Understanding health policy a clinical approach
This is a book about health policy as well as individual patients and caregivers and how they interact with each other and with the overall health system. When treating a patient's illness, health expenditures as a percentage of gross domestic product or variations in surgical rates between one...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New York, N.Y. :
McGraw-Hill Education LLC
2024.
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| Edition: | Ninth ed |
| Series: | McGraw-Hill's AccessMedicine.
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009805131806719 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : the strengths and weaknesses of US health care
- Paying for health care
- Health insurance and access to care
- Paying health care providers
- Health equity
- Medical ethics and rationing of health care
- How health care is organized : primary, secondary and tertiary care
- How health care is organized : health care delivery systems
- The health care workforce and the education of health professionals
- Long-term care
- Painful vs painless cost control
- Mechanisms for controlling costs
- Quality of health care
- Population health and disease prevention
- Health care in four nations
- Health care reform and national health insurance
- The business of US health care
- Conclusion : tensions and challenges
- Questions and discussion topics.
