Understanding health policy a clinical approach

This 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. When treating a patient's illness, health expenditures as a percentage of gross domestic product or variations in surgical rates between one...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Bodenheimer, Thomas, auth (auth), Grumbach, Kevin, auth, Willard-Grace, Rachel, auth
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, N.Y. : McGraw-Hill Education LLC 2024.
Edición:Ninth ed
Colección:McGraw-Hill's AccessMedicine.
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009805131806719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : the strengths and weaknesses of US health care
  • Paying for health care
  • Health insurance and access to care
  • Paying health care providers
  • Health equity
  • Medical ethics and rationing of health care
  • How health care is organized : primary, secondary and tertiary care
  • How health care is organized : health care delivery systems
  • The health care workforce and the education of health professionals
  • Long-term care
  • Painful vs painless cost control
  • Mechanisms for controlling costs
  • Quality of health care
  • Population health and disease prevention
  • Health care in four nations
  • Health care reform and national health insurance
  • The business of US health care
  • Conclusion : tensions and challenges
  • Questions and discussion topics.