Understanding health policy: a clinical approach 7th Edition

Understanding health policy: a clinical approach 7th Edition- Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9781259584756,9781259584763,1259584755,1259584763

Product details:

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1259584763
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9781259584763
• Author: Thomas S. Bodenheimer; Kevin Grumbach

The Seventh Edition of Understanding Health Policy: A Clinical Approach remains the most trusted and comprehensive guide to healthcare available and provides everything you need to build a solid foundation on the field’s most critical issues. This concise and engaging textbook clearly explains the all major aspects of healthcare, including finance, organization, and reimbursement. It will help you develop a clearer, more systematic way of thinking about health care in the United States, its problems, and the alternatives for managing and solving these problems.

Table contents:

1. Introduction: The Paradox of Excess and Deprivation

2. Paying for Health Care

3. Access to Health Care

4. Paying Health Care Providers

5. How Health Care Is Organized—I: Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Care

6. How Health Care Is Organized—II: Health Delivery Systems

7. The Health Care Workforce and the Education of Health Professionals

8. Painful Versus Painless Cost Control

9. Mechanisms for Controlling Costs

10. Quality of Health Care

11. Prevention of Illness

12. Long-Term Care

13. Medical Ethics and Rationing of Health Care

14. Health Care in Four Nations

15. Health Care Reform and National Health Insurance

16. Conflict and Change in America’s Health Care System

17. Conclusion: Tensions and Challenges

18. Questions and Discussion Topics

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