Understanding Health Services - Brossura

Black, Nick

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0335218385 ISBN 13: 9780335218387

Casa editrice: Open University Press, 2005

Riassunto

No single discipline can provide a full account of how and why health care is the way it is. This book provides you with a series of conceptual frameworks which help to unravel the apparent complexity that confronts the inexperienced observer. It demonstrates the need for contributions from medicine, sociology, economics, history and epidemiology. It also shows the necessity to consider health care at three key levels: individual patients and their experiences; health care organisations such as health centres and hospitals; and regional and national institutions such as governments and health insurance bodies.

The book examines:

• Inputs to health services
• Processes of care
• Outcomes
• Organization of services
• Improving the quality of health care

Series Editors: Rosalind Plowman and Nicki Thorogood.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Senior Honorary Lecturer at the Department of Public Health and Policy of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Contenuti:

Overview of the book

Section 1: Introduction
A systems approach to health services
Challenges facing health services
Formal and lay care

Section 2: Inputs to health care
Diseases and medical knowledge
Medical paradigms
Staff: the challenge of professionalism
Funding health care

Section 3: Processes of health care
The need and demand for health care
The relationship between need and use
Staff–patient interactions
Public as consumers and policy makers

Section 4: Outcome of health care
Outcomes

Section 5: Organization of services
Analysing health systems
Why are health systems the way they are?
Low and middle income countries: from colonial inheritance toprimary care
Low and middle income countries: from comprehensive primary careto global initiatives
Health services in high income countries

Section 6: Quality improvement
De¿ning good quality health services
Performance assessment
Improving quality of care

Glossary
Index

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Open University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0335218385
• ISBN 13: 9780335218387
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 256