Understanding Health Policy
A Clinical Approach
Published on 1. January 1995
Book
Paperback/Softback
300 pages
978-0-8385-3678-0 (ISBN)
Description
A concise, clinically oriented introduction to the structure and function of the US health care system. Case examples illustrate fundamental topics such as cost containment, health insurance, primary care, and physician and hospital payment, and tie policy issues to the practice of medicine.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Maidenhead
United States
Publishing group
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 178 mm
Weight
446 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8385-3678-0 (9780838536780)
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01/1998
2nd Edition
Appleton & Lange
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Content
Introduction to the US Health Care System. Access to Health Care. Paying for Health Care. Reimbursing Health Care Providers. Painful versus Painless Cost Control. Mechanisms for Controlling Costs. How Health Care is Organised. The Quality of Health Care. Clinical Ethics. Health Care in Other Nations. Health Care Reform in the 1990's. Future Trends in US Health Care.