: The Paradox of Excess and Deprivation | p. 1 |
| Paying for Health Care | p. 5 |
| Access to Health Care | p. 17 |
| Reimbursing Health Care Providers | p. 31 |
| How Health Care is Organized-I | p. 43 |
| How Health Care is Organized-II | p. 59 |
| The Health Care Workforce and the Education of Health Professionals | p. 71 |
| Painful Versus Painl... MORE | p. 87 |
| Mechanisms for Controlling Costs | p. 99 |
| Quality of Health Care | p. 111 |
| Prevention of Illness | p. 129 |
| Long-Term Care | p. 139 |
| Medical Ethics and Rationing of Health Care | p. 147 |
| Health Care in Four Nations | p. 163 |
| National Health Insurance | p. 181 |
| Conflict and Change in America's Health Care System | p. 193 |
| Conclusion: Tensions and Challenges | p. 205 |
| Questions and Discussion Topics | p. 209 |
| Index | p. 217 |
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Thomas Bodenheimer, MD, is professor of health policy and family medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.
Kevin Grumbach, MD, is chair, Department of Family Medicine, at the University of California, San Francisco.
