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Subject(s)

• Medical economics—United States [Browse]
• Health care reform—United States [Browse]

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.

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ISBN

• 9781482236538 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
• 1482236532 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))

LCCN

2016005351

OCLC

912377296

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