Understanding health policy : a clinical approach /

Title:

Understanding health policy : a clinical approach /

Author:

Bodenheimer, Thomas.

Format:

Book

Institution:

Emmanuel College, MCPHS Worcester

Contents:

Introduction: the paradox of excess and deprivation -- Paying for health care -- Access to health care -- Reimbursing health care providers -- How health care is organised -- I: primary, secondary, and tertiary care -- How health care is organised -- II: health delivery systems -- Health care workforce and the education of health professionals -- Painful versus painless cost control -- Mechanisms for controlling costs -- Quality of health care -- Prevention of illness -- Long-term care -- Medical ethics and rationing of health care -- Health care in four nations -- Health care reform and national health insurance -- Conflict and change in America's health care system -- Conclusion: tensions and challenges -- Questions and discussion topics.

Online access:

No online access

Library holdings:

Emmanuel Main Stacks
RA395.A3 B63 2012 – Available

MCPHS Circulation - Worcester Campus
RA395.A3 U474 2012 – Available

• Available Temporarily at MCPHS Circulation Desk - Worcester Campus
  On reserve for Pharmacy Courses (PPW & PSW (Pharmacy Worcester): (none))