This book covers fundamental topics such as cost containment, health insurance, managed care, and physician and hospital payment. The authors bring to life important policy issues by providing extensive case histories that pinpoint individual encounters within the health care system.
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This important new text provides a clear, even-handed guide to a complicated and often confusing subject - the US health care system. Fundamental topics such as cost containment, health insurance,...
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Used across the public health field, this is the leading text in the area, focusing on the context, participants and processes of making health policy.
The twelve essays in this volume show that public debates routinely bypass complex ethical, sociocultural, historical, and political questions about how we should address ideals of justice and equality in health care.
This book examines the current state of American health care using a social science lens to focus on the interdependent, intercultural, economic, and communication aspects of access and delivery.
This book provides you with a series of conceptual frameworks which help to unravel the apparent complexity that confronts the inexperienced observer.
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