Analyzing form, function, and financing of the U.S. health care system / Paula Stamps Duston, PhD.

Author
Duston, Paula Stamps [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Boca Raton : CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, [2016]
  • ©2016
Description
xxvi, 473 pages ; 26 cm

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Subject(s)
Notes
"A Productivity Press Book".
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 419-448) and index.
Contents
  • Definitions of health and illness
  • Public health : defining determinants of health
  • Health status indicators
  • Role of culture in the organization of health care systems
  • Political and philosophical values that influence the US health care system
  • Do we have as system?
  • People who make the medical care system go : the workforce
  • Hospitals
  • Ambulatory care settings : functions, structures and services
  • Other parts of the medical care system : functions and services
  • Health economics 101 : do health care goods and services follow the economic rules?
  • From economics to health policy and regulation
  • Health care financing : health insurance
  • Health insurance : two models
  • The payment function : money moving through the system
  • Why does medical care cost so much and what can we do about it?
  • Health care reform : past as prologue
  • Taking care of the elderly : Medicare
  • Taking care of the poor : Medicaid
  • Taking care of almost everybody else : other targeted
  • Programs
  • A persistent problem : racial and ethnic
  • Disparities in health outcomes
  • Alternate models for health care systems : international
  • Perspectives.
ISBN
  • 9781482236538 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
  • 1482236532 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
LCCN
2016005351
OCLC
912377296
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