Understanding Health Policy: A Clinical Approach - Brossura

Bodenheimer, Thomas S., M.D.

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ISBN 10: 0071378154 ISBN 13: 9780071378154

Casa editrice: McGraw-Hill, 2001

Riassunto

Already the number one text on health policy and rapidly becoming a classic, Understanding Health Policy: A Clinical Approach 3E covers such fundamental topics as cost containment, health insurance, managed care, and physician and hospital payment. Extensive case histories, drawn from the authors' actual practice, bring to life important policy issues by pinpointing individual encounters within the healthcare system. New to this Edition * More information on 2-tier model of reimbursement * Greater emphasis on defined contribution approach to controlling costs * Includes comparative information on health care policy in Canada, the UK, and Germany * "Questions & Discussion Topics" provided for each chapter to stimulate classroom discussion Please consider this important new edition for your course. Your students will gain an engaging text, that according to a review by the Journal of Health, Politics, Policy, and Law of the prior edition, "goes a long way toward helping readers understand how the health care system has worked in the past, how it is changing, and how it might work under different scenarios in the future."

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Informazioni sull?autore

Thomas S. Bodenheimer, MD, MPH, University of California, San Francisco Kevin Grumbach, MD, University of California, San Francisco

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: McGraw-Hill
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0071378154
• ISBN 13: 9780071378154
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 3
• Numero di pagine: 372
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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