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1 online resource |
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Health, health care, and health policy in America : a contradiction, wrapped in a paradox, inside an enigma -- Health care reform : necessary but not nearly sufficient -- Health care/health : from biomedical to social determinants of health -- The life, death, and health of individuals and populations over time and social strata -- Racial/ethnic, gender, and age disparities in health; and their relation to socioeconomic position -- What a demand-side health policy might look like and do -- What and how socioeconomic policies determine health and health disparities -- The economic value and impact of a new demand-side health policy -- Understanding and resolving America's paradoxical crisis of health care and health |
| Summary |
Health care spending in the United States today is approaching 20 percent of GDP, yet levels of U.S. population health have been declining for decades relative to other wealthy and even some developing nations. How is it possible that the United States, which spends more than any other nation on health care and insurance, now has a population markedly less healthy than those of many other nations? Sociologist and public health expert James S. House analyzes this paradoxical crisis, offering surprising new explanations for how and why the United States has fallen into this trap. InBeyond Obamacare, House shows that health care reforms, including the Affordable Care Act, cannot resolve this crisis because they do not focus on the underlying causes for the nation's poor health outcomes, which are largely social, economic, environmental, psychological, and behavioral. House demonstrates that the problems of our broken health care and insurance system are interconnected with our large and growing social disparities in education, income, and other conditions of life and work, and calls for a complete reorientation of how we think about health. He concludes that we need to move away from our misguided and almost exclusive focus on biomedical determinants of health, and to place more emphasis on addressing social, economic, and other inequalities.--Provided by publisher |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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English |
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Online resource; (viewed 2020-05-20) |
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United States. Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
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Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (United States) fast |
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Medical policy -- United States
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Health care reform -- United States
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Health Care Reform -- economics
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Socioeconomic Factors
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Health Status Disparities
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Health Services Accessibility -- economics
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
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Medical policy
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Health care reform
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Health services accessibility
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United States https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481 |
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United States
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Russell Sage Foundation, issuing body
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| LC no. |
2019716552 |
| ISBN |
9781610448499 |
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1610448499 |
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