Understanding Health Policy
A Clinical Approach
3rd Edition
Published on 10. December 2001
Book
Paperback/Softback
372 pages
978-0-07-137815-4 (ISBN)
Description
Understanding Health Policy: A Clinical Approach covers fundamental topics such as cost containment, health insurance, managed care, and physician and hospital payment. Extensive case histories drawn from the authors' medical practices bring to life important policy issues by pinpointing individual encounters within the health care system and give this book an authentic clinical flavor.
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Edition
3rd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Maidenhead
United States
Publishing group
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
40 illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 185 mm
Weight
490 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-07-137815-4 (9780071378154)
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Other editions
Previous edition
Book
01/1998
2nd Edition
Appleton & Lange
€57.19
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Content
1. Introduction: The Changing US Health Care System; 2. Paying for Health Care; 3. Access to Health Care; 4. Reimbursing Health Care Providers; 5. Capitation Payment in Managed Care; 6. How Health Care Is Organized - I; 7. How Health Care Is Organized - II; 8. Painful Versus Painless Cost Control; 9. Mechanisms for Controlling Costs; 10. Long-Term Care; 11. The Prevention of Illness; 12. The Quality of Health Care; 13. Medical Ethics & the Rationing of Health Care; 14. Health Care in Three Nations; 15. National Health Insurance; 16. The Ascendance of Managed Care; 17. Conclusion: Tensions & Challenges; 18. Questions & Discussion Topics; Index