Understanding Health Policy - Brossura

Bodenheimer, Thomas; Grumbach, Kevin

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ISBN 10: 0071423117 ISBN 13: 9780071423113

Casa editrice: McGraw-Hill Education / Medical, 2005

Riassunto

In this fourth edition of an overview of challenges facing the healthcare system, Bodenheimer and Grumbach, both affiliated with the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of California-San Francisco, incorporate recent changes in US healthcare policy, contrast the US system with healthcare abroad, and provide expanded information on managed care, physician and hospital payment, the healthcare workforce, and prevention of medical errors. Case histories, chapter questions, and discussion topics are included. The book is for students and practitioners in medicine, nursing, and public health. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Author Profile: Thomas S. Bodenheimer, MD Clinical Professor Department of Family & Community Medicine University of California, San Francisco

Dalla quarta di copertina:

"This highly readable text gives a broad but detailed picture of how health care is organized and dispensed in the United States. It considers the problems of, and possible solutions for, cost control, long-term care, quality control, ethical issues, and insurance programs. Clinicians are likely to find the text attractive because of its supportive flowcharts and its frequent use of specific, concrete examples."
Annals of Internal Medicine *
"Well documented and highly readable."
National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Facilities Newsletter *

"One of the more interesting, readable texts in health policy to appear in recent years."
American Journal of Health System Pharmacy *

"The title doesn't do the book justice. It's not only about health care policy and its implications, it's about the health care system, applied to highly clinically relevant situations . . . it provides an unobstructed view of the complicated health care system."
Advance/PA*

"Goes a long way toward helping readers understand how the health care system worked in the past, how it is changing, and how it might work under different scenarios in the future."
Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law *

The leading text in the field, Understanding Health Policy covers fundamental topics such as cost containment, health insurance, managed care, and physician and hospital payment. The authors bring to life important policy issues by providing extensive case histories that pinpoint individual encounters within the health care system.

Features:
* Updated throughout to reflect recent changes in insurance coverage, health care expenditures, and health care organization
* Expanded to include discussion of the defined contribution approach to cost control, medical errors, and new approaches to quality improvement and the uncertain future facing managed care
* Extensive case histories
* Brand new chapter on the Health Care Work Force, including sections on physicians, registered nurses, advanced practice nurses, and pharmacists and on women and minorities in the health professions
* Includes "Questions and Discussion Topics" for classroom or individual study

*Of earlier edition

Su questa edizione

• Editore: McGraw-Hill Education / Medical
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0071423117
• ISBN 13: 9780071423113
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 4
• Numero di pagine: 202