| Description |
1 online resource : ill., figs., tables |
| Series |
McGraw-Hill's AccessMedicine |
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Lange medical book |
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McGraw-Hill's AccessMedicine.
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Lange medical book.
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| Contents |
Chapter 1: Introduction: The Paradox of Excess and Deprivation -- Chapter 2: Paying for Health Care -- Chapter 3: Access to Health Care -- Chapter 4: Paying Health Care Providers -- Chapter 5: How Health Care Is Organized-I: Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Care -- Chapter 6: How Health Care Is Organized-II: Health Delivery Systems -- Chapter 7: The Health Care Workforce and the Education of Health Professionals -- Chapter 8: Painful Versus Painless Cost Control -- Chapter 9: Mechanisms for Controlling Costs -- Chapter 10: Quality of Health Care -- Chapter 11: Prevention of Illness -- Chapter 12: Long-Term Care -- Chapter 13: Medical Ethics and Rationing of Health Care -- Chapter 14: Health Care in Four Nations -- Chapter 15: Health Care Reform and National Health Insurance -- Chapter 16: Conflict and Change in America's Health Care System -- Chapter 17: Conclusion: Tensions and Challenges -- Chapter 18: Questions and Discussion Topics |
| Summary |
Understanding Health Policy: A Clinical Approach is a book about health policy as well as individual patients and caregivers and how they interact with each other and with the overall health system. We, the authors, are practicing primary care physicians-one in a public hospital and clinic and the other, for many years, in a private practice. We are also analysts of our nation's health care system. In one sense, these two sides of our lives seem quite separate. When treating a patient's illness, health expenditures as a percentage of gross domestic product or variations in surgical rates between one city and another seem remote if not irrelevant-but they are neither remote nor irrelevant. Health policy affects the patients we see on a daily basis. Managed care referral patterns determine to which specialist we can send a patient; the coverage gaps for outpatient medications in the Medicare benefit package affects how we prescribe medications for our elderly patients; and differences in access to care between families on Medicaid and those with private coverage influences which patients end up seeing one of us in the private sector over the other in a public hospital. In Understanding Health Policy, we hope to bridge the gap separating the microworld of individual patient visits and the macrouniverse of health policy |
| Notes |
"A Lange medical book." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Also issued in Online and PDF version |
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In English |
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Description based on cover image and table of contents, viewed on March 17, 2020 |
| Subject |
Medical care -- United States.
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Medical policy -- United States.
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Health Policy
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Health Care Costs
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Grumbach, Kevin, ath.
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| ISBN |
9781260454260 (print-ISBN) |
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1260454266 (print-ISBN) |
| ISSN |
1080-9465 |
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